Posts Tagged ‘black-comedy’

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Fido (2006)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Connolly, Billy | Skorzewski, Jan | Moss, Carrie-Anne | Baker, Dylan | Tyell, Kevin | Ray, K'Sun | Czerny, Henry | Nelson, Tim Blake | Bennett, Sonja | Clement, Jennifer | Kepinski, Raphael | Brown, Aaron | Olds, Brandon | Fast, Alexia | Cuffling, Bernard
Directors: Currie, Andrew
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Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, “FIDO” will rip your heart out.

Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Elfman, Danny | Sarandon, Chris | O'Hara, Catherine | Hickey, William | Shadix, Glenn | Reubens, Paul | Page, Ken | Ivory, Ed | McBride, Susan | Durst, Debi | Proops, Greg | Katz, Kerry | Crenshaw, Randy | Ball, Sherwood | Twillie, Carmen
Directors: Selick, Henry
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Modine, Matthew | Baldwin, Adam | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Ermey, R. Lee | Harewood, Dorian | Howard, Kevyn Major | Howard, Arliss | O'Ross, Ed | Terry, John | Jecchinis, Kieron | Taylor, Kirk | Colceri, Tim | Stafford, Jon | Boa, Bruce | Tyler, Ian
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

RoboCop (1987)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weller, Peter | Allen, Nancy | Dan O'Herlihy | Cox, Ronny | Smith, Kurtwood | Ferrer, Miguel | Robert DoQui | Wise, Ray | Perry, Felton | McCrane, Paul | Goins, Jesse D. | Zamora, Del | Jung, Calvin | Lieberman, Rick | de Broux, Lee
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Flemyng, Jason | Fletcher, Dexter | Moran, Nick | Statham, Jason | Mackintosh, Steven | Rowe, Nicholas | Marcq, Nick | Forbes, Charlie | Jones, Vinnie | McLean, Lenny | McNicholl, Peter | Moriarty, P.H. | Harper, Frank | Sweeney, Steve | Leaver, Huggy
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Dogma (1999)

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
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.

Eraserhead (1977)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Nance, Jack | Stewart, Charlotte | Allen Joseph | Bates, Jeanne | Roberts, Judith | Laurel Near | Phipps-Wilson, V. | Fisk, Jack | Lange, Jean | Coulson, Thomas | Monez, John | Joston, Darwin | Graham, T. Max | Landon Jr., Hal | Lynch, Jennifer Chambers
Directors: Lynch, David
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Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Team America: World Police (2004)

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Stone, Matt
Directors: Parker, Trey
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Team America follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that power hungry dictator Kim Jong Il (Parker) is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston (Parker) to go undercover. With the help of Team America (Stone, Miller, Masasa, Parker, and Norris), Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer’s hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save the world?


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