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tt0070071 | Frank Film | Jon lives in a small coastal town, but aspires to be a songwriter. While walking along the beach, Jon witnesses a man trying to drown himself. The man is revived, but taken to hospital. Jon talks to Don, who explains the man was a keyboardist in an experimental band called the Soronprfbs, managed by him. Jon mentions t... | autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Words escape me..
I have a fetish for films made entirely of cutout images.
There's an NFB film called "This is a Recorded Message" made right around the same time that also uses a similar cutout technique.
Both films use advertisements to create their point.
However, where "Message" is scathing critique of advertising... |
tt0042897 | Rocketship X-M | Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to Luna. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stage and a meteoroid storm, their engines suddenly quit. Recalculating fuel ratios and s... | cult | train | wikipedia | This film probably inspired in it's own way a lot of young people to explore science and space exploration for real..
Lloyd Bridges is in love with himself even more than he is with the German girl scientist on board - which is kind of nauseating - but overall, the film is a favorite.Classical music lovers will take no... |
tt0098042 | Out Cold | Rick Rambis, best friend Luke, and other friends Anthony, "Pig Pen", Jenny, Lance and Stumpy, all live and work at a ski resort on Bull Mountain in Alaska. The mountain and resort were founded by Herbert "Papa" Muntz who loved to drink and ski at the same time until he died doing so. His son, Ted, took over the mountai... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | Silly and dark farce; it got better as time passed.
Ernie and Dave were butchers in the army (during the opening credits photos of them in their uniforms, along with Sunny, are shown).
They open their own butcher shop, and Ernie is married to Sunny.
Ernie is abusive, and Sunny is cheating on him.
And the door to the fr... |
tt0082416 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Set in the mid-nineteenth century, the narrator identifies the novel's protagonist as Sarah Woodruff, the Woman of the title, also known as "Tragedy" and as "The French Lieutenant's Whore". She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French ship's officer named Varguennes... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | The manner in which the film flits from Victorian age to modern day, is the filmic way of conveying Fowles's tendency in the novel to judge his Victorian characters and their era by Twentieth Century standards.
The settings are superbly created -- the green, grotto-like woodland where Irons and Streep meet in the Victo... |
tt0112159 | Shin Seiki Evangerion | In 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo Ikari, the director of the special paramilitary force Nerv. Shinji witnesses the United Nations forces battling an Angel: one of a race of giant m... | insanity | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0382765 | Jindabyne | On an annual fishing trip, in isolated high country, Stewart (Gabriel Byrne), Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone) find a girl's body in the river; she has been brutally murdered by Gregory (Chris Haywood), a local electrician. The girl (Tatea Reilly) turns out subsequently to be Aborigin... | tragedy, murder | train | wikipedia | The movie poses some moral questions "Would you let the discovery of a dead body ruin your good weekend?" and more poignantly for Australians "Would it make any difference if the dead person was an aboriginal?" The acting, especially by Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney, is commendable.
The basic plot could be set almost ... |
tt1429451 | Madly in Love | Cristina, the princess of a fictional monarchical state named San Tulipe, is visiting Rome with her father, Gustavo VI, who is trying to appeal to Italy's national bank for a loan to buoy his country's financial crisis. Bored and rebellious, Cristina sneaks away from the embassy and decides to engage in a sightseeing t... | romantic, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3770696 | The Red and the Black | In two volumes, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century tells the story of Julien Sorel’s life in a monarchic society of fixed social class.
=== Book I ===
Book I presents Julien Sorel, the ambitious son of a carpenter in the fictional village of Verrières, in Franche-Comté, France. He would rather read ... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119819 | Office Killer | A magazine editor named Dorine, due to budget cuts, is forced to work from home. One night she is called to help fix the computer of a co-worker, Gary Michaels, who is electrocuted while trying to fix the wires. Dorine dials 911, but hangs up when the call is answered. She places the corpse on a cart, rolls it down to ... | comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It involves Carol Kane (with very odd penciled in eyebrows) as an awkwardly mousy, hardworking magazine editor in a drab and depressing looking office building where she gets picked on daily.
Then, without any time wasted, the inevitable psycho switch gets flipped and she starts killing off her coworkers.I know that ma... |
tt0113820 | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie | The Power Rangers participate with Bulk and Skull in a charity skydive for the Angel Grove observatory, in anticipation of Ryan's Comet which is scheduled to pass by in two days.
Bulk and Skull miss the target landing zone and accidentally land on a construction site where a giant egg has been unearthed. Lord Zedd, Rit... | good versus evil, psychedelic, action, violence | train | wikipedia | I hadn't seen the movie since '95, but my boyfriend and I went to Target and found this movie on the $5.50 shelf and I grabbed it for old times sake since he was also a Power Rangers fan when he was a kid.
We watched it and I have to say that despite how bad it is and how mega cheesy the lines and acting are, Mighty Mo... |
tt0058335 | Matrimonio all'italiana | It tells the World War II era story of a cynical, successful businessman named Domenico (Mastroianni), who, after meeting a naive country girl, Filumena (Loren), one night in a Neapolitan brothel, keeps frequenting her for years in an on-off relationship (as she continues working as a prostitute). He eventually takes h... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0079013 | Cuba | The film's sense of historical accuracy is marred by the opening scene which shows an airliner landing in Havana with the wrong date ("1959") superimposed on the screen. It should read "1958", the last year of the revolution. Cuban President Batista fled the capital on New Year's Day 1959, one week before Fidel Castro ... | satire | train | wikipedia | The cameras were rolling on the players before the final script was done and the results clearly show it.Cuba as a film certainly had potential, but it's not realized in this story.
Sean Connery plays a British mercenary who is going to go to work for the tottering Batista regime.
He's found an old flame in Brooke Adam... |
tt0148523 | Neel Kamal | Sita (Waheeda Rehman) and her friends go on a trip. Sita sleepwalks and when she is about to be hit by a train on the railway track, Ram (Manoj Kumar) saves her. Impressed, her father decides to get her married to him. After the marriage, Sita discovers that her sleepwalking is not a simple sleepwalking as it takes her... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050192 | The Big Land | Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads a cattle drive to Missouri, assuring fellow ranchers that their stock will bring $20 a head at auction. Instead, ruthless cattle baron Brog (Anthony Caruso) has scared off all competition and offers much less.
Blamed fo... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Familiar but very well done..
When Alan Ladd and his partners bring their cattle from Texas to Missouri, local cattle buyer Anthony Caruso cheats the men and treats them like he's doing them a favor in the process!
Ladd, however, doesn't fight--having a live and let live attitude.Ladd travels to a nearby town and is tr... |
tt0067836 | El techo de cristal | Martha is an attractive housewife living in a small rural apartment house in the outskirt of Madrid. Her husband, Carlos, leaves frequently on business trips so Martha spends most of her time alone with her pet cat, Fedra, as her only companion. While Carlos is away, Martha hears heavy footsteps in the apartment above ... | horror, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1073510 | Prayers for Bobby | Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children—Ed, Bobby, Joy and Nancy—according to the evangelical teachings of her local Presbyterian church in the late 1970s and early 1980s in Walnut Creek, California.
Ed finds Bobby resisting temptations to overdose on Aspirin as an initial suicide attempt before Bob... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | Prayers for Bobby is an emotionally and physically tiring film that entertains from start to finish.The movie is just so clever at times.
Sigourney Weaver plays an amazing role as well, and the movie is just so endearing that I really lose myself in it every time I watch it.It was a truly spectacular film; one of the b... |
tt0167038 | Belle's Magical World | === The Perfect Word ===
Beast (Robby Benson) and Belle (Paige O'Hara) plan to eat together, and Beast asks for advice from Lumiere (Jerry Orbach). While Cogsworth (David Ogden Stiers) escorts Belle to the dining room, they come across the castle's well-meaning but rather verbose scribe, Webster (Jim Cummings), turned ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Absolutely Terrible but maybe funny to laugh at.
This movie was probably one of the worst I've ever seen.
I kept watching out of sheer morbid curiosity.
The plots were bad.
The animation was bad.
The songs were bad.
There were some places that the animation was so bad that I literally laughed out loud.
It's boring as s... |
tt0490166 | London to Brighton | The film opens with a woman and child, Kelly and Joanne, bursting into a London toilet. Joanne is crying and Kelly has a black eye. Eventually Kelly gets them on a train to Brighton, and it is clear they are running from someone.
Joanne is an eleven-year-old runaway who is procured by a reluctant Kelly into having sex ... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | In a run-down public toilet in London at 3.07 am, the middle-aged prostitute Kelly takes on the 11-year-old runaway Joanne.
The film explores the mother-daughter-like bond that forms between the girls as they are left to fend for themselves in the gritty underworld of South London.Paul Andrew Williams has done somethin... |
tt0945355 | Kidô senshi Gandamu: Dai 08 MS shôtai - Mirâzu ripôto | Set in a fictional universe in the year 2124 (Universal Century year 0079 according to the Gundam Calendar), the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a war of independence called the One Year War. The conflict has directly affected every continent on Earth,... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0972844 | Tomb Raider: Underworld | Tomb Raider: Underworld begins with Lara Croft's mansion exploding and being engulfed in flames. The game then rewinds back in time to a week before the explosion, just after the events of Tomb Raider: Legend. Lara is searching for Avalon, hoping it will lead her to an explanation for the disappearance of her long lost... | violence | train | wikipedia | Despite being shorter than Anniversary, I felt that Underworld was a far superior game.
This chapter in the history of Lady Lara Croft corrected most of the frustrating mistakes of it's predecessor and made it an enjoyable gaming experience that was almost on par with Legend.
Underworld steered away from using extreme ... |
tt0047013 | Garden of Evil | En route to California to prospect for gold, Hooker (Gary Cooper), Fiske (Richard Widmark), and Luke Daly (Cameron Mitchell) stop over in a tiny Mexican village. The three men and Vicente Madariaga (Victor Manuel Mendoza) are hired by a desperate Leah Fuller (Susan Hayward) to rescue her husband John (Hugh Marlowe), wh... | violence, melodrama | train | wikipedia | While Cooper's career spanned ninety-two feature films, in which he appeared as everything from a masked Cossack to an Italian Renaissance explorer, a foreign legionnaire, a baseball great and countless sophisticated romantic adventurers, he is best remembered as a Western star...'Garden of Evil' tells the story of thr... |
tt0086143 | Private School | Christine "Chris" Ramsey (Phoebe Cates) lies in bed narrating a trashy romance novel to Betsy (Kathleen Wilhoite), her roommate at the Cherryvale Academy for Girls. Meanwhile, three students of the nearby Freemount Academy for Men, including Jim Green (Matthew Modine) and his overweight, slobbish friend Bubba (Michael ... | cult, stupid, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3966404 | Mustang | The film starts with Lale, the youngest of the five sisters and the protagonist, bidding an emotional farewell at school to her female teacher, who is moving to Istanbul. The sisters decide to walk home instead of taking a van, to enjoy the sunny day. Along the way, they play in the water at the beach with their classm... | violence | train | wikipedia | Mustang at the same time offers a laugh and a tear; the viewer is offered the perspective of young ladies growing up, discovering their sexuality and being told that this is a bad thing.Of course some critics will argue that this movie might give viewers a wrong impression about Turkey.
Now that thats out of the way le... |
tt0052141 | Rock-a-Bye Baby | Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a small-town TV repairman whose former sweetheart, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell), is now a famous movie star. Carla marries a Mexican bullfighter and becomes pregnant; her husband dies the day after the wedding. Her agent, Harold Herman (Reginald Gardiner) tries to avoid a scandal by sen... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I've read the preceding comments and they pretty much tell the story of why this is a classic Jerry Lewis film.
However, I think one of the reasons I love this one so much is that it also captures a feel for what life was like growing up in the fifties (as I did).
Watching Rock a Bye Baby, which is authentically of the... |
tt0104740 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Set in 1905 (the year the Little Nemo comic strip premiered in the New York Herald), the film opens with the young boy Nemo experiencing a nightmare in which he is pursued by a locomotive. Upon awakening the next day, he goes to see a parade welcoming a traveling circus. However, Nemo is unable to see the circus becaus... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102789 | Ricochet | In 1983, rookie Los Angeles police officer and law student Nicholas Styles (Denzel Washington) meets his future wife Alice (Victoria Dillard). He drifts away from his childhood friend Odessa (Ice-T), who is drifting into a life of crime in South Central Los Angeles. Styles and his partner Larry Doyle (Kevin Pollak) pat... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | This is a typical Denzel Washington film: well-acted, rough language, a racial theme and an involved story that holds your interest.
It gets predictable in the end but I like the analogy in the film to the classic movie, "White Heat."I was sorry to see a few things: once again, white people are all the bigots; Lindsay ... |
tt0039169 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer | Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) are sisters who live together. Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived interests after hearing the regular guest lectures at the school. Margaret is a judge, and Susan's guardian.
Richard Nugent (Cary Grant... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Cary Grant is my favourite actor, and Myrna Loy, best remembered for her trademark housewife equal in "The Thin Man" are two of Hollywood's brightest comics together in a pretty funny film.
Throw in teenaged seventeen year old Shirley Temple falling for a shining knight in armour/playboy/artist Cary and her Judge siste... |
tt0041859 | The Set-Up | Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is a 35-year-old has-been boxer about to take on an opponent at the fictional Paradise City Arena. His wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), fears that this fight may be his last and wants him to forfeit the match. Tiny (George Tobias), Stoker's manager, is sure he will continue to lose figh... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0023327 | The Penquin Pool Murder | Gwen Parker (Mae Clarke) meets her former boyfriend Philip Seymour (Donald Cook) at the local aquarium and asks him for some money so she can leave her husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker. However, Mr. Parker receives an anonymous telephone call tipping him off to the rendezvous. When he confronts the pair, Seymour knoc... | mystery, murder, humor | train | wikipedia | With the coming of sound to the movies and "the Crash" to the stock market, musicals, screwball comedies and tightly plotted "cozy" mysteries became staples of 30's film going and frequently a valuable, if unintentional, tour of the decade's culture (one of the potential motives of one of the suspects in THE PENGUIN PO... |
tt0119668 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey): self-made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant, and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso (John Cusack), a magazine reporter, finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture ... | comedy, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040623 | My Brother Jonathan | The story revolves around the life of Jonathan Dakers (Denison), a small town doctor. He is training to be a surgeon when his father dies. Due to the resulting financial problems, he cannot continue his training. He buys a share in Dr. Hammond's general practice in Wednesford, a poor foundry town.
When Dakers notes tha... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | A quality film.
Although not surprising in its plot this film is well made and acted.
(With fine film score too) The story is told mainly in flashback by Jonathan Dakers,an ageing doctor to his son who has just come back from war.
The old doctor talks about his relationships and also his medical career and how they int... |
tt1016283 | Xposé | Two actresses, Zara Fernandes and Chandni Roy, are both set to make their film debut on the same date. Chandni's film becomes a box office success, whereas Zara's film is a flop. This angers Zara who believes she is higher and better than every other new actress. Zara starts an argument with Chandni after an awards par... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077087 | Sword of Justice | Norman "Dack" Rambo starred as Jack Martin Cole, who had emerged from an unjust prison sentence to become a rich playboy by day and a troubleshooting mercenary at night, à la The Saint. Bert Rosario co-starred as Hector Ramirez, a former petty crook who was Cole's junior partner and former cell-mate, and Alex Courtney,... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1227926 | Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog consists of three acts of approximately 14 minutes each. They were first released online in July 2008 as individual episodes, with two-day intervals between each release.
=== Act I ===
Dr. Horrible is filming an entry for his video blog, giving updates on his schemes and responding to var... | romantic, comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I read Joss Whedon and his brother's were bored during the Writer's Strike last season and came up with the idea for Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog.
If you simply enjoy being entertained, this enchantingly short trio of episodes sheer is perfection itself.Congratulations to Joss Wheedon for giving his planet such a ver... |
tt0120879 | Velvet Goldmine | Set in a dystopian, grey version of 1984, gay British journalist Arthur Stuart is writing an article about the withdrawal from public life of 1970s bisexual glam rock star Brian Slade, and is interviewing those who had a part in the entertainer's career. As each person recalls their thoughts, it becomes the introductio... | cult, mystery, psychedelic, queer | train | wikipedia | The film isn't about Iggy Pop and David Bowie, it isn't even about two gay men, its about two people who are falling in love at the most inopportune and exploitable moments of their lives.The characters aren't just engaging, they are addictive, the plot isn't just compelling, it's spellbinding.
Actually all Todd Haynes... |
tt0069840 | The Candy Snatchers | Candy (Susan Sennett) is a 16-year-old girl who is kidnapped on her way home from her Catholic school. Her three kidnappers include Eddy (Vince Martorano), his partner Jessie (Tiffany Bolling), and Jessie's brother, Alan (Brad David), who bury her alive in a Southern California field. They give her a pipe for air, expe... | comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1316053 | Good People | The story begins with four men pulling a heist together. The men rob a man named Khan (Omar Sy), a well-known French heroin dealer, of his drugs and money. Ben Tuttle and Bobby emerge from the building first. Ben shoots Bobby and runs off with all of the money and drugs. The two other men, Jack Witkowski (Sam Spruell) ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039645 | My Favorite Brunette | The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that lead to his murder conviction. Jackson is a San Francisco baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his office neighbor Sam McCloud (Ladd). One day he is mistaken for a det... | mystery, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | The 1940's was a very prolific period for Bob Hope as he made 21 movies during that decade including some of his very best (the "Road" films of course with Crosby and Lamour, "The Paleface" with Jane Russell, and "My Favorite Blonde" with Madeleine Carroll).
However, "Brunette" rates as high, if not higher, than any of... |
tt0109906 | The Glass Shield | John "J. J." Johnson is a rookie police officer in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Because of his inexperience and race, he experiences tension with his white colleagues as their first black deputy. Although he initially clashes with Deputy Deborah Fields, the department's first female deputy, they strike up a fr... | murder | train | wikipedia | A film that tackles blackmail and race relations in the LA sheriffs office.
This was a great low budget police film about corruption in the LA sheriffs office.
The film revolves around a young black cop, who stumbles onto a corruption case invovling police brutality towards minorities.
The film also highlights just how... |
tt0068576 | Fear Is the Key | John Talbot is talking on radio to a girl and another man who are flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane.
Some time later, Talbot appears in a small town in Louisiana, where he starts a fight with some local police. He is arrested and faces trial, where it is revealed he is wanted ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | One of the All Time Great Adventure Movies You've Probably Never Heard About.
I was browsing the commentary track on the DVD release of Soderbergh's movie *The Limey* where he and screenwriter Lem Dobbs are talking about Barry Newman and movies with cool chases...
Lem Dobbs just so happens to mention his fondness for "... |
tt0104868 | The Mighty Ducks | Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is a successful Minneapolis defense attorney of the Ducksworth, Saver & Gross firm, who never loses a case but whose truculent courtroom antics have earned him no respect among his peers. After successfully defending a client resulting in his 30th win, Bombay is called into his boss's off... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | I loved how these bad-playing, poor attitude-having kids could always be inspired to become champions, no matter how tough the odds and no matter how many times movies like this were remade with soccer, football, baseball, and dogs.
Out of all those inspirational sports-are-good-for-kids movies, this was and always wil... |
tt0362590 | Employee of the Month | For years, Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) has been working at the local "Super Club" as a box-boy. He lives with his grandmother and spends his free time with co-workers Lon Neilson (Andy Dick), Iqbal Raji (Brian George), and Russell Porpis-Gunders (Harland Williams). Despite his "slacker" like ways he is kind-hearted, popul... | comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1047490 | Lo | The film opens with Justin (Ward Roberts) sitting inside a pentagram and following the steps in a dark magic book to summon the crippled demon Lo (Jeremiah Birkett). Justin orders Lo to search Hell for his girlfriend April (Sarah Lassez), whom he insists was taken by a demon. Lo becomes angered not only by the demand b... | romantic, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1238291 | Five Minutes of Heaven | In Lurgan, Northern Ireland, during 1975 and the Northern Irish Troubles, the Irish Republican Army are targeting British loyalists and the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 17, is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to let blood. He and ... | revenge, psychological, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070077 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Eddie Coyle (a.k.a. "Eddie Fingers") is an aging delivery truck driver for a bakery. He is also a low-level gunrunner for a crime organization in Boston, Massachusetts. He is facing several years in prison for a truck hijacking in New Hampshire set up by Dillon, who owns a local bar. Coyle's last chance is securing a s... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | The friends of Eddie Coyle is one of the 1970's lost crime/cop movies of it's era which in all fairness deserves better treatment i.e. a nice restoration on DVD done in wide-screen would not go a miss!
The biggest draw back of the movie from a box office draw perspective is that lead actor Robert Mitchum's stardom was ... |
tt0044419 | The Big Sky | In 1832, Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) is traveling in the wilderness when he encounters an initially hostile Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin). However, they soon become good friends. They head to the Missouri River in search of Boone's uncle, Zeb Calloway (Arthur Hunnicutt). They find him when they are tossed in jail for bra... | revenge, murder, violence, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | As usual in Howard Hawks' works, the movie is based on swift-pace-action amalgamated with the human interaction of the characters.
Set in the American frontier of the early 1800s, it's the story of an ambitious party who pole their keel boat up the Missouri River into new territories, far beyond where other white men h... |
tt3128900 | Miss Meadows | Miss Mary Meadows is a young woman who works as a substitute first-grade elementary school teacher who enjoys taking long walks in her suburban neighborhood, wearing traditional clothing and tap-dancing shoes. Unknown to everyone, she is a secret vigilante who kills local thugs who accost her or when she witnesses them... | romantic, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Some say Holmes plays too young character for her actual age, some say the film isn't funny enough, when it should be a dark comedy and some complain the story is too predictable.
I would say she plays some sort of an everyday super hero, because she fearlessly helps and saves people in need, but she's is depicted with... |
tt0089346 | Into the Night | Upon discovering that his wife is having an affair, depressed insomniac Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) drives to LAX on his friend Herb's (Dan Aykroyd) suggestion. There he is surprised by a beautiful jewel smuggler, Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer), who lands on his car and begs him to drive her away from four Iranians who are chas... | psychedelic, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | It is filled with laughs, some brilliant physical humor (who knew John Landis was a comic-action actor?), sudden surprises and a phenomenal cast.And, as a little teaser to make you rent the theatrical version, Michelle Pfeiffer's only known nude scene!
Probably his best role ever.The amazingly diverse cast includes Dan... |
tt0120632 | City of Angels | Wayne Rogers plays a determined but unethical private detective, Jake Axminster, who looks out for himself—and somewhat less aggressively for his clients—amid the corruption of Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1930s. He is aided in his investigative efforts by two friends: his ditzy blonde secretary, Marsha Finch (E... | tragedy, boring, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104093 | Detour | Piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is drinking coffee at a roadside diner in Reno, hitchhiking east from California, when a fellow patron plays a song on the jukebox that reminds him of his former life in New York City. At the time, Al was bitter about squandering his talent working in a cheap nightclub. After his girl... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1687221 | Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho | Leonardo is a 15-year-old blind student with his one friend in class, Giovana, sitting next to him. Seated behind Leonardo is the new student Gabriel. After class Giovana invites Gabriel to walk home with herself and Leonardo; she customarily links arms with him for support even though his house is further from the sch... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050213 | The Brothers Rico | Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) is the owner of a prosperous laundry company in Bayshore, Florida who was the former accountant for a major crime syndicate years ago. He has given up his ties to the syndicate, and hopes to adopt a child with his wife, Alice. When Eddie receives a call asking to give a job to Wesson (William... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Richard Conte stars in "The Brothers Rico," a 1957 noir with James Darren, Larry Gates, Kathryn Grant, and Dianne Foster.Conte is Eddie Rico, a former mob accountant, now in the laundry business in Florida and quite successful.
Then Eddie gets a call from his old boss, Kubik (Gates) who wants to see him on an urgent ma... |
tt0799993 | The Da Vinci Code | Louvre curator and Priory of Sion grand master Jacques Saunière is fatally shot one night at the museum by an albino Catholic monk named Silas, who is working on behalf of someone he knows only as the Teacher, who wishes to discover the location of the "keystone," an item crucial to the search for the Holy Grail. After... | cult | train | wikipedia | For a game about the Messiah, it is awful that the game-play must be set on God mode. I must be insane: This game is truly unplayable but I couldn't put it in the trash. Maybe it was about pride but I really done overtime to complete it.I dare anyone to play it without a walk through! It's impossible! The most basic ac... |
tt0193019 | Blue's Big Musical Movie | Blue welcomes the viewer to the house where Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper are preparing to have a big music show until they hear snoring. Steve is still asleep, so Blue goes into the bedroom and helps Tickety Tock wake him up. When Steve wakes up, he needs help to get everything ready for the "You Can Be Anything You Wanna ... | cult | train | wikipedia | Almost as good as the TV show it is based on.
My 2 year old LOVES Blue's Clues, and saw every episode while it was free on Amazon Prime over and over.
I'd rate that show 10 stars.
This movie, however, doesn't quite capture the show's level of excellence.
Probably because it's trying to stretch the exact same elements f... |
tt0051435 | The Brothers Karamazov | Book One: A Nice Little Family
The opening of the novel introduces the Karamazov family and relates the story of their distant and recent past. The details of Fyodor's two marriages as well as his indifference to the upbringing of his three children is chronicled. The narrator also establishes the widely varying person... | murder | train | wikipedia | The brothers themselves (Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, Albert Salmi and William Shatner) turn in variable performances.
And, though I love the book and think it may be the world's great novel, I prefer the ending of the movie!
If you want to know what the book is about but a thick novel is daunting, this film tells yo... |
tt0172052 | Sabrina, the Animated Series | Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay.
Sabrina travels to Paris for a fashion internship at Vogue (rather than a culin... | paranormal, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I've never understood why this show is so widely disliked..
As a devoted rec.arts.animation reader, I don't believe I've ever read a single positive comment about "Sabrina: The Animated Series".
Although being 21 and watching a series about a junior high schooler with magic powers is a bit embarassing to admit, "Sabrin... |
tt0166120 | El Che | === Part 1: The Argentine ===
In Havana 1964, Che Guevara is interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the "message of the Cuban Revolution."
In 1955, at a gathering in Mexico City, Guevara first meets Fidel Castro. He listens to Castro’s plans and signs on as a member o... | murder | train | wikipedia | Fascinating documentary on Guevara. There are some remarkable scenes of Guevara's youth in Argentina, as well as much footage of the early days in Cuba, circa 1955-59. The interviews with those who knew him are fascinating, particularly the ones with one of his old comrades in arms.I'll bet that Castro breathed an imme... |
tt0433771 | Aloha, Scooby-Doo! | The gang travels to Hawaii on a free trip from a surfing company called "Goha Aloha". The company wants Daphne to design some new swimwear for them. The gang also goes there to see the Big Kahuna of Hanahuna Surfing Contest. However, the contest used to only be open for the natives and not for mainlanders, but now the ... | psychedelic, horror | train | wikipedia | funny flick.
This was humorous, entertaining, and refreshingly new in its Scooby tradition.
The names are interesting, the mystery keeps you going, and the only complaint I had was that it was relatively easy to figure out.There were a lot of elements to the story and it is well drawn.
It is a good pick if you like the... |
tt0038622 | Humoresque | In New York City, a performance by noted violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield) is cancelled. At his apartment, Boray is at rock bottom emotionally. His manager Frederic Bauer (Richard Gaines) is angry with him for misunderstanding what a performing career would be like, and for thinking that music is no longer part of h... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | The truth in John Garfield's face rises everything several notches but, perhaps, the biggest surprise from a 2007's standpoint, is Joan Crawford's performance.
In "Humoresque," for example, watch the part where Paul (John Garfield) is delivering his major violin performance, while his wealthy, possessive patron, Helen ... |
tt0068154 | Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità | In the opening sequence, Bambino (Bud Spencer) is walking through the desert carrying his saddle and finds four escaped convicts, from whom he steals their beans and horses. This scene is followed by the opening credits and the title song, after which we see Trinity (Terence Hill) on his travois. He too comes across th... | western, cult | train | wikipedia | It's entirely possible that the reviewer confused this picture with the previous Trinity outing, "They Call Me Trinity", which does not compare to the sequel whatsoever.
This film is the quintessential parody of the spaghetti western, with some of the dirtiest, filthiest ant-heroes ever depicted.
When this film was in ... |
tt0396991 | LazyTown | The series focuses on eight-year-old Stephanie, the newest resident of the LazyTown community. She has moved to LazyTown to live with her uncle, Mayor Meanswell, and is surprised to learn that all of her neighbors lead inactive lifestyles. With the help of an above-average superhero named Sportacus, she helps teach the... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I've watched this show with her, and it's got a wonderful message, is upbeat, the star (Scheving) Sportacus is real easy on a mother's eyes (he can come teach me how to exercise any time!), and the villain, Robbie Rotten, is a master of melodramatic mugging.I love dance music, and the show has a very modern soundtrack.... |
tt1224366 | Afterschool | While doing a film project at a private school, internet-video obsessed teenager Robert (Ezra Miller) catches two twins dying due to drugs contaminated with rat poison. Confused, Robert does not call for help but rather simply walks over to the girls and sits on the floor with them, pulling one into his lap as she dies... | bleak, violence, suspenseful, psychological, flashback | train | wikipedia | The film is slow-paced, which one could argue is a way for Campos to build further isolation from the main character, yet fails to depict anything interesting in its entire running time.The characters are all cardboard-thin, save for the protagonist whose loneliness and eccentricity is apparent yet inaccessible.
If Cam... |
tt0117104 | Mrs. Winterbourne | In flashbacks, Connie Doyle's (Ricki Lake) early life gives an idea of her mindset. At 18, she meets womanizer Steve DeCunzo (Loren Dean), moves in with him and winds up pregnant. He kicks her out, denying responsibility. A destitute Connie, trying to find a shelter, gets inadvertently swept aboard a train at Grand Cen... | romantic | train | wikipedia | 'Mrs. Winterbourne' is a highly improbable take on the Cinderella "rags to riches" story about 18 year-old Connie Doyle (Ricki Lake), who finds herself enceinte, unmarried, and homeless.
There she shares a compartment with a young married couple, Hugh and Patricia Winterbourne (Susan Haskell and Brendan Fraser), who ar... |
tt0274944 | Teen Devian | Teen Deviaan starts off to commentary by Ameen Sayani, as the camera moves through Calcutta's streets, the pretty Nanda (Nanda) finds herself, as she sees it, being followed. The man, Dev Dutt Anand (Dev Anand) has been sitting in the bus beside her, and has bought a ticket for Dalhousie (after she’s bought one) and ha... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Is it possible to fall in love with three women simultaneoulsy?.
I think it was way back in 1987 that we had our exams and my friend and I saw in the papers that one of the theatres was playing 'teen deviyan'.
We decided to go just for the heck of it without hoping anything great.
But we were in for a pleasant surprise... |
tt0290655 | Hey Cinderella! | The story follows Cinderella (Belinda Montgomery): a beautiful girl who is forced to do all the chores by her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters with only her dog Rufus to help her.
At the palace, King Goshposh (performed by Jim Henson) is bored and wishes to throw a party so that he may be given presents. As an exc... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | A beautiful rendition of the classic fairy tale!. CINDERELLA is beautifully retold in this enchanting piece of entertainment: HEY CINDERELLA! I have no doubts this has to be one of Jim Henson's best specials ever. LABYRINTH (1986) was also a sensation. Belinda Montgomery is especially joyful as the youthful Cinderella.... |
tt0099700 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | After the death of his owner Mr. Wing, the mogwai Gizmo becomes the guinea pig of scientists at Clamp Enterprises, a state-of-the-art office building in Manhattan, run by eccentric billionaire Daniel Clamp. At the mercy of the chief researcher Dr. Catheter, Gizmo is rescued by his friend Billy Peltzer and his fiancee K... | cult, horror, satire | train | wikipedia | What I hadn't bargained for was the sharpness of the writing and the satirical structure that director Dante laid out for audiences to watch.Focusing very much on the then modern obsessions like tearing things down to build state of the art monstrous complexes, or the need for a better world; be it the laboratory testi... |
tt2076897 | My Brother the Devil | Mo (Fady Elsayed) and Rashid "Rash" (James Floyd) are teenage brothers of Egyptian descent living with their parents in Hackney. Elder brother Rash is fiercely protective of Mo, giving him a TV when he does well and encouraging him to stay in school. However Mo begins to want to emulate Rash who works as a low level dr... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Without giving any of those twists away, this is basically a film about two brothers and how their relationship changes as the younger one who has always looked up to the elder grows disenchanted with him, while trying to define himself as a man (which he isn't quite yet).
The film represents a realistic portrayal of i... |
tt0106079 | NYPD Blue | === Season 1 ===
John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad. Sipowicz is the elder partner but is an alcoholic who drinks on the job as well as off-duty, and his behavior causes doubt that the partnership will last much longer. Kelly has a genuine affection for his partner but becomes increasingly ex... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1631323 | God of Love | Raymond Goodfellow rides on a country road on his motor scooter. His voice over explains, “You can’t control who you love. You can't control who loves you. You can't control where it happens, or when it happens, or why it happens. You can't control any of that stuff.”
The film flashes back to three months earlier to Ra... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Excellent short film.
I was extremely pleased with this short comedy.
The film is incredibly well directed.
The dialogue is quite pleasant throughout the story and very well delivered, especially by its leading man/director.
The interesting thing about this film is that it is very well executed from all angles.
Comedie... |
tt0204322 | Firecracker | The film opens with the body of a murder victim being exhumed from under a storage shed in 1950s small-town Wamego, Kansas. The story leading up to the murder is then told.
Handsome, sociopathic David (Mike Patton), the owner of a local garage, bullies his meek, sensitive piano-playing younger brother, the teenage Jimm... | neo noir, cruelty, murder, cult, flashback, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1043820 | Storm Hawks | Storm Hawks is set in a fictional world called Atmos, a largely mountainous world consisting of scattered masses known as terras. Directly below the terras is the Wastelands, the most dangerous place on Atmos, with its infernal fires and wicked creatures. Because of the geography, travel is mostly dependent on flight. ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A surprisingly good kids show.
I thought I was well past the age of watching these kinds of cartoons, but there's something about Storm Hawks that just isn't found in vast majority of kids shows these days.
The unique animation probably has something to do with it, it reminds me of an improved version of the new Spider... |
tt4455690 | Working Girl | Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an Irish American working-class stockbroker's secretary from Staten Island with a bachelor's degree in Business from evening classes. She aspires to reach an executive position. Tricked by her boss (Oliver Platt) into a date with his lascivious colleague (Kevin Spacey), she gets into t... | adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058649 | The Third Secret | Prominent London psychoanalyst Dr. Leo Whitset is discovered injured from a gunshot wound in his home by his housekeeper, and as he lies dying he whispers, "Blame no one but me." These words lead the coroner to rule the death a suicide, a verdict questioned by one of Dr. Whitset's patients, Alex Stedman, a popular Amer... | murder | train | wikipedia | A suspenseful Who Done It with compelling performances by Pamela Franklin and Stephen Boyd in challengingly complex roles.
I read somewhere that Stephen Boyd was so taken with the story and the character, he took a sizeable pay cut to play the role of Alex.
And Pamela Franklin, at the age of 14, is an incredible actres... |
tt0042035 | We Were Strangers | The story draws on events that occurred as part of the political violence that led to the overthrow of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933. In 1932, a violent opposition group, the ABC (abecedarios), assassinated the President of the Cuban Senate Clemente Vazquez Bello. They had constructed a tunnel to rea... | avant garde, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033532 | All That Money Can Buy | Farmer Jabez Stone, from the small town of Cross Corners, New Hampshire, is plagued with unending bad luck, causing him to finally swear "it's enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil!" Stone is visited the next day by a stranger, who later identifies himself as "Mr. Scratch," and makes such an offer in ... | psychedelic, comedy, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203343 | Blood Dolls | Virgil Travis is a wealthy, soulless psychopath who lives in seclusion in his mansion home with his dwarf butler (Phil Fondacaro) and his murderous, clown make-up-wearing maniac right-hand man. Tortured and forcibly mutated as a child by a woman who put him through body transforming procedures, Virgil has an abnormally... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084315 | Les maîtres du temps | A man named Claude is driving a six-wheeled, insect-like vehicle over the desert surface of Perdide very fast. He attempts to communicate with Jaffar, saying that "they attacked" and that "Annie is dead." After a crash that wrecks his vehicle, he lets his son Piel down from the wreckage; he cannot extricate himself. Pi... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0082679 | Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | The film starts with a showing of the 1958 award winning cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs before going into its opening credits. This is followed up by Bugs narrating how Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies immediately replaced baggy-pants comedy before introducing us to "a warm-hearted humble little Introvert called Yosemite ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | EXCELLENT FOLLOWUP TO BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE.
Friz Freleng's "Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" is an excellent followup to Chuck Jones' "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" which itself was a surprisingly good feature.
This film follows the same formula as the 1979 film: classic shorts are combined with new bridg... |
tt0304676 | Scrapbook | Scrapbook begins with opening credits rolling while a kidnapped woman has a frantic discussion in the dark with an incoherent female voice. As the credits conclude, the door to the van opens and the woman discovers, to her horror, that the incoherent voice belonged to a disemboweled woman. A man reaches in and removes ... | violence, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's true: this movie is disturbing and will shock you with some scenes of depravity and torture that you've never seen before, but despite all that it's still just not very good.
Among my main complaints: - Some people extol the fact that the production quality was very low, giving it a grim "snuff" film look to the m... |
tt0217679 | Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku | A scientist named Eiji has developed a new chemical called 'MySon' that can turn pain into pleasure. He decides to put three girls who attend the experiment held by Eiji's mother to the test. Meanwhile, Eiji has a crush on one of the girls, Rika. 'MySon' influences the girls gradually. The gluttonous woman wishes to ha... | avant garde, cruelty, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | Eiji,a young scientist invents serum called Myson which transforms the pain into pleasure.His mother is conducting medical experiment on three young women.Eiji decides to mix his serum with the experimental product that his mother is working on.Soon the girls start to hurt and mutilate themselves with a strange pleasur... |
tt2788526 | Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising | Not long after Megatron's demise and the restoration of Cybertron, the Autobots celebrate as Optimus Prime promotes Bumblebee to warrior class. The festivities end, however, when Optimus sets out on a journey to find the AllSpark, the source of new life on Cybertron, and takes Wheeljack with him to find it so that new ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | This film is action packed and very interesting.. Bumblebee (Will Friedle-Voice) and his friends have to save their home once again from Megatron (Frank Welker-Voice) who has been trying to take over their world for some time now. While trying to save his world, Bumblebee encounters some obstacles and problems along th... |
tt0039023 | They Made Me a Killer | Tom Durling quits his job and drives across country after his brother is killed in an accident. He gives an attractive girl a ride and he's forced at gun point to be the driver in a bank robbery. During the crime, Steve Reynolds, another innocent man is involved and killed in the escape. After a high-speed chase, the c... | murder | train | wikipedia | Forgotten Noir Is Memorable.
Satisfying noir B-feature that does everything it needs to do in little more than an hour.
The screenwriter billed here as Geoffrey Homes (Daniel Mainwaring) was the screenwriter and original novelist of Build My Gallows High/Out of the Past, and also wrote The Big Steal and Baby Face Nelso... |
tt1172060 | It's Alive | Lenore Harker leaves college to have a baby with her architect boyfriend, Frank. After discovering the baby has doubled in size in just a month, doctors extract the baby by Caesarian section. After the doctor cuts the umbilical cord, the newborn baby Daniel goes on a rampage and kills the surgical team in the operating... | murder | train | wikipedia | I do not hate many remakes because they stain the memory of "classic" (or semi-classic) movies.In fact, I am absolutely open to receive them with all the possible objectivity, and I think I could recognize their hits in the minority of cases something good came from them (like for example, The Thing and Dawn of the Dea... |
tt0057102 | The Girl Hunters | The reader discovers that Hammer has been a drunk living in gutters around New York City for the past seven years. Hammer's secretary and fiancee, Velda, is believed to be dead after a botched protection job involving a Chicago socialite and her new husband. Then, Hammer is apprehended and taken to an undisclosed locat... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120800 | Quest for Camelot | Kayley's father, Sir Lionel, is one of the knights of the Round Table. Kayley wants to be a knight like her father. At Camelot, one of the knights, Ruber - wanting to become king of Camelot instead of King Arthur - attempts to kill Arthur, but Lionel intervenes and is killed. Ruber flees Camelot in exile after being re... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078404 | Tobi | Tobi and his parents, Jacinto and María López, are at a picnic. Back home, Tobi begins feeling strange itches on his back and is brought to the hospital for an evaluation. The next day, Tobi's parents learn that a pair of wings have grown from the itchy spots on his back. The hospital separates Tobi and his parents, bu... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The boy with wings. I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and it left me a very strange feeling. The parents of a small boy, Tobi, discover that a couple of angel wings are growing on his sun.The fantastic storyline is developed into a quite sad and melodramatic script that tries to avoid all the characteris... |
tt0071615 | La montaña sagrada | A man (later identified as the thief) representing The Fool tarot card, lies in the desert with flies covering his face like excrement. He is befriended by a footless, handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords, and the pair travel into the city where they make money entertaining tourists. Because the thief resembl... | comedy, avant garde, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire | train | wikipedia | People who are looking for deep meaning in films like Donnie Darko need to keep searching, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky would be a good start.
If you liked "The Wall" (you know, the Pink Floyd movie), but thought it was a bit of a downer and suffered from the lack of a fat woman humping an excitable, legless, anim... |
tt0113117 | French Kiss | A fastidious and wholesome history teacher named Kate (Meg Ryan) is living in Canada with her fiancé, Charlie (Timothy Hutton), a dentist. While waiting for her Canadian citizenship to come through, Kate has been busy planning their wedding and the purchase of their first house, complete with a white picket fence. When... | comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I'm not particularly a Meg Ryan fan - (funny that I just named two of her movies in a top comedy list!).
The movie is funny but has more heart than most comedies - the scenes with Luc's family are lovely and memorable - not at all overdone, just right.
The Meg Ryan character's primness is irritating - but then one must... |
tt0102989 | Straight Out of Brooklyn | Dennis, living in a Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York has had enough of poverty, and witnessing his alcoholic father beat his mother. His father is depressed and troubled from working hard for "the white man" for so many years, yet having nothing to show for it.
Dennis and two friends come up with a plan t... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | Low Budget Urban Cinema Series..
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) was a great debut film for Matty Rich (who also co-stars as well).
This low budget movie is about the poverty and desperate situation that people live in around the Redhook housing district.
One person is a young man named Dennis, he's tired of seeing the... |
tt0093119 | Grizzly II: The Concert | A spacecraft flies near Earth and releases a bright object which enters the atmosphere. In the Val Verde jungle, Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer and his team — medic Mac Elliot, tracker Billy Sole, gunner Blaine Cooper, explosives expert Jorge "Poncho" Ramírez, and radio operator Rick Hawkins —are tasked by the CIA with re... | violence | train | wikipedia | I read comments that there were problems with the animatronic 14" bear".
The 14 foot version was a puppet that was only intended to be used on the full sized stage and all those shots were completed before leaving Hungary.
The half size animatronic version was complete and working prior to leaving Hungary too and we sh... |
tt0033727 | Mr. Bug Goes to Town | Hoppity the Grasshopper, after a period spent away, returns to an American city (Manhattan, New York). He finds that all is not as he left it, and his insect friends (who live in the "Lowlands" just outside of the garden of a cute bungalow belonging to down-on-his-luck songwriter Dick Dickens and his wife Mary) are now... | cult, mystery | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086489 | Twice Upon a Time | In the eternally busy city of Din, the black-and-white Rushers constantly go about their business in a fast-paced way and stop only to sleep, due to their Cosmic Clock being wound too tightly. Din lies between two worlds that create dreams to deliver to the sleeping Rushers – one is the bright and cheerful Frivoli, whe... | psychedelic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | OK - as far as the 2 versions of this movie.
There were 2 people involved in the making - John Korty and Bill Couterie (George was just the producer - he really didn't have any kind of say so in the film - just helped with money) - the 'Adult' version was made possible by Bill Couterie.
John Korty didn't like or approv... |
tt0271263 | Eight Crazy Nights | In the small town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, Davey Stone is a 33-year-old alcoholic troublemaker with a long criminal record, whose antics have long earned him the animosity of the town. Davey is arrested for refusing to pay his bill at Mr. Chang's Chinese restaurant and, while attempting to evade arrest ("Davey's S... | humor, flashback | train | wikipedia | Boy, am I glad that I didn't watch Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights during the holiday season.
It's expected of Sandler to include scatological humor and slight-offensiveness in his films, sure, but it's unexpected of him to include such derogatory representations of his own culture and unnecessary rudeness in the tim... |
tt0090568 | 8 Million Ways to Die | An alcoholic Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, Matt Scudder (Bridges), takes part in a drug bust that results in his fatal shooting of a small-time dealer in front of the man's wife and kids. Scudder ends up in a drunk ward, suffering from booze and blackouts, ending his career, his marriage, and jeopardizing his relations... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | the film is better than it has been portrayed.Jeff Bridges plays Matt Scudder, a down on his luck detective who is suspended by the LAPD after a violent confrontation with a suspect.Bridges life spirals down (in something of a preview of the character he would later play in perhaps his best film, 1991's The Fisher King... |
tt4338154 | Hawaizaada | During the era of British India, lives a happy go lucky, school drop-out Shivkar Bapuji Talpade aka Shivi (Ayushmann Khurrana), who falls in love with a local stage dancer Sitara (Pallavi Sharda). This makes Shivi's father throw him out of the house and he bumps into a crazy scientist Pandit Subbaraya Shastri (Mithun C... | romantic | train | wikipedia | If one wants to make a film in any science based invention than he has to do lots of research work and if he won't be able to find much stuff to convert it in film but still wants to make others aware about this fact then there are lots of other mediums, like short film, documentary, handbills, news article except film... |
tt0116683 | James and the Giant Peach | Protagonist James Henry Trotter, 4 years old, lives with his loving parents in a beautiful cottage by the sea in the south of England, until his parents are killed by an escaped rhinoceros during a shopping trip in London.
As a result, James is forced to live with his two cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge, in a run-down h... | cult, fantasy, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0160399 | Impostor | The film takes place in the year 2079. Forty-five years earlier, Earth was attacked by a hostile and implacable alien civilization from Alpha Centauri. Force shield domes are put in place to protect cities, and a totalitarian global military government is established to effect the war and the survival of humans. The Ce... | anti war, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | And one major credit of the film is that it could capture quite obviously the feel of paranoia that's been the mainstay of Philip Dick's most stories.Gary Sinise is always pleasure to watch on screen.
The one scene that hints at her acting talent occurs when she confronts her husband at the abandoned park.Granted, the ... |
tt0106753 | Doppelganger | The story follows Holly Gooding (Barrymore), who moves from New York City to Los Angeles after being implicated in a murder. She is followed by what is apparently her evil twin. While in Los Angeles, she finds a room for rent by a writer named Patrick. After some strange occurrences, it becomes less and less clear whet... | good versus evil, cult, murder, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Drew Barrymore's sultry little dances and always seductive scenes.
Early in Drew's career...look to Ever After and Wedding Singer if you want better acting.
Could have been wrapped up in a TV show slot, and it indeed felt rushed at the end with a "bad-guy explains his whole evil plot" sequence.It's good for a laugh, an... |
tt0121352 | Henna | Rishi Kapoor plays Chander , who stays in Srinagar. He is about to engaged to Chand (Ashwini Bhave). On the day of his engagement, he meets with an accident , and mistakenly strays into the Pakistani side of Kashmir from his own home in Srinagar . A native girl called Henna (Zeba Bakhtiar), falls in love with him , ami... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0106559 | Ching se | An overzealous Buddhist monk named Fa Hoi (Vincent Zhao) has trained for 20 years to solely banish demons from the Human World due to his prejudice against spiritual beings seeking to improve themselves. He captures a spider in human form, who has trained for 200 years to be able to reincarnate, and throws him undernea... | allegory, cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
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