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Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy

    Co-Writer/Director Adam McKay's debut feature is a laugh filled spoof of local 70's news anchors featuring some terrifically funny topical humour and magnificent satire from start to finish.
    Ron Burgundy is on top of the local San Diego scene as the number 1 anchorman with his sights set on making National anchor.  All is well for Ron and his news team until the network decides to bring in a female co-anchor in order to boost ratings.  Before long Ron Burg...

Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby

    Co-Writer/Director Adam McKay's 2nd feature film is a well made comedy about a dimwitted Nascar driver that suffers a mental breakdown after a terrible crash and his struggles to get back on top after losing everything.
    Ricky Bobby takes a simple motto from a speech made by his father during his childhood and uses it to rise to the top of the Nascar circuit with an unprecedented winning streak that takes the racing world by storm.  Once on top, Ricky begins to...

Semi-Pro

    Director Kent Alterman's debut feature is a non-stop laugh riot about a small time ABA team in Flint Michigan and the efforts of the former Disco sensation owner/player Jackie Moon to make one final run at getting his franchise an NBA expansion slot.
    Player/Owner/Coach/Night Club Owner/Former Disco Sensation Jackie Moon takes it to the next level with his team by creating all sorts of crazy promotions in order to raise the attendance levels at games for his ABA fran...

Buried

    Director Rodrigo Cortes' 2nd feature film is a taut, well paced, thriller that utilises the limitations of the finite space provided to create a great deal of tension while taking the viewer on an emotional roller-coaster with the main character.
    American truck driver Paul Conroy awakens to find himself trapped inside a coffin buried somewhere beneath the sands of the Iraqi desert after his convoy is randomly attacked.  As Paul searches the coffin for clues as...

I'm Still Here

    Co-Writer/Director Casey Affleck's debut behind the camera is a highly controversial faux-documentary depicting the seemingly uncontrollable breakdown of a talented Hollywood performer that has seemingly lost his way and is pursuing alternate vocations with reckless abandon that threatens his credibility.
   The film chronicles the daily occurrences in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix as he announces his retirement from the world of acting in order to pursue a career...

Weird Science

    Writer/Director John Hughes' 3rd feature film is an hilarious look into the mind's of two teenage boys that seek to create a computer simulation of a woman in order to gain insight into the female perspective on dating but end up creating a flesh and blood woman that turns their world upside-down.
    Gary and Wyatt are two teenage dorks that have big dreams of becoming the most popular kids in school, hosting killer parties, and dating the girls of their dreams.  Inspired...

Better Off Dead...

    Writer/Director Savage Steve Holland's debut feature is a brilliant, hilarious, insightful, manic, askew, and poignant look into the life of a normal teenager whose life takes a turn for the worse when his girlfriend suddenly leaves him for another guy.
   As Lane sets his sights on making the ski team at school his life is turned upside down when his girlfriend decides to leave him for the much revered ski jock that heads the team.  While Lane struggles to find h...

The Breakfast Club

    Writer/Director John Hughes' 2nd feature film is a wonderful character study of five individual students that each represent a specific sub-section of the typical 80's high-school student body that takes place during a single day of detention where they are forced to interact in order to combat their own boredom.
   Five high-school students: the jock, the juvenile delinquent, the prom queen, the invisible artsy type, and the brain are forced to spend an entire Saturda...

Sixteen Candles

    Writer/Director John Hughes' debut feature is a terrific slice of life depicting the frustration of a high-school sophomore on her 16th birthday whose family neglects to remember her sweet sixteen due to the pending wedding of her older sister, all while she struggles to make the senior that she's crushing on notice her.
   Samantha Baker's 16th birthday is not shaping up to be the fairy-tale day that she had envisioned it to be: her older sister's pending wedding is ov...

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    Writer/Director John Hughes' 4th feature film follows the antics of a greatly over-hyped, manipulative, high-school senior that is looking for an adventurous day off from school with his friends as a means to enjoy the cultural aspects of the city of Chicago before graduation.

    Ferris Bueller, a high-school senior that is able to manipulate his peers, friends and family into believing anything he says or does, decides to concoct a series of lies that enable him to ta...