Comedy

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.Read More »

A socially awkward young woman gets bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes a crime-fighting superhero and tries to defeat a nefarious super villain while going after any man (or woman) she wants to bed down with.Read More »

a review from imdb:
A flawless example of what an independent film is all about, 19 November 2000
10/10
Author: hippiedj from Palm Desert, California

Nowadays it seems indie festivals are the chic thing and filmmakers are trying too hard to get the status that winners of those “prestige” events get. If they would only look back to 1985 to a film like Static, they could learn a thing or two.

This film paces itself, and while never snappy, it uses its time wisely. While a melancholy mood prevales, we still are affected in many ways by the different characters we are introduced to.Read More »

Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration.
When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is
denied insurance money because it was ‘an act of God’. He re-registers as a lawyer and
sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself.
The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna
Redmond (Davis).Read More »

One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to the mountainous southwest of China, to investigate after watching a mysterious online video. He is accompanied by a drunk, a girl with insomnia, and a cynical staffer. For Tang, the moment of truth comes when they meet a young poet in a village, who says he is in contact with aliens. Read More »

Quote:
Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly’s lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they’re alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.Read More »

A young man’s life unravels over the course of a customer service phone call.Read More »

Synopsis:
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son…!Read More »

imdb wrote:
A Chicago cab driver’s night shift becomes a kaleidoscope of humanity. With each fare, his initial cold demeanor softens, revealing unexpected depth amid cameos from familiar faces.Read More »