Posts Tagged ‘film-in-film’

Idiocracy

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Rudolph, Maya | Shepard, Dax | Campos, Anthony 'Citric' | Herman, David | Castillo, Sonny | McAfee, Kevin | Musgrave, Robert | Melton, Ryan | Long, Justin | Jones, Heath | Muñoz, Eli | Fischler, Patrick | Hunt, Darlene | Ransdell, Ryan
Directors: Judge, Mike
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The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and “due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.

Death Proof (from Grindhouse)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Actors: Andrews, Naveen | Arnett, Will | Bacall, Lauren | Biehn, Michael | Brolin, Josh | Cage, Nicolas | Castanon, Leroy | Doom, Omar | Douglas, Jason | Fahey, Jeff | Gallardo, Carlos | Hernandez, Jay | Ingram, Doran | Isaacs, Jason | Katt, Nicky
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin
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From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers’ favorite exploitation films. “Grindhouse” (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for “grinding out” non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantino’s film, “Death Proof,” is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez’s film “Planet Terror” shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the ’50s exploitation drive-in classics.

Scary Movie

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Actors: Oteri, Cheri | Wayans, Shawn | Munro, Lochlyn | Fuller, Kurt | Electra, Carmen | Sheridan, Dave | Moore, Frank B. | Baessato, Giacomo | Graham, Kyle | Santos, Leanne | McConchie, Mark | Kruper, Karen | Faris, Anna | Abrahams, Jon | Ducommun, Rick | Hall, Regina | Wayans, Marlon | Elizabeth, Shannon | Berry, Lloyd
Directors: Wayans, Keenen Ivory
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A parody of modern horror films about a group of teenagers who are being terrorised by a serial killer. Some of the send-ups include: “Scream”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Sixth Sense” and “The Matrix”.

Cars

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
Actors: Wilson, Owen | Newman, Paul | Hunt, Bonnie | The Cable Guy, Larry | Marin, Cheech | Shalhoub, Tony | Quaroni, Guido | Lewis, Jenifer | Dooley, Paul | Wallis, Michael | Carlin, George | Helmond, Katherine | Ratzenberger, John | Ranft, Joe | Keaton, Michael
Directors: Lasseter, John
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Lightning McQueen is a cocky, rookie race car. Speeding on his way to a big race, he crashes into Radiator Springs, destroying lots of the inhabitants belongings. In order to make up for what he did, the cocky roadster is sentenced to community service. Though he will do anything to get away from the work, McQueen must learn to respect and bond with the Radiator Springs inhabitants in order to get out of the town and back on the racetracks.

Bowfinger

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Martin, Steve | Murphy, Eddie | Graham, Heather | Baranski, Christine | Kennedy, Jamie | Alexi-Malle, Adam | Sudduth, Kohl | Newman, Barry | Stamp, Terence | Downey Jr., Robert | Patino, Alejandro | De Contreras, Alfred | Fabian, Ramiro | Sanchez, Johnny | Brooks, Claude
Directors: Oz, Frank
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Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Actors: Hoskins, Bob | Lloyd, Christopher | Cassidy, Joanna | Fleischer, Charles | Kaye, Stubby | Tilvern, Alan | LeParmentier, Richard | Hirsch, Lou | Brantley, Betsy | Silver, Joel | Springer, Paul | Ridings, Richard | Craig, Edwin | Holiday, Lindsay | Edmonds, Mike
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers’ boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help.

Ring, The

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Henderson, Martin | Dorfman, David | Cox, Brian | Alexander, Jane | Frost, Lindsay | Tamblyn, Amber | Bella, Rachael | Chase, Daveigh | Cochran, Shannon | Thigpen, Sandra | Lineback, Richard | Barrese, Sasha | Hall, Tess | Brody, Adam
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son’s and her own life.

Aviator, The

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Blanchett, Cate | Beckinsale, Kate | Reilly, John C. | Baldwin, Alec | Alda, Alan | Holm, Ian | Huston, Danny | Stefani, Gwen | Law, Jude | Scott, Adam | Ross, Matt | Garner, Kelli | Conroy, Frances | Spiner, Brent
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

King Kong

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.