There is precisely one time in the history of movies that “The Sequel” was a funny subtitle for a sequel, and that was when Airplane II did it in 1982, simply. Early in “Queen of the Desert,” Gertrude Bell’s father recounts a story to her about her first words spoken as a child that encompasses the entirety of her. Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. A horror film is a movie that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship. Starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio. In the year 2010, there was a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such.

Worst Movie Titles of All Time. Putting together this list was more challenging than you’d think. There are almost as many different ways for a title to go wrong as there are for movies to go wrong, and so we opted for an educational smorgasbord: no two movies on this list are bad in quite the same way twice. To be clear, we’re not really interested in the “so- bad- they’re- good” titles like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies!!? Unless, that is, they were aiming for “so- bad- they’re- good” and still fell into the “so bad they’re bad” camp.

Which means that it’s high.

Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. There is precisely one time in the history of movies that “The Sequel” was a funny subtitle for a sequel, and that was when Airplane II did it in 1. Since then, titling your work “Anything 2: The Sequel” is like shorthand for “Maybe if I put some kind of subtitle in here people won’t realize how unimaginative I.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Quibbles about “v” vs.

See, because DC wants to be like Marvel but has less patience, this film is also a prequel to Justice League, in that it’s the DAWWWWN of the Justice League, get it? So one way or another, this is going to end in a handshake, followed by a group hug with all the freakin’ guest- star heroes who’ll be crowding into this one like cheating tag- team wrestlers.

In case you missed it, the latest trailer more or less confirmed this’ll happen. Blackmale. Yes, the movie does involve blackmail and a black male, but that doesn’t really make calling it Blackmale a good idea. Racial insensitivity might get a pass if this movie were from earlier in film history. But Blackmale came out in 2. How do you say that?

Bride of Killer Nerd. Killer Nerd might have been a semifinalist for this list but the sequel title really puts it over the top. The whole nerd- revenge fantasy epitomized by Revenge of the Nerds reached its sell- by date in the late 1. We’re sure there are still plenty of big dumb bullies in school picking on the smart kids, but the rise of cyberbullying, to say nothing of actual mass shootings, makes the idea of a “killer nerd” painfully unfunny today. The sequel’s basic joke, that har- har, someone might marry a nerd!, doubles down on the whole ugly mess.

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? Long titles can occasionally be fantastic, especially when they sort of tell us how to shorten them, like Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

But it takes a really great title idea to justify our patience, and when you ask us to take characters like “Hieronymous Merkin” and “Mercy Humppe” seriously, you– oops, we’re running out of room–See also: The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, 3. Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Curse of the Queerwolf.

In the filmmakers’ defense, this is another of those titles that got worse with age. But at least the movie made the homophobes the bad guys, despite a title that more or less conflates homosexuality with being a hairy, freakish monster that prowls the city late at night to feast upon flesh. It also leaned on the sort of stereotypical humor that made Will and Grace look like The L Word, but you know, we couldn’t expect that enlightened an approach to sexuality in? Wait, screw that, yes we could and this movie is terrible. Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. The idea of our household items turning into (or always really being) possessed monsters is a solid source of horror: what’s scarier than something coming for us in our homes, when we are at our most vulnerable yet think we are safe?

But being a “death bed,” in addition to the terrible pun, sounds really inconvenient. Once you’ve eaten your owners, you pretty much have to wait until somebody forecloses on the house and sells all the contents to people who don’t care that the old homeowners died under mysterious circumstances, and does an evil entity really have that kind of time? Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title“Oh, wait, no we didn’t! Ha ha, look at us, our movie has no title! It’s like our movie is running around naked! We’re so wacky! Look at how wacky we are!

This is the kind of wacky and insane that makes for enjoyable comedy, not at all the kind of gross incompetence that thinks it’s a good idea to tell people nothing at all about a movie before showing it!”Wait, we kind of lost the character motivation there. Let’s try again: “Don’t worry your pretty little heads, moviegoers! We know having a title that isn’t a title just BLOWS YOUR LITTLE MINDS, but it’ll be okay. We’re just TOO RAW, TOO REAL for you!” Closer? The ’9. 0s saw a lot of this blatant caps abuse, from all the Internet companies that tried to make themselves cooler by calling themselves e. Something or i. Whatever (we still don’t know if you should call it “e. Bay” or “EBay” when beginning a sentence) to the chat room conversations generally all in lowercase or ALL IN UPPERCASE.

Xisten. Z,a movie about VR, is probably trying to channel some of that with its title, only with extra- edgy “Z” zpellingz. Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid!! This movie has two other titles, almost as bad: Troma originally tried to call it Fat Boy Goes Nutzoid, but changed their minds after the lawyers for the then- popular music group, the Fat Boys, sort of dramatically cleared their throats.

Later, Troma marketed the film as Zeisters, which means nothing as far as we can tell. At any rate, Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid!!, in addition to two exclamation points nobody really needed or wanted, isn’t even an accurate title: the “fat guy” is an escaped mental patient, so if you want to go ahead and use a blatantly offensive made- up word to describe his condition, he already is “nutzoid.”2.

Rule of thumb: a horror movie that uses slightly outdated tech like The Ring is scary. A horror movie that seems inspired by your grandma complaining about “these kids and their i.

Pads,” not so much. Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell. This can’t be right. According to our notes, this title was actually used in the marketing copy for this movie, but it is clearly a phrase generated by one of those “translate from English to a foreign language then to another foreign language and another and then back into English” programs.

The original title probably used a few words we can’t say in polite company. The movie concerns a bunch of Satan worshippers who try to get Shiela Caan to carry the devil’s spawn. Hell Comes to Frog Town.

Is this movie a mix of horror and cartoon innocence? Should we feel revulsion that Satan’s power now extends even to this bucolic Wind in the Willows- esque land of talking frogs and lily- pad housing? Or should we condemn the denizens of Frog Town, amphibians who have somehow mastered municipal administration but still haven’t made any time in their lives to read the Good Book? Well, it’s neither. In one of the most disappointing fake- outs in movie history, “Hell” is just the name of the series’ protagonist, and “Frog Town” seems to be an ironic name for a land of mutated giant green monsters. How the West Was Fun.

Let’s ignore the fact that this is an Olsen twins film and is therefore going to creep us out no matter what. Let’s even ignore the fact that this is the laziest pun imaginable for a Western movie, so lame that it seems to be written by people who’ve never seen a Western. When you have to tell your audience that your movie is fun, it’s not fun. You’ve become that poor guy at the party (usually the host) who walks around and asks “everybody havin’ a GOOD TIME??” while everyone else checks their watches and tries to calculate how early they can leave before it becomes a whole thing. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer“.

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American Horror Story – Season 6. American Gods – Season 1. Good Witch – Season 3. Vikings – Season 4: Volume 2. The Son – Season 1. Coming in September.

Timeless – Season 1. Chicago PD – Season 4. The Heart Guy – Series 1.

Taken – Season 1. Modern Family – Season 8. Sleepy Hollow – Season 4. Sci Fi Thriller Movies I Love You Both (2017).

September 1. 2th. Streaming. Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster (comedy special) – Yep, heard of this guy. I’m on a roll this month! Instant Streaming Only. DVD Subscribers Only. This Is Us – Season 1 (TV drama, Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley) – This was a huge hit for its first season and I haven’t seen a single episode.

I need to change that. No idea if it will stream, but I’ll keep an eye on it.

There is a second season coming. DVD Only for now. Empire – Season 3 (TV drama, Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson) – This music family drama is not a streamer, so DVD Only and it has been renewed for a fourth season. The Big Bang Theory – Season 1. TV comedy, Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki) – I still find this really, really funny.

There is a season 1. It isn’t a streamer, so DVD Only. Chicago Justice – Season 1 (TV drama, Philip Winchester, Carl Weathers) – Oh, Chicago, you have so many spin- offs. In fact, this proved to be one too many because it got canceled after one season. DVD Only. Silicon Valley – Season 4 (TV comedy, Thomas Middleditch, T.

J. Miller) – This dotcom comedy is not a streamer, so DVD Only. It has been renewed for a fifth season.

Broadchurch – Season 3 (TV drama, David Tennant, Olivia Colman) – This British crime series is a streamer, but I’m not sure when. DVD Only for now. The Case for Christ (drama, Mike Vogel, Erika Christensen) – Atheist tries to convince wife not to become Christian with results he doesn’t expect. DVD Only. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (documentary, Jane Jacobs) – Woman who fought to preserve historic NYC neighborhoods. DVD Only. Decline and Fall (TV comedy mini- series, Jack Whitehall, Eva Longoria) – British adaptation of an Evelyn Waugh novel. I don’t think there is a second season here, and I have no idea if it will stream.

DVD Only, at least for now. Beatriz at Dinner (comedy, Salma Hayek, John Lithgow) – Great cast including Connie Britton and Jay Duplass for this comedy about a woman invited to a fancy dinner party only because her car broke down outside.

DVD Only. It Comes at Night (horror, Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough) – Do you give shelter to the family that comes knocking while the world is going to hell? I’m guessing it’s a risk if you’re in a horror movie.

DVD Only. Dead Again in Tombstone (western, Danny Trejo, Jake Busey) – Apparently a sequel, where Danny Trejo has to come back from the dead a second time to do the bidding of the Devil. DVD Only. The Hatred (horror, Andrew Divoff, Sarah Davenport) – Haunted house! Poor girls, that evil spirit wants you to be afraid. DVD Only. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (documentary) – Small bank charged with mortgage fraud. Unlike any big banks.

The story of the trial. DVD Only. The Veil (sci- fi, William Levy, William Moseley) – Dystopian tribal society needs a hero!

DVD Only. Mamaboy (teen comedy, Sean O’Donnell, Alexandria Deberry) – High school romance gets complicated. DVD Only. I Love You Both (comedy, Doug Archibald, Kristin Archibald) – Twins interested in the same guy. One is male, one is female. DVD Only. Drone Wars (sci- fi, Corin Nemec, Whitney Moore) – Small group of survivors try to save the world! This is a brand new idea I’ve never heard of before! DVD Only. September 9th.

Streaming. Portlandia – Season 7 (TV comedy, Fred Armison, Carrie Brownstein) – This sketch comedy show is one that I just couldn’t get into – but it is much beloved by others. I don’t know when the DVD is coming out for this season, so for now it’s Instant Streaming Only. September 8th. Streaming.

The Walking Dead: Season 7 (TV drama, Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus) – Yay! The new season is around the corner, so this is a good time to catch up on last season. Instant Streaming Available. Bo. Jack Horseman – Season 4 (adult animation, Will Arnett, Aaron Paul) – I don; t know anything at all about this Netflix series, but I should take a chance on it just because of the voice talents of Arnett and Paul. Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. Fire Chasers – Season 1 (documentary series) – California firefighters dealing with 2.

Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. Greenhouse Academy – Season 1(teen drama, Ariel Mortman, Finn Roberts) – Teenagers find angst and mystery at their new boarding school. Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. The Confession Tapes – Season 1(documentary series) – This docuseries is about convicted murderers who say they did not willingly confess. Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. Fabrizio Copano: Solo Pienso En Mi (comedy special) – Man, they love these things.

Will I watch this one? Probably not, because it’s in Spanish, which I do not speak. There is a season 5 coming. September 6th. Streaming. Supernatural – Season 1. TV sci- fi, Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles ) – This has been Available on Instant Streaming for quite a while, and now is releasing for DVD rental.

The Flash – Season 3 (TV sci- fi, Grant Gustin, Candice Patton) – This one has also been Available on Instant Streaming for most of the summer, this is the DVD rental release date. There is a fourth season coming. Like Crazy (foreign drama, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti) – Italian language story of two escaped mental hospital patients. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable.

A Good American (documentary, Bill Binney) – 9/1. Directed by Oliver Stone. Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. Hard Tide (thriller, Nathanael Wiseman, Mem Ferda) – Drug dealer gets unexpected custody of a nine- year- old. Instant Streaming Only, downloadable. Staying Vertical (foreign drama, Damien Bonnard, India Hair) – French language story of a shepherdess, a filmmaker, and a baby. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable.

XX (horror, Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey) – Female directors and female leads in this collection of short horror films. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Between Us (drama, Olivia Thirlby, Ben Feldman) – Longtime couple finally gets married and finds it harder than they thought. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable.

Keep Quiet (documentary) – Nazi Hungarian politician finds out he’s Jewish. Forgive my lack of sympathy for his angst. Instant Streaming Available. The Levelling (drama, Ellie Kendrick, Jack Holden) – A woman returns to her family home after her brother’s suicide. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Junction 4. 8 (foreign drama, Tamer Nafar, Samar Qupty) – Arabic language story of Palestinian rappers in Tel Aviv. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable.

The Void (horror, Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong) – Cop takes bloody man to hospital, horror ensues. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Silver Skies (drama, George Hamilton, Mariette Hartley) – Working class seniors facing eviction. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. I Am Michael (drama, James Franco, Zachary Quinto) – Bio- drama about a gay activist who renounces homosexuality after a health crisis.

Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Desierto (drama, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gael Garc. Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Contract to Kill (action, Steven Seagal, Russell Wong) – Is it just me or does Steven Seagal really make a movie a week? Instant Streaming Available, downloadable. Lazy Eye (drama, Lucas Near- Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis) – Man has to decide if he wants to give his ex another chance.

Instant Streaming Available, downloadable.