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By Kyle Lawson

There are very few movies that could take an issue like the reversion therapy programs that aim to turn gay people straight by brainwashing them and forcing what is essentially celibacy and guilt onto them, and make it fabulous. Somehow, director Jamie Babbit finds a way in But I’m a Cheerleader.

The movie is about Megan, played by Natasha ...

By Nate Storey

Directed by John Sayles Joe Morton as The Brother David Strathairn as Man in Black

Synopsis: The film tells the story of an escaped alien slave, called “The Brother,” who lands in Harlem, New York in the 1980s. He is taken to be a homeless black man, though he is mute and unbeknownst to those he encounters, has three ...

By Nate Storey

Directed by Joel Coen Written by Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Nicolas Cage as H.I. McDunnough Holly Hunter as Edwina ‘Ed’ McDunnough John Goodman as Gale Snoats William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats

Synopsis:

Raising Arizona is the story of a poor couple who long to have a child of their own, but are unable to conceive and are prevented from ...

By Nate Storey

There once was a man with a chin, a chin so strong and masculine that it could only find its true calling in film. And not just any films called unto this chin, but the wonderful world of B-Movies, in which he is not just a man, but a god!

This chin belongs to a man named Bruce Campbell, ...

By Nate Storey

Tagline: “Being the adventures of a young man … who couldn’t resist pretty girls … or a bit of the old ultra-violence … went to jail, was re-conditioned … and came out a different young man … or was he?”

Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Malcolm McDowell as Alex de Large

Synopsis: In a future Brittan, a delinquent named ...

By Nate Storey

They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.

Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

Starring:

Jeff Bridges…Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski John Goodman …Walter Sobchak Steve Buscemi …Theodore “Donny” Kerabatsos

Synopsis : The film depicts a few days in the life of The Dude, a slacker in Los Angeles. ...

By Nate Storey

As the writer of the Cult Movie Colum, I have tried to inform and educate readers on the many cult films that deserve to be viewed by the uniformed and to steer people away from the unoriginal mainstream schlock that is often in theatres. Up until now, I have done this by focusing ...

By Nate Storey

Directed by Tim Burton Starring Johnny Depp…Ed Wood Marin Landau…Bela Lugosi Sarah Jessica Parker…Dolores Fuller

Synopsis: The biopic of Ed Wood, widely regarded as the “worst director of all time,” focuses on his life during his peak years of the 1950s and the filming of such classics as “Glen or Glenda” and “Plan 9 from Outer ...

By Nate Storey

Starring Paul Giamatti…Harvey Pekar Harvey Pekar…Himself Hope Davis…Joyce Brabner

Synopsis: This is a biopic/film adaptation of the comic book series of the same name by Harvey Pekar. Harvey is a curmudgeon-y Cleveland Hospital file clerk who writes comic books about his everyday experiences. Pekar sought fame and found it thanks to his comics (which are ...

By Nate Storey

Directed by Richard Lester

Starring: The Beatles John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr

Synopsis: Ringo accidentally becomes the target of an obscure Indian cult that practices human sacrifices when he puts on the victim’s ceremonial ring and cannot get it off. The band is pursued by the cult, a pair of bumbling ...