Posts Tagged ‘film-in-film’

Scream 3 (2000)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Dempsey, Patrick | Posey, Parker | Foley, Scott | Richmond, Deon | Mortimer, Emily | Henriksen, Lance | McCarthy, Jenny | Keeslar, Matt | Warburton, Patrick | Schreiber, Liev | Rutherford, Kelly | Kennedy, Jamie
Directors: Craven, Wes
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STAB 3: RETURN TO WOODSBORO is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose cutting corners cast wise. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy…anything can happen.

Scream 2 (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arquette, David | Campbell, Neve | Cox, Courteney | Gellar, Sarah Michelle | Kennedy, Jamie | Metcalf, Laurie | Neal, Elise | O'Connell, Jerry | Olyphant, Timothy | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Schreiber, Liev | Arquette, Lewis | Martin, Duane | Gayheart, Rebecca | de Rossi, Portia
Directors: Craven, Wes
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It has been two years since the tragic events at Woodsboro. Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives, and are currently both students at Windsor College. Cotton Weary is out of prison, and is trying to cash in on his unfortunate incarceration. Gale Weathers has written a bestseller, “The Woodsboro Murders,” which has been turned into the film, “Stab,” starring Tori Spelling as Sidney. As the film’s play date approaches, the cycle of death begins anew. Dewey Riley immediately flies out of Woodsboro to try to protect Sidney, his “surrogate sister.” But in this sequel to the 1996 horror film, the number of suspects only goes down as the body count slowly goes up!

Scary Movie (2000)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Oteri, Cheri | Wayans, Shawn | Munro, Lochlyn | Fuller, Kurt | Electra, Carmen | Sheridan, Dave | Moore, Frank B. | Baessato, Giacomo | Graham, Kyle | Santos, Leanne | McConchie, Mark | Kruper, Karen | Faris, Anna | Abrahams, Jon | Ducommun, Rick | Hall, Regina | Wayans, Marlon | Elizabeth, Shannon | Berry, Lloyd
Directors: Wayans, Keenen Ivory
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A parody of modern horror films about a group of teenagers who are being terrorised by a serial killer. Some of the send-ups include: “Scream”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Sixth Sense” and “The Matrix”.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

Aviator, The (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Blanchett, Cate | Beckinsale, Kate | Reilly, John C. | Baldwin, Alec | Alda, Alan | Holm, Ian | Huston, Danny | Stefani, Gwen | Law, Jude | Scott, Adam | Ross, Matt | Garner, Kelli | Conroy, Frances | Spiner, Brent
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

King Kong (2005)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Curtis, Jamie Lee | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Abraham, F. Murray | O'Brien, Austin | Carney, Art | Dance, Charles | McRae, Frank | Noonan, Tom | Prosky, Robert | Quinn, Anthony | Ruehl, Mercedes | McKellen, Ian | Tanaka, Professor Toru | Plowright, Joan | Kelly, Jason | Emmerich, Noah
Directors: McTiernan, John
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Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater’s world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater’s enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny’s world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | O'Connor, Donald | Reynolds, Debbie | Hagen, Jean | Mitchell, Millard | Charisse, Cyd | Fowley, Douglas | Moreno, Rita
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Glorious classic film musical. 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina’s romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina’s new film into a “talkie” and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina’s voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don’s on top of the world. But then Lina finds out…

Valiant (2005)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | War
Countries: UK
Actors: McGregor, Ewan | Gervais, Ricky | Curry, Tim | Broadbent, Jim | Laurie, Hugh | Hurt, John | Torrens, Pip | Mayall, Rik | Williams, Olivia | Ross, Jonathan | Lonsdale, Brian | Roberts, Dan | Schlingmann, Michael | Horgan, Sharon
Directors: Chapman, Gary
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The animated comedy tells the story of a lowly wood pigeon named Valiant, who overcomes his small size to become a hero in Great Britain’s Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during World War II. The RHPS advanced the Allied cause by flying vital messages about enemy movements across the English Channel, whilst evading brutal attacks by the enemy’s Falcon Brigade.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mewes, Jason | Affleck, Ben | Anderson, Jeff | O'Halloran, Brian | Elizabeth, Shannon | Dushku, Eliza | Larter, Ali | Schwalbach Smith, Jennifer | Ferrell, Will | Lee, Jason | Nelson, Judd | Carlin, George | Fisher, Carrie | Scott, Seann William
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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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.