John Landis
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Landis presents a personal celebration of the greatest monsters ever to rampage across the silver screen. He also explores the origins of vampires, zombies, and werewolves; reveals the secrets of legendary special-effects wizards; and converses with leading movie makers. Open your eyes to a fascinating world of movies: some classics, some quirky, some forgotten, and some unforgettable crazy!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Blues brothers: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their "mission from God."
Blues brothers 2000: 18 years after the Brother's original "mission to God," Elwood Blues gets out of prison and discovers that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner,...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After Jake Blues is released from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...
Description
The rich and greedy Duke Brothers wager a bet on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and if a prig like Winthorpe were to lose all, would he turn to a life of crime? The Dukes arrange for that to happen. Valentine becomes the golden boy of the commodities market and Winthorpe finds himself out in the streets....
Pub. Date
2007
Description
One of the legends of American comedy, Don Rickles, is shown in all his glory by John Landis, acclaimed director of Animal House, the Blues Brothers, Coming to America, and Michael Jackson's Thriller. Many of today's biggest stars including Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman, Bob Newhart, Jay Leno, Clint Eastwood, Whoopi Goldberg, Joan Rivers, and Billy Crystal share their uproarious shories. With appearances, by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...
8) Three Amigos
Description
The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Super K to the Rescue! Greenville Elementary and the Academy for Superior Children battle it out for the annual prize of Best Kindergarten Holiday Show. After Nigel Danforth and the Fearsome Foursome do everything they can to wreck the Super K's show, Mr. Arnold Armstrong and the kids are sure they'll lose. When things don't turn out quite as Danforth had hoped, he hatches a plan to get rid of Christmas once and or all. It's up to the Super K's to...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one can stand except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of their fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade
12) Clue
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Clue is a movie about 6 guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in the murders of 6 people. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd) works in D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull) is a client of Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), who is the ex-employer of Yvette(Coleen Camp), the maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn), etc. When Mr....
13) Spies like us
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Comedy about two would-be spies who are dupes in an evil mastermind's plan to take over the world.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
School at Superhero Kindergarten is a lot like that at any other kindergarten except these six extraordinary students have a secret They are superheroes! These special kids powers are inspired by items found in kindergarten classrooms including crayons, paste, putty and building blocks.
15) Three amigos
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Eighteen years after the brothers' original "mission from God," Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner, Jake is gone, his band is no longer together and the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished. Elwood soon realizes that he must embark on a whole new mission to reassemble the old band this time with the help of a soulful bartender, compete at Queen Moussette's Battle...
17) The sci-fi boys
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Legendary sci-fi directors Jackson, Lucas, Spielberg, etc, started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Famous Monsters magazine. They grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.
19) Burke & Hare
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Set in the 1820's. William Burke and William Hare luck into some easy money when they discover they can sell a fresh cadaver to Dr. Knox at Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. However, the next cadaver is not quite so easy to obtain, and when word gets out of how profitable the trade is, the duo find themselves blackmailed and in dire need of more bodies. Based on a true story.
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