Posts Tagged ‘surreal’

Mr. Destiny (1990)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, James | Hamilton, Linda | Caine, Michael | Lovitz, Jon | Bochner, Hart | McCutcheon, Bill | Russo, Rene | Sanders, Jay O. | Chaykin, Maury | Corley, Pat | Seale, Douglas | Cox, Courteney | Barron, Doug | Weiss, Jeff | Longo, Tony
Directors: Orr, James
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Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid. One night he meets this mysterious man, who could change his fate by offering him that alternative life he always dreamed of. But as Burrows embarks on this journey of self discovery he realises that even this new life has its problems and drawbacks..

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Murphy, Cillian | Jones, Morgan | Birthistle, Eva | Neeson, Liam | Coughlan, Mary | McEvoy, Conor | McCabe, Ruth | McKenna, Charlene | Reilly, Seamus | Owens, Peter | Lawlor McHugh, Emmet | O'Connor, Bianca | Breathnach, Paraic | McCabe, Pat | Roe, Owen
Directors: Jordan, Neil
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In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick “Kitten” Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town’s understanding.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Dullea, Keir | Lockwood, Gary | Sylvester, William | Richter, Daniel | Rossiter, Leonard | Tyzack, Margaret | Beatty, Robert | Sullivan, Sean | Rain, Douglas | Miller, Frank | Weston, Bill | Bishop, Ed | Beck, Glenn | Gifford, Alan | Gillis, Ann
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: River Phoenix | Reeves, Keanu | Russo, James | Richert, William | Harvey, Rodney | Parker, Michael | Flea | Troupe, Tom | Kier, Udo | Pitchlynn, Robert Lee | Cottrell, Mickey | Evans, Wade | Ebert, Matthew | Green, Scott Patrick | Cramer, Tom
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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike is quiet, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike’s mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, with Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way.

Flatliners (1990)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Bacon, Kevin | Sutherland, Kiefer | Platt, Oliver | Baldwin, William | Scott, Kimberly
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Connery, Sean | Holm, Ian | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ralph | Vaughan, Peter | Warner, David | Rappaport, David | Baker, Kenny | Dixon, Malcolm | Edmonds, Mike | Purvis, Jack | Ross, Tiny | Warnock, Craig | Daker, David
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Freddy Got Fingered (2001)

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Green, Tom | Torn, Rip | Thomas, Eddie Kaye | Williams, Harland | Hall, Anthony Michael | Davies, Jackson | Widdows, Connor | Taylor, John R. | Osborne, Bob | Gordon, George | Selmour, Ron | Neale, David | Heindl, Scott | Brown, R. Nelson | Gray, Allan
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Tom Green plays Gord Brody, a slacker who dreams of becoming an animator for cartoon shows. He is forced to move back in with his parents, but then refuses to leave. Along the way, he sexually pleasures various farm animals, licks open flesh wounds, accuses his father of molesting his brother, goes scuba diving in a toilet, plays an organ with several sausages attached to it which are suspended in midair, and does a bunch of other stuff that is too insane, offensive, disgusting, or weird to be mentioned here.

L.A. Story (1991)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Grant, Richard E. | Pollak, Kevin | McMurray, Sam | Stewart, Patrick | Amador, Andrew | De Harp, Eddie | Shan, M.C. | Hinkley, Tommy | Miller, Larry | Simmons, Thornton | Dragon, Dennis | Stahl, Richard | Lustig, Aaron | Winters, Time
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In this spin on the traditional romantic comedy, Harris K. Tellemacher, a Shakespeare-quoting, Los Angeles TV weatherman is looking for something meaningful for his life. The Los Angeles Freeway sign informs him that the weather will change his life in two ways, and Harris begins to search for the meaning behind that message.

Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A (1985)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Patton, Mark | Myers, Kim | Rusler, Robert | Gulager, Clu | Lange, Hope | Bell, Marshall | Fee, Melinda O. | McFadden, Tom | Walsh, Sydney | Englund, Robert | Blackoff, Edward | Clark, Christie | Ward, Lyman | Bruce, Donna | Sprager, Hart
Directors: Sholder, Jack
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A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy’s sweetheart can master her fear.

Living and the Dead, The (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Lloyd-Pack, Roger | Bill, Leo | Conrich, Neil
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.