Posts Tagged ‘grim-reaper’

The Meaning of Life (1983)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone.

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Karen Allen | John Forsythe | John Glover | Bob Goldthwait | David Johansen | Carol Kane | Robert Mitchum | Nicholas Phillips | Michael J. Pollard | Alfre Woodard | Mabel King | Joel Murray | Jamie Farr | Robert Goulet
Directors: Richard Donner
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis | Arnold Schwarzenegger | F. Murray Abraham | Austin O'Brien | Art Carney | Charles Dance | Frank McRae | Tom Noonan | Robert Prosky | Anthony Quinn | Mercedes Ruehl | Ian McKellen | Professor Toru Tanaka | Joan Plowright | Jason Kelly | Noah Emmerich
Directors: John McTiernan
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Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater’s world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater’s enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny’s world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Anthony Hopkins | Claire Forlani | Jake Weber | Marcia Gay Harden | Jeffrey Tambor | David S. Howard | Lois Kelly-Miller | Jahnni St. John | Richard Clarke | Marylouise Burke | Diane Kagan | June Squibb | Gene Canfield | Suzanne Hevner
Directors: Martin Brest
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Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she’s flirting with.

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Monday, May 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Keanu Reeves | Alex Winter | William Sadler | Joss Ackland | Pam Grier | George Carlin | Amy Stock-Poynton | Jim Martin | Hal Landon Jr. | Annette Azcuy | Sarah Trigger | Chelcie Ross | Taj Mahal | Robert Noble | Hal Landon Sr.
Directors: Peter Hewitt
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For many years now, at Bill and Ted University of the future, the people of the world have been excellent to each other. But fed-up with Bill and Ted’s peaceful world and even more fed up with heavy metal, Chuck De Nomolos decides to do something about it. De Nomolos creates cyborg versions of Bill and Ted, who travel back to 1990 with orders to kill the human versions of Bill and Ted, win the Battle of the Bands, and pave the way for De Nomolos to take over the future. In 1990, Bill and Ted are sent to hell by the cyborgs. Cyborg Bill and cyborg Ted make time with the real Bill and Ted’s girlfriends Joanna and Elizabeth and prepare to take the human Bill and Ted’s place in the Battle of the Bands. With the help of their friend Rufus, the human Bill and Ted are forced to find a way out of hell, deal with the Grim Reaper, and talk to God himself, in their mission to get to the Battle of the Bands and stop the two cyborgs.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: UK | West Germany
Actors: John Neville | Eric Idle | Sarah Polley | Oliver Reed | Charles McKeown | Winston Dennis | Jack Purvis | Valentina Cortese | Jonathan Pryce | Bill Paterson | Peter Jeffrey | Uma Thurman | Alison Steadman | Ray Cooper | Don Henderson
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron’s stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of “Munchausen’s Syndrome”, a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.