Life of Brian
Synopsis: Monty Python delivers the group’s sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood’s epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, […]
Daily Archives: December 30, 2009
Radio Days
Synopsis: A “richly nostalgic” (Leonard Maltin) and star-studded portrait of the 1940s, Woody Allen’s Radio Days weaves together a young boy’s comical memories with zany stories from the golden age […]
The Rookie
Synopsis: Packing years of experience and a .45 automatic, LAPD Detective Nick Pulovki figures he’s got all the help he needs. He’s also got all the help he doesn’t need. […]
Erleuchtung garantiert
Synopsis: Two brothers want to get their screwed-up lives together by going to Japan for a retreat in a Zen monastery. Their midlife crisis turns into a midnight crisis when […]
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Synopsis: “One of the best movies about movies ever made” (Time Magazine), Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo slips through the looking glass of cinematic convention to create a […]
C’era una volta il West
Synopsis: Sergio Leone’s original uncut masterpiece is a monumental epic. The picture itself is as big as its Monument Valley locations. As grand as it’s fine distinguished cast, and as […]
The Eiger Sanction
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this international intrigue action thriller that takes place on the Swiss Alps. Hemlock, a retired professional assassin (Eastwood), who has turned toward the […]
The Blues Brothers
Synopsis: Comedy icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star in the outrageously funny musical comedy about Jake and Elwood Blues, two brothers searching for redemption with no money but a […]
Gran Torino
Synopsis: Korean War vet and retired autoworker Walt Kowalski doesn’t much like how his life or his neighborhood has turned out. He especially doesn’t like the people next door, Hmong […]
Truth Or Dare
Synopsis: Like you’ve never seen her before. This movie reveals her as she really is, on stage and off–den mother to her family of dancers, sex goddess to her millions […]
This Is Spinal Tap
Synopsis: Rob Reiner’s directorial debut has developed into a cult phenomenon. The film that invented the “rockumentary” has now outlasted most of the bands it mocked. Following the ill-fated American […]
Very Bad Things
Synopsis: They’ve Been Bad. Very Bad. She was the perfect stripper for a bachelor party. There was only one problem . ..she was dead. Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, […]
Memento
Synopsis: The revenge thriller gets an unforgettable new twist with Memento, an intricate crime story about a man with a damaged memory chasing a murderer whose identity he cannot possibly […]
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