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We All Have Hearts of Thin Ice

The budding romance between a lovelorn television producer and Al Gore experiences a rude awakening when they realize there are only fifty years before this planet swallows all trace of humanity. This news both frightens and stimulates the lovers, inspiring an urgent passionate ardor which sparks enough energy to harness the weather and return conditions to the proper atmospheric comfort-level. Things get ugly when they realize that their parting will result in the annihilation of all humankind.

The Ugly Inconvenient Truth

Cheat sheet The Ugly Truth | An Inconvenient Truth

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Sins of the Fathers | They're thinking, "Duchovny thought his career would get better after this?"

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Where There Is No Intelligence, There Is Epic Fantasy (Or, Don't Bug Me, I'm a King)

[We briefly considered doing a Thursday Three-Way of bug movies in June. ("June Bugs." Get it?) In the intro, Phil would have said something to the effect that his anal obsessive-compulsive precocious freak-nerd nine-year old self would have impatiently pointed out that "June Bug" is incorrect nomenclature. They are, in fact, May Beetles. But nearly forty years later, mellowed by good food, better beer, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, Phil is now prepared to accept the popular sobriquet. And besides, it's a B-52s song. As a farewell to June and its bugs, here is one spectacular bug-movie mash-up from Phil.]

To save them from the Blitz, the four Pevensie children are sent to the countryside to stay with their uncle, eccentric entomologist Dr. Nils Hellstrom. There they travel through a mystic portal to a strange realm where insects rule. With Tilda Swinton as the evil sorceress Thysania, James McAvoy as Mr. Attagenus, and Liam Neeson as the voice of the messianic Myrmeleo.

The Hellstrom Chronicles of Narnia: The Antlion, The Witch Moth, and the Wardrobe Beetle

Cheat sheet The Hellstrom Chronicle | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These Lion Thing | Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

When I was nine years old my mother took me to see this movie, resulting in nearly four decades of screaming nightmares. Thanks, Mom.

Meat Your Maker

Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraser) is a Silvertongue, gifted with the mystic ability to summon characters out of books. Unfortunately, he has been reading a muckraking expose of the corporate food industry (written by Michael Pollan, natch) and has therefore unleashed a horrorshow of industrial meat production, petroleum-based fertilizer, and environmentally-unsustainable vegetable harvesting. Can Mo send these nightmares back into the book, restore the world to an organic free-range Utopia, and rescue his wife (Sienna Guillory) from a non-Temple-Grandin-designed beef slaughterhouse before she is clubbed to death? Featuring Andy Serkis as Michael Pollan and Paul Bettany as The Force-Raised Chicken.

Food, Inkheart

Cheat sheet Food, Inc | Inkheart

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These My Precious! | The Dangers of Meatpacking

The documentary Food, Inc, released in Canada last September, comes to the U.S. today.

Club de la Lune

A revealing documentary chronicles the latest trend in New York City drag clubs - young men dressing up as wolves for a night of trans-species vogueing.

An American Werewolf in Paris is Burning

Cheat sheet An American Werewolf in Paris | Paris is Burning

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Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Hey, Mes Loups-Garous, Let's Put on a Show | Psycho Killer, Qu'est-ce Que C'est?

To the last, I will grapple with thee... from Hell's heart, I stab at thee!

Admiral Kirk, now feeling his age and riding a desk at Starfleet, agrees to accompany Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on a voyage to prove that adventurous Peruvians could have populated remote Ceti Alpha star system. Expecting an uneventful star cruise, the Admiral is shocked to learn that Ceti Alpha Five is now in the hands of his nemesis, the pectorally-gifted eugenicist Khan Noonian Singh!

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kon-Tiki 

Cheat sheet Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Kon-Tiki

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If you Liked This, You'll Love These There's No Crying in Squid Battles! | By Grabthar's Hammer!

Apropos of almost nothing, a distant relative of Thor Heyerdahl stars in one of our favorite H.P. Lovecraft-inspired films, Out of Mind.

Would You Like a Krill Sandwich With Your Afternoon Tea?

A polar bear, an elephant, a humpback whale and Gillian Anderson get together at an elegant New York estate to discuss global warming, the loss of the rain forests and how to marry a proper society gentleman.

The House of Earth

Cheat sheet House of Mirth | Earth

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These I See Costume Dramas | Are You a Unicorn?

Earth, a documentary from the Planet Earth folks which follows the migration paths of four animal families, opens tonight. 

You Are Entering a World of Pain!

Filmmaker Michael Moore explores why Britain's most popular comedy troupe has such a strong predilection for gun violence.

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowling for Columbine

Cheat sheet Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl | Bowling for Columbine

Contributor scott

...as evidenced here...

The Dangers of Meatpacking

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their addictions to union organizing begin spiraling out of control.

Requiem for American Dream

Cheat sheet Requiem for a Dream | American Dream

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Overly-elastic jokes aside, American Dream is a fascinating and well-made documentary on the give-and-take between American labor and the corporate urge to outsource. MyLeftFootloose-bob sez check it out!

Acts of Terror

Michael Moore's investigation into what happened to the United States after September 11 leads him to a city in Nevada and a crack(ed) team of very special law enforcement officers.

Fahrenheit Reno 9/11

Cheat sheet Fahrenheit 9/11 | Reno 911: Miami

Contributor sam

Fabulous!

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him and helps to restore what he's lost: memories of outrageous drag parties among New York's gay underclass.

Paris, Texas, is Burning

Cheat sheet Paris, Texas | Paris is Burning

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Dance of the Seven Veils?

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous intifada after Yassir Arafat takes a fancy to her. 

Gaza Striptease 

Cheat sheet Gaza Strip | Striptease 

Contributor sam

Downsizing Matters

BONUS (because we can't resist a three-way about a three-way)

James Bond (Michael Moore) investigates the hijacking of the town of Flint, MI, by GM CEO Roger Smith with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. The movie's climactic scene features a big, sweaty ménage a trois with several guys whose names contain either Roger or Moore.

The Spy Who Loved Roger & Me

Cheat sheet The Spy Who Loved Me | Roger & Me

Contributor phil

Jaws goes to Magnet School.

It's the Economy, Stupid

When William Jefferson Clinton and chaperone George Stephanopoulos find themselves in Washington, DC, with rooms without views, fellow guests James Carville and wife Mary Matalin step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Carvilles could change Bill's life forever but, once back in Arkansas, how will his experiences in Washington affect his plans for his marriage?

The War Room With a View

Cheat sheet The War Room | A Room with a View
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Global Hotness

A successful meteorologist & radio show host with low self-esteem and a growing sense of unease about climate change asks her friend Al Gore to impersonate her when a handsome oil lobbyist wants to meet her.

An Inconvenient Truth About Cats and Dogs

Cheat sheet An Inconvenient Truth | The Truth About Cats and Dogs
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It Helps if You Go Limp

A comedian who lives among grizzly bears decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected. The pundits tear him limb from limb, in...

Grizzly Man of the Year

Cheat sheet Grizzly Man | Man of the Year
Contributor sam