Play Time is a French comedy unlike any movie I've ever seen.  It is a grand sweeping commentary on modern life (mid 60s in Paris) as well as a carefully choreographed physical comedy.  Depending on your approach to watching it, it can be incredibly boring.  Done completely in long shots with no real dialogue, it's hard to know what to pay ( Read more... )

How's this for an idea for a cartoon?  Huge blue humanoid aliens called "Traags" with lidless red eyes and clothes that their boobs poke out of, capture humans and bring them to their planet, where they are treated like the helpless animals they are.  They are literally playthings to the Traag's children, toyed with to death, or stomped on like ( Read more... )

Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged man with a respectable but boring position at a New York City bank.  He has a commute from the placid suburbs through the chaos of the city, and a cordial but passionless relationship with his wife.  He's dissatisfied with his life, he sweats a lot, and lately he's been getting phone calls from a friend of his who's ( Read more... )

One of Napoleon's soldiers becomes entranced by a spectral woman.  He follows her to the looming castle of a crumbling baron.  There he uncovers a mystery containing an old romance, murder, revenge, witchcraft, madness, and shifting identity.  It sounds like a perfect vehicle for a young Jack Nicholson.  Or at least that's what director Roger ( Read more... )

In the subterranean society that survives beneath the radioactive wreckage left after World War Three, human beings are experimented on.  "The outcome was disappointment for some, death for others, and for others, madness."  But one man's obsession with a childhood event makes him different, and the experiments on him are successful: he becomes a ( Read more... )