Farrah Folly is a muse, specifically, the muse of music. In this movie, she inspires Allan Katz, aspiring songwriter with little success. Farrah appears as a member of a girl group, gets into a conversation with Allen, and asks him to write some songs for the group. When she sees the songs, she says they’re not quite right for the group, but tells him to send the songs to pop princess Melissa Arrow. Most of the movie centers around trying to get past all the publicists and managers to get the songs to Melissa. In the end, with a lot of help from Farrah, Melissa finally sees the songs and decides to record them, leading to several top 40 hits.
A grizzled hard-drinking reporter starts to doubt his sanity while covering the failed assassination attempt of a low level State politician. After several people he has interviewed become unreachable or outright missing, he feels people are following him, searching his home, hacking his computer, listening in on cell communications until he receives a package on his doorstep with a disk. The disk leads him down the rabbit hole to an awful truth…
William “Whiz Kid” Wizzard, once an up and coming folk singer, is now a drug and alcohol addicted 20 year old hanging out at the Bottom Line in the year 1964, unable to do more than drink, smoke pot, and relive his days before "those four twerps from Liverpool came here and changed everything.
One day he casually mentions his memories to a teenager from New Jersey who is hanging out in NYC: his glory days when he was someone, he was glad to be born in the USA and felt he was born to run the music business. He tells him of his once girlfriend Sandy and their days of dancing in the dark and trips to Philadelphia. He feels he was blinded by the light of the type of music change in 1963.
And the young singer/songwriter stole all his memories and turned them into hits. Unfortunately, William died in 1965 and never knew how he was a inspiration to a kid who became a legend.
Chow Down is a tough talking kick punching detective handling the district of Chinatown. Jamestown the Clown is a down on his luck professional clown. After a disappointing gig at a kid’s birthday party, Jamestown bumps into local drug dealer Moe Brown trying to skip town and they accidentally switch bags. It turns out that the bag had the Gipoun Crown in it and Chinese gangster Hu Godown wants it back. Chow Down tries to shakedown his informant Yung Ground but that leads nowhere so he ends up with Jamestown tagging along as they check out a warehouse full of wedding gowns. After a showdown on a playground, Chow Down almost has a meltdown until he finds the clue that turns the case around.
What started out as a sequel to Ballad of the Ass Blasters (critically panned but a bit of a surprise money maker) got held up during production, was written by a committee when the original writer quit, had reported bickering between the two stars hired to voice the main characters, shelved, brought off the shelf, ran over budget, had spats between the director and animation team, renamed, the “sequel” hook was rewritten in an attempt to make it a standalone, North Korea threatened to hack the studio if it was ever released, burst water pipes in the studio, the sequel hook was written back in… but not really… marketing budget ran out, CGI animation budget ran out… Leonard Cohen’s estate threatening a lawsuit, and finally dumped into theaters right in between two blockbusters so it would be ignored, and it is as terrible of a movie as it sounds though it does contain one surprisingly well written and well voiced scene where the two space donkeys finally admit their love for each other.
Taking a Clive Barker horror story–about a revenge-crazed spirit possessing a bed sheet–and turning it into a teen sex-comedy/slasher film probably seemed like a good idea to someone, but credibility goes out the window early on. Followed almost immediately by sympathy for the characters.
A group of Pepsi Generation X’ers get together ever Saturday Night to discuss their latest woes: tuition for the children, lawsuits, house needs repairs, obesity, impotence, et.al.
Very black comedy about a man who murders his wife and then starts gaining weight. Then the excess poundage starts talking to him in his dead wife’s voice. Is it in his head? Or his guts? Hilarity/obesity ensues. A reverse Thinner, if you will.
This comedy revolves around Max Kling (Woody Allen), a retired gigolo, and his lover, Jimmy Wang (Jackie Chan), a clerk at the Doyer Street Post Office in Manhattan’s Chinatown. In a horrible mail sorting accident, Jimmy’s mangled corpse is postmarked for, well, who the hell knows? Max races around the country with Jimmy’s ghost trying to find the lost body. It finally turns up in the dead letter office of the Topeka Post Office just as Jimmy’s sister (Lucy Liu) arrives to return his remains to China. In the tearful climax, Max comes out of retirement to solicit her in the hope that he’ll earn enough for a bus ticket home.
Based on a true story about a smart, good looking member of the Straight Dope Message Board who loves to wear moccasins while at home. After many years of loyal use, his current pair just can’t hold together any longer and are splitting out all over. At his wife’s behest, this charming, roguish fellow heads to the local shoe franchise to but a new pair only to find rows filled with cheap slippers with the awful plastic soles that are just too terrible to wear. Finally, at the end of the row, our hero finds The Last of the Moccasins.
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The year is 2020 and Harry Prichard has been working on a project that will finally bring an extinct mammal back to life. His team has chosen a woolly mammoth due to the DNA available in frozen corpses. The whole project goes rouge when a loose canon in the lab, Lirya Queen, decides to use the expensive technology to resurrect her grandfather’s green beret friends who had been killed during the Korean War after going off course and crashing in Siberia. The resurrected green berets aren’t nearly as grateful as Lirya anticipated, so it’s up to Harry to battle to save the lab and the woolly mammoth project before CNBC learns about what’s going wrong in the lab.
After a storm washes out the bridge into town, the intelligent detective is forced to stay the night at the manor but that night, the rich, powerful, and ill-tempered lord of the manor is gruesomely shot, poisoned, stabbed in the back, electrocuted, hung, and defenestrated. Now the detective must deduce who did it, was it his unfaithful wife, his jealous brother, his spoiled son, alcoholic daughter, the old uncle who swore revenge, the stoic butler hiding a secret, the maid who was wronged, the studly gardener also with a secret, the obstinate town constable, the seemingly simple local delivery boy, or someone else?
Molly Libris is a 13-year-old bookworm who falls asleep while reading in her local library. She’s awoken by Tiddleberry, the library fairy, who needs her help to find Dorabelle, who is supposed to take over from her as the new library fairy. Molly and Tiddleberry embark on a rousing series adventures through various classics of children’s literature, ultimately rescuing Dorabelle with help from Jo March, Nancy Drew and Katniss Everdeen. Tiddleberry retires back to Fairy Land and Dorabelle takes her place as the new library fairy, with Molly as her new best friend.
Twelve-year-old New Yorker Jonas Grey has always had big feet, or so his grandmother has always complained. Some of his earliest memories were of marathon shoe-shopping as his frustrated grandmother dragged him from store to store, looking for the light-up sneakers he wanted in a size for an otherwise little boy.
So it should have come as less of a surprise that his 23andMe results revealed a huge secret in his family: his mother, who took off when he was a week old, apparently had a close encounter with Bigfoot nine months before Jonas was born. A really close encounter.
After finding out that he’s really not like the other boys, Jonas has one burning question: will his feet ever stop growing??
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A 29-year-old arts student stares at the wall of his 1-room apartment, in between writing miserable poetry on sheets of hoarded toilet paper, which he then fashions into paper planes that he throws out the window in the hope that the postman who used to deliver in his street will someday return, pick one up and read it.
The Wayans Brothers are at it again with this SF “spoof” about the bakery service that supplies pastries to the aliens that “advanced” David Bowman in that hotel room mock-up in, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” What would a Star-child eat? How many dimensions can be serviced in an 8-hour work shift? What if no one likes Plutonian-Pomegranate puff-pastry? Are there expiration dates inside a monolith? These would have been good questions to address, but what are you going to do? It’s the Wayans, after all.
9th grader Jason McKenzie is fully convinced that his dog Checkers, a three-year-old Springer Spaniel, rules the galaxy. At first people think it’s a quirky affectation, but eventually his parents realize that he holds this belief sincerely, and seek help from a famous child psychologist who slowly helps Jason work through his issues. But how will this change his relationship with Checkers?
In a semi-sequel to I Watched You Changing, Cocoa Tuxedo though she had it all, she was the deputy mayor of a big city, she was young, energetic, and the people of the city loved her. Maybe one citizen loves her too much though. Meet Charlie, a down and out fella just trying to make ends meet until he is forced by circumstances beyond his control to stalk the sexy deputy mayor. At first, Cocoa is flattered by a little extra attention but she soon realizes that there is a sinister plot in motion to end her career, and maybe her life, once and for all. Can Cocoa Tuxedo stop the evil drug and prostitution ring led by Vinny Risotto? If she wants to, she’s going to have to survive a Night Like Charlie.