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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

Contributor Dawn
Editor Miss Spell

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

Click for chick flick pic-nic...

Truth Needs a Game Show Host

In a tangled web of private agendas, temporary CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) turns to top field operative Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell). Despite his troubled personal life and commitments to the Dating Game and The Gong Show, Barris helps Ryan extract a covert assault team from Colombia and expose their own government’s secret crimes. Also, Barris sleeps with Drew Barrymore.

Clear and Present Dangerous Mind

Cheat sheet Clear and Present Danger | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Contributor Rick
Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These It’s the Plumbers. They’ve Come to Fix the Sink. | Forster. E M Forster.

You know, they actually turned The Gong Show into a movie at one point. Don’t believe me? Watch this.

Nuclear War Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

When young Jennifer Cavelleri-Ripper (Ali McGraw) dies of leukemia, her husband, General Jack D. Ripper, driven insane by grief, blames her illness on Russian contamination of the water supply and launches an atomic attack on the Soviet Union. Peter Sellers plays multiple roles (including a priest and an oncologist) and a young Tommy Lee Jones debuts as a bomb-riding cowpoke.

Dr. Strangelove Story

Cheat sheet Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Love Story

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These I First Became Aware of it, Mandrake, During the Physical Act of Love | Love Is Blind

Here's a nice little romantic ditty with, um, fireworks in the background.

SECOND YOUTUBE CLIP Your humble editor directs your attention to this tune from Love Story, for obvious reasons.

Somehow, the South Carolina Houseboat Drifts Into Baltimore…

A convicted rapist (Robert De Niro), angry at the defense attorney who failed to get him acquitted (Ben Affleck), is released from prison after 14 years. He immediately starts to stalk the lawyer and his family, threatening them with a salvaged Israeli nuclear bomb.

The Cape of All Fears

Cheat sheet Cape Fear | The Sum of All Fears

Contributor Rick
Editor Rick

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Détente’s Just a Fancy French Word for “Cold War” | Welcome to The Show!

Here’s a nice little mix, blending scenes from the 1962 version and 1991 verson of Cape Fear.

The Snuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Sam Spade (Timothy Hutton) and Miles Archer (Sean Penn) were partners in private investigation, once. Now they've gone their separate ways, Spade working for the CIA and Archer smuggling cocaine in the hollow statue of a black bird. When Archer turns up dead, Spade must find out whodunnit and why... and compete with three enemy agents (Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor) to recover the missing drugs.

The Maltese Falcon and the Snowman

Cheat sheet The Maltese Falcon | The Falcon And The Snowman

Contributor Phil
Editor Phil

If you Liked This, You'll Love These I'm Doghouse Riley. I Was A Friend Of Alex's | Take Your Best Shot... 'Cause It Might Be Your Last

Never seen The Maltese Falcon? No more excuses! Here's the Readers' Digest condensed version.

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.

We were just outside Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when Michael Crichton's film option began to take effect.

A crazed journalist and his 300 lb Samoan lawyer travel to the Mojave Desert to cover a motorcycle race, but end up encountering what appears to be a perfectly spherical space ship from Earth's future. Both characters experience strange manifestations which they first attribute to the sphere, but then realize are nothing more than the effects of bad blotter acid and cheap ether.

Sphere and Loathing in Las Vegas

Cheat sheet Sphere | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Contributor Steve
Editor Steve

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Thank Heaven for Little Girls | Bonding with Mom

I actually saw this when it first aired in 1988. Hunter S. Thompson and Carly Simon are guests of David Letterman on an episode taped inside the Helen Hayes Suite of the Milford Plaza Hotel. I wish I'd been on something the night I saw it, because extreme surrealism without the safety net of massive amounts of weed or alcohol is not an easy thing to handle.

Crying God for England, Harry, and Mr. Zorg!

The fate of the universe hangs on the newly-cloned 15th Century English king who routed the French at Agincourt and is now the final barrier between light and darkness. Check out the St. Crispin's Day speech at Floston Paradise.

Henry The Fifth Element

Cheat sheet Henry V | The Fifth Element

Contributor Steve
EditorSteve

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Once more unto the breach(es), dear friends! | Like Al Gore, Only Without the Cuddly Nobel Prize

I've Got You Under My Skin

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, King Henry II considers who should be heir to his throne. Will he decide before the Splinter takes over his mind and body?

The Lion in Splinter

Cheat sheet The Lion in Winter | Splinter

Contributor jane

Editor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These "Some of our best friends are..." | Once more unto the breach(es), dear friends!

It's OK, dear. Nothing's normal.

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man (Cleveland fullback Jim Brown) is selected to be the manager of a small, racially divided mattress showroom in the Deep South. His situation is complicated by the arrival of a spirited young woman, Happy (Zoe Deschanel), and by his plans to adopt a Chinese orphan.

Gigantic ...tick ...tick

Cheat sheet Gigantic | ...tick ...tick ...tick

Contributor jane

Editor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These You Can't Lose 'Em All | Hold That Line

The festival favorite Gigantic, from first-time filmmaker Matt Aselton, opens tonight.

Everything We've Come to Expect from Government Training

Agents J and K uncover the details of Nixon's plan to use aliens to raid the offices of the Democratic Party and steal the election of 1972. They use their neuralyzer to erase 18 minutes of tape, the nation forgets, and Reagan is elected President eight years later.

All the President's Men in Black

Cheat sheet All the President's Men | Men in Black

Contributor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These When It's Over, They're Gonna Need the Flashy Thing | Double Your Tommy Lee, Double Your Fun

French for Chad? Le chad.

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election, the subsequent recounts in Florida, and how a young man - once falsely imprisoned - may have used a hidden treasure to exact his revenge by buying the US presidency.

The Recount of Monte Cristo

Cheat sheet Recount | The Count of Monte Cristo

Contributor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Fancy Red Codpiece | Call the Plumbers | Sins of the Fathers

Fun trivia for Buffy freaks: the screenplay for Recount was written by one of these guys.

Fun trivia: The script for Recount was written by one of these guys (beloved Buffy nerd Jonathan).

You Are So Money!

In a remarkable turn-of-events, the result of the presidential election comes down to one man's vote: Mike Peters (Kevin Costner), a wannabe actor in pomade and a rayon guayabera shirt who can't decide who to vote for because he just got out of a six year relationship and spent most of the campaign cycle on the floor of his apartment eating sausage and crying about the past.

Swingers Vote

Cheat sheet Swingers | Swing Vote

Contributor christo4o

If you Liked This, You'll Love These The Unreachable Star | Thank Heaven for Little Girls 

How to get over being an undecided voter.

Sexual Misconduct

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer tries to put her troubled life back together by running for Vice President of the United States. Unfortunately, lurid secrets about her past threaten to topple both her candidacy and her tentative accord with her family.

The Contender Mercies

Cheat sheet The Contender | Tender Mercies

Contributor jane

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Welcome to The Show! | Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

A Nice Game of Solitaire

In this Voltaire satire, a war hero discovers that during his period of captivity by the enemy he was brainwashed into believing that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". Now a candidate for national office, he must confront his false optimism with the help of his Army buddy and return to political cynicism.

The Manchurian Candide

Cheat sheet The Manchurian Candidate | Candide

Contributor christo4o

If you Liked This, You'll Love These Detente's Just a Fancy French Word for "Cold War" | Another Kind of Sleeper Agent

Thursday Three-Way Gets Out the Vote

Every Thursday is Three-Way Day at My Left Footloose! Enjoy three (or more) related My Left Footloose movies for the price of one. Tell your friends you're having a three-way and let 'em wonder who with.

It's less than two weeks until what is being called a historic US Presidential election. To celebrate, we're taking a look at some other historic (and fictional, and possibly surreal) races for high office. Coming today: a cock-eyed optimist confronts his personal myths, a country singer deals with a sordid past, a very sad man with a nice wardrobe confronts sudden political celebrity, and a man framed by his friends exacts revenge on an entire country!

Follow us on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook and you'll get an alert each weekend about the next Thursday Three-Way and the chance to play along!

Clone Heads

A controversy over proposed resort development in Milagro, Mexico, becomes a battlefield where brave and spiritual Mexican Jedi farmers battle evil, imperialist clone armies over natural resources and the right to an honest day's work. Costars Christopher Walken as government troubleshooter Jabba the Hutt.

The Milagro Beanfield Clone Wars

Cheat sheet The Milagro Beanfield War | Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Contributor christo4o

If You Liked This, You'll Love These  Savage, Bloody, and Streepy | I Find Your Lack of Pants Disturbing

Sins of the Fathers

A second-generation American president lets himself be talked into a war/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an independent prosecutor's suspicions.

W. Indemnity

Cheat sheet W. | Double Indemnity

Contributor jane

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Call the Plumbers | The Buck Stops Here

Oliver Stone's sure-to-be-controversial Bush biopic W. opens tonight.

Hey... Isn't that Elizabeth Banks? Isn't she making a porno in a couple of weeks with Seth Rogen? 

Another Kind of Sleeper Agent

Walter Davis (Bruce Willis) needs a date for a work thing, so his friend fixes him up. Trouble is, when his blind date (Angela Lansbury) gets a few drinks in her, she becomes an unstoppable communist assassin. Also, when she sees the queen of diamonds, she pees on the floor.

The Manchurian Blind Date

Cheat sheet The Manchurian Candidate | Blind Date

Contributor jane

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Does She Pee on the Floor? | Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?

Fire All of Your Guns at Once and Explode into Space

Clint Eastwood and Peter Fonda star as a pair of hippie preachers traveling across the country with a bag of money hidden inside their horses, helping small miners rise up against corrupt mining companies, and trying to find America.

Pale Easy Rider

Cheat sheet Pale Rider | Easy Rider

Contributor rick

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You've Got Your Good Thing and I've Got Mine

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the party picks a tall-haired and hapless icon of despair as his replacement. His running mate is a squealing mutant baby, and his campaign manager is a strangely lumpy girl who lives in a radiator. An international banking crisis is symbolized by a swampy bed that sucks the candidate and his party into a murky, swirling pit.

Eraserhead of State

Cheat sheet Eraserhead | Head of State

Contributor the procrastinator

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Has the whole world gone crazy? | Seven Words We Never Wanted to Hear

And the campaign song...

I like the Pixies' version better.

Behind the Eight Ball

Fast Eddie Felson joins the political campaign of a cocky but immensely talented politician running for US President. Along the way, Fast Eddie must use what he knows about pool to help his candidate deal with a sex scandal, which in turn inspires Eddie to make an unlikely comeback.

Primary Colors of Money

Cheat sheet Primary Colors | The Color of Money

Contributor jane

If You Liked This, You'll Love These Bush's Braaaaaaaains? | When a Poor Man Eats a Chicken, One of Them is Sick

Why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?

A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Chinese Communists into becoming a political assassin, given a shiny new armored suit, and positioned deep inside a group of ambitious American conservatives.

Iron Manchurian Candidate

Cheat sheet Iron Man | The Manchurian Candidate

Contributor jane

Related posts The Unreachable Star | I'll Be Home for Christmas

Every time I see Angela Lansbury as the cuddly "Murder She Typed" heroine, I think of this scene.

It's the Plumbers. They've Come to Fix the Sink.

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart a group of terrorists called "The Plumbers" who plan to break into the Watergate hotel and plant a nuclear bomb in Democratic party headquarters.

The Sum of All the President's Men

Cheat sheet The Sum of All Fears | All the President's Men

Contributor george

Related posts She's Just Not That Into You | Call the Plumbers

We couldn't resist.

We're From Out of Town

The Griswold family encounters the propaganda-crazed KKK on their way cross-country to visit Walley World.

National Lampoon's Birth of a Vacation

Cheat sheet National Lampoon's Vacation | The Birth of a Nation

Contributor jane

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