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PIRANHA (1978)
1978 New World Pictures 94 min USA Joe Dante Screenwriter John Sayles cleverly riffs on JAWS in this early directorial effort from Joe Dante, in which a school of deadly mutant piranha heads for a...
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THE 'BURBS
1989 Universal 101 min USA Joe Dante This mix of comedy and horror was putty in the hands of director Joe Dante. Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) decides to spend his weeklong vacation just hanging around the...
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MATINEE
1993 Universal 99 min USA Joe Dante In this laugh-filled valentine to B-movie ballyhoo, John Goodman stars as Lawrence Woolsey, a filmmaker eager to exploit current events and such dubious cinematic...
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THE HOWLING
1981 Rialto Pictures 91 min USA Joe Dante TV anchorwoman Dee Wallace, traumatized after acting as bait for a Hollywood serial killer’s bloody demise, takes a sojourn in an Esalen-type retreat - only to...
View ArticleGREMLINS
1984 Warner Bros. 106 min USA Joe Dante When Billy (Zach Galligan) breaks the cardinal rules for the keeping of his rare new pet — no water, no food after midnight and no bright light — chaos is...
View ArticleGREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH
1990 Warner Bros. 106 min USA Joe Dante Six years after the original, everybody’s favorite tiny "Woolly Bullies" return to take "a bite outta the Big Apple." When mogul Daniel Clamp (John Glover)...
View ArticleBURYING THE EX
2014 RLJE/Image Entertainment 89 min USA Joe Dante Max (Anton Yelchin) knows things aren’t working out with Evelyn (Ashley Greene), but he dreads breaking up with such a Type-A personality. That...
View ArticleINNERSPACE
1987 Warner Bros. 120 min USA Joe Dante Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) volunteers for an experiment in which he is shrunk down to microscopic size; when rival scientists storm the lab, Pendleton is...
View ArticleEXPLORERS
1985 Paramount 109 min USA Joe Dante Ethan Hawke made his feature film debut playing a 12-year-old boy who dreams of going into outer space; River Phoenix and Jason Presson are the friends who help him...
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PIRANHA (1978)
1978 AGFA 94 min USA/Japan Joe Dante Screenwriter John Sayles cleverly riffs on JAWS in this early directorial effort from Joe Dante, in which a school of deadly mutant piranha heads for a sleepy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE 'BURBS
1989 Universal 101 min USA Joe Dante This mix of comedy and horror was putty in the hands of director Joe Dante. Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) decides to spend his weeklong vacation just hanging around the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MATINEE
1993 Universal 99 min USA Joe Dante In this laugh-filled valentine to B-movie ballyhoo, John Goodman stars as Lawrence Woolsey, a filmmaker eager to exploit current events and such dubious cinematic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
THE HOWLING
1981 Rialto Pictures 91 min USA Joe Dante TV anchorwoman Dee Wallace, traumatized after acting as bait for a Hollywood serial killer’s bloody demise, takes a sojourn in an Esalen-type retreat - only to...
View ArticleGREMLINS
1984 Warner Bros. 106 min USA Joe Dante When Billy (Zach Galligan) breaks the cardinal rules for the keeping of his rare new pet — no water, no food after midnight and no bright light — chaos is...
View ArticleGREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH
1990 Warner Bros. 106 min USA Joe Dante Six years after the original, everybody’s favorite tiny "Woolly Bullies" return to take "a bite outta the Big Apple." When mogul Daniel Clamp (John Glover)...
View ArticleBURYING THE EX
2014 RLJE/Image Entertainment 89 min USA Joe Dante Max (Anton Yelchin) knows things aren’t working out with Evelyn (Ashley Greene), but he dreads breaking up with such a Type-A personality. That...
View ArticleINNERSPACE
1987 Warner Bros. 120 min USA Joe Dante Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) volunteers for an experiment in which he is shrunk down to microscopic size; when rival scientists storm the lab, Pendleton is...
View ArticleEXPLORERS
1985 Paramount 109 min USA Joe Dante Ethan Hawke made his feature film debut playing a 12-year-old boy who dreams of going into outer space; River Phoenix and Jason Presson are the friends who help him...
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