DIRECTED BY: Brad Silberling FEATURING: Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman, Jim Carrey, Billy Connolly, Meryl Streep, Jude Law PLOT: After the brainy Baudelaire children—Violet (Browning), Klaus (Aiken) and Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman)—are orphaned, they move in with their closest living relative, the sinister ham actor Count Olaf (Carrey). Soon after turning … Continue reading CASPULE: LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004)→
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Tom Tykwer FEATURING: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood PLOT: An apprentice perfumer in pre-Revolutionary France sets out to make the perfect scent, a task that requires him to murder thirteen beautiful virgins. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: … Continue reading CAPSULE: PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (2006)→
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”–attributed to Thomas Pynchon in Jules Siegel’s Mar. 1977 Playboy profile DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson FEATURING: Joaquin Phoenix, Joanna Newsom, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Martin Short PLOT: It’s 1970, and P.I. “Doc” Sportello has his evening interrupted by his ex-girlfriend, concerned about a plot … Continue reading 206. INHERENT VICE (2014)→
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