Red Menace (PG-13)
July 15, 2009
Red Menace (PG-13)
Over the course of a few weeks, famed geneticist Dr James Cornell (Sir Ben Kingsley) begins to notice strange phenomena amongst his friends and colleagues… they’re all going ginger. Assuming that perhaps it is some sort of celebrity influenced fad, he initially thinks nothing of it.
One evening, when President Obama (Tracy Morgan) appears on national television sporting a red hair doo, he realises something is going terribly, terribly wrong.
After some preliminary research in his laboratory, Dr Cornell discovers that there is an alien virus converting people to gingerism. He tries to convince his non-ginger colleagues but they all think he’s crazy. In hopes of developing an antidote, he’s forced to go undercover (dying his hair red) in attempt to find the origins of the virus (perhaps Scotland?)
Dr Cornell finds himself in a race against time to stop the ‘red menace’… before it’s too late.
Circus of Hope (R)
July 13, 2009
Circus of Hope (R)
Genre: Gritty, foreign, sub-titled war/circus clown film
In an attempt to diffuse tension in the lead up to the Yugoslav Wars, the Canadian government sent le Cirque du Soleil to the region in September of 1991. Clowns, acrobats and magicians descended upon Balkan border towns in the hopes to bring joy to the Slavic masses.
This movie focuses on the story of Pierrot (Michael Cera) and his magic bubble machine® and his experience in the Bosnian town of Grycnic.
When Pierrot first arrived, he was interrogated by the local militia and deemed an American spy. Pierrot (oblivious to international politics) carried on, flooding the town with ‘magic’ bubbles on a daily basis.
Soon after his arrival, war broke out. Pierrot and his magic bubble machine® were promptly seized by locals and buried alive.
Possible dialogue:
Pierrot: Regarde! Bubbles sont symbolique de la joie and l’amour. (Look! Bubbles are symbolic of joy and love).
Local: Ovaj Gvido je karanje slaboumnica. (This guy is fu**ing mentally retarded).
“A life affirming treat” – The Times
Hobocop (PG-13)
July 2, 2009
(Apologies for a recent recurring theme but we feel Depression-era films are going to be big this year… just a hunch)
Hobocop (PG-13)
Train hopping hobo Hoss Weissmuller (Nick Nolte) accidentally beats train guard (Powers Boothe) to death.
Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, he steals the guard’s uniform and gun, and adopts the persona of ‘Hobocop’, travelling around depression-era America, shaking down other more gullible bums. (Soon he has enough money to keep himself in whiskey for up to a year!)
Along the way Hoss discovers the true identity of the Lindbergh kidnapper, which he sees as an opportunity to possibly make enough money to keep himself in whiskey for 2-3 years!!
Alas, things don’t go according to plan and he ends up charged with the kidnapping himself, and has to face ‘old sparky’.
Posh & Spatts (G)
June 25, 2009
Posh & Spatts (G)
Jonathan Posh (Hugh Grant) is an English professional cricket player, who – having learnt of the fortunes to be made in America – decides to try his luck at professional baseball.
Ralph Spatts (Matthew McConaughey) is a career minor-league baseball player from Alabama, who is given the task of taking Posh under his wing. His job: to teach him how to shoot a gun, charm the ladies and hit a curve ball.
Generic culture clash shtick where the upper-class twit struggles with the tribulations of the South-Atlantic Professional Baseball League, and the ignorant Southerner learns to accept a foreigner.
Possible dialogue:
1)
Posh: How might I gain that woman’s affection?
Spatts: Show her your wad and meet her by the dumpster in 10.
Posh: I beg your pardon?
2)
Posh (puffing on a cheroot): Wouldn’t you just love to smash her back doors?
Spatts: Breakin’ n’ enerin’ is eeelegal in this county.
Posh (taking a slow, purposeful sip from a deep brandy glass): Quite…
3)
Posh: Care for some spotted dick?
Spatts: (spews/chokes on his tobacco juice)
