Posts Tagged ‘social-satire’

Simpsons Movie, The (2007)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Castellaneta, Dan | Kavner, Julie | Cartwright, Nancy | Smith, Yeardley | Azaria, Hank | Shearer, Harry | Brooks, Albert | Grammer, Kelsey | Mantegna, Joe | Wiedergott, Karl | Brockovich-Ellis, Erin | Driver, Minnie | Hayden, Pamela | Tress MacNeille | Roswell, Maggie
Directors: Silverman, David
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Homer adopts a pig who’s run away from Krusty Burger after Krusty tried to have him slaughtered, naming the pig “Spider Pig.” At the same time, the lake is protected after the audience sink the barge Green Day are on with garbage after they mention the environment. Meanwhile, Spider Pig’s waste has filled up a silo in just 2 days, apparently with Homer’s help. Homer can’t get to the dump quickly so dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. Russ Cargill, the villainous boss of the EPA, gives Arnold Schwarzenegger 5 options, forcing him to choose 4 (which is, unfortunately, to destroy Springfield) and putting a dome over Springfield to prevent evacuation. Homer, however, has escaped, along with his family. Can he stop the evil Cargill from annihilating his home town, and his family, who have been forced to return to Springfield?

Plunkett & Macleane (1999)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: Czech Republic | UK
Actors: Miller, Jonny Lee | Robertson, Iain | Carlyle, Robert | Stott, Ken | Flanagan, Tommy | Walters, Stephen | Thornton, James | Rigby, Terence | Camargo, Christian | Polisensky, Karel | McIntosh, Neve | Lucas, Matt | Walliams, David | Foxxe, David | Gavin, Jake
Directors: Scott, Jake
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Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen’s agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett’s criminal know-how and Macleane’s social connections, they team up to be soon known as “The Gentlemen Highwaymen”. But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson’s coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both: The Gentlemen Highwaymen and Rebecca, who, needless to tell, don’t want to get any closer to him. But Plunkett still has a thing to sort out with Chance, and his impulsiveness gets all of them in a little trouble.

Fight Club (1999)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Pitt, Brad | Bonham Carter, Helena | Meat Loaf | Grenier, Zach | Arquette, Richmond | Andrews, David | Maguire, George | Bondurant, Eugenie | Cabot, Christina | Colston, Sydney 'Big Dawg' | Singer, Rachel | Cronenweth, Christie | De Zarn, Tim | Buzzington, Ezra
Directors: Fincher, David
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You’re young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there’s nothing wrong with you until they’re hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.

Ideal Husband, An (1999)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Blanchett, Cate | Driver, Minnie | Everett, Rupert | Moore, Julianne | Northam, Jeremy | Wood, John | Vaughan, Peter | Pullen, Ben | Fitzalan, Marsha | Duncan, Lindsay | Phillips, Neville | Grace, Nickolas | Russell Beale, Simon | Patrick, Anna | Lindsay, Delia
Directors: Parker, Oliver
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

American Beauty (1999)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Bening, Annette | Birch, Thora | Bentley, Wes | Suvari, Mena | Cooper, Chris | Gallagher, Peter | Janney, Allison | Bakula, Scott | Robards, Sam | Del Sherman, Barry | Celi, Ara | Cho, John | Atkinson, Fort | Casey, Sue
Directors: Mendes, Sam
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.