Posts Tagged ‘comic-book’

The Lost Boys (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Patric | Corey Haim | Dianne Wiest | Barnard Hughes | Edward Herrmann | Kiefer Sutherland | Jami Gertz | Corey Feldman | Jamison Newlander | Brooke McCarter | Billy Wirth | Alex Winter | Chance Michael Corbitt | Alexander Bacon Chapman | Nori Morgan
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Documentary | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Forrest J Ackerman | Gilbert Adler | Stephan Bender | Marlon Brando | Dean Cain | Mike Carlin | Gerard Christopher | Jackie Cooper | Dan Didio | Richard Donner | Michael Dougherty | Stephen Fishler | Alfred Gough | Gary H. Grossman | Mark Hamill
Directors: Kevin Burns
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.

American Splendor (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Ambrose | Joey Krajcar | Josh Hutcherson | Cameron Carter | Daniel Tay | Mary Faktor | Paul Giamatti | Harvey Pekar | Larry John Meyers | Vivienne Benesch | Barbara Brown | Earl Billings | Danny Hoch | James Urbaniak
Directors: Shari Springer Berman | Robert Pulcini
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | Jude Law | Giovanni Ribisi | Michael Gambon | Ling Bai | Omid Djalili | Laurence Olivier | Angelina Jolie | Trevor Baxter | Julian Curry | Peter Law | Jon Rumney | Khan Bonfils | Samta Gyatso | Louis Hilyer
Directors: Kerry Conran
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Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world’s scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it’s up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Mewes | Ben Affleck | Jeff Anderson | Brian O'Halloran | Shannon Elizabeth | Eliza Dushku | Ali Larter | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith | Will Ferrell | Jason Lee | Judd Nelson | George Carlin | Carrie Fisher | Seann William Scott
Directors: Kevin Smith
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They find new purpose when their friend, Brodie, informs them a movie is being made featuring two infamous characters based on their likenesses. After visiting one of the creators of the Bluntman and Chronic, Holden McNeil, they set out to get what fat movie cash they deserve and hopefully put an end to people slandering them on the Internet. Along the way, they learn the rules of the road from a hitchhiking George Carlin, ride with a group of gorgeous jewel thieves, and incur the wrath of a hapless wildlife marshal for liberating an orangutan named Suzanne. The quest takes them from New Jersey to Hollywood where a showdown involving the police, the jewel thieves, and the Bluntman and Chronic filmmakers will decide the fate of Suzanne, Jay, Silent Bob, and their good names.

Unbreakable (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Samuel L. Jackson | Robin Wright Penn | Spencer Treat Clark | Charlayne Woodard | Eamonn Walker | Leslie Stefanson | Johnny Hiram Jamison | Michaelia Carroll | Bostin Christopher | Elizabeth Lawrence | David Duffield | Laura Regan | Chance Kelly | Michael Kelly
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
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This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn’t have a scratch on him. Samuel L Jackson plays an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all rocketing off an enticing thriller with a sci fi twist