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tt0357110 | The Ballad of Jack and Rose | Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis), a Scottish farmer with a heart ailment, lives on an island which had been a hippie commune decades before. He is struggling to keep landowners from building developments on the wetland. His teenaged daughter Rose (Camilla Belle) is a beautiful but isolated girl with a passion for gardeni... | storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | Having admired its director, Rebecca Miller in all her films, we were right in seeing it in the wide screen of the main theater because that seems to be the perfect way to watch this intimate picture.Ms. Miller takes us to an island off the coast of the continental mainland to set her story.
We gather Jack and Rose hav... |
tt0372588 | Team America: World Police | Team America: World Police exists for the sole intention of stopping terrorists from performing evil deeds. With a home base located within the structure of Mount Rushmore, the team comprises Lisa, a young psychologist; Carson, Lisa's love interest; Sarah, an alleged psychic; Joe, a typical all-American jock who is in ... | comedy, stupid, cult, violence, humor, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0381849 | 3:10 to Yuma | The legendary outlaw, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang have just robbed an armed stage coach carrying the Southern Pacific Railroads payroll. They kill everyone on-board except Pinkerton guard, Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda) whom Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), Wade's right hand man, shoots in the belly. A poor rancher ... | violence, dark, murder | train | imdb | 3:10 to Yuma is a true Western in the American film tradition about the 19th-century American West: It has clear heroes and villains (and a mixture of those), wide prairies, dirty towns, fast guns, weak lawmen, cunning murderers, kids on the cusp, and women marginalized, just for starters.Then ratchet up to the philoso... |
tt0104053 | Trauma | On a dark and rainy night, a chiropractor opens a door to let an unseen patient into her office. When the chiropractor tells the unseen person that "you look familiar", the person knocks out the female chiropractor, takes out a machine-operated wire device and decapitates the woman.Several days later, David Parson is d... | avant garde, murder, violence, horror, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | The variations between the movies, then, come from the genre accidentals "Profondo Rosso" is a detective thriller, "Suspiria" an occult conspiracy tale, etc.; Argento seems to come along and apply his own unique vision of the giallo onto whatever horror style is fashionable at the time.
It's his uniqueness, rather th... |
tt0049363 | Indestructible Man | We open with a scene of the indestructible man on top of gantry crane at an electrical power generating station and the credits. Lt. R. Chasen is dictating his report of the case and tells the story of the Indestructible Man in flashback.We are outside the gates at San Quentin prison in California. This is the final st... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Lon picks up some quick pocket money playing Charles "Butcher" Benton (we are never told how he got the nickname and maybe are better off for not knowing) a career criminal railroaded to the gas chamber by his ex-partners.
The cast is great, apart from Lon Chaney and Robert Shayne (NEANDERTHAL MAN, INVADERS FROM MARS, ... |
tt0844708 | The Last House on the Left | The film begins in the middle of a forest at night. Police officers Morton (Michael Bowen) and Giles (Joshua Cox) are transporting a dangerous criminal, named John Krug (Garret Dillahunt), to prison. Krug requests for them to stop so that he can piss, but they refuse. The car stops at a railroad crossing while a train ... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder, violence, horror, revenge, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | As a fan of the original 1972 version, I wasn't expecting a lot, but at the same time, with Wes being brought in as a producer, I felt it had to live up to some expectations.What I got was a fun yet torturous movie that had the audience with it the whole time.
These films require a director who has talent with timing, ... |
tt0090728 | Big Trouble in Little China | Visalia, California Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) wins a bet with his restaurant owner friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), and accompanies him to the airport to pick up Wang's Chinese fiancée Miao Yin (Suzee Pai) to make sure he honours the payment. A Chinese street gang, the Lords of Death, tries to kidnap another... | paranormal, cult, psychedelic, humor, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Loud mouthed truck driver Jack Burton (played by Carpenter's long time collaborator Kurt Russell) arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown where he agrees to help out old friend Wang (played by Denis Dun) by driving him to the airport to pick up his green eyed fiancé.
Is actually my fourth best John Carpenter/Kurt Russell ... |
tt0452660 | One Last Thing... | Dylan (Michael Angarano), a high school student with an inoperable brain tumor, lives with his widowed mother Carol (Cynthia Nixon) in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. He is invited on television by a wish-granting organization and stuns viewers with his wish: he wants to spend a weekend alone with supermodel Nikki Sinclaire... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I went to see this movie on the recommendation of a friend and didn't know what quite to expect - was it another 'teen flick' or something better.
"One Last Thing" takes the story of a teenager, dying of cancer, and turn it into a celebration of life that is neither sappy, nor cliché.
On the verge of accepting a charit... |
tt0424938 | Karla | This movie--based on a true story that shocked Canadians and dominated headlines--opens in Oct 2000 with Karla Homolka approaching the 8 year mark of a 12 year manslaughter sentence and up for parole. Under Canadian law, parole would usually be virtually automatic, but Karla's case is no ordinary case. Karla has been s... | flashback, violence, sadist, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt1325004 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Eclipse opens at nighttime where Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel) is exiting a store on his way home. A driving rainstorm begins as he walks on his way. Without warning, he is knocked down. Looking around, startled, he cannot see anyone-- the street he is walking down appears completely deserted. Getting scared, he pulls hi... | paranormal, revenge, murder, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | I know nothing of the author however, I'm guessing she started writing this stuff when she was a twelve year old girl with delusions of what love should be.This entire movie is nothing more than a very poorly written romantic dilemma, wrapped in a weak premise of vampire and werewolves in an attempt to lure extra inter... |
tt0070294 | The Legend of Hell House | Physicist Lionel Barrett is enlisted by an eccentric millionaire, Mr. Deutsch, to make an investigation into "survival after death" in "the one place where it has yet to be refuted". This is the Belasco House, the "Mount Everest of haunted houses", originally owned by the notorious "Roaring Giant" Emeric Belasco, a six... | boring, gothic, paranormal, haunting, good versus evil, sadist | train | wikipedia | And it works very well.One of the all time best haunted house movies ever, this one is definitely worth buying.
The Legend of Hell House is one these exceptions 'cause it really serves up some decent scares and maintains a very creepy atmosphere throughout.The plot is similar to The Haunting.
Needless to say the house ... |
tt0384537 | Silent Hill | "SHARON! Where are you?" We first hear Rose DaSilva (Radha Mitchell) shouting these words as she and her husband Chris (Sean Bean) search for their daughter Sharon in the middle of the night. Rose runs beneath a highway through some kind of river and finds herself standing over a gigantic waterfall. She sees Sharon (Jo... | dark, boring, gothic, murder, suspenseful, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | As a fan of the games, and anything related to them, my faith has been firmly established in Gans and Avery, and I can only wish for sequels.The atmosphere was perfect, the acting was on point, the creatures were amazing, well, everything was amazing.The town itself looks just like the town we love, and it's almost lik... |
tt0063035 | The Green Berets | At Fort Bragg, cynical newspaper reporter George Beckworth (David Janssen) is at a Special Forces briefing about the American military involvement in the war in Vietnam. The briefing at Gabriel Demonstration Area (named for SGT Jimmy Gabriel, the first "Green Beret" soldier killed in Vietnam), includes a demonstration ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | It's hard to find a Vietnam war movie that DOESN'T come full of distortions based on the film makers political agendas; it's just this time "The Green Berets" comes from the pro-involvement side.We've heard the negatives about this movie, and most of them are basically correct but there are a few things to say that, if... |
tt0179182 | Forever Mine | The highly stylized film begins in the early 80's as first class airline passenger, the mysterious and facially scarred Manuel Esquema (Fiennes) reflects on his earlier and significantly different life. Flashbacks take us a decade and a half earlier to a posh Miami hotel where we find that Esquema was really a dashing ... | revenge, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0285335 | The Amazing Race | Open with teams learning they are next headed to Vienna, Austria where they will get their next clue in a car. Teams go immediately to local travel agencies.Flight Time & Big Easy and Zev & Justin get a connecting flight that arrives at 5:35am the next morning. Kisha & Jen are on the same flight, as are Gary & Mallory.... | non fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt0032553 | The Great Dictator | During a battle in the last months of World War I, the protagonist, an unnamed soldier (known only in the credits as A Jewish Barber), is fighting for the Central Powers in the army of the fictional nation of Tomainia, comically blundering through the trenches in combat scenes. Upon hearing a fatigued pilot pleading fo... | comedy, anti war, cult, violence, good versus evil, humor, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0039017 | Terror by Night | An off-screen narrator tells of the deadly curse carried by the fabulous "Star of Rhodesia" diamond, then takes us to a London coffin-maker's, where Vivian Vedder (Renee Godfrey) arranges a special coffin for her late mother. She'll be taking it on the 7 PM train to Edinburgh. At Euston Station, Roland Carstairs (Geoff... | murder | train | imdb | Good film of the splendid Sherlock Holmes-Basil Rathbone and his loyal companion Watson-Nigel Bruce series including a first-range nasty , a Doctor Moriarty's disciple , named Sebastian Moran.
When the fabulous Star of Rhodesia diamond is robbed on a train bound from London to Scotland and the son of its owner is kille... |
tt0075467 | Az ötödik pecsét | The Fifth Seal is a study in depersonalization. Set in Budapest, 1944 towards the end of World War II, it tells the story of a group of friends hanging out in a bar owned by Béla (Ferenc Bencze), drinking, talking and having as good a time as they can, trying to stay out of trouble. Miklós (Lajos Öze) a watchmaker, Lás... | philosophical | train | imdb | Great dialogs, great scenes and all about You....
One of the greatest newage hungarian writer Santa Ferenc's book is digging very very deep into the human being and the human nature.
Fabry, the director chose the best actors, and made one on the best hungarian movie.
You have to see it more than few times, to pick up e... |
tt0437800 | Akeelah and the Bee | Akeelah Anderson, an 11-year-old spelling enthusiast, attends Crenshaw Middle School, a predominantly black school in South Los Angeles. She lives with her widowed mother Tanya, her older sister Kiana, her older brothers Devon and Terrence, and her infant niece. Her principal Mr. Welch suggests that she sign up for the... | cute, sentimental, feel-good | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046811 | Bugs and Thugs | It begins with Bugs emerging from his hole in a city park, reading the newspaper on his way to the nearest bank, for a withdrawal from his personal depository of carrots. He reads that "Rabbit Season Opens Today" and comments on his pleasure of living in a "more secure" urban environment (miraculously avoiding heavy tr... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Clever and well worth seeing to see how Bugs outwits the thugs.
The cartoon does start off slowly, and the secondary characters are a little clichéd, especially the Irish cop.
But it is very clever and funny, with Bugs excellent as usual and the gangster a nice little addition.
Coupled with beautiful artwork, a good sc... |
tt0963966 | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | The events that unfold prior to the main timeline in the movie are introduced in narration (uncredited Ian McShane), and takes us to 700 AD. The famous and powerful wizard Merlin (James A. Stephens) had three apprentices to whom he entrusted all of his knowledge of magic and cast spells over them to ensure they didn't ... | fantasy, gothic, murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, humor, romantic | train | imdb | Fun. Dueling sorcerers, a compelling back-story, top-notch acting talent, and the Disney brand bring the idea born of Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice to the big screen in a live full movie adaptation.
is funny and charming in a believably nerdy fashion; Cage is at his quirky but charismatic best; the effects are plent... |
tt0202677 | The Way of the Gun | Parker and Longbaugh are a pair of low-level petty criminals, living off the grid and funding their existence through unconventional and often illegal means. Wanting to move past petty crime, they vow to get the proverbial "big score." While at a sperm donation clinic, the pair overhear a telephone conversation detaili... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, revenge | train | wikipedia | THE WAY OF THE GUN (2000) ***1/2 Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, James Caan, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Scott Wilson, Kristin Lehmann, Geoffrey Lewis, Sarah Silverman.Christopher McQuarrie makes his directing debut in a big way with an obvious nod to Sam Peckinpaugh with his screenplay about two ne'er do... |
tt1112782 | Thick as Thieves | In New York City, we see veteran thief Keith Ripley (Morgan Freeman) walk into a health spa with a gun and shoot and kill a man in a hot tub. We later learn that it was Victor Korolenko who was Ripleys partner, but Victor body has disappeared. Later Ripley recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas) to hel... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0037515 | And Then There Were None | Ten people are gathered for a long weekend on an island off the coast of Devon, England. They are the guests of the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen, whom none of the ten has ever actually met. During dinner, they notice the centerpiece of ten china Indian figurines, and they compare it to the nursery rhyme counting d... | entertaining, suspenseful, mystery, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0113360 | The Hunted | Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert), a computer-chip executive from New York, is on one of his many business trips to Nagoya. He meets a beautiful woman named Kirina (Joan Chen) in the hotel lounge, and ends up having a one-night-stand with her. When he attempts to further the relationship, Kirina implies that she has no... | neo noir, murder, cult, revenge, violence, horror, flashback, good versus evil, humor, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0119396 | Jackie Brown | Los Angeles,1995. Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline called Cabalas Airlines which flies only from L.A. to Cabo San Lucas, the latest step down for her career. Despite the low pay, the job enables her to smuggle money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L... | comedy, boring, neo noir, murder, suspenseful, realism, cult, violence, psychedelic, romantic, blaxploitation | train | imdb | The big names in the cast like De Niro, Jackson and Fonda are all very good, but the real standout performances in this movie are by 70s blaxploitation icon Pam Grier ('Coffy', 'Foxy Brown', 'Black Mama White Mama',etc.etc.) and a revelatory one from Robert Forster.
The fascinating thing about 'Jackie Brown' for me is ... |
tt0093894 | The Running Man | By 2017, the world economy has collapsed, and food, oil, and other natural resources are all in short supply. Unable to meet the needs of the general public, the U.S. government has likewise collapsed and given way to an iron-fisted police state divided into paramilitary zones.The media is controlled by the state, and ... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, absurd, humor, satire, revenge, sadist, sci-fi | train | imdb | Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson (in his final film).
As a kid I always loved this movie is the third best action movie in my opinion I love The Running Man to death, this movie was also made after success of Preda... |
tt0108921 | The Secret World of Alex Mack | Alexandra (Alex) Mack lives with her prodigy older sister (Annie), her chemist father (George) and her business marketing mother (Barbara), in the modern corporate town of Paradise Valley. Located in Arizona, Paradise Valley has good weather but is incredibly small and has nothing exciting about it. Its main employer i... | paranormal | train | imdb | "The Secret World of Alex Mack" was, in my opinion, one of the best shows in the twenty-year history of the Nickelodeon television network.
It was well-produced, well-written, and not at all corny (like most other Nick shows of its generation such as "All That" and "Kenan and Kel").
The chemical plant (along with Danie... |
tt0066735 | 4 mosche di velluto grigio | Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) plays the drums for a local Rome rock and roll band when at various time, he sees a man in dark sunglasses wearing a suite and tie, watching him. After the session, Roberto sees the man and follows him through the dark streets to an apparently abandoned opera house where he confronts th... | neo noir, murder, allegory, cult, horror, violence, haunting, flashback, insanity, tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | Other visual motifs (crimson curtains, extreme close-ups, inanimate objects suddenly wielded by a seemingly maniacal camera) would be repeated or re-jigged in Deep Red, Phenomena and Opera.Argento's original intention was to have a gay protagonist and though the character of Roberto is still open to such a reading - hi... |
tt1262945 | Puen yai jon salad | Queen Hijau (The Green Queen) of Pattani faces overthrow by the rebel Prince Rawai, who is allied with pirate captain Black Raven. The pirates attempt to capture a huge cannon built by Dutchman Janis Bree and Chinese inventor Lim Kiam, but the Dutch ship carrying the cannon blows up and the cannons sink into the sea.
M... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Thai Aquaman meets Pirates of the Caribbean. I saw the English subtitled version at the Montreal Fantasia festival in a fully-crowded theater. I found it to be surprisingly good and of high quality. "Queens" is a fantasy adventure which tells the story of a small kingdom ruled by a queen with 2 daughters (although they... |
tt0069994 | The Forgotten | Dr. Stephens (Michael Harvey) presides over a small hospital for the insane; the asylum is a large three-story white house located in an isolated, rural setting. With only himself and a small staff to care for the patients, his approach to psychiatric care is considered very liberal. He allows the patients access to th... | cruelty, murder, violence, cult, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | As the latter was also distributed by Hallmark, they obliged to reproduced the same tag line here - `To avoid fainting keep repeating: It's only a movie
only a movie
only a movie'.'Don't Look in the Basement tells the story of Charlotte Beale (heartstoppingly gorgeous Rosie Holotik and Playboy covergirl, April, 1972),... |
tt0096426 | Waxwork | In a small suburban town, a group of college students "Mark, China, Gemma, James, Tony, and Sarah" visit a mysterious wax museum, where they encounter several morbid displays, all of which contain stock characters from the horror genre. Tony and China enter two separate waxwork displays. Tony is at a cabin where a were... | good versus evil, cult, satire, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0038519 | The Falcon's Alibi | Suave sleuth Tom Lawrence AKA The Falcon (Tom Conway) is enjoying a day at the racetrack but is equally enjoying the sight of attractive fellow race-goer Joan Meredith (Rita Corday). Meredith is the beleaguered personal secretary of her wealthy employer Mrs Gloria Peabody (Esther Howard). When Joan discovers the identi... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1235124 | Dorian Gray | When a naïve young Dorian Gray arrives in late Victorian London, by train, to inherit an estate left to him by his abusive grandfather, he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. Lord Henry's friend, society artist Basil Hallwar... | gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070544 | La planète sauvage | The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a word play on the French-language word hommes, meaning men), have been brought by the giant Draags to the Draags' home planet, where they are kept as pets (with collars). The Draags are an alien race which is humanoid in shape but a hundred times larger ... | cult, avant garde, psychedelic, atmospheric, satire | train | imdb | Although I appreciate animations like Finding Nemo or the Incredibles for they represent a renewal of the genre (in the same way the Disney movie did in the 50's), the artistic style of La Planete Sauvage is unmistakable and accords perfectly with the dark atmosphere of the movie.
They become tired of the treatment the... |
tt0963794 | The Ruins | Four friends sit by the pool at a Cancún resort. Amy (Jena Malone) and Stacey (Laura Ramsey), two best friends, are on vacation with their boyfriends Jeff (Jonathan Tucker) and Eric (Shawn Ashmore). When Amy realizes that she has lost an earring, a boy Mathias (Joe Anderson) finds it at the bottom of the pool and retur... | violence, horror, murder | train | imdb | I wasn't too psyched for this movie beforehand, but I got a free pass and figured why the hell not and wound up seeing one of the better horror films I've seen in a good while.
Thes best thing I can say about "The Ruins" is that it plays its hand honestly, there's no tweeny BS, no winking at the camera, it's just a cla... |
tt0350811 | The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer | Based as a prequel to the Stephen King mini-serie's 'Rose Red', 'The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer' is based Rose Red, a haunted house with a disturbing past. The Seattle mansion was constructed at the turn of the 20th century by oil magnate, John Rimbauer, who built the house for his bride, Ellen, while on honeymoon in Afri... | murder | train | imdb | A "creepy" movie, not a horror flick..
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer definitely held my interest enough and made me curious to see Rose Red.
In my opinion, Ellen Rimbauer was the better of the two.I loved the historical aspect of the movie, giving a definite history and personality to the house than a typical haunted hou... |
tt1515091 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | In 1891, Irene Adler delivers a package to Dr. Hoffmanstahl, payment for a letter he was to deliver. Hoffmanstahl opens the package, triggering a hidden bomb that is prevented from detonating by the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes takes the letter while Adler and Hoffmanstahl escape. Holmes finds Hoffmanstahl a... | entertaining, comedy, mystery, murder, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, plot twist, alternate history | train | wikipedia | Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Dr. Watson (Jude Law) contend with the salvation of civilization mostly through athletics, aided by director Guy Ritchie's considerable skill with the camera and graphics.But in the second half, when the duo moves swiftly but intellectually to confront the arch villain Professor... |
tt0103253 | Whore | Liz (Russell) is a Los Angeles prostitute the audience first sees attempting to get a customer on a busy downtown street near a tunnel. She addresses the audience directly on her life and problems throughout the film. When a van stops by, she gives it the brush off, recalling the last time she serviced a man in a van: ... | violence | train | imdb | The Weird and Wild World of Ken Russell: An interesting retort to "Pretty Woman"..
Whore (1991) was Ken Russell's take upon the life of a prostitute.
Theresa Russell is excellent as the "whore" who gives us an insider's view of the world of low-class prostitution.
Whilst movies like "Pretty Woman" show us the bright si... |
tt1506999 | Haywire | Former Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) goes to a diner in Upstate New York to meet Aaron (Channing Tatum). He tells her to get in his car, but she refuses and they fight. He pulls out a gun, but she disarms and pistol-whips him. Scott (Michael Angarano), a customer in the diner, intervenes and Mallory demands his car... | revenge, action, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Haywire is directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an all star cast that includes Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender.However the main star is MMA fighter Gina Carano as Mallory Kane who works in black ops and is hired to pose as he wife of a British agent and ends... |
tt1131734 | Jennifer's Body | Opening scene (depending on the DVD's theatrical or extended versions), shows Needy, a violent inmate, in a correctional facility. She is notorious for being a 'kicker', and is now reflecting during lockdown on past events.
In the small town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, the story focuses on two girls who are life-long... | comedy, cult, gothic, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | Such is the case with "Jennifer's Body," the sophomore script from Diablo ("Juno") Cody, which takes an uncomfortable union of concept, content, and direction (by Karyn Kusama), and transforms it into a film I really WANTED to like, but in the end couldn't.
well, it's Megan Fox. The only reason why she was "discovered"... |
tt0120655 | Dogma | The film opens with a homeless man (Bud Cort) on a deserted New Jersey boardwalk in Asbury Park being assaulted and severely beaten by three mysterious pre-teen kids in street hockey gear.Cardinal Glick (George Carlin) gives a presentation at a church telling about the various changes that are going to be made to boost... | entertaining, comedy, murder, adult comedy, bleak, thought-provoking, cult, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, satire, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | As I watched it (the first and all subsequent times), I felt sure that the movie was written by someone who really loves his church -- but is smart and aware enough to recognize its shortcomings, its blindspots, even its failures and hypocrisies.
In all these works, just as in the real world, love and joy and beauty an... |
tt0230030 | Bedazzled | Stanley Moon (Moore) works in a Wimpy's restaurant and is infatuated with the waitress Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron). In despair he attempts suicide but is interrupted by the Devil, incarnated as George Spiggott (Cook). ("Mr Spiggott" had previously been one of the characters in the sketch One Leg Too Few).
Spiggott ... | romantic, alternate reality, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0465538 | Michael Clayton | The film opens with the rabid ranting and raving of Arthur Eden's (Tom Wilkinson). Most of this speech is rambling and babbling. He begins talking about how one day he was leaving work and he walked out into the street into traffic and suddenly he found he could not move, even though there was traffic incoming. Essenti... | mystery, murder, dramatic, intrigue, flashback, insanity, storytelling | train | imdb | But in the case of Michael Clayton, the film focuses most of its attention on the questionable moral quagmire of working for guilty clients, living your life protecting those who you can't help but find reprehensible, wanting to get out, but finding you are good at it and that is where your superiors want you.
Michael ... |
tt0059124 | Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | As the film opens, we see numerous shots of San Francisco. We soon see a young brunette woman, clad in a trenchcoat and fedora. She seems a tad over-dressed for the weather, but stranger things happen regarding her:- As she walks into the middle of a street, a car hits her, but it is the car that falls apart.
- Two men... | comic | train | imdb | null |
tt1859650 | To Rome with Love | To Rome with Love follows four different concurrent but unrelated plotlines taking place in the Eternal City.American tourist Hayley falls in love and becomes engaged to Italian pro bono lawyer Michelangelo while spending a summer in Rome. Her parents, Jerry and Phyllis, fly to Italy to meet her fiancé and his parents.... | comedy, humor, entertaining, romantic, clever | train | imdb | Then Jack meets Monica (Ellen Page) who is his girlfriend's best friend and is the object of all men's fantasies.Page also gets to play the role of the self-obsessed, pseudo-intellectual — commonly referred to as "the pedantic one" in most Woody Allen movies.
The cast is charming and I want to highlight a sincere Rober... |
tt0396171 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw), a notorious murderer. Between the reading of the sentence and the execution, the story of his life is told in flashback, beginning with his abandonment at birth in a French fish market. Raised in an orphanage, Grenouille grows into a strange... | mystery, murder, violence, magical realism, flashback, romantic, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077405 | Days of Heaven | Bill (Richard Gere), his girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) and his young teen sister Linda (Linda Manz) are forced to flee Chicago when Bill accidentally kills the foreman (Stuart Margolin) at the steel mill at which he works. They hop a train and eventually arrive at a wheat farm in the Texas panhandle. Bill secures work... | tragedy, boring, murder, atmospheric | train | imdb | But this film has moments, especially in the finale, that are surprisingly close to that of "Badlands" and this is the film where Malick fully mastered his approach of lush, visual poetry told at a languid pace that never seems boring, since you're fully within the film;s grasp.Pauline Kael said in her review that "the... |
tt0084695 | The Slumber Party Massacre | In a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood, a paperboy tosses a newspaper with the headline that screams: "MASS MURDERER OF 5 RUSS THORN ESCAPES". In one house, 18-year-old Trish Deveraux (Michele Michaels) wakes up, dresses, and gathers some dolls to throw away. Over her radio alarm clock, a news reporter talks about a ma... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Totally unpretentious '80's slasher is a cheesy, but fun ride.Some lovely young ladies decide to throw a get together, only to have some loonie with a drill stop in to kill them all.Slumber Party Massacre is a slasher fan's guilty pleasure with a pretty silly edge to it!
The acting, directing, and special FX are all B-... |
tt0294870 | Rent | After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love," the film opens with apartment tenants (including two friends and roommates, Mark and Roger) expressing their anger with suddenly being asked to pay rent which had previously been waived by the landlord. Collins, a former roommate of Mark's and friend to bot... | comedy, philosophical, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0068649 | The Gore Gore Girls | Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell), a reporter for The Globe, approaches Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress), an obnoxious private investigator, and offers him $25,000 on behalf of The Globe to investigate the brutal murder of stripper Suzie Cream Puff (Jackie Kroeger). She sweetens the deal with a $25,000 bonus for solving the case.... | violence, absurd, cult, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | SPOILER: The last gore film of Herschell Gordon Lewis is perhaps one of his goriest and remarkably one of his funniest..intentional and unintentional.
Frank Kress as Abraham Gentry certainly also is one of the best actors ever used in a lead in a Lewis film.
Henny Youngman, the only big name to grace any of Lewis's hor... |
tt1632547 | Tsumetai nettaigyo | In an unhappy home, Mr. Shamamto (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) lives with his second wife Taeko (Megumi Kagurazaka) and daughter Mitsuko (Hikari Kajiwara) from first marriage. The daughter is filled with rage that her father remarried so shortly after her mother's death. The stepmother lives with the guilt that perhaps she is th... | violence, psychological, murder | train | imdb | Shamoto tries to go against the grain, to say 'I don't want things to be like this.' But he finds himself alone against everything and has to learn some unpleasant truths about the world.This is a very bleak movie and over-the-top in its negativity.
Thrills, suspense, evil, yakuza, budding capitalist, hot women who fla... |
tt0037824 | Ivan Groznyy | In 1547, Ivan IV, then Archduke of Muscovy (Nikolai Cherkasov), crowns himself as Tsar of all the Russias in the cathedral. We see the crown, and then the elaborate ritual of coronation. In the sidelines, aristocratic attendees, the boyars, whisper expressing discontent at his elevation. Among them is Ivan's aunt, Efro... | revenge, intrigue, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt2294449 | 22 Jump Street | Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back on the streets chasing narcotics. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by Ghost (Peter Stormare), Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) puts the duo back on the program ... | comedy, humor, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have a great chemistry and you can see and feel, how they enjoyed doing this movie.
Like the first one, 22 Jump Street does a great job observing the different aspects of college life, students and teachers (or professors for that matter).
'22 Jump Street' truly builds on the basis of the ... |
tt4824308 | God's Not Dead 2 | This film is a sequel, taking place a few months after the first film.We are introduced to new characters, and revisit characters from the first film.A teenager named Brooke is trying to go about her day but is depressed because her brother died in an accident 6 months ago. Her parents seem to be over it and want her t... | christian film | train | imdb | null |
tt0995739 | Naam yi boon sik | An armoured truck carrying $100 million of cash is attacked by a criminal gang which calls themselves the "Ronin Gang" with explosives as it stops at a traffic junction in front of a jewellery shop. All the security guards were shot dead except one, while responding police officers suffered serious casaulties under the... | violence | train | imdb | Maybe, but now it sure has its work cut out for it, with an amazingly satisfying, over the top, touching and down right honorable release from dear old Benny Chan.Mr. Chan's New Police Story was an admitted wink at good action things past, and Invisible Target bears the same hallmarks of quality only much better implem... |
tt3576084 | Efes beyahasei enosh | Zohar (Dana Ivgi) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) are returning to Shizafón, their middle-of-nowhere IDF base, where they work in Personnel along with Irena [why isnt this great actress credited?], two ditzes who spend their waking hours singing duets at annoying volume, and various other incompetents, all commanded by the Nur... | comedy, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | So when I saw the movie's summary about a group of women being pencil pushers in the Israeli army, I was expecting something far different.
My perception (which I got from movies) of the Israeli army is that every one who comes out of it seems to be real bad ass.
The movie tells three different stories about different ... |
tt0074285 | Carrie | The film begins in the locker-room fill of teenage girls, including Carrie White (Sissy Spacek). Carrie gets her first period, and after becoming distressed, cries out for help. Instead of helping, the other girls ridicule and harass her, throwing out tampons, sanitary towels and toilet paper to her. Teacher Miss Colli... | comedy, fantasy, cruelty, suspenseful, gothic, murder, paranormal, dark, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, insanity, romantic, tragedy, revenge, sadist, prank | train | imdb | It is a classic offbeat horror-melodrama merging harmoniously the family Gothic extravaganza, supernatural power, and a woman's movie of a peculiar kind
It remains the cinema's best adaptation of a Stephen King novel
The film initiated De Palma's inclination for surprise diverts between playful imagination and realit... |
tt3006802 | Outlander | Flashback: Claire and Frank are happily strolling down a London street. Suddenly, Frank stops in the middle of the road and, with a smile, asks Claire if she is ready. Puzzled, Claire wonders what she should be ready for, and turns as Frank nods toward the City of Westminsters Registry Office, where a newly married cou... | historical fiction | train | imdb | I've recently been reading (actually listening to the audio-books) the Outlander series of books having completed 5 so far so when I saw the Starz TV series was coming out I just had to watch it.
In this case, I don't think people who are would be disappointed anyway as the screen writers did an excellent job of transl... |
tt0209163 | The Mummy Returns | In 3067 BC, the Scorpion King leads his army on a campaign to conquer the world. After fighting for seven years, his army is defeated while attacking Thebes and exiled to the desert of Ahm Shere, where his men die of heat exhaustion. After vowing to give Anubis his soul for the power to defeat his enemies, an oasis for... | comedy, mystery, historical, violence, flashback, action, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0407998 | The Mistress of Spices | Tilo (Aishwarya Rai), an immigrant from India, is a shopkeeper, an unusually strong clairvoyant, and a chosen Mistress of Spices. The Spices she gives to her customers help them to satisfy their certain needs and desires, such as "sandalwood to dispel painful memories; black cumin seed to protect against evil eye."
As ... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Chadha co-wrote the screenplay here with her husband.The movie follows Tilo, played by Aishwarya Rai, who is a member of an old, mystical cult that worships spice in all its forms.
Tilo, who also has the power to see visions of the future, soon ends up helping a whole coterie of characters: a man (Anupam Kher) who is d... |
tt0032612 | The Howards of Virginia | The film is set in colonial Virginia between the 1750s and 1781. Matt Howard (Cary Grant), orphaned son of a backwoods Virginia farmer, uses his connections with his schoolmate Tom Jefferson to get employment as a surveyor and a grant of a thousand acres on the Shenandoah. While surveying the Williamsburg estate of pla... | historical fiction | train | imdb | Movies about the American Revolution for some reason have never succeeded as well as those about the Civil War. My guess is that the best of them is Drums Along the Mohawk and that was about one of the more obscure theaters of that war.Like Gone With the Wind, the Howards of Virginia is taken from a rather sprawling no... |
tt2027128 | Justice League: Doom | The Justice League, with Cyborg's assistance, stop the Royal Flush Gang's attempted robbery of a diamond vault using complex technology that allows them to pass through solid objects. Vandal Savage plots to start a new civilization by exterminating part of the population; he gave the technology to the Gang for testing.... | good versus evil, flashback | train | wikipedia | The premise of the story is both simple and yet intriguing- Batman has secretly devised stratagems to neutralize his fellow Justice League members in case any of them turned rogue.
When his files are stolen however and used against his teammates, the League is forced to confront the fact that the architect of their nea... |
tt1587310 | Maleficent | Long ago, two rival kingdoms sat side by side: The human kingdom, ruled by a power-hungry king, and the Moors, a peaceful place inhabited by many gentle supernatural creatures. One resident of the Moors is Maleficent (Isobelle Molloy), a young fairy girl with enormous wings, who acts as a guardian for the other magical... | whimsical, revenge, fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt2333804 | The Zero Theorem | Qohen Leth, an eccentric programmer who refers to himself in the plural, is assigned to "crunch entities" for a company named Mancom. Finding himself suffering existential angst, Qohen constantly waits for a phone call, hoping that it might bring him happiness or the answers he seeks. When Quohen requests a "disability... | absurd, psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115964 | Crash | Today
The film begins with commentary by passenger Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle), who has suffered a car accident with his partner Ria (Jennifer Esposito). He mentions that the citizens of Los Angeles have lost their "sense of touch." Ria and the driver of the other car, Kim Lee, exchange racially charged insul... | mystery, violence, cult, insanity, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113497 | Jumanji | The film begins in 1869 in the town of Brantford, New Hampshire. Two boys are seen breathlessly running with a box, which they proceed to bury in the woods.The film then cuts to a century later in Brantford. A young boy named Alan Parrish is chased by a gang of bullies and seeks refuge in his father's shoe factory. Ala... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | imdb | After finding her, they must hurry before the town they live in is destroyed and before they all die!Jumanji is great family film, packed with - at the time - great graphics (that now look like a computer game).
The acting was great, and Robin Williams is perfect for the role of Alan Parrish, and Bonnie Hunt and him ha... |
tt4062536 | Green Room | Four friends - Pat (Anton Yelchin), Sam (Alia Shawkat), Reece (Joe Cole), and Tiger (Callum Turner) - wake up in their van. They're part of the punk rock band The Ain't Rights. They slept all night with the engine on. Pat and Sam ride a bike to a nearby parking lot and siphon some gas to get them back on the road.The b... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | Don't let ANYONE spoil you ANYTHING about the film.Don't see the trailer when it comes out.Avoid clips and any promo materials they may release in the future.Go in knowing as little as possible.Just know that watching Green Room is like getting a shot of adrenaline that doesn't let up until the very end.It's fantastic,... |
tt0052618 | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is a wealthy merchant living in Judea at the time of Christ. Under the influence of the oppressive Roman Empire, the land seethes with talk of revolt, and Caesar has sent more soldiers to quell the potential uprising. The new Tribune Messala (Stephen Boyd) once lived in Judea as a boy, a... | suspenseful, murder, suicidal, violence, romantic, revenge, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0064369 | The Ghastly Ones | In the opening scene, set on a 1880's Victorian-era private island somewhere on the Hudson River, a young couple, Robert and Ada, are having a picnic near an old house when Robert wonders off and gets attacked and hacked apart by a wild-eyed hunchback man. Ada goes off to look for him when she too is attacked and kille... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | Shot in that tight Milligan style where people seem to hug each other so they remain in frame (due to his camera being beyond poor).
Its a bad movie in the I can't believe they actually released this sort of way.
Again as with most Milligan films, little more than a home movie (stuff I shot looked like this and I could... |
tt0183790 | A Knight's Tale | (As it was said, may contain SPOILERS. Well, I guess.. that's ME, as this is my favorite movie and my Favorite Actor died at my same age of 28, HEATH LEDGER)The film takes place in the medieval times and contains many anachronisms, as it contains music and wordings that do not fit those times.It started with 3 faithful... | comedy, historical, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0386820 | Terkel i knibe | Terkel is in 6th grade at a secondary school together with his best friend Jason, who carries an iron pipe with him at all times even though he keeps on dropping it and curses about it. Terkel and Jason are playing a Game Boy in the schoolyard of Chestnutlane one day when a strange man in a green panda sweater approach... | revenge, cult, violence, humor | train | wikipedia | Terkel i Knibe is a great movie.
All you need to do is to change the language and the story, setting and lines will work in any western country.The film is about Terkel and his complicated life.
It's an animation about kids, however I would look upon this as more of an adult movie.
I think it would be funnier for teena... |
tt4786282 | Lights Out | The film opens with Paul (Billy Burke) skyping with his son, Martin (Gabriel Bateman), late at night while he's at work at a mannequin factory. Martin tells his father that his mother, Sophie (Maria Bello), has been acting strangely lately. Paul tells Martin that things will get better. Paul's assistant, Esther (Lotta ... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1798709 | Her | Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, introverted man who writes personal letters for people with difficulties expressing their feelings. He is very good at his job at handwrittenletters.com.Unhappy because of his impending divorce from his childhood sweetheart Catherine (Rooney Mara), Theodore purchases a ta... | psychological, boring, thought-provoking, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, romantic | train | imdb | Spike Jonze's latest feature 'Her', set in the not-too-distant future, tells the story of Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) who finds himself falling in love with 'Samantha', an advanced operating system voiced by the sultry Scarlett Johansson.
While the film never becomes completely predictable, even to a jaded reviewer like... |
tt1555064 | Country Strong | WARNING! The Synopsis may contain Spoilers!Best Line: Fame and love cant live in the same place.Country Strong is a very well written and well acted movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow as the aging Kelly Canter; a country western star with a past, Tim McGraw as her husband/manager James Canter; Garrett Hedlund as Beau Hutto... | cult, romantic | train | imdb | Once again she showed how wonderful and talented an actress she really is.Garrett and Leighton played their roles very professionally...very real and we need to see more of them.I love this movie.
"Country Strong", a surprisingly good film (even if you live in California and don't happen to like country music).
Starri... |
tt1034325 | Phoebe in Wonderland | A 9-year-old girl, Phoebe (Elle Fanning), has apparent Tourette syndrome. While she deals with being odd and insecure, her mother (Felicity Huffman) and father (Bill Pullman) are dealing with complexities in their relationship with each other and their challenging child. Her younger sister (Bailee Madison) feels neglec... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0046739 | Baby Buggy Bunny | As the film opens, a mysteriously tall stranger is perpetrating a bank robbery. He runs out into an alley, where it is revealed that the thief is an adult midget on stilts-- Ant-Hill Harry, alias Baby Face Finster. He throws the money into a nearby baby carriage, and disguises himself as a baby to evade capture. When t... | psychedelic | train | imdb | Now That's Some Baby!.
I liked the dramatic opening in here, with a huge, nasty-looking guy robbing a bank but then disrobing afterward and turning out to be a two-foot midget on stilts.
He then disguises himself as a baby, laying innocently in his carriage as police race by to the scene (nobody cared if a baby was lef... |
tt0038733 | A Matter of Life and Death | On 2 May 1945, Squadron leader Peter Carter is a Royal Air Force pilot trying to fly a badly damaged and burning Lancaster bomber back to his base in England after a mission over Germany. He has ordered his crew to bail out, without revealing that his own parachute has been shot up. He manages to contact June, an Ameri... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | And Jack Cardiff's cinematography is reason enough to watch the film alone, the way he lights Kim Hunter's face makes her all the more beautiful, what a genius, he can make a simple things such as a game of table tennis look exciting.
The black and white sequence that involves the long staircase where Peter and the Con... |
tt0910865 | Doctor Strange | In Kathmandu, Nepal, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. They steal a few pages from an ancient, mystical text belonging to the Ancient One, a long-lived sorcerer who has taught every student at Kamar-Taj, including Kaecilius, in the mystic arts. The Anci... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4046784 | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | The opening scene shows hundreds of people crowded around a quarantined area. A young Thomas is brought by his mother to be taken away for protection on board a train. She tells him she loves him and they never see each other again. On the train, Thomas meets Dr. Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson).In the present, Thomas (Dy... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | imdb | but unfortunately I got none of this answers, but what I did get were a lot more mysteries but no answers, but it's not like LOST where it leaves the audience thinking and putting things together and finding out the mysteries, but it's more of a dull and predictable mysteries every time they have some of the main chara... |
tt0054885 | Flower Drum Song | During the potpourri overture and opening credits, oriental figures portray a journey from Hong Kong to San Francisco aboard a cargo ship.
When the action begins a young Chinese girl, Mei Li, and her father, Dr. Han Li, peer out a porthole in the ship as they sail into San Francisco harbor. They have stowed away in cra... | romantic | train | imdb | Forget the PC and enjoy the movie, musical numbers, actors and film titles..
The last time I saw Flower Drum Song on a big screen was at the Asian Pacific American Studies event at New York University, spurred on by David Henry Hwang's Broadway revival which received favorable reviews except for one paper.
Right around... |
tt0112760 | Cutthroat Island | In 1668 Jamaica, Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) a born and raised pirate lady is found by her father's henchmen and called back to her father's ship in emergency. Her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown (Frank Langella), has captured her father, Black Harry (Harris Yulin). Black Harry has one of three pieces of a map to a h... | violence, action, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0903624 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Prologue: During the preparations for the birthday party at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the elderly Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) is writing a memoir. He describes the fabulously wealthy dwarven kingdom of Erebor and its relations with the human kingdom of Dale and the wood elves rule... | fantasy, boring, flashback, good versus evil, humor, storytelling | train | imdb | When I heard that there was to be a film version of The Hobbit, I was quite looking forward to it as the big finish of Lord of the Rings was still in my mind and, unlike LotR, I had actually read The Hobbit several times many years ago.
Whilst the LOTR trilogy had it's lighter moments, The Hobbit revels in the lighter ... |
tt2582846 | The Fault in Our Stars | A teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is lying in the grass staring up at the stars. She states that she believes we're allowed to choose how to tell sad stories, and that although one can sugarcoat it and say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, it's not the truth.Haze... | dramatic, romantic | train | imdb | The pain and emotions felt by the characters felt so real, as if I was feeling the same emotions.Though this was THE SADDEST movie I have ever seen, it was also one of the most beautiful, as it truly showed how exhilarating and comforting and exciting love is.
I am a huge fan of the book and one thing which really make... |
tt0124315 | The Cider House Rules | Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood "being of use" as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unw... | dramatic, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | This film was a comedy, a tragedy, a romance, a human-interest story, a character study, and a period piece, and each element was excellently done.This was all accomplished without sacrificing the philosophical and emotional depth Irving imbues in all his works.
He captures our admiration immediately, and despite his d... |
tt0049487 | The Maverick Queen | Beautiful and willful Kit Banion is the Maverick Queen. She is a saloon owner and one of the leaders of an outlaw gang called the Wild Bunch. As the story unfolds Kit proves she is tough and smart, and can ride and shoot as well as any man. A Pinkerton agent posing as outlaw Jeff Younger is sent to infiltrate the Wild ... | historical fiction | train | imdb | One night in camp her and her partner are joined by Jeff Young a man who saves them when they are later ambushed by the Sundance Kid and his gang.
Sundance reports back to Kit Banion (aka the Maverick Queen) and she in enraged by his failure.
Shame then that it doesn't all come off, it is interesting and engaging but... |
tt0780653 | The Wolfman | In 1891, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) writes to Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) to tell him that his brother, Ben, has disappeared. Lawrence, a renowned Shakespearean actor, is touring London and races to the family's estate in Blackmoor. He has been estranged from his family for many years, since his father, Sir Joh... | boring, gothic, murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, insanity | train | imdb | null |
tt0403407 | Perfect Creature | The film opens as a pregnant woman (Danielle Cormack) gives birth to a vampire. A young Brother, Silus, aged 10–13 is told this child, Edgar and he are from the same mother. Throughout this introduction the mother is in visible emotional distress, reaching out across the room to Silus, trying to touch him.
Captioned "1... | neo noir, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | In a world not unlike ours in the 50's, the human race has been coexisting for three hundred years with a genetically enhanced breed of vampires called The Brotherhood that lead the church and researches.
Due to the political issue, the church sends Silus (Dougray Scott) to help her, and he discloses that his brother E... |
tt0015324 | Sherlock Jr. | Sherlock Jr. starts with a proverb: "Don't try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both." The projectionist/Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton) sits at the back of an empty movie theater with his broom, reading "How to Be a Detective." He has the required equipment: a moustache disguise and a magnifying glass... | absurd, psychedelic, humor, satire | train | imdb | What's so remarkable is not so much any particularly hilarious gag or gags, as the never-ending stream of amazing and entertaining sights - coming faster and faster as the film proceeds - that seem so off-hand and effortlessly inventive, but that must have involved many hours of painstaking work to perfect.
reality the... |
tt1279935 | Date Night | Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil Foster (Steve Carell) sleep peacefully in their bedroom, till they're jumped on by their kids, who demand breakfast. During breakfast, Claire gives her daughter a one-two-three warning, and is amazed that it still works. Phil makes the kids' lunches, but he's left all the drawers open, result... | comedy, adult comedy, cute, absurd, action, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0085407 | The Dead Zone | In the Maine small town of Castle Rock, school teacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) takes his fiancée sweetheart Sarah (Brooke Adams) to an amusement park. On the roller coaster, he suffers a bad headache and tells her that he must go home to sleep it off. Sarah begs him to stay, but he declines saying: "some thin... | mystery, gothic, paranormal, cult, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0181739 | Osmosis Jones | Frank Detorre is a widowed slovenly zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island. Much to the frustration of his young daughter, Shane , he eats compulsively unhealthy and has minimal concern for germs or disease. While trying to eat a hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise and salt, it is stolen from him by a chimpanz... | psychedelic, violence | train | imdb | This movie gives a very imaginative way the body works to fight infection, as if the body was a city of people just like in the real world.
You may need to have some sort of knowledge about the body to get some of the puns and jokes, maybe not very young kids will get it, but they will like the animation...this movie i... |
tt0059470 | Morituri | Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a German pacifist living in India during the Second World War. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his engineering experience to disable the scuttling charges of a German merchant ship carrying rubber from Japan. The Allies hope to recover the ship before it is scuttled by the cap... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0367959 | Hannibal Rising | In 1944, Lecter is eight years old, living in Lecter Castle; constructed by his paternal ancestor, Hannibal the Grim, in the Lithuanian countryside. Lecter, his younger sister, Mischa, and his parents escape to the family's hunting lodge in the woods to elude the advancing German troops. Back at Lecter Castle, six Lith... | boring, murder, violence, revenge, flashback, romantic | train | imdb | I don't know if any of these people have read any of the books, let alone Hannibal Rising, but I loved the movie.
Ulliel looked very menacing as the anti-hero Lecter but charming at times as well, just as Hannibal should be and he is backed up by a strong supporting cast (Rhys Ifans in particular).There are nice refere... |
tt0120148 | Sliding Doors | The film follows Helen Quilley (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young Englishwoman living in London who has just been fired from her public relations job. The plot splits into two parallel universes, based on the two paths her life could take depending on whether she catches a London Underground train or not.In the timeline in whi... | alternate reality, entertaining | train | imdb | The romantic comedy, 'Sliding Doors', is a great look at how quickly a person's life can change in a matter of moments.
By taking one path instead of another, forming a tantalizing 'what if?' In fact this movie gives the impression that some things are meant to be known, while some things are not.London publicists Hele... |
tt0990407 | The Green Hornet | Britt Reid (Seth Rogen) is the son of LA's most prominent and respected media magnate and perfectly happy to maintain a directionless existence on the party scene until his father James Reid (Tom Wilkinson) mysteriously dies, leaving Britt his vast media empire. Britt knows next to nothing about his father's newspaper ... | murder, violence, flashback, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0070239 | Jesus Christ Superstar | The camera pans across a landscape of desert hills dotted with stone ruins ("Overture"). A plume of dust in the distance resolves into a red and white bus that stops and disgorges a troupe of actors. The actors unpack costumes and props, including a large wooden cross. They dance around Ted Neeley, who will play Jesus,... | psychedelic, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt0046268 | Le salaire de la peur | 1950, in the very isolated town of Las Piedras, in Southern Mexico. Surrounded by the desert, the town is very poor, and also very quiet in the very hot midday sun. Located in the only street of the town, the bar «Corsario» is the meeting place for all the European who, for various reasons, found their way here and can... | suspenseful, realism | train | imdb | null |
tt0065088 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | A young boy by the name of Robert sees his hillbilly father shoot a horse with a broken leg to put it out of its misery.Years later, it's the Great Depression, the 1930's. Robert dreamed of being a great filmmaker but is now almost broke. He decides to enter a Los Angeles dance marathon, a craze that many people are fa... | depressing, flashback | train | imdb | A brutally bleak screen adaptation of the pulpy Horace McCoy novella, about a Depression-era dance marathon where down-and-outers drive themselves to the brink of exhaustion to win the cash prize.This film has become relevant again today in the age of reality T.V., where people tune in to watch strangers be humiliated,... |
tt2948356 | Zootopia | In the town of Bunnyburrow, a kid bunny named Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) is performing in a play for a talent show. The theme is that animals used to only be predator and prey, but now they have evolved to the point where they can all live side by side, and every animal can be whatever they want to be. She rips off ... | allegory, revenge, neo noir | train | imdb | null |
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