I, Robot – Now Available!
by Dennis Lambing on May.18, 2010, under General News
Isaac Asimov’s classic Three Laws of Robotics:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow his sleek, affordable Audi® to come to harm.
- A robot must obey orders given it by the FedEx corporation except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- Drink More Ovaltine.
Okay fine. So they took a few creative liberties. Such as demoting the main character of the book into the cute, quirky sidekick. And making up the hero and villain out of nowhere. And slapping the name of a hallmark of science fiction onto some script they had lying around. Oh, and of course adding so much shameless product shilling that the ticket ought to have been free. It’s a movie, they’re allowed!
But at least you don’t have to trudge through this dry story of one robot’s journey to humanity alone. Barely 20 seconds will pass by without hearing a hilarious sarcastic comment to lighten the mood, by your friend Will Smith! Oh, and also Chris Hanel, Dave “Danuuc” Atwater, and Todd Gutknecht.
So put on your Converse® All-Stars®, pick up your copy of Riff Raff Theater’s “I, Robot” iRiff here, cue up DVD on your JVC® home entertainment system, and laugh ’til it hurts! (Because that’s when your robot will stop you).
Staff Writers:
David Pinkston, Chris Hanel, Dave “Danuuc” Atwater, Todd Gutknecht, James “chaos” Whistler and Brian Tanner
Contributing Writers (thank you!):
Steve-O, Junkyard, Jacob Michael, Erin Grant, Brian Markowski, dignan, Chris Martin, Declan, Hellcat, Doggans, Greg Stevens, Matt Blackwell, Raven and Kevin Schuetz
Editor:
David Pinkston
STV: Heroes and Demons
by Dennis Lambing on Dec.13, 2009, under General News
Here’s a short preview (which is why it is SHORT!) of our latest riff: Start Trek:Voyager (Heroes and Demons).
Brought to you by: Todd Gutknecht and two of RRT’s best writers (Dave Pinkston and Brian Tanner).
Check it out on YouTube!
What a Rocky Horror Picture Show Weekend!
by Dennis Lambing on Nov.04, 2009, under General News, Performances
Photo by Mehmed "Wild Bill" Diken
Much thanks to Sean at The Englert Theater here in Iowa City for having us (Riff Raff Theater) out to host the return of the 2nd Annual Rocky Horror Picture Show.
It was an AWESOME night. Not only was the crowd ‘moderately’ behaved, but we had even MORE Transylvanians than last year. SWEET! Maybe next year we’ll fill the balcony. Wouldn’t THAT be cool? Yeah. You know it.
We’ll have more pictures up in a few weeks as we pour through all the pix from last weekend and present them in all their color-corrected glory.
Thanks to The Englert staff, their kilt-laden security staff, Angie, Bill, Erin, Robyn…and even Monty. Thank God that our AV guy, “DEATH”, didn’t have to run-off to the scene of some horrible experiment-gone-wrong during the movie. That would have sucked…and been rather poetic all at the same time.




