Synopsis
Animal rights activists infiltrate the “Cambridge Primate Research Centre” to find a chimpanzee being monitored for its reaction to civil unrest on TV monitors. Ignoring warnings that the animals have been infected with “rage,” the activists unlock the cages. One of them is bitten. Going into convulsions and vomiting blood, she then [...]
Entries from August 2008
28 Days Later (2002)
August 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Beasts and monsters · Dreams and visions · End of the world · Military
Carla Gugino
August 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Carla Gugino was born August 29, 1971 in Sarasota, Florida. Her father was an orthodontist. At the age of two, Gugino’s parents separated. Seeking a change of scenery, her mother drove Gugino cross country. They lived in a teepee in Paradise, California for six months, as well as a van in Big Sur. Gugino recalled, [...]
Tags: United Federation of Character Actors
Garden State (2004)
August 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Synopsis
Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) receives a message from his estranged father that his mother has died. Wrapped in a cocoon of anti-depressant drugs, a sterile Los Angeles apartment and a thankless job waiting tables at a chic Vietnamese restaurant, “Large” returns to suburban New Jersey for the funeral. Confiding to his icy [...]
Tags: Bathtub scene · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Drunk scene · Father/son relationship · Music · Psychoanalysis · Unconventional romance
Chasing Amy (1997)
August 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Synopsis
Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck) and Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) - two guys from Highlands, New Jersey who made good self-publishing their own comic book - bust up the convention they’re signing copies of their work Bluntman and Chronic at when they seem to outrage Black militant cartoonist Hooper X (Dwight Ewell) arguing [...]
Tags: Cult favorite · Famous line · Unconventional romance









