Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 5:00 amh.
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When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death at sea when seeking his fortune. Heartbroken, [...]
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1987, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, USA
albino, arranged-marriage, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle-of-wits, book, chocolate, cliff, crossbow, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, deception, deformity, drunkenness, duel, eel-infested-waters, electronic-music-score, evil-prince, fairy-tale, famous-line, fencing, fictional-country, forest, friend, friendship, funny-accent, gentle-giant, giant, giant-animal, giant-rat, good-versus-evil, grandfather-grandson-relationship, honor, hope, hopelessness, impalement, impersonation, insult, jealousy, kidnapping, kids-and-family, kissing, loss-of-boyfriend, magic, man-in-black, marriage, masked-man, murder, old-lady, old-man, parody, pharmacist, pirate, poison, prince, princess, quicksand, redemption, respect, revenge, reverse-footage, screwball, secret-identity, self-worth, shirtless-male-bondage, stabbed-in-the-chest, story-in-story, story-within-the-story, storyteller, suicide-attempt, swashbuckler, sword, sword-and-sorcery, sword-fight, title-in-title, torture, true-love, unrequited-love, video-game, warrior, wedding, wedding-ceremony, wheelbarrow, wizard, wrestling
Posted in June 2, 2009 ¬ 4:41 amh.
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn’t commit, she [...]
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1987, Comedy, Music, Romance, USA
box-office-flop, bridesmaid, class-differences, convertible, cougar, criminal, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, ex-convict, false-accusation, father-in-law, fencing, fianc?e, frame-up, framed, harlem, imprisonment, innocence, investigator, kidnapping, lawyer, limousine, love, male-female-relationship, manhattan, miscarriage-of-justice, mountain-lion, new-york-city, odd-couple, on-the-run, parole, parolee, pimp, prison, rain-forest, revenge, robbery, scam, screwball, singer-acting, switchblade, theft, wedding
Posted in April 17, 2009 ¬ 7:43 pmh.
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and [...]
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1999, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, USA
abortion, abortion-clinic, alternative-history, androgyny, angel, apocalypse, apocrypha, apostle, bar, bartender, bittersweet, black-comedy, blood, blood-splatter, bloody-violence, bus, campy, catholic, catholicism, chosen-one, christ-allegory, christianity, church, clergy, comic-fantasy, compassion, controversial, crisis, crisis-of-faith, crude-humor, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, dead-body, demon, depiction-of-god, desert-eagle, dogma, exile, exploding-head, faith, fallen-angel, fart, fast-food, forgiveness, friendship, gang, god, golf-club, good-versus-evil, gore, handgun, holy-water, homeless-man, honesty, hospital, humanity, idolatry, independent-film, inside-joke, irreverent, jay-and-silent-bob, jesus-christ, kindness, lapsed-catholic, loss-of-faith, machine-gun, manual-transmission, mass-murder, mission, molotov-cocktail, monster, moral-ambiguity, murder, Mystery, neck-breaking-scene, new-jersey, news-report, news-reporter, newspaper, newspaper-article, newspaper-clippings, nun, obsessive, priest, profanity, psychopath, racial-slur, redemption, religion, religious, religious-zealot, revenge, road-movie, road-trip, satire, satirical, scatological-humor, sequel, sequel-mentioned-during-end-credits, sex, sex-talk, sexual-humor, shermer-illinois, shootout, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-wings, sin, spit-take, stabbed-in-the-side, stabbing, stripper, tequila, title-spoken-by-character, tragedy, tragic-villain, tragicomedy, train, triple-teen-murder, triplet, unlikely-hero, uzi, view-askew, violence, voodoo-doll, vulgarity, walk-on-water
Posted in April 13, 2009 ¬ 9:47 amh.
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Two sisters, high school seniors in the early 1980s, awaken one morning to blood red skies and the realization that the human race has been wiped out. It becomes apparant that anyone who was not surrounded by steel when the Earth recently passed through the tail of Haley’s comet has been reduced to a pile [...]
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1984, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
black-comedy, chase, comet, consumerism, creature, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, dead, dream-sequence, eaten-alive, elevator, end-of-the-world, exploding-car, face-slap, flesh-eating-zombies, forklift, friendship, gore, helicopter, hypodermic-needle, killer-child, kiss, knee-in-groin, last-man-on-earth, machine-gun, mass-destruction, mirror, monster, motorcycle, movie-theater, multiple-monsters, nightmare, post-apocalyptic, radio-station, rampage, russian-roulette, scientist, scream, severed-head, severed-leg, shopping-mall, shot-in-the-chest, shotgun, sister, sister-sister-relationship, spoof, sub-machine-gun, sunglasses, teen, title-spoken-by-character, underage-drinking, unlikely-hero, video-game, zombie, zombie-child, zombie-violence
Posted in March 10, 2009 ¬ 11:29 amh.
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In the farm of Oregon Dottie Henson and Kit Keller are working on the farm. Sisters that do love each other, except when it comes to baseball. Kit wants to play in the league but is upset to hear that it is Dottie who is chosen to play for the AAPGL. (All American Pro Girls [...]
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1992, Comedy, Drama, Sport, USA
1940s, americana, baseball, based-on-true-story, blockbuster, coach, cult-comedy, female-athlete, female-bonding, female-director, feminist, flashback, friendship, friendship-between-women, home-front, rival, sarcasm, sibling, sibling-rivalry, sister-sister-relationship, sports-comedy, sports-league, underdog, urination, wwii
Posted in February 16, 2009 ¬ 9:55 amh.
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Tate Donovan, a geek biochemist with no luck at all with women, is persuaded by his friends to visit a gypsy, Madame Ruth. She gives him “Love Potion No. 8″, an elixir which can potentially force anyone of the opposite sex to instantly fall in love with him. He shares the potion with his friend, [...]
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1992, Comedy, Romance, USA
affection, aphrodisiac, cinderella-story, co-worker, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, experiment, experiment-gone-wrong, fantastic, fortune-teller, gypsy, love, love-potion, male-female-relationship, potion, psychotronic, scientist, title-based-on-song
Posted in December 19, 2008 ¬ 10:17 amh.
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Classic black comedy about young schnook who develops a bloodthirsty plant and is forced to kill in order to feed it. The basis for the later hit stage musical.
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1960, Comedy, USA
attacked-by-plant, b-movie, black-comedy, blood, campy, cult-comedy, cult-director, cult-favorite, dead-woman-carried, deadpan, dentist, dismemberment, eaten-alive, fame, flesh-eating, flesh-eating-plant, flower, giant-plant, high-heels, hit-by-train, horror-spoof, humor, hypochondriac, independent-film, investigation, killer-plant, love, man-eating-monster, man-eating-plant, masochist, monster, monster-plant, murder, nerd, plant, public-domain, quirky, satire, severed-foot, severed-hand, shop, skid-row, stabbed-in-the-chest, stockings, twist-in-the-end
Posted in November 25, 2008 ¬ 8:38 pmh.
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The misadventures of five siblings, whose mother goes off on a two month vacation, leaving them under the care of a geriatric babysitter. The babysitter dies, and the fun begins. The oldest sibling, Sue Ellen, is left to fend for her younger siblings, who fight her every step of the way.
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1991, Comedy, USA
animated-credits, babysitter, babysitting, boss, broken-leg, business, child's-point-of-view, children, coming-of-age, corpse, cult-comedy, cult-favorite, dead-babysitter, dead-body, death, deception, employer-employee-relationship, fall-from-height, family, fashion, fashion-show, fast-food-restaurant, home-alone, humor, job, nanny, nice-boss, party, responsibility, teen-angst, teenager, underage-smoking
Posted in October 28, 2008 ¬ 2:58 pmh.
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When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night. Led by the indifferent, nun-chuck-wielding head counselor, Mac, and his wheelchair-bound sister Dale, the unlikely heroes fight their way off the mountain as, one by one, they’re picked [...]
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2006, Comedy, Horror, USA
b-movie, black-comedy, bloody, campy, cult, cult-comedy, dark-comedy, dead, driller-killer, flesh-eating-zombies, gore, slasher, undead, walking-dead, zombie
Posted in October 28, 2008 ¬ 2:58 pmh.
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When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night. Led by the indifferent, nun-chuck-wielding head counselor, Mac, and his wheelchair-bound sister Dale, the unlikely heroes fight their way off the mountain as, one by one, they’re picked [...]
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2006, Comedy, Horror, USA
b-movie, black-comedy, bloody, campy, cult, cult-comedy, dark-comedy, dead, driller-killer, flesh-eating-zombies, gore, slasher, undead, walking-dead, zombie
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