Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Meet the Parents (2000)
- Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson… - Meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time becomes nightmare for Ben Stiller, mostly due to Robert De Niro's politely hostile…
Nurse Betty (2000)- Dir. Neil LaBute
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock… - Part fairy–tale comedy, part edgy thriller, this perhaps qualifies as the perfect date movie. Due to the trauma of witnessing her…
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
- Dir. Robert Lee King
Feat. Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies - Kicking sand in the face of John Waters’ latest efforts, this parody of GIDGET and other 60s beach party movies gets fabulous mileage out of…
Series 7: The Contenders (2000)- Dir. Daniel Minahan
Feat. Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke - The scourge of ‘reality–TV’ gets its comeuppance (or homage?) in this ultraviolent satire. We’re in the near–future,…
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)- Dir. E. Elias Merhige
Feat. John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Catherine McCormack… - A fanciful yet elegant take on what might have transpired during the making of silent horror classic, NOSFERATU, centred around a battle of wills…
Viva Las Nowhere (Dead Simple) (2000)- Dir. Jason Bloom
Feat. Daniel Stern, Patricia Richardson, Lacey Kohl… - Checking into a deserted motel in the “geographical centre of the USA” run by luckless, aspiring country–songwriter Daniel Stern, this darn…
American Beauty (1999)- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch… - Signifying a coming–of–age of the 'indie' movie and mainstream acceptance of a darker sensibility, this most quirky of all Academy Award…
Attack the Gas Station (1999)- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang… - Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea. Gleefully tearing apart…
Bride of Chucky (1999)- Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Nick Stabile - Hard to believe this was a good idea, but the writer of the original CHILD'S PLAY manages to rejuvenate the tired series with a sardonic edge and an…
Cabaret Balkan (The Powder Keg) (1999)- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Nikola Ristanovski - Troubling split–portrait of the Serbian psyche, depicting a series of often violent incidents over the course of a single night in Belgrade,…
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