Posts Tagged ‘satirical’

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Shalhoub, Tony | Rockwell, Sam | Breen, Patrick | Allen, Tim | Weaver, Sigourney | Rickman, Alan | Mitchell, Daryl | Sachs, Robin | Colantoni, Enrico
Directors: Parisot, Dean
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Raising Arizona (1987)

Monday, June 9th, 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.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Dogma (1999)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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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 prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Magee, Patrick | Bates, Michael | Clarke, Warren | Clive, John | Corri, Adrienne | Duering, Carl | Farrell, Paul | Francis, Clive | Gover, Michael | Karlin, Miriam | Marcus, James | Morris, Aubrey | Quigley, Godfrey | Raynor, Sheila
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.

Serial Mom (1994)

Thursday, May 15th, 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.

Lolita (1962)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Irons, Jeremy | Griffith, Melanie | Langella, Frank | Swain, Dominique | Shepherd, Suzanne | Reddin, Keith | Dean, Erin J. | Glover, Joan | Perkins, Pat Pierre | Grady, Ed | Goodwin, Michael | Paton, Angela | Silverstone, Ben | Griffiths Malin, Emma | Pickup, Ronald
Directors: Lyne, Adrian
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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman’s 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.

Heathers (1989)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryder, Winona | Slater, Christian | Shannen Doherty | Falk, Lisanne | Walker, Kim | Milford, Penelope | Shadix, Glenn | Fenton, Lance | Labyorteaux, Patrick | Applegate, Jeremy | Matthews, Jon | Lynn, Carrie | Lewis, Phill | Estevez, Renée | Zarchen, John
Directors: Lehmann, Michael
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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock (”Dumptruck”), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she’ll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn’t mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University’s party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there’s where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD “accidentally” kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school?

Mean Girls (2004)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chabert, Lacey | Lohan, Lindsay | McAdams, Rachel | Amanda Seyfried | Tina Fey | Lizzy Caplan
Directors: Waters, Mark S.
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Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.