Posts Tagged ‘cult-favorite’

Up in Smoke (1978)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Marin, Cheech | Chong, Tommy | Martin, Strother | Adams, Edie | Fong, Harold | Novo, Richard | Moder, Jane | Bille, Pam | Roberts, Arthur | Beeler, Marian | Hotton, Donald | Jacobs, John Ian | Joy, Christopher | Vitte, Ray | Caldwell, Michael
Directors: Adler, Lou
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Two directionless musicans, a Chicano guitarist (Cheech Marin) and a White drummer (Tommy Chong), meet up in a chance encounter and embark on a series of odd adventures, including being the unwitting partcipants of a bizarre marijuana smuggling plot.

Birds, The (1963)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Taylor, Rod | Tandy, Jessica | Pleshette, Suzanne | Hedren, Tippi | Cartwright, Veronica | Griffies, Ethel | McGraw, Charles | McDevitt, Ruth | Chapman, Lonny | Mantell, Joe | Weaver, Doodles | Atterbury, Malcolm | McGovern, John | Swenson, Karl | Deacon, Richard
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It’s enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Albertson, Jack | Ostrum, Peter | Kinnear, Roy | Cole, Julie Dawn | Stone, Leonard | Nickerson, Denise | Denney, Nora | Themmen, Paris | Reit, Ursula | Bollner, Michael | Sowle, Diana | Woods, Aubrey | Battley, David | Meisner, Günter
Directors: Stuart, Mel
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?

Spaceballs (1987)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Brooks, Mel | Moranis, Rick | Pullman, Bill | Zuniga, Daphne | Candy, John | Wyner, George | Rivers, Joan | Van Patten, Dick | Winslow, Michael | Yarnell, Lorene | Hurt, John | Viscuso, Sal | Graham, Ronny | Bullock, JM J. | Bevis, Leslie
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

Home Alone (1990)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | Heard, John | Blossom, Roberts | O'Hara, Catherine | Goethals, Angela | Ratray, Devin | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Wolf, Hillary | Hankin, Larry | Maronna, Michael C. | Minter, Kristin | Campeanu, Daiana
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Serenity (2005)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fillion, Nathan | Torres, Gina | Tudyk, Alan | Baccarin, Morena | Baldwin, Adam | Staite, Jewel | Maher, Sean | Glau, Summer | Glass, Ron | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Krumholtz, David | Hitchcock, Michael | Paulson, Sarah | Feldman, Yan | Feldman, Rafael
Directors: Whedon, Joss
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River’s safety. She then mutters “Miranda” and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what “Miranda” is and what the Alliance is hiding.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Ryder, Winona | Wiest, Dianne | Hall, Anthony Michael | Baker, Kathy | Oliveri, Robert | Ferrell, Conchata | Aaron, Caroline | Williams, Dick Anthony | Jones, O-Lan | Price, Vincent | Arkin, Alan | Blommaert, Susan | Perri, Linda | Davidson, John
Directors: Burton, Tim
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A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet…

Jaws 2 (1978)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Gary, Lorraine | Hamilton, Murray | Mascolo, Joseph | Kramer, Jeffrey | Dusenberry, Ann | Paxton, Collin Wilcox | Gruner, Mark | Coe, Barry | French, Susan | Springer, Gary | Wilkes, Donna | Dubin, Gary | Dukakis, John | Dunlop, G. Thomas
Directors: Szwarc, Jeannot
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The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial problems it had after becoming known as the site of shark attacks four years ago. Mayor Larry Vaughn is welcoming developer Len Peterson and his new resort to Amity. Two scuba divers are exploring the area where the Orca sank after police chief Martin Brody killed a huge shark four years ago. A shark shows up and kills the two divers, but not before one of the divers takes a close-up picture of the shark’s eye, and sometime later, while a mother is driving a boat that’s pulling her water-skiing teenage daughter, the shark kills the daughter and causes the mother to accidentally blow up the boat, then a killer whale is found on the shore with a huge bite on it. After Brody sees this, he knows there’s another huge great white shark in Amity’s waters, but Vaughn and Peterson explain these attacks away as non-shark accidents, because the thought of another shark in Amity’s waters would drive tourists away from the new resort and cause the new resort to lose money. It looks like Vaughn is still a mayor who puts money ahead of people’s lives. Brody tips his gun’s hollow point bullets with cyanide and melted candle wax and tells his sons Michael and Sean to stay away from the beaches and tells them to not go sailing with Mike’s friends, who include Vaughn’s son Larry Vaughn Jr. Everyone thinks Brody’s fears are shark trauma-induced paranoia. Brody even tries to call his friend Matt Hooper, who is doing research on a boat in the Antarctic Circle, and Matt will be in the Antarctic Circle for a few more months. While keeping an eye on the waters from the beach’s shark tower, Brody sees a huge dark spot in the water and rings the tower’s alarm bell, but it turns out to be a school of bluefish. Vaughn fires Brody for causing this panic at the beach and scaring tourists and their money away, and even though they were told not to, Michael and Sean go out sailing with Junior Vaughn and their friends, unaware that the shark is trailing them. Brody knows it’s up to him to find them before the shark kills too many of them.

Highlander (1986)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Hart, Roxanne | Brown, Clancy | Connery, Sean | Edney, Beatie | North, Alan | Polito, Jon | Gish, Sheila | Quarshie, Hugh | Lambert, Christopher | Diamond, Peter | Hartman, Billy | Cosmo, James | Imrie, Celia | Findlay, Alistair
Directors: Mulcahy, Russell
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser’s power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor’s ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, “The Prize”; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one.

Midnight Express (1978)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Brad | Miracle, Irene | Hopkins, Bo | Bonacelli, Paolo | Smith, Paul L. | Quaid, Randy | Weisser, Norbert | Hurt, John | Kellin, Mike | Diogene, Franco | Ensign, Michael | Ballista, Gigi | Malikyan, Kevork | Jeffrey, Peter | Boyd, Tony
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the “Midnight Express”.