A coffeehouse busboy wants to be as hip as the poetry-spouting beatniks he waits on. When he accidentally kills his cat with a knife and covers it with plaster. The resultant 'sculpture' is declared an artistic masterpiece. Contorted dead humans bring more recognition, until the busboy is finally nabbed for his crimes.
Carrying a mysterious wicker basket around with him, Duane Bradley arrives in Manhattan and checks into a sleazy Times Square hotel. What's in the basket, you ask? Why, Duane's hideously misshapen Siamese-twin brother, Belial, of course! Duane has hit the Big Apple with his beastly bro to wreak havoc on the surgeons who separated them. With memorably gruesome scenes and ...
In the hilarious tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, urban- comedy hit Fear of A Black Hat is a slyly subversive satire that smashes stereotypes as it skewers Gangsta Rap. Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz Wit Hats), this uproarious mockumentary lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues, violence, censorship, white rappers, ruthless record industry types, and ...
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident, and decides to bring her back. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can get parts for his girlfriend.
The story of sideshow life in a circus. A high-wire star married to a wealthy circus performer plans to murder her husband with the help of her lover.
Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation ...
Our Take: Not only do you get to check out Scarlett Johansson before she became a blonde femme fatale, you also experience one of the wittiest coming-of-age stories of our time. Also starring the great Steve Buscemi, this comical film about suburban boredom and being an outsider is a must-see.
A rooftop sniper guns down 14 pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: “God told me to.”
Hedwig, born a boy named Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a sex-change operation in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story ...
Our Take: A hilarious, moving, visually and sonically stunning movie musical.
Perky, perfect Carolyn (Christina Ricci) and her Alpha Omega Pi sisters plan to win Sorority of the Year by impressing the Greek Council with a killer charity: coaching mentally challenged athletes for the regional Challenged Games. When Carolyn's assigned to coach Pumpkin (Hank Harris) she's terrified at first, but soon sees in him something she's never seen before: a gentle ...
The Man-Eaters are an all-gal motorcycle gang who "treat men like they’re slabs of meat hanging on a hook in a butcher shop!" Led by tough-as-nails Queen (Betty Connell), this "bunch of horny hog riders" spend their time terrorizing a local community, having Saturday night orgies on the clubhouse floor, and racing each other for first pick at their male-groupie ...
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their ...
The Definitive Version of Dario Argento's Horror Masterpiece...Uncut, Uncensored And Remastered From The Original Negative! Jessica Harper stars as Suzy Banyon, a young American ballet dancer who arrives at a prestigious European dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Blanc (Joan Bennett) and Miss Tanner (Alida Valli). But when a series of bizarre incidents and horrific crimes (including what Entertainment ...
The Brown Bunny is both a love story and a haunting portrait of a lost soul unable to forget his past. After finishing a motorcycle race in New Hampshire, Bud Clay (Vincent Gallo) loads his racing bike into the back of his van and begins a cross-country odyssey to Los Angeles, where he is to compete in another race. During ...
Five college students venture into the Tennessee woods to spend a weekend in an isolated cabin. Instead, they find grief in the form of the Book of the Dead (a separate Babylonian text in the film, unrelated to the Egyptian text) otherwise known as the Morturom Demonto (or Necronomicon in the sequels). They find and play a tape recording of ...
While excavating the grounds of a guest house/farm in rural Derbyshire, archeology student Angus Flint uncovers a prehistoric skull of what appears to be some sort of dinosaur. With the Trent sisters, Mary and Eve (who run the guest house) he attends a party at the home of Lord James D'Ampton commemorating the local legend of how brave knight John ...
Rob Reiner's directorial debut has developed into a cult phenomenon. The film that invented the "rockumentary" has now outlasted most of the bands it mocked. Following the ill - fated American comeback tour of an aging heavy metal group, this film has joined the ranks of the greatest comedies ever made.
Our Take: Before there was 'Behind the Music" and Borat, there was this hilarious "documentary" about a heavy metal band.