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

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

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


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


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


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

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Barton Fink


They say you write well
Past drama, you will show them
The life of the mind


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


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!

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

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