An unidentified flying object crash-lands on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government. The occupant of the “flying saucer” turns out to be a cat-like alien named Jake. Using a special collar, he is able to communicate with humans. The cat tries to have American scientists help him find some Org 12 so that his ship may rendezvous with his fleet. After determining that “Org 12” is gold, Jake uses his collar’s powers to affect the outcome of various sporting events, including horse races and pool games, to win money to buy the needed gold and repair his saucer.Read More »
Comedy
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Norman Tokar – The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
1971-1980ComedyNorman TokarSci-FiUSA -
Luc Moullet – Le prestige de la mort AKA Death’s Glamour (2006)
2001-2010ComedyFranceLuc Moullet

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires, since the dead man was someone rather important… (Blaq Out)Read More »
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Glenn Barit – Cleaners (2019)
2011-2020ComedyGlenn BaritPhilippinesDifferent students from a high school cleaners group each deal with different pressures of being clean and pure while also discovering that the world is dirty and superficial to begin with.
Barit developed a distinct visual palette for the film that resembles highlighted photocopies (much like books and readings common in Philippine schools). To achieve this, they finalized the offline cut of the film, exported it at eight frames per second, then printed each of those frames out to look like photocopies. What followed was months of manual highlighting of each frame before these were batch-scanned and put in place of the original offline cut.Read More »
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Mario Zampi – The Naked Truth (1957)
1951-1960ComedyMario ZampiUnited KingdomNigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose…Read More »
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Frank Perry – Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
1961-1970ComedyDramaFrank PerryUSAQuote:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.Read More » -
Christian Marquand – Candy (1968)
1961-1970Christian MarquandComedyEroticaFranceCandy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry. The film satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive heroine, Candy, played by Ewa Aulin. It stars Marlon Brando, Ewa Aulin, Ringo Starr, John Huston and Enrico Maria Salerno. Popular figures such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Anita Pallenberg, and Florinda Bolkan appear in cameo roles.Read More »
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David Paltenghi – Orders Are Orders (1954)
1951-1960ClassicsComedyDavid PaltenghiUnited KingdomSummary:
Movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using an Army barracks as location, and its soldiers as actors. Of course, the Commander doesn’t like it a bit, and persuades the crew to use a nearby haunted house instead. -imdb-Read More » -
Larry Cohen – The Stuff (1985)
USA1981-1990ComedyHorrorLarry Cohen

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.Read More »
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Grzegorz Warchol – Lubie nietoperze AKA I Like Bats (1986)
Comedy1981-1990Grzegorz WarcholHorrorPoland

Izabella, a young beautiful woman, works at her aunt’s shop in a small town in Poland. She uses her hands to create unique small objects for the shop, but in the nights she has the strange habit to feed bats. She also gives the shape of a bat to many of her handmade objects. Police are after a sex maniac killer who rapes and kills women in the woods. Marceli, a man who loves Izabella, tries to protect her telling her that he could walk with her on her way home but she rudely refuses. She doesn’t like him at all. Her aunt tries hard to change her mind but Izabella believes she can protect herself alone. The serial killer attacks her and when he asks for a kiss she’ll give him the kiss of death with pleasure…Because she’s actually a vampire woman!Read More »





