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tt0076752 | The Spy Who Loved Me | The pre-title teaser shows three different events: first, a British nuclear submarine experiences a serious disruption of power. The captain looks through the periscope and sees something foreboding, however we do not see what he does.In Moscow, Colonel Gogol hears from M that the British sub has disappeared. Gogol bec... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | As played by Barbara Bach (a.k.a., soon-to-be Mrs. Ringo Starr), Anya ranks as one of the best Bond Girls, easily worthy of 9 points.Bond Villain: Karl Stromberg (nice villainous name, by the way) is one of those mad billionaires who hopes to create a new world order by mass genocide and building a new society, this ti... |
tt1185431 | My One and Only | In New York City in 1953, Anne Deveraux lives with her bandleader husband Danny, their 15-year-old son George, and Anne's somewhat older effeminate son Robbie. After catching Danny in yet another affair, Anne leaves him and takes the children with her.
Anne embarks on a road trip across the United States, in search of ... | romantic, autobiographical, flashback | train | wikipedia | After catching her husband in the act of infidelity, Anne Deveraux takes off with her two teen sons and embarks on an adventurous road-trip hoping to find a man who would take care of them.
While Anne's attempts fail, she remains high-spirited and hopeful through her struggles until she learns a most valuable lesson, t... |
tt1735898 | Snow White and the Huntsman | While admiring a rose blooming in the winter, Queen Eleanor of the kingdom of Tabor pricks her finger on one of its thorns. Three drops of blood fall onto the snow-covered ground, and she wishes for a daughter as white as the snow, with lips as red as the blood, hair as black as a raven's wings and a heart as strong an... | fantasy, gothic, murder, boring | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0830515 | Quantum of Solace | The film opens soon after the events of Casino Royale with Bond driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy. With the captured Mr. White in the luggage compartment of his car, Bond is attacked by pursuing henchmen. After evading his pursuers, and killing several of them, Bond arrives at an MI6 safe house.M updates Bond on ... | revenge, action, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0399708 | Super Bowl XXXVIII | The New England Patriots faced the Carolina Panthers in the 38th annual AFC-NFC World Championship Game in Houston, TX. For the Patriots, it was the second time in three years they had gone to the Superbowl, while it was the first such trip for the Carolina Panthers. The Patriots had erupted to a 14-2 regular season an... | non fiction | train | imdb | One of the best Super Bowls of all time! The Brady bunch comes thru again at the end.. "Super Bowl "XXXVIII" pitted the AFC champion New England Patriots against the NFC champion Carolina Panthers and it would turn out to be one of the greatest Super Bowl ever played especially a second half that was nonstop action and... |
tt0104808 | Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence | Houngan, a voodoo-esque priest, recites a chant while surrounded by candles. As he stabs a decapitated human head, Matt Cordell, the so-called 'Maniac Cop', is lying dead in his coffin when he opens his eyes and punches though the casket.The next day, Detective Sean McKinney talks to Officer Kate Sullivan on a shooting... | cult, violence | train | imdb | "Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence" is yet another solid sequel that is just as good as the previous two movies in the series.
Former killer cop, officer Cordell is resurrected to take care of some unfinished business and exact revenge on those who have disgraced a policewoman shot in the line of duty.Despite being made i... |
tt1858481 | Last Passenger | Lewis Shaler (Dougray Scott) is a doctor and widower heading home with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama) on a late-night train from London heading to Tunbridge Wells. Max accidentally causes fellow passenger Sarah Barwell (Kara Tointon) to spill coffee on her coat, prompting Shaler to apologize to Barwell. The interac... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | The number of passengers on board dwindles to an eclectic few, seemingly in real time, before this familiar and very British late train to Kent is invaded by the plot of a Hollywood Blockbuster.
And this merger is the heart and soul of the piece – a 'what if?' scenario that sneaks out of nowhere, pulling the rug on wha... |
tt0375173 | Alfie | Alfie (Jude Law) is a Cockney limo driver who regularly beds and discards beautiful women. In addition to maintaining a casual relationship with a single mother named Julie (Marisa Tomei) that he refers to as his "semi-regular-quasi-sort-of-girlfriend thing", he also sleeps with various girls on the side, such as the u... | melodrama, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082279 | The Dorm That Dripped Blood | A young college man is seen running from an unseen pursuer. As he is hiding, hands grab his throat and he is strangled to death.Dayton Hall is a dormitory that is about to be turned into an apartment complex. Five students have volunteered to help with the cleanup, supervised by Joanne. At a party, Joanne's boyfriend, ... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1228933 | Laid to Rest | The film begins with a credits sequence showing women being assaulted, before moving to The Girl (Bobbi Sue Luther) waking up inside a coffin in a funeral home. The funeral director (Richard Lynch) hears this, and exits the room. The Girl manages to knock the coffin over, and crawls out. She crawls to the exit, only to... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1930308 | Comforting Skin | Awkward, average looking, and lacking any real self-confidence, Koffie has always felt she neither fits in nor stands out. These insecurities caused her to move around in dangerous circles, exhibit destructive impulses, and lie uncontrollably. But now she thinks she has turned the pageKoffies life is in transition. She... | suicidal | train | imdb | null |
tt1032755 | RocknRolla | Lenny Cole (Wilkinson) is a crime boss who calls the shots in London's underworld and real estate market. We learn all about Lenny from Archy (Strong) his second in command who serves as the film's narrator. When a wealthy Russian property dealer by the name of Yuri Omovich (Roden) looks to Lenny for help on a major ne... | comedy, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, entertaining | train | imdb | A quick list of things it shares with Lock Stock and Snatch would read thus: fast paced, witty dialogue; complex, interwoven plot threads; central McGuffin driving the mayhem (#1 antique shotguns, #2 huge diamond, #3 a lucky painting); smart, rapid editing; a mountain of Cockney crime stereotypes.
The movie as a whole ... |
tt0475937 | The Abandoned | A Russian peasant family is sitting down to dinner when a run-down, overheating truck comes to a halt in the front yard. The Father opens the door to find a now dead woman, obviously murdered, and two crying infants in the seat next to her.40 years later. We meet Marie Jones who has been summoned back to Russia by a no... | realism, murder, flashback | train | imdb | It deals with an American film producer named Marie (Anastasia Hille) goes back to her homeland, Russia (although shot in Bulgaria), where her mother's (Paraskeva) dead body has been found under strange circumstances.
And the cruel secret behind their family takes place at the end of the movie.This is a horror story wi... |
tt1600195 | Abduction | Nathan (Taylor Lautner) is a high schooler in Pennslyvania, who likes parties and boxing with his dad. He has rage and self-identity issues, and sees a shink (Sigourney Weaver). He's apparently a good wrestler as well as a kickboxer. He's assigned to work on a school project with his neighbor, Karen (Lily Collins), who... | suspenseful, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | But first, a disclaimer: despite my reasons, I want to assure you that none of my negative points will verbally lambast lead actor Taylor Lautner just because 'he's some guy from Twilight.' Nor will I make scalding reference to his gratuitous lack of upper body wear; the kind that one would hope comes off as witty comm... |
tt0458352 | The Devil Wears Prada | Andy (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite her ridicule for the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands a job "a million girls would kill for", junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Andy ... | comedy, humor, satire, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078843 | The Bell Jar | Based on Sylvia Plath's novel, The Bell Jar Esther Greenwood (Marilyn Hassett) dances turning around and around. She speaks directly to the camera, saying that she has won a scholarship and that she is a "very proper New England girl". She arrives to college by bike, and a friend wishes her luck. All the teaching body ... | insanity, autobiographical | train | imdb | What could they possibly have been thinking?.
Jameson Parker And Marilyn Hassett are the screen's most unbelievable couple since John Travolta and Lily Tomlin.
Larry Peerce's direction wavers uncontrollably between black farce and Roman tragedy.
Robert Klein certainly think it's the former and his self-centered perform... |
tt0077921 | The Medusa Touch | Chaos and destruction are all around as crews continue the clean up from an airliner crash city center last night. Tonight, we find ourselves in writer John Morlar's (Richard Burton) apartment, as he intently watches TV coverage of a NASA space mission going awry. As his intense eyes stare at the impending doom for the... | paranormal, murder | train | imdb | It's a slow burn type of story, and the filmmakers were much more concerned with building a creepy atmosphere than bombarding us with CGI effects, blood and gore, and whatever else passes for supernatural horror these days.Besides, Richard Burton on a bad day is better than most actors at their best.
The Medusa Touch i... |
tt0032910 | Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | cute, fantasy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0829442 | The Wild Man of the Navidad | This movie is allegedly based on the real-life journals of Dale S. Rogers, a man who, in the 1970s, lived along the banks of the Navidad River in Sublime, Texas - the same area where the original legend of the Wild Man of the Navidad surfaced back in the late 1800s. The film follows Dale, his wheelchair-bound wife Jean... | comedy, cult, avant garde, dark | train | imdb | Flawed old-school creature feature.
After a series of strange attacks and incidents in a small town, a group of friends get together to hunt down the malicious beast stalking the residents and put an end to it's reign of terror.This turned out to be a pretty disappointing Bigfoot entry, as this one really could've been... |
tt0134847 | Pitch Black | The space transport vessel "Hunter-Gratzner" is carrying 40 people on board in cryo-sleep (suspended animation). Debris from a comet's tail pierces the ship, waking the crew and killing the captain. The ship is knocked into the atmosphere of a nearby planet, and docking pilot Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell) tries to contr... | murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, action, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | imdb | The task gets even more difficult when the nearest enemies can be found within your own surviving group.The plot of Pitch Black is quite usual and has been seen several times before in different variations.
But what makes this movie shine above others, is it's well-written characters.The group consists of very differen... |
tt0076141 | High Anxiety | The story begins at the Los Angeles airport were Dr. Richard H Thorndyke (Mel Brooks) is introduced. Throughout the airport he encounters some strange characters, first a screaming woman running toward him with an umbrella, who turns out to just be excited to see her husband, and a gay man posed as a police officer (Fr... | paranormal, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0120912 | Men in Black II | The Columbia torch buzzes then flashes like a neuralizer.A video shows Mysteries in History: Episode 27 -- Men in Black (the host: Peter Graves narrates): "Although no one has been able to prove their existence, a quasi-government agency known as the Men in Black supposedly carries out secret operations here on Earth i... | comedy, cult, flashback, humor, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | In 1997, the original `Men in Black' struck a nerve with movie audiences by showing that even a big budget blockbuster, heavily loaded down with state-of-the-art, computer-generated special effects, could still manage to seem light on its feet.
The makers of that film pulled off this feat of gravitational legerdemain b... |
tt0044121 | The Thing from Another World | At an officers club Anchorage Alaska, Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) meets with a group of air force officers playing cards. Amid the small talk Scott tells the men that he is a reporter looking for a story. One of the officers admits that a large number of scientists are at the North Pole. Scotty takes an intere... | cult, horror, murder | train | imdb | THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD...the title conjures up lurid images from the countless 'B' SciFi flicks of the 50s, but as many SF, Howard Hawks, and Classic Cinema fans can attest, this is no sleazy schlockfest, but one of the most entertaining and exciting films ever made, by one of Hollywood's greatest directors.Yes, ... |
tt0052289 | The Thing That Couldn't Die | We open with a long shot of the McIntyre Ranch in California. Flavia McIntyre (Peggy Converse), and her ranch hands Boyd (James Anderson) and Mike (Charles Horvath) accompany her niece, Jessica (Carolyn Kearney) as she looks for water. Jessica is a water witch and with her divining stick is searching for a new vein of ... | paranormal | train | imdb | Yes,the movie is not a piece of art but the first time I watched it I was 10 years old,my parents were out and I stayed home with my two brothers.It was May 1970(I know that because I found a note about the cycle of horror movies that one network had).It's one of the most vivid memories I have with the guys.We ended al... |
tt0810988 | The Nines | "Part One - The Prisoner" tells of a troubled actor, Gary, who is wearing the green lace on his wrist. Gary is under house arrest living in another person's house because he burned down his own, the owner of the house is described as a TV writer away on work. While living in the house he is befriended by both a P.R. 'h... | paranormal, thought-provoking, psychedelic, alternate reality, stupid | train | imdb | null |
tt0255798 | The Animal | Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider) is an awkward, clumsy nice-guy who dreams of being a police officer like his dad was. He continuously attempts to pass the physical test to become a full-fledged police officer, but despite his repeated attempts, he is unable finish the obstacle course. Marvin gets constantly mistreated by ... | humor, stupid | train | wikipedia | I enjoyed Deuce Bigalow, and all (except for Big Daddy) of Adam Sandler's movies.
So I basically was expecting some (Ok, a lot) of low-brow humor, a decent plot to keep rolling through, and to laugh throughout the movie.
Rob Schneider, as "Marvin," lays his goofy Deuce Bigelow-type character on us, trying to get the pr... |
tt0102057 | Hook | It is the present day, and the boy who was once known as Peter Pan, has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a businessman who is more concerned with his work than with his family, including his wife Moira (Caroline Goodall), and his two children, Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott). Peter is hardly able t... | fantasy, whimsical, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, revenge, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | Peter Pan was meant to be 'the boy who never grew up', so to have a tale of his adult life and to show how he forgot Neverland is a special and unique take on the story, one that won't be forgotten.There have also been many complaints about the scene where Tink becomes human-size and expresses some kind of love for Pet... |
tt0076740 | Sorcerer | The film opens with a prologue that consists of four segments described by critics as "vignettes". They show the principal characters in different parts of the world and provide their backstories.
=== Part I: Prologue ===
==== Vignette #1: Veracruz, Mexico ====
Nilo (Rabal), an elegantly dressed man, enters a flat in V... | neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0446013 | Pathfinder | The boy who would come to be named Ghost was with a group of Viking colonizers who planned to exterminate the local population. Their dragon ship was somehow destroyed with the passengers brutally killed, leaving Ghost as the traumatized sole survivor. A native woman finds Ghost in the wreckage and adopts him as her ow... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0120890 | Wild Things | 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... | neo noir, gothic, murder, dramatic, cult, plot twist, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Of course, Wild Things doesn't always come across very realistically and, at times even, it's downright ridiculous; but it's done in such a way that it doesn't matter, and because of that we have a film that can do what it wants.
It has to be said that the scene setting and way that the plot moves is somewhat ham-fiste... |
tt0039041 | Tomorrow Is Forever | At the end of World War I, on Armistice Day, Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is waiting for her husband, John Andrew MacDonald (Orson Welles), to come home. However, she receives word of his death. Her boss, Lawrence Hamilton (George Brent), takes her home, where Elizabeth faints. He discovers she is pregnant w... | melodrama, flashback | train | imdb | "Tomorrow is Forever" is interesting because of Orson Welles' appearance as the supposedly dead husband that returns under a different disguise.Today's audiences don't have patience to deal with what for the movie going public in the early days were able to allow in the reality department.
Some negative comments to thi... |
tt0038355 | The Big Sleep | (Because the film has a very complicated plot and features many characters, the events will be told mostly in chronological order to render the plot clearer, rather than strictly adhering to the order we see in the film.)General Sternwood has two daughters: the elder one is Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and the younger one is... | cult, mystery, murder, plot twist | train | imdb | There is a certain truth to this: like the Raymond Chandler novel on which it is based, the plot is extremely complicated, and it requires the viewer to mentally track an unexpected number of characters--including two characters that never appear on screen, a pivotal character who doesn't actually have any lines, and a... |
tt0414993 | The Fountain | At its core, The Fountain is the story of a 21st-century doctor, Tom Creo (Hugh Jackman), losing his wife Izzi (Rachel Weisz) to cancer in 2005. As she is dying, Izzi begs Tom to share what time they have left together, but he is focused on his quest to find a cure for her.
While he's working in the lab, she writes the... | murder, thought-provoking, violence, alternate reality, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, inspiring, romantic, historical, sentimental | train | wikipedia | More movies should cut down their running times like this; because there is not a wasted moment in The Fountain from start to finish, despite the movie still moving at an gregariously slow pace.
Five hundred years later, Tom travels through space on a quest to reach the place of tranquility that Izzi spoke fondly of, u... |
tt0419946 | The Marine | In Iraq, John Triton (John Cena) of the United States Marine Corps is closing in on an al-Qaeda hideout, where a group of terrorists are preparing to behead several hostages. Disregarding direct orders to wait for reinforcement, Triton attacks the extremists and rescues the hostages. The next morning, his colonel infor... | good versus evil, violence, comedy, action, murder | train | wikipedia | 1 for Kelly Carlson and her hair, 1 for Robert Patrick and his lines, 1 for the guns, fights and explosions, 1 for the cat-fight and 1 for giving me hope that one day someone will give me a multimillion dollar budget to make my own action movie..
I wouldn't have minded if the characters had simply begun shooting themse... |
tt0800003 | Delta Farce | An army general (Glenn Morshower) addressing a bunch of assembled troops and stating that real heroes are hard to find these days.Meanwhile, diner waiter Larry (Larry the Cable Guy) is serving sandwiches at a local diner. His girlfriend Karen (Christina Moore) comes up to him and quickly tells him she's pregnant, and b... | bleak, humor | train | imdb | Seriously, it was nothing but vague references to overdone jokes by both Larry the Cable Guy & Bill Engvall - two comedians who haven't changed their routines in nearly a decade, who by some fluke of nature, still have careers.
This movie is not exactly great but it was enough for me too be entertained through-out.DJ Q... |
tt0049128 | Day the World Ended | It is TD day, total destruction day The day the world was destroyed by nuclear war.Tony Lamont (Mike Connors) and Ruby (Adele Jergens) drive to a concealed ranch house during a dust storm.Rick (Richard Denning) finds a victim of radiation sickness Radek (Paul Dubov) and tries to help
Inside the house Louise Maddison (L... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0053134 | Ohayô | The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home.
The film steers into a subplot concerning the local women's club monthly dues. Everyone in the neighborhood club believes that Mrs Hayashi, the treasurer, has given the dues to the chairwoman, Mrs Haraguchi (Haruko Sugimura), bu... | romantic, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | For viewers who have seen only one or two of Ozu's statelier films -- say, "Tokyo Story" or "Equinox Flower" -- "Good Morning" will be a surprise.
The family's authority structure is upended, with the all-powerful father crumbling against the stubborn silence of two little boys.What wins in the end is love -- or rather... |
tt1073664 | Fallout 3 | In a post apocalyptic world, a man/woman leaves the protection of the vault he/she was raised in to search for his/her missing father. He/She finds a world quite different from the one he/she experienced in the vault. His/Her experiences grow him/her physically, mentally, psychologically and morally. You ARE that man/w... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0106453 | Body of Evidence | An older man, Andrew Marsh, views a homemade pornographic tape. It is later revealed the man died from complications stemming from erotic asphyxiation. The main suspect is the woman who has sex with Marsh in the film, Rebecca Carlson, who after being charged with murder is represented by lawyer Frank Dulaney. The trial... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Can someone literally be, umm, sexed to death?And why do people think Madonna did such a bad job in this film?
Who else could look so sexy as the mega bad girl delivering a line like "I f***--that's what I do." Madonna is superb and I think she really proved critics wrong when she won a golden globe for Evita a few ye... |
tt0070022 | Electra Glide in Blue | John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) is a motorcycle cop who patrols the rural Arizona highways with his partner Zipper (Billy "Green" Bush). Wintergreen is an experienced patrolman looking to be transferred to homicide. When he is informed by Crazy Willie (Elisha Cook, Jr.) of an apparent suicide via shotgun, Wintergreen b... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Do not mistake this existential parable for what may otherwise seem like a superficial counter-culture exploitation flickit is nothing of the sort.Record producer Guercio's first (and last) effort at film-making, captured beautifully by the late cinematographer Conrad Hall, leaves the viewer wondering "where have all ... |
tt0203632 | Der Krieger und die Kaiserin | The first shot shows a lonely house by the ocean. Inside the house, a woman sits at a desk facing the ocean and writes a letter to Sissi Schmidt, Klinikum Birkenhof, Psych. Abt. Station 5. She goes outside and walks to the mailbox. The movie title appears. During the opening credits, you can see how the letter is sorte... | insanity, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0272338 | Punch-Drunk Love | Barry Egan is a single man who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. He has seven overbearing sisters who ridicule and emotionally abuse him regularly and leads a lonely life punctuated by fits of rage and anguish. In the span of one morning, he witnesses an inexplicable car accide... | comedy, suspenseful, bleak, whimsical, cult, absurd, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084867 | Vigilante | Eddie Marino (Robert Foster) is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie (Rutanya Alda) and an eight-year-old son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker, Nick (Fred Williamson), and two other co-workers, named Burke and Ramon, have formed a secret vigilante group because Nick and the group are f... | neo noir, murder, violence, cult, flashback, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Directed by William Lustig in between his trash classic 'Maniac' and 'Maniac Cop', the movie greatly benefits from the strong performances of Robert Forster ('Medium Cool', 'Jackie Brown') and Fred Williamson ('Black Caesar'), two actors who unfortunately have generally been wasted in dull action movies and awful strai... |
tt0485851 | The Air I Breathe | Each of the elements of life is portrayed using four different people in the urban streets of Los Angeles, with the gangster Fingers (Garcia) playing the character that intertwines all four individuals.
Happiness
Forest Whitaker plays a meek bank employee who loves butterflies. He accidentally overhears acquaintances d... | neo noir, murder, paranormal, thought-provoking, violence, flashback, inspiring, romantic, sadist, home movie | train | wikipedia | And, after all, that is what art should aspire to do.The film is based on a Chinese proverb which says that life consists of four emotions: Happiness, Pleasure, Sorrow, and Love.
Forest Whitaker is Happiness, Brendan Fraser is Pleasure, Sarah Michelle Gellar is Sorrow, and Kevin Bacon is Love.
This is what sociologists... |
tt0063385 | Oliver! | === Act I ===
The musical opens in the workhouse, as the half-starved orphan boys are entering the enormous dining room for dinner . They are fed only gruel, but find some solace by imagining a richer menu, ("Food Glorious Food"). Oliver gathers up the courage to ask for more. He is immediately apprehended and is told ... | romantic, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Brimming with unforgettable songs and dances (that choreography by Onna White is timeless), it is so well cast--down to the smallest roles--and so faithful to the spirit of Dickens' work that you can no longer imagine that classic without the songs.Fagin is played to perfection by Ron Moody.
Later, during the summer of... |
tt0109446 | The Client | Mark Sway (Brad Renfro), his mother (Mary-Louise Parker), and his younger brother (David Speck) live in a small trailer in Memphis, Tennessee. Mark, a young, street-smart kid, distracts his mother and steals two cigarettes from her purse while she rushes to get ready for her blue-collar job. After she leaves, Mark and ... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, prank | train | imdb | A decent film to have in your collection, and one of the better John Grisham book-turned-movie adaptations..
If it stayed like the beginning, this film would have been flawless.After a 11-year-old kid and his brother witnessed a suicide, the kid hires an attorney to help protect him and his family from threatening mafi... |
tt0417349 | North & South | North & South is a splendid, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely, and somewhat star-crossed, love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a hardscrabble, northern city. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays M... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1095217 | The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans | August 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana. Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) is a New Orleans Police Sergeant. While cleaning out a locker after Hurricane Katrina, he notices that a prisoner may not have been transferred. When he finds the prisoner about to drown, he mocks him before eventually jumping in the water to save him... | comedy, neo noir, murder, stupid, cult, violence, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0452702 | Vacancy | On their way home from a family party, David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale), who are on the verge of divorce after a family tragedy drove them apart, take a wrong turn on a remote mountain road. And since their vehicle ceases working, they discover there is no cell phone reception and start walking back to... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107822 | The Piano | A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. The voice that the audience hears in the opening narration is "not her speaking voice, but her mind's voice". Ada has not spoken a word since she was ... | romantic, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | But the sensuous portrayal of Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter and the complex acting of a young Anna Paquin allow this story to ring true.
Holly Hunter received an Oscar for her fascinating performance as Ada, a mute woman who is forced into an arranged marriage with a New Zealand landowner, played convincingly by Sam N... |
tt0120794 | The Prince of Egypt | In ancient Egypt, Hebrew slaves are hard at work making bricks and setting up giant statues and other monuments. Through song, it is implied that they call on their God regularly, seeking deliverance from their slavery, under which they have labored for hundreds of years. On this particular day, while the men are toili... | tragedy, inspiring | train | imdb | With "The Prince of Egypt," DreamWorks makes good on its promise to deliver a state-of-the-art animated film that will compete favorably with the best Disney has to offer.
(I do wonder, though, if three soundtrack albums--the film's soundtrack, an "inspirational" album, and a "country" album--were really necessary.) T... |
tt2452042 | The Peanuts Movie | In the morning, the kids wake up and find out that school has been cancelled because of snow. They all get together at Charlie Brown's (Noah Schnapp) house to start a hockey game. By the time Charlie puts on his winter clothes and comes outside, everyone has already left for the pond. Charlie decides to try flying his ... | romantic | train | imdb | After all, Charlie Brown and the rest of the characters created by Charles Schulz have been huge business for decades, and it makes sense that they would put something together if for no other reason than to keep the characters active in pop culture.Thankfully, it appears that the people behind "The Peanuts Movie" take... |
tt1588173 | Warm Bodies | In a post-apocalyptic future, a male zombie still in the early stages of decay lives in a community of the Dead in an abandoned airport near the city. He refers to himself as “R” since he cannot remember his full name, among other details of his life. R reveals through first person narrative that human civilization has... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Yes, the movie could even be seen as an allegory on solitude, not fitting in, and how hard it is to truly connect to others in modern society.Zombie makeup was rather minimal, and they managed to make the protagonist kind of attractive, in a goth-like way, mostly because of his great hair and pale blue eyes.
'Warm Bodi... |
tt0047904 | A Bullet for Joey | Montreal, Canada, sometime in the 50's. Outside the university, Doctor carl Maklin, a Professor, is seceretly photographed by someone dressed as an organ grinder, complete with monkey. A Mountie becomes suspicious. and is shot and killed for it by said Organ Grinder, who is obviously some sort of spy. When this is pass... | murder | train | imdb | Robinson and George Raft team up for the second and last time in A Bullet for Joey, a cold war noir espionage thriller set in Montreal.Their first teaming as a memorable one.
Dietrich was involved with Raft at the time and Raft got jealous of Robinson who was a very cultured man and could talk to Dietrich about things ... |
tt0062038 | The Night of the Generals | The murder of a prostitute in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Abwehr Major Grau (Omar Sharif) to start an investigation, as she was also a German agent. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German general officers: General von Seidlitz-Gabler (Charles Gray); General Kahlenberge (Donald Please... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | Also nice to see French veteran actor Philippe Noiret in an ensemble that includes Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence and Christopher Plummer.It is tense all the way mostly thanks to the great use of first Warsaw (and the atrocities performed there) as a backdrop for the story and then we move to Paris wher... |
tt0032258 | Black Friday | BLACK FRIDAY-synopsis Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is being led to his execution in prison. Entering the viewing room, he gives his notes to a newspaper reporter (James Craig), telling him that his newspaper was the only one who treated him fairly. The reporter opens it and begins reading. From here we go back to f... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0110729 | Once Were Warriors | This film is about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. The parents, Beth and Jake Heke, moved to the city when their tribal elders disapproved of their relationship. Beth (Rena Owen) was descended from the tribal leadership, and seems to have been next in line for leadership when she ran away. Unfortunately... | dramatic, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0145487 | Spider-Man | Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is a nerdy high school senior in New York City. His parents are dead and he lives with his Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson) and Aunt May (Rosemary Harris). He has a crush on his next door neighbor, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), who is also one of the few classmates who is nice to him. Her bo... | murder, stupid, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, humor, action, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1077258 | Planet Terror | Over the opening credits, Cherry Darling (Rose McGowan) works as a go-go dancer at a club. After crying onstage, she tells her boss Skip (Skip Reissig) that she needs to make a real change in her life and quits her job. While walking home, several military trucks pass her close enough that she throws herself into a bun... | comedy, murder, cult, horror, violence, humor | train | imdb | Because of low box office returns in the USA (total gross: 25 million $; movie's budget: 100 million), that outrageously mouth-watering experiment known as Grindhouse was split in half for the European release: first came Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, a masterful reinvention of the slasher flick, the main strength o... |
tt0109445 | Clerks | Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is a clerk at the Quick Stop, a local convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey. On Dante's day off, his boss calls him in to cover a few hours for another employee who is sick. Arriving at the store, he finds that padlocks for the security shutters are jammed closed with chewing gum, so ... | comedy, depressing, adult comedy, cult, psychedelic, humor, satire, philosophical, entertaining, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0450340 | Unknown | How would you feel if you were tied to a chair,
in a locked down warehouse,
in the middle of nowhere,
with no recollection whatsoever of what happened,
or what didn't.
To add to it, you're not alone. There are four others with you in the exact same state of mind.
Some of the group are responsible for putting the others... | plot twist, psychological, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0116282 | Fargo | The movie opens with a car towing a new tan Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera through a sub-freezing blizzard to a small inn in Fargo, North Dakota. It is 8:30 p.m. on a cold night in January 1987. When the driver goes inside, we see that it is Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), and he uses the false name 'Jerry Anderson' to c... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, boring, bleak, cult, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | The two best scenes in the movie are the two occasions in which Marge questions Jerry about the Brainerd murders and a car from his lot being involved -- I couldn't imagine an actress doing a better job of seriously but comically exclaiming, "He's fleeing the interview!" Notable among the actors as well are Steve ... |
tt0270846 | Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 | The film starts with a group of babies in a day care centre...or something. Archie tells the others (Finkelman, Alex, and Rosita) a story about a super baby called Kahuna. Kahuna rescues kids all around the world. According to Archie, Kahuna rescued a group of children from an orphanage run by the evil (and unbelievabl... | good versus evil | train | imdb | I don't know why most people are so bigoted and prejudiced about a great funny movie like Baby Geniuses.I never forced anyone to speak positively about a movie they detest but to tell the truth to underestimate a family movie with a great actress like Kathleen Turner in it is quite unfair!.
My vote was fair in giving t... |
tt0407621 | Calvaire | It's shortly before Christmas. Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) prepares his make-up for a performance. On stage in a hall lit by fluoerescent lights, he sings a love song to his elderly audience who appear captivated. At the end of the song, they applaud enthusiastically. He wishes them a happy new year whilst he is away.... | insanity, psychedelic, horror | train | imdb | null |
tt3659388 | The Martian | At the landing site of the shuttle Ares III, Acidalia Planitia, Mars, at a time in the near future, the crew of the Hermes — including Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon), IT guru Beth Johanssen (Kate Mara), pilot Rick Martinez (Michael Peña), flight surgeon Chris Beck (Sebasti... | humor | train | imdb | Technically it looks great and it impressive how convincing the surface of Mars looks.In the end we get to the fist-pumping mission control scenes that we all knew were coming, but along the way the film is slickly packaged and entertaining as a result; even if the oft-mentioned scientific validity of it all is not som... |
tt0056142 | Kingu Kongu tai Gojira | Japanese/English Version:The Marketing Director (MD) of the Pacific Pharmaceutical company is not pleased with the science show they they are funding because the ratings stink. They need a change.Meanwhile: An American nuclear submarine, the Seahawk, is patrolling the Arctic when it discovers an iceberg that has a gree... | satire | train | imdb | The King Kong suit is hopelessly phony to look at though.The American version is a travesty that serves merely as filler until the big finale, with a reporter who really makes you long for Raymond Burr's reporter man Steve Martin.
Director Ishiro Honda, who first brought The Big G to the screen in the brilliant 1954 fi... |
tt0079635 | Nocturna | Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula [John Carradine] himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna [Nai Bonet]. When Nocturna books a disco group (Moment of Truth) to p... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0325805 | Matchstick Men | Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) is a con artist residing in Los Angeles with severe tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Alongside his partner and protégé Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), Roy operates a fake lottery, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspecting customers. After Roy experiences a ... | comedy, murder, dramatic, psychedelic, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Ridley Scott and Nicolas Cage deliver some of their best and most intelligent work in a few years, even if Matchstick Men is not quite either's great contribution for this year in film.
Nicolas Cage, who plays Roy, part anxious/obsessive compulsive, part sly con man, and part father to a daughter he never knew he had, ... |
tt0327597 | Coraline | As the credits appear, a pair of metallic hands with spindly fingers summons a doll from the dark abyss outside a window. The hands dismantle the doll, which is wearing a pink dress and has curly brown hair, and reassemble it into a new doll with blue hair, a yellow raincoat, and galoshes. Then they send it back into t... | dark, fantasy, boring, depressing, gothic, whimsical, cult, horror, alternate reality, psychedelic, storytelling | train | imdb | After discovering the odd neighbors all of whom are true characters, she is still bored somehow.All of this immense undertaking is courtesy writer and director Henry Selick, director of Nightmare Before Christmas, and the well crafted adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-selling children's novel.
is a masterf... |
tt0418689 | Flags of Our Fathers | There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. "Flags of Our Fathers" is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen, John "Doc" Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Pvt. Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), and Pvt. Ira Hayes (Adam Beach), ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | I've always felt that when you fictionalize a story about war, you dishonor the memory of so many people who have a compelling story to tell by choosing to make something up instead *cough*privateryan*cough*.The problem with war movies about real people is that you have to deal with complexities of character and plot t... |
tt0080149 | Woyzeck | The story of Woyzeck begins "in a small town, on a large, still pond." We are then introduced to Franz Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) as he is performing a military drill in full uniform-running, pushups, etc. Immediately after, he is seen giving the Captain a shave (Wolfgang Reichmann). The Captain is thinking aloud to Woyzec... | insanity, violence, murder | train | imdb | I seriously need to re-watch *all* of Herzog's films, but in the flicker of memory this is my favorite.For me, the static camera-work fits the hothouse atmosphere of Buchner's play perfectly.
Klaus Kinski, as the title character, is driven insane by military routine and scientific over-analysis, and apparently the role... |
tt0805570 | The Midnight Meat Train | The film opens with a bald man with a briefcase sitting in a moving subway car. As the lights flicker he hears a noise, causing him to stand up. As he walks towards the source of the sound, the next subway car, he slips and falls in a large pool of blood. He then peers through the window to the next car and sees a figu... | violence, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | Day after day, night after night he takes the 2 am train to hell, where unsuspecting passengers are massacred and then hung up like dead meat.Leon (Bradley Cooper) is an up and coming photograph, who is trying to make it critically, but so far his work has been unable to break it.
The moment you can't wait to know what... |
tt0314197 | Imagining Argentina | A W Bergh, Stockholm:Heard about the green Ford Falcons of Buenos Aires? Death mobiles they was called and were doing the same dirty job for president Videla and a string of junta generals, in the 1970s mimicking their highly successful colleague dictator Pinochet across the border in Chile. Kids protesting against exp... | murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0070707 | Sleeper | Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food store living in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, NY in 1973, is cryogenically frozen without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of an underground movement: 22nd-century America seems to be a police ... | comedy, psychedelic, satire, brainwashing, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | A futuristic comedy from Woody Allen in 1973 has him waking up from an operation 200 years later (in 2173) to find society has gone berserk.Clever, witty, and very funny.
Allen is hysterically funny as the "sleeper" who gets to give history lessons on the 1970s, pose as a robot, and become a revolutionary to be near Di... |
tt0085415 | Death Screams | Ted and Angie are out kissing on a motorcycle, waiting for the train, which apparently arguments their dual orgasm, Unfortunately someone unseen shows up, kills the couple and kicks their bodies into the river.The next day, Sheriff Avery is at the general store looking for Ted, who has not shown up for work. Bob and Ka... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | The movie does a good job of establishing a bucolic small-town setting (perhaps, it's not a coincidence that the director is the grown-up David Nelson of "Ozzie and Harriet" fame).
Another victim wanders away from the town carnival and is struck by an arrow, but instead of screaming for help or anything, she staggers o... |
tt0067093 | Fiddler on the Roof | === Act I ===
Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters, explains the customs of the Jews in the Russian shtetl of Anatevka in 1905, where their lives are as precarious as the perch of a fiddler on a roof ("Tradition"). At Tevye's home, everyone is busy preparing for the Sabbath meal. His sharp-tongued wife, Gol... | avant garde, flashback | train | wikipedia | It must have influenced him so that I can't believe it was a coincidence that when he created the story of Tevye the Milkman he had five daughters and he was just looking to get them off his hands just like Mr. Bennett was with his five.Of course the difference between Czarist Russia for Jews and being part of the land... |
tt0460829 | Inland Empire | The film opens to the sound of a gramophone playing Axxon N, "the longest-running radio play in history". Meanwhile, a young prostitute, identified in the credits as the "Lost Girl", cries while watching television in a hotel room, following an unpleasant encounter with her client. The Lost Girl’s television displays a... | avant garde, boring, murder, cult, alternate reality, violence, atmospheric, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | His concern for the well being of actors is strong but this time instead of a new comer (Naomi Watts) he deals with one older actresses come back role and like Mulholland Dr. their are the evil producers behind the scenes and even the added possibility of a cursed set.I am a huge Lynch fan.
A lot of lynch's trademarks ... |
tt0183649 | Phone Booth | Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is an arrogant New York City publicist who is contemplating cheating on his wife Kelly (Radha Mitchell). He calls Pam (Katie Holmes), a young actress, from a phone booth on a side street. When a delivery man (Dell Yount) tries to deliver a free pizza to the booth, Stu rudely dismisses him. A... | suspenseful, psychedelic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | With a sniper rifle aimed at Stu's head.When you take into account that `Phone Booth' was filmed in just ten days, on a limited budget with a dearth of special effects, one principle actor and a single venue you could be forgiven for questioning the potential success of this film.
Some things are worth the wait.While h... |
tt0145653 | Angela's Ashes | Five-year-old Francis "Frankie" McCourt (Joe Breen) is the eldest son of Irish immigrants Malachy (Robert Carlyle) and Angela (Emily Watson). Frankie and his brothers (Malachy Jr., a year younger, and two-year-old twins Oliver and Eugene) were all American-born, and the family resides in a small apartment in Brooklyn. ... | storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | He was the most hopeful person in the film, giving him character and determination, without losing his idealistic innocence.Emily Watson is a great dramatic actress and rose to the occasion to endow Angela with superhuman strength, courage and persistence in the face of crushing hardship and sorrow.
Frank McCourt's bes... |
tt0212235 | Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth | A girl named Screw is on the phone and a call beeps in. The caller ID says "The Killer" and it's on a private line, and Screw answers saying "Dad?" The Killer asks her about scary movies and asks to play a game involving an intricate math problem. Screw hangs up and puts more icing on a giant cake behind her in the kit... | violence, comedy, murder, adult comedy | train | imdb | It was in production way before Scary Movie started filming and was slated to be released in theaters.
Knowing that people (especially now as I can see from the previous posts) were going to think it a rip-off if released right behind SM, the producers opted for a tv movie instead.
Unlike Scary Movie (which I also like... |
tt3416742 | What We Do in the Shadows | The movie tells the daily lifeerrunlife of flatmate vampires Viago, Vladislav, Deacon and Petyr in New Zealand. Viago is the 16th century vampire, aristocratic and bossy often times. Vladislav is the medieval vampire, a noble vampire but also the most ruthless killer of them. Deacon is the youngest changed vampire from... | bleak, dark, comedy, humor | train | imdb | Lot's of people are disregarding this movie due to "Lack of plot" or "Poor cinematography".This isn't supposed to be that sort of movie, it's a mockumentary, done in the style of a documentary.They have nailed that look perfectly, and the plot doesn't matter in a comedy.The comedy is great, the deadpan nature of it is ... |
tt0223897 | Pay It Forward | A 12-year-old schoolboy in Las Vegas, Nevada named Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) is given a class project to complete by his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey), a man with terrible burn scars on his face and neck. His task is to come up with a plan that will change the world through direct actio... | thought-provoking, dramatic, comedy, inspiring | train | imdb | Pay It Forward is a prime example of what films are supposed to do: make you laugh a little, cry a lot, and profoundly affect you in a way that keeps you thinking about the movie for weeks afterwards.
The quasi-religious ending probably will appeal to many, but from an artistic viewpoint, it seems unnecessary and not ... |
tt0091064 | The Fly | Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) is a brillliant and eccentric inventor. At a party thrown by his financier, Bartok Industries, for the press, Brundle meets Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis), a reporter for Particle Magazine. He invites her to come back to his apartment, where he shows her his latest invention: teleporter pods... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, sentimental, allegory, cult, violence, horror, tragedy, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | It greatly surpasses the original '58 version.The film focuses on the relationship between Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis at the top and once it takes its turn towards horror it really pays off.
The original movie, with Vincent Price, is "dullsville" compared to this re-make.Things can get really disgusting as Jeff Gold... |
tt1216487 | Flickan som lekte med elden | Note: this is the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Repace) wakes up after having a violent dream about being raped by her guardian, Nils Bjurman (Peter Andersson) (from the previous movie). She is currently living in St. George in the Caribbean and then goes to a meeting with her accoun... | mystery, murder, violence, flashback, action, revenge | train | imdb | Salander has lost some of her mysterious goth charm, and the sex trafficking theme is only touched very softly, turning the movie into a regular investigation with a familiar cast of characters.The movie is worth watching, but it's my impression that you should rather read the book first, to get a much deeper insight i... |
tt0171363 | The Haunting | The Haunting (1999) is a remake of the 1963 film, "The Haunting."The movie starts with Eleanor "Nell" Vance (Lili Taylor) arguing with her sister over the house which her recently deceased mother, whom Nell took care of for 11 years, left her sister in the will. After her sister gives her her mother's car, Nell orders ... | dark, psychological, haunting | train | imdb | When I first heard news of a remake of Robert Wise's 1963 film, "The Haunting", I had a fear that it would be ruined by an abundance of summer-movie sized visual effects.
Surely, with such a talented cast intact...De Bont and company will not ruin a film, who's original was a fantastic and frightening movie that unders... |
tt0057358 | Nattvardsgästerna | Ingmar Bergman's "Winter Light," also known by the more appropriate British title "The Communicants," is the second installment in a film trilogy, preceded by "Through a Glass Darkly" and followed by "The Silence." This association was not intentional when Bergman made "Winter Light." Instead, the coda of "Through a Gl... | bleak, romantic, atmospheric | train | imdb | If you've ever lived in that scenery (cold pine-forested northerly countries) It appears almost as if it were in color, as if one is there at that moment.Needless to say, the actors makes fantastic performances.I find it pointless to say much about the plot, it is well summarized on this site, it is also a very persona... |
tt0332280 | The Notebook | In a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) begins to read a love story from his notebook to a female fellow patient (Gena Rowlands).The story begins in 1940. At a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) sees seventeen-year-old heiress Allie ... | psychological, boring, flashback, humor, tragedy, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | I, along with almost every other person i have discussed the movie with, felt involved in the situations and the lives of the character- crying at the sad moments and feeling joy at the happy bits.
in general, love stories are predictable and somewhat dull (in my opinion) yet this movie kept me guessing at the outcome,... |
tt2338151 | PK | A humanoid alien (Aamir khan) lands on Earth naked on a research mission in Rajasthan, but is stranded when the remote control of his spaceship is stolen. He manages to get the thief's cassette recorder, a Panasonic RQ-565D. On the same day in Bruges, Jaggu (Anushka Sharma) meets Sarfaraz (Sushant Singh Rajput) and fal... | romantic, comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | What makes it so bloody brilliant is the story which takes some pretty serious subject matters and portrays them to the audience in a way that the audience can only laugh, and when in the serious scenes, they do not laugh, what they do is reflect over what happened and THINK and the obvious BRILLIANT direction by Rajku... |
tt1462758 | Buried | On October 23, 2006, Paul Conroy, an American civilian truck driver working in Iraq, wakes up and finds himself buried alive in a wooden coffin, bound and gagged, with only a Zippo lighter and a BlackBerry phone at hand. Although he initially has no idea how he got there, he starts to piece together what has happened t... | mystery, cruelty, murder, boring, dramatic, claustrophobic, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | Buried is a film that keeps things deadly simple, one character, one location and a one line but horribly inspired plot, those looking for flashy visuals or big action should turn far, far away from this one.
It's worth noting though that the film is well directed and photographed, director Rodrigo Cortes has a nimble ... |
tt0111742 | Wolf | Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards, he is demoted from editor in chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer), who replaces him with Will's protegé Stewart Swinton (James Spader). Stewart is having an affair with... | comedy, gothic, murder, cult, satire, revenge | train | imdb | Ever since the 1940s, filmmakers attempting to make a new monster film, in the vein of the classics Dracula or The Wolf Man are often saddled with the contempt or disbelief provoked in response by contemporary audiences, leaving the end result either comedic or a camp attempt at a thriller incapable of being taken seri... |
tt2649522 | The Escape Artist | The drama revolves around Will Burton (David Tennant), a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm who specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. He is in high demand as he has never lost a case. But when his talents acquit the notorious prime suspect in an horrific murder trial... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | But I found the show clearly worth viewing - because the dialog was great, the premise was a good one, the acting and directing were outstanding, I cared about the characters, and the ending was satisfying.The writing of a screenplay has a number of important components, and not every good writer is a master of all.
Da... |
tt2911666 | John Wick | John Wick (Keanu Reeves) crashes an SUV into a wall. He staggers out of the vehicle, bloody and wounded. He puts pressure on a wound in his gut. As he crawls to the side, he takes out his phone and watches a video of his wife Helen (Briget Moynahan) on the beach. John slumps over and shuts his eyes.Several days earlier... | comedy, cruelty, murder, neo noir, violence, flashback, action, revenge, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0080736 | The Final Countdown | The USS Nimitz, one of the United States' largest aircraft carriers, is on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. The ship's captain, Yelland, oversees training flights of the ship's compliment of F14A Tomcat fighter jets. Also on the carrier is a reporter, Warren Lasky, who will be observing the Nimitz on its man... | cult, alternate reality, violence | train | imdb | This was a highly entertaining sleeper about a naval ship that happens to go through a time warp and end up at Pearl Harbor just hours before the attack in 1941.
Same with (blush) "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure": the movie's stupid, but it just always entertains me!Similarly, nobody is going to compare "The Final Co... |
tt0079138 | Fast Company | At a racetrack, aging drag racing star Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson (William Smith) makes engine refinements to his car, which is sponsored by the international oil company Fast Co. On its first test run around a track, it blows up, but Lonnie escapes unhurt, living up to his nickname. Fast Co team boss Phil Adamson (Joh... | cult, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0481141 | No Reservations | Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is the head chef at the trendy 22 Bleecker Street Restaurant in Manhattan, New York. She runs her kitchen at a rapid pace as she coordinates the making and preparation of all the fantastic meals, and personally displays the food to perfection on every dish. She intimidates everyone... | home movie | train | wikipedia | Directed by Scott Hicks ("Shine") and written by first-timer Carol Fuchs, this film offers the most insightful peek into the workings of an upscale Manhattan restaurant since 2000's "Dinner Rush" (i.e., if you don't count last year's CGI-generated, French food-fest, "Ratatouille"), but it also seems intent in splinteri... |
tt1562872 | Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara | The film opens with Kabir (Abhay Deol) proposing to Natasha (Kalki Koechlin). Their families meet at the engagement party where Natasha learns that Kabir is planning a three-week bachelor road trip to Spain with his school friends Imran (Farhan Akhtar) and Arjun (Hrithik Roshan). Kabir explains that the three have a lo... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | STRAIGHT INTO FAVOURITES..:):) Awesome work by Zoya..:) HR,Farhan,Abhay mass...Hrithik and Katrina adds spice to the romantic scenes in the movie..Farhan Akhtar shows a refreshing flair for comedy and has impeccable comic timing...Kalki Koechlin is excellent in her bitchy role of a possessive girlfriend.
I am not claim... |
tt0115685 | The Birdcage | Armand Goldman is the openly gay owner of a drag club in South Beach called The Birdcage; his partner Albert, an extremely effeminate and flamboyant man, plays "Starina," the star attraction of the club. They live together in an apartment above The Birdcage with Agador, their flamboyant Guatemalan housekeeper who dream... | comedy, queer | train | wikipedia | In this version Robin Williams plays the gay owner of a Florida nightclub who learns his straight son (Dan Futterman) is coming home and is engaged to be married.
Williams learns from his son that his fiancée's parents (Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest) are straight-laced and ultra-conservative and will not be comfortable me... |
tt2788710 | The Interview | In the opening scene, a little Korean girl is singing the North Korean national anthem, which features hateful and violent lyrics against the United States. Then in the next shot, a nuclear missile is launched into the sky. News stations around America report on the controversial actions of North Korea, and comment on ... | revenge, comedy, satire, murder | train | imdb | Seth and Franco gave a good performance but the movie had a lame plot and subpar lines..
-The story, mainly the concept, does not wear out like Let's Be Cops, but actually gets better and better.-The pace is pretty good and the film does not waste time.
-The acting is especially funny with James Franco and Randall Park... |
tt1655460 | Wanderlust | George and Linda Gergenblatt are an urban married couple who purchase a micro-loft in New York after much hesitation. George is expecting a promotion while Linda is trying to sell a documentary to HBO. Soon after purchasing their home, George learns that his company has folded, overnight, while HBO rejects Linda's docu... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1228705 | Iron Man 2 | The movie opens several months after the events in the first Iron Man movie. We are introduced to a man named Ivan Vanko. Ivan's father Anton is slowly dying and telling Ivan his final wishes. Ivan thinks he should have the fame that Tony Stark is enjoying but Anton tells him to "ignore that garbage." All Anton can giv... | good versus evil, revenge, humor, action, murder | train | imdb | He is excellent in the part; an absolute delight to watch, whether irascibly mugging in a loss for words with his insubordinate partner Vanko or, in one of the movie's best moments, shamelessly accolading his own (faulty) inventions with juvenile zeal.Unfortunately, with all these characters butting heads for screen ti... |
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