Murder By Death
July 4, 2009 by admin
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Spoof of the classic murder mystery stories - including a spooky mansion, butler, group of guests and a ‘one of us is a murderer’ storyline. The ‘guests’ are also parodies with Peter Falk playing Sam Diamond a cross between Bogart’s Sam Spade and Columbo, David Niven playing The Thin Man, a very non-pc Peter Sellers playing Charlie Chan (Wang in the movie), and Miss Marbles and Milo Perrier being very influenced by Agatha Christies Marples and Poirot. “The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) is the setting for the twisted puzzler. Twain informs his guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off : $1 million to whoever lives through the night. MURDER BY DEATH neatly lampoons both the mystery genre and the characterisations of these instantly recognisable gumshoes. Match wits with the super sleuths, but remember, you can’t win if you end up dying from laughter!” |
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Murder By Death (1976) 91 mins approx. |
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Murder By Death - Trailer |
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Johnny Dangerously
May 2, 2009 by admin
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A fun gangster spoof set in the 1930’s, Johnny Dangerously is the story of Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton), a devoted son who turns to a life of crime in order to help pay for his mother’s never-ending medical bills. It is full of memorable one-liners and visual gags (not to mention quite a few alternative fargin swear words!) If you enjoy films like Blazing Saddles, Naked Gun, and Airplane then you will almost certainly love this.
Title song written and performed by Weird Al’Yankovic |
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Johnny Dangerously (1984) 86 mins approx. |
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Johnny Dangerously - Original Theatrical Trailer
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
May 2, 2009 by admin
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For five thousand years, things have stayed pretty much the same for Xi and his fellow Bushmen. Then one day, an empty coke bottle falls from a plane that is flying overhead nearly hiting Xi. Excitedly he shows all the other tribe members the gift from the gods and although they have no idea what it is they soon find many uses for it. It becomes a valuable tool but also starts to change the way they interact with each other - the person controlling the ‘tool’ has the power and soon emotions not usually present in their society such as envy, jealousy and greed rear their ugly heads. The ‘gift from the gods’ ends up with the bushmen fighting and it is not long before they believe that the bottle is evil. Xi decides that he must journey to the edge of the world to return it to the gods. On his quest Xi encounters terrorists and the so-called ‘civilised’ world. |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy I (1980) 1 hr 44 mins approx. |
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The Gods Must Be Crazy I - Original Trailer
The Gods Must Be Crazy II - Original Trailer |
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