eXistenZ (1999)

Today on Movie Russian Roulette, Alex is betrayed. From the director of the peerless Videodrome comes a complete piece of drivel that I'm half-convinced is about assholes. I mean, actual assholes.

Not talking about the actors

Overview: Allegra Geller is a famous game designer who is testing a new game of hers that's played, like all video games in this world, by plugging a semi-organic controller into a tiny artificial asshole (no, I'm serious, look if you don't believe me) at the base of your spinal column. Humans are the game consoles and the controllers. Now, if that sounds interesting, it is, but the movie sadly doesn't really do anything with this. From the first moment of this one neat idea, the movie fails to capitalize on it. But more on that later.

The King of Fighters (2010)

Today on Movie Russian Roulette, Alex discovers he is really bad at keeping track of Asian names.

That tagline should be your first warning

Overview: A bad guy who speaks with a Cockney accent 50% of the time hijacks a tournament fought by people who use magical Bluetooth headsets powered by 3,000 year old museum pieces somehow that allow the users to enter the Internet/alternate realities so that the filmmakers don't actually have to justify having sets that are literally just fighting arenas.