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tt0218967 | The Family Man | Jack Campbell is a single Wall Street executive living in New York City. He is in the midst of putting together a multi-billion dollar merger and has ordered an emergency meeting on Christmas Day. In his office, on Christmas Eve, he hears that his former girlfriend, Kate, called him after many years. He walks into a co... | comedy, alternate reality, romantic | train | wikipedia | Brett Ratner puts this theme into `The Family Man.' This is not "It's a Wonderful Life." While it is a "feel good movie," it is an intelligent, reflective one.
Jack, the lead character, is forced from his comfort zone by a "glimpse" of a life connected by commitment and love to friends and family.
Both pro-capitalist ... |
tt0162222 | Cast Away | Chuck Nolan (Tom Hanks) is a systems engineer for Federal Express. He shows some Moscow (Russia) staff how FedEx does business. The most important thing he tells them about is time: that the package sorting must be completed precisely on schedule. To prove it, he opens a package he sent to himself from FedEx's headquar... | psychological, boring, dramatic, philosophical, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | Sure it might be overhyped and some characters in the film aren't needed (not to mention it depends on the liking of the lead), but when you have Tom Hanks working harder than any actor in a movie this year, it is worth it.The story follows Hanks as a dedicated fed-ex deliverer who has a fiance (Helen Hunt) and has to ... |
tt0328828 | American Wedding | The film begins with Jim Levenstein (Jason Biggs) and Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) having dinner, celebrating their college graduation. They've been dating for 3 years now. Jim intends to propose to Michelle, but receives a phone call from his dad saying that Jim forgot the engagement ring at home and his dad is... | cult, humor, comedy, adult comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0376994 | X-Men: The Last Stand | (For the sake of continuity and uniformity, each mutant's 'human name' will be listed only once, and they will thereafter be referred to by their 'mutant' names.)The movie opens in a quiet suburban neighborhood in the 1980's. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Eric Lensherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen) are arrivi... | entertaining, cult, action, psychedelic, murder | train | imdb | There was no real character development for any of our mutant heroes, who seemed to just pop in and out of the story whenever a fight scene was to commence, to the point where some of our favourite X men were just cameos.
An all out action packed rumble between the military, Magneto's mutants and the X men set up the f... |
tt0328107 | Man on Fire | In Mexico City, criminal gangs are kidnapping rich people and extorting their families for the lucrative ransom money. A young man, "Eighteen," is walking through the city streets with his girlfriend, and he is kidnapped. As police detective Victor Fuentes (Jesús Ochoa) consoles the family, Eighteen's wealthy father re... | neo noir, murder, violence, action, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt1320239 | Burke and Hare | The film opens in Edinburgh. Narration by Angus the Hangman explains how the corpses of the hanged are transported to Dr Robert Knox for dissection. Knox's rival, Dr Alexander Monro, wants the steady supply of cadavers but is forced to rely on severed limbs for dissection. Monro's assistant Charles Darwin arrives with ... | cult, comedy, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | It is far from talented director John Landis's best film not like Blues Brothers or An American Werewolf in London, but it is not his worst either as is the case with Blues Brothers 2000 and Beverly Hills Cop III.Does Burke and Hare completely work?
Isla Fisher(the love story between her and Pegg though is pretty weak ... |
tt0036811 | The Falcon in Mexico | A detective travels south of the border to investigate an art dealer's murder.Tom Lawrence AKA The Falcon (Tom Conway) encounters a young woman hiding in a doorway. Her name is Dolores Ybarra (Cecilia Callejo) and she asks The Falcon to help her retrieve a stolen painting from a nearby art gallery. After breaking into ... | murder | train | imdb | Not that it detracts from a nice little comedy-mystery, but this was an even cheaper affair than usual from RKO as they used up a lot of stock rustic Mexican background film to lilting music here while the main characters glided or drove about in front.
Tom Conway as the Falcon looked as handsome and debonair as ever (... |
tt0054740 | The Singer Not the Song | Father Michael Keogh (John Mills) arrives to Quantana - they pronounce it <<Kantana>>, when in Spanish this orthography should be read <<Kwantana>>. Anyway, Father Keogh is going to be the new priest of this town. A blonde young lady, Locha de Cortínez (Mylène Demongeot) advises him not to go to the town, because Anacl... | murder | train | imdb | Slow-moving but compelling psychological Western about a determined priest who arrives at a small town that seems to be mysteriously dominated by a local bad guy, and decides to fight him in his own peaceful way; their confrontations make the movie.
I watched this film not expecting terribly much, but was blown away by... |
tt0234215 | The Matrix Reloaded | Green code-rain starts pouring down the screen, first forming the words "The Matrix", then "Reloaded". The image zooms further in, there's coding everywhere, making out a jungle of shapes. We seem to be inside some kind of machinery, and after pulling out we see the shape of a clock. The image transforms into a time cl... | mystery, boring, thought-provoking, cult, alternate reality, violence, psychedelic, action, philosophical, sci-fi | train | imdb | The Matrix Reloaded (2003) is the greatest action movie of all time and a good sequel to the original The Matrix (1999) that I went to see it with my mom in the movie theater in 1999 when the movie come out.
Nearly 12 years later have passed since no movie has come close to tapping into the myth, world and action that ... |
tt0075276 | Stroszek | Just released from a jail term of 2 1/2 years in Berlin, Bruno Stroszek goes through all of the formalities of being released and is given back all of his personal belongings: one sweater, one shirt, a pair of pants, a pair of socks, an accordion, five packs of cigarettes, a bugle horn, a keychain and his passport. Bac... | cult, psychedelic | train | imdb | (THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER) as a Berlin street singer (in a role where he basically plays himself), who joins with his prostitute girlfriend Eva (Eva Mattes) and ageing eccentric friend Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz) to embark on a memorable journey, leaving modern Berlin, for the golden opportunities of America.
Fascinat... |
tt1324059 | Wake Up Sid | Siddharth "Sid" Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor) is the spoiled, carefree son of wealthy businessman Ram Mehra (Anupam Kher). A resident of Bombay, his only interest is to have fun with friends and to spend his father's money. Thus, he spends little time at college and is not prepared for the exit exams. His father however, not b... | romantic | train | imdb | Ayan Mukherjee's 'Wake Up Sid' is one of the most eye-pleasing and refreshing films of the year.
The film flows brilliantly with all the songs which enhance its story and lighthearted feel, and the acting is roundly natural.Ranbir Kapoor performs exceedingly well throughout as the main protagonist Sid - a young, indeci... |
tt0914798 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | SS officer Ralf (David Thewlis) and his wife Elsa (Vera Farmiga) have a twelve-year-old daughter, Gretel (Amber Beattie), and an eight-year-old son, Bruno (Asa Butterfield). The well-to-do family must move to the "countryside" when the father is promoted (to Obersturmbannführer). Unknown to Bruno, the new house is near... | historical, sentimental | train | imdb | So I watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas today and this movie seriously is one of the saddest films I have ever seen, but I felt it was very maturely handled.
The actors are great and the story is very touching, to watch these two boys from two completely different worlds who come together just to have fun, be boys,... |
tt1231580 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | At an arena for a charity benefit rock concert, the Chipmunks are performing and the crowd goes wild. Alvin takes the lead, and then begins to show off, and Dave (Jason Lee) calls him over and tells him to stop it. He reminds him that this is a charity event, and not all about Alvin, and to stop it, but Alvin refuses. ... | cute, entertaining | train | imdb | We decided to spend quality time together watching this thing, and after wasting precious minutes of my life with bad jokes and a stale plot, I have decided to review it.The chipmunk trio is sent to high school, where they deal with stereotypical high school problems and have a rivalry with a female group of chipmunks,... |
tt0066773 | Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter | Based on the 1970 novella by Peter Handke, Wim Wenders' The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, completed in 1972, documents the warped journey of athlete Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) as he slowly and unhysterically transitions from a professional football goalie to a peripatetic madman.In Vienna. After being ejected ... | murder | train | imdb | Handke and Wenders explore patterns of thought and their relation to reality..
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (In German with English subtitles), a film by Wim Wenders and Peter Handke from a novella by Peter Handke (1971).The Goalie s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is the first collaboration of Wim Wenders and ... |
tt0121766 | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | The opening crawl reveals that the galaxy is in the midst of the war. Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) has been kidnapped by the Separatists' second-in-command, General Grievous. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) lead a mission to rescue him. After kill... | dark, fantasy, depressing, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, action, melodrama, tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0780521 | The Princess and the Frog | In New Orleans, a young girl named Tiana ( Elizabeth M. Dampier) and her mother are visiting the La Bouff family, where Tiana's mother Eudora (Oprah Winfrey) is crafting a dress for the family's daughter, Charlotte (Breanna Brooks). Charlotte is a lover of fairy tales, and Eudora reads the two the story of "The Frog Pr... | thought-provoking, romantic, fantasy, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0092796 | Creepshow 2 | === Prologue ===
A delivery truck pulls up to a newsstand in a small town where a young boy named Billy (named after and confused with the boy from Creepshow) arrives eagerly waiting for it. The truck's back shutter opens to reveal a sinister figure who drops off a package onto the sidewalk — the latest issue of Creeps... | comedy, revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | To reveal any more would be to dampen this segment's sick delights but I will say that it features a neat cameo by King himself as a foul-mouthed truck driver.A fourth story called Pinfall was planned for the movie but later dropped due to the faltering budget.
Its a shame we will never get to see this story but it is ... |
tt0971209 | A Perfect Getaway | Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they've found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of ... | mystery, murder, flashback | train | imdb | The characters are well developed, the acting is great, the scenery and cinematography are outstanding - some very inventive shots towards the climax of the film - and the story will definitely leave you with the feeling that "it" actually hasn't all been done before.
Every person that has rated this movie low falls un... |
tt0151738 | Never Been Kissed | Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) is a highly intelligent, if pedantic and lonely, copy-editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. Josie desperately wants to be a reporter, and constantly sends story ideas to her boss, Gus (John C. Reilly), who appreciates her eagerness but does not believe she is up to the challenge of being a rep... | romantic, prank, cruelty, flashback | train | imdb | Actually the first time for me was bad enough and at my age I doubt I could pull it off the way Drew does.Of course the reason could also be that once we leave high school it's like leaving a cocoon and we have to deal with the great big unfriendly world out there.
A girl looking young enough to pull it off, goes throu... |
tt0053318 | Suddenly, Last Summer | New Orleans, 1937. Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that came about when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on holiday in Spain a few months earlier. The late Sebastian's wealthy mother, Violet Vena... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt1855325 | Resident Evil: Retribution | In this fifth Resident Evil film, picking up immediately after the events in the previous film (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the others on the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack by a fleet of airships led by Alice's former ally, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who's been br... | murder, violence, alternate reality, flashback, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt1078940 | Couples Retreat | This movie focuses on 4 couples:* The married with two young kids Dave & Ronnie (Vince Vaughn & Malin Akerman).
* The hyper-organized couple who cannot conceive Jason & Cynthia (Jason Bateman & Kristen Bell).
* The married since they were in high school couple Joey & Lucy (Jon Favreau & Kristin Davis).
* The recently d... | bleak | train | imdb | Having enjoyed Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau in Swingers, I thought that this had a pretty decent chance of being a funny movie.No dice.
There are a few hilarious scenes – the yoga session undoubtedly the most memorable – just nowhere near enough.Of the cast Vaughn and Akerman come out best, their natural chemistry and ... |
tt1385826 | The Adjustment Bureau | The movie opens with David Norris (Matt Damon), an up-and-coming Senatorial candidate making a public appearance. Norris seems very much a 'people's candidate,' always interacting with people, always empathetic toward their needs and platforms. NBC newscaster Chuck Scarborough makes a news report on Norris increasing a... | romantic, boring, psychedelic | train | imdb | Every move you made was in accordance with a master plan, any kinks or imperfections "adjusted" by persons unknown, constantly on hand to ensure you stayed on track.Many people might assume that their lives are quite the reverse, with all the bad decisions they have made, anything resembling a master plan is unlikely.D... |
tt0102803 | The Rocketeer | The movie takes place in Los Angeles in the year 1938. At an airfield, a flight crew is moving a new plane (the GeeBee) out onto the runway. The pilot, Cliff Secord (Bill Campbell) is discussing the plane with his mechanic and best friend, Peevy (Alan Arkin). Cliff and Peevy intend to use the GeeBee in a national air s... | good versus evil, mystery | train | imdb | I was also very surprised when the movie wasn't a hit, but I even sort of liked the old Flash Gordon serials, so...Another thing that is disappointing me at the moment is that I can't find any entries for the Spysmasher or Red Skull serials (the latter was the first one I know of with the Commando Cody character, altho... |
tt1129415 | The Daisy Chain | From the critically acclaimed director of Song For A Raggy Boy, and starring double Oscar-nominee Samantha Morton, THE DAISY CHAIN is a chilling supernatural thriller of obsession, superstition and fear. Blending the unsettling atmosphere of The Wicker Man with the terrifying scenario of Rosemarys Baby, THE DAISY CHAIN... | fantasy | train | imdb | Mediocre horror with beautiful cinematography..
Female directors are too rare, particularly those willing to approach the horror genre.
Walsh uses the beautiful Western Irish coast to create a bleak atmosphere of isolation and vulnerability.
The plot is somewhat obvious, a young couple move away from the bright lights ... |
tt0114180 | Prime Suspect: Inner Circles | At a country club with a golf course, a man leaves in a car while he looks at an older man, James (Anthony Bate). Next, we see the same man, Denis (Gareth Forwood), visiting his mother (Phillida Sewell) in a nursing home. He tells her he will sort things out; she has trouble remembering who he is. Next, three men enter... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0065143 | L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo | In the opening credits, a person, unseen except for a black-leather gloves and wearing a dark coat, takes photos of a young woman walking the streets of Rome. The next day, the woman is found murdered. The third mysterious killing in several months.Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) is an American writer currently living in Rom... | insanity, suspenseful, horror, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt2053425 | De rouille et d'os | Alain van Versch, an unemployed father in his mid 20s known as Ali, arrives in Antibes, southern France, to look for work to support his young son, Sam. Having no money, he crashes with his sister Anna, who already has her own share of problems with money and temporary employment.
Ali gets a job as a bouncer in a night... | violence, realism, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097474 | Halloween 5 | The film opens with the last few moments of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers on October 31, 1988. Rachel Carruthers and Jamie, Michael Myers's 8-year-old niece are being pursued by Michael while in a truck. Michael climbs onto the roof and tries to drive them off the road, but Rachel slams on the brakes, sendin... | good versus evil, violence, horror, murder | train | imdb | "Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" was one of the sequels that I wasn't to fond of when first watched it, but after continuous repeat viewings its slightly growing on me, nonetheless still it's not without its problems in what is an unsatisfying exercise.
But by the time you reach this, Part 5, the tension has... |
tt0050194 | Birds Anonymous | Sylvester is in another chase with Tweety, and is just about to eat him when he is interrupted by his friend Sam, who tells Sylvester to return Tweety to his cage. Sylvester does this, and listens to Sam explain how he can become addicted to birds and "suddenly, without realizing it, you're a victim." Sam gives Sylvest... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0082085 | Blow Out | "Blow Out" opens with the first-person viewpoint of a psycho killer prowling a female dormitory. After spying through the windows at young ladies in various stages of undress and sexual activity, the killer attacks a nude woman taking a shower. She opens her mouth and emits a ridiculous sounding scream that deflates th... | cult, mystery, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0077631 | Grease | In 1958, during their summer vacation, Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) meet at a beach. Scenes from their holiday are shown, but then the summer ends, and Sandy and Danny say their last good-byes. Danny seems to not want to let Sandy go, but Sandy is due to return to Australia. She is u... | cult | train | imdb | It is a fun musical that makes you want to get up and dance.Grease is the story of Danny Zucko and Sandy Olsen (or Dumbruski) two high school seniors who fall in love over the summer.
Grease is a timeless classic that will have you singing and dancing by the end of the movie..
Sandy and Danny, their names alone mean no... |
tt1172994 | The House of the Devil | It is 1983. Frustrated with living in the dorms with her oversexed and messy roommate, Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue) rents a small apartment. Although the landlady (Dee Wallace) agrees not to charge her a deposit, Samantha still needs to come up with $300 for the first month's rent. She answers an advertisement for... | murder, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, suspenseful | train | imdb | Once we finally get to the house, we do nothing more than watch Samatha stroll around for the rest of the film.West atmosphere is perfect, his camera work was great, the suspension was brilliant but nothing ever came from these very few moments.
The House of the Devil feels like it should have been released back in 198... |
tt0123325 | Why, Charlie Brown, Why? | Janice Emmons is a new friend and classmate of Charlie Brown and Linus, who loves to play on the swings. The special begins with Charlie Brown, Sally, Linus and Janice waiting for the school bus. As Janice boards the bus, she hits her arm on a railing, causing it to bruise; Linus notices that Janice has been bruising e... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0464154 | Piranha 3D | Fisherman Matthew Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) fishes in Lake Victoria, Arizona. He whistles, Show Me the Way to Go Home (an homage to 'Jaws'). A huge earthquake shakes the lake, and opens a massive underwater trench, creating a whirlpool beneath Matt's boat. Thousands of piranha fish pour out of the newly opened chasm. Mat... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt4853102 | Batman: The Killing Joke | This animated film starts with Barbara Gordon/Batgirl (voice of Tara Strong) observing Bruce Wayne/Batman (voice of Kevin Conroy) meeting with Commissioner Jim Gordon (voice of Ray Wise). Gordon shone the bat-signal to call Batman due to a robbery in progress. Batman heads off to take care of it while Batgirl pursues t... | gothic, murder, neo noir, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, comic, tragedy, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | This is (for better or worse) the Joker's origin story, incendiary though it is, and I can understand why they'd want to flesh out Barbara's character; but it still doesn't work because Batman doesn't recall her horrific fate later on in the movie.
This movie is doomed by a complete misunderstanding of what made the co... |
tt1219342 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Soren (Jim Sturgess), a fledgling barn owl, lives peacefully in the forest of Tyto with his family; his father, Noctus (Hugo Weaving); his mother, Marella (Essie Davis); his older brother, Kludd (Ryan Kwanten), his younger sister, Eglantine (Adrienne DeFaria) and Ms. P the family's nest maid. Noctus enjoys telling Sore... | good versus evil, cute, fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0357277 | Elektra | After being killed in Daredevil, Elektra Natchios is revived by a blind martial arts master called Stick. She is brought to his training compound to learn Kimagure, an ancient martial arts discipline that provides its practitioners with precognition as well as the ability to resurrect the dead. Elektra soon is expelled... | violence, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | fun, or quirky, or in some other way entertaining - and this is where Elektra comes in, complete with her trademark red assassin warrior outfit.It is fun to watch Jennifer Gardner work her craft as she threads her way through the dialogue and scenes in this film.All things considered, she is a good casting match for th... |
tt0066769 | The Andromeda Strain | A military space capsule has brought back to earth something - a disease, a biotoxin, an organism - which has destroyed a small town in New Mexico where everyone - including the soldiers sent to retrieve the capsule - has died either in bizarre and unusual ways or have committed suicide in grisly fashion. Except for tw... | suspenseful, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0454987 | Let's Go to Prison | John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life in prison, serving three different sentences. Each of his three trials were before Judge Nelson Biederman III, who habitually imposed resentfully tough sentences. After being released from his third sentence, John decides to take revenge on Biederman. John tries t... | revenge, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120737 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | The prologue, spoken by Galadriel, shows the Dark Lord Sauron forging the One Ring which he can use to conquer the lands of Middle-earth through his enslavement of the bearers of the Rings of Power powerful magical rings given to individuals from the races of Elves, Dwarves and Men. A Last Alliance of Elves and Men is ... | mystery, boring, fantasy, stupid, cult, horror, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0020699 | The Booze Hangs High | The scene opens with a close up shot of a cow's rear end. She moos as she walks away, tail and udders swaying in time to Turkey in the Straw. Bosko appears and does a Mexican style dance with the cow. At one point, the cow's "pants" drop, revealing polka-dotted underwear. Bosko points and laughs, at which the cow pulls... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | comedy loves booze.
Bosko, the very first Looney Tunes star, appeared in Warner Bros.
cartoons from 1930 to 1933, when his creators moved to MGM (they continued making cartoons featuring him until 1938, after which he faded into obscurity).
"The Booze Hangs High" was one outing for the high-voiced character, showing hi... |
tt0457510 | Nacho Libre | Ignácio (Jack Black) is a young orphan boy dreaming of becoming the world's greatest luchador (Spanish wrestler) and decides to test his fighting skills in a monastary graveyard. He is discovered by monks and is taken to be cleansed and made into the orphanage chef. This does not bode well for young Ignácio, but he doe... | bleak, cult, comedy, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt1191111 | Enter the Void | Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) lives in Tokyo with his younger sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta) and supports himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his friend Alex (Cyril Roy), who attempts to turn Oscar's interest toward The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist book about the afterlife. The first segment begins with ... | boring, violence, cult, plot twist, flashback, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0838221 | The Darjeeling Limited | An American businessman (Bill Murray) speeds through city streets of India in a taxi. He arrives at his train station, only to see the train, The Darjeeling Limited, pulling away. He frantically chases it, but eventually gives up and is overtaken by a younger man who manages to climb aboard.The young man, Peter Whitman... | comedy, boring, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0250081 | Storytelling | Fiction, the first half of Storytelling, opens with Vi having sex with her boyfriend, Marcus, who is afflicted with cerebral palsy. When they finish, Vi is anxious to leave, which Marcus suspects is because she no longer finds his handicap kinky.Marcus writes terrible short stories and, though Vi and her other creative... | thought-provoking, comedy, cruelty, murder, satire | train | imdb | Before we have a chance to pass judgment on Solondz, his character writes about the event in the 3rd person and reads the story in class.
Probably Director Todd Solondz' most mature work to date, Storytelling is split into two parts `Fiction' and `Non-Fiction' - yet similar themes underlie both and pose questions about... |
tt0117420 | The Quest | Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. PetersonThis a very good movie with Jean Claude Van Damme as the hero triumphing against all odds. Van Damme also directed and did a very fine job. It's like a synthesis of Indiana Jones with Bloodsport. The story is set in the 1920s and the tournament is not the Kumite, but an equival... | violence, intrigue | train | imdb | null |
tt0042928 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel | At the Warner Bros. Studio in Hollywood, a frustrated Daffy is talking to his boss J.L., complaining that he's been typecast in nothing but comedies. He appeals to J.L. for a dramatic role, and demonstrates by presenting a ridiculously long script he's written, entitled "The Scarlet Pumpernickel". He begins reading it ... | action, melodrama | train | imdb | Spectacular Art; Inside Jokes Pretty Good.
Daffy the actor is in the boss' office, pleading for a new role and a new image.
He's tired of being typecast as a comic.
He brings a script for a film he wants to do: The Scarlet Pumpernickel by Daffy Dumas Duck.
He starts reading it and we see the images as the story unfolds... |
tt0110997 | The River Wild | A Boston couple, Gail (Meryl Streep) and Tom (David Strathairn), are having marital problems, due to his inability to spend time with his family because of his work as an architect. She, a water rafting expert, decides to take their son, Roarke (Joseph Mazzello), on a holiday rafting trip down the Salmon River in Idaho... | suspenseful, comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | River Wild is not really great or thrilling, but it's very entertaining due to the good acting by the entire cast and the beautiful nature scenery.
How Kevin Bacon's character first strikes a bonding with the son, in order to win Meryl Streep's trust, and how this friendly atmosphere slowly glides to threat was very re... |
tt0049169 | Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Opening scene
We see a montage of UFO sightings including Air force pilots, farmers and civilians. After collecting and examining these reports the military decides they are a threat and orders a shoot on sight orderThenDr. Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlow) and his recently married wife Dr. Carol Marvin (Joan Taylor) are dr... | cult | train | imdb | Great 50's Sci-Fi. Ray Harryhausen developed the flying saucers for this film, and they are worth seeing to be sure.
Soon after seeing this movie I was bitten by the movie bug which resulted in a lifelong passion for films and animation, which I have to credit to the intense effect that Earth Vs the Flying Saucers had ... |
tt1082868 | Quarantine | Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris), a late night television host and crew duo, set out to film a report on the night shift of a Los Angeles fire station. Angela and Scott are introduced to firefighters Fletcher (Johnathon Schaech) and Jake (Jay Hernandez).A medical emergen... | violence, claustrophobic | train | imdb | I found it to be just too much and actually pulled me out of the horror and towards comedy instead.'Rec' felt a bit more organic and gritty than 'Quarantine.' The performances are decent in both but you feel less of a connection to the characters in 'Quarantine.' Many are clearly there to serve as fodder with no attemp... |
tt0268695 | The Time Machine | Alex Hartdegen is a scientist living at 1899 in New York City. Obsessed with the idea of time travel, he teaches at Columbia University as a professor of "Applied Mechanics and Engineering" and gets into trouble for his radical theories. He is a pen pal of Albert Einstein. As he goes to the park to meet his girlfriend ... | murder, suspenseful, alternate history, storytelling, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0465502 | Igor | In this fantasy world that contains elements of the horror film and steampunk genres, Malaria was once a sunny, thriving village that relied on farming for its economy, but a change in the climate caused the crops to die, and the farmers to become poor. It is the new leader, King Malbert (Jay Leno), who proposes the to... | brainwashing, comedy, fantasy, psychedelic, dark | train | imdb | Well, I Liked It. I don't know why this movie doesn't get more positive recognition; I thought it was terrific, and I've seen most the feature-length animated films of the past several years.
This holds it own against most of them.For an animated film, it has exactly what you want: fantastic colors and colorful charact... |
tt0443632 | The Sentinel | Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a Secret Service agent and one of the personal bodyguards for the First Lady of the United States Sarah Ballentine (Kim Basinger), with whom he is having an affair. He is one of the oldest and most experienced agents, having been involved in saving Ronald Reagan's life during the Reag... | mystery, murder, dramatic, violence, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | For even after all the trouble he had with an adulterous romance in "Fatal Attraction," here he is in "The Sentinel" playing the role of Pete Garrison, a veteran secret service agent who's having an affair with none other than the First Lady of the United States.
Prime credit goes to Douglas, who after all these years,... |
tt0377309 | Three | Jack (Billy Zane) and Jennifer (Kelly Brook) are a well-off married couple. He is a millionaire, and she is young and sexy. They share a private boat with some other friends like Maggie Richards (Isabelle Constantini), the wife of the captain of the ship, Captain Richards (Gary "Tex" Brockette). Brazilian young worker ... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Having said that I did manage to watch it all, mainly because I was totally transfixed by the jiggling and kind of hoping that her character would come good in the end.
'Three' is described as a steamy erotic thriller guaranteed to create an atmosphere so tense you can barely swallow for fear whilst at the same time it... |
tt0095882 | Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach | Captain Harris finally finds the goods he needs to push Commandant Eric Lassard out at the Police Academy: he is one year late for mandatory retirement. But before he retires, Lassard is chosen as "Police Officer of the Decade," and brings his favorite graduates—Sgts. Hightower, Jones, Tackleberry and Hooks, Lt. Callah... | comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | The first "Police Academy" movie was good.
Time seems quite distended and relative when watching any Police Academy film, but the awfulness of PA5 tends to send one into an alternate dimension where seconds seem to take weeks.
Kind of like watching the Benny Hinn show with a fantastic hangover in the middle of a hospit... |
tt1232829 | 21 Jump Street | Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) are former classmates who meet again at police academy. Schmidt was a nerd while Jenko was a jock. They end up becoming friends at the academy as they help with each others' weaknesses with Schmidt helping Jenko study and Jenko motivating Schmidt through physi... | entertaining, violence, humor, comedy, flashback | train | imdb | there was the usual expected Jonah Hill trademarked myriad of penis jokes and one extremely unnecessary shock gag but the majority of the movie was, to me, surprisingly satirical/smart/relevant in today's society, self-aware, and situationally hilarious.
The thing is that all the buddy cop movies after Rush Hour 1 have... |
tt0051207 | The Wrong Man | For the only time in his many films, Alfred Hitchcock starts this picture talking to the camera and says that "every word is true" in this story.
Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), a down-on-his-luck musician at New York City's Stork Club, is in a money crunch. His wife, Rose (Vera Miles), needs to have her wisdom teeth e... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | This is a very underrated Hitchcock film that features amazing performances from it's two stars, Henry Fonda and (especially) Vera Miles.
It is a brilliant performance that ranks alongside Bergman's role in 'Notorious' and Wright's 'Charlie' in 'Shadow Of A Doubt' for best female acting honors in a Hitchcock film.'The ... |
tt4972582 | Split | The film opens with a birthday party for Claire (Haley Lu Richardson). Her classmate Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) was invited out of pity, as Claire tells her father (Neal Huff) that Casey frequently gets into trouble with teachers and gets sent to detention. Casey calls for a ride home but is told the car broke down. She's... | insanity, violence, horror, flashback | train | imdb | This movie will keep you watching waiting for the next character coming out of James McAvoy.
I was surprised to see that this movie was released last year (as I'm writing this) and I didn't heard about it, taking in consideration how promising the plot is.Split is about three girls get kidnapped by a man with dissociat... |
tt0120877 | Vampires | Jack Crow (James Woods) is a professional and Vatican-funded vampire slayer. He and his team of slayers have just rooted out a nest of nine vampires in the New Mexico desert but, disappointingly, the master vampire--Jan Valek--was not there. Still, the team is partying at the Sun God Motel, rejoicing in their victory. ... | comedy, gothic, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, revenge | train | imdb | James Woods is great as the grim, dedicated man sworn to destroy all vampires and as the true shocker, the generic Baldwin appearing in the movie does a really good job as well!
While fans will always compare Carpenter's later movies with his early genre classics, "Vampires" is excellent entertainment, even if it isn't... |
tt0117966 | Trilogy of Terror II | Story I: The Graveyard RatsA wealthy man by the name of Ansford (Matt Clark), discovers that his young wife Laura (Lysette Anthony) having an affair with her cousin. Having video proof he threatens Laura to be faithful and honest or he will turn the video over to the news stations and cut her out of his multi-million d... | murder | train | imdb | Anyone born before 1980 can't help but remember that video cover that stared up at them from the spooky horror section shelf at the "Video Library." It was the one all the little kids loved to rent...it was also the one all the little kids loved to fast-forward through 80% of to get to the Zuni-doll story.
And about 20... |
tt1197628 | Observe and Report | The movie opens with shots of people in the mall followed by shots of the parking lot where a man in a trench coat runs around flashing different women. Ronnie (Seth Rogan) is reprimanding the two Asian twin security guards saying that they made him look bad. Another guard, Dennis (Michael Pena), tells them that they h... | cult, comedy, humor, violence, melodrama | train | imdb | Taboos are there to be exposed and smashed, and if you like your comedy to be near the knuckle and ground breaking then you will definitely love this film.Seth is fantastic in the lead role.
It is a comedy and the suspension of disbelief is paramount to the viewer's enjoyment.In a nutshell, if you are not easily offend... |
tt0480249 | I Am Legend | Dr. Krippen (Emma Thompson) is interviewed on TV about her great discovery: she has changed the measles virus genetically so that it attacks cancerous cells. She explains that all the cancer patients which her cure has been tested on have recovered so far. The scene jumps to three years later. We see New York City has ... | suspenseful, neo noir, depressing, horror, flashback, action, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0074906 | The Missouri Breaks | Tom Logan is a rustler experiencing hard times. He and his gang are particularly upset by the hanging of a friend by Braxton, a land baron who takes the law into his own hands.
Logan's men pull off a daring train robbery, only to lose much of the money. They decide to seek vengeance against Braxton by killing his forem... | violence, revenge, murder, sadist, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0404390 | Running Scared | The movie begins with Joey Gazelle (Paul Walker) driving with a boy, Oleg Yugorsky (Cameron Bright). Oleg has a blood stain on his shirt, implying that he had been shot. The movie then flashes back eighteen hours before the unfolding scene. Joey, a low-level mafioso, is attending a drug deal with his boss Tommy (Johnny... | depressing, cult, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | There are great transitions, effective dynamic time warping (speed up or slow down a shot, like a bullet flying through the air), and if you thought Maynard, Zed, and the Gimp were bizarre in "Pulp Fiction", wait until you meet the creepy married couple who through their sick hobby make every other evil character in th... |
tt0914863 | Unthinkable | An American Muslim man and former Delta Force operator, Yusuf (Sheen), makes a videotape. When FBI Special Agent Helen Brody (Moss) and her team see news bulletins looking for Yusuf, they launch an investigation, which is curtailed when they are summoned to a high school, which has been converted into a black site unde... | suspenseful, psychological, philosophical, sadist | train | wikipedia | Carrie-Anne Moss represents the average citizen watching this movie, having a facade of superior human rights beliefs (that we tend to have in western countries) that gradually get whittled away as the situation in the movie get more desperate.How far are we really willing to go to save millions of people?
This movie f... |
tt0088763 | Back to the Future | The title logo appears on a black background. The scene opens in Dr. Emmett Brown's (Christopher Lloyd) garage/home laboratory as the camera pan over a large collection of clocks. A robotic tin can opener opens a tin of spoiled dog food and empties the contents into an overflowing dog food bowl marked "Einstein". The t... | entertaining, comedy, mystery, fantasy, whimsical, cult, alternate reality, clever, psychedelic, humor, romantic, alternate history, sci-fi | train | imdb | It is my favorite time travel sci-fi, adventure epic comedy in the 80's and I love this movie to death!
This movie is one of the best masterpiece time travel epic adventure film.
Music theme score by Alan Silvestri is excellent I could listen to it whole day.Back to the Future (1985) From the Academy Award "- winning t... |
tt0365270 | Wild Things 2 | Brittney Havers (Susan Ward), a South Florida high school senior, lives with her wealthy stepfather, Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison), after her mother ran her car off the road in "Gator Alley" and was presumably eaten by alligators a year earlier. When Dunlap is killed in a private plane crash, his will calls for B... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The original 'Wild Things' was hardly a classic, although the movie had some apparent attraction (I'll leave it to your imagination what they are exactly).
Names are changed, sure, events are slightly different, right, but it all adds up to the same thing.So, if you've actually seen the original Wild Things there's rea... |
tt1438176 | Fright Night | In the opening shot during the credits, there is a shot of a sub-division suburb of Las Vegas. It's night, and all the houses look exactly the same, with desert and nothingness not far from this quaint little slice of suburbia.Inside one of the homes, a small dog climbs through the pet door of the back door and walks p... | revenge, gothic, murder, violence | train | imdb | After all, beloved films are dumped on all the time by would-be filmmakers out to make a quick buck for the safe Hollywood studios.Most of the central story is intact: Anton Yelchin leads the cast as Charley Brewster, a used-to-be high-school misfit who comes to the realization, thanks to childhood buddy Ed (Christophe... |
tt0052646 | The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evans) is a brilliant surgeon who saves the life of a patient that his father Dr. Cortner (Bruce Brighton) is operating on. Bill uses one of the techniques that he has been researching in his studies on amputated limbs and the ability to keep them alive. The research Bill has used is controversia... | cult, violence | train | imdb | Today it is difficult to imagine how anyone could have taken the thing seriously even in 1959; the thing is both lurid and lewd, but it is also incredibly ludicrous in a profoundly bumptious sort of way.The story, of course, concerns a doctor who is an eager experimenter in transplanting limbs--and when his girl friend... |
tt0087622 | De lift | In a building in Amsterdam, an elevator inexplicably begins to function alone after a lightning storm causes a power failure, trapping four people in the elevator. The elevator will not open, even after a subsequent power restore and the passengers almost suffocate. Subsequent malfunctions prove fatal: an elderly blind... | cult, comedy, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2474972 | Outpost 37 | The film begins with a couple of text blocks explaining that in 2021 aliens invaded the planet. After crashlanding all over the earth, the next day begin the attacks by the aliens, which are called Heavies. After unifying the planets resources, men begins to fight back and the Heavies are driven off, leaving thousands ... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | Plop a couple famous faces in here and I think anyone would be hard-pressed to tell the difference from a Hollywood production.The only explanation I can see for the poor ratings is that people were expecting a sci-fi flick and are judging the movie's compliance with that expectation.
It's my hope that people disregard... |
tt0461936 | Don | Don (Shahrukh Khan) is a ruthless criminal, wanted by police in many countries. DCP D'Silva (Boman Irani) and Detective Malik (Om Puri) are two cops who will do anything to capture Don. Don soon brutally murders one of his own men Ramesh (Diwakar Pundir) as well as his fiance Kamini (Kareena Kapoor). By doing so, Don m... | cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0438859 | Goodbye Bafana | James Gregory, a male Caucasian, lives in a South African farm, and is friendly with a black native, Bafana. Both children communicate in the local language, and James even poses in a photograph with his arm around Bafana. Both children bid each other goodbye when James re-locates to live in the city.Years later, James... | violence | train | imdb | Extremely well acted, I loved Joseph Fiennes (James Gregory) and Dennis Haysbert (Nelson Mandela) in their roles, and Diane Kruger (Gloria Gregory) did well, too.
Music supported various scenes very well, without being too prominent.The movie starts when a young prison warden James Gregory arrives to Robben Island 1968... |
tt0139239 | Go | The film is told out of chronological format, the story being told from four different points of view. As such, the following summary only generalizes the actual sequence of events which take place.Ronna's storyIt is Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr), a couple of TV soap opera actors, ... | comedy, adult comedy, cult, flashback, humor, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | Sarah Polley (whom I never heard of at the time but follow her work now) was great; Katie Holmes wasn't quite Katie Holmes - and that was good; Fichtner's good; but my favorite was Timothy Olyphant who did a kick-ass job of a charasmatic bad-guy (it was hard not to hate him by the end).
In my opinion those scenes are t... |
tt0069865 | Charley Varrick | Charley Varrick (Walter Matthau) is a former stunt pilot who pretends to operate a crop-dusting business, which he uses as a cover for small scale robberies. With his wife Nadine (Jacqueline Scott), Al Dutcher (Fred Scheiwiller) and Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), Charley robs a small bank in the rural community of ... | realism, cult, suspenseful, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | The ever watchable Walter Matthau effortlessly slips into the role of Varrick, Joe Don Baker is quite chilling as the ruthless hitman with impeccable manners and John Vernon extracts some sympathy as the Banker/Mafia man trying to smooth everything over.
Now that more and more people are reflecting on the great career ... |
tt1174693 | The Four-Faced Liar | Set in New York City spanning six or seven months, Greg (Daniel Carlisle) has just moved in with his girlfriend Molly (Emily Peck). During their first night out since moving in together, Greg and Molly go out for drinks and a meal at a local bar, called The Four-Faced Liar. There, they meet Trip (Todd Kubrak), his girl... | queer | train | wikipedia | It's the name of a bar.
The Four-Faced Liar (2010) was directed by Jacob Chase.
Marja Lewis Ryan, the film's writer, is also the star.
She plays Bridget, a lesbian who is quirky, foul-mouthed, and very successful at one-night conquests.
Todd Kubrak is Trip, Bridget's roommate and best friend.
Daniel Carlisle (Greg) has... |
tt1632708 | Friends with Benefits | Jamie Reillis (Mila Kunis) is an Executive Recruiter for a leading job agency in New York City and Dylan Harper (Justin Timberlake) works as an art director for a small internet company in Los Angeles. Jamie has the task of trying to recruit Dylan to interview for a job with GQ magazine and begin working in New York Ci... | comedy, entertaining, adult comedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1055300 | Hua pi | Setting is the Yuan dynasty: Soldiers rescue beautiful orphan Xiao Wei (Zhou) from desert bandits. The beautiful Xiao Wei is than taken in by Gen. Wang (Chen Kun) and his wife, Peirong (Zhao), who both dote on the excessively courteous and attentive young woman. But three months after she is adopted, the city is terror... | romantic | train | imdb | If you're someone expecting either a supernatural spook fest, or an amalgamation of ghosts and kung fu, you might be disappointed to find out that it's actually a romance through and through, with complicated relationships all around that you can weave a complex web of love and lust amongst the players involved.Chen Ku... |
tt0028231 | Secret Agent | It is 1916 after the beginning of the First World War, in London. A somber group is filing past a casket surrounded by candles. The butler sees everyone out, locks the door, then takes down the casket, which is empty. Next we are at a British intelligence office in the middle of an air raid, and an officer in uniform c... | suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | This movie is also distinguished by large doses of good humor and by some creative uses of the story's setting in Switzerland.John Gielgud plays Ashenden, an English spy in World War I.
There are some excellent scenes, including a scene in an old country church that combines humor and suspense, and a chase through a ch... |
tt0108941 | The Stand | At a government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza (called Project Blue) is accidentally released, immediately wiping out everyone on staff except for military policeman Charles Campion and his family, who flee the base. However, Campion is already infected by the superflu, nicknamed "Cap... | good versus evil, insanity, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0082812 | Night School | At the Jack-n-Jill Daycare Center, teachers aide Anne Barron (Meb Boden) is saying goodnight to the young child Lisa who gets picked up by her mother. Anne sits alone on the merry-go-round when a person wearing all black leather with a black motorcycle helmet, rides up on a motorcycle to the daycare center. After looki... | violence, cult, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | They wonder if there's any connection between the two murders."Night School" is a typical run-of-the-mill early 80's whodunit slasher with a decapitation twist.
The twist ending is pretty predictable and the acting is a bit wooden (Rachel Ward, in her film debut, is all sorts of terrible here) but the film is never bor... |
tt0212346 | Miss Congeniality | The film opens at a school where a boy is picking on another. We see Gracie Hart as a child who beats up the bully and tries to help the victim (whom she liked), who instead, criticizes her by saying he disliked her because he did not want a girl to help him. She promptly punches the boy in the nose and sulks in the pl... | dramatic, violence, comedy, cute | train | imdb | null |
tt0100029 | Lionheart | A man is buying drugs from a dealer until his men burn the man alive. The man is rushed to the hospital where his wife and daughter are waiting. As he dying, he yells out Leon, his brother's name. Three weeks later Leon, Lion Heart (LH) is shown working in the desert for the French Foreign Legion, when he get's the let... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, humor, melodrama, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | This film has a heart, it is an underdog action drama about a men, who goes in to the gladiator fights and uses his martial arts to raise money, for his brother's family.
"When the streets are a jungle...there can only be one king." Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as a soldier drawn in the world of modern day of gladiators... |
tt0097456 | Grave Secrets | GRAVE SECRETS aka SECRET SCREAMS-synopsis [THREE MONTHS AGO] Its night and Zack (Lee Ving) comes out of his house as a car comes careening by driven by Iris Norwood (Renée Soutendijk). Just as another car passes, her father Kurt Norwood (Bob Heron) awakens in the passenger seat and attacks her violently. She screams an... | paranormal, haunting | train | imdb | Little-Known Paranormal Film.
A woman tormented by ghostly apparitions and a professor of psychic phenomena (Paul LeMat) investigate other-worldly disturbances and unlock the secret of a malevolent force reaching out for vengeance from beyond the grave.Oh, Paul LeMat, how the almost mighty have fallen.
You went from be... |
tt1515199 | Fertile Ground | Emily (Leisha Hailey) and Nate Weaver (Gale Harold) are a happily married couple living in New York City. Nate is a recognized artist, Emily a fashion designer and the two are expecting their first child. Emily suffers a terrible miscarriage during a dinner party and she is informed that the scarring left on her womb m... | insanity, horror, murder, haunting | train | imdb | The movie "Fertile Ground" took me by surprise.
I had not heard about it prior to picking it up, so when I found out it was an After Dark horror series movie, I was pleasantly surprised, because they usually put out some nice movies."Fertile Ground" does not deliver any groundbreaking new storyline, everything here has... |
tt2592614 | Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | The film opens with Alice (Milla Jovovich) explaining the origin of the T-virus. Dr. James Marcus (Mark Simpson) wanted to create a cure for his daughter Alicia (Ever Anderson), who was suffering from progeria. Marcus created a cure within the Umbrella Corporation, but soon, he would be betrayed by his colleague Dr. Al... | flashback | train | imdb | Leaving aside all the ridiculous plot points and lazy screen writing, the editing of this movie is going to become legendary for it's awfulness.I've never seen a full budgeted movie get hacked up so poorly that the expensive action scenes are pretty much butchered to the max.
Aside the nonsense plot, the total lack of ... |
tt0069089 | Pink Flamingos | The film opens on a view of a pink trailer that seems to be located in a clearing near a rural wooded area. A voiceover narrator identifying himself as Mr. J (John Waters) discusses the current status of "notorious beauty" Divine (Divine), who has gotten tabloid attention due to her criminal career. The tabloids have g... | dark, comedy, murder, cult, absurd, psychedelic, satire, humor, revenge, sadist, home movie | train | imdb | Even if you - yes YOU out there - the reader, wanted to make the most disgusting movie in the world and even if you had the money and the skills that John Waters lacked in 1972, you couldn't make a film as good as he did.
"Pink Flamingos" is a cult classic.The plot of this film revolves around the throwdown challenge t... |
tt0059044 | Color Me Blood Red | At the Farnsworth Galleries, Farnsworth looks at a painting is evidently admires and reluctantly picks the canvas up and takes it outside. He drops it to the ground, saturates it with gasoline and sets it afire. Blood pours out of the canvas as it burns.Artist Adam Sorge stands before a blank canvas, paints it a bit, a... | violence, cult, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | "Color me Blood Red" completes the infamous Blood-trilogy by the even more infamous director Hershell Gordon Lewis and, although my least favorite film of the three, it's another silly entertaining and smutty gore classic.
Don't look for many film-making qualities here, as the story is rather unoriginal (imitating Roge... |
tt1403865 | True Grit | Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a 14-year-old from Yell County, Arkansas, is determined to avenge the murder of her father. Frank Ross was killed by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), after trying to dissuade a drunken Chaney from shooting a fellow card player who had allegedly cheated him. Chaney stole Ross's h... | comedy, dark, boring, murder, atmospheric, action, revenge, historical | train | imdb | In this case, it is "The Dude" Lebowski himself, Jeff Bridges, who makes his triumphant return in a Coen brothers film, filling the very large shoes of John Wayne, who gave an iconic performance as Rooster Cogburn in the first adaptation of True Grit, from 1969.
14-year-old Steinfeld proves she is a talent to watch, th... |
tt1930371 | Joe + Belle | Joe (Veronica Kedar) is a drug dealer who was born in New York City but lives in Israel. She travels from Bangkok to Tel Aviv smuggling drugs. Joe delivers the drugs to Abigail (Romi Aboulafia) who tells her to meet at the club 'Dark Eighties' later that night in order to sell the drugs. Belle (Sivan Levy) a patient st... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Joe + Belle. A very original romance and comedy from a first time director, Veronica Kefar which had my attention right from the start. In this, two girls, are on the run from the law and an amusing set-up, amidst the falling rockets in present day Israel. The magical Sivan Levy literally drops into the life of Veronic... |
tt0109040 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | The movie begins with our hero Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) rescuing a dog from an angry man, all but destroying his car in the process. The dog's owner, an attractive young woman, seduces Ace to avoid paying the detective's fee- a feat that Ace hardly resists.Late in the night at Miami Stadium, a group of individuals brea... | comedy, murder, bleak, cult, humor, action, revenge | train | imdb | The Miami Dolphins mascot is stolen and by word-of-mouth advertising Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is called into manic action.
His job is to find the dolphin and return it before The Miami Dolphins' crucial game.Jim Carrey is quite simply amazing, I never stopped laughing the whole way through the movie.
Pictures came out ... |
tt0114113 | The Perez Family | Cuban boat-lift refugees (Carter era) land in Miami, with different goals. The story focuses on relationships that develop under hard circumstances, with long lasting effects. Drama is real, story is clean and not predictable. Character development is adequate, actor list is 1st class. Good writing. Marisa Tomei is inc... | romantic | train | imdb | Good Cast Helps This Pleasant Love Story (spoilers)..
Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei head up the cast of this pleasant romantic comedy about a former political prisoner and a former sugar cane farmer who leave Cuba for the United States in 1980 on what I presume to be the famous Marielle Boat Lift that brought Cuban ex... |
tt0191397 | The Replacements | A fictional pro football league finds themselves hit with a players' strike with the season still needing to be finished. Washington Sentinels owner Edward O'Neil calls a former coach of his, Jimmy McGinty, telling McGinty that he and the rest of the teams are going to finish the final four games of the season with rep... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Gene Hackman was good when he was making snappy wisecracks, but his inspirational `Hoosiers' imitation was misplaced.This film really belonged to the supporting actors like Orlando Jones (Clifford Franklin), Michael Taliferro and Faizon Love (The Jackson Twins), Ace Yonamine (Jumbo Fumiko), Rhys Ifans (Nigel `The Leg' ... |
tt0066827 | La bestia uccide a sangue freddo | On a dark evening, a person wearing a hood and dark cloak approaches a large rural villa which has been converted into an asylum. The person admires some antique weapons on a wall, selects an axe and heads upstairs. In one room, an apparently agitated Cheryl is tossing and turning in her bed. She presses the buzzer for... | pornographic, cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, romantic, sadist | train | imdb | This was particularly obvious in the Italian Giallo, a genre that emerged in those years from the traditional Italian horror film and the German Edgar Wallace thrillers.Here we have a typical example of the genre: a serial killer is on the loose , we see gruesome and gory (but stylish) killings that do not reveal the i... |
tt0120755 | Mission: Impossible II | Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), while vacationing, is alerted by the IMF that someone has used his identity to assist Russian bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija) of Biocyte Pharmaceuticals to enter the United States, but purposely crashed the commercial airliner en route. Nekhorvich, an old friend of... | revenge, suspenseful, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | Sure, the action scenes are great in that classic John Woo, ultra-choreographed way, but the plot isn't original or have much to it.
Since John Woo, who is one of the kings of the action genre, took over for Brian De Palma, you can expect Mission: Impossible II to be an intense action movie with a majorly dumbed down p... |
tt3528666 | The Marine 4: Moving Target | Jake Carter (Mike Mizanin), a former U.S Marine, is now working at Hawthorne Global Security, a private security agency led by Robert Daniels (Craig Veroni). He and a few other men are waiting at the airport for the arrival of whistleblower Olivia "Liv" Tanis (Melissa Roxburgh), an IT engineer who used to work for Gene... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Audiences should be aware that The Marine 4 is the epitome of B-movie, it has a simple premise and is designed to entertain with least amount of effort.
It offers lots of shooting spree as well as decently choreography melee combat, even though some of its logic are admittedly flawed and the protagonists wear magical p... |
tt0070694 | Night of the Dark Full Moon | On Christmas Eve, 1950, a man in flames runs from the house that Wilfred Butler built while a person is heard playing organ music inside. Wilfred Butler was buried on New Year's Day, and his house was left to his grandson Jeffrey Butler. The house remained empty for over 20 years, until Jeffrey finally decides to sell ... | revenge, cult, avant garde, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0045920 | It Came from Outer Space | A fireball streaks across the desert sky and crashes. We see an aerial view of Sand Rock, Arizona in the late evening in the early spring. Inside an isolated ranch house outside of town we meet John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and his girlfriend Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush). He is an amateur astronomer, she the local schoo... | horror | train | imdb | null |
tt1217213 | Secret of the Wings | Tinkers' Nook is bustling with activity, for the tinker fairies are making snowflake baskets for the fairies of winter. A flock of snowy owls soon arrive for the baskets, bringing a final shipment order for Fairy Mary (Jane Horrocks) with them. Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) watches as the birds headed off toward the Winter... | fantasy | train | imdb | null |
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