Sep 15
Plot:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
IMDB rating: 5.00 out of 10.0 (161 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
aviation,
black-comedy,
chewing-gum,
dog,
graffiti,
independent-film,
lost-money,
magic,
murder,
twist-in-the-end,
uncle-nephew-relationship
Sep 13
Plot:
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.
IMDB rating: 7.70 out of 10.0 (14326 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
adopted-daughter,
adoption,
airport,
anger,
art-house,
bakery,
based-on-autobiography,
based-on-comic,
based-on-comic-book,
bathroom,
bitterness,
book-signing,
breaking-the-fourth-wall,
cancer,
cartoonist,
celebrity,
chemotherapy,
clerk,
cleveland-ohio,
comic-book,
comic-book-art,
comic-book-shop,
coupon,
depression,
diner,
donut,
dysfunctional-family,
eating-disorder,
garage-sale,
graffiti,
hair-loss,
halloween,
halloween-costume,
holding-hands,
hospital,
hotel-room,
ice-skating,
illustrator,
interview,
jazz-music,
jelly-bean,
letter,
loneliness,
loud-shirt,
low-self-esteem,
luggage,
marriage,
movie-reality-crossover,
mtv,
nerd,
neurotic,
obsessive-compulsive,
part-animated,
play-within-film,
prison,
psychoanalysis,
recital,
record-collector,
restaurant,
retirement,
school-bus,
scratching,
self-referential,
shower,
supermarket,
talk-show,
talk-to-mirror,
tape-recorder,
teacher,
television-studio,
theatrical,
throat-doctor,
toilet,
train-station,
trick-or-treat,
underwear,
veterans-hospital,
voice-over,
vomit
Sep 13
Plot:
Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
IMDB rating: 7.60 out of 10.0 (41222 votes) Continue reading »
Tags:
ambulance,
birthday,
brother,
brother-brother-relationship,
business-tycoon,
businessman,
car-in-water,
cell-phone,
character's-point-of-view-camera-shot,
chase,
claustrophobic,
control-freak,
disturbing,
dog,
elevator,
fall-from-height,
flat-tire,
free-fall,
game,
graffiti,
gun,
hallucination,
happy-birthday-to-you,
hotel,
hotel-lobby,
hotel-room,
humiliation,
identity-crisis,
independent-film,
isolation,
jump-from-car,
key,
kidnap,
loss-of-control,
manipulation,
midlife-crisis,
millionaire,
mind-game,
neo-noir,
office,
paranoia,
paranoid,
persecution-mania,
phone-booth,
product-placement,
psycho-thriller,
psychological-thriller,
restaurant,
rich-snob,
san-francisco-california,
shower,
suicide,
suicide-attempt,
surprise-ending,
taxi,
tense,
title-spoken-by-character,
tragedy,
twist-ending,
twist-in-the-end,
underwater,
waitress,
watch,
white-rabbit,
yellow-book,
yuppie,
zoo