“For those of you lucky enough to leave with your lives, go! But leave your limbs! They belong to me!”
The Scoop: 2003 R, directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, and Darryl Hannah
Tagline: In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill
Summary Capsule: Murdered bride miraculously recuperates just in time to open up a can of seriously vengeful, worldwide whoop ass.
“There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones who bump back.”
The Scoop: 2004 12A, directed by Guillermo Del Toro and starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and John Hurt.
Tagline: Give Evil Hell
Summary Capsule: Good supernatural monsters fight against evil supernatural monsters with the help of the government and avert all kinds of Armageddon badness.
“My mother told me to be wary of fauns.”
The Scoop: R 2006, directed by Guilllermo Del Toro and starring Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones and Sergi Lopez.
Tagline: Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine.
Summary Capsule: A young girl brought to live in rural countryside with her pregnant mother and new Fascist army captain stepfather discovers that she is the reincarnation of an underworldly princess and must act fast to reclaim her prior life and throne. Read the rest of this entry »
“You’re doing life in the friend zone.”
The Scoop: 1997 R, directed by Michael Davis and starring Keri Russell, Joshua Schaefer and R. D. Robb.
Tagline: He came. He sat. He conquered.
Summary Capsule: Dedicated loser decides to win hot chick by camping out in her front yard. Read the rest of this entry »
“Don’t expect it to tango. It has a broken back.”
The Scoop: R 1985, directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Jeffrey Combs, David Gale, Barbara Crampton and Bruce Abbott.
Tagline: Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders… and another in a dish on his desk.
Summary Capsule: Mad scientist just wants to reanimate the dead in peace, but a series of events leads him into a bloody, luminescent green confrontation with all the other (many) mad scientists at his university. Read the rest of this entry »
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.”
The Scoop: 1986 PG-13, directed by John Hughes and starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, and Jeffrey Jones
Tagline: Leisure Rules
Summary Capsule: A can’t-lose kid takes the day off school to romp around Chicago with his girlfriend and his mentally-unhinged best friend.
No school like the old school.”
The Scoop: 2004 PG, directed by Brad Bird and starring Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, and Jason Lee
Tagline: Save The Day
Summary Capsules: More than a decade after superheroes went into hiding to avoid litigation and public condemnation, one super-powered family is forced to save the world and in doing so teach us all what it means to be a superhero.
“If I could go back in time, I’d meet Snoopy.”
The Scoop: 2001 PG-13, directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, and starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, and Alan Cumming
Tagline: Here kitty, kitty, kitty…
Summary Capsule: Josie and the girls kick evil ass and play kick ass music. God bless America!
“Hello, my freaky darlings.”
The Scoop: 2003 PG-13, directed by Stephen Norrington and starring Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shaw, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng and Richard Roxburgh.
Tagline: Prepare for the extraordinary.
Summary Capsule: Characters from Victorian literature team up to save the world. Read the rest of this entry »
“You risked the lives of some damn fine pilots… and that’s my job!”
The Scoop: 1991 PG-13, directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes and Jon Cryer.
Tagline: The Mother Of All Movies!
Summary Capsule: Macho, macho men strut around like chickens in this Top Gun parody. Read the rest of this entry »
