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tt0052305 | Tot Watchers | Babysitter Jeannie (voiced by Janet Waldo) is instructed to look after the baby while his mother goes out. However, Jeannie pays more attention to the telephone than her actual babysitting. In the midst of Tom and Jerry's usual fighting, they see the baby crawling out of its pram. Any attempt to return the baby to wher... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This Is Pure Mid-To-Late '50s.
It's odd to watch hundreds of Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1940s and early '50s and then see a "culture change" with characters, furniture, cars, the music and the overall artwork that is "so 1950s." Here, "Jeanie," a baby-sitter, has the ponytail, dress and classic mid-'50s look.
She ... |
tt0034585 | Case of the Missing Hare | A bald-haired magician named Ala Bahma is nailing self-promoting posters on every conceivable surface, including a tree in which Bugs is living. Bugs protests having his home encroached and his right to private property compromised, until the magician apologizes and offers Bugs a blackberry pie. The rabbit's expression... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | "Case" of the giggles!.
TIDBIT - Hey, all you up-and-coming magicians: it's not a good idea to get a bunny mad at you.In "Case of the Missing Hare", Bugs Bunny takes matters in hand when vile magician Ala Bama (as mystical as the same-named state) plasters posters for his show all over Bugs' woodland home and gets plas... |
tt0048703 | Ten Wanted Men | Adam Stewart (Lester Matthews), a lawyer heading west with grown son Howie (Skip Homeier), is persuaded by brother John Stewart (Randolph Scott) to settle down near him in Ocatilla, Arizona, where he has a ranch and romantic interest in a widow, Corinne Michaels (Jocelyn Brando).
The menacing rancher Wick Campbell (Ric... | revenge, murder, sadist, prank | train | wikipedia | Ten Wanted Men (the title hints at something far more dramatic than is actually in the picture) is a serviceable, but instantly forgettable Western from the Scott-Brown production company.
Bruce Humberstone, with a screenplay by Kenneth Gamet (from a story by Irving Ravetch) and filmed in Technicolor out in Old Tuscon,... |
tt1135952 | White Material | Maria Vial is a white French farmer who runs (with her ex-husband, Andre, and his sickly father) a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Maria and Andre have a lazy, mentally unstable son, Manuel, while Andre has another half-African son, Jose. Civil war has broken out and rebel so... | insanity, violence, avant garde, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2625810 | Into the Forest | In the near future, two teenage sisters, Nell and Eva, live in a remotely located home with their father in an old-growth forest. There is a massive, continent-wide power outage that appears to be part of an overall technological collapse. Nell is careless with their car so that the battery is drained, so they are left... | home movie | train | wikipedia | For a film about two sisters, one Lycra clad and fashionable, the other boyish living in a glass house in a forest in the midst of a disaster of world wide proportions the film is lacking the sense of emergency and impending doom you would expect in this scenario.
(I intentionally tried my best to avoid spoilers, but p... |
tt0255477 | Pinocchio | The story begins with an inventor named Geppetto making a robot, Pinocchio, as his son. Meanwhile, an evil mayor named Scamboli is building a technological city called "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene. When Marlene expresses concerns to Scamboli ab... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094667 | Apartment Zero | Adrian LeDuc (Firth) is the owner of a revival house in Buenos Aires. Adrian is emotionally repressed, prone to suspicion and paranoia, devoted to old movies and to his mother, who resides in a nursing home, suffering from dementia. Adrian visits her frequently, holding conversations that, as her illness progresses, be... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | But I kept hearing about it over the years, about Colin Firth and Hart Bochner's performance, people quoted lines from the film and I, still loyal to my first impression, kept saying meh.
The subject of Colin Firth came out and that lead to Apartment Zero and to an argument that ended in a challenge.
Looking at Colin F... |
tt1047931 | Il capo dei capi | === First episode (1943–1958) ===
15 January 1993. Cosa nostra 'superboss' Salvatore Riina has been arrested after 23 years, and receives a visit in prison from his childhood friend, Biagio Schirò, triggering a flashback. In 1943, as a boy of 13 years, Riina is working in the fields around the town of Corleone when he ... | murder | train | wikipedia | A must for all mafia-buffs!.
After I bought this series on DVD and watched the first episodes, I found myself glued to the television, and finished the 4DVD set in two days.
Riveting stuff!
The Series follows 4 young boys from the town of Corleone.
Two of these are celebrities like Toto Riina and Bernando Provenzano, e... |
tt0056412 | Ride the High Country | In the early years of the twentieth century, an aging ex-lawman, Steve Judd (Joel McCrea), is hired to guard a shipment of gold from a high country mining camp to the town of Hornitos, California. Six miners were recently murdered trying to transport their gold on the one trail leading down from the crest of the Sierra... | murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0387724 | Buru Jenda | In the year 2009, Yuji Kaido is an average young adult male diagnosed with a serious disease (the "B-cells") and is put into cryogenic stasis until a cure is found. Twenty-two years later, he is awakened in the midst of a raging battle between armored soldiers and insectoid beings called the "Blue" which have overrun t... | violence | train | wikipedia | Wake Up: It's the End of the World.
Yuji Kaido is an average guy with a problem: he's sick, and there's no cure.
Doctors simply don't know enough to fix the problem, but they can offer Yuji an amazing opportunity.
After reluctantly agreeing, Yuji is cryogenically frozen until a cure for his condition is discovered.
But... |
tt0049452 | Love Me Tender | Presley plays Clint Reno, the youngest of the four Reno brothers who stays home to take care of his mother and the family farm as older brothers Vance, Brett and Ray fight in the American Civil War for the Confederate Army. The family is mistakenly informed that eldest brother Vance has been killed on the battlefield. ... | cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Hearing that the eldest son Vance (Egan) has died, Clint (Presley) and Vance's former love (Paget) marry in the aftermath of the murder of her parents and the Reno boys father.
As is in wartime, things become increasingly more difficult when he and his two other brothers Brett (Campbell) and Ray (Drury) to find this, a... |
tt0031516 | Juarez | The film focuses on the conflict between Maximilian I (Brian Aherne), a European political dupe who is installed as the puppet ruler of Mexico by the French Napoleon III (Claude Rains), and Benito Juárez (Paul Muni), the country's president.
In 1863, Napoleon III of France, fearful he will lose Mexico to Juárez, circum... | violence | train | wikipedia | JUAREZ was a possible exception, in that it was to chronicle the odd events of 1862 - 1867 when (in the shadow of the American Civil War, and the temporary inability of the U.S. Government to exercise the Monroe Doctrine)Emperor Napoleon III decided to set up a puppet Hapsburg Emperor, Archduke Maximillian to rule Mexi... |
tt0035896 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | During the Spanish Civil War, an American language teacher, Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper), who lived in Spain during the pre-war period, fights in the International Brigades against Francisco Franco's forces. An experienced dynamiter, Jordan is ordered to travel behind enemy lines and destroy a critical bridge with the a... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119013 | Double Team | Having successfully completed his final mission three years prior, which was to retrieve a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, government anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn is relaxing by his pool in Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant... | revenge, cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Continuing the tradition of successful Hong Kong directors going to Hollywood only to end up directing Jean-Claude Van Damme movies comes Tsui Hark with 'Double Team'.
I have nothing against Van Damme, but he seems to be some sort of trial-by-fire for any Hong Kong director with ambitions of making action films in Holl... |
tt0039441 | Gunfighters | In the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, the troublesome Clanton brothers, Ike, Phineas and Billy, are in town in search of Doc Holliday to settle an old score over the death of another brother called Reuben. They meet up with their hired hand Seth Harper at the Last Chance Saloon. He knows what Holliday looks like ... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119771 | Nejasná zpráva o konci sveta | A magical and realistic vision of an unbalanced world takes place in a village in the mountains at the end of the world - at an unknown time. The village in a picturesque setting is a metaphor for the world and humanity at the rise of the 3rd millennium. During the 25 years when the story takes place, we can see change... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A triumph of life?.
This is a very bizarre fairy tale.
It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves.
The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus ... |
tt0041497 | I Shot Jesse James | Bob Ford of the Jesse James gang is wounded during a bank robbery. He mends at Jesse's home in Missouri for six months, although Jesse's wife Zee doesn't trust him.
Cynthy Waters, an actress Bob is in love with, comes to town to perform on stage. Bob catches her speaking with John Kelley, a prospector, and is jealous. ... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1601188 | The Spectre | Following Gareth Mallory's promotion to M, James Bond takes leave from MI6, which is merged with MI5 in a series of reforms to the British intelligence community. However, a posthumous message from the previous M leads Bond to carry an unauthorised mission in Mexico City, where he stops a terrorist bombing plot. While ... | paranormal, revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | great short included on "Justice League :Crisis on Two Earths".
i really enjoyed this little gem which is included as a bonus on the Justice League:Crisis on Two Earths DVD:it's basically a sort of a film noir type mystery.it's only about 11 minutes or so,but it gives you a brief idea of who The Spectre is,if you're no... |
tt6563112 | Clique | Massie (Elizabeth McLaughlin), Dylan (Sophie Anna Everhard), Kristen (Bridgit Mendler) and Alicia (Samantha Boscarino) are the most popular girls at Octavian Country Day, calling themselves the Pretty Committee. However Massie is devastated when the Block family takes in the Lyons family, who have moved from Orlando, F... | psychological | train | wikipedia | First four episodes just OK, fifth very good, sixth good.
Or, in terms of ratings out of 10, I would say 6-6-6-6-8-7.
The first four episodes are slickly made but uncreative and predictable; the people you expect to be good are good and the people you expect to be bad are bad.
Things get more interesting in the last tw... |
tt5725894 | Ghosthunters | A group of paranormal investigators, Neal, Henry, Jessica, Neal's girlfriend Amy, and Jessica's girlfriend Devon, have arrived at a house where Henry's wife and daughter were murdered by a serial killer known only as the Night Stalker. The team hopes to free the pair's souls via a device created by Neal, which can capt... | paranormal, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Asylum aims for the middle again..
I signed up for IMDb just to write this review.
I think that is an important thing to make note of.
I came into possession of this movie and saw NO reviews of it, only a semi-favorable rating.
I thought, "I can enjoy a bad horror movie now and again, so why not give it a go?
I should ... |
tt0108149 | Six Degrees of Separation | A young black man named Paul shows up at the home of art dealer Flan Kittredge and his wife Louisa, known simply as "Ouisa", who live overlooking Central Park in New York City. Paul has a minor stab wound from an attempted mugging, and says he's a friend of their children at Harvard University. The Kittredges are tryin... | cult, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094673 | April Morning | The novel begins in the afternoon of April 18, 1775, when Adam Cooper's father, Moses Cooper, sends Adam out to draw water from the well for his mother, Sarah Cooper. After completing this task, Adam heads upstairs to talk with Granny. During the talk with her, they engage in a debate on religion. Afterwords, they head... | violence | train | wikipedia | Television movie about the battle signed the initiation of American war of Independence.
This TV film is based correctly on historical events developed in April 19,1775 , beginning hostilities for a shot was fired and starting the American Revolution, skirmishes among the British troops and the colonial militia were in... |
tt0205410 | Shôjo kakumei Utena | === Anime story ===
The anime series is divided into four story arcs, in each of which Utena comes to face a different challenge at Ohtori Academy (Enoki Films calls it "Otori Junior High School"). In all of them, Utena must defend her title as the owner of the Rose Bride, with the intention of protecting Anthy. The du... | psychedelic, avant garde, fantasy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I think people get too caught up in attempting to understand something foreign to realize that many elements in Revolutionary Girl Utena are not meant to be taken literally and at times, seriously.
If one can look past or even appreciate the strangeness, one can find a worthwhile story that's both entertaining and insi... |
tt0120570 | From the Earth to the Moon | The story opens some time after the end of the American Civil War. The Gun Club, a society based in Baltimore and dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds (especially cannons), comes together when Impey Barbicane, its president, calls them to support his latest idea. He's done some calculations, and believes tha... | historical | train | wikipedia | Occasionally, some of the scenes still bring me very close to tears.This mini-series details the history of the Apollo program from how manned spaceflight got started to the last man on the moon.
The casting was done so great that this is the first time you cannot pin leading roles in any of the episodes let alone the ... |
tt0071229 | The Black Windmill | Two schoolboys are playing with a model plane on an abandoned military base in the English countryside. They are approached by two RAF personnel who rebuke them for trespassing, and take them to see their commanding officer. It soon becomes apparent that they are not really in the military and the two boys are kidnappe... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0896031 | The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond | The film tells the story of heiress Fisher Willow (Bryce Dallas Howard). Fisher returns home from overseas to find that her father has become a hated man in Memphis as he had intentionally blown up the southern half of his levee earlier that year, resulting in the deaths of 8-9 people and enormous property damage for a... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091709 | Outrage! | === Overview ===
Outrage argues that several American political figures have led closeted gay lives while supporting and endorsing legislation that is harmful to the gay community. The film examines the mass media's reluctance to discuss issues involving gay politicians despite many comparable news stories about hetero... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Good film for Preston to go out on.
This is a film that makes us realize there is sometimes a difference between justice and the law.
Robert Preston shines as the grief-stricken father, who, after a miscarriage of justice, takes matters into his own hands, and is put on trial for it.
Beau Bridges, as his attorney, real... |
tt0038363 | Blithe Spirit | Seeking background material for a mystery he is working on, novelist Charles Condomine invites eccentric medium Madame Arcati to his home in Lympne, Kent, to conduct a séance. As Charles, his wife Ruth and their guests, George and Violet Bradman barely restrain themselves from laughing, Madame Arcati performs peculiar ... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077278 | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | In 1987, NASA astronaut Captain William "Buck" Rogers is piloting the space shuttle Ranger 3 when he flies into an unexpected space phenomenon and is frozen for 504 years. In the year 2491, his shuttle is found drifting in space by the alien ship Draconia, which is headed to Earth for a trade conference, under the comm... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | If that phrase puts you in the mind of Gil Gerard, Erin Gray and lots of "Star Wars"-derived FX, you already know where a movie like "Buck Rogers" is coming from.If not, then let me enlighten you.Most everyone familiar with sci-fi know Buck's story (frozen astronaut from 20th century is revived in the 25th century, mus... |
tt1391469 | Hanger | Unable to bring in anymore money for Leroy, her abusive pimp, the pregnant Rose tries to run away in the middle of the night, but is caught by Leroy. Using a clothes hanger, Leroy performs an impromptu abortion on Rose, unintentionally killing her in the process. Leroy disposes of Rose's baby in a dumpster, where its c... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Whoa mama!
Just like Ryan's past movies he seems to not have a problem with giving his actors full reign of their characters.
And when you have actors who aren't so hot at acting, it more than likely ends up being like this.A thought that popped in my head a few times while watching this was how close it came to becomi... |
tt0070854 | Under Milk Wood | The play opens at night, when the citizens of Llareggub are asleep. The narrator (First Voice/Second Voice) informs the audience that they are witnessing the townspeople's dreams.
Captain Cat, the blind sea captain, is tormented in his dreams by his drowned shipmates, who long to live again and enjoy the pleasures of t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A film of rare magic.
This little known but top-notch production is whimsical, thoroughly engaging, and delicately controlled.The atmosphere is consistent throughout, with universal types exaggeratedly peopling and animating a small Welsh seaside town.This is as close as any British film has come to creating a Fellini-... |
tt0898943 | Raqeeb | The story is about Sophie (Tanushree Dutta) and how she tricks two men to fall in love with her through her charms. Sophie is in love with Sunny (Jimmy Shergill) and, to improve their lifestyle, she starts conning men into falling in love with her. Then she murders them and steals all their money. However, Sunny does n... | romantic | train | wikipedia | excellent film.
what is with all the hate towards this film ?
i think this is film is a really excellent piece .
this movie from the beginning has kept my interest up and the twist and turns made it even better.
all the actors did a great job .
Raul khanna did a great job .
tunashree dutta did an excellent job .
and sh... |
tt1190617 | An American Carol | Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley), a parody of Michael Moore, campaigns to end the celebration of the Fourth of July holiday. Malone holds pronounced anti-American views and truculently argues that America's past and present are both offensive, and therefore should not be celebrated.
On the... | absurd, satire, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053930 | Hyde and Go Tweet | Sylvester is sleeping on the ledge of a tall building. He is just outside the window of the laboratory and office of mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll, who is shown entering the laboratory, drinking a Hyde Formula and briefly turning into a monstrous, evilly laughing alter-ego. Sylvester hears the laughter and awakens startled,... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Hysterical.
While not the first on most lists as a great Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, this is one of my personal favorites.
It features a classic moment of a huge yellow finger, capped with a crooked claw, tapping Sylvester on the shoulder, with Sylvester literally falling to pieces when he turns around.
All in all, a... |
tt1043844 | Eyeborgs | The movie opens by explaining current events such as the passing of the "Freedom of Observation Act" and the subsequent implementation of ODIN (Optical Defense Intelligence Network), including the development of a new type of mobile camera drone, the eponymous "eyeborg". The system is administered by the Department of ... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Low-budget execution of a good concept.
With a name like "Eyeborgs", you know it has to either be really bad or really funny.
You'll see in the end that it's a pretty original idea; it just suffers from mediocre execution, likely due to its low budget, which is a real shame.
Far from polished, the script was only "eh",... |
tt0093658 | Number One with a Bullet | Nick Barzack ("Berserk"), an irrational, unkempt and unpredictable cop, and Frank Hazeltine, his cultured, polite, and suave partner, follow a circuitous and highly circumstantial trail of clues, evidence, witnesses, and accomplices through Los Angeles. Barzack pauses only briefly for his mother, but repeatedly for his... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Jesus man.
I love being a cop.".
Nothing new, but this routine action comedy (Produced by Cannon's Golan Globus) with its buddy cops angle gives it plenty of life as Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams' natural chemistry strikes up some amusing dialogue exchanges and messy situations.
It's on the cheap
and it loo... |
tt1398428 | YellowBrickRoad | In 1940 the entire town of Friar, 572 people, abandoned their town and walked into the wilderness with only the clothes on their backs after a viewing of The Wizard of Oz, a film that the entire town was obsessed with. No one has ever been able to explain why they did this. Only 300 of the townspeople's bodies were rec... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1642252 | Kyonyû doragon: Onsen zonbi vs sutorippâ 5 | Ginko and Lena work at an unsuccessful strip club called Paradise Ikagawa Theatre with several other strippers, including Nene; Maria, an intelligent, red-headed gothic bookworm with a penchant for self mutilation; Lena, a fortune-teller; and Darna, who is raising money to see her siblings. Explaining how she became a ... | violence, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094980 | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | The documentary follows the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on the glam metal subgenre. Spheeris explores the more famous musicians, including Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Mustaine and Paul Stanley. She then explores unknown bands, such as London, Odin and Seduce. The film als... | cult | train | wikipedia | I have read the comment of my fellow viewer and apparent Heavy Metal Connisseur, who says this film falls short of completely covering the Heavy Metal scene at the time.But I really don't think that that's what Spheeris was trying to do.
Like any truly great documentary, it somehow manages to capture life, raw and unfi... |
tt0412467 | August Underground | Presented as a severely degraded home movie, the film opens with a man named Peter inviting his camera-wielding friend into his basement, where he is holding a woman named Laura captive. Having already killed her boyfriend (whose castrated body has been left in a bathtub to rot), Peter is keeping Laura alive so he and ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0210094 | Happy Campers | When the rule-enforcing camp director at Camp Bleeding Dove gets struck by lightning, the counselors find themselves in sole charge of their campers, and themselves. Among them are the brooding and intellectual Wichita; Wendy, who is guileless and unabashedly religious; Talia, an outcast and former college friend of Wi... | romantic, comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | This movie "sucks"...in a good way, according to Brad Renfro.
The film starts off seemingly as just another teen movie where stereotypes and cliches abound.
Some of the quotes from this movie are the most touching and profound lines I've heard from a film since "The Breakfast Club" (still, my all-time FAVORITE movie), ... |
tt0118818 | Career Girls | In 1996, Annie is on the train to London to spend the weekend with Hannah, her flatmate when at university (the Polytechnic of North London) six years earlier. Hannah laments about her alcoholic mother and Annie tells about her mother's search for a new boyfriend. Annie, who still lives with her mother, admires Hannah'... | realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109781 | Faust | The demon Mephisto has a bet with an Archangel that he can corrupt a righteous man's soul and destroy in him what is divine. If he succeeds, the Devil will win dominion over earth.
The Devil delivers a plague to the village where Faust, an elderly alchemist, lives. Though he prays to stop the death and starvation, noth... | absurd, psychedelic, dark, magical realism, philosophical | train | wikipedia | There are also a bunch of insane devil marionettes and the whole thing has the vibe of a medieval Punch and Judy show.Probably the main thing I liked about FAUST was the fact that, although it is a fairly surreal film, it doesn't go out of it's way to be strange for strangeness's sake [like the Czech film DAISIES or th... |
tt0202236 | Tribulation | It is the present day. In their home, the family Camboro - Eileen, Calvin and Tom – reminisce a childhood memory of an afternoon picnic. Tom’s brother-in law Jason abruptly enters the kitchen. Jason makes unsettling comments about European President Franco Macalousso, an outspoken advocate for global peace and unity. T... | insanity, violence, murder, christian film | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109331 | Brave | In Medieval Scotland, Merida, a young princess of the clan Dunbroch, is given a bow and arrow by her father, King Fergus, for her birthday. Her mother, Queen Elinor, is dismayed. While venturing into the woods to fetch a stray arrow, Merida encounters a will-o'-the-wisp. Soon afterward, Mor'du, a huge demon bear, attac... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Bleak interpretation of a bleak subject.
Brave was Marillion's seventh studio album, their third with Steve Hogarth.
It was that most unfashionable of products, a concept album from a prog-rock outfit in the early 90's.The story was complete invention, starting from a real event; the police found a young woman wanderin... |
tt1322312 | Going the Distance | Erin Langford (Drew Barrymore) is a 31-year-old woman who is having trouble pacing her life. She is still in grad school and she recently got a job as a summer intern at a newspaper in New York. While out with a friend at a bar, she meets Garrett (Justin Long), who interrupts her game of Centipede. The two then drink t... | comedy, humor, boring, romantic | train | wikipedia | But Garrett's eccentric roommate Dan (Charlie Day) and Erin's sister's personality quirks add real spice to most scenes, and the very real chemistry between the main characters (Barrymore and Long have had a real life on-off-on relationship) transcends the simplicity and makes Going the Distance something more.Barrymor... |
tt0465482 | Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories | In 1998, Antonio "Toni" Cipriani, having been forced into living abroad after killing a made man on the orders of Salvatore Leone, decides to return to Liberty City. Upon arrival, Toni is greeted by Salvatore and a member of the Leone family, Vincenzo "Lucky Vinnie" Cilli, who rose to prominence during Toni's absence. ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1525890 | The Caller | When troubled divorcee Mary Kee sets up home in her new apartment, she stumbles across an old telephone which she quickly falls in love with. Struck by its antique charm, she gives it a place of pride in her home. Before long, Mary begins to receive strange phone calls from a mysterious, unknown caller. Over time, she ... | insanity, revenge, murder, clever | train | wikipedia | Especially with the turn the genre took to torture porn ( with saw on the very end of the positive side of the spectrum and films like hostel on the very negative part) i got a bit tired of the whole circus.And then, just when you officially are ready to give up and kill the odd hours with rubber sharks or other pests ... |
tt0072735 | Breakheart Pass | In the 1870s, residents of the garrison at the Fort Humboldt Army outpost are reported to be suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train is heading towards the fort filled with reinforcements and medical supplies. There are also civilian passengers on the train – Nevada Governor Fairchild (Richard Crenna) and his fia... | mystery, intrigue, action, murder | train | wikipedia | The one book that he wrote which doesn't fit either of those descriptions is Breakheart Pass, a western set aboard a train.
This film version of it is surprisingly enjoyable, and features the added bonus of an expressive, colourful characterisation by Charles Bronson.The train is travelling to a fort in the Wild West w... |
tt0102969 | Spotswood | In late 1960s Melbourne, Errol Wallace (Anthony Hopkins) is a financial business consultant who we meet in the course of his being hired by the board of Durmack, an automotive component manufacturer, where he assesses a large work force redundancy and recommends major layoffs.
Balls, a moccasin factory located in the M... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073922 | You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown | The cartoon begins with Snoopy playing tennis against Woodstock while Linus and Sally are unable to play due to the courts being occupied. (Sally tries to intimidate those playing by stating "her boyfriend" was going to clobber them, causing Linus to high-tail it out of there.) After failing to beat Woodstock, Snoopy d... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Get those mini bikes a-racing!!.
I remember this story of Good Ole' Chuck the moto-cross racer.
Man it's been years since I have seen this and it was only once unfortunately.
This is a 1975 classic Charlie Brown episode and I would love to find this on D.V.D. now for my 2 children.
A story not just about competing, but... |
tt0114671 | Land and Freedom | The film's narrative unfolds in a long flashback. David Carr has died at an old age and his granddaughter discovers old letters, newspapers and other documents in his room: what we see in the film is what he had lived.
Carr, a young unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party, leaves Liverpool and travels to Sp... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Add to that outside involvement, principally from Mussolini and Stalin, the vacillation of Britain and France and, of course, the omnipresence of Hitler, and anyone might wonder where to start.Loach and Allen take their approach through the eyes of an unemployed Liverpudlian, David Carr (admirably played by Ian Hart) w... |
tt0066970 | De la part des copains | During the Korean War, Joe Moran, a U. S. Army sergeant, was convicted for striking a colonel. He was imprisoned in Germany. In the military prison he encountered his former company commander Captain Ross, and a fellow soldier who served under Joe called Vermont. They had been imprisoned for black marketeering and hija... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Though proudly billed as Terence Young's COLD SWEAT, this turned out to be a below-average international concoction: the plot is formulaic albeit adapted from a novel by Richard Matheson one that Bronson often returned to, of a man whose past catches up with him (in fact, I recently watched Sergio Sollima's similar... |
tt0065063 | Take the Money and Run | Virgil Starkwell's (Woody Allen) story is told in documentary style, using both stock footage and interviews with people who knew him. He begins a life of crime at a young age. As a child, Virgil is a frequent target of bullies, who snatch his glasses and stomp on them on the floor. As an adult, Virgil is inept and unl... | comedy, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3715320 | Irrational Man | At the small-town fictional New England college campus of Braylin, philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) is experiencing an existential crisis. He is depressed, sees no meaning in his life, and drinks excessively. Despite this, he immediately catches the eye of two women: chemistry professor Rita Richards (P... | murder | train | wikipedia | I think it does, often quite well, and it makes a sort of cap to an unexpected, thematic trilogy of movies, which I'll get to in a moment.In Irrational Man it starts out like what seems to be a story of a philosophy professor (Phoenix) caught in despair, while an eager, bright student (Stone) starts to fancy him.
It tu... |
tt0048591 | Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge | At the beginning of the story, a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as whi... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0200071 | Rosetta | When her probationary employment ends, Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne) causes a violent struggle against her manager and the policemen when she refuses to leave the premises. She returns home to "The Grand Canyon", the trailer park shared with her alcoholic mother who mends worn clothes for her to sell. Rosetta is also seen ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | The actress Emilie Dequenne, especially in the final scene of "Rosetta," really makes you glimpse why desperation drives some people to do the things they do -- although you may not totally understand.
The acting is so realistic, it is hard to imagine that the story is fictional and is shot in a documentary type style,... |
tt0104604 | Ranma ½: Kessen Tôgenkyô! Hanayome o torimodose!! | On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fall into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo (呪泉郷). When someone falls into a cursed spring, they take the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever they come ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Wonderful film, perfectly in-line with the series.
I must disagree with Techno Panda.
Though I haven't read the manga, I've seen much of the series (subbed and dubbed), and for me anyway, this movie was just the icing on the cake.
Albeit there were many breast shots, but it's not like you don't see many of those in the... |
tt0097670 | Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | Hiroshi Hada, a Japanese businessman in a troubled marriage, sees a woman being groped in a crowded Tokyo subway. He is fascinated by the fact that she moans silently, involuntarily orgasms, but does not cry out or let people know she is being sexually molested. When Hada is transferred to Los Angeles, he has too much ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078109 | The President's Mistress | Donna Morton has been having an affair with the President of the United States for several months, regularly meeting with him for assignations in a safe house in Washington, D.C. She is always picked up in a car by a Secret Service agent.
In Moscow, an agent in the Kremlin manages to get hold of a secret document ident... | murder | train | wikipedia | Where a lame script meets bad casting. THE PRESIDENT'S MISTRESS is a very dull American TV movie from 1978 focusing on a murder mystery involving the White House and the various security agencies (particularly the now-defunct CSA) as well as Russian spies. Unfortunately it takes an age to get going and the murder itsel... |
tt2846600 | Don't Move | Timoteo (Sergio Castellitto), a surgeon, gets the shocking news that his fifteen-year-old daughter Angela (Elena Perino) has been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. As she is operated upon, Timoteo looks out of a window to see (or imagines seeing) a woman, her back facing him, proceeding to sit down on a chair... | violence, haunting | train | wikipedia | A+ special effects, good acting and slightly original idea. While the idea behind Don't Move is nothing special, it is interesting and makes the viewer think a little bit. You can just imagine how difficult it would be to stand perfectly still as if your life depended on it; it's relateable and I feel like that's what ... |
tt0065079 | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | The film's story revolves around the Paiute Indian outlaw Willie Boy (Robert Blake), who escapes with his lover, Lola (Katharine Ross), after killing her father in self defense. According to tribal custom Willie can then claim Lola as his wife. According to the law, Deputy Sheriff Cooper (Robert Redford) is required to... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The film's four leads are excellent: Robert Redford is a wise and humane Coop, the sherriff obliged to lead the inappropriate manhunt: Robert Blake is perfect as the nihilistic, elemental Willie: Doctor Elizabeth Arnold is played by Susan Clark, developing nicely the ambivolence of a woman who needs Coop sexually but d... |
tt0816545 | Kabluey | Leslie, whose husband is in Iraq, is in danger of losing her benefits if she does not return to work.
Salman, her brother-in-law, arrives in her town to help watch over Leslie's two kids. In part this is due to Salman's having no other place to go. He seems a bit spacey and was fired from his last job at a copy shop be... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | I saw Kabluey, and after hearing many good things about it, I have to say it probably is one of 2008's best surprises.Technically, it is from 2007, but it came out this year.
Scott Prendergast plays his character of the loser brother-in-law Salman very well, and he makes my line-up of Best Actor(but will eventually fal... |
tt3829874 | Black Road | William Nessen, an American freelance journalist, travels to Aceh, Indonesia to cover the conflict which was taking place there at the time. Shot over a period of four years, The Black Road follows Nessen as he transforms from being an objective journalist to a supporter of the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka,... | cult, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0161985 | Space Ace | Space Ace follows the adventures of the dashing hero Dexter, who prefers to be called "Ace." Ace is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his "Infanto Ray" to render Earthlings helpless by transforming them into infants. At the start of the game, Ace is partially hit by... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Watching the whole game. I was fortunate to wander into my local Schaumburg arcade when a master at SPACE ACE was there with a big pocket full of quarters. You know how usually nothing is more boring than watching someone else play a video game? SPACE ACE and DRAGONS LAIR are the exceptions. Not having to worry about ... |
tt1198413 | The Wild Swans | In a faraway kingdom, there lives a widowed king with his twelve children: eleven princes and one princess. One day, he decides to remarry. He marries a wicked queen who was a witch. Out of spite, the queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans (they are allowed to become human by night) and forces them to fly away. The... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095332 | The House of Usher | Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) travels to the House of Usher, a desolate mansion surrounded by a murky swamp, to meet his fiancée Madeline Usher (Myrna Fahey). Madeline's brother Roderick (Vincent Price) opposes Philip's intentions, telling the young man that the Usher family is afflicted by a cursed bloodline which has ... | insanity, gothic | train | wikipedia | good sets, lame ghosts.
A couple of obvious continuity problems caught my eye, but I won't get into it.
I did not care for the ghosts and they were never explained.
All viewers will feel extremely cheated by the ending.It's set in a visual interesting House of Usher decorated mainly with flowing drapes and robed statue... |
tt0330217 | Dil Ka Rishta | Jai (Arjun Rampal) is wealthy young man who supports many charities. One day, he accompanies his friend Anita (Ishaa Koppikar) to a school for the deaf, which his is sponsoring. There, he meets Tia (Aishwarya Rai), a teacher, and develops feelings for her. He helps her wherever he can and tries to be near her— believin... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A forgettable relationship.
Well, Dil Ka Rishta is a poorly written melodrama which offers nothing special to its audiences except for some moments here and there and a beauty named Aishwarya Rai. The story is clichéd and pointless, and the proceedings are nothing but ordinary and uninteresting series of events which m... |
tt0285331 | 24 | Dr. Sethuraman (Suriya) is a reputed scientist and watchmaker who lives with his wife Priya (Nithya Menen) and newborn son Mani in a mansion with a laboratory. In January 1990, he invents a watch using which a person can travel back and forth in time for a maximum of 24 hours. His evil twin brother Athreya (Suriya) tri... | mystery, revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | If you start to watch a episode with all the suspense and REALLY GREAT action, you'll keep sit on the couch till it's end!
If you expect a drama, or worst, a similar show to any of those recent movies such as "body of lies", you can turn your head to the other side, 24 only offers what best the TV got, the pleasure of ... |
tt1244754 | Conviction | The film is based on the true story of Betty Anne Waters, a single mother who works tirelessly to free her wrongfully convicted brother, Kenny. The story unfolds in flashbacks, and the film opens with the scene of the brutal 1980 murder of Katharina Brow in Ayer, Massachusetts. In many ways, Betty Anne's life revolves ... | violence, sentimental, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1581835 | Daydream Nation | Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler (Kat Dennings) and her father move from a large city to a small town where an industrial fire burns endlessly and many of the students in her new high school seems to be permanently stoned. One of Caroline's classmates, Thurston Goldberg (Reece Thompson), quickly falls for her after t... | comedy, mystery, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0274242 | The Brian Conley Show | The show was commissioned following Conley's last successful comedy series, Brian Conley: This Way Up. The show lasted for four series, although a live special was shown a year after the series ended, and a Christmas special aired a year after that. Shows were broadcast Saturdays on ITV between 22 February 1992 and 22 ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118632 | The Apostle | Euliss F. "Sonny" Dewey (Duvall) is a charismatic Pentecostal preacher. His wife Jessie (Fawcett) has begun an adulterous relationship with a youth minister named Horace. She refuses Sonny's desire to reconcile, although she assures him that she will not interfere with his right to see his children. She has also conspi... | dramatic, violence, boring, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | But I think that, if one is not distracted or confused or simply put off by the loud, emotional, sometimes corny religiosity portrayed here, one can see a strong, compelling story of a seriously, ultimately fatally flawed man whose faith in God and in God's mission for him reaches to his very core.On the surface, one c... |
tt0023312 | Pack Up Your Troubles | In 1917, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are drafted into the American Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I. Their ineptitude during basic training antagonizes the drill sergeant and they are assigned to kitchen duties. They misunderstand the cook's instructions and empty the garbage cans into the ge... | revenge | train | wikipedia | All some serious heavy dramatic stuff but yet the boys manages to make this movie a perfectly entertaining one with some good slapstick humor and comical situations.The movie at times is a sappy one that goes definitely over-the-top but yet for most part the story and its drama works effective.
Stan and Ollie taking ca... |
tt0079378 | Julius Caesar | The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marrullus, discover the commoners celebrating, insult them for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, and break up the crowd. There are some jokes made ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | More Television Technique Than Usual Here.
This production of Julius Caesar was directed by Herbert Wise.
It was his first and only contribution to the BBC Shakespeare series, and he was undoubtedly offered the job because of his superlative work directing the series "I Claudius." (Be sure also to track down his "The W... |
tt0091738 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Peggy Sue Bodell sets off for her 25-year high school reunion in 1985 with her daughter, Beth, as company. Peggy has just separated from her high school sweetheart, now husband, Charlie, and is wary of attending the reunion because of everyone questioning her about his absence as they have been married since Peggy beca... | dramatic, romantic, alternate history | train | wikipedia | If you liked the two movies I mentioned in my header, especially "Frequency" since it is about to be released on video - you will love this film!Kathleen Turner was excellent - I have seen Debra Winger (originally scheduled to play the title role) in several films, including "Terms of Endearment" and though I respect h... |
tt0295721 | Taxi 3 | A group of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus gang are wreaking havoc, using Santa Claus costumes to commit heists, and the Marseille police are, as usual, unable to keep up. Superintendent Gibert (played by Bernard Farcy) is distracted by a Chinese journalist (Bai Ling) writing a story on his squad, and is una... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099669 | La gloire de mon père | This film is set in the period between 1900 and the First World War in 1914. Young Marcel was born in the country but raised in Marseilles. His father, Joseph, is a hard-working strongly atheist public school teacher in Marseilles. Marcel's Aunt Rose marries the round, jovial, and very theistic and Roman Catholic Uncle... | romantic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1194142 | Mercenaries 2: World in Flames | === Beginning ===
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is set in August 2010 in Venezuela. The story begins as the player approaches businessman Ramon Solano's villa. The player is greeted by a man named Blanco, who worked with the player in the past. In the meeting inside the villa, Solano hires the player to rescue a Venez... | violence | train | wikipedia | Forget the bad reviews, this game is brilliant. I came across Mercenaries 2 for very cheap in a second hand store and assumed that the low price meant that it would be an inferior game, but since I needed a game to play I just went for it. I was a little apprehensive about the negative reviews but once I started playin... |
tt0076516 | The Pack | The film opens with a farmer hearing sounds and going out to his barn to investigate. A short time later his wife awakens from her easy chair by the fireplace to see his cigarette burning in the ashtray but he is not in the house. She goes to find him and hears a noise in the barn. As she enters the barn, she is killed... | tragedy, violence, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | The Pack, released in 1977 with a cast of solid but not-all-that-well-known actors, is the inevitable killer dogs variation of the theme.
Surprisingly, the film proved to be very well-made, with lots of excitement and some skillfully edited dog attacks, plus an unexpected injection of humour (sample: R.G Armstrong has ... |
tt1210341 | One True Love | Migs Mijares (Dingdong Dantes) was so in love with Joy (Marian Rivera) that in less than a year, he asked for her hand in marriage.
Even when Bela (Iza Calzado), the childhood sweetheart of Migs, returned from Canada and made an attempt to win him back, Migs's decision to marry his present girlfriend was resolute.
But ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Best Romantic Movie. I really loved this movie. Marian Rivera is indeed great. She really moved me..... It's all about the eyes. I've always liked a girl with beautiful eyes, and I quickly fell in love with this movie. This is not the typical movie that a guy would like but, as a big fan of films, I do like this type o... |
tt0188140 | Le petit poucet | Richard Johnson's The History of Tom Thumbe of 1621 tells that in the days of King Arthur, old Thomas of the Mountain, a plowman and a member of the King's Council, wants nothing more than a son, even if he is no bigger than his thumb. He sends his wife to consult with Merlin. In three months time, she gives birth to t... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Great. I agree : this movie is really great and very poetic ! Its music (yes, scary some times but I don't see why it should be strange with such a story !), its atmosphere, the actors (Jean-Pierre Marielle as the ogre, Marie Laforet as the Queen - both of them very famous and good French actors), the lights... OK, the... |
tt0829297 | Ten Inch Hero | The story revolves around a group of people who work at a sandwich shop (that sells ten inch heroes/the sandwiches). The main cast of characters are:
Piper, a young art student who has just moved to Santa Cruz. She has a secret: 8 years earlier she gave up her daughter for an open adoption, and all she knew was that th... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | If you are looking for a funny, touching, insightful, feel-good movie then Ten Inch Hero is for you.
It's a story about four young friends and their older, hippie dude boss at a sub shop searching for love and learning to see past outer appearances and let go of preconceived notions.It's a deceptively simple movie.
You... |
tt0071186 | Bad Ronald | Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby) is a socially inept, awkward high school youth with budding artistic talent and a predilection for fantasy, who is often ridiculed for his behavior and mannerisms. His overprotective mother, Elaine (Kim Hunter), is in need of surgery and plans for Ronald to become a doctor and cure her illne... | fantasy, murder, cult, revenge, violence, insanity, romantic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | He fell asleep and I ended up watching Bad Ronald, the last thing on that night, all alone.All I know is, I couldn't stop watching until the end, and I have never forgotten this movie.
I'd love to see this come out on DVD, along with other classic ABC Movies of the Week like "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Crowhaven... |
tt0114689 | Totsuzen! Neko no kuni banipal witt | For a whole week, Toriyasu and his little sister, Meeko, have been missing their pet dog, Papadoll. Toriyasu thinks he ran off, but Meeko claims it was an alien abduction. Though Toriyasu mocks Meeko for her over-imaginative ways, she isn't far off from the truth. On the way to school, Meeko sees what looks like a cat ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Extremely imaginative and visually rewarding.
I am not a big fan of anime outside of Miyazaki's films, but the fanciful designs on this DVD caught my eye.
I'm glad they did because although this movie doesn't seem to have built up much of a reputation it is a real gem.The story involves a boy and his younger sister who... |
tt0074114 | Alice ou la dernière fugue | While leaving her husband, whom she has grown to despise, Alice (Sylvia Kristel) drives into the pristine countryside but must stop at an old house after her windshield cracks mysteriously. An old man and his butler welcome her at the mansion as if she were expected. The old man insists on her staying overnight. They e... | paranormal, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | ALICE OR THE LAST ESCAPADE (Claude Chabrol, 1977) ***1/2.
Though this was considered as something of an aberration in Chabrol's filmography and thus proved somewhat hard to find, for me it had always been the most intriguing entry from this ostensibly lean period (stretching from 1976 to 1984) in the director's career ... |
tt0107750 | Only the Strong | Former Green Beret Louis Stevens (Mark Dacascos) returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his Capoeira skills to kick several drug dealers off the school property, Mr. Kerrigan (... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Dacascos is the most graceful, watchable martial arts star since Brandon Lee, with an easy charisma that really comes across in a film like this and also the brilliant "Drive".
The plot and characterisation are admittedly 2-D, but what the hell, it's a 100% schmaltz-free feelgood movie.Two of my friends actually took u... |
tt0066181 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Act I
Quirky Daisy Gamble sees herself as an unremarkable person and has low self-esteem, even though she can (1) make plants grow remarkably, (2) predict when a telephone will ring or someone will drop in, and (3) tell where to find an object that someone else is looking for. Her current problem, though, is her nasty ... | romantic, psychological, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086013 | Nightbeast | A small alien spaceship is cruising around the solar system. When it reaches the vicinity of Earth, it is struck by an asteroid and crashes at night in the small town of Perry Hall. Some hunters hear the impact and alert County Sheriff Cinder. When they go investigating on their own, however, the pilot emerges and kill... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2296697 | Concussion | In 2002, former Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster is found dead in his pickup truck, after years of self-mutilation and homelessness. Before his death, a fellow football player, Justin Strzelczyk, comes to him, and confides that he is starting to lose his memory, that he is saying odd things to his children, and ... | queer | train | wikipedia | I watched this movie a few days ago, and I thought it was OK, but something happened.
After a couple years in a relationship, there is a tempering of passions and real life takes over; the house, the kids, car payments, jobs and everyday life is rather boring and what do you do when one partner decides there is no room... |
tt0472175 | Saving Shiloh | The movie begins with Marty Preston (Jason Dolley) explaining the events of Shiloh and Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season. Then Judd Travers (Scott Wilson) shows up at the Preston home with dead squirrels as a present for Marty and his family for helping him after his truck accident in the second film. A fearful Shiloh runs into ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Truly Moving Picture. I saw this film on April 5th, 2006 in Indianapolis. I am one of the judges for the Heartland Film Festival's Truly Moving Picture Award. A Truly Moving Picture "
explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life." Heartland gave that award to th... |
tt0081150 | Melvin and Howard | In the opening scene, Howard Hughes loses control of his motorcycle and crashes in the Nevada desert. That night, he is discovered lying on the side of a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 when Melvin Dummar stops his pickup truck so he can relieve himself. The disheveled stranger, refusing to allow Melvin to take him to the h... | cult | train | wikipedia | Director Demme and writer Goldman take a footnote to history -- a contested Howard Hughes will that named Melvin Dummar, a milkman who once loaned him a quarter, as one of his heirs -- and turn that slight material into a wry meditation on the American Dream.
The performances are terrific, especially Paul Le Mat as Dum... |
tt0038452 | Dark Alibi | Thomas Harley, an ex-convict who served time in prison eight years ago, is wrongfully arrested for a bank robbery he didn't commit. The police have found fingerprints on the crime scene, incriminating Harley, even though he was present at the Carey Theatrical Warehouse at the time of the crime.
The policemen do not bel... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Clues lead the police to the Foss Family Hotel where we meet a varied group of unsavory suspects.Thomas Harley, who resides at the hotel along with his beautiful daughter June, is the one that the police are after-- it was his fingerprints left on the safe that led the police to the hotel.He claims that he was locked u... |
tt0029782 | Wine, Women and Horses | His gal pal Valerie buys compulsive gambler Jim a meal after he goes broke. Jim takes off for points unknown and, stopping in a small Midwest town, he wins $20 off of George Mayhew in a game of horseshoes, then returns the money when he learns George can't afford to lose it.
Jim takes a liking to George's sister, Marjo... | depressing | train | wikipedia | From Dogs To Horses.
More than any other studio Warner Brothers loved remaking their old films, especially after the Code went into place when they could recycle the plots and make more of a G rated version of the same film.
That's what was done to Edward G.
Robinson's Dark Hazard remade in this case to Wine, Women, an... |
tt0329162 | Devil's Pond | Newlyweds, Mitch (Kip Pardue) and Julianne (Tara Reid), escape their normal lives and travel to a deserted island for a romantic and adventurous honeymoon, staying for two weeks at an old cottage in the middle of a secluded lake. They discover the area has no electricity or phone coverage, as Julianne tries to settle i... | insanity, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040305 | The Dude Goes West | A gunsmith and a marksman, Daniel Bone closes up his Brooklyn, New York business and travels west, where he feels he belongs. On a train, he encounters passenger Liza Crockett, then sees her purse being stolen by a man Dan confronts, disarms and throws off the train.
The man turns out to be a notorious outlaw, the Peco... | murder | train | wikipedia | Terrific little overlooked, unconventional, Western.
Kind of a cross between "Destry Rides Again" and Bob Hope's "Paleface" series, this little sleeper of a film takes a good-hearted book-learned innocent whose skills with a gun (learned for his job, that of gunsmith) are no more important than his wisdom and mind.Cons... |
tt0094792 | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Colonel James Braddock (Chuck Norris), Vietnam veteran, had believed his Asian wife Lin Tan Cang (Miki Kim) to be dead since the war ended in 1975, but he hears from a missionary, Reverend Polanski (Yehuda Efroni), that Lin is not only alive, but that she and Braddock have a 12-year-old son named Van Tan Cang (Roland H... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | That's gotta count for something in these days of throw-away relationships.The final action scene is a touching "bonding" moment as father and son together take down the bad guy!
Rounding out my Chuck Norris Triple Feature DVD, we have "Braddock: Missing in Action III," undoubtedly the best in the series and probably t... |
tt0785007 | Over Her Dead Body | Kate and Henry are a happy couple. Henry proposed to Kate and they are about to be married, but on the day of their wedding, Kate is accidentally killed by an ice sculpture angel, because of the actions of an ice sculptor (Stephen Root). Unaware that she has died and her soul left her body, Kate awakens in Purgatory, a... | paranormal, revenge, comedy, haunting, romantic | train | wikipedia | The script was amusing, the delivery from the four leads (Bell, Rudd, Biggs, Longoria) precise and well timed.
Over Her Dead Body was a nice little movie, in general, that wasn't meant to be a masterpiece, but is just for enjoyment when you have nothing better to do, or are going to watch/see a so-so movie with your si... |
tt0101751 | Dollman | Brick Bardo is a Dirty Harry-type cop on the planet Arturos, which is many light years from Earth. One day, a criminal runs into a laundry venue where lots of plump women and their kids happen to be, and he keeps them hostage while police officers are outside the premise. Bardo humorously enters to do his laundry, and ... | cult, comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0200087 | Sarfarosh | Arms trafficking is taking place in India. An arsenal enters Indian territory via the state of Rajasthan, which makes its way to interior of India with help of many middlemen. Bala Thakur, a gun handler in Chandrapur, provides the arms to Veeran, a forest dwelling brigand. Later, Veeran and his gang attack a wedding bu... | cruelty, murder | train | wikipedia | Aamir Khan as ACP Rathore is superb.
This actor usually plays only "black" characters - this surely added to the impact of his performance (for me, at least).
Sonali Bendre as Rathore's love interest provided some (much-needed) light moments.
Aamir's the best actor- undisputed.
B4 watching sarfarosh, me n my pals were ... |
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