 | | | Alicia Silverstone used to be quoted as saying she would only appear nude if the story really called for it– well, no story ever "called for it" like this one, so it's safe to say she never will bare all. Director Guy Ferland's approach her... (See full description) |
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 | | | Offbeat movie, even by the Coen brothers' standards, about mistaken identity, a kidnapping plot, and a deep love of bowling. Jeff Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski, known as the Dude, a laid-back, easygoing burnout who happens to have the same na... (See full description) |
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 | | | This three DVD ultimate collectors edition contains EVERYTHING. (Disc Three includes the 94-minute cut for BRAZIL including the changes that Gilliam refused to make.) Influential and controversial film that is 100 times MORE shocking toda... (See full description) |
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 | | | Bleak, ironic Bertrand Blier black comedy that set the tone for much of his career. Gérard Depardieu stars. Cheerfully amoral and not for everyone (Blier can be pretty offensive at times) Reminiscent of later Luis Buñuel (and of later Blier... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath and Robert Parrish. An excessive inspired mess (like so many of my favorite movies). James Bond was a 1960s cultural fad on par with The Beatles so a big budget parody was a nat... (See full description) |
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 | | | Bed-hopping comedy of manners notable for a little nuidy from bubble-headed blonde Victoria Jackson, of Saturday Night Live fame.... (See full description) |
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 | | | Effervescent teen comedy update of Jane Austen's 1816 matchmaking comedy EMMA set in a Beverly Hills high school. One of those magical productions that succeeds at everything. The cast is great. The soundtrack is superb. Almost every joke w... (See full description) |
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 | | | This movie is mean as a snake! Waters' most incisive social and political critique and full of scenes so funny you'll swallow your tongue. Made without Divine (who was on tour), DESPERATE LIVING reveals a malevolent intellectual edge that’s... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Julien Temple (ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS) When you look back, there are films that just "have it." Often these old sleepers involve fortuitous collections of major talent just before they hit it big. (STATE OF GRACE and RIVER'S EDGE co... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth). Highest recommendation. Incisive and acidic film in the guise of a teen comedy about events that ripple out from obnoxious overachiever Reese Witherspoon's previous affair with teacher Matthew Bro... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Amy Heckerling (CLUELESS) Cameron Crowe (JERRY MAGUIRE, ALMOST FAMOUS) was once a very young looking reporter for Rolling Stone who wrote an amusing book (and this amusing screenplay) about his real-life experiences posing as a ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Director Terry Zwigoff follows up his 1994 breakout success, CRUMB, by somehow capturing 90% of everything that made Daniel Clowes' Ghost World comics so haunting. Clowes (Eightball, etc.) is on the short-list of people we are sold on 100% ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Very early almost-underground film for both DePalma and star Robert DeNiro full of rough-edges and rich promise. An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring f... (See full description) |
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 | | | "Inspired by" the events that spawned the famous New York Post headline Headless Body Found in Topless Bar. An intense black comedy, filmed in real time, about a botched robbery that leads to everyone in a strip joint becoming hostag... (See full description) |
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 | | | Robert De Niro stars as a would-be pornographer turned urban guerilla in this comic odyssey through a surreal 60s landscape of campy counterculture. Before becoming one of our... (See full description) |
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 | | | Highly recommended! A great film, IMO, andthe apogee of crime exploitation films. Sleazy, creepy and eerily realistic luminous B&W film based upon the true story of American serial killers pretty-boy Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Entrancing black comedy directed by Mark S. Waters (adapting Wendy MacLeod's off-Broadway play). Parker Posey delivers a once-in-a-lifetime performance as Jackie-O, a deeply disturbed girl who grew up obssessed with the nearby Kennedy's i... (See full description) |
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 | | | "A funny and honest look at dating in the '90s as seen through the eyes of a virginal twenty-something on a constant search for her perfect romantic soulmate. Writer/director Julie Davis' acclaimed... (See full description) |
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 | | | Swell movie from the "surprisingly dark high school comedy" genre. (e.g. HEATHERS, ELECTION) JAWBREAKER has the flawless driving glossy sass of CLUELESS or BRING IT ON, but with a dark soul. Ronald Reagan High School'... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by John Landis and written by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Featuring appearances by ex-James Bond George Lazenby and The Incredible Hulk star Bill Bixby, The Kentucky Fried Movie is the cult cl... (See full description) |
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