movies, quotes

0398 – office horror

Mayhem (2017)

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Mayhem is a 2017 American action horror comedy film directed by Joe Lynch.  Rotten Tomatoes‘s critical consensus reads, “Mayhem delivers stylish violence by the bloody bucketful — and grounds all the titular chaos in sharp humor and surprisingly effective real-world economic angst”

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Melanie Cross: My mother used to say that no one raindrop ever thought it caused the flood. I now know what she meant by that.


Office Uprising (2018)

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An employee at a weapons factory discovers that an energy drink turns his co-workers into zombies

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Bloodsucking Bastards (2015)

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Bloodsucking Bastards is a 2015 American comedy horror film directed by Brian James O’Connell, written by Ryan Mitts and Dr. God, O’Connell’s comedy group.

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movies

0396 – Big Eyes (2014)

spacetime coordinates: 1958 > 1970 North BeachSan Francisco // HonoluluHawaii

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Big Eyes is a 2014 American biographical film directed by Tim Burton, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. The film is about the life of American artist Margaret Keane—famous for drawing portraits and paintings with big eyes. It follows the story of Margaret and her husband, Walter Keane, who took credit for Margaret’s phenomenally successful and popular paintings in the 1950s and 1960s. It follows the lawsuit (and trial) between Margaret and Walter, after Margaret reveals she is the real artist behind the big eyes paintings.

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“I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn’t like it.”   Andy Warhol

documentary

370 – A Plastic Ocean (2016)

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A PLASTIC OCEAN begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution.

https://www.plasticoceans.org/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5203824/

animation

0368 – Boy and the World (2013)

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Boy and the World (Portuguese: O Menino e o Mundo) is a 2013 Brazilian animated film written and directed by Alê Abreu.  The film was created using a mix of both drawing and painting and digital animation. The entire film is told with very little dialogue and what dialogue there is, is actually Portuguese, but backwards.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3183630/

movies

0335 – Screamers (1995)

spacetime coordinates:  SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078

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Screamers is a 1995 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film starring Peter WellerRoy Dupuis, and Jennifer Rubin, and directed by Christian Duguay. The screenplay, written by Dan O’Bannon with a rewrite by Miguel Tejada-Flores, is based on Philip K. Dick‘s short story “Second Variety“, and addresses themes commonly found in that author’s work: societal conflict, confusion of reality and illusion, and machines turning upon their creators. Although critical reaction to the film was generally negative at the time of its release, it has gained a cult following.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/