Posts Tagged ‘anthology’

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allwine, Wayne | Anselmo, Tony | Bennett, Jeff | Burton, Corey | Cummings, Jim | Farmer, Bill | Fleming, Shaun | Grammer, Kelsey | McDonough, Andrew | Young, Alan | Tress MacNeille | Michelle, Diane | Taylor, Russi | Winchell, April
Directors: Falkenstein, Jun
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A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part, “Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas”, is essentially a retelling of _Groundhog Day (1993)_ (qv), with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas ad infinitum. Next is “A Very Goofy Christmas”, in which Goofy tries to overcome his son’s skepticism about Santa Claus. Finally, “Mickey & Minnie’s Gift Of The Magi” recreate the classic tale of ironic Christmas selflessness. The stories are linked together by narration by ‘Kelsey Grammer’ (qv).

Creepshow III (2006)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pettee, Stephanie | Abramsohn, Roy | Schramm, Susan | Gibson, Bunny | Fromm, Matt | Kirkland, Nathan | Pinkard, Selma | Knox, Kalena | Jacobs, Brian | Millán, Leonardo | Avila, Magi | Lugo, Margarita | Gonzales, Robert | Burzynski, Simon | Rank, Rami
Directors: Clavell, Ana
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There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King’s 1982 horror anthology classic. In “Alice”, a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In “The Radio”, a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in “Call Girl” a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In “The Professor’s Wife”, a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he’s getting married. But there’s something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in “Haunted Dog”, a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

Creepshow 2 (1987)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: John, Domenick | Savini, Tom | Kennedy, George | Dore, Philip | Napoleon, Kaltey | Napoleon, Maltby | Tonto, Tyrone | Lamour, Dorothy | Salsedo, Frank | McCallany, Holt | Holbrook, David | Harvey, Don | Kamin, Dan | Smith, Dean | Sonderegger, Shirley
Directors: Gornick, Michael
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Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by the Creep. The first is about a dime-store Native American that seeks vengeance on those who killed the store’s owners. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final tale is about a rich woman who accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from an affair with a male prostitute.

Trapped Ashes (2006)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: Canada | Japan | USA
Actors: Bartok, Jayce | Gibson, Henry | Lowell, Scott | Miller, Dick | Saxon, John | Cox, Richard Ian | Heindl, Scott | deLeeuw, Rob | Mina, Mina E. | Rekert, Winston | Russell, Ken | Taylor, John R. | Hiruma, Yoshinori | Ishibashi, Ryo | Itô, Yôzaburô
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Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

Fantasia/2000 (1999)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stokowski, Leopold | Grierson, Ralph | Battle, Kathleen | Martin, Steve | Perlman, Itzhak | Jones, Quincy | Midler, Bette | Jones, James Earl | Jillette, Penn | Teller | Levine, James | Lansbury, Angela | Allwine, Wayne | Anselmo, Tony | Taylor, Russi
Directors: Algar, James
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In this update of Disney’s masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen’s Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to “The Pines of Rome.” Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930’s New York City, scored with “Rhapsody in Blue.” Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of “Carnival of the Animals.” This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” starring Mickey Mouse and followed by “Pomp and Circumstance” starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, “The Firebird.”

Creepshow (1982)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Holbrook, Hal | Weaver, Fritz | Nielsen, Leslie | Marshall, E.G. | Harris, Ed | Danson, Ted | King, Stephen | Shook, Warner | Harper, Robert | Lormer, Jon | Keefer, Don | O'Malley, Bingo | Amplas, John | Early, David | King, Joe
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Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50’s style comic images. A murdered man returns from the grave demanding his Father’s Day cake and death ensues, a meteor’s space ooze causes anything and anyone that comes in contact with it to grow (special appearance by Stephen King himself), a scheming vengeful husband buries his wife and her lover in sand to await death at high tide, a professor selects his nagging negative wife to become a tasty snack for a strange crated creature, and finally, a mean ole millionaire with an intense insect phobia becomes the prey of an army of cockroaches.

Ten, The (2007)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Brody, Adam | Cannavale, Bobby | Corddry, Rob | Janssen, Famke | Kenney, Kerri | Marino, Ken | Miles, A.D. | Mol, Gretchen | Platt, Oliver | Rudd, Paul | Ryder, Winona | Schreiber, Liev | Silver, Ron | Sudeikis, Jason
Directors: Wain, David
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Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

Four Rooms (1995)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Calderon, Paul | Willis, Bruce | Roth, Tim | Davis, Sammi | De Cadenet, Amanda | Golino, Valeria | Madonna | Skye, Ione | Taylor, Lili | Witt, Alicia | Beals, Jennifer | Proval, David | Banderas, Antonio | McKissack, Lana | Vonne, Patricia | Tomita, Tamlyn | Verduzco, Danny | Hayek, Salma
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin | Rodriguez, Robert | Anders, Allison | Rockwell, Alexandre
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This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It’s New Year’s Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He’s on his first night on the job, when he’s asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster’s kids for him while he’s away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.

Sin City (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Aoki, Devon | Bledel, Alexis | Boothe, Powers | Ciccolella, Jude | Dashnaw, Jeffrey J. | Dawson, Rosario | De Luna, Jesse | Del Toro, Benicio | Douglas, Jason | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Flanagan, Tommy | Frankenfield, Christina | Gomez, Rick | Gugino, Carla
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin | Rodriguez, Robert | Miller, Frank
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“Sin City” is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of “That Yellow Bastard” starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop’s body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of “That Yellow Bastard” which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.