Produced by comedy team Broken Lizard, Super Troopers tells the story of five US traffic cops from Vermont who, in between numerous juvenile and hilarious pranks, patrol the highways and attempt to outdo the local police department. The rivalry steps up a notch when a murder and a drugs smuggling operation are discovered, and the incompetant State Troopers set about solving the crimes before budget cuts shut their station down.
A sitcom with a difference, Spaced follows the lives of two twentysomethings: Tim Bisley, an aspiring comic book artist, and Daisy Steiner, a would-be writer. Both are drifting through life, with somewhat unsuccessful personal and professional lives. They share an ordinary-looking flat with a colourful collection of friends and neighbours, including the chain-smoking alcoholic landlady Marsha, military-obsessed friend Mike, fashion victim Twist and flatmate/modern artist Brian. Not to mention Colin the dog.
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is like many other 29-year-olds. He has a dead-end job, he is on bad terms with his stepfather and to cap it all his girlfriend Liz, tired of their boring existence which centres around the Winchester, their local pub, dumps him. He makes a drunken promise to get back with Liz, reconcile with his flatmate Pete and sort his life out. The only problem is, the dead are coming back to life to prey on the flesh of the living. Teaming up with his no-hoper slob of a flatmate/childhood friend Ed (Nick Frost), Shaun hatches a plan to rescue his mum, get back with Liz and escape to somewhere safe and familiar to wait for all this to blow over. But where to go? The Winchester!
Based on the novel The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Tim Burton creates an atmospheric, chilling and entertaining mixture of horror, romance and mystery.
Set at the very end of the Eighteenth Century, Ichabod Crane (played by the ever-stylish Johnny Depp), a New York police investigator, is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre and brutal murders. What he finds there is not a human murderer but a supernatural killer and a community with numerous secrets and a penchant for dabbling in the occult.
After being an accessory to a robbery that led to the murder of a police officer, young Nikita is given the stark choice of execution or being enlisted into a secret government agency to be trained as a professional assassin. Not surprisingly, she decides on the latter and is soon under the supervision of a cool-headed secret agent (played by Tcheky Karyo) and his colleagues. Soon she is given the codename of Josephine and is ordered to perform assassinations on their behalf whilst trying to rebuild her own life.
Mulholland Drive is one of those films that cannot be pigeonholed in any set category: in other words, it is classic Lynch. At its heart it is a psychological thriller concerning the lives of various residents of Hollywood: a dark and intelligent portrayal of ambition, desire and jealousy. This is however quite literally not even half the story.
Out of the countless vampire films produced over the years, very few manage to add anything fresh or new to the formula. Fortunately, Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s best-selling novel, is certainly one of them.
Charting the life of Louis (played by Brad Pitt), a plantation owner from New Orleans, Interview… follows his journey through immortality, along with a supurb supporting cast including a young Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea and Antonio Banderas (in a very fine performance as the enigmatic Armand). It is the outstanding portrayal of Lestat by Tom Cruise which is really deserving of a special mention, however. His confident, lively anti-hero is in perfect contrast to Louis, who is desparate to cling on to his humanity and struggling to come to terms with the fact that he must kill and drink the blood of others to survive.
Donnie Darko is one of those films that is hard to sum up in a few words. At times a comedy/romance, at others a sci-fi/fantasy, it has a unique atmosphere and charm of its own. Set in the small US town of Middlesex in 1988, the hero of the title is a seemingly ordinary high school student. Although previous emotional problems are hinted at, it is not clear as to why a young man with such a normal family and life would suddenly see a man in a black rabbit suit who calls himself Frank. However, this bizarre hallucination is very much real to Donnie, and informs him that the world is about to end in little more than twenty-eight days. And so begins the surreal chain of events (beginning with a jet engine falling on his house) that begin to not only affect Donnie himself but all of those around him, as he attempts to find out the meaning of it all before he loses his mind completely.
When a US nuclear submarine goes missing in the depths of the sea, the task of diving to investigate the cause and recover survivors is placed in the hands of expert diver Virgil ‘Bud’ Brigman (Ed Harris) and his team. Matters are made more complicated when the search-and-rescue effort is aided by Brigman’s estranged wife Lindsey (Mary Elizabeth Manstrantonio) and the inevitable involvement of the military. Upon their arrival the rescue team begin to suspect that they are not alone in the depths of the ocean…
When their TV is stolen from their own living room, Beavis and Butthead decide to set out and search for the “butthole that took our TV.” While the two dumbest members of the MTV generation try to retrieve their precious television and finally ’score’, they visit Las Vegas, get involved in a weapons smuggling operation and cross the paths of nuns, retirement-age holidaymakers, ATF government agents and their long-lost fathers, to name but a few.
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