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tt1068680 | Yes Man | As the studio credits roll, a pop tune starts playing and it turns into the ring tone for Carl Allen (Jim Carrey). Carl sees 'Unknown Caller', which he ignores until he accidently answers the call. Carl is talking to his best friend Peter (Bradley Cooper) who is trying to persuade him to come to a gathering at the usua... | entertaining, romantic, philosophical, feel-good | train | imdb | null |
tt5457772 | Sarrainodu | Gana is a youth who beats crooked people that escape punishment due to faults in the legal system. He is raised by his paternal uncle Sripati, and berated by his father Umapati for leaving the military and not having an aim in life. One day Gana is sent to a neighbouring village to meet his prospective bride, Mahalaksh... | violence, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | This kind of Movies must not be passed in the censor.
Even when some one sits an entire night and wants to write some illogical scenes for a Surrealistic plot , it would have been better than this movie .Even in the days of people encouraging some really good stories , i don't know why these movies are becoming Huge hi... |
tt0057449 | The Raven | "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by a dying fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated, slightly louder, and he realizes it ... | good versus evil, cult, horror, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0451164 | Pray for Morning | In 1984, a group of five high schoolers had broken into an abandoned hotel, as was tradition after graduation. They were all gruesomely murdered. At the insistence of one set of parents, the police brought in a psychic, as they could find no leads. The psychic said that the murderer was still in the hotel. The police s... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | This under the radar indie horror wasn't cheap to make, standing at over 2 million dollars Pray for Morning looks a lot better than it's shoddily made cover art and stars horror legend Udo Kier.It tells the story of a right of passage for youngsters to spend a night in an abandoned hotel, but the latest batch are in fo... |
tt3212232 | I Am Wrath | In the midst of a unprecedented crime wave in the city of Columbus, Ohio, Governor John Meserve (Patrick St. Esprit) gives a press conference about his crime reduction efforts. When questioned by protestors about a proposed pipeline, Meserve promises that he has commissioned an independent study of the pipeline. Abbie ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | It's a good action movie starring John Travolta.
The movie reminds me of a cross between John Wick and The Punisher (of which Travolta played the villain in the 2004 movie version).Travolta plays what looks like your average Joe, who watches his wife get murdered right in front of him by what looks like an average car ... |
tt0060305 | Le deuxième souffle | Widely respected in the criminal world for his ability and loyalty, Gu Minda escapes from prison and heads for Paris to see his devoted sister Manouche and her faithful bodyguard Alban. Her admirer, restaurant owner Jacques, is shot dead by gunmen sent by club owner Jo Ricci, who then sends two men to Manouche's house.... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Jean-Pierre Melville and his long standing infatuation with Hollywood "Film Noir",which he was the most devoted follower of, in entire history of French cinema, produced the whole line of best French crime pictures ever.
Building a story of old school criminals with sense of criminal honesty and honor, around 800 milli... |
tt0080058 | L'umanoide | Sometime in the distant future, the planet Metropolis, (once known as Earth), is a peaceful utopia led by a leader called The Great Brother. His world is threatened however by his brother Graal who has escaped from a prison satellite, stolen a warship and enlisted the help of a mad scientist named Dr. Kraspin. Kraspin ... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086216 | Rumble Fish | Set in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the film begins in a diner called Bennys Billiards, where local tough guy Rusty James is told by Midget that rival group leader Biff Wilcox wants to meet him that night in an abandoned garage lot for a fight. Accepting the challenge, Rusty James then talks with his friends — the wily Smokey, loy... | neo noir, murder, dramatic, violence, psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | Viewing the movie with a more mature mind now, I appreciated it much more than I did when I was nineteen.Based on the S.E. Hinton novel (Coppola also translated 'The Outsiders', which remains remarkable even today for its amazing cast), 'Rumble Fish' follows the story of one Rusty James (Matt Dillon, in full bad-boy mo... |
tt0032571 | Busman's Honeymoon | Larry Abbot (Wilder) and Vickie Pearle (Radner) are performers on radio's "Manhattan Mystery Theater" who decide to get married. Larry has been plagued with on-air panic attacks and speech impediments since proposing marriage. Vickie thinks it is just pre-wedding jitters, but his affliction could get them both fired.
L... | murder | train | wikipedia | Sir Seymour Hicks Shines In British Mystery Movie.
A titled amateur detective & his mystery-writing bride spend a BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON when a murdered corpse is discovered in their new Devonshire home.Beginning with its first release in 1938 and for several years thereafter, MGM maintained a sister studio in England.
In ... |
tt0093073 | Gardens of Stone | A hardened Korean and Vietnam War veteran, Sergeant Clell Hazard (James Caan) would rather be an instructor at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, to train soldiers for Vietnam but instead he is assigned by the Army to the 1st battalion 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) at Fort Myer, Virginia.
Th... | anti war | train | wikipedia | Military Life and the Prize of the War. In the late 60s, during the Vietnam War, the idealistic soldier Jackie Willow (D.B. Sweeney) arrives at Fort Meyer expecting to go to the Academy and then to the Vietnam War. Jackie is the son of a veteran sergeant and soon he becomes the protégé of the former friends of his fath... |
tt0190938 | $windle | A 6th grader named Griffin Bing decides to gather their entire grade in a sleepover protest in an old house about to be demolished after their plan for using a new space in their town was thrown out because of their youth. However, only Griffin and his best friend Ben Slovak show up. Griffin discovers a Babe Ruth baseb... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Predictable 'Heist' Film, Brightened by Leads....
It is doubtful that you'll remember much about $WINDLE for long; as a 'heist' film with an undercover cop (Tom Sizemore) falling for mastermind Sherilyn Fenn, it is pretty much 'by the numbers', with the mandatory 'psycho gang member' (Conrad Pla), a plot twist that isn... |
tt0093660 | Nuts | Nuts!, narrated by Gene Tognicci, documents the life and career of John R. Brinkley (1885-1942), a Milford, Kansas druggist-turned physician who, purportedly, discovered a cure for male impotence by implanting goat testicles into the scrotums of his human patients. Largely through the testimonials of his "satisfied" cu... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | Based on Tom Toplor's 1981 courtroom play, NUTS is definitely a dialogue-based film with little Hollywood flashiness.
Though extremely well-written (by Toplor, adapting his own work with Darryl Ponicsan and Alvin Sargent) and sharply staged and directed by veteran Martin Ritt, it is the cast whom is really responsible ... |
tt1320236 | A Closed Book | Sir Paul (Tom Conti) is an art critic and writer who was blinded in a car crash. He lives alone in a large mansion in the UK. He is looking for an amanuensis or "ghost writer" to help him write his final book, an autobiography, and interviews several unsuccessful candidates until Jane Ryder (Daryl Hannah) applies for t... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Ruiz transcends mediocre material.
As A Closed Book begins, distinguished author Sir Paul is planning on writing his first book since a head injury that made him completely blind four years previously.
In order to do this he needs a helper so he hires Jane Ryder, an intelligent but mysterious woman who agrees to live w... |
tt1602098 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) works with extreme dedication as a hotel butler in 19th-century Ireland. Assigned as female at birth, and initially raised as a girl, Albert has spent the last 30 years living as a man. Albert has been secretly saving money to buy a tobacco shop to gain some measure of freedom and independenc... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0293832 | Hansel & Gretel | Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second, abusive wife decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, because the kids eat too much. The ... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0159920 | Total Recall 2070 | In 2084, construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is having troubling dreams about Mars and a mysterious woman there. His wife Lori (Sharon Stone) dismisses the dreams and discourages him from thinking about Mars, where the governor, Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox), is fighting rebels while searching for a ... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | This is a great show, with underrated production values and subtlety.
People who watch movies, unfortunately do not always read books.
Some complains that it does not follow the Total Recall novel.
No, this is not an "action" series like the "Ahnold" movie "TR" was.
It's a mixture of sci-fi, mystery, police procedural ... |
tt0097371 | Food of the Gods II | Dr. Neil Hamilton (Paul Coufos) receives a call from his mentor Dr. Kate Travis (Jackie Burroughs) about a young boy named Bobby, whose deficient growth has been treated with Travis' experimental serum. Bobby has swiftly and unexpectedly grown larger than a full-grown adult and become violent. To find an antidote, Neil... | tragedy, cult, entertaining, violence | train | wikipedia | Once again my ability to be entertained finds it's happy place at the near lowest common denominator one can possibly find: A movie about growth hormone mutated rats chewing their way through the supporting cast of an unnamed Canadian university.
Packed with in jokes, sight-gags and made by people who were using their ... |
tt0102797 | Robin Hood | Alan-a-Dale introduces the story of Robin Hood and Little John, two outlaws living in Sherwood Forest, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor townsfolk of Nottingham, despite the efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham to stop them. Meanwhile, Prince John and his assistant Sir Hiss arrive in Nottingham on a tou... | cult, action, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Everyone knows that Costner's Hood was a bomb, but too few people have seen this superior version, shown on TV and then perversely released only on VHS by Fox.
Patrick Bergin is spot-on as a darkly-mooded Robin, and the backstory on his loss of rank and property is both historically plausible and dramatically effectiv... |
tt0107482 | Magic Kid | The film is about Kevin Ryan, an 11-year-old karate-champion from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who spends his summer with his uncle, Bob Ryan and his girlfriend Anita in California. His older sister Megan is coming with him. Bob owns a management bureau for clowns-acts. He has money problems and owes $10,000 to a mafioso named... | violence | train | wikipedia | The Karate Kid and his Valley Girl Sister Meet The Godfather.
Chris Mitchum and Lauren Tewes need some quality time together without the kids so they decide to pack the two kids off to his brother in Los Angeles.Brother Stephen Furst is an agent, fallen on hard times, and owing some really heavy bread to the local synd... |
tt0046755 | Battle of Rogue River | In the Oregon Territory prior to the American Civil War, Chief Mike (Michael Granger) has fought the US Army and the white settlers to a standstill. As a result, the post commander Major Wallach (Willis Bouchey) is replaced by Major Archer (George Montgomery). On the way to the fort, Major Archer's troop of cavalry acc... | violence | train | wikipedia | Minor western with a decent cast..
Probably the most distinguishing feature about this "B" western is the choice of names for the characters.
One of the leading men is named Stacey, the leading lady is named Brett and their Native American adversary is named Chief Mike!
Montgomery plays a zero-tolerence, by-the-book Ma... |
tt0025423 | The Lost Patrol | During World War I, the commanding officer of a small British patrol in the Mesopotamian desert is shot and killed by an unseen Arab sniper, leaving the Sergeant at a loss, since he had not been told what their mission is. He decides to try to rejoin the brigade, though he does not know where they are or where he is.
E... | insanity | train | wikipedia | A brave group (Wallace Ford , Boris Karloff , Reginald Denny , among others) of British cavalrymen lost in the desert are shot by the Arabs (Francis Ford , John Ford's older brother , appears in an uncredited role as an Arab) , one by one and twelve battered fighting men battle it out to the finish .
Dead the commander... |
tt0418325 | Die Wilden Kerle 2 | In the English translation of the Wild Soccer Bunch stories, the events take place in a small neighborhood in Chicago. The team is made up of a cast of colorful characters, each of them bonded by their passion for soccer. The team plays their beloved game according to five unbreakable rules: "1. Be Wild! 2. Everything’... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Wild love, v1.01. Early 2016 I purchased four very low cost DVDs as a speculative purchase. Would they be fun second childhood food or not? One was Mean Girls 2, which I was not expecting much of. However the price was low and I do remember a review that suggested that it was a lot better if one did not expect it to be... |
tt0406706 | Devour | The story follows Jake Gray (Jensen Ackles), a young man who's been having bizarre visions of murder and self-mutilation, and his experience with a live roleplay-like online game called "The Pathway" (a similar roleplaying as seen in The Game).
Following the deaths of his friends Conrad (Teach Grant) and Dakota (Domini... | horror, murder | train | wikipedia | Once the film starts, you realize there is a lot going on, and there are many twists and turns that lead you to the ultimate ending of faith, belief, power, imagination, and an important story.
In all these movies a character does something (like visit a website, watch a video, play a video game, or start a rumor) whic... |
tt0020929 | Good News | The film is set in 1927 at fictional Tait College, where football is all the rage. ("Tait Song"/"Good News")
Tait's football star Tommy Marlowe (Peter Lawford) is a prime catch for the college girls. Tommy tells his friend and non-playing teammate Bobby Turner (McDonald) that the trick to attracting girls is to show no... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The Varsity Drag and the Great Bessie Love.
GOOD NEWS is an MGM musical based on the smash 1927 Broadway musical that ran for 16 months and starred Mary Lawlor and Inez Courtney as Connie and Babe, and Gus Shy as Bobbie.In the film version, Lawlor and Shy repeat their stage roles, but Bessie Love takes over as Babe.
Wh... |
tt0772181 | Krabat | When the Plague sweeps across Europe after the Thirty Years' War a boy named Krabat (David Kross) is left without family, food, or hope. An old Mill Keeper takes him in as an apprentice. There are eleven other boys working at the mill, and Krabat develops a friendship with one of them, a young man named Tonda (Daniel B... | dark, fantasy, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0464196 | Severance | The film opens with George (David Gilliam) and two women (Juli Drajkó and Judit Viktor) running through the woods. The women fall into a large pit trap while George is caught by a snare. As he hangs helplessly, a masked man approaches and disembowels him with a knife.
What is later revealed as some days prior to this, ... | comedy, dark, cult, horror, humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Severance is a pitch-black comedy/horror that successfully blends laughs with outrageous scenes of extreme violence to tell the tale of a group of employees for a weapons company who, whilst on a team-building weekend in Eastern Europe, run into trouble when they are attacked by masked assailants.I found the film to be... |
tt0043137 | Winchester '73 | In 1876, Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and friend 'High-Spade' Frankie Wilson (Millard Mitchell) pursue outlaw 'Dutch Henry' Brown (Stephen McNally) into Dodge City, Kansas. They arrive just in time to see a man forcing a saloon-hall girl named Lola (Shelley Winters) onto the stage leaving town. Once the man reveals himse... | cult, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0928026 | Care Bears Nutcracker Suite | At a school called P.S. 5, a teacher named Miss Walker tells some children a version of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, involving the Care Bear Family. As the story begins, the Care Bears and their Cousins prepare for Christmas in their home of Care-a-lot; the two youngest bears, Hugs and Tugs, a... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Heartwarming Yuletide fun with the Care Bears. I love animation and Christmas as well as the timeless story and Tchaikovsky's music. I also grew up with The Care Bears, even if I am not a huge fan overall, though I love the show and enjoyed the 1985 movie, A New Generation and Care Bears in Wonderland. Care Bears Nutcr... |
tt0303151 | Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring | The story starts out with a haunted, creepy-looking crawlies mansion house, where Tom Cat, as usual, chases Jerry Mouse and breaks everything in the house. Meanwhile, in the basement, a wizard named Chip is making a magical potion. He uses his magic ring to make his potion, until he realizes that it doesn't work. Chip ... | paranormal, comic | train | wikipedia | the right feel but something is lacking.
This is the first T&J cartoon since Hanna Barbera days to recapture at all the look and feel of the Kenneth Muse animated originals.Here are rich backgrounds, visual gags coming one after the other and a decent plot to pull it all together.
Too often, later T&Js are reduced to p... |
tt0369735 | Monster-in-Law | Charlie Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) is a temp/dog walker/yoga instructor and aspiring fashion designer from Venice Beach, California, who meets doctor Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan). She thinks he's gay at first, based on a lie Kevin's former girlfriend Fiona (Monet Mazur) told her. But then Kevin asks her out, and Charl... | revenge, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | Everyone I know went to see "Monster In Law" for Jane Fonda and in spite of J Lo. If you go with that spirit, you just may have a reasonable good time.
The stuff that goes on during the film is priceless, countless fights, bickering, trying to one up the other, makes for a wonderful, true to life picture of what its li... |
tt0034261 | Take My Life | Nicholas "Nicky" Talbot attends the London debut of his wife, opera singer Philippa Shelley, at Covent Garden. After her successful performance, Nicky runs into former girlfriend Elizabeth Rusman backstage, a musician in the orchestra, who asks for his help. She gives him her address before Philippa appears (and keeps ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0085547 | The First Turn-On!! | On the last day of summer at Camp Big-Tee-Pee, all the teenage campers are crazy with hormones and eager to go home. While on a nature walk with ditzy hippie camp counselor Michelle Farmer, four students, self-proclaimed stud Mitch, his girlfriend Annie, overweight Henry, and nerd Danny break off from the rest of the g... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | pales in comparison to American Pie??!!!.
J. Canker Huxley doesn't know what he's talking about.
American Pie is garbage.
It isn't funny.
The First Turn-On is a classic from the days when there were such things as "teenage sex romps." It has no aspirations other than to amuse and to exploit.
Movies like Road Trip and ... |
tt0027805 | Isle of Fury | The film begins by displaying a map of the Pacific Ocean and the adage: "There still remain far from the lanes of travel, myriads of unmarked islands, the refuge of lost men."
On the island of Tankana in the South Pacific, a marriage is taking place between Val Stevens (Humphrey Bogart) and Lucille Gordon (Margaret Lin... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096251 | Tetsuo | The film opens with a man (called only "the man" (Yatsu) in the credits, or the "Metal Fetishist" in English-language film criticism), cutting open a massive gash in his leg and then shoving a large threaded steel rod into the wound. Later, upon seeing maggots festering in the wound, he screams, runs out into the stree... | realism, paranormal, cult, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Now I viewed it again last night, and I am totally shocked and speechless, when it comes to this masterpiece of Shinya Tsukamoto, the genius multi talent behind films like Tokyo Fist (just don't try to watch if you think Raging Bull is too much), Gemini and Bullet Ballet.
The soundtrack is made with different sounds of... |
tt0122323 | Young Hercules | The show features the efforts of Ares, the god of war, played by Kevin Tod Smith, who attempts often to destroy his younger half-brother to win over Zeus' good graces. Among his group is his nephew Strife (Joel Tobeck), who is the rather weaker member of the team. Strife's mother is Discord, goddess of retribution (Mei... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Great Movie.
Ian Bohen is so much better than that annoying blond kid who played Young Herc on the tv show.
I would have hated the movie if blondie was in it.
The story was pretty good too.
The thing I liked the most was that Ares wasn't a wimpy, irritating characther like he is on Hercules and Xena: he's more evil and... |
tt0120812 | Rush Hour | On the last day of British rule in Hong Kong late 1997, Detective Inspector Lee of the Hong Kong Police Force leads a raid at a shipping bar wharf, hoping to arrest the mysterious crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang, Juntao's right-hand man, who manages to escape. However, Lee successfully recovers numerous Chinese c... | comedy, murder, bleak, violence, humor, action, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I think Americans love Jackie Chan because he's so nice and great person.The main reason why I like this movie is the wonderful duo they play, constantly arguing, while walking around exciting California, USA, about everything, but in the meantime they are loyal partners.
Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, the best comedic ... |
tt0043435 | Cry Danger | Rocky Mulloy was sentenced to life in prison for a robbery and murder that he didn't commit. He's released five years later when a witness named Delong appears and provides an alibi. Rocky then sets out to find who framed him, hoping that by uncovering the actual criminals, he'll be able to free his friend Danny Morgan... | violence | train | wikipedia | Dick Powell gets off a train at the Union Station after spending 5 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
Powell intends to prove not only his innocence, but that of his buddy.Add to the mix William Conrad as a bad guy with his own agenda and you have a better than average noir.
I'm fairly new to film noir (star... |
tt0085127 | 'A' gai wak | Sergeant Dragon Ma (Jackie Chan) is part of the Hong Kong Marine Police's effort to suppress the pirates, who have been raiding ships for months. Members of the Hong Kong Police Force and the MP, who have a strong interservice rivalries, get into a fight in a bar. Shortly after this, Captain Chi (Kwan Hoi-san) releases... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Project A(1983) is my favorite film of the Jackie Chan/Sammo Hung/Yuen Biao collaborations.
When it comes to stunt work, Jackie Chan is the best at taking chances in giving action scenes an ounce of authenticity.
One of the top films directed by Jackie Chan besides Police Story(1985), Armour of God 2(1991), and Project... |
tt0038928 | Shadowed | Salesman Fred J. Johnson manages to hit a hole-in-one as he plays golf one day, and he writes his initials and the date on the lucky ball. He swings at the same ball once more, but sends it into a ditch instead of towards the hole. When he goes to the ditch to get the ball, he finds a dead body instead, and next to the... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073812 | Tommy | Satyam Master (Rajendra Prasad) is a very famous professor in Bheemavaram. One fine day, he comes across a dog in the railway station and decides to adopt it. Initially, his wife (Seeta) does not approve of it but later agrees to her husband’s wish. The couple names the dog Tommy and very soon, the pet becomes a key me... | cult, humor, psychedelic, murder, boring | train | wikipedia | When you listen to the original Who album a lot is left open to the imagination as regards plot, and I think its important to realise that Ken Russell's film version is merely one interpretation of the story told by the music.
However, what I will say is that the imagery he uses in the film really does spark a lot of i... |
tt2332623 | Fateful Findings | The film opens with author and vigilante-hacker Dylan (Neil Breen) reminiscing about his childhood friend Leah (Jennifer Autry), who he has been in love with since he was eight. While walking in the woods Dylan and Leah had found a secret stash which hid a magical black stone. In the present day, its mystical powers ar... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | Fateful Findings is a new film directed by the up-and-coming and relatively unknown Neil Breen.
It is a political thriller of sorts with paranormal and cosmic undertones including, but not limited to mushrooms that turn into magical crystals, spiritual beings and a car accident that turns someone who already had specia... |
tt0059555 | Othello | === Act I ===
Roderigo, a poor and dissolute gentleman, complains to his friend Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had as... | tragedy, revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is the best film of a Shakespeare play that I have ever seen.
(Throne of Blood is a great movie, but it's an adaptation, not really Shakespeare's Macbeth.) What makes the difference for me are the outstanding performances by the entire cast, not just Olivier.
I haven't seen any other roles played by either Frank ... |
tt0119237 | Gummo | A grainy voiced narrator (Solomon) recounts the events of the tornado while disturbing home-movie images play — mostly of the town's people. A mute adolescent boy, known as Bunny Boy, wears only pink bunny ears, shorts, and tennis shoes on an overpass in the rain.
A cat is carried by the scruff of its neck by Tummler, ... | comedy, mystery, avant garde, cult, violence, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It only took me a few minutes to realize why so many critics hated it, which was the very reason I liked this film.Gummo is a classic case of style over substance.
On first viewing, Gummo appears to be a collection of random events, but after watching it a few more times, it it becomes more obvious how each scene and c... |
tt2290065 | 100 Bloody Acres | Reg and Lindsay Morgan own and operate a small blood and bone fertiliser business in country South Australia. While making local deliveries and the occasional roadkill pick up, Reg encounters the crash site of a van, the driver dead inside. Reg recovers the body from the crash and puts it in the back of his own truck. ... | comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | More of a comedy than anything else, in spite of the blood&gore.
On the other hand, there was sufficient blood&gore to let it fall under the Horror category.
Still, I found it more of a Comedy rather than anything else.The plot elements were cleverly employed, like the use of human bodies (from travel accidents, at fir... |
tt0016654 | The Black Pirate | The film begins with the looting of a ship already captured and badly mauled, by the pirates. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates fire the ship, blowing up the gunpowder on board, sinking her. While the pirates celebrate, two survivors wash up on an island, an old man and his son. Before dying, ... | revenge, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0365653 | Dinocroc | A North African dinosaur, related to the crocodile, is found which could grow up to fifty feet long. Dr. Campbell (Bruce Weitz) uses its DNA to create two hybrids of it with a modern-day crocodile at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. One creature kills Dr. Campbell's assistant and the other creature be... | violence, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | A mixed matched handful of people go out to stop it, before it kills any more.In addition to fairly weak acting, and visual effects that wouldn't fool a four year old, Dinocroc also has several blatant Jaws rip-offs.
These movies are usually made for no more than a couple of million dollars, but Roger Corman has made s... |
tt0115128 | Casper | Following the death of her father, neurotic and spoiled heiress Carrigan Crittenden discovers he has only left her Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine. Carrigan and her attorney Dibs discover a vast treasure allegedly is in the manor, but they find it is haunted by a friendly ghost named Casper and his obnoxious prank... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I loved this show.
I absolutely adored the 1995 film and was very excited that there was going to be an animated version.
This cartoon was made by many of the same people who worked on the movie, and it showed.
Now, I'm an old lady, and I grew up on the classic Harvey cartoons; but I found this version of the Casper ca... |
tt4773278 | Verdades Secretas | Fame, power and money. Skin-deep pleasure. Pulsating passion. Intense frenzy. Seductive situations that can be deceptive, the leading character in the telenovela is Arlete (Camila Queiroz), a beautiful young girl full of dreams. She arrives in São Paulo willing to become a model, but she ends up working as a luxury pro... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1753693 | Detour | Piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is drinking coffee at a roadside diner in Reno, hitchhiking east from California, when a fellow patron plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his former life in New York City. At the time, Al was bitter about squandering his talent working in a cheap nightclub. After his girl... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Glad i didn't listen. I read the review complaining about this film being boring. And i almost didn't watch this. But I am really glad I and decided to watched it. I suppose I can understand why someone might call it boring. It doesn't have a ton of over the top freaking out. It isn't full of screaming and ranting or c... |
tt0037884 | The Lost Weekend | Thursday - An alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam (Ray Milland), is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick (Philip Terry), who is trying to discourage his drinking. When Don’s girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman) comes to see them off, she mentions in passing that she has two tickets for a concert, to which Do... | bleak, melodrama, realism, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110443 | Major Payne | U.S. Marine Corps Major Benson Winifred Payne, a hardened Marine, returns from a violent but successful drug raid in South America, only to find out that he was once again not promoted to lieutenant colonel. Payne receives an honorable discharge on the grounds that "the wars of the world are no longer fought on the bat... | cult, comedy, humor, prank | train | wikipedia | Both these things lead me to imagine that Major Payne has all the makings of a great cult comedy in the truest meaning of that term.If I were to offer anyone advice it would be to watch the first ten minutes of the film next time it's on TV.
I suspected it was going to be another one of those parody flicks like Scary M... |
tt4285496 | El abrazo de la serpiente | The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in 1909 and American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.
Theo, an ethnographer from... | violence, cult | train | wikipedia | Winner of the top Director's Fortnight Award at Cannes and Colombia's submission to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category, Ciro Guerra's ("The Wind Journeys") Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente) provides a powerful insight into the effects of colonialism on an indigenous population.The film, in wh... |
tt1013860 | Dylan Dog: Dead of Night | In New Orleans, Dylan Dog, an ace detective whose specialty is paranormal cases, narrates how he helped people with their cases until his wife, Cassandra, was killed by vampires. Since then he has been doing regular cases with his "partner", Marcus Deckler.
One night, when teenager Elizabeth Ryan calls her father, with... | comedy, mystery, gothic, murder, neo noir, paranormal, violence, alternate reality, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, humor, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116277 | The Fan | Gaurav Chandana (Shah Rukh Khan) is a Delhi-based die-hard and obsessive fan of Bollywood superstar Aryan Khanna (also Shah Rukh Khan); Aryan is Gaurav's whole life. Gaurav's face bears an uncanny similarity to Aryan's, which helps him win the local talent show competition impersonating Aryan. He then embarks on a jour... | murder | train | wikipedia | `The Fan,' directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes, is an intense and disturbing motion picture that examines that moment and the effects it can have on the lives of those either directly or indirectly involved.
Here, the focus is on one Gil Renard (De Niro), a knife salesman in San Francis... |
tt0123371 | Aberration | An oddball animal biologist/local field researcher named Marshall Clarke (Simon Bossell) is investigating the disappearance of local wildlife, and finds slimy residue on a fence post. Meanwhile, a woman named Amy Harding (Pamela Gidley) moves into her old cabin in the woods of Langdon, where she spent her family holida... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2667380 | Kill Command | In a technologically advanced near future, Katherine Mills, a cyborg working for Harbinger Corporation, discovers a reprogramming anomaly regarding a warfare A.I. system located at Harbinger I Training Facility, an undisclosed military training island. She meets with Captain Damien Bukes and his team consisting of Drif... | comedy, murder, violence, psychedelic, suspenseful, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Putting aside the awful script, the movie looks very professional and the acting, although a bit stiff in places, is decent.
If you're like me, you are very leery of low budget sci-fi and horror films that are written and directed by the same person who is relatively unknown and not yet an established filmmaker.
If you... |
tt3149038 | X+Y | Nathan Ellis, a 9-year-old math prodigy, has just lost his father in a car accident. Nathan is diagnosed as autistic early in the film, but strangely, his father was the only one who was able to connect normally with him. Although Nathan values his mother, Julie, he shuns any physical contact with her and treats her as... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | The characters were beautifully written and performed by the stellar cast, but I feel a special mention has to be given to three of the actors in particular: Asa Butterfield, who portrays Nathan with such grace and skill, and captures the mannerisms and inner struggles of those on the spectrum brilliantly.
This ended u... |
tt3548276 | Retribution | Yoshioka, an experienced detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, but an autopsy reveals that her stomach is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to himself: A button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from hi... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0100266 | No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers | Washington D.C. A bank has been held hostage by terrorists with police surrounding the building. As the lead terrorist, looks over at the hostages, a crippled hostage begins to beg for his life. When the crippled hostage is kicked down, it turns out to be a trick as the hostage's crutches are a projectile and a blade. ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0892899 | Outpost | In a seedy bar in a town ravaged by war, scientist and businessman Hunt (Julian Wadham) hires former Royal Marine turned mercenary D.C. (Ray Stevenson) to assemble a crack team of ex-soldiers – Prior (Richard Brake), Jordan (Paul Blair), Cotter (Enoch Frost), Voytech (Julian Rivett), McKay (Michael Smiley) and Taktarov... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | If you ever played the famous game (PC and console) Wolfenstein, you will love this movies.I like too much stories mixing horror and ominous Nazi scientific experiments.
It's simple, it's plain and it's interesting with a nice mix of suspense, horror and action.I like the way the actors played the characters, they are ... |
tt0388245 | Marking Time | An Afghan father and his daughter, Randa (Bojana Novakovic), arrive in Australia to escape the Taliban. At school Randa is teased for her religion and wearing a hijab. The main character who finished secondary school the previous year, Hal (Abe Forsythe) begins to feel sorry for her and over a course falls in love with... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | Powerful Stuff.
This is the greatest show ever.
It portrays the real message refugees received from the majority of Australians when they tried to enter the country illegally and yet were sent away or locked up in detention (even the children; in fact, many are STILL there).
The message is not forced in your face, it i... |
tt0167456 | Thunderbirds | The Tracy family, led by former astronaut Jeff Tracy, operate International Rescue, a secret organization that aids those in need using the technologically advanced machines called Thunderbirds. The youngest son Alan lives at a boarding school on the mainland dreaming of being a Thunderbird pilot. He and his friend Fer... | good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | But a terrible storyline and bland acting obliterated this opportunity and it was soon apparent all that was destined for this film was a trip to the bargain bin of the kiddies' section.Instead of a film focusing on the five Tracey sons, their father and trusty geek Brain striving to rescue people and protect the world... |
tt0080408 | Bad Timing | In Cold War Vienna, Milena (Russell), a young American woman in her twenties, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing. With her is Alex Linden (Garfunkel), an American psychiatrist who lives in the city as a teacher. Through myriad fragmented flashbacks, the narrative depicts the story of their roma... | psychological, cult, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | His movie rates high in production value and acting and has an innovative approach to an old story
The film is basically a character study
Alex (Art Garfunkel) is a depressingly dark and shadowy American psychoanalyst living in Vienna
Theresa Russell plays Milena, a resonant, carefree American girl
They meet by cha... |
tt0021665 | Birds of a Feather | For Cockney sisters Sharon Theodopolopodous and Tracey Stubbs, life is never the same again when their husbands are convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison. Sharon, a common, large and loud-mouthed character from a council flat in Edmonton, moves into her sister's luxury home in Chigwell, so that she can support ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0335438 | Starsky & Hutch | The movie takes place in the 1970s. The story centres around two cops who work for the Bay City Police Department. Detective David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is a loud, macho acting cop who loves his Ford Gran Torino, and recklessly pursues people for minor offenses, and Detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (Owen Wilson), is a ... | comedy, murder, bleak, violence, humor, entertaining | train | wikipedia | But what ever the reason, it remained unveiwed.That was 2004 - Xmas 2006 and I get DVD vouchers, so In the January sales off I go to see what I can get, I do quite well, but have £3 remaining, I have 2 or 3 to chose from 2 I have already seen, and Starsky & Hutch.....So I bought it.......yet still it was unwatched unti... |
tt0822858 | Sublime | The plot centers on the protagonist George Grieves (Cavanagh), who checks into the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a simple colonoscopy, Grieves is told by hospital staff that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mista... | violence | train | wikipedia | I will admit that I did not "get" a lot of what is allegedly the films symbolism and frankly the point of the movie really didn't hit me (I kept rewinding it right before the end to hear what Jenny and George were talking about because it seemed to be related to what he does) but to me, it didn't really matter.
I initi... |
tt2398231 | The Homesman | Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) is a 31-year-old spinster from New York, a former teacher who journeyed to the Midwest for more opportunity. She is an active member of the small farming community of Loup in the Nebraska Territory, and has significant financial prospects and sizable land ownership. She seems strong and in... | depressing, murder, bleak, plot twist, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | In the bad old days of the pioneers in the Wild West, Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) steps in when three women drift into various states of madness and need to be transported across the country to be cared for properly.
It is a story of hope and love, not the romantic kind, but real love for one's fellow human being, re... |
tt0118566 | Afterglow | The lives of two unhappily married couples intertwine in Montreal, Canada. The marriage between Lucky Mann (Nick Nolte), a contractor and his beautiful British wife, former actress Phyllis Hart (Julie Christie), has been in a poor state for years. Their relationship fell apart when Phyllis revealed to Lucky that their ... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028092 | Pennies from Heaven | In prison, Larry Poole (Bing Crosby), a self-described troubadour, is approached by an inmate named Hart (John Gallaudet) who is on his way to the electric chair. Hart asks Larry to deliver a letter to a family called Smith near Middletown, New Jersey. After finding the family, which consists of a grandfather (Donald M... | depressing | train | wikipedia | Bing Crosby was loaned out from Paramount to Columbia for this film and Columbia did no better for him in the way of budget than Paramount.
Again relying on Crosby's personality to bring in the box office, if anything Columbia probably spent less money than Paramount on his films.What they did do was give Crosby a good... |
tt0787031 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | The gypsy Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his obsessive lust for Esmeralda and the rules of the Notre Dame Cathedral. He orders bandits to kidnap her, but the hu... | romantic | train | wikipedia | One of my favourite Burbank Films Australia animations. Initially I wasn't sure whether an adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel would work in 52 or so minutes. I needn't have worried though, as Burbank's Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my favourites of theirs alongside Wind in the Willows and Peter Pan. Is it th... |
tt1263778 | La belle personne | After the death of her mother, Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to the school that her cousin Mathias (Esteban Carjaval-Alegria) attends. She catches the attention of a lot of people, especially Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Nemours (Louis Garrel), her Italian teacher. In Italian class, a record of Maria Callas sin... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a lovely, deliberate, melancholy look into the fairy-tale lives of pale, beautiful, preternaturally graceful high-school students in Paris - a dreamy, pearly, wintry Paris on which the harsh sun never, ever shines.The Beautiful Person is so hypnotically beautiful that it drew me through the somewhat jarring adj... |
tt0445054 | Les 7 jours du talion | The ordinary life of surgeon Bruno Hamel (Claude Legault) is destroyed when his daughter Jasmine (Rose-Marie Coallier) is raped and murdered in a park. Upon learning that the police apprehended the prime suspect, laborer Anthony Lemaire (Martin Dubreuil), Hamel plans to take revenge. He abducts Lemaire while he is bein... | revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | This movie is a very intense psychological thriller filmed in very grey and depressive images and words that create a perfect atmosphere for this doom slow paced movie.
Let me warn you first: There are not many torture scenes in this movie, so if you expect some gore stuff here, you may not be satisfied at all in the e... |
tt1424431 | Tsar | The film is set between the years 1566 and 1569 during the era of the Oprichnina and the Livonian War. The film starts from the time when the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Afanasii has died and Tsar Ivan IV has summoned his childhood friend, Hegumen Philip Kolychev of Solovetsky Monastery. The film is divided into four... | violence | train | wikipedia | An impressive work, for someone acquainted with Russian culture and history.
The acting is superb and the reality imposed by a bloody Russian King is overwhelming; as well his evil deeds were unfolded in the movie respecting all the historical facts.
Its really marvelous to encounter in the movie the Christian orthodox... |
tt0329717 | Hollywood Homicide | LAPD Sergeant Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is a financially strapped Hollywood homicide detective who began moonlighting as a real estate broker seven years ago. His partner is Detective K. C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), a much younger officer who teaches yoga on the side and wants to be an actor. The duo are assigned to in... | paranormal, violence, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | Hollywood Homicide has them trying to balance the investigation of murders involving members of LA's rap industry with unusual extracurricular activities and concerns.The most obvious aspects that make the film work so well are the extracurriculars.
It's hard not to be entertained by him in the old Star Wars films, whe... |
tt0417397 | 9 rota | At a farewell ceremony in Krasnoyarsk, a band of young Soviet army recruits is preparing for their departure to their place of military service. On arrival at their bootcamp in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan they meet their drill instructor, Senior Praporschik Dygalo, a seasoned, traumatized veteran of several tours ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062776 | Candy | The Candy Candy manga provides a "coming of age story" in the shōjo genre. Candy, an abandoned orphan taken in by the orphanage Pony's Home near Lake Michigan around the start of the 20th century, spent the first years of her life at the orphanage, to where she would often return to repose and to decide her next course... | psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | But perhaps the most reviled of the lot has been the film Candy.Candy tells the simple tale of a sweet young thing that goes out into the world to grow but finds herself confronted at every turn by typical male stereotypes (played by some of the biggest stars of the day) who really only have one goal in mind.
Along the... |
tt0092030 | The Supernaturals | One hundred years ago, deep in the sullen backwoods of the Southern United States, a Confederate town is held captive, the soldiers forced to walk through a piece of woodland laced with mines. Because he is found wearing a Confederate States Army outfit, Jeremy (Chad Sheets), a young boy is also forced to make the cros... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | Scottish-born Maxwell Caulfield and Star Treks Nichelle Nichols go down to the woods and get a big surprise.
A force that has brought back the dead confederate soldiers to wreak revenge on some recruits.
The only few merits it has, are the neat ghost story concept (Return of the Civil War Zombies) and some commendable ... |
tt0473188 | The Death and Life of Bobby Z | Don Huertero (Joaquim de Almeida) is a Mexican drug lord. His daughter committed suicide because a drug dealer known as Bobby Z broke her heart. Consequently, Don Huertero is out for vengeance.
In trepidation Bobby Z seeks shelter in an American embassy. From there he is handed over to federal agent Tad Gruzsa (Laurenc... | revenge | train | wikipedia | While it's no worse than much of the action movie junk that makes it to theatres, Bobby Z, originally entitled The Death and Life of Bobby Z, is a action thriller with Tim Kearney (Walker) as our hero.
This gives director John Herzfeld, whose own career hacs been on less than an up-tick since the appropriately named 15... |
tt0047041 | Gorilla at Large | Cyrus Miller's circus has come to the fairgrounds, where barker Joey Matthews invites the crowd to come see the great gorilla, Goliath.
Trapeze artist Laverne Miller flies over the gorilla's cage. She tells husband Cyrus that she wants a few changes made, demanding that the animal's handler, Kovacs, be fired, and that ... | revenge, mystery | train | wikipedia | For one thing, it has an amazing cast: Anne Bancroft, Cameron Mitchell, Lee Cobb, Lee Marvin and Raymond Burr.
Men dress in garish suits in this one, and smoke cigars, and there is, as always seemed to be the case with films with a circus or carnival setting, the air of an alternate reality just around the corner, in a... |
tt0067979 | Whity | In 1878 in the south west of the USA, Ben Nicholson is the richest rancher of the area. A tough man who strikes a hard bargain, he has been outwitted by his second wife Katherine, a flirtatious intriguer. Of his two sons from the previous marriage, Frank is gay and the unfortunate David is a half-wit. There is a third ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057831 | Alexis Zorbas | The book opens in a café in Piraeus, just before dawn on a gusty autumn morning. The year is most likely 1916. The narrator, a young Greek intellectual, resolves to set aside his books for a few months after being stung by the parting words of a friend, Stavridakis, who has left for the Russian Caucasus to help some Po... | thought-provoking, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083526 | The Aftermath | Hunter (C. J. Thomason) is a young doctor that has found himself stuck in the cellar of a farmhouse while World War III and the resulting nuclear attack unfolds around him. He's accompanied by eight other people, none of whom know one another. Terrified and forced to defend themselves against other refugees looking to ... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073822 | Trollflöjten | The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
=== Act 1 ===
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns’re Macht!"). He faints, and ... | whimsical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0821638 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | In the first chapter, Brown presents a brief history of the discovery and settlement of America, from 1492 to the Indian turmoil that began in 1860. He stresses the initially gentle and peaceable behavior of Indians toward Europeans, especially given their apparent lack of resistance to early colonial efforts at Europe... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | And now, in Wounded Knee, it is the white man who destroys what is left of Native American life; a terribly stark (and bloody) reality.The other notables are Adam Beach (FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS) as Charles Eastman, and Aidan Quinn as Senator Henry Dawes.
This surprised me greatly since it was Grant's administration that d... |
tt0235917 | Dora the Explorer | The series centers around Dora, a 7 (Later 8) year old American girl of Indigenous Mexican heritage, with a love of embarking on quests related to an activity that she wants to partake of or a place that she wants to go to, accompanied by her talking purple backpack and anthropomorphic monkey companion named Boots (nam... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | In case you are not familiar with this show Dora is a 7 year old Latina girl who travels around with a monkey named Boots.
While there is some repetition in every form of entertainment, especially for children, this is absolutely ridiculous.The second complaint I have about this show is that Dora is not educational.
Du... |
tt0259685 | Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | Adventurer Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada, after a hunt for Shriekers in Argentina. Since the original Graboid attacks, the town's preventative equipment for tracking Graboid activities has fallen into disrepair due to the neglect of native residents Miguel, Nancy Sterngood, and her daughter ... | psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The movie isn't anything great, but it's got some cool stuff in it.I thought it was funny that they managed to work in a mention of just about every character from the first film as they could, and if they didn't mention them, they actually showed them in the film.
In the third installment of the Tremors series, surviv... |
tt0425253 | Mini's First Time | Mini Drogues (Nikki Reed) is a clever and adventurous high school senior who is bored with her life. Mini prizes her "unique experiences" (she calls them "firsts"). For excitement, and to add to her list of firsts, Mini decides to try being a call girl. Her first client, however, has a guilty conscience and can't carry... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Baldwin gives his best performance in years and that's saying a lot because he's been doing great work.
Part vixen, part little girl lost, the glee with which she sets about her goals, takes a character who is, in fact a sociopath and makes you respect and like her.
Her intellectual honesty is actually refreshing.Her p... |
tt0382028 | Fat Slags | The film chronicles the (mis)adventures of Sandra (Fiona Allen) and Tracey (Sophie Thompson), the famously vulgar and crass Fat Slags of the title. The pair leave their home town of Fulchester for London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune. On the day the Fat Slags arrive in London, internationally reno... | humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0264357 | Ammoru | Bhavani (Soundarya), a lower-caste orphan and devotee of Goddess Ammoru (Ramyakrishnan), is responsible for the arrest of the evil Gorakh (Rami Reddy). Gorakh is released from prison, vowing to revenge. Bhavani is married to a doctor, Suria (Suresh) who happens to be relation to Gorakh. Suria goes abroad to study, leav... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | interesting..
Okay, obviously this is a Bollywood movie, a genre which I have no experience or knowledge in, but as it was on TV I thought I'd give it a go.
The plot centres around Bhavani, a young girl who is the carer to the shrine of Ammoru, the mother goddess.
She falls in love with a man of high standing, whose fa... |
tt0483786 | Ram Aur Shyam | Ram (Dilip Kumar) lives with his sister Sulakshna (Nirupa Roy) and niece Kuku in his family estate. His brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran) looks after his factories and controls his property with an iron hand. Ram is shy and coward in nature. He is always abused and brutally beaten by Gajendra. Sulakshna and Kuku try to pr... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119313 | Hope Floats | Birdee Pruitt (Sandra Bullock) is a Chicago housewife who is invited onto the Toni Post talk show under the pretense of getting a free makeover but instead is ambushed with the revelation that her husband Bill has been having an affair with her best friend Connie (Rosanna Arquette). Humiliated on national television, B... | revenge, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | While it has to be said that Sandra Bullock does not avoid exploding buses, or have to hunt down any cryogenically frozen bad guys in this picture, "Hope Floats" is a better movie than most give it credit, and Ms. Bullock and the supporting cast put in fine performances of their own to make a very touching and poignant... |
tt0181288 | American Movie | In 1996, Mark Borchardt, a blue-collar suburbanite, dreams of being a filmmaker. However, he is also an unemployed, deeply indebted, borderline alcoholic who still lives with his parents and is estranged from his ex-girlfriend, who is threatening to revoke custody of their three children. He acknowledges his various fa... | cult, home movie | train | wikipedia | Now I don't think Mark writes the best dialogue in the world, but looking just at his photographic eye I'd say if the guy had any kind of schooling he might be shooting movies for someone right now.
Hence, the making of Borchadt's film, "Coven", goes from 6 months to 3 years and the movie suffers a bit from being drawn... |
tt0031762 | Only Angels Have Wings | Geoff Carter (Grant) is a pilot and the manager of Barranca Airways, a small, barely solvent company owned by "Dutchy" Van Ruyter (Sig Ruman) carrying airmail from the fictional South American port town of Barranca through a high pass in the Andes Mountains. Bonnie Lee (Arthur), a piano-playing entertainer, arrives one... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | In this film Cary Grant, who is one of the greatest "Hawksian" actors, plays Geoff the head of the air mail airline who has sworn off women because they just don't seem to deal with his dangerous lifestyle.
A Notch Above The Rest In Its Era. To quote to the movie cliché on the back of the VHS cover, this is old-time ad... |
tt0064406 | Hard Contract | CIA assassin John Cunningham (James Coburn), a cold-blooded killer with nerves of steel and no conscience, kills a man on election day, votes in the local election and spends the rest of the afternoon with Ellen (Karen Black), a prostitute. The next day, Cunningham goes to see James Ramsey (Burgess Meredith), his mobil... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0196158 | Ticker | The film begins with a SWAT team going into the house of a United States Senator. Someone is holding the Senator hostage. The bomb squad arrives in a helicopter and they rappel down into the house. Frank Glass (Seagal) is in charge of the bomb squad. Glass finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the S... | comedy, boring, neo noir, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsNot a single other decent review for this film seems to have appeared yet.And this isn't going to be the first one.The cliche ridden,tedium inducing script and flat,uninteresting dialogue are the first of many noticea... |
tt0275572 | Operation Thunderbolt: Entebbe | On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked Flight 139, an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. Two of the terrorists are West Germans named Wilfried Boese (Klaus Kinski) and Halima (Sybil... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068619 | Ganja & Hess | The film follows Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy black anthropologist who is doing research on the Myrthians, an ancient African nation of blood drinkers. One night, while staying in Green's lavish mansion, richly decorated with African art, Green's unstable assistant George Meda (writer/director Gunn) threaten... | allegory | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026182 | A Cartoonist's Nightmare | It is closing time at an animation studio and all the staff members are calling it a day. Meanwhile, an animator chooses to carry on with his work while a custodian keeps on watch. In his drawing, he sketches a dungeon scene where Beans the Cat encounters a goblin. Weary for working several hours continuously, the anim... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Cartoonist's Nightmare was an amusing early Warner Bros.
cartoon.
Just found this rare Warner Bros.-Looney Tunes cartoon on YouTube.
"Supervised" by ex-Disney animator Jack King (though he'd later return there as the new resident Donald Duck helmer), A Cartoonist's Nightmare is one of the few that starred a now-forgo... |
tt0164003 | City of Ghosts | Jimmy (played by Matt Dillon) is a conman who's been working for a fake insurance company in New York City that is being investigated by the FBI after it cannot pay claims that have poured in after a hurricane. Discovering that his mentor and the mastermind of the scheme, Marvin (James Caan), has skipped the country an... | violence, intrigue, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | We get a sense of the sadness and tragic history of the country, its current condition, and the wonderful warmth of its people (as portrayed by Sok, the cyclo driver, who is absolutely authentic).Some reviewers have complained that Cambodia is portrayed too negatively in this film.
We also see that the crimes of Harry ... |
tt0278295 | All About the Benjamins | Tyson Bucum (Ice Cube), a maverick bounty hunter, is out to capture a petty drug dealer, Lil J (Anthony Michael Hall). Bucum confronts Lil J in his trailer home and nearly handcuffs him, but Lil J's girlfriend, who wields a shotgun, recklessly shoots at Bucum. Bucum manages to tackle Lil J's girlfriend and arrest Lil J... | violence, humor, comedy | train | wikipedia | Ice Cube is always good at his characters.
Ice Cube plays a similar character that he does in most of his films, the hard ass smart ass, but it works well with his role.
They both have pretty good comedic performances which along side the action directing makes a decent/ tolerable action comedy.Its not a fantastic film... |
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