DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman
FEATURING: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murhpy, Shelley Duvall, Rene Auberjonois, Stachy Keach, Margaret Hamilton, Jennifer Salt, William Baldwin
PLOT: An oddball genius constructs a one man flying device in the basement of the
Houston Astrodome, assisted by a sexy but murderous guardian angel.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Robert Altman’s [...]
DIRECTED BY: Eric Mandelbaum
FEATURING: Thora Birch, Keith Carradine, Brendan Sexton III, Leo Fitzpatrick, Dean Winters
PLOT: An unambitious young man balances uneasy alliances with the authorities and his
psychopathic girlfriend when she involves him in a meretricious murder case.
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WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Non linear story telling, oddball characters and incomprehensible motivations [...]
James Cameron’s Avatar is his first film since 1997’s Titanic, and Avatar looks like it’s actually going to top that monster ship as far as revenue goes. Reportedly, with PR expenses, Avatar costs somewhere between 250 and 500 million dollars and one would think with that kind of investment, Cameron and corporation would have come [...]
When Burt Lancaster began his career as an actor, it appeared this was going to be a career in the mold of Errol Flynn or Randolph Scott. In films like The Flame and the Arrow, Jim Thorpe-All American, The Crimson Pirate, Vera Cruz, Ten Tall Men, From Here to Eternity, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Gunfight at [...]
DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam
FEATURING: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Tom Waits, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, Jude Law
PLOT: A 1000 year-old mystic enlists the help of a seedy amnesiac to save his
daughter, whose life he exchanged for eternal youth, from the clutches of the Devil.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus [...]
DIRECTED BY: Franck Vestiel
FEATURING: Clovis Comillca, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexleser
PLOT: A man named Tolbiac (Cornillac) awakens with amnesia alongside rotting corpses
in a high-tech underground wasteland. He must find his way out of a massive labyrinth deep within the earth. To do so he has to collect and assimilate data and unravel clues to the bizarre [...]
AKA: Blood Island
DIRECTED BY: David Green
FEATURING: Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Flora Robson, Carol Lynley
PLOT: In this H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, a a string of grisly killings is linked to an
unnameable creature inhabiting the loft of an abandoned New England mill inherited by newlyweds.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: The Shuttered Room showcases a strange story of monsters and madness. [...]
DIRECTED BY: Marina de Van
FEATURING: Marina de Van, Laurent Lucas, Léa Drucker
PLOT: Esther is a nice yuppie girl who enjoys her office job. She also enjoys dismantling
and consuming her own body. After disfiguring her leg in an accident, Esther develops a necrotic fascination with herself and begins to self-mutilate. She engages in auto-cannibalism while [...]
DIRECTED BY: Philip Chidel
FEATURING: Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton
PLOT: A medical student gets more than he bargained for when he accepts an
experimental internship and discovers that immortality comes with a steep price.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Subject Two is a fresh twist on the Frankenstein plot. It envisions being reanimated from the undead’s perspective. It [...]
DIRECTED BY: Victor Salva
FEATURING: Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen
PLOT: A supernaturally gifted teen misfit fights against the grain when he is forcibly
integrated into a callous, backward community.
WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: A strange blend of fantasy and drama, Powder has shadings of The Enigma of Casper Hauser (1975), Carrie (1976), and The [...]
