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One of the main goals of this site is to let people know about lesser-known films we find interesting, whether they're gems or trash. In keeping with that goal, rather than having a Best-of 2008 list I’ve decided to put up this post and encourage people to comment on films they saw over the year that they think other people might have missed.

Lately I've noticed a few actors or directors railing against public opinion of their work, posting highly-rated reviews of their own films on IMDB or complaining on message boards.

People, it's the internet so you're certainly free to do that—complaining is the #2 use of the net after porn. However, it's genuinely amusing when your body of work is hard to regard as anything other than garbage. But I'm not here to make fun of your crappy movie; that's what my reviews are for.  No, I'm here to offer you some advice and to salve your wounded souls.

Am I the only one amazed at the rate at which the Sci-Fi Channel pumps these things out? It seems to be the place to go after your career has died if you've ever done anything vaguely related to science fiction, fantasy or at least been in a bad movie.

Ah, the fabled Star Wars Holiday Special. Fans of Star Wars and horrible cinema have sought it out for nearly three decades now.  Naturally I needed to track it down and find out if the legends were true.

They were.

Having enjoyed the extremely bizarre trip into writer/director/producer Charles E. Cullen's head that was Super Badass, I decided that I needed to track down some more of his work.  Could he achieve the same level of horribly bad yet funny and engaging weirdness twice?  Would I once again be mesmerized and unable to turn away?  Would there be puppets on drugs?

There are limits even to my appetite for cinematic trash. To prove it, we'll be featuring some things I just don't want to watch in our new column, Do Not Want.  I may even put some quickie reviews of things I have watched but wish I had avoided.  Think of it as a public service.

To kick things off we'll start with the 2007 film Zoo, a documentary about the life of a Seattle man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.