College (Special Edition)
Set on a college campus, stonefaced Buster Keaton proves himself to be the most inept of all. Yet he still manages to make them all look silly! Silent. Also features ‘The Blacksmith’ and ‘One Week’….
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The General (Silent)
The two things engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) loves most in the world are his Southern belle sweetheart and his locomotive. When Northern spies steal the latter, the intrepid Confederate single-handedly takes on the entire Union army in order to get it back. Against a backdrop of magnificently photographed Civil War battle scenes unfolds one of the great chases in movie history. Set almost entirely aboard moving trains, Keaton’s THE GENERAL is physical comedy refined to elegant perfection…
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The Mask
When a no-account bank clerk discovers a curious wooden mask he finds it has some interesting properties; to wit, the mask magnifies the wearer’s personality to superhuman proportions–oddly, others seem to find this attractive. The no-longer-nebbischy clerk enjoys his new life considerably, but when he seduces the girlfriend of a powerful gangster, complications result. Academy Award Nominations: Best Visual Effects….
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House Party
A fast-moving and vibrant film set in a black working-class area and revolving around a house party. Lots of chase scenes and rap music….
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In Good Company
In his previous effort, ABOUT A BOY, writer-director Paul Weitz managed to smoothly blend elements of dark comedy with heartwarming drama to deftly undercut both of the genre’s undesirable excesses. IN GOOD COMPANY is Weitz’s solo directorial debut sans his brother Chris, with whom he co-helmed the aforementioned BOY and the wildly successful AMERICAN PIE series. Here, he perfects his gift for the so-called ‘dramedy’, softening the jagged, sometimes ugly edges of corporate satire with warmth and…
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A Dirty Shame
Sylvia Stickles’s (Tracey Ullman) Baltimore neighbourhood is becoming overrun with perverts, and she is very concerned. But that changes when Sylvia gets in a car accident, receiving a hard blow to the head that leaves her sexually voracious. Luckily, she gets a quick fix from Ray Ray (Johnny Knoxville), a tow-truck driver whom she soon discovers to be a high priest of sexual perversion. In the midst of searching indiscriminately for satisfaction and finally relating to her overly buxom, exhibit…
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Elf (2 Disc)
Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau’s sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he’s actually a human being, he heads to New York City to reunite with his biological father. The trouble is that his dad, Walter (James Caan), is a publishing executive who doesn’t have time for anything other than work. Budd…
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Hairspray (2004 Release)
Baltimore, 1962. Ample, energetic teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) wants nothing more than to get on hip local TV dance programme THE CORNY COLLINS SHOW. When she finally gets her way, her lively dance moves and bubbly personality are met with unexpected popularity, along with the ire of a fellow dancer, scheming Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick). Furthermore, when she witnesses firsthand the terrible state of race relations in Baltimore, Tracy becomes an outspoken advocate for the de-segre…
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Laws Of Attraction
Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) and Audrey Miller (Julianne Moore) are the two top divorce lawyers in New York, so it’s only natural they should meet, fall in love, and face reservations about the sanctity of marriage while tussling in court. Peter Howitt’s film is a contemporary urban fairy tale and direct descendent of the screwball comedies of the 1930s, replete with pratfalls and battle-of-the-sexes repartee. The story has Moore playing the typical neurotic Manhattan professional, substitut…
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The Wedding Date
Kat Ellis’s (Debra Messing) worst nightmare is about to come true. Not only is her younger, half-sister, Amy (Amy Adams), getting married before her, but to add insult to injury, the groom’s (Jack Davenport) best man is Kat’s ex-fiancee, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield). Two years after being dumped, Kat is a single New Yorker and can’t bear to attend the festivities at her parent’s London home alone, so she does the next best thing: she hires an escort to play her boyfriend. Her rented date, Nick (De…
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Fat Slags (Wide Screen)
Two overweight man-eaters, Sandra and Tracey, are propelled into the limelight after causing chaos on a daytime talkshow. Based on the characters made famous by Viz comic….
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Sex Lives Of The Potato Men
The title of this dirty, controversial, dare I say realistic comedy says it all. It’s about potato delivery men and their sex lives (or lack of them). Set in Birmingham, Dave, Ferris, Tolly and Jeremy deliver potatoes for a living, but live for beer and a bit of how’s-your-father. A seedy portayal of the most base instincts of the average British male, a cautionary tale for the ladies and an hilarious mirror of the lascivious, beer-goggled pursuits of blokes….
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Dumb And Dumber (Wide Screen)
Two cretins stagger across the American landscape encountering a number of slapstick mishaps while trying to return a large sum of money….
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Dumb And Dumberer
Lowbrow buffoonery hit commercial highs with 1994’s DUMB AND DUMBER. This prequel to the slapstick favorite imagines the immortal meeting of the mindless when Harry Dunne (Derek Richardson) and Lloyd Christmas (Eric Christian Olsen) were high schoolers. After becoming fast friends, the pair of future dog groomers are recruited for a special needs class. Unfortunately, this class is not a radical educational experiment. Rather, it’s a moneymaking scheme exploiting Harry and Lloyd’s intellectual d…
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Boat Trip
In this comic romp, suave single guys looking to ’score’ with the ladies plan to take a cruise in the steamy Caribbean. However, they accidentally choose an all-gay cruise. Even when they manage to meet some women, they must then explain that they are not gay. BOAT TRIP stars Cuba Gooding Jr., as well as Saturday Night Live’s Horatio Sanz and Will Ferrell….
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Friday After Next
It is Christmas Eve for most of the Christian world, but when Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) are rudely awaken by a burglar in a Santa suit, it is definitely another FRIDAY in the ghetto. The phoney Santa gets away with all the cousins’ Christmas gifts and their overdue rent money after assaulting Craig with a paltry Christmas tree. Cops are called in and do little more than confiscate Craig and Day-Day’s pot stash. Though the cousins may be used to such adversity in the ‘hood, they ha…
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Austin Powers - Goldmember
AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER, the third movie in the Austin Powers series, stars Mike Myers in director Jay Roach’s James Bond Sci-Fi 1970s funkadelic formula–a hyper-stylized backdrop to what is ultimately Myers’ one-man show. GOLDMEMBER is a family affair. Austin has a few unresolved issues with his dear old dad, Nigel Powers (the dead ringer Michael Caine, who is also a good sport), and he hopes to work out some Freudian tension when he’s not saving the world from the forces of evil. Myers…
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell is the creator of the off-Broadway hit HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, which he and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask have transformed into a funny, dramatic, and curiously poignant self-described post-punk neo-glam musical film, with extra songs and a new instrumental score. Hedwig (played by Mitchell) was born as Hansel in East Berlin. In his twenties, Hansel agrees to undergo a sex change in order to marry a U.S. soldier (Maurice Dean Wint) and escape to America. Unfortunately,…
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Run Ronnie Run
Ronnie Dobbs (David Cross) is in trouble on a nightly basis. A small town redneck with a pea sized brain, Ronnie finds a way to get locked up and then spins yarns to his friends about his experiences. One person who sees something in Ronnie’s stories is Terry Twillstein (Bob Odenkirk), a TV info-mercial director who needs a subject to rejuvinate his career. In the process, he makes a reality TV star out of good ol’ boy Ronnie, whose only goal is to earn the love of Kayla (Nikki Cox). This white…
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Happy Campers
A summer camp goes comedically and hormonally beserk when an injury to a camp counselor puts the power in the hands of a group of attractive college freshmen. The ensuing tug-of-war matches and lessons in life are now coupled with smoking pot and having sex in this irrevent farce. Daniel Waters, whose familiarity with the teen genre is in evidence in his script of the cult classic HEATHERS, makes his directorial debut with this libidinous camp comedy. Much like contemporary films AMERICAN PIE…
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