Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Jewrassic Park

Spielberg finally manages it: The Holocaust and dinosaurs in the one movie.

The scene with Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in rubber raptor suits is unforgettable.

Monday, April 14, 2008

The Dam Dusters

The true story of a top secret RAF squadron in WWII. In 1944 the RAF hatched a brilliant and subtle plan to destroy the many dams that were dotted along the large rivers of Germanys’ industrial heartland. The plan was to repeatedly fly over the dams at night and drop a fine layer of dust. On each successive occasion the layer of dust would grow imperceptibly.
Eventually the combined weight of the dust layers would be enough to crack the dam, then water would start to flow through and widen the cracks until there was a catastrophic failure. The plan was abandoned when the Brits lost 223 bombers before the dust level had even reached 0.15 millimetres.

Monday, March 31, 2008

In Brogues

Two Irish hitmen travel through europe in sensible but heavy footwear.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Mr. Smith Goes To Wash

James Steward stars in the story of a politician so disgusted by dirty politics and the constant intrigues of the capitol, that he becomes obsessed with cleaning.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Drapes Of Wrath

Traces a families anger when they are forced to leave the dustbowl of depression America and move to California to sell soft furnishings.

The Mattress

Keaneu Reeves wakes up to discover that he wasted his whole life lying in bed and that what he imagined to be reality was in fact just a very vivid dream.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Look back in Angora

An anlysis of class divide in 1950's Britain, when the kind of jumper you wore said more about your background and upbringing than your accent ever could.

To Fill A Mockingbird

Racial discrimination and the rule of law are reflected in the work of a southern taxidermist.

The Third Manhole

Tense spy drama set in Vienna where Holly Martins, an American author tries to track down his old friend Harry Lime. During the search he learns that Lime always uses one particular manhole cover to emerge from and return to the cities sewers which provide a safe haven from the authorities. As the film develops Martins develops an obsession with finding the right manhole.

Paging Bull

A hapless waiter winds up in a boxing ring as he tries to tell one of the protagonists, named Mr. Bull that his wife wants him on the telephone.

The Fridge On The River Kwai

WWII epic about British P.O.W’s forced to construct a fridge in the stifling heat of the Burmese jungle so that the Japanese camp commander can keep his sushi fresh.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Ground Beef Day

Bill Murray suffers the recurring nightmare of having ground beef served to him for every meal and snack in a twenty four hour period.

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

A foppish Jewish baker travels between England and revolutionary France where his fellow bread makers are facing the terror of Mme. Boulangerie. As more and more bakers are usurped and replaced by fancy French patisseries it is up to the Scarlet Pumpernickel to help preserve the humble plain rye bread

The Mild One

Marlon Brando stars as the leader of a biker gang with impeccable manners.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Eireann go Braghckovich

A concerned mother fights a lone battle against paramilitary organisations that want to establish toxic arms dumps close to neighboring homes and schools.

Sorbet The Greek

A Greek hit man finds it difficult to live up to his ice cool sobriquet.

Battle Of The Bugle

At a critical battle in WWII both the Americans and Germans ran out of tanks. In order to determine the winner both sides agreed to let their finest buglers go head to head. After four bloody hours and with many in their ranks sticking bayonets in their ears, the Germans finally surrendered.

The Punt for Red October

A couple of hardy dockyard workers have to take on stormy seas, icebergs and crippling cold to deliver an emergency escape rowboat to the Russian navy's flagship nuclear submarine after she accidentally sails without it.

Eight Legged Greeks

A small Aegean island gets exposed to a noxious chemical causing the inhabitants to mutate horribly. A Hellas of a good movie!

The Da Vinci Cod

Leonardo's at it again! This time he's left a trail of clues in a series of paintings leading to bugger all!

How Green Was My Valet

A disgraced member of the English aristocracy tries to hide the fact that his valet has been dead for some time.

The Ten Condiments

After a cold night on Mount Sinai Moses returns to his followers with a list of kosher accompaniments for dinner.

The Spy Who Came In With The Cold

Cold war tension runs at fever pitch as a secret agent tries to infiltrate the inner sanctum of East Germanys communist party, where he plans to infect them with the flu virus. The resultant sore throats and sniffly noses should render the enemy incapable of hatching more dastardly plots against the west.

Dial M For Mordor

An aborted attempt by Hitchcock to bring Lord Of The Rings to the big screen. Alas the special effects of the day were not up to the job. It is rumored that the only surviving shot from the film is the shower scene with Gandalf.

The Clothes-Horse Whisperer

A girl is traumatised when her favourite drying-rail falls on her and breaks. The only hope for the girl's sanity - and for the drying rail - is for the girl's mother to bring them to Montana where an unusually talented healer fixes all types of laundry-room fittings.

Murphy's Wardrobe

A tale of dogged persistence in which Murphy, the lone survivor of a U-Boat attack, tries a variety of inventive ways to sink his nemesis using a large Queen Anne armoire.

Back to the Future Tense

The story of a frustrated grammar teacher whose pupils really aren't getting it at all.

In the Name of the Fatherland

A small time Nazi thug, imprisoned for a war crime he didn't commit, fights to clear his name.

Shallow Gravy

Three flatmates eventually agree on a prospective fourth tenant only to find him dead in his room after several days lying face-down in a pool of beef stock.

Pilates of the Caribbean

The swashbucking action-adventure story of a motley band of flabby privateers who journey to a health-club in the West Indies to engage in pelvic-floor exercises.

Magnum Source

A thrilling cop flick staged in a Brooklyn corner store that sells only ice-creams, bottles of champagne and powerful handguns.

Gladioli

The story of the oft-overlooked small flowers of ancient Rome.

A Mackerel on 34th Street

Heartwarming yuletide drama about ‘Fish Fingle’, a small fish in big-pond New York who fights to prove his sanity after claiming to be Santa Claus.

A Time to Chill

In the racially-oppressive atmosphere of the southern United States, Samuel L Jackson plays an aggrieved father who can’t be arsed to go after his young daughter’s rapists.

Shaving Private Ryan

A platoon of crack Allied barbers are dropped behind enemy lines to locate the eponymous Ryan and spruce him up before his mother sees the state of him.

For a Few Thomas More

Clint Eastwood stars as the famous philosopher in this beautifully shot Baroque/Western crossover flick about the search for a fabled Mexican village named ‘Utopia’.

Citizen Band Kane

A sprawling biopic based roughly on Randolph Hearst’s days as a ‘breaker’ during which he went by the handle ‘Rosebud’.

The Man in the Iron Basque

An epic tale of pre-revolution France concerning the transvestite heir-apparent and his evil twin who locks him away and tries to cure his underwear fetish through aversion therapy.

We Jive At Dawn

The true story of a submarine commander who used dance to relieve the pressures on his crew.

Bad Hair Day At Black Rock

Tense western about some cowboys who don’t get the cut they really want from the barbershop.

Gone With The Windows

A story of passion and betrayal during the American civil war when carpet baggers from the north remove the windows from southern plantation houses.