December 2009
9 posts
All in the Fam
Movie adaptation of “All In the Family” with an all black cast, but featuring Harvey Firestein in blackface as Archie Bunker.
Brushstrokes
“Slapshot”, but about a senior citizen curling league learning to cope with the braindeath of it’s founder and star before it runs out of funding.
K Street Diaries
“K Street” meets “Callgirl Diaries” meets “Cleo from 5 to 7”. One harrowing day in the life of a political ball breaker working on K Street during the day, and down the block as a stripper/prostitute at night, as she waits to find out the results of both the Senate vote on a bill she worked on, and her bloodwork from a recent STI scare.
Julie and Julius →
365 Days, 20.2 Rebounds Per Game, 1 Failed Attempt At Reviving The ABA.
Time to Boogie
Musical remake of “Logan’s Run”.
Inklings
Respected prize winning novelist in the 1930s and 1940s retires with his best years behind him sees and becomes obsessed with cartoons in the early 1960s, until he sees a parody of his work in one, and then begins to question his legacy as a writer, leading up to a fateful meeting with the cartoonist that ends the same way as the parodied scene plays out.
Womb to Maneuver
Live action/CGI fetuses still in utero are part of an elite federal paramilitary squad tasked with “stopping evil”. They’re put to their greatest challenge when an evil genius (played by a C-list character actor in need of a paycheck) builds baby monitors that act as mind control devices. We do the normal “military unit” diversity spread, clean cut, all-American...
Grade A Justice
An FDA inspector (fresh from his dog/wife/baby getting killed by a runaway tanker full of energy drink) who plays by his own rules, is forced to team up with an obsessive-compulsive middle aged female accountant (who gets hot once she lets her hair down and takes off her glasses) to bring down a bootleg Icelandic energy drink operation that’s undermined the FDA to the highest levels.
End of Dates
Judd Apatow-like gross out comedy with a heart about a couple who, after a series of near misses, finally meets the day after the Rapture, and the trials and tribulations of dating and falling in love in this, the modern (and post-apocalyptic) world.