I used to love the Sci-Fi Channel before it turned to the dark side forever when it was renamed SyFy and devoted the vast majority of its airtime to turgid reality programming and cheesy “original” movies like Dinocroc and Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus. The network became more of a machine, twisted… AND EVIL! But every so often one of those made-for-SyFy flicks delivers some first-rate entertainment on the order of the best in modern bad cinema. It looks like the network’s latest killer fish offering Jersey Shore Shark Attack will be continuing that fine tradition in grand style.

You can watch the movie’s trailer here below.

Directed and written by a bunch of folks you couldn’t care less about, Jersey Shore Shark Attack is partially based on a real-life series of shark attacks that plagued New Jersey’s scenic coast in 1916, but only uses that history as a garnish for the movie’s main attraction – namely, dollar bin CGI sharks hungering for the spray-tanned flesh of Jagermeister-soaked guidos and guidettes. The shark of the title looks more like the monster from Troma’s Killer Condom if it were enlarged and rendered with the kind of computerized visual effects that would be too primitive for a Super Nintendo video game cut scene circa 1994.

CBGB, the legendary club which was a stomping ground for the original New York City punk scene of the mid-1970s, is back in the spotlight with a feature film starring Alan Rickman, plans for a traveling festival, and possibly a new venue.

Alan Rickman (Harry Potter) will star in CBGB, a feature film about the NYC club due to start shooting late summer, directed by Randall Miller and written by Jody Savin. According to the BBC, Rickman will play the club’s owner Hilly Kristal in CBGB, which will tell the story of how he opened the venue in 1973.

CBGB closed its doors in October 2006 after 33 years, but it’s now going on the road to scores of small clubs in Manhattan and Brooklyn this July as part of a four-day festival named in its honor, according to The New York Times. The festival, which will sport film screenings, panels, and over 300 bands, will eventually culminate in a large Central Park Summerstage concert on July 7th and will showcase acts like post-post-post punks Rocket From the Tombs and 80’s hardcore group The Cro Mags, and other lesser known bands as well. The organizers modeled this new festival after Austin’s SXSW annual gathering.

The deal of the day over at Things From Another World today is DHorse Deluxe Stationery Exotique: Mike Mignola’s B.P.R.D. for only $2.49 (that’s 50% off the list price of $4.99).

Note – This deal is valid only for today, Saturday, May 26, 2012, til 11:59PM EST while supplies last (and they usually don’t!).

If the deal on the DHorse Deluxe Stationery Exotique: Mike Mignola’s B.P.R.D. set does sell out before the end of the day, it’s also available at Amazon for $4.99.

Comes with 8 letter sheets (four different styles), 6 envelopes (4 different styles), and a set of stickers. (Approved for ages 8 and up.)

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Buffy The Vampire Slayer-themed shirt called “We Can Slay It” by artist swissarmyshark.

The sale at RIPT began today, Saturday, May 26, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

Amazon is currently running a deal on Combat!: The Complete Series, which was the ABC-TV series that originally ran during the mid 1960s and focused on a squad battalion of American soldiers fighting the Germans during World War II, and the price that Amazon is offering for the package makes this deal irresistible.

The list priced at $299.99, but Amazon is giving buyers of this 40-disc DVD set for only $114.99, an absolutely unreal deal for sure. The deal runs out at the end of the day on Saturday, May 26, while supplies last.

Combat! ran from 1962 to 1967 and starred the late Vic Morrow, best remembered as one of the figures who died in the tragic Twilight Zone: The Movie accident in 1982. Here, he leads a cast of alpha males, such as Rick Jason and Pierre Jalbert, into 152 episodes of war and the trials, tribulations, and tragedies experienced and suffered during it. The series was also chock full of plenty of guest stars throughout its run, such as Telly Savalas, Lee Marvin, James Colburn, Leonard Nimoy, Sal Mineo, John Cassavetes, and many, many others.