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tt0295254 | Feardotcom | Mike Black Reilly (Stephen Dorff) is an NYPD detective who is called to the scene of a mysterious death in the subway system. The victim, Polidori (Udo Kier), exhibits bleeding from his eyes and other orifices and, by the frozen look on his face, appears to have seen something horrifying before being hit by a train.
De... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The film manages to maintain its unwatchability for over an hour, but by that point the viewer will probably have already logged onto www.feardotcom.com in hopes of ending the misery.
Do not make the mistake of renting this movie; there's a small chance it may scare you, but the odds of that happening are not worth sit... |
tt0082138 | Carbon Copy | Roger Porter (Washington) is the long-lost black son of Walter Whitney (Segal), a respectable businessman who lives in the all-white community of San Marino, California. Walter, who is Jewish, has been hiding that fact for purposes of professional advancement in the business which his anti-Semitic father-in-law (Warden... | blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | A white man told his white wife that the black teenage boy with them was his son.
Over the years, I quoted that line many times, mostly in arguments with my mother and maternal grandmother about inter-racial marriage.
Walter Whitney (played by George Segal) is a wealthy businessman who lives a high society lifestyle wi... |
tt0118525 | ...Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya | Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya revolves around a progression of love between the two protagonists, Bobby Oberoi (Bobby Deol) and Ashi (Aishwarya Rai). Ashi is a free-spirited woman, in her early twenties, who has no plans to get married soon. Her father, Kailashnath (Anupam Kher), is traditional and believes important things in lif... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0368688 | Direct Action | With fifteen years on the force, Sergeant Frank Gannon (Dolph Lundgren) has spent the last three years on the Direct Action Unit (DAU) task force, fighting gang crime and corruption.
The DAU, led by Captain Stone (Conrad Dunn), is a special unit of the Metropolitan Police Department focusing on gang violence, drugs, an... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Pure Dolph action!
Earlier in the year saw the release of Dolph's latest movie, Detention.
That was a disappointment to say the least but his next effort; Direct Action is far more like the good old days for any Dolph fan.
Over the last 6 years Dolph has been starring in considerably cheaper and poorer movies than he u... |
tt0260494 | Veerana | The movie opens with a young boy tied up inside a cage in a large cave. Some priests and goons are surrounding him. He pleads with them to leave him and asks what they want from him. The priest says that his blood and flesh will give life to Nakita. Just then the witch comes as a lovely young woman and enters the cage.... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Bava-flavored, Hammeresque fun.
"VEERANA" is one of the best of the Indian horror films I've managed to find, to date.
Like the other Ramsay Brothers productions I've watched, this one has the same Bava-like use of colored gels mixed with atmospheric sets.
There's an over-the-top evil Tantric Priest who might have step... |
tt1500842 | Nuit blanche | The film starts when Kim Si-hoo, a pawnbroker, is found dead in a remote town in a derelict building, the police are divided whether it was a murder or a suicide.
Fourteen years previous to that a man's body is found on an abandoned ship. The prime suspect, a woman suspected of being his lover, is also found dead soon ... | magical realism | train | wikipedia | Touching & Breathtakingly Beautiful. I watched Nuit Blanche because it was linked to from Wired.com. I only watched it because I'd worked on a project relating to car safety, and it was introduced as a film with a slow motion car crash.Little did I expect, however, to watch one of the most beautiful, romantic, transcen... |
tt1093824 | Encounters at the End of the World | Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins" but will explore the dreams of the people and ... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | From this he was compelled to visit the continent and shoot some footage of his own, which became Encounters at the End of the World.The film perfectly balances both gorgeous footage of the continent as well as fascinating interviews and anecdotes of the many researchers and workers of the McMurdo research station.
It ... |
tt0039431 | 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... | psychological | train | wikipedia | Great MGM color musical from 1947 that boasts terrific performances from June Allyson and Peter Lawford as the stars and Joan McCracken, Ray McDonald, Patricia Marshall, Connie Gilchrist, Donald McBride, Mel Torme, Tom Dugan, Clint Sundberg, and Jane Green in support.
It seems to have only 3 cuts in it and it's an amaz... |
tt0795363 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | The film is set in the Qing Dynasty during the 43rd year (1778) of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-fat) is an accomplished Wudang swordsman and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) is a female warrior and professional body guard. The death of Mu Bai's closest friend and Shu Lien's fiancé Meng Sizhao (play... | violence | train | wikipedia | A good attempt to make a playable adaption of a great film... but.... First of all, around the time I wrote this comment, I had already read what kittiwake-1 had written about this game and was confused. This is a video game and not an actual movie. I mean, I myself would choose a good Deniro movie or playing a video g... |
tt0409184 | Les poupées russes | The film begins with friends from L'Auberge espagnole meeting in Saint Petersburg at the wedding of Wendy's brother, William. Xavier begins to reminisce about the events of the past several years.
Xavier and Martine have split up and Martine has since had a child and become a committed environmental activist. For finan... | storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | He said that it was directed by the man who made "L'Auberge espagnole", which he liked a lot, but he didn't think that this movie would be a sequel to that one and I believed him.
When he finally finds a girl that he likes, he always believes that there is something better out there and not knowing when to stop looking... |
tt0051393 | The Badlanders | In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek (Ladd), the "Dutchman," tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The other, John McBain (Borgnine), killed Bascomb, the man who cheated him out of his land.... | sadist | train | wikipedia | Two great stars , Ladd and Borgnine , play two ex-cons who plan a major heist on a gold mine.
A virtual Western remake of the notorious crime drama The Asphalt Jungle by John Huston that was based on the novel written by W.R. Burnett , but you'd certainly never prefer it to this classic Film Noir .Turn of the century N... |
tt0085101 | The Thorn Birds | The epic begins with Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, a four-year-old girl living in New Zealand in the early twentieth century, the only daughter of Paddy, an Irish farm labourer, and Fee, his harassed but aristocratic wife. Although Meggie is a beautiful child with curly red-gold hair, she receives little coddling and must s... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | The casting was perfect in every way to bring the story of the Australian Cleary family to life so vividly (Jean Simmons as the mother "Fee" won the Emmy Award that year; unfortunately Henry Mancini didn't for his gorgeous musical score, and he deserved to win!).
While the main thrust of this story and film appears on ... |
tt0122933 | Analyze This | Mob boss Paul Vitti narrates a brief history of the Mafia: in the wake of Albert Anastasia's death, the dispute over who among Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino and Joe Bananas will ascend to mob supremacy results in the Apalachin Meeting in upstate New York. The meeting is raided by the FBI, and the Mafia does not call a s... | entertaining, comedy, psychological, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal square off in `Analyze This,' a satirical look at `family' life from director Harold Ramis.
There were only a few instances that I started to really laugh, but there were plenty of good and funny jokes, as well as some good touches of mobster-like crime.Ben Sobol (Billy Crystal) is a fa... |
tt0219175 | Mexico City | The movie begins by showing how the Mexican president's doctor is kidnapped and finally murdered. The reason given is for his opposing political party trying to embarrass him. Mitch Cobb and her brother, Sam, are on their way to Oaxaca to do some exploring. Mitch is not happy in Mexico City; we see in a flash-back why ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Under-rated, taut and engaging thriller with moody cinematography....
I almost didn't rent this one because the pre-visit to Blockbuster and the checks on IMdB indicated that this "new release" was only a 2 star offering.
Now...sometimes I'm in the mood for low budget, brooding atmospherics with "indie-like" cinematogr... |
tt0072325 | Truck Turner | Mack "Truck" Turner (Isaac Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter after being hurt. Turner begins his morning watching his girlfriend Annie's cat, Frances, while she is in jail for stealing a television set. Truck and his partner Jerry Barnes catch a fugitive, then... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, revenge, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | He was also considered for the role of Shaft but it ended up in Richard Roundtree's hands.Truck Turner the movie is every bit the blaxploitation classic one should expect.
Filled with hot rods, jive ass broads, pimps and crooks, superb dialogues in that outdated but always funny 70's genre lingo and enough slow motion ... |
tt5108476 | Befikre | Set in Paris, Befikre begins with a nasty fight between Dharam (Ranveer Singh) and Shyra (Vaani Kapoor), which leads to a sudden break-up; Shyra leaves Dharam, and goes to her parent’s house, asking them to let her in without any questions about Dharam. Dharam hails from Karol Bagh, New Delhi, and is a stand-up comedia... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0453562 | 42 | The film tells the story of Jackie Robinson and, under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey, Robinson's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American player to break the baseball color barrier. The story focuses mostly on the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and somewhat on Robinson's 1946 ... | historical | train | wikipedia | I absolutely wouldn't have taken the risk of playing a game while people threatened my wife and child.When Jackie finally got angry enough to smash his bat against a wall, that was the ONLY thing I could relate to - then to realize he had to go back out there because it was about MORE than just him - I was flabbergaste... |
tt0297884 | Far from Heaven | In 1957 suburban Connecticut, Cathy Whitaker appears to be the perfect wife, mother, and homemaker. Cathy is married to Frank, a successful executive at Magnatech, a company selling television advertising. One evening Cathy receives a phone call from the local police who are holding her husband. He says it's all a mix ... | romantic, neo noir, queer | train | wikipedia | Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, a homage to the 1950s melodramas of Douglas Sirk, is an exquisitely crafted film of beauty and grace.
The world that Haynes creates is so meticulously detailed that one almost forgets that the movie isn't fifty years old.Julianne Moore deserves an Academy Award for her portrayal of Cathy W... |
tt0825239 | Contre-enquête | When the young daughter of police captain Richard Malinowski is raped and murdered, his colleagues hastily find a suspect called Daniel Eckman. Despite there being no witnesses and no forensic evidence, he is sentenced to 30 years. From jail he starts writing to the policeman, expressing his deep regret for the death o... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Very-well made and good suspense, one to watch....
Through persistent correspondence over the course of three years and new elements in his possession, police captain Malinowski starts to doubt the man convicted for his 10 year old daughter's rape and murder is actually guilty and starts a counter-investigation on his ... |
tt0100152 | Mindwarp | As with the other serials from Season 23, Mindwarp's present is the trial of the Doctor by the Valeyard, accusing him of meddling in other species' affairs, in a way unbecoming of a Time Lord. The Valeyard provides evidence to the Inquisitor and presiding through a screen linked to the Matrix, showing the details of th... | violence, cult, horror, murder, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0433463 | Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams | Following the events of the first game, Tak has now been stuck in a dream for 16 days. Jibolba, and Lok ponder how they can wake him up. In reality, Tak is stuck in the Dream World, and is sent by the Dream Juju to fight the Dream Guardian, take The Staff of Dreams, and save the princess. After Tak refuses, he is told ... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | One of the best games I've ever played!. Very fun action plat-former. This game really makes you feel as if your'e in a dream; it's very surreal. Has some hilarious moments, the environments are cool, and it's super atmospheric. Not to mention it has probably the best video game soundtrack I've ever heard! -Slight stor... |
tt0054292 | Sergeant Rutledge | The film revolves around the court-martial of 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge (Strode), a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 9th U.S. Cavalry. His defense is handled by Lt. Tom Cantrell (Hunter), Rutledge's troop officer. The story is told through a series of flashbacks, expanding the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events... | murder | train | wikipedia | REMAKE A JOHN FORD CLASSIC like Sergeant Rutledge?????
As another reviewer said,it is NOT a typical John Ford film,but it has to be one of his best.
Woody Strode,one of the most under rated black actors of his generation is superb as in the title role.
Jeffrey Hunter as defense attorney Tom Cantrell also turns in an ex... |
tt0020534 | The Unholy Night | === 1962 ===
A boy (Cole Sand) tells a bell-ringing Santa Claus that he wants a coonskin cap for Christmas. The Santa packs up for the night and is approached by a man who tells him not to disappoint the boy. When Santa gets short with the man, he is shot. The shooter, dressed in the bloody costume, enters a residence ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0136658 | Quack Pack | The show centers around Donald and teenaged versions of his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. The actual age of the boys is not made certain. Donald works as a cameraman alongside Daisy, who is a reporter. The group travel around the world looking for a big scoop. The three boys are triplets but Huey had once referred to... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0332379 | The School of Rock | No Vacancy, a rock band, performs at a nightclub three weeks before auditioning for Battle of the Bands. Guitarist Dewey Finn creates on-stage antics, and a stage dive that abruptly ends the performance when the crowd doesn't catch him. The next morning, Dewey awakes in the apartment he lives in with Ned Schneebly and ... | cult, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113438 | Iron Eagle IV | While on a routine patrol on United States airspace west of Alaska, Doug Masters and his wingman test the g-forces of their F-16C planes. Their antics get them carried away, as they stray over Soviet airspace. As they are being escorted back into U.S. airspace, one of the Soviet planes has Doug on missile-lock. Doug re... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0290538 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant on American Bandstand in 1961. He writes the successful son... | psychedelic, psychological | train | wikipedia | We all remember Chuck Barris as the creator of some of television's most successful - albeit notoriously mind-numbing - game shows: `The Dating Game,' `The Newlywed Game,' and `The Gong Show.' But did you know that he was also a hit man for the CIA?
Well, that's what he claims, straight from his own `unauthorized auto... |
tt0030968 | When Were You Born | On an ocean liner sailing from the Orient to San Francisco, Mei Lei Ming (Anna May Wong) gives fellow passenger Nita Kenton (Lola Lane) a reading. When Nita's boyfriend, importer Phillip Corey (James Stephenson), scoffs at her predictions, she informs him that he himself will die within 48 hours.
Corey is later found d... | murder | train | wikipedia | Astrology may be bunk, but this film is fun..
This B-movie murder mystery is unquestionably different than most films of it's time.
The clap-trap about using astrology as a crime fighting tool is an odd gimmick, but what the heck?This sort of programmer benefits from the unusual astrology "window-dressing", and though ... |
tt1229989 | Lalola | Ramiro "Lalo" Padilla (played by Juan Gil Navarro) is the director of the media company "High Five", editor of the famous magazine Don, and has many women around him. Romina (played by Marcela Kloosterboer), who is in love with Lalo, decides to punish his lack of commitment to her. She hires a witch to cast a spell on ... | revenge, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0030241 | Holiday | Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet), a society columnist for The Daily Telegraph in London, has been in love with Jasper Bloom (Rufus Sewell) for over three years, despite his infidelities and the fact they have broken up some time previously. When she learns at a company Christmas party that he is engaged to be married, Iris... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0075376 | Up! | In 1939, nine-year-old Carl Fredricksen idolizes famous explorer Charles F. Muntz. When Muntz is accused of fabricating the skeleton of a giant exotic bird he says he discovered at Paradise Falls, he vows not to return until he captures one alive. One day, Carl befriends a girl named Ellie, also a Muntz fan. She confid... | pornographic, comedy, psychedelic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | The film begins quite mysteriously in a dungeon where a young man is torturing an Adolf Hitler look-alike
We then quickly cut to a stunning nude, played by Kitten Natividad, who teasingly introduces the audience to the setting
We are in Northern California, in a small, rural community
Just outside of town, a very be... |
tt0250202 | All Over the Guy | All Over the Guy is about Eli (Dan Bucatinsky) and Tom (Richard Ruccolo). The film is told mostly in flashback, with Eli recounting his side to Esther (Doris Roberts), an HIV clinic worker as he waits for test results and Tom to a guy he meets at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Tom is the son of emotionally distant al... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | I find it difficult to watch films of actors I have worked with because it's hard to separate the character from the person I know.
Most of all, the characters of Brett and Jackie are very funny in a superb role reversal -- instead of the ubiquitous second-banana gay best friends, we have second-banana straight best fr... |
tt0057925 | The Cat Above and the Mouse Below | In a concert entitled "Signor Thomasino Catti-Cazzaza Baritone", Tom is a famous legendary baritone singer who will perform at a concert to sing Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville. Tom arrives in a very long limousine, and emerges, tossing a rose into the crowd. He walks on stage to applause and begins to sin... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Tom is clearly a cat of parts!. As is clear to those who follow the exploits of Tom and Jerry, they are both quite artistically gifted. Tom himself has played piano and bass and here sings opera. While I personally prefer his rendition of "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't, My Baby?" (in Solid Serenade whilst playing the af... |
tt0142775 | Presumed Guilty | Two lawyers struggle to free a man, Antonio Zúñiga, who has been wrongly convicted by the Mexican judicial system. Zúñiga was arrested on charges of murder and convicted largely on the testimony of one man. Zúñiga was told by authorities “You did it and that’s it”. Zúñiga was given the sentence of 20 years in prison fo... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0247097 | The Fugitive | Dr. Richard Kimble, a prominent Chicago vascular surgeon, arrives home to find his wife Helen fatally wounded by a one-armed man. Kimble struggles with the killer but he escapes. The lack of evidence of a break-in, Helen's lucrative life insurance policy, and a misunderstood 9-1-1 call result in Kimble's conviction of ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This is my first 'Fugitive' film/movie/series I have seen, and it's so suspenseful.
Tim Daly does a great job with playing Dr. Richard Kimble...
It's great, and worth a watch!
The whole thing is well done and the acting is great, and these are the reasons I saw it from the first episode to the last.
I mean, all of us a... |
tt0116118 | Doctor Who | Following the Master's trial and execution at the hands of the Daleks, the Doctor, currently in his seventh incarnation, is transporting the Master's remains to Gallifrey via his TARDIS. En route, the box with the remains breaks open and an ooze leaks out, infecting the TARDIS. The Doctor is forced to make an emergency... | cult | train | wikipedia | Whoever you are reading this review never EVER give up on your hopes and dreams because for DOCTOR WHO fans in the early 1990s not one of us ever believed we`d be seeing our favourite show return , never mind seeing a big budget American production or that this version was gong to have BAFTA award winning actor Paul Mc... |
tt0093284 | It Couldn't Happen Here | In the early morning, dancers are warming up on an English beach (Clacton-On-Sea.Essex), and Neil Tennant appears on a bicycle. The song "It couldn't happen here" is being played. He cycles up to a kiosk, where he buys some postcards from the shopkeeper (Gareth Hunt). The shopkeeper complains about the political faults... | absurd, cult, comedy, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0213890 | Mohabbatein | Narayan Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) is the strict headmaster of Gurukul, a prestigious all-boys university. Narayan wants the best out of his students, and places emphasis on tradition, honor and discipline. He has run the university for 25 years and over that time, he has forbid the students from any kind of romance — ... | melodrama, romantic, philosophical, flashback | train | wikipedia | I have never seen any character, in movies or real life that believes in love and the power of love as strongly as Raj Aryan does.
what really makes the movie kinda drag is the tacky ending, in which narayan shankar (an excellent amitabh bachchan) gives this exceptionally long lecture about him losing to love.
all six ... |
tt0110018 | Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur | In a sun-dappled forest, two men are searching for buried treasure. They pace out the step given with the map, and discover a cave overgrown with bushes. The two men break through the plants and enter the cave. In the cave they find a huge wooden door, as they try to get through the door, a monster breaks through the d... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Closest to the series.
Of all the Hercules tv-movies that were made, this one manages to achieve the tone and theme of the Legendary Journeys.
Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst have good chemistry with each other.
My only problem with this tv-movie was the flashbacks.
In my opinion, they really just slowed things down.
Oth... |
tt0040614 | Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid | The film stars William Powell as Arthur Peabody, who is undergoing a midlife crisis as he approaches his 50th birthday. Much of the story is shown in flashback as Peabody tells his skeptical doctor the source of his malaise.
Peabody goes on vacation with his wife Polly (Irene Hervey) to a Caribbean resort. While there,... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The central character in this well-loved feature is an man (William Powell) who has reached the age of fifty.
A highlight of the film comes when she dons a bathing suit (she is a champion swimmer and gorgeous) and investigates the mermaid tale underwater, where Blyth bites her on the leg.
Clinton Sundberg, one of the b... |
tt4979082 | Jai Gangaajal | Babloo Pandey (Manav Kaul), the MLA of Bankipur district and his brother Dabloo Pandey (Ninad Kamat) run a jungle raaj in their town of Lakhisarai. They are grabbing land for a power plant whose financiers are backing their party politically. The home minister, Ramakant Chowdhary (Kiran Karmarkar) appoints Abha Mathur,... | murder | train | wikipedia | Jai Gangajal is totally a PRAKASH JHA movie, literally.
The movie is no match to its predecessor but Priyanka Chopra's honest performance as Abha Mathur does make up for all the loopholes in the story.
Much like Gangaajal the movie makes an attempt to focus on the socially relevant topics like land grabbing, farmer sui... |
tt0429200 | Un fil à la patte | === Act 1 ===
Monsieur Fernand de Bois-d’Enghien, who has had a long on-off relationship with Lucette, has just returned to her after a few weeks apart. While he acts as though everything is normal, he reveals in asides to the audience that he is getting married to Viviane, daughter of the esteemed Madame Duverger. He ... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1264914 | Zift | Zift's plot unfolds non-linearly: although the main story after Moth's release from prison is told chronologically, the events leading to his imprisonment are revealed by means of numerous relatively long and not necessarily chronological flashbacks. The story is presented chronologically here.
Moth is an ordinary guy ... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | It didn't have an Oscar nomination(for the best foreign language award) this year, still Zift is a crowning and epoch making epic movie for Bulgaria and Eastern/North-Eastern Europe.
Hence, in the years ahead this movie will be mentioned often for its contemporary style, modern cinema language and creative editing.Cent... |
tt1985019 | Austenland | Jane Hayes (Russell) is a single 30-something American woman obsessed with Jane Austen, especially Colin Firth's portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice who wishes for a nice Englishman of her own. After yet another failed relationship, Jane decides to blow her entire savings on a once-in-... | romantic, entertaining, stupid | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060728 | Murderers' Row | The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It is actually a scale model being used in the demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Bureau of International Government and Order ("BIG O"). BIG O is a secret organization with the goal of world domination that previously... | good versus evil, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | This is film pretty much fits the formula of the other "Matt Helm" films; lavish locations, fun weapons, beautiful girls and booze.
When this movie was shot in 1966 , the second unit took the different scenes located in France between Cannes, Villefranche sur mer and Monte Carlo.
This scene is shown to Matt in the car ... |
tt0110307 | The Last Outlaw | When the war ends, the cavalry unit commanded by Graff makes the decision to stay together, and turn outlaw. They begin committing bank robberies, and are successful due to their experience and tactics. Local citizens and lawmen are no match for them. However, when a robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in the unit b... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | For a modern Western movie this is very decent, considering we're talking a TV movie here this is very much above average.
I really have a hard time understanding why this movie's rating isn't much higher as 5,7.
Sure, this is no 'Unforgiven' or 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', but i don't think it pretends to be.
Thi... |
tt0102655 | The Perfect Weapon | Jeff Sanders (Jeff Speakman) leads a double life: by day, he is a simple, unassuming construction worker, and by night, an expert Kenpo student and master of his craft.
When Jeff lost his mother as a teenager, he became an outcast and frequently lashed out at his family and society in an attempt to assuage his anger. H... | cult, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | And what is even more impressive is the way the film portrays how Kenpo works when compared to different styles (like Tae Kwon Do).So despite some minor inadequacies it's pretty awesome in many other respects.
When his family friend Kim is harassed then murdered by the Korean crime syndicate, Jeff Speakman beats up man... |
tt2785390 | America: Imagine the World Without Her | Setting the stage for a presentation of their views, D'Souza and Sullivan provide counterfactual histories in which George Washington is killed during the Revolutionary War, or the country is divided following civil war, creating a world without America that would be vastly worse off. D'Souza identifies himself as an I... | historical | train | wikipedia | And I mean conservatives not just cons in prisons like D'Souza.Otherwise very disappointed that IMDB calls this collection of anti America elitist lies a "documentary"!
I wonder if there is an effort by the enemies of the West to release crap like this so people are tricked and become hateful and the country is divided... |
tt0083803 | Deadly Games | The first episode introduces the protagonist, Dr. Gus Lloyd, an Antimatter physicist, engineer and video game designer who has created a live-action game in his spare time to exert his indignant feelings about people in his life who have all made his life hell on Earth (his father, his ex-wife's mother, his ex-wife's d... | murder | train | wikipedia | Not all Bad. Not as bad as some reviewers will have you believe, but this isn't Don't Look in the Basement or Re-Animator either.
This film centers on a plucky gal named Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) whose sister is murdered in the opening scene.
She returns home to solve the case with help from Vietnam vet sheriff Sam Groom ... |
tt0097135 | Curfew | The Movieweb website provides a terse synopsis: "Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them."
John Bush of Rovi also provides a recap in The New Y... | insanity | train | wikipedia | The Perkins brothers, Ray and Bobby were sent to prison seven years ago for the brutal rape/murder of a sixteen year old girl.
They manage to escape death row, and head back to the town to exact revenge on the psychiatrist, Judge and DA who sent 'em there.
During the night, the DA's daughter Stephanie arrives home to m... |
tt0104346 | Gladiator | In AD 180, Hispano-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius leads the Roman army to victory against the Germanic tribes near Vindobona on the Limes Germanicus. Now weary of battle, Maximus only desires to retire to his estate. But Emperor Marcus Aurelius tells him that his own son and heir, Commodus, is unfit to rule and... | good versus evil, inspiring | train | wikipedia | The movie has a great soundtrack and a noticeable visual style that stays constant throughout the film.Horn (the bad guy) played by Brian Dennehy and his sidekick Pappy Jack played by Robert Loggia are a great combination of nastiness.
It was nice to see the relationships between all of the characters, especially betwe... |
tt1315216 | Jesse Stone: No Remorse | The film begins with the shooting murder of a young man at night as he opens his car door in a parking garage. Jesse Stone is introduced who, after his suspension as chief of police, has sunk into seclusion and alcoholism. Ordered not to communicate with his former subordinates while on suspension, he has been out of t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Intelligent Television Movie for Intelligent Viewers.
I have read all the novels and have seen all the movies with Tom Selleck.
He will always be remembered as Magnum P.I., but Jesse Stone is his very best work.
It has excellent characters, very smart dialog and great performances.
Tom Selleck's Jesse is flawed, human ... |
tt0210299 | Songcatcher | In 1907, Dr. Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), a professor of musicology, is denied a promotion at the university where she teaches. She impulsively visits her sister Eleanor (Jane Adams), who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There, she discovers a treasure trove of traditional Scots Irish ballads, which have ... | dramatic, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | I don't know if I can argue with that.Neither could Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), Doctor of Musicology, who came up into the mountains to visit her sister Elna (Jane Adams), and discovered music that had not been heard by "outlanders" in hundreds of years.
The main character Lily's love oozes off the screen and shames ... |
tt0276033 | The Country Bears | The Country Bears are an all-bear country rock band who have broken up in 1991 after years of popularity. Number one fan Beary Barrington (voiced by Haley Joel Osment), a young bear raised by a human family, feels left out for being different. His father (Stephen Tobolowsky) tells him that his family will love him no m... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0175385 | Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 | The story takes place in Tokyo where much of the manual labor is done by robots called Boomers, which are run by a mega-corporation Genom. Linna Yamazaki, a new office worker, observes a Boomer that has “gone rogue”, causing destruction and attacking people. Although the AD Police are called in to stop the rogue Boomer... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092962 | Emmanuelle 5 | Emmanuelle (played by Monique Gabrielle) is a free-spirited woman who makes erotic arthouse films and runs a dance studio out of her loft in Paris.
The movie opens with a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" style montage of Cannes, with a documentary-like narration giving us an overview of the famous film festival held... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Emmanuelle 5 is Polish surrealist Walerian Borowczyk's penultimate theatrical feature, a film who's merits are hotly debated among cult and art film lovers.
Some see the movie as nothing more than a commercial sell-out, others as an interesting addition to his body of work.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that ther... |
tt0236784 | The Tailor of Panama | Harry Pendel is a British expatriate living in Panama City and running his own successful bespoke tailoring business Pendel and Braithwaite. His wife and children are unaware that almost every detail of his life is fabricated, including his former partner, Mr Braithwaite. In reality, Harry Pendel is an ex-convict who l... | violence, intrigue, boring, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095126 | Mamba | The film takes place in Neu Posen, German East Africa sometime before the First World War. "Mamba" is the name given to a South African snake. The reptile of this adventure is Auguste Bolte (played by Jean Hersholt), who is constantly reminding those with whom he has a chance to converse that he can buy anything. He ne... | revenge | train | wikipedia | (This has all the makings of a cheap exploitive thriller.)"Mamba" ("Fair Game" in the United States) is a decent, albeit somewhat exploitive thriller about Gene (Gregg Henry), a deranged computer game designer who locks his ex-fiancé Eva (Trudie Styler) inside their apartment with a deadly Black Mamba snake.Directed by... |
tt2354407 | Teri Meri Kahaani | In 1960, aspiring musician Govind (Shahid Kapoor) and popular Bollywood superstar Ruksar (Priyanka Chopra) meet on a train heading to Bombay, India. Ruksar had run away from her home Lucknow with her best friend to become a film star. The two bond over their careers but part ways after arriving in Bombay. Govind befrie... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0195778 | Here on Earth | Kelvin "Kelley" Morse and Jasper Arnold become involved in a car race and accidentally damage a restaurant owned by Samantha Cavanaugh's parents. Both are sentenced to perform community service by repairing the damage. Although Kelley comes from a wealthy family and Jasper's parents are working-class, they soon find th... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | But it is better than many of the "teem movies" made recently.Sam (Leelee Sobieski) is a small town girl whose big plans to go to UM on a track scholarship got waylayed by a knee injury.
She has a boyfriend Jas (Josh Hartnett) that she has known forever, he loves her ("I know you better than anyone, Sam."), but we can ... |
tt0090856 | Club Paradise | Jack Moniker (Robin Williams) is a Chicago firefighter who becomes injured on the job. Using his disability money, he decides to retire and live the good life in a small Caribbean island called Saint Nicholas. He buys a small amount of property there and lives among other washed-up personalities such as Anthony Croyden... | comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | The charm is in its Carribbean setting, the mostly reggae soundtrack, Jimmy Cliff's character and Robin Williams' character--while we're at it throw Peter O'toole in their too.
Before Robin Williams solidly established himself as a star in "Good Morning, Vietnam", he starred in several innocuously silly movies such as ... |
tt0929425 | Gomorra | The film opens with the murder of gangsters relaxing in a tanning salon. This shooting occurs between clans of the Di Lauro Camorra syndicate which rule Scampia-Secondigliano, and triggers the so-called Faida di Scampia (Scampia feud) which is the backdrop of the entire movie. The Faida erupts between members of the Di... | violence, cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | It's a gangster as capitalist world, one where turning to killing kids or a woman is looked down upon, but not off-limits.The film starts off with a fantastic sequence of tanning machines and surprisingly graphic murder, which would lead one to think that they were moving headlong into a Scorsese-like blood bath of mac... |
tt1272886 | Small Apartments | Franklin Franklin is a hairless, overweight, eccentric social misfit and compulsive hoarder obsessed with Switzerland, who walks around wearing little more than briefs and mismatching socks and lives on a diet consisting of Moxie soda and pickles with mustard. Living alone in an almost bare apartment in a rundown build... | murder | train | wikipedia | But there is no doubt it carves it's own path, and a fairly unique one - which isn't easy to do nowadays.I'll start by saying that it's a very funny movie at times - in an awkward sort of way.
But after it was over it I realized it had a much more impressive affect on me.It probably won't be obvious until the end that ... |
tt0808331 | Joshua | Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga) are an affluent New York couple with two children. Their firstborn, 9-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan), is a child prodigy to such a degree that he thinks and acts decades ahead of his age. He is nearly always clad in conservative business attire and demonstrating limitles... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Joshua is clearly not a movie for the everyman and it never really tries to be.It is a story about a boy who longs to be understood by parents who choose to watch from the sidelines.
But if you want a movie that slowly and coolly toys with your mind until the very end, Joshua will likely deliver what you are looking fo... |
tt0078766 | Americathon | In the (then-near future) year 1998, the United States has run out of oil, and many Americans are living in their now-stationary cars and using nonpowered means of transportation such as jogging, riding bicycles and rollerskating. Many Americans wear sweatsuits. Paper money has become completely worthless, with all bus... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1830617 | Grimm | A brother and sister, Jacob and Marie, live with their father and mother. The family is in a situation where living becomes difficult for them. One day Jacob and Marie's father abandons the two of them in woods while they go collecting firewood. From that moment on, the two teens must fend for themselves, fighting off ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Grimm largely follows the line of most crime dramas, but with the fun twist that the bad guys are characters from fairy tales and folk-stories.
The main character is reasonably interesting, his partners (one his human police partner & a new friend that is basically a big bad wolf) are mildly amusing, and the crimes are... |
tt0160521 | Megazone 23 | Megazone 23's story is set in the far future of the human race, after, in the early 24th century, various environmental issues rendered Earth uninhabitable, forcing humanity to leave in several massive colony ships, the titular Megazones. The story itself follows the population of Megazone Two Three, based on an unname... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071609 | Himiko | In an unnamed forest, a group of women with white-painted faces and robes wander to a ritual site. One of the women, Himiko, the shaman and translator of the Sun God, lies on the ground while another holds a bronze mirror up which reflects the sun's light. Himiko starts to convulse and moan, imitating an orgasm which s... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | A modernist historical fiction. An imagined life of the prehistoric Japanese Queen Himiko, based loosely on a few mentions in Chinese chronicles. Himiko is presented as the head priestess of the Sun Goddess cult and a spirit medium. This cult later was used by the Japanese Imperial family as their claim to rule. Him... |
tt0051141 | Until They Sail | The film opens in a Wellington courtroom, where testimony prompts Barbara Leslie (Jean Simmons) to flash back to the events that led to the trial. She and her sisters Anne (Joan Fontaine), Evelyn (Sandra Dee), and Delia (Piper Laurie) live in Christchurch, where most of the male residents, including their brother Kit a... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0135114 | La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog | As with every morning since he moved into Savile Row, Willy Fog awakens at 8:00 am and rings for his servant, only to remember that he fired him the previous day for his inability to follow Fog's precise schedule. He has already arranged an interview for a replacement – former circus performer Rigodon, who is even now ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Another childhood favourite....
"Around the World with Willy Fogg" is basically just Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" anime-style with one or two characters added and Fog's named changed to something easier on the tongue.
This is one of my favourite childhood tv-series'.
Everybody (oh well, next to everybody) know... |
tt0081205 | The Music of Erich Zann | A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, on a street named "Rue d'Auseil", he finds an apartment in an almost empty building. One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich Zann. The old man is mu... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Weird fiction, well adapted.. This is a good example of how well things can turn out when a good little story is interpreted as a movie by dedicated artists on a tiny budget. It helps that the tale takes place in filthy little one-room apartments and that the action is pretty character driven, until the unknown vistas... |
tt0279730 | Children of the Corn: Revelation | Jamie (Claudette Mink) comes to Omaha, Nebraska after numerous phone calls to her grandmother have gone unanswered. Her grandmother's apartment building, which is built next to a cornfield, appears to be empty, except for two young, mysterious children who roam about. Jamie discovers that her grandmother has received a... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1129396 | Radio Free Albemuth | The story is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont. It makes liberal references to the collected works of Philip K. Dick.
Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) lives modestly with his wife Rachel (Katheryn Winnick) and their infant son. Ni... | violence, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0374583 | Comme une image | The protagonist, Lolita Cassard, lacks confidence and self-esteem because she doesn't look like the women who fill the pages of fashion magazines. Her father, Étienne Cassard, is a respected novelist, but rarely considers the feelings of others, only thinking of himself and worrying about aging. Pierre Millet, a younge... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Lolita is a pudgy young woman with a very low self-esteem even though she's got a beautiful voice and passion for singing) who desperately craves her father's attention.
20 year-old Lolita (Marilou Berry) aspires to be a singer.More than this, she desperately wants attention - any attention - from her father Étienne (J... |
tt0800027 | Feast of Love | The movie deals with love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Portland, Oregon. Harry Stevenson provides narration about how love can affect one's life.
=== Bradley ===
Bradley runs a small cafe in Portland. He has been married to his wife Kathryn for 6+ years. However, their marriage bec... | paranormal, flashback, romantic, melodrama, home movie | train | wikipedia | Another good story line involved two young broken people who try to accept that life and love can be good.
Played well by Toby Hemingway and a stunning Alexa Davalos, the two lovers have overcome much in their lives and certainly appreciate the bond they have.The best story line in the film is the magic of Morgan Freem... |
tt0097613 | The January Man | On New Year's Eve, Manhattan socialite Alison Hawkins returns home from the evening's festivities. As she feeds her fish before going to bed, she is strangled to death by an undetected intruder with a blue ribbon. It is the latest murder by a serial killer who has been terrorizing New York for 11 months.
New York Mayor... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | January man is kind of a neat movie that is clearly a romantic comedy masquerading as a psychological thriller.
The serial killer (the January man) is almost ancillary to the actual plot of the movie.
But that could be said about some hugely successful blockbuster films as well.Underneath this is a good little crime th... |
tt3331846 | Stand by Me Doraemon | In 2004, Nobita Nobi is a fourth grader who constantly gets failing grades in his subjects due to his laziness and is always bullied by his classmates Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi Goda. His great-great grandson from the 22nd century (year 2136), Sewashi, who watches him every day, travels to Nobita's timeline while bring... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1194612 | Into Eternity: A Film for the Future | This film explores the question of preparing the site so that it is not disturbed for 100,000 years, even though no structure in human history has stayed standing for such a long period.
"Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants are placed in interim stora... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Director and presenter Michael Madsden (not the same person as the actor of that name) has made a documentary film which may well be unique.
Everyone should see it, because it concerns the future of our species and our planet, and it is not a superficial film by any means.
He has adopted a moody Alain Resnais-style app... |
tt0102456 | Mississippi Masala | In 1972, dictator Idi Amin enacts the policy of the forceful removal of Asians from Uganda. Jay (Roshan Seth) his wife, Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore), and their daughter, Mina (Sarita Choudhury), a family of third-generation Ugandan Indians residing in Kampala reluctantly and tearfully leave their home behind and relocate. A... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0110265 | Killing Zoe | Professional safe-cracker Zed comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. In the cab on the way to his hotel room, the cabbie obtains a prostitute for him. He arrives at his hotel room and is soon greeted by the prostitute, Zoe, who also confides that she is studying art, and has a "very boring"... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073694 | Shao Lin men | During the Qing Dynasty the Shaolin disciples are hunted down by a powerful warrior who wants to rid the Shaolin men from China. At a remote training camp a group of Shaolin train together, their best student Yun Fei is given the task of taking down Shih Shao-Feng and his reign of terror. Along the way he befriends Cha... | violence | train | wikipedia | The Hand of Death aka Countdown in Kung Fu (1976) is a vastly underrated early work by director John Woo. The film stars Dorian Tan (Tan Tao-liang) and features Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and James Tien in significant supporting roles.
This is not a Jackie Chan film, Dorian Tan is the star but Jackie gives one of his best... |
tt0120133 | A Simple Wish | Oliver Greening is rejected from a coveted performance in a musical version of A Tale of Two Cities for simply not being a bankable performer. After Oliver's 8-year-old daughter Annabel attempts to get her 12-year-old brother Charlie to believe that the tooth fairy exists, Murray, a clumsy fairy godmother, appears afte... | revenge, fantasy, satire | train | wikipedia | An amusing little tale.
This was a fun film, and part of what made the film amusing was that the actors/actresses really seemed to be enjoying themselves.
The story is cute, about a bumbling male fairy godmother (Martin Short) who screws up a wish to the first child under his care and has to help set things straight by... |
tt1830522 | Bulletstorm | Bulletstorm takes place in the 26th century, where the universe is run by the Confederation of Planets. Grayson Hunt (Steven Blum) is the leader of Dead Echo, a black ops team under command of Star General Sarrano. Following Sarrano's orders and assassinating alleged criminals, Dead Echo kills a man known as Bryce Nova... | revenge, comedy, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Worth It. I put a 9 on this because it was not long enough.
but besides that i cant find anything wrong with the game.
The game has good graphics, its funny, its EXTREMELY violent but in a good way, awesome guns, good characters and a good story.
Overall it was good and worth the money and i recommend getting it.Bullet... |
tt2513092 | The Monkey's Paw | The short story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son, Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend who served with the British Army in India, introduces them to a mummified monkey's paw. An old fakir placed a spell on the paw, that it would grant three wishes to three separate men. The wishes are granted but alw... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This should not be called "The Monkey's Paw." This has nothing to do with the original story.
I highly suggest for viewers who like the original story NOT to view the movie.
The Monkeys Paw is a tale that has been covered cinematically several times over the years including as far back as the early 30's.
It tells the s... |
tt0043278 | An American in Paris | American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist who is a longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). At the ground-flo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The idea of the film originated with Kelly who wanted simply to do a film with a lengthy ballet sequence involving George Gershwin's tone poem An American in Paris.
My favorite number in the film however is Tra-La-La which Kelly sings and dances all over the apartment with Oscar Levant playing the piano.
At one point K... |
tt0041452 | The Heiress | Catherine Sloper (Olivia de Havilland) is a plain, painfully shy woman whose emotionally detached father, New York physician Austin Sloper (Ralph Richardson), makes no secret of his disappointment in her. He is terribly bitter about the loss of his charming and beautiful wife, whom he feels fate replaced with a simple ... | revenge, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | However, even the coiffures excel in "The Heiress." De Havilland's hair looks authentic 19th century and underscores Wyler's fastidious attention to detail.With an award-winning de Havilland performance, a handsome Montgomery Clift on the brink of stardom, and an engrossing Henry James story, "The Heiress" is one of th... |
tt0078976 | City on Fire | William Dudley (Leslie Nielsen) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typical hot summer day, Herman Stover (Jonathan Welsh), a dangerously disturbed employee at the works has been deni... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037248 | The Scarlet Claw | Holmes and Watson are in Canada attending a conference on the occult, when Lord Penrose receives a message that his wife Lady Penrose has been murdered in the small village of La Mort Rouge. Holmes and Watson are about to return to England when Holmes receives a telegram from Lady Penrose, issued before her death, aski... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The film was a critical and box office flop and Universal saw fit to alter the series' direction from that point on.Though still taking place in the 1940s, the subsequent films did their best to place Holmes back in his proper role, solving intricate mysteries with deductive reasoning...rather than the pure chance and ... |
tt0026605 | The Last Days of Pompeii | In Pompeii 79AD, Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer her. Glaucus buys the blind slave Nydia who is mishandled by her owner.
Nydia falls in love with him and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with him. In f... | sadist, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038934 | She-Wolf of London | American graduate student Randi Wallace (Kate Hodge) travels to Britain to study mythology with Prof. Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson). She arrives expecting a stodgy old academic, but Ian is young and the two are immediately attracted to one other. Their attraction increases but a complication quickly arises when Randi spe... | insanity, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | But she certainly isn't the murderer as she nearly becomes a victim herself...The movie is nicely shot in black and white and some of the foggy night scenes are very atmospheric.The cast includes a young June Lockhart (who went on to play Maureen Robinson in Lost In Space), Don Porter and Sara Haden.Watching She-Wolf o... |
tt0051881 | The Lost Missile | The appearance of an unknown "missile-like" object in nearby space leads a European nation (unnamed, but implied to be one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain) to fire a rocket at it. Though the rocket intercepts the unidentified object, the explosion only diverts the missile into an orbit around the Earth. Racing... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | When I saw it as a kid, I didn't understand the premise of the story, and as an adult, I still have problem with the premise that a runaway missile from space starts to circle around the earth by sheer chance.
If you go beyond the incredible coincidence that this missile just happened to find earth and randomly started... |
tt0044953 | The Naked Spur | In March 1868, Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is tracking Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan), who is wanted for the murder of the marshal in Abilene, Kansas.
On the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, Kemp meets a grizzled old prospector, Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell), and offers him $20 to help. Tat... | good versus evil, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | What I imagine makes THE NAKED SPUR stand out among other Westerns is its close, intimate focus on a small band of characters--for once, the motivations of the cynical bounty-hunter, the luckless gold prospector, the brash ne'er-do-well, the slick outlaw are actually all explored and explained as best as psychology can... |
tt1050880 | George of the Jungle | Five years after socialite Ursula Stanhope left civilization to marry George of the Jungle, George finds himself hard-pressed to fulfill the roles of jungle king, father, and husband. George's stress level increases when the "Mean Lion" challenges him for leadership of the jungle, and when Ursula's mother Beatrice team... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106387 | Benny & Joon | As adults, Benjamin "Benny" Pearl (Aidan Quinn) and his mentally ill sister Juniper "Joon" Pearl (Mary Stuart Masterson), live together following the accidental death of their parents. Benny's friend Mike (Joe Grifasi) has his cinephile cousin Sam (Johnny Depp) staying with him. Joon joins a poker game at Mike's that B... | comedy, whimsical, dramatic, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Now I own it and have watched it more times than I can remember.I have heard that this movie caught a lot of flak about not being "realistic" about mental illness, and not providing a diagnosis for Joon, etc.
There was no theme of "being institutionalised forever" and there was no unrealistic expectation of a "cure".Th... |
tt0112438 | The Babysitter | Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Je... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It promised us Alicia Silverstone in her first vaguely steamy role.
Maybe he was duped into expecting sex scenes with Alicia too....
Alicia's cute; movie sucks.
Alicia Silverstone is so pretty, so good, I hope she gets some decent material someday.
Miss Silverstone was good, but the film could have really used some mor... |
tt4381834 | The Blob | During one long night in a small rural Pennsylvania town in July 1957, teenager Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut), are kissing on a lovers' lane when they see a meteor crash beyond the next hill. Steve decides to look for it. An old man (Olin Howland) living nearby finds it f... | absurd, dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057590 | Tom Jones | The story begins with a silent film sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy (George Devine) returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby (played by a girl, Lynn Goldsworthy) in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge (Jack MacGowran), and one of his servants, Jenny Jones (Joyce Redm... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | The second was: "Tom Jones" with Albert Finney and Susannah York, shot with rented equipment and costumes on the streets of London with a supporting cast of brilliant British ensemble players and extras who stood-in just to get in a film.
(Though to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we'd care for the smell of it.)"Tom ... |
tt0140399 | Muthu | Muthu (Rajinikanth) is a kind-hearted man working in the zamin of Sivakami Ammal (Jayabharathi) taking care of the chariot and the horses used by her son Raja Malayasimman (Sarath Babu). Muthu is very loyal to the zamin family and in the meantime Muthu and Raja encounter Ranganayaki (Meena), a stage artist during their... | cult, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Big and pleasant surprise.. Truly fabulous! It is so nice to see that old Hollywood musicals of 40's and 50's are still alive and well in southern India. The music is really something to be remembered, too.. Best movie ever. Muthu paves the way in regards to romantic-comedy-action-drama-martial-arts musicals. The "char... |
tt0298786 | Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil | Diogo Álvares gets stranded on a tropical island when he sails with a boat, and meets a beautiful native of the island, a girl called Paraguaçu and her sister Moema. The two natives become his lover, but Diogo is already engaged to be married in his native Portugal. He's engaged to Isabelle a French noble woman, an agr... | satire, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Brazilian comedy at its best. There's no doubt Brazil has made really good comedies in recent years. Director Guel Arraes is one of the symbols of this success. After the great performance of "O Auto da Compadecida", he made this "Caramuru - A Invenção do Brasil". It's a joke of Brazilian colonization where Portuguese ... |
tt0071665 | The Intruders | 20-year-old Rose Halshford (Miranda Cosgrove) moves to Chicago with her father Jerry (Donal Logue) after her schizophrenic mother Sophia has committed suicide some months earlier. Jerry, who is working as an architect, wants to help his daughter cope with their loss. But Rose, who has suspended her studies at Stanford ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
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