Movies
Where’s Officer Tuba?
This month, the Drunken Masters Dojo dares to inquire after the location of super-sized martial arts master Sammo Hung as he plays a tuba-toting police officer determined to avenge his partners murder with help from his partners ghost!
Tourist, The
From the director of The Lives of Others (winner, Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, 2007), this Hitchcock-light mistaken-identity thriller puts Johnny Depp in danger from gangsters, INTERPOL and the irresistible charms of Angelina Jolie.
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Elia Kazan. Tennessee Williams. Marlon Brando. Vivian Leigh. Testosterone. Estrogen. Sweat. Rage. Tragedy. You can get off, but the streetcar never stops running.
Skyline
The nice thing about an alien invasion movie like this is that since it lacks big stars, all bets are off as to which characters will live, and which will die. Delivers all the Saturday night whizz-bang and Sunday morning brain-ripping you could want. (Empire)
Pink Panther, The (1963)
If you only know the Steve Martin Pink Panther films, you dont know the Pink Panther films. Comedic genius Peter Sellers stars as prototypical bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau, whos hot on the trail of a jewel thief when he isnt tripping over his own feet.
Orgasm, Inc.
This shocking and hilarious documentary about the race by pharmaceutical companies to develop the female equivalent of Viagra (while simultaneously creating a market for it by inventing the disease of Female Sexual Dysfunction) is a sexy indictment of big pharma that gives a lot of great laughs. (Toronto Star) Was
Network
This story is about Howard Beale, who was the news anchorman on UBS TV. In his time, Howard Beale had been a mandarin of television, the grand old man of news, with a HUT rating of 16 and a 28 audience share. In 1969, however, his fortunes began to decline.
Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
Our Leslie Nielsen tribute continues as Frank Drebin returns to save a solar energy scientist and rekindle an old love affair. If you only see one movie this year you ought to get out more often.
Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad, The
Surely were not serious about presenting this comedy classic in which bumbling copy Frank Drebin tries to prevent the assassination of Queen Elizabeth II as a tribute to the late, great Leslie Nielson? We are serious. And dont call us Shirley.
Missouri Breaks, The
One Steals. One Kills. One Dies. Jack Nicholson plays a notorious horse thief, and Marlon Brando the infamous regulator hired to hunt him and his men down in this classic western from director Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), ghostwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) and composer John Williams (Star Wars, et al).