Posts Tagged ‘black-humor’

The Nutty Professor (1963)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stella Stevens | Del Moore | Kathleen Freeman | Med Flory | Norman Alden | Howard Morris | Elvia Allman | Milton Frome | Buddy Lester | Marvin Kaplan | David Landfield | Skip Ward | Julie Parrish | Henry Gibson
Directors: Jerry Lewis
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Julius Kelp is an ugly chemistry teacher with no personal life. One day he creates something incredible! An elixir that transforms him into a totally different man, Buddy Love. He is very successful with women, and one of his students (Stella Purdy) falls in love with him. Of course nobody knows that this charming, cool guy is in fact Julius Kelp. Everyone is very excited with Buddy, but there is a problem. The elixir’s effect doesn’t last very long…

The Dark Knight (2008)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Heath Ledger | Aaron Eckhart | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Gary Oldman | Morgan Freeman | Eric Roberts | Cillian Murphy | Anthony Michael Hall | Monique Curnen | Nestor Carbonell | Joshua Harto | Michael Jai White | Colin McFarlane
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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Right after taking out Ra’s Al Ghul’s plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham’s crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who’s eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.

Ed Wood (1994)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Martin Landau | Sarah Jessica Parker | Patricia Arquette | Jeffrey Jones | G.D. Spradlin | Vincent D'Onofrio | Bill Murray | Mike Starr | Max Casella | Brent Hinkley | Lisa Marie | George 'The Animal' Steele | Juliet Landau | Clive Rosengren
Directors: Tim Burton
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The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’, ‘Glen or Glenda?’ and ‘Bride of the Monster’) of all time.

American Werewolf in London, An (1981)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: David Naughton | Jenny Agutter | Griffin Dunne | John Woodvine | Lila Kaye | Joe Belcher | David Schofield | Brian Glover | Rik Mayall | Sean Baker | Paddy Ryan | Anne-Marie Davies | Frank Oz | Don McKillop | Paul Kember
Directors: John Landis
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it’s human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it’s existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rob Schneider | Eddie Griffin | Jeroen Krabbé | Til Schweiger | Douglas Sills | Carlos Ponce | Charles Keating | Hanna Verboom | Kostas Sommer | Bastiaan Ragas | Zoe Telford | Miranda Raison | Federico Dordei | Elisabetta Canalis | Johnny Vaughan
Directors: Mike Bigelow
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After an accident with dolphins and elders on a beach, the clumsy fish tank cleaner and former gigolo Deuce Bigalow (RobSchneider) is invited by his pimp friend T.J. Hicks (Edie Griffin) to travel to Amsterdam where he is presently living. Once there, T.J. Hicks is wrongly taken as a whore-men serial killer. Bigalow joins the gigolo’s association trying to find the true identity of the murderer and clean TJ Hicks. Meanwhile, he meets the gorgeous Eva (Hanna Verboom), and while dating her, he suspects that she may be the wanted killer.

Anger Management (2003)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Jack Nicholson | Marisa Tomei | Luis Guzmán | Jonathan Loughran | Kurt Fuller | Krista Allen | January Jones | John Turturro | Lynne Thigpen | Nancy Walls | Kevin Nealon | Woody Harrelson | Allen Covert | Adrian Ricard
Directors: Peter Segal
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After a misunderstanding aboard an airplane that escalates out of control, the mild-mannered Dave Buznik is ordered by Judge Daniels to attend anger management sessions run by Doctor Buddy Rydell, which are filled with highly eccentric and volatile men and women. Buddy’s unorthodox approach to therapy is confrontational and abrasive and Dave is bewildered by it. Then, after yet another mishap, Judge Daniels orders Dave to step up his therapy or wind up in jail. So, Buddy moves in with Dave to help him battle his inner demons. Buddy himself has no inner demons since he acts out at every opportunity and that includes making lewd comments about Dave’s girlfriend Linda and goading Dave into confronting every slight, past or present, head-on. But Buddy finally goes too far and Dave must decide whether to crawl back into his shell or stand up for himself. Could it be that Buddy’s confounding and contradictory treatment is just what the doctor ordered?

The Evil Dead (1981)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Campbell | Ellen Sandweiss | Richard DeManincor | Betsy Baker | Theresa Tilly | Philip A. Gillis | Dorothy Tapert | Cheryl Guttridge | Barbara Carey | David Horton | Wendall Thomas | Don Long | Stu Smith
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.

Secretary (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Maggie Gyllenhaal | James Spader | Lesley Ann Warren | Patrick Bauchau
Directors: Steven Shainberg
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Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a local law firm, soon developing an obsessive crush on her older boss, Mr. Grey. Through their increasingly bizarre relationship, Lee follows her deepest longings to the heights of masochism and finally to a place of self-affirmation.

Cronos (1993)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror
Countries: Mexico
Actors: Federico Luppi | Ron Perlman | Claudio Brook | Margarita Isabel | Tamara Shanath | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Mario Iván Martínez | Farnesio de Bernal | Juan Carlos Colombo | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | Luis Rodríguez | Javier Álvarez | Gerardo Moscoso | Eugenio Lobo | Adriana Olivera
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
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An aging antique dealer, Jesus Gris, happens upon an elegant mechanized scarab. When opened, it painfully stabs whomever is holding it, but the wound brings youthful vigor and a vampire’s need for blood. The device is relentlessly pursued by a dying tycoon, Dieter de la Guardia, whose nephew Angel, reluctant to see his uncle live a moment longer, must still do the old man’s bidding. Meanwhile, Gris’s desires endanger his own granddaughter, Aurora.

Under Siege (1992)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Damian Chapa | Troy Evans | David McKnight | Lee Hinton | Patrick O'Neal | Gary Busey | Glenn Morshower | Leo Alexander | John Rottger | Brad Rea | Michael Welden | Bernie Casey | Rickey Pierre | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Andrew Davis
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The battleship Missouri is about to be decomissioned. Casey Ryback is Captain Adam’s personal cook. And Ryback is always butting heads with the ship’s XO Commander Krill but the Captain always intercedes. One day, after the President visits the Missouri, which is also the Captain’s birthday, the Captain learns that a helicopter has been cleared to land on the ship by Commander Krill, which he was not informed of. When questioned Krill tells the Captain that it’s a surprise for his birthday, the Captain then allows it. Later after another one of their scuffles, Krill has Ryback locked in the freezer. During the party, the rock band reveals themselves to be mercenaries, led by William Stranix, a CIA operative, who is in league with Krill to unload all of the ship’s nuclear warheads. They lock up all of the crew and make preparations to remove the warheads. And Krill remembers Ryback, Stranix sends two of his men to take care of Ryback, only thing is that Ryback took care of them. Upon discovering their bodies, Stranix deduces that Ryback is more than a cook. He then sends Krill to check on him, and Krill discovers that Ryback’s a NAVY SEAL, who got busted down to a cook after an incident in Panama. And Ryback continues to create trouble for them, so Stranix tries to hunt him down. Along the way, Ryback meets Jordan, a former playmate, who was supposed to entertain at the party but was also forgotten.