17 Syllable Synopsis
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Total Recall (2012)
Two hundred million
Dollar box office bust, still
worth a mindless watch
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Nacho Libre
Jack Black in a mask
He's wrestling for love, for life
and for the children
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Coneheads
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Psycho (1960)
Nothing comes between
Norman and his ma. She's his
best friend . . . and him.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Addams Family
Looking back, they're not
All that creepy and kooky.
Except.... What's Thing's story?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The French Connection
Popeye Doyle hopes to
stop a heroine shipment
coming in from France.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
As Good as it Gets
Unlikely trio
Learn life-lessons that warm the
Heart and are bizarre.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Coming To America
African prince, whose
marriage was arranged, lusts for
an American.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The American
Clooney has some big
Trust issues but is really
Good at making guns.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Being somebody
You're not costs a lot lying
killing just to start
R.I.P. Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Thursday, January 23, 2014
The History of Future Folk
HONDO! Aliens
Come to end mankind but fall
In love with music.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Bernie
No one could believe
Bernie would shoot that old hag
He was so well liked.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Step Brothers
Two dumb, brute sons who
Failed to launch, just about
Ruin their parents' fun.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continue
24 hour
News is finally here! (WOOO!)
And Brick finds a wife!
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Pollock
I don't get it, just
Looks like baby vomit all-
Over the canvas.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Extract
He got high, the pool-
guy he hired slept with his wife.
Gene Simmons? Step's nuts!
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Donnie Darko
Donnie really gets
A raw deal either way you
Look at it.. Time's up!
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The Evil Dead (1981)
There's demons rising
from the dead dismemberment
starting with the head
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Midnight Run
Jack - a scorned cop -must
deliver a crook before
he's whacked by the mob
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
On The Road
A Beatnik's recount
of his fast times spent living
it up on the road
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Great Gatsby
Poor Myrtle lives just
beyond the Waste Land-- the rest
are racing towards it.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Seven Psychopaths
Many twists in this
script played out as it's written
psychopaths collide
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Place Beyond the Pines
What a great deal!! Three
movies in one! Too bad I
only liked the first one.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Prometheus
(Last movie night at Penn Arts)
Stupid space men! Don't
ever mess with creepy urns
full of mysterious goo!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Starbuck
Films about "perverts"
Who sell tons of sperm really
Are so heartwarming!
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Robocop (1987)
Men build the machine
Machines will build the future
The future needs man
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqK5OC3BWE
Host: Joe
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Chaplin
Downey plays a man
that could make us all laugh with-
out a single word
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Blankman
To save a city
One does not need super strength
Just hearts of heroes
Trailer:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3mz9r_blankman-theatrical-trailer_shortfilms
Host: Joe
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Hyde Park on the Hudson
This movie has it
All: polio, stuttering
Kings, polygamy....
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Videodrome
There is no new flesh!
You're being used to kill Max!
Videodrome's got you!
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Jack Reacher: One Shot
That which is unseen
Can always be found in steps
When you reach for right
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lsm-RtCXY8
Host: Joe
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Dirty Harry
Harry gets all the
Dirty jobs 'cause he's the one
Who can do it right.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Lolita (Movie Night 3 Year Anniversary)
A jail bait teen toys
with a middle aged poet
and destroys his soul.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Barton Fink
They say you write well
Past drama, you will show them
The life of the mind
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0WjWlVO9w
Host: Joe
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Saturday Night Fever
It's disco boogie and,
Raging nights dangling from bridges
Set to Bee Gee's hits.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Distant Thunder
The war rages on
From the jungle to the home
But, there, a new path
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwMVHp23CWU
Host: Joe
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Little Big Man
Truly one of the
Craziest stories of the
Fictitious wild west.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Big Boss
Birth of the dragon
Bruce Lee takes on legions of
petty thugs with ease
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
007: Skyfall
No man, a number
The past swallowed his future
And his greatest foe
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw
Supreme 007 theme by Adele, which rivals
Licence To Kill
by Gladys Knight...but, not quite
Host: Joe
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Blue Brothers
Gotta keep rolling,
Gotta keep playing music
And wearing those suits.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Network
Is a fifty share
of the ratings worth a man's
life - Oh you betcha!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sweeney Todd
Years of suffering
Lead to a bloody barber
Benjamin Barker!
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA
Best Song, aside from the organ works (
Pretty Women
):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDATCXww7hY
Host: Joe
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Charlotte Gray
Love swept away by
war, a brave woman who fought
to keep hope alive.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Apartment
Don't let them fool you--
Some boring, mouse-y people
Lead pretty wild lives.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Law Abiding Citizen
When the system fails
Build a system to control
A system to teach
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6kVRsdXW4
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
In the Name of the Father
The IRA blew
up a pub, and the Brits nailed
the wrong men for it.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The World According to Garp
Garp's short life is
Surreal and sad but strangely
is believable.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Detropia
Urban decay, fires,
folks fleeing, no jobs, there's whole
lot wrong in Motown
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The Campaign
Humble beginnings
Falling down Gym The Ripper
Lead to great success
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7yC0iiK7a4
Host: Joe
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Life in the Bath Tub
is not for the weak. Nature
devours all in time.
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