Posts Tagged ‘quirky’

Weird Science (1985)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Anthony Michael | Mitchell-Smith, Ilan | Paxton, Bill | Downey Jr., Robert | Rusler, Robert | Wells, Vernon | Leach, Britt | Berryman, Michael | Barry, Ivor | Kapelos, John | Scott, Fred D. | Townsend Jr., Vince | Williams, Chino 'Fats' | Langham, Wallace | Timko, Johnny
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Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Thier desperation to be liked leads them to “create” a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, who’s purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to become accepted they encounter many hilarious obstacles which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Connery, Sean | Holm, Ian | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ralph | Vaughan, Peter | Warner, David | Rappaport, David | Baker, Kenny | Dixon, Malcolm | Edmonds, Mike | Purvis, Jack | Ross, Tiny | Warnock, Craig | Daker, David
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Ed Wood (1994)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Landau, Martin | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Arquette, Patricia | Jones, Jeffrey | Spradlin, G.D. | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Murray, Bill | Starr, Mike | Casella, Max | Hinkley, Brent | Marie, Lisa | Steele, George 'The Animal' | Landau, Juliet | Rosengren, Clive
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’, ‘Glen or Glenda?’ and ‘Bride of the Monster’) of all time.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Hunter, Holly | Wilson, Trey | Goodman, John | Forsythe, William | McMurray, Sam | McDormand, Frances | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Kuhn, T.J. | Kitei, Lynne Dumin | Benedek, Peter | Smith, Charles 'Lew' | Keith, Warren | Kendrick, Henry | Dawson, Sidney
Directors: Coen, Ethan
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Colourful and unconventional slapstick comedy. Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she’s barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi’s convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.

Howling, The (1981)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wallace, Dee | Macnee, Patrick | Dugan, Dennis | Stone, Christopher | Balaski, Belinda | McCarthy, Kevin | Carradine, John | Pickens, Slim | Brooks, Elisabeth | Picardo, Robert | Impert, Margie | Willingham, Noble | Murtaugh, James | McKrell, Jim | Tobey, Kenneth
Directors: Dante, Joe
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There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at a Pussycat Theater, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn’t want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in the woods and that’s where she decides to vacation with boyfriend Chris. Big mistake, because Eddie was an outcast of a pack of Werewolves who is trying to keep a low profile and doesn’t want any interviews. Can Karen and Chris escape the village of the wolf?

Penelope (2006)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Ricci, Christina | McAvoy, James | O'Hara, Catherine | Witherspoon, Reese | Dinklage, Peter | Grant, Richard E. | Woods, Simon | Ancona, Ronni | Thornton, Jason | Brand, Russell | Davey, Martin Nigel | Feast, Michael | Fosh, Christopher | Frost, Nick | Gorman, Burn
Directors: Palansky, Mark
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This is the story of a named Penelope, who is the victim of a curse placed on a wealthy family by a witch. After generations ago, a witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family that would result in the next girl being born into the clan having the face of a pig. The otherwise-normal girl Penelope is forced to endure life with a pig’s snout instead of a conventional nose, which has sent many a potential suitor running off into the streets, shouting in terror. Eventually, she runs away from her sheltered existence and overprotective parents, to explore the world on her own. As she meets new friends and a potential lover who doesn’t run away, she begins to discover happiness - while all the while her parents believe the only way she can be happy is through an arranged marriage, which will hopefully break her curse.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Reeves, Keanu | Winter, Alex | Carlin, George | Camilleri, Terry | Shor, Dan | Steedman, Tony | Loomis, Rod | Leong, Al | Wiedlin, Jane | Barron, Robert V. | David, Clifford | Landon Jr., Hal | Casey, Bernie | Stock-Poynton, Amy | McNamara, J. Patrick
Directors: Herek, Stephen
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When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted “Theodore” Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they’re failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report.

Serial Mom (1994)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Turner, Kathleen | Waterston, Sam | Lake, Ricki | Lillard, Matthew | Morgan, Scott | MacPherson, Walt | Whalin, Justin | Dunnock, Patricia | Horsey, Lonnie | Stole, Mink | Catlett, Mary Jo | Badila, John | Fannon, Kathy | Roberts, Doug | Lords, Traci
Directors: Waters, John
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A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase, and the police get closer to the truth, threatening the family’s picture perfect world.

Slipstream (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Arroyave, Stella | Pepper, Lisa | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Generally, Dana | Grant, Saginaw | Grazer, Gavin | Lawford, Christopher | Littlefield, John | Lucking, William | McCarthy, Kevin | Millen, Ken | Putnam, Richard F. | Reed, Thell | Robinson, Michael R.
Directors: Hopkins, Anthony
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“Slipstream” is a noir-comedy about an actor and would-be screenwriter, who at the very moment of his meeting with Fate, comes to discover that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream. The film will be a complex, surreal and dreamlike tale of one man’s journey.

Trading Places (1983)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Elliott, Denholm | Aykroyd, Dan | Woods, Maurice | Fisher Jr., Richard D. | Gallagher, Jim | DiSabatino, Anthony | Behrend, Bonnie | Merrill, Sunnie | Newell, James | St. John, Mary | Tremena, Bonnie | Schwartz, David | Bellamy, Ralph | Ameche, Don | Degidon, Tom
Directors: Landis, John
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.