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tt0071395 | The Dead Don't Die | THE DEAD DONT DIE-synopsis On a dark and stormy night in Illinois State Penitentiary in 1934 Ralph Drake (Jerry Douglas) is waiting to be executed. His brother Don (George Hamilton) visits him and apologizes for not being there during the trial where Ralph was convicted of killing his wife. Don promises his brother tha... | paranormal, revenge, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt3498820 | Captain America: Civil War | In 1991, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), brainwashed to be the Winter Soldier, causes a car to crash and recovers bags of a serum that turns people into super soldiers.After the Avengers defeated Ultron, Thor and Hulk are nowhere to be found. Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) has gone home to spend time with his family. Even Iron... | suspenseful, murder, violence, intrigue, flashback, humor, brainwashing, revenge | train | imdb | He is really become my favorite hero of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Avengers films especially Age of Ultron, Captain America is still a guy who has a lot of screen time that it is the focus of a movie and he is still the guy I can take a side I agree with him, I can understand his choices.We have also almost ... |
tt0159365 | Cold Mountain | When North Carolina secedes from the Union on May 20, 1861, the young men of a rural North Carolina town on Cold Mountain hurry to enlist in the Confederate States Army. Among them is W.P. Inman, a carpenter who has fallen in love with Ada, a preacher's daughter, and their whirlwind courtship is interrupted by the war.... | depressing, murder, dramatic, flashback, romantic, tragedy, revenge, historical | train | wikipedia | While it accurately depicts the brutality and inhumanity of that war, it also does something that many films related to this period do not handle effectively - Cold Mountain studies the southern context from the inside out, and portrays changes among the non-slave owning common people wrought by the war.
It is a romanc... |
tt0048750 | The Trouble with Harry | The film follows the quirky but down-to-earth residents of a small village in Vermont in the autumn, as they deal with the freshly dead body of a man, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of what to do with the body, and more importantly how and why he was killed, is the eponymo... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0083624 | Basket Case | Dr Julius Liflander (Bill Freeman) tries to leave his home/laboratory, but he gets scared by the movement of the surrounding trees. Back home, he locks himself up and tries to call the police. A huge hand attacks him and kills him viciously.Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) arrives to New York from the northern smal... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, horror, flashback, psychedelic | train | imdb | Basket Case is no exception to this, as despite hokey effects, a rather silly story and some very suspect acting; Basket Case is a trash classic all the way, and it's a film that's guaranteed to delight fans of horror.
This leads the two brothers to seek out the doctors that separated them and brutally butcher them, an... |
tt0416449 | 300 | Spartan customs are harsh. The Spartans inspect each infant born to ensure it is whole - if it is deformed, the baby is abandoned to die. They raise their boys in the school of hard knocks, the agoge - in combat training, a small boy's loss of his weapon earns a bloody lip from the hand of his own father. At age 7, eac... | cult, violence, atmospheric, historical fiction, action, humor, comic, historical, entertaining | train | imdb | What is more important, to portray a fictional setting for the sake of giving people a mind blowing visual experience or to amuse and amaze them with clever plot twists and intelligent dialogs?First lets analyze what exactly this film is made of.
There isn't a great amount of character development because this movie is... |
tt1051910 | The Murder of Princess Diana | It is three weeks away from the Oslo convention and Bill Clinton is on the verge of signing a treaty to ban the production of landmines, a dream many thought impossible, a dream brought about by the help of one woman, Princess Diana.Rachel Visco, a Red Cross worker and tireless anti-landmine campaigner, knows that Dian... | intrigue, mystery, murder, historical fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt0768212 | The Last Mimzy | Presented as a story by a group of students and their teacher Lena that takes place in the distant future, The Last Mimzy is the story of the attempt by humans in the distant future to avert a catastrophic ecological disaster that has destroyed their world. High tech devices disguised as toys are sent back in time and ... | thought-provoking, fantasy, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | I don't know how much it is like the book, but I liked the ideas the film was based on, the graphics were nice, and it was a new twist on an old storyline (the kids did a really good job acting too).
It definitely has a "new age" touch, it's mysterious, and with a nice bit of surreal/sci-fi - if you liked movies the sa... |
tt0071110 | Airport 1975 | Columbia Airlines' Flight 409 is a red-eye Boeing 747-100 en route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. One of the passengers on board is a teenage girl named Janice Abbott (Linda Blair) who is sceduled to have a kidney transplant in L.A. and she is being wheeled onto the p... | suspenseful | train | imdb | Perhaps a drum roll of the cast that adorns this archetypal 1970's disaster epic is as good a way as any to get started: we have Charlton Heston and Karen Black as the leads, and, in a display of has-beens and never-was's that would make any Hollywood Squares devotee salivate, there's Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Jerry Sti... |
tt0065858 | How Awful About Allan | Allan leaves paint cans and thinner next to a heater one night, which causes a fire that kills his father and disfigures his sister, Katherine. He goes hysterically blind. After an eight-month stay in the mental hospital, Allan begins to come to terms with his resentful feelings toward his father and sister, and with t... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0283026 | Swimfan | The story opens with Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) who is a star swimmer at his high school and being pressured by his coach to deliver when scouts come to watch him compete in a week. Ben also works at a hospital and has the perfect relationship with his girlfriend, Amy (Shiri Appleby), but the two are under a little pr... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | He's a great lead actor, and I can see him filling Tom Cruise / Ben Affleck style roles in a few years' time.The film itself is a fairly respectable effort at a Fatal Attraction style relationship, with teen-thriller-genre elements of the misunderstood wierd guy, the new girl in town with a secret past, and so on.
I ca... |
tt0086525 | Valley Girl | Julie Richman (Foreman) is a Valley girl who seems to have it all: good looks, popularity, and a handsome Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy (Bowen), but she is having second thoughts about her relationship with the arrogant and selfish Tommy. At the end of a shopping trip with her friends, Loryn (Daily), Stacey (Heidi Holic... | violence, cult | train | wikipedia | You can go to Deborah Foreman's website to sign a petition to get it released on DVD and there are 2 soundtracks from the movie that are must haves if you like 80's music..
This is sweeter and gentler than most films of the genre--the requisite nudity seems thrown in by contractual obligation--and, while not groundbrea... |
tt0336325 | Dracula II: Ascension | NOTE: Sequel to Dracula 2000. It is not crucial, but it helps to have first seen Dracula 2000, if
only to know Dracula's lineage and how he was left burned and hanging from a lighted crucifix.Father Uffizi [Jason Scott Lee] hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them
with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is ... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0258000 | Panic Room | Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) is searching for a new home with her 11 year-old daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. They tour a luxurious, four-story brownstone and are shown, among other things, the master bedroom which houses an interesting commodity: a panic room. Lydia Lynch (Ann Magn... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, mystery, violence, action, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | 3) Forest Whitaker, again (he's so good so often it's hard to not expect a great performance).The rest of the film is very good, directed with style and intelligence as usual by David Fincher (who did Seven and Fight Club).
David Fincher directs this cleverly conceived thriller about a mother and daughter trapped insid... |
tt0233491 | Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family | Based on a true story. In order to protect his family, Danny Arno chooses to include his family in his work for the FBI, rather than hide it from them. Meet the Arnos: Danny Arno Undercover intelligence agent freelancing for the FBI, DEA, Department of Justice, Interpol ... and for places like Fullstar Buick of San Die... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | USA network has a winner here. This show is great---I stumbled across it back in April and have been a loyal viewer since. It's not as complicated as "Law and Order" so when I need a Wednesday night show to relax in front of, it's Cover Me. I agree with the viewer from San Jose; Michael Angarano is fantastic in this ... |
tt0112287 | Addicted to Murder | Joel Winter is a "special one". That's what the vampiress Rachel [Laura McLaughlin]
tells him in 1970 when she first sees the curious little 5-year old in the
forest watching her feed. As Joel [Mick McCleery] matures, Rachel visits him again and
again, asking him to stab her, electrocute her, run a chain saw through
he... | cult | train | imdb | not as stated on the VHS.
It's been a while that I watched a movie were you are holding the fast forward button.
People on forums were recommending this flick due the strange storyline and the fact that it is OOP and never released on DVD.
the storyline itself is okay, a serial killer falls in love with a vampire, the ... |
tt0112368 | Angus | Angus Bethune (Talbert) is a teenage boy living in Minnesota who, despite his talents as a football player and in science class, holds deep insecurities about himself. Since kindergarten, he has been regularly harassed by handsome Rick Sanford (Van Der Beek) and his complacent cohorts, for not being "normal" due to bei... | prank | train | wikipedia | Scott, Kathy Bates) and decided to sit it out.My conclusion, "Angus" is an overlooked gem.One thing baffles me though: this movie is listed as comedy, but I found not much to laugh about."Angus" is in fact a rather painful movie to watch sometimes, because the strongest subject matter it deals with is bullying.It deals... |
tt0117666 | Sling Blade | The movie opens in an asylum, where Charles (J.T. Walsh) talks to Karl (Billy Bob Thornton) about cars and women. Two student reporters Marsha (Sarah Boss) and Theresa (Kathy Sue Brown) arrive to interview Karl, who has committed murder, and is due to be released soon. They are introduced to the warden, Jerry (James Ha... | neo noir, murder, cult, humor, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0119173 | G.I. Jane | In Washington DC a Senate hearing is being held. The hearing is chaired by a powerful Senator, Lillian DeHaven, who questions the US military's policies of women being allowed to serve in combat situations. DeHaven plans to have a female naval officer enroll in SEAL training, one of the toughest training programs the U... | cult, comedy | train | imdb | Let me comment on what some other people have said, and talk about what I think Ridley does well with this film.I think Mr. Scott gets a really excellent performance from Demi.
I find her performance fun and a joy to watch.I don't know if Mr. Scott has any military training, but he does a better job of conveying the re... |
tt0036515 | Watch on the Rhine | It is set around the World War 2 time.The Mullers are coming across the Mexican border to start their life in America...actually, to visit Sarah's (Bette Davis) family in Washington D.C. The family is made up of Sarah, the mother; Kurt (Paul Lukas), the German father; Joshua, the eldest son; Babby, the cute, innocent l... | murder | train | imdb | It may (or may not) be considered interesting that the only reason I really checked out this movie in the first place was because I wanted to see the performance of the man who beat out Humphrey Bogart in his CASABLANCA (10/10 role for the Best Actor Oscar.
I especially enjoyed Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson (rightfully nom... |
tt0865559 | My Life in Ruins | Georgia (Nia Vardalos) is a Greek American teacher who came to Greece to teach at a local college about Classic Greece. However, budget cuts caused her to be laid off and forced her to get a job as tour guide. She believes she has hit rock bottom when she loses her passion in everything. Informed by her boss, Maria (Be... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | It's not easy to put people together and make a successful collaboration." You can almost feel the push and pull between the talented Nia Vardalos and writer Mike Reiss with this story of an American history professor – turned – travel guide to an annoying group of tourists.
Nia Vardolos is a Greek-American expatriate ... |
tt0109759 | Exotica | A tax auditor for Revenue Canada, Francis Brown, is a regular visitor at a Toronto strip club called Exotica. Grieving for the loss of his murdered daughter, he always has Christina, an exotic dancer dressed in a schoolgirl uniform, give him a private dance. This inspires the jealousy of the club's DJ Eric, Christina's... | dark, mystery, murder, cult, flashback, romantic, revenge, home movie | train | wikipedia | First time I saw it (about a year ago), I wasn't really sure what to make of it, but there were scenes from it (when Elias Koteas reveals why his connection to the disturbed and grieving father and the scene with the father and his daughter's babysitter at the end) that have always stuck in my mind.
A very haunting and... |
tt0088000 | Revenge of the Nerds | The film begins with best friends Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine), and Gilbert Lowell (Anthony Edwards), being driven by Lewis's Dad (James Cromwell) to their chosen college, Adams. Both Lewis and his father have the same nerdy laugh. There are some sight gags as Lewis and Gilbert carry a heavy chest across campus to... | revenge, cult, prank | train | imdb | It is easy to point out films like Porky's, Animal House and Fasttimes, but somewhere forgotten in all this is Jeff Kanew's hilarious flick REVENGE OF THE NERDS.
Besides being extremely funny, this film touched on something that we all can relate to.Revenge of the Nerds is another of the teen films that was hilarious a... |
tt0024184 | The Invisible Man | The 1933 version of the work of H.G. Wells opens with title and credits. A man trudges through the snow to the small village of Iping. His destination is the Lion's Head Pub and Inn. The place is a buzz of activity: drinking and laughing, and a game of darts. The stranger, Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) walks in cover... | insanity, comedy, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0034167 | Sergeant York | It's 1916 near Pall Mall, at Three Forks of the Wolf, in Tennessee. At the local church, Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan) is delivering his sermon. There's a disturbance outside. Alvin C. York (Gary Cooper), Ike Botkin (Ward Bond), and Buck Lipscomb (Noah Beery Jr.) are riding their horses, whooping and hollering, a... | violence | train | imdb | The authentic portrayal of mountain life, an honorable protagonist portrayed by a great actor in his finest role, hard decisions in the time of war mixed with a healthy dose of levity, not to mention an outstanding supporting cast are just a few of the reasons why this film has always been my favorite movie.
Alvin Cull... |
tt0116704 | Ging chaat goo si 4: Ji gaan daan yam mo | 《警察故事4之簡單任務》In this fourth 'Police Story' movie, Hong Kong 'supercop' Inspector Jackie Chan Ka-Kui (Jackie Chan) is hired by the CIA to follow leads of a nuclear smuggling case. He follows a woman named Natasha to Ukraine, when he realizes that she had been hiding vital information. When Jackie calls for backup, she is... | violence, murder | train | imdb | The fourth installment in Jackie Chan's terrific Police Story films {although the western release obscured the connection,but more on that later}is basically Chan's take on James Bond.
While having some incredible action,it also has a reasonably good plot and acting,two things which even the most die-hard Chan fan will... |
tt2179136 | American Sniper | In the opening scene, US Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is perched on a rooftop, scoping out the path of a US military convoy through his sniper rifle. He sees a man on a rooftop talking on a cell phone, and he appears to be watching the convoy, which Kyle reports it through his headset. He is told that i... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | When American Sniper first came out I ignored the film thinking that it was the usual war propaganda Hollywood delivers once a year.
The fact that people might actually believe this crap (and most Americans do) makes me lose hope for the future of a once great country.There was a time when Hollywood war movies raised i... |
tt0053363 | The Tingler | The movie opens on a white screen. Then William Castle enters and informs us, "I am William Castle, the director of the motion picture you're about to see. I feel obligated to warn you that some of the sensations, some of the physical reactions which the actors on the screen will feel will also be experienced for the f... | cult, psychedelic, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0029361 | The Outcasts of Poker Flat | A murderous western outlaw (Mitchell), his wife (Baxter), a disgraced gambler (Robertson) and a faded dance hall floozie (Hopkins), along with a few other socially undesirable characters, are trapped in a snowbound mountain cabin. As the chances for rescue fade, the true natures of the cabin's occupants rise to the sur... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045029 | Phone Call from a Stranger | After his wife Jane (Helen Westcott) admits to an extramarital affair, Iowa attorney David Trask (Gary Merrill) abandons her and their daughters and heads for Los Angeles. His flight is delayed, and while waiting in the airport restaurant he meets a few of his fellow passengers. Troubled, alcoholic Dr. Robert Fortness ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088194 | Streets of Fire | The movie opens with the borough of Richmond preparing for the concert of hometown girl turned star Ellen Aim. As the concert begins, bikers in black leathers ride into town.Inside the concert venue, the young and sexy Ellen Aim begins her performance, singing with the pounding of music and the backdrop of a light show... | neo noir, cult, violence, flashback, action, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0338526 | Van Helsing | Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) has been ordered by the Vatican to search out and
destroy Count Vladislaus Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), an assignment that doesn't make Van
Helsing very happy. He is tired of killing monsters for the Church, only
to be branded by the public as a murderer with a price on his head. He
al... | suspenseful, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, horror, atmospheric, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | You cannot watch a film like Van Helsing with out taking it with a pinch of salt - it is a movie with vampires, werewolves and the frankenstine monster in at all at once for goodness sake.
I guess if you're looking for a summer action flick that takes itself too seriously, then you're out of luck with this one.I admit ... |
tt0468569 | The Dark Knight | The movie begins with a gang of men with clown masks breaking into the bank where the mob has a large portion of their money stashed. It begins with five clowns, each getting a cut of the spoils. They suggest that a sixth member of the gang - nicknamed 'The Joker' - who did the planning, but sat out the robbery, doesn'... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, murder, neo noir, realism, psychological, dramatic, violence, cult, mystery, atmospheric, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, action, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0041959 | The Third Man | Sights of Vienna, Austria, flash across the screen as an Englishman's voice (Carol Reed) describes the racketeer trade in the post-World War II era. He describes that many amateurs have tried to get involved in this career, but he implies that they always end up dead. Meanwhile, the city is quartered into sectors polic... | boring, mystery, murder, cult, intrigue, atmospheric, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0041767 | Prince of Foxes | In Rome, in the year 1500 a funeral is taking place in an ornate church. In the first pew, two noble women in mourning are gossiping, and the man next to them orders one of them to show proper respect for her dead husband. The man soon leaves the church and signals others to join him.In a large chamber, the man, Cesare... | revenge, intrigue, action, historical fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt0381966 | Creep | The film opens with two sewer workers in London, Arthur (Ken Campbell) and George (Vas Blackwood), who discover a tunnel in one of the walls that neither of them is familiar with. Arthur enters and when he does not emerge or respond to George afterwards, George follows. He soon discovers Arthur, injured and in a state ... | violence, dark, murder | train | imdb | An excellent example of a simple idea developed into a compelling 90 minute script.The set up requires no bells and whistles, no lengthy exposition or wordy back story; Kate (Franka Pontente), a young German business woman living in London, drifts off whilst waiting for the last tube train.
The retention of a certain s... |
tt0099697 | Graveyard Shift | The film opens with a late-shift worker in the basement floor of a textile company feeds bales of cotton into a large industrial machine. He takes a break and notices the thermometer on the wall indicates the temperature is over 100 degrees. In anger at the heat, the worker pounds his fist against a support beam and a ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | You don't hear or read much about this movie based on a short story written by Stephen King and I think that's a shame.
It lacks all the elements that make great films great films, of course; things such as brains, coherency and any whisper of characters has been neglected in favour of monster special effects and a few... |
tt0061683 | Frankenstein Created Woman | Abetted by the elderly Dr. Hertz (Thorley Waters) and handyman Hans (Robert Morris), Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) determines that the soul does not immediately leave the body upon death, and can be transplanted from one body to another with a special apparatus he has developed. Hans is in love with Christina (Sus... | revenge, cruelty, murder, gothic, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0061452 | Casino Royale | Casino Royale (1967)Sir James Bond (David Niven) retired at the height of his powers when forced to betray his lover Mata Hari, and now lives in an English country house, surrounded by lions, devoting himself to Debussy and cultivating black roses, attended by his butler (Erik Chitty). However, alarmed by the mounting ... | murder, cult, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, comic, revenge | train | imdb | What should stink of embarrassing desperation, instead proves to cheerfully insane, unpredictable and remarkably free of common sense.The film was intended to be the ultimate spy spoof, an attempt to out-Bond the James Bond movies and their innumerable imitators.
The cast is slumming in style (where else can you find O... |
tt1031254 | Lost Boys: The Tribe | Chris Emerson (Tad Hilgenbrink) and his sister Nicole (Autumn Reeser), children of Michael Emerson (from the first The Lost Boys movie) have moved to the surfside town of Luna Bay, California following the death of their parents. They rent a house from their Aunt Jillian (Gabrielle Rose), and Chris sets out to find a j... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | It seem to mix up Sam Emerson's character with Alan frog, having vampires mention Edgar's brother a few times, then having a 20 second cameo in the end credits with Corey Haim.The first low point, for me anyway, was the amount of swearing in the opening few minutes, it begins right after the Warner logo and is totally ... |
tt0297102 | Embrace the Darkness II | NOTE: Sequel to Embrace the Darkness (1999).Jennifer Slain [Renee Rea] is undead, and she's moved into Galen's apartment in his absence. When vampire Jack Connor [Tristen Coeur D'Alene] recognizes Jennifer as a fledgling, he invites her to his club where he and his vampire mate Lizzie [Catalina Larrangaga], an ancient ... | gothic | train | imdb | If you take out the soft porn all your left with is a really bad movie.
This movie is exactly what you'd expect after looking at the cover.
The leading male constantly switches between a bad English accent to an American accent and sometimes even throws in some bad Irish.
Being a vampire movie fan I always enjoy watchi... |
tt0047256 | My Little Duckaroo | As the film begins, the Masked Avenger (Daffy) and his guitar-playing, donkey-riding Comedy Relief (Porky) are riding through the desert. Daffy stops his horse, Tinfoil, and observes a Wanted poster for a criminal named Nasty Canasta. He decides to track Canasta down and bring him to justice, for a healthy sum of $10,0... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0339291 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | Fourteen-year-old inventor Violet Baudelaire, her twelve-year-old brother Klaus, and their baby sister Sunny are orphaned when a fire burns down their house and kills their parents. Mr. Poe, the family's banker, manages their fortune and leaves them in the care of their closest relative Count Olaf, who is only interest... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, bleak, cult, flashback, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This is a superb job of combining great visuals, special effects and an entertaining story.The two kids, played by Emily Browning and Liam Aiken, should get top billing since they are in every scene while Jim Carrey is in about half.
I appreciated his work even more on the second viewing.The kids are likable, good-look... |
tt0103223 | Volere volare | 'Volere Volare' may be introduced as a film akin to 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', but if you know of this director's work from 'The Icicle Thief', you'll be expecting much more - which it delivers. Maurizio Nichetti's charming and quirky comedy blends live action and animation in a lighthearted, though cheerfully lightwei... | psychedelic | train | imdb | Comedy With A Unique Twist.
What a wild comedy-romance this movie is, with the emphasis on comedy.
The two main characters in this Italian film are a woman whose job is to fulfill men's fantasies and a movie sound man (Maurizio Nichetti) who creates wild sound for cartoons.
He, himself, at the end, briefly turns into a... |
tt1712578 | The Devil's Rock | On, June 5, 1944 in the early morning hours before the opening of the invasion on D-Day, a commando team, consisting of two New Zealanders, Captain Ben Grogan (Craig Hall) and Sergeant Joseph Tane (Karlos Drinkwater), land on the one of the Channel Islands, which are occupied by the German Army. Their mission is to sab... | cult, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0323944 | Shattered Glass | It tells the story of Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), who was the youngest journalist at the New Republic. This newspaper prides itself to have been read by everybody in the political field in Washington, and to be the only one in the American president's plane. Little by little, we see how things work in the edito... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt2938956 | The Transporter Refueled | In the year 1995 somewhere in a French Rivera city on a typical evening, a group of teenage girls, prostitutes, are on the street, strolling for customers under the watchful eyes of their local black pimps. A van rolls up and a man gets out. One of the black pimps tells him to keep moving, as he's working. "So am I", t... | revenge, humor, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | It is expected from a transporter series to have top notch action sequences with Jason Statham throwing some mind blowing dialogues that would make a fan jump from his/her seat.
It failed miserably Ed Skrein was simply not believable as Frank Martin, he may well have talent but if failed to find a way to escape the ter... |
tt0120797 | Pushing Tin | Nick "The Zone" Falzone (John Cusack) and his fellow air traffic controllers at New York TRACON pride themselves on their ability to handle the intense stress of being a controller for one of the busiest airspaces in the country, even boasting of the 50% drop-out rate for new additions to the staff who are unable to co... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1097268 | Very Young Girls | Very Young Girls is a documentary film that chronicles the journey of young women through the underground world of sexual exploitation in New York City.A 14-year-old girl is lured from her home, beaten, raped, held captive, and sold for sex in New York City. The police find her -- and arrest her.
A man who has sex with... | home movie | train | imdb | Stunning, Inspiring, Fascinating.
I saw a special screening in Greenwich Village last night and the whole crowd was gasping, crying and laughing together.
It's truly a tour de force, and you fall in love with these girls as they talk about their hopes, their painful experiences and the surprising, frightening truth abo... |
tt0120689 | The Green Mile | The movie begins with an old man named Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) in a retirement center. He takes two pieces of dry toast from an orderly, who mentions Paul's habit for taking walks outside the ground. The orderly is worried about Paul, but allows him to continue with his daily routine.Paul and several other resident... | murder, whimsical, dramatic, cute, magical realism, flashback, sadist, sentimental | train | imdb | Having seen the movie, The Green Mile, and read the novel of the same name by Stephen King, I am glad to say that the movie stays true to the book, which in itself is a great read.
As far as performances, I can imagine many people pointing to Michael Duncan as John Coffey or Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb as the best p... |
tt1320244 | The Last Exorcism | The Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife (Shanna Forrestall) and son (Justin Shafer). Marcus is accustomed to performing exorcisms on "possessed" individuals, but his faith has waned after reading of an autistic child being killed during an exorcism, reminding him of hi... | good versus evil, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0104990 | Newsies | The film takes place in New York City in the year 1899, focusing on a group of newsboys. Of this group, the focus is on Jack Kelley (Christian Bale),who one day dreams of heading out west to the wide-open spaces of Santa Fe.One day, Jack meets Les Jacobs (Luke Edwards) and David Jacobs (David Moscow), two brothers who'... | cult, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0047811 | All That Heaven Allows | Act 1: Golden RaintreeThe film opens up with a sprawling view of the town and subsequently zooms to a suburban home. The scene then opens up as a woman Sara Warren crosses the lawn to speak with Cary Scott, the films protagonist. The two chat and Cary expresses how much free time she has these days, after her husband h... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt2088003 | Big Game | The film opens with 13-year-old deer hunter, Oskari (Onni Tommila), and his dad, Tapio, looking at the wall full of picture frames of a man as a deer hunter. Oskari picks one of the picture frames, that is his dad as a hunter when he was teenager.Somewhere in Finland, the Kimmo's Safari's helicopter carrying the terror... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | Samuel L Jackson is the disgruntled President of the United States who is the target of an attack that leaves him crash landed in the forest of Finland aided only by Oskari, a Finish boy trying to prove himself as a hunter and as a man.
Looking at the other reviews, there seems to be a miscommunication about what type ... |
tt0814255 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | The movie begins with the camera panning over New York City, past Coney Island and along a pier. Water rises from Brighton Beach and coalesces into the form of a huge being looking like a man-- the god Poseidon (Kevin McKidd). Poseidon strides through the water along the pier, glancing nonchalantly at a gawking fisherm... | good versus evil, fantasy, action, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0075614 | Sette note in nero | Dover, England, October 12, 1959, 11:45 AM. A distraught young woman (Elizabeth Turner) drives to a scenic cliff-top overlooking the English Channel and throws herself off. At exactly the same time in Florence, Italy, the woman's young daughter Virginia (Fausta Avelli) has a vision of her mother's gruesome fall.Italy, ... | mystery, paranormal, cult, horror, violence, flashback, insanity | train | imdb | The Psychic finds Italian film-maker Lucio Fulci in a decidedly more restrained mood.
There is an early scene where a character falls off a cliff resulting in their face being bloodily shredded by rocks as they fall - basically a scene repeated from Fulci's earlier giallo classic Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – but a... |
tt0037793 | House of Dracula | Count Dracula (Carradine) greets the castle's owner, Dr. Franz Edelmann (Onslow Stevens). The Count, who introduces himself as "Baron Latos", explains that he has come to Visaria to find a cure for his vampirism. Dr. Edelmann agrees to help. Together with his assistants, Milizia (Martha O'Driscoll) and the hunchbacked ... | gothic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | House of Dracula is another of the series of all-star monster extravaganzas produced by Universal in the 40s.This one deals with The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Dracula (John Carradine) coming to scientist Onslow Stevens for a cure for what ails them.
At least "Frankenstein" was a fresh idea at the time, while "Dracu... |
tt0779982 | Black Sheep | On a farm in New Zealand three young boys, brothers Angus (Eli Kent) and Henry (Nick Fenton) Oldfield and Tucker (Sam Clarke) are rounding up sheep. Angus, who wears a leg brace and walks with a limp, kills Henry's pet sheep Dudley and terrifies him by dressing up in the dead sheep's carcass. This torture is interrupte... | cult, comedy, murder, violence | train | imdb | Written and directed by Jonathan King (who is also writing the Raintree produced movie The Tattooist), Black Sheep takes the well-established genre of zombie movies, and with its fusion of local flavour, presents its own worthy take in giving us the attack of the killer sheep.Meh!It's a crazy idea, but heck, I admit it... |
tt0082288 | Dragonslayer | Dragonslayer opens with a small group of villagers journeying to a lonely tower in a place called Cragganmore. This tower is home to a powerful and kindly old sorcerer named Ulrich (Sir Ralph Richardson). Ulrich's manservant, Hodge (Sydney Bromley) answers the knock and turns them away. He tells them he knows that the ... | cult, fantasy, violence | train | imdb | As an SF/fantasy buff, I've seen my share of dragons on film, but there has never been one like Vermithrax Perjorative.
Other film dragons look like animated clay figures, or lizards with wings glued on, or CGI effects (impressive, but still obviously computer-generated).
With the name Disney attached to a sword and so... |
tt0098844 | Law & Order | Law & Order episodes are typically segmented into two parts, roughly at the halfway point; the first part follows police and detective work, and the second follows the legal and courtroom proceedings of the case. The show dwells little on the characters' back-stories or social lives, focusing mainly on their lives at w... | murder | train | imdb | Dzundza left because he preferred to live and work where it was warmer and his character, (played by his stand-in), gets bumped off in the first episode of the second season.1991-92: Paul Sorvino plays his replacement, nice-guy Phil Cerretta.
The show actually began the next year with the same cast but Sorvino wanted t... |
tt3882082 | The Boy | In the opening scene, we see Greta Evans (Lauren Cohan) riding in a limousine. The path leading to the house is secluded, with forest all around. The limousine driver knocks on the window, and she wakes with a start as she has fallen asleep during the drive. Greta gets out of the limousine and looks at the manor in awe... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Most horrors are standard genre films that rely on cinema clichés to frighten us and audiences have become immune to plots with spooky dolls, isolated nannies and scary mansions.
Poor Brahms becomes the unwanted child in some high-tension scenes but predictably the doll gets its revenge.Although not a great fan of horr... |
tt0896534 | Deadgirl | Rickie and J.T. are two high school seniors who gaze at the girls they wish they could get, especially Joann, the object of Rickie's affection, whom he has known since he was a child. One day, they decide to cut class and end up in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. They discover a mute, naked woman in the basement, ch... | cult, boring | train | wikipedia | And so is Deadgirl.Basically what you've got here is the story of two disaffected teenage boys who come across a (sort of) dead girl in an abandoned hospital.
Two teenagers JT and Rickie skip school and decide to go to an abandoned mental asylum.They horse around for a while destroying property before exploring the bas... |
tt0010323 | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari | As Francis (Friedrich Feher) sits on a bench with an older man who complains that spirits have driven him away from his family and home, a dazed woman named Jane (Lil Dagover) passes them. Francis explains she is his "fiancée" and that they have suffered a great ordeal. Most of the rest of the film is a flashback of Fr... | avant garde, gothic, murder, psychological, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Remembered mainly for its stunning sets, which featured crooked buildings and twisted landscapes, "Cabinet" also boasts one of the first attempts at a twist ending, something quite new and shocking for its time.Told mainly from the point of view of Francis, a young man who lives in the small village of Holstenwall, Ger... |
tt0093822 | Raising Arizona | Out in the Arizona suburbs, a young man named Herbert 'H.I.' McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) lives his life as a petty criminal with an apparent addiction to robbing convenience stores. He is constantly in and out of jail but is repeatedly paroled because he never uses live ammunition in his robberies. Each time he returns t... | comedy, allegory, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, satire, plot twist | train | imdb | Naturally, the father (Wilson) goes all out to find the culprits, even enlisting the aid of a "tracker" (Cobb), who is kind of an existential bounty hunter with a good nose.From this deceptively simple story line, the Coens create a dreamscape that is mesmerizing, serpentine, loaded with all matter of visual input, def... |
tt3774114 | Snowden | Hong Kong - Monday June 3, 2013Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) meets with columnist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) at a hotel. They are met by Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in the lobby. Snowden brings the two to his room to begin documenting everything that has led up to this moment.In a fl... | historical, flashback | train | imdb | Going in I was worried that the movie would turn into an action thriller or a love story that would cloud what really happened.I was pleasantly surprised to find a step by step account of real events with a deep look at what goes on behind the scenes at the various spy agencies.Personally I would have liked a little mo... |
tt2975590 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Eighteen months after the destructive battle with General Zod in Metropolis in Man of Steel, Superman has become a controversial figure. Billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated in Gotham City as the vigilante Batman for nearly two decades, sees Superman as a potential threat to humanity. After learning of Batman's fo... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054189 | Plein soleil | In Rome, we see Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) and Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) at a cafe table together; Tom is writing postcards. They chat about Philippe's girlfriend Marge, who he is having trouble with. Philippe gets up when he sees his friend Freddy (Billy Kearns) and invites him to join them. When Tom is away at... | murder | train | imdb | Minghella casts Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, a rather invisible actor in every way and although he's pretty good here, he's not good enough to overshadow his rival: Jude Law. Clement casts Alain Delon as Ripley and you will be with him all the way, you'll go where he goes you will turn out to be as amoral as he is - at le... |
tt0382077 | Hide and Seek | Following his discovery of the body of his wife (Amy Irving) in a bathtub after her apparent suicide, Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro), a psychologist working in New York City, decides to move with his 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to Upstate New York. There, Emily makes an apparently imaginary friend s... | plot twist, psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070723 | Soylent Green | In the year 2022, the population has grown to 40 million people in New York City alone. Most housing is dilapidated and overcrowded, and the homeless fill the streets and line the fire escapes, stairways of buildings, abandoned cars, subway platforms, etc. Unemployment is at around 50%. Summers are oppressively hot and... | bleak, cult, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0238380 | Equilibrium | Equilibrium is set in 2072 in Libria, a city-state established by the survivors of World War III, which devastated the world, where a totalitarian government requires all citizens to take daily injections of "Prozium II" to suppress emotion and encourage obedience. All emotionally stimulating material has been banned, ... | neo noir, murder, thought-provoking, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, philosophical, brainwashing, romantic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I know it's stupid to believe that a futuristic society is dumb enough to believe that the mere existence paintings, poems and sculptures can somehow lead to WW4.I know there's a statue as well as stylish architecture in the headquarters of the people who ban artwork.I know it's stupid to assume that a culture based on... |
tt0054462 | The Wasp Woman | We open in a dusty field with a man in a beekeeper suit searching for a wasp nest. Dr. Eric Zinthrop (Michael Mark) spots a particularly nice specimen. He applies smoke to the nest, breaks the branch off and places it in a box. Zinthrop returns to the beehive area and talks to one of the beekeepers tending one of the m... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0118866 | Clockwatchers | Iris (Collette) is a shy young professional who doesn't want to rock the boat at the office where she temps. Margaret (Posey) is the polar opposite, and serves as a catalyst to help Iris become more assertive. Paula (Kudrow) eagerly awaits post-work happy hours and the chance to flirt with attractive men. Jane (Ubach) ... | psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | The only thing that I can think when reading the negative comments left for this movie is that the people who wrote them have *clearly* never temped.
As someone who spent four years of his life wasting away in other people's cubicles, I can tell you with complete authority that this movie gets every mind-numbing, insul... |
tt0436339 | G-Force | The film revolves around a special team of trained secret agent animals, equipped with advanced tools that allows the mammalian members to talk to humans. The primary field team consists of star-nosed mole Speckles (cyber intelligence) and Mooch (Reconnaissance). The unit's leader Ben, orders an unauthorised infiltrati... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | And though they appeared for a total of a little over few minute, Bucky the hamster (who is a quarter ferret) and the three mice were adorable.I'll recommend this movie to anyone looking for a good laugh on a lazy afternoon.
I thought this film was great,i don't understand why it didn't get a higher score.The storyline... |
tt0047834 | Animal Farm | Manor Farm is a formerly prosperous farm that has fallen on hard times, and suffers under the now-ineffective leadership of its drunken and aggressive owner, Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, the prize boar and the second-oldest on the farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to pa... | allegory, psychedelic, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1071804 | Ink | The film begins with a businessman, John Sullivan (Chris Kelly), in a hurry to get into his car. He appears to be severely stressed as he begins driving down the city streets. When he goes through a lighted intersection he is broad sided by another driver that is distracted by hot coffee in his lap. As he becomes uncon... | good versus evil, psychedelic, alternate reality, flashback | train | wikipedia | I admit, for the first 20 minutes or so of the film I did not enjoy it, and was thinking to myself, "oh, this is going to be one of those movies that no one understands with gaping plot holes and a messed up timeline that is nearly impossible to follow." It quickly turned around.
The film is absolutely outstanding for ... |
tt0433416 | The Namesake | The novel describes the struggles and hardships of a Bengali couple who immigrate to the United States to form a life outside of everything they are accustomed to.
The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta, India and settle in Central Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through a series of events, Gogol bec... | boring, sentimental, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0266308 | Batoru rowaiaru | The story opens with a frantic news broadcast about a young girl being brought back to mainland Japan after she wins the latest "Battle Royale", a contest that pits high school students against each other in a fight to the death on a remote island. While being filmed, the girl smiles.Shuya Nanahara, a Japanese middle s... | dark, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, satire, romantic, tragedy, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | Adults and children alike read comics by the droves, and sometimes pops up a strange, not-too-well-hidden undercurrent of pedophilia.This movie takes the heavily cliquish, often childish, and often incomprehensible (to me) social system of young Japanese boys and girls and gives them guns.
From a frustrated and humilia... |
tt0097216 | Do the Right Thing | Mookie (Spike Lee) is a 25-year-old delivery man living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee). He and his girlfriend, Tina (Rosie Perez), have a son. He works at the local pizzeria, but lacks ambition. Sal (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has been in the neighborhood for... | atmospheric, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | 90% of Spike Lee's masterpiece Do the Right Thing is a perfectly developed character study of a wide range of model personalities who all happen to be in Bedford-Stuyvesant on the hottest day of the summer.
Drawing from two incisive but different comments on violence from Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Lee extrapola... |
tt0052549 | The Alligator People | The movie opens with title and credits shown over a scene of a mangrove swamp. A Chrysler Imperial with Louisiana MD license plates pulls into a parking lot. It is the Doctors Only lot of the Webley Sanitarium. Doctor Eric Lorimer (Bruce Bennett) exits his car and enters the office of Dr. Wayne MacGregor (Douglas Kenne... | flashback | train | imdb | Anyway, this very unusual plot offers a scientist (George Macready who was the villain in the 1945 Columbia serial THE MONSTER AND THE APE) who believes he can help crippled people to grow new limbs by injecting them with serum from alligator glands.
Beverly Garland plays a newlywed wife named Joyce who despairs when h... |
tt0093105 | Good Morning, Vietnam | With the war in Vietnam escalating in 1965, Airman Adrian Cronauer arrives in Saigon to work as a radio host for the US Army. He's met at the airbase by Sgt Edward Garlick. Garlick takes him to the radio station where Cronauer is introduced to Lt Stephen Hauk and Sgt Major Dickerson. Cronauer has been brought in as a c... | anti war, violence, comedy | train | imdb | Vietnam without a doubt was a dark period in our history.Any comedy film surrounding Vietnam would indeed have to be done delicately.This movie pulls it off.What amazes me most about the film is the flawless, improvisational radio dialog from Robin Williams.This,as most of you may know,was completely unscripted to allo... |
tt0119738 | My Best Friend's Wedding | Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts), a 27-year-old New York City restaurant critic, receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney). In college, the two made an agreement that if neither of them were married by the time they turned 28, they would marry each other. Three weeks before her 28th birth... | thought-provoking, revenge, intrigue, comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095956 | Rambo III | The film opens with Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) returning to Thailand to once again enlist the help of Vietnam veteran John J. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) whom has settled in the country since the events of First Blood Part 2. After witnessing Rambo's victory in a stick fighting match in Bangkok, Trautman visi... | revenge, cult, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0086636 | Zeder | In 1956, Gabriella (Veronica Moriconi)—a girl with apparent psychic powers—is brought to the enormous house of Dr. Meyer (Cesare Barbetti) in Chartres, France. Meyer intends to conduct an experiment testing her abilities. He takes her into his basement, where the youngster abruptly falls to her knees and begins digging... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | To my knowledge this was not supposed to be a zombie film nor was it marketed as a gory zombie, living-dead-type picture as some people may think.
Great movie but definitely a thinking man's horror,not for teenage zombie addicts..
More of a horror-mystery than anything else, a writer follows a trail of strange events t... |
tt0452608 | Death Race | In 2012, the collapse of the US economy and the subsequent increase in crime rates leads to the rise of privatized prisons. One such prison is Terminal Island Penitentiary, whose warden, Claire Hennessey, earns her profits by broadcasting a modern gladiator game participated in by the prisoners. In the game "Death Race... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058385 | My Fair Lady | Act I
On a rainy night in Edwardian London, opera patrons are waiting under the arches of Covent Garden for cabs. Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, runs into a young man called Freddy. She admonishes him for spilling her bunches of violets in the mud, but she cheers up after selling one to an older gentleman. She... | romantic, entertaining, clever | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0466399 | Ten Canoes | The film is set in Arnhem Land, in a time before Western contact, and tells the story of a group of ten men hunting goose eggs. The leader of the group, Minygululu, tells the young Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) a story about another young man even further back in time who, like Dayindi, coveted his elder brother's youngest ... | comedy, violence, revenge, murder, storytelling | train | wikipedia | They are a part of an Aborigine's "dreaming" and come to life in the stories indigenous Australians have told through the ages.
Playfully narrated by Australian icon David Gulpilil, Ten Canoes, directed by Rolf de Heer (The Tracker) and Peter Djigirr, tells a dreaming story that acts as a lesson for a young man in the ... |
tt0094947 | Dangerous Liaisons | In pre-Revolution Paris, the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) plots revenge against her ex-lover, the Comte de Gercourt, who has recently ended their relationship. An amoral, sexually ravenous schemer, Merteuil amuses herself by manipulating men out of boredom, and her resentment of the subservient status of women in... | tragedy, revenge, cruelty, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0051744 | House on Haunted Hill | Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) is an eccentric millionaire who has rented a Gothic stone house on a hill overlooking Los Angeles for a "haunted house" party that his fourth wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart) had decided to throw. Over the opening credits, five people arrive at the house being driving in "funeral cars". The... | murder | train | imdb | This classic version of "House on Haunted Hill" is one of the most entertaining examples of the low-budget, black-and-white horror films that used to be such a mainstay for movie fans.
It has few frills, but it does have some thrills, and in particular it has a cleverly written story that is told at a brisk pace, with ... |
tt0418763 | Jarhead | The film begins with voice-over narration on a black screen, as Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), waxes philosophically about a soldier whose hands forever remember the grip of a rifle, whatever else they do in life. Swofford is then shown in a U.S. Marine Corps boot camp, being brutalized by a drill instructor in a ... | dark, comedy, murder, anti war, violence, flashback, historical, prank | train | imdb | This movie is strictly a story told by the main character about his time serving in the Marine Corps and his tour in the Gulf.
There are many undertones, just none of which are attempting to reassert or defame the current war in the East.See this film if you want to see a humorous, sad, psychotic, intense, and most imp... |
tt0110074 | The Hudsucker Proxy | It's December 1st, 1958 and everything at Hudsucker Industries is going great. Profits and the stock price have never been so high, so it is shocking when President Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) runs down the table at the Board of Directors meeting and throws himself out the 45th floor window of the Hudsucker buil... | comedy, fantasy, stupid, whimsical, dramatic, cult, magical realism, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0064940 | Fellini - Satyricon | [The film is loosely based on the book Satyricon attributed to Petronius Arbiter, and dated to the time of the rule of Nero (37-68 AD). The book is considered to be one of the first, if not the first, novels to have been written, but has only survived in fragments. The film imitates this by being fragmentary itself, le... | comedy, avant garde, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, historical fiction, absurd, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | Fellini engages us through a tapestry of decadence during the Roman Empire with such stunning juxtapositions of exceptional images from a collapsing society that one cannot help but be reminded of our own times and its disconcert morality
The film is freely adapted from Petronius' book, which is the exploits of two yo... |
tt0213149 | Pearl Harbor | In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley (Jesse James) and Danny Walker (Reiley McClendon), play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in World War I. After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally star... | realism, murder, dramatic, thought-provoking, flashback, action, romantic, historical, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | In 1941 it cost the Empire of Japan 147 thousand dollars to stage the three hour attack on Pearl Harbor.In 2001 Michael Bay spent $132 MILLION dollars to film the event, and ran four minutes longer.
The recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor is some of the best film-making ever - an extraordinary and moving sequence ... |
tt0068505 | Dracula A.D. 1972 | NOTE: Sequel to "Scars of Dracula" (1970).Hyde Park, London, 1872: A coach is seen on a road in the woods of Hyde Park. It is the 'final' confrontation of Professor Lawrence Van Helsing [Peter Cushing] and his arch enemy, the demon vampire Dracula [Christopher Lee], struggling on top while the frightened horses pull th... | good versus evil, revenge, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0307453 | Shark Tale | In Reef City, an underachieving bluestreak cleaner wrasse named Oscar fantasizes about being rich and famous while making his way to work as a tongue scrubber at the local Whale Wash, a job in which he is following in his father's footsteps. Soon after arriving he is called to the office of his boss, a pufferfish named... | cult, entertaining, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Kids may find the sharks a bit frightening, and adults won't find much to enjoy, with the exception of the talented voice cast, such as Angelina Jolie, whose Lola(a very beautiful fish) was one of the better characters, Rennee Zellwegger, who deserved better than she was given and Robert DeNiro, whose shark was just a ... |
tt0085995 | National Lampoon's Vacation | Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) is a food processing salesman living in Chicago, Illinois who wants to spend more time with wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) and his teen children Rusty (Anthony Michael Hall) and Audrey (Dana Barron). So, he decides to lead the family on a cross-country expedition from Chicago to the Los Ange... | comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0035854 | The Falcon Strikes Back | The famous detective is framed for murder by crooks running a war bonds racket.Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway) the debonair sleuth known as The Falcon is suffering from a hangover when a young lady Mia Bruger (Rita Corday) bursts into his bedroom begging for his help locating her missing brother. Tom agrees to accompany Mia ... | revenge, mystery, murder | train | imdb | This is the fifth Falcon film, the first with Tom Conway in the role, and the first with a major director, Ed Dmytryk.
An ingenious tracking shot of Conway walking along the edge of a swimming pool talking to a woman who is swimming was replicated in 1985, 42 years later, in 'The Sure Thing' directed by Rob Reiner.
The... |
tt1126590 | Big Eyes | The opening title card reads: BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.The opening shot is one of Margaret's paintings, then replicated over and over, in mass production. We read the quote: "I think what Keane has done is just terrific. It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it, attributed to Andy Warhol."The movi... | insanity | train | imdb | null |
tt0051418 | The Blob | During one long night in a small rural Pennsylvania town in July 1957, teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut), are kissing on a lovers' lane when they see a meteor crash beyond the next hill. Steve decides to look for it. An old man (Olin Howland) living nearby finds it f... | cult | train | wikipedia | Horror films in particular do this in spades (which is why the Scream films have been so popular), but The Blob, to me, stayed pretty true to its characters, and in so doing made a smarter and better film.Yes there are many flaws, perhaps biggest is Steve McQueen's very uneven performance, but I think they missed key o... |
tt0099703 | The Grifters | The film opens with a voiceover (done by producer Martin Scorsese) where it's explained that bettors at racetracks will deliberately bet high on certain horses to lower the odds and earn more money.Lily Dillon (Angelica Houston) works for a Baltimore gangster, Bobo Justus, who has her place such bets on horse races. Af... | neo noir, dramatic, flashback, insanity, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | And it's the personal relationships among these three criminals, complex, sometimes dark, and almost always motivated by survival, that make this film a pretty good bet.Roy Dillon (John Cusack), is a trickster, a loner, "on the grift" for the "short con", strictly a nickels and dimes man.
As a bonus, the DVD has an exc... |
tt1100089 | Foxcatcher | Olympic wrestling champion Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) speaks at an elementary school in place of his brother, Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), who is also an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler. Despite his achievements, Mark lives in relative squalor. He is contacted by philanthropist and wrestling enthusiast John E. d... | violence, historical, murder | train | imdb | null |
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