DIRECTED BY: Tom DiCillo FEATURING: Brad Pitt, Catherine Keener PLOT: Johnny Suede, a young man with a freakishly large pompadour, tries to pay the rent, keep a girlfriend, and make it as a musician in the big city. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Johnny Suede flirts with weirdness, but can’t commit to it. COMMENTS: … Continue reading CAPSULE: JOHNNY SUEDE (1991)
A look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): Meeting Evil: Samuel L. Jackson plays a serial killer who sucks an average white male suburbanite into a “surreal, nightmarish murder spree…” Directed … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 5/4/2012
Every Friday, we take a look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs, and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available on the official site links. FILM FESTIVALS: The San Francisco International Film Festival opens April 23 and runs through May 7. Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now) will be honored and do … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 4/16/09
A new feature looking at potentially weird films that are currently in theaters, coming to DVD soon or in production. Visit the official sites to see trailers. IN THEATERS (WIDE RELEASE): The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: An adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who is born elderly, but grows younger … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 1/9/09
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. The second highest-grossing motion picture of all time—the product of a little indie shingle that hit the jackpot, called Avengers: Endgame—is also by fiat the highest-grossing motion picture of all time with the word “endgame” in the title. That’s not as easy a … Continue reading THEY CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: ENDGAME (2000) / OPERATION: ENDGAME (2010)