James D. Rolfe

James D. Rolfe

Born: July 10, 1980
in Penns Grove, New Jersey, U.S.
James Rolfe is an American filmmaker, actor, YouTuber, and online personality. He is best known for creating and starring in the YouTube webshow Angry Video Game Nerd, a joint production between Rolfe's Cinemassacre Productions, GameTrailers, and ScrewAttack.

Movies for James D. Rolfe...

Shrek 2 Retold
Title: Shrek 2 Retold
Released: September 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Over 800 creators come together to re-create the 2004 animated comedy "Shrek 2" scene by scene.
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Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s
Title: Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Mom N' Pop The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s is an indie documentary chronicling the history of the video rental market and stores. Beginning in the mid 70s, the documentary will cover the rise in popularity and the fall in success in the mid to late 2000s. The entire documentary will cover the independent video stores, gas stations, tanning salons, etc that provided rental services (both videos and video games). The story will be told via variety of interviews and narration from the people that actually lived the story. Independent Video Store Owners, Filmmakers, Employees, Distributors, and more. The documentary hopes to tell a story of how these experiences shaped lives and built memories. Also we will look into the logistics of how local businesses dealt with rising distribution costs and ask the question of "Why did so many tanning salons also rent videos?"
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Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era
Title: Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Interviews with casual retro game collectors to collectors with the most expensive retro game collections in the world
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
Title: In Search of Darkness: Part II
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 2020
Type: Movie
The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.
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Title: Smiling Friends
Character: Screamer
Released: April 1, 2020
Type: TV
Smiling Friends Inc. is a small company whose main purpose is to bring happiness and make people smile. The series follows the day-to-day lives and misadventures of its representatives, the lazy, cynical Charlie, and the cheerful, optimistic Pim, as they try to cheer up and comfort the troubled people who call their company's hotline. They receive seemingly simple requests but the jobs turn out to be more complicated than they seem, making it difficult to bring happiness to the world.
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VHS Massacre Too
Title: VHS Massacre Too
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2020
Type: Movie
The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming.
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In Search of Darkness
Title: In Search of Darkness
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2019
Type: Movie
An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
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Not for Resale
Title: Not for Resale
Character: Self
Released: April 24, 2019
Type: Movie
A feature-length documentary on local video game stores and the final days of physical media.
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J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Title: J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Character: Himself (Archived Footage)
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out-of-work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon.
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Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2
Title: Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2
Character: The Angry Video Game Nerd
Released: January 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Following the events of Volume 1, the mutated glee club continue their violent rampage in Tromaville. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants, and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they, and Kevin the Wonder Duck, save Tromaville High School and the world?
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Shooting Clerks
Title: Shooting Clerks
Character: Leonard James Nash
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The biopic of how Kevin Smith bankrolled his $27,000 first film with maxed-out credit cards and became the darling of the Sundance Film Festival when Clerks debuted there in 1994.
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Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
Title: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
Character: The Nerd
Released: July 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Based on the hit web series of the same name, the science fiction/adventure/comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, follows a disgruntled gamer who must overcome his fear of the worst video game of all time in order to save his fans. Hilarity ensues as a simple road trip becomes an extravagant pursuit of the unexpected.
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Title: James & Mike Mondays
Character: Himself
Released: December 14, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Board James
Character: Board James
Released: April 11, 2009
Type: TV
A new series from Cinemassacre's James Rolfe, creator of the infamous Angry Video Game Nerd. As Board James he still takes us back to the past, but this time to revisit the classic board games of years gone by.
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Rocky Jumped a Park Bench
Title: Rocky Jumped a Park Bench
Released: April 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A location tour of the Rocky filming locations in Philadelphia.
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Title: Cinemassacre's Monster Madness
Character: Himself
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: TV
In the series James Rolfe, known for his role as Angry Video Game Nerd, reviews a horror movie in every single day of October.
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Title: You Know What's Bullshit?
Character: The Bullshit Man
Released: May 6, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: The Angry Video Game Nerd
Character: The Nerd
Released: May 25, 2004
Type: TV
The Angry Video Game Nerd is an adult web television series of comedic retrogaming video reviews created by and starring James Rolfe. The show's format revolves around his commentary and review of older, but unsuccessful video games which are deemed to be of particularly low-quality, unfair difficulty or poor design. The series began as a feature on YouTube and later became a program on ScrewAttack Entertainment before moving to GameTrailers exclusively. The show was renamed The Angry Video Game Nerd to prevent any trademark issues with Nintendo and due to the fact he started reviewing games from non-Nintendo consoles such as those made by Atari and Sega. Rolfe's character, "The Nerd" is a short-tempered and foul-mouthed video game fanatic. He derives comic appeal from excessive and inventive use of anger, profanity, and habitual consumption of alcohol while reviewing video games.
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Are You Dead Yet?
Title: Are You Dead Yet?
Character: Police Dispatcher
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When a group of thrill seekers venture into supposedly haunted woods, they must fight to survive against a maniac with a mallet and a taste for blood.