Welcome to Double Feature Fridays, a weekly competition in which I challenge YOU to pair the week’s new releases with your favourite older or classic films.
Each week I name the new theatrical releases as well as a few other bonus picks of my choice. Your job is to comment with what other movie you’d like to screen in a double bill with the given films, and why. You can pick any movie you want – recent, classic, whatever – just be sure get your answers in by Thursday April 19, so the judges have enough time to make their decision.
I’ll get to the movies for this week in just a second, but first it’s time to list off last week’s winners. Fingers crossed you are among them.
ROUND 5 WINNERS:
Dan Heaton, who paired American Reunion with Grosse Point Blank.
Nolahn, who paired Titanic with The Poseidon Adventure and The Hurt Locker with Blown Away.
Glen H, who paired Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fans Hope with The People vs. George Lucas.
Simon Columb, who paired Ben-Hur with Planet of the Apes.
Well done winners, bad luck losers, and go get ‘em future competitors. Your films for this week are:
The Three Stooges
Lockout
The Cabin in the Woods
Bully
Bonus: Little Shop of Horrors
Time to put on those thinking caps! Sound off in the comments section below as to what movie you’d like to see paired – and why – with each of this week’s selections.
DOUBLE FEATURE FRIDAY LEADERBOARD:
Courtney Small (5)
Andrew Crump (4)
Dan Heaton (3)
Glen H. (3)
Simon Columb (3)
Squasher88 (3)
Andy Hart (2)
Nolahn (2)
Sam Fragoso (2)
Helen Geib (1)
Jandy Stone (1)
Steve Honeywell (1)
Wayne (6)
John (4)
Mette (4)
Nic Cage (4)
Sebastian (4)
steve (4)
Nick (3)
Chip Lary (2)
Dan (2)
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April 13, 2012 7:37 am
The Three Stooges and The Blues Brothers (two movies about people trying to save the orphanage they grew up in)
Lockout with Escape from New York (I was going to go with one on the many movies about escaping from a prison in space but the trailer makes it look a lot like Escape from New York so I went with that)
The Cabin in the Woods with Tucker and Dale vs Evil (two movies that play with the clichés of cabin in the woods movies)
Bully and Bully (2001) (a documentary and a based on real life movie, both about bullying)
Little Shop of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (explanation not required on this one)
The Three Stooges with Dumb and Dumber (movies about foolish men)
Lockout with The Great Escape (prison break)
The Cabin in the Woods with Paranormal Activity (creepy houses)
Bully with Carrie (the consequences of bullying)
Little Shop of Horrors with The Sound of Music (musicals)
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April 13, 2012 8:36 am
The Three Stooges with The Three Amigos
Lockout with Fortress
The Cabin in the Woods with The Evil Dead
Bully with Angus
Little Shop of Horrors with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Three Stooges with The Little Rascals (1994)–movies based on old comedy shorts.
Lockout with Escape from Alcatraz (self-explanatory)
The Cabin in the Woods with Cube (social experiments resulting in death)
Bully with Sleepers (revenge for past wrongs)
Little Shop of Horrors with The Little Shop of Horrors (Corman FTW!)
The Three Stooges | Three Ninjas Kick Back (both films about a trio that I never want to watch)
Lockout | Memento (Guy Pearce dbl feature)
The Cabin in the Woods | Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (horror bending)
Bully | We Need to Talk About Kevin (films which teach us to pay more attention to our children)
Little Shop of Horrors | Rocky Horror Picture Show (musical romps)
Cabin in the Woods with Scream: Movies deconstructing horror.
Lockout with Alien 3: Prisons in space.
The Three Stooges with The Artist: Tributes to old popular film genres with modern twists.
Bully with Roger & Me: Popular activist documentaries plagued by questions regarding whether details were fudged to fit the film-makers’ agenda.
Little Shop of Horrors with Nine: Movie musicals adapted from musicals based on movies.
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April 19, 2012 6:52 am
The Three Stooges – The Hangover (three guys intending to do good but get into a slew of trouble as a result.)
Lockout – Taken (Films where perverted men have a thing for Maggie Grace)
The Cabin in the Woods – Wrong Turn (Terror in the woods)
Bully – Bully (Films based on real events that show the horrific effects of Bullying)
Little Shop of Horrors – The Happening (Plant killing man)