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Have you ever looked over at your neighbors yard and found yourself thinking, "Gee, the grass really is greener over there"? Have you ever wished maybe you could leave your old lawn behind and experience the many wonders of a new, strange lawn? Have you then wished that you could replace that new lawn with Jack-O-Lanterns and bat corpses? Then this is the movie for you!
Charlie Brown can't get a break no matter what time of the year it is, and the holiday-hits just keep on coming for him. Stuck with one of the worst costumes in history and given nothing to eat but rocks, Charlie Brown doggedly refuses to acknowledge the fact that everyone in the world totally hates his guts.
Movies have taught us an awful lot about robots. They're stronger, faster, and smarter than us. Their emotionless faces of tempered steel can hide a childlike sense of innocence and wonder, or an unquenchable thirst for murder and destruction. They'll take our jobs. They'll steal our hearts. And one day, they'll probably all rise up and kill us. It's all part of the magic of robots, and the reason we're pleased to bring you the story of ROBOCOP.
They don't make action movies like they used to. Inflated special-effects budgets have made it too easy, and now every action movie seems to be about pure spectacle. Wouldn't it be great to look back on the action movies of yesterday? Back when all you needed to keep an audience enthralled was an overly-muscled protagonist grunting unintelligibly into the camera against a backdrop of exploding mutants? Back when plots were so thin they gave your brain papercuts? Back in the days of the legend himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Cinester Theater, Aaron J. Bossig, Quiptracks, and Ice-On-Mars invite you to boldly go... where Ice-On-Mars has sort of already gone, incidentally. Still, he was nice enough to invite the rest of us along for this crazy ride, and the result is a fully-riffed version of "Star Trek: Voyager - Season 1, Disc 2"!
The 1970's have a lot to answer for: disco, terrifying facial hair, bell-bottoms. "Planet of Dinosaurs" is basically a primer for all of them- a glimpse at life in a simpler, hairier time when scenes were ruined by bad claymation instead of bad CGI.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the timeline, Doc Brown comes exploding back into your life with an all-new wacky adventure of irresponsible science! Just returned from nearly destroying himself and the entire universe, journeyman time-traveler Marty McFly just wants to enjoy a quiet weekend with his inexplicably re-cast girlfriend. But when Doc Brown returns to drag the pair to the future of Hill Valley, Marty wastes no time in once again jeopardizing the timeline and threatening to wipe us all out!
Cowabunga! Just when you thought everyone had forgotten, 1990 comes ninja-flipping back into your life with this timeless classic about martial arts, toxic waste, and hockey!
Stephen King is the Master of Horror. Of course, anyone who's read his books also knows that he's the Master of Writing Books That Are About 400 Pages Longer Than They Need To Be. And anyone who's seen one of the many movie adaptations of his books knows that he's also the Master Of Adapting Great Works Of Fiction Into Barely Watchable Crap.
When you think back to movies that shaped your childhood, one of the movies you probably think of is Stephen Spielberg's "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial". As one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, you'd think there'd be little for this movie to improve on. After all, it had great creature-effects for its day, and there's no reason at all for a director to go back and add a bunch of unnecessary CGI-effects to an old movie, right?
Wrong.
The "Resident Evil" game series has been hugely popular over the years, mostly by masterfully combining all the fear and confusion of being stuck in a zombie attack with all the fun of pushing statues around and looking for hidden keys. With a reputation for having some of the most hilariously voice-acted cutscenes in video-game history, the series' increasingly absurd plotline never seems to get the thorough explanation it deserves. What's Capcom's answer to this problem?
A full 90 minutes of exposition.
If you're like us, then you've probably seen more than your fair share of time-travel movies. Everyone knows the rules, of course: don't touch anything, don't talk to anyone, and keep all your nifty future gadgets out of sight until a dramatically-appropriate moment. But have you ever wondered what might happen if you traveled through time and decided to just toss all the rules right out the window?
Christmas time. A time of hope. A time of peace. A time of happiness for all on the planet Earth. Unless of course your name happens to be Charlie Brown.
Cinester Theater presents this timeless classic of the holiday season, where Charlie Brown struggles to find the true meaning of Christmas amidst all the rampant consumerism and commercialism. To make it more of a challenge, the only people Charlie has to help him is a town full of hateful children and an evil beagle named Snoopy.
Were you quiet and introverted as a child? Did you ever feel underappreciated or overlooked, like you were destined for more? Do you like puppets? If the answer to any of those questions was "yes", then boy do we have bad news for you!
