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tt0082616 | Killjoy | The film begins with a boy named Michael, a kid who has a crush on a beautiful girl named Jada but is always rejected because Jada is stuck with a gangster, Lorenzo (Johnson). When Michael comes close to her, he is beat up by Lorenzo and his homeboys, T-Bone and Baby Boy. But Michael is secretly involved in black magic... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0000966 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light of the moon.
The play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistan... | romantic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Fun to Watch, and Very Good For Its Time.
This very early silent filming of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" works well.
While it's too bad to have to do without Shakespeare's dialogue, the play lends itself well to film, and this one is done with a zest that makes up for the cinematic limitations of the time.
It covers mos... |
tt0024062 | Girl Missing | Kay Curtis (Glenda Farrell) and June Dale (Mary Brian) are two showgirls living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide to ask Daisy Bradford (Peggy Shannon), who is engaged to millionaire Henr... | murder | train | wikipedia | Two gold digging chorines think they can solve the mystery of a criminal's murder and a GIRL MISSING on her wedding night.Fast-moving & fun, this is another example of the comedy crime picture that Warner Brothers was so expert at producing.
While this assembly line approach created few classics, audience enjoyment cou... |
tt6135112 | Definitely Maybe | 38-year-old father Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce. After her first sex-ed class, his 10-year-old daughter Maya insists on hearing the story of how her parents met. Will reluctantly gives in, but decides to change the names and some of the facts relating to the various love affairs of his youth, thereby creatin... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0205070 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | A couple had three sons, and the youngest was a fool. One day, the Tsar declared that whoever made him a ship that could sail through the air would marry his daughter. The older two set out, with everything their parents could give them; then the youngest set out as well, despite their ridicule and being given less fin... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Vivid Version Of Old Russian Tale.
A silly, greedy Tsar is taught a valuable lesson in humility by the six very peculiar friends who arrive at the Kremlin with THE FOOL OF THE WORLD AND THE FLYING SHIP.This old Russian folk tale, - produced by Cosgrove Hall, masters of the art of stop-motion animation - is most enjoyab... |
tt0120070 | Savior | Joshua Rose (Dennis Quaid), a State Department Official on embassy duty in Paris, sees his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and son killed in a bombing by suspected Islamic terrorists. Immediately after the family funeral he storms into a nearby mosque and shoots several worshipers. His friend Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) is force... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I doubt, then, that many people would approach this film with any false expectations of what it will contain.That said, viewers should not come to this film for a political explanation of why and how the war happened - for that, it's probably best to read a few books.
This film does attempt to give a human explanation ... |
tt0475344 | The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge | A year after the events of the movie, a town meeting announcing awards gives Jack Skellington an award "for most spines tingled by a non-corporeal being". After the curtains close Jack reveals that he has once again he feels disappointed with this year's Halloween. However, having learned his lesson from before, he tal... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1393000 | Wrong Turn at Tahoe | Joshua and his boss, Vincent, are driving to a hospital. Both have been shot and are in pain. Joshua thinks back to his childhood, when his father was shot in front of his eyes.
In a flashback, Joshua and his partner, Mickey, visit people that owe money to Vincent. They encounter a crazy druggie who tells them that a s... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | If you have kept an eye on Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career over the past few years, you probably know he's been churning out awful direct-to-DVD movies after being branded box office poison.
Having seen several of these movies, I initially had no plans to see "Wrong Turn At Tahoe".
As for Gooding, he is for once believable i... |
tt0326977 | Io non ho paura | The action of the film takes place in 1978, in a fictional town called Acqua Traverse in Southern Italy, during the hottest summer of the century and the infamous Years of Lead. A nine-year-old boy named Michele Amitrano and a group of his friends set out on a race across scorched wheat fields to a deserted farmhouse. ... | suspenseful, historical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Set in Southern Italy in 1978, I'm Not Scared by Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo) is about a child who discovers a small lad hidden in a cavernous hole near an abandoned farmhouse and acts with courage and compassion to "do the right thing".
The film is partly a standard commercial product with a predictable plot, se... |
tt0115624 | Barb Wire | The plot of the film is loosely based on the plot of Casablanca. Barb Wire is set in 2017 during the "Second American Civil War," rather than World War II. Many of the roles had their gender switched.
Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor — "the last free city" in a United States ... | avant garde, murder, cult, flashback, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Dean Stockwell, in a minor role, is wasted in stuff like this.If Anderson's role in the predictable Naked Souls was peripheral (and also completely irrelevant to the plot), then Barb Wire sees her take over the screen.
If you want a lovably stupid movie, with Pamela Anderson sticking out her little finger as she burns ... |
tt0284034 | Demonlover | Diane de Monx (Nielsen) is an executive trying to negotiate a deal to acquire the rights to the productions of a Japanese anime studio, which will soon include three-dimensional hentai, for the Volf Corporation. To facilitate the acquisition, she eliminates her superior, Karen (Dominique Reymond), and assumes control o... | cult, suspenseful, murder, violence, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Clearly, the ending is open to thematic interpretation, but I think Assayas is just saying that if our species isn't more careful, we'll end up like one-dimensional characters in a video game of our own devising - sure, winner takes all, but the rest of us suffer enormously.Narrative ambiguity aside, DEMONLOVER is the ... |
tt0099850 | Internal Affairs | During a drug bust, LAPD patrolmen Dennis Peck (Gere) and Van Stretch (William Baldwin) viciously assault a dealer and his girlfriend. Outside, fellow patrolman Dorian Fletcher (Michael Beach) shoots a man running towards him, only to discover that he was unarmed. While Fletcher is distraught by the incident, Peck plan... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | The hero of the movie is Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia), newly assigned to the Internal Affairs division of the LAPD and a friend of Peck's partner, Van Stretch (Stephen Baldwin).
Peck is the embodiment of all the bad guys in police thrillers and none of the cops in them.Of all of the actors you could find to play a guy l... |
tt0106881 | Fearless | The film begins with Huo Yuanjia fighting and defeating three Westerners: a British boxer, a Belgian lancer and a Spanish fencer. While waiting for the fourth match to begin, Huo remembers his father Huo Endi teaching martial arts. The story is then told in an extended flashback. Watching his father fight, the young Yu... | psychological, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | I know from personal experience--mine was nothing like a plane crash--but the phenomenon that this movie ventures to explore that I just described, which may seem like mostly bizarre behavior shifts in Bridges' character to those who haven't experienced what I'm talking about--is in fact as real as love, fear, or passi... |
tt0106332 | Ba wang bie ji | As the film opens, a street crowd watches a troupe of boys perform Peking opera, supervised by their aging director, Master Guan. When Laizi attempts to run away, Shitou placates the crowd by breaking a brick on his head; the crowd cheers, but Shitou is later punished for the stunt. An onlooking mother brings her son t... | romantic, avant garde, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040866 | La terra trema | === Summary ===
The story takes place in Aci Trezza (Jaci Trizza), a small fishing village on the east coast of Sicily, Italy.
It tells about the exploitation of working-class fishermen, specifically that of the eldest son of a very traditional village family, the Valastros.
'Ntoni convinces his family to mortgage thei... | realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0356721 | I Heart Huckabees | Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is a young man who heads the local chapter of an environmental group, the "Open Spaces Coalition". One of their current projects is an attempt to stop the building of a new Huckabees store, a chain of "big-box" department stores. Albert is a rival of Brad Stand (Jude Law), a shallow... | comedy, psychological, adult comedy, whimsical, cult, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, entertaining, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0211605 | Saber Marionette J | Otaru Mamiya is an adolescent working-class laborer, single, independent who's about 18 years old, and living on his own in the fictional city state of Japoness. Employed as a fish peddler and running a morning's catch, he is hit by a car driven by Mitsurugi Hanagata, an acquaintance, spoiling his merchandise and spark... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060748 | Nevada Smith | In the West of the 1890s, a trio of outlaws, Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy), Jesse Coe (Martin Landau) and Tom Fitch (Karl Malden), robs, tortures and brutally kills the white father and Indian mother of young Max Sand (Steve McQueen). The outlaws have stolen the father's grey horse with a double SS brand. Max sets out t... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | The film is based on a story by John Michael Hayes, two-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter for 'Rear Window,' and 'Peyton Place.'The film lingers in the mind because of its visual beauty and the intensity of some of its scenes, particularly between McQueen and Malden, two knowing actors playing together with the... |
tt0039260 | Cheyenne | Jim Wylie is a gambler in Laramie, Wyoming Territory who is wanted by the Nevada law. He gets a proposal from a Wells Fargo agent; if he can help locate a bandit known as "The Poet" who has been robbing stagecoaches, all pending charges will be dropped and Jim can even claim a cash reward.
His stage to Cheyenne has a p... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0172156 | Bad Boys II | Eight years after the events of the first film, Miami Police Department (MPD) narcotics division detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey are investigating the flow of highly-potent ecstasy into the city. Their surveillance of boats coming in from Cuba leads them to a Ku Klux Klan meeting and drug drop in a swamp dock... | comedy, boring, murder, violence, absurd, humor, action, entertaining | train | wikipedia | This movie delivers your monies worth too, in my opinion Will Smith and Martin Larwence make such a great team that part of the fun is just watching these two get into it from time to time.
And with Michael Bay directing, you know you're going to get some good action scenes.
Let's face it, Bad Boys II has one of the be... |
tt0086987 | Bolero | Set in the 1920s, Ayre "Mac" MacGillvary (Bo Derek) is a virginal 23-year-old young American who graduates from an exclusive British college. An orphan heiress to a vast fortune, Ayre is determined to find the right man for her first sexual encounter wherever he might be in the world. Rich enough not to venture forth a... | pornographic, cult | train | wikipedia | One thing to remember about "Bolero" is that the reason lots of people went to see it on its initial release was that the MPAA wanted to rate it "X".
As a result, there was a lot of fanfare around the release of "Bolero." A whole lot of people (okay, let's be completely honest--"a whole lot of men") flocked to the the... |
tt0099387 | The Death of the Incredible Hulk | David Banner (Bill Bixby) masquerades as David Bellamy, a mentally challenged janitor, to gain access to a scientific research facility in Portland, Oregon. He believes that the studies of one of the scientists there, Dr. Ronald Pratt (Philip Sterling), may hold the key to curing his gamma-induced condition that, in ti... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | The Incredible Hulk was my favorite series growing up and when they started doing these movies I was thrilled.
I've watched every Hulk film they did including this and I didn't like the way they ended it.
It's a very sad film to watch not just because it's the end of an era, but also because Bill Bixby is no longer wit... |
tt0068611 | Frenzy | In London, a serial killer is raping women and strangling them with neckties. Most of the film takes place in Covent Garden, which at the time was still the location of the city's wholesale fruit and vegetable market. Fairly early in the film, the audience sees that fruit merchant Robert Rusk (Barry Foster) is in fact ... | murder, cult, revenge, horror, flashback, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | After 30 years in the USA and after the disappointments of "Torn Curtain" (1966) and "Topaz" (1969), Alfred Hitchcock came back to his native Britain for this film -written by Anthony Shaffer from a novel by Arthur La Bern."Frenzy" is his penultimate movie, certainly the best one of his last period.
Furthermore, he wan... |
tt0037522 | Back to Bataan | The film begins with the then-recent US Army Ranger raid at Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp. The film then flashes back to March 1942.
As the U.S. Army under General MacArthur struggles to hold on at Bataan against the Japanese, Colonel Joseph Madden (John Wayne) orders one of his officers, Captain Andrés Bonifácio (An... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | This film is totally unselfconscious in how it deals with the war, in one scene it features real Bataan POWs marching in a parade and introduces them documentary style with a narrator, and it hired Filipino extras and actors for important roles.
This is what really touched and surprised me, how it elevated and glorifie... |
tt0043744 | Lightning Strikes Twice | Once a rancher, Richard Trevelyan (Richard Todd) is now on a Texas prison's death row. But he wins a new trial, then a complete acquittal when a lone juror holds out.
Actress Shelley Carnes (Ruth Roman) is on her way to a Texas dude ranch for a rest. Along the way, she meets ranchers J.D. (Frank Conroy) and Myra Nolan ... | murder | train | wikipedia | McCambridge, Roman stand out in King Vidor's overloaded desert melodrama.
Richard Todd sits on death row, waiting execution for his wife's murder.
At the eleventh hour, a reprieve and new trial come through; he's acquitted, thanks to one holdout juror (Mercedes McCambridge).
Enter Ruth Roman, a touring actress in searc... |
tt1421378 | Scooby-Doo! And the Samurai Sword | At a Tokyo museum of ancient history, Mr. Takagawa, the curator, and Kenji, a janitor, witness the resurrection of The Black Samurai, an ancient Japanese warrior whose armor was to be the newest exhibit at the museum. The next day, the Mystery Inc. gang arrives at Tokyo, where Daphne is to participate in a martial arts... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3433074 | Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie | Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) is an independent market trader, selling fruit and vegetables on Dublin's Moore Street market. It has been under attack from P.R. Irwin (Dermot Crowley), a TD (PRIC) who is in an arrangement with a ruthless Russian businessman who wants to put all the market stalls out of business and op... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1104733 | Hamlet 2 | Dana Marschz is a recovering alcoholic and failed actor who has become a high school drama teacher in Tucson, Arizona, "where dreams go to die". Despite considering himself an inspirational figure, he only has two enthusiastic students, Rand Posin and Epiphany Sellars, and a history of producing poorly received school ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0271678 | No: 20 Madras Mail | The train No.20 Madras Mail to Madras starts from Trivandrum Central. R.K. Nair (M.G. Soman), a Kollam-based businessman takes the first class coupe of the train to Madras with his wife Geetha (Jayabharathi) and daughter Devi (Suchitra) from Kollam Junction. Tony Kurushingal (Mohanlal), along with his friends Hitchcock... | murder | train | wikipedia | Laugh riot and suspense. One of those movies aimed solely at entertaining the viewers. No. 20 not only has a fair share of comedy but also sustains the suspense through.Mohanlal and two friends are a group of moneyed vagabonds who get trapped in a murder that takes place on the train from Trivandrum to Madras. How they... |
tt0200027 | Riding in Cars with Boys | In 1961 eleven-year-old Beverly "Bev" Donofrio (Mika Boorem) and her father Leonard (James Woods) are preparing for Christmas when Leonard asks Bev what she wants this year for Christmas. Bev says she wants a bra in order to get the attention of a boy she likes. Leonard tells his daughter that she is too young to be th... | dramatic, romantic, comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0184858 | Reindeer Games | Nick Cassidy and Rudy Duncan are cellmates in prison two days away from release. Nick has been corresponding with a young woman named Ashley Mercer, who is waiting for him on the outside. After Nick takes a shiv in a prison fight and dies, Rudy, who just wants to have a cup of hot chocolate after he reunites with his f... | violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I can imagine the pitch for "Reindeer Games" being thrown at the execs behind the picture..."Okay, it's about this guy, who's not who he says he is, who everybody thinks he is, who fools these guys who thinks he is, falls in love with this girl who thinks he is, even though he isn't, and they try to pull a heist with h... |
tt1625150 | Noordzee, Texas | A young Pim and his mother, Yvette, live in the Belgian countryside with their dog, a Miniature Pinscher named Mirza. The mother, a lonely divorcee, plays a piano accordion, and patronizes a local bar called Texas. One day Pim and his mother attend a fair, where they meet a traveling carny named Zoltan. Zoltan is kind ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I think just about every gay man can relate to this movie, and remembers what it was like to have that first crush on someone.
North Sea Texas is a beautiful, well-crafted and well-shot film.
I'm not gay but regardless I fell in love with this film so much that I sat down to write a review here.So the premise goes like... |
tt0066434 | THX 1138 | In the 25th century, sexual intercourse and reproduction are prohibited, whereas use of mind-altering drugs is mandatory to enforce compliance among the citizens and to ensure their ability to conduct dangerous and demanding tasks. Emotions, coitus, and the concept of family are a taboo. Everyone is clad in identical u... | avant garde, suspenseful, murder, neo noir, psychological, cult, psychedelic, romantic, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Duvall gives a good performance (his breakthrough role in "The Godfather" would come next year) but the real surprise here is Lucas, who goes for a Kubrick-like edge to his film that really separates it from his later work.
You won't believe this is from the guy who created Jar-Jar Binks.If anyone accuses George Lucas ... |
tt0108395 | A Troll in Central Park | The film begins in a Kingdom of Trolls, where Stanley (Dom DeLuise) has a magical green thumb with the ability to bring flowers and plants to life at a touch. When he is discovered doing so, the other trolls take him as prisoner to Gnorga (Cloris Leachman), the Queen of the Trolls, who concludes that Stanley "gives a b... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The cute plot line and message that you can do anything and be yourself makes it a cute movie for young kids.
Overall, I don't think this is Don Bluth's worst film, but it's just an unfocused mess in the animation industry.
The story has some motivational lessons at first, but the first forty minutes had little to do w... |
tt2467046 | Left Behind | University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele (Cassi Thomson) has flown in from college to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage), for his birthday party. However, her mother Irene quickly calls to inform her that her father cannot make it. While at the airport waiting for him, Chloe meets up wi... | suspenseful, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Isn't it curious that the movie tried so hard to portray all of those that were left as bad messed up people?
The acting is bad , Cage tries hard to make work out of a script that was seemingly penned by 8 year old's .
This movie epitomizes the problem with religion in general.It starts with a conclusion, so it's tedio... |
tt0096218 | Tales from the Gimli Hospital | The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Gimli, Manitoba hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer kn... | absurd, cult, comedy, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The narrative is a bit of a problem but like most Maddin films, there is plenty to carry the load.
In the modern town of Gimli, two young children watch their mother dying in hospital.
To distract them they are told a story of old Gimli by their grandmother.
In the story it is Gimli years ago when live was disrupted by... |
tt0060086 | Alfie | Alfie (Jude Law) is a Cockney limo driver who regularly beds and discards beautiful women. In addition to maintaining a casual relationship with a single mother named Julie (Marisa Tomei) that he refers to as his "semi-regular-quasi-sort-of-girlfriend thing", he also sleeps with various girls on the side, such as the u... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073640 | Rudolph's Shiny New Year | A year after delivering Christmas presents, Santa Claus receives a letter from his friend Father Time asking for help to find Happy the Baby New Year before midnight on New Year's Eve, or else it will be December 31 forever. Santa sends Rudolph out to find him. An evil vulture called Eon the Terrible is supposed to liv... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Rudolph's Shiny New Year can be striking, and entertaining, if you're watching it when you're little - little enough that by the time you're my age you have no clear memory of the first time you watched it, just that you did over and over.
The story of Rudolph saving the "baby new-year" from the clutches of Eon, a vult... |
tt0210843 | El mismo amor, la misma lluvia | In 1980, Jorge Pellegrini (Ricardo Darín), a young and talented Argentine writer, upon returning from a trip to Europe, is forced to write short love stories for "Cosas", a local, light-themed magazine, to aid his dire financial situation. His boss and best friend, Roberto (Eduardo Blanco), constantly censors Jorge's s... | flashback | train | wikipedia | This is life.
If you enjoyed "El hijo de la Novia" ("Son of the Bride"), you must go for this one.
The same rock solid characters with a better script.
A story you can believe in, a group of characters you laugh and suffer with..
Even better than "El padre de la novia".
A new star is born.
Campanella offers in El mismo... |
tt0084781 | El tesoro de las cuatro coronas | The movie follows J.T. Striker, a Soldier of Fortune (Tony Anthony), who has been hired to assemble a group of professional thieves to retrieve the gems which are hidden inside two of the remaining four Mystical Crowns. Striker braves a mysterious magical cave in which skeletons and spears appear and jump out at him. H... | gothic, violence, cult, cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | When I was a kid, I saw this movie and I loved it.
I thought it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.
Ten years later, I picked it up at the video store to take another look.Ouch.OUCH!This is a bad movie!
The climax is hilarious!One good thing about the movie: Ever reliable Ennio Morricone gives the movie a good sc... |
tt0331334 | Satan's Playground | Donna (Felissa Rose) and Frank (Salvatore Paul Piro) Bruno have decided to take a trip into the Pine Barrens with their autistic son Sean (Danny Lopes), new mother Paula (Ellen Sandweiss), and her baby Anthony (Marco Rose). When their car breaks down in the middle of the forest Frank goes off to find help and comes acr... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0457229 | Brotherhood | Frank (Jon Foster) is an active member of fictional fraternity Sigma Zeta Chi, and hazes pledges for initiation by forcing them to believe they are going to rob convenience stores. Adam (Trevor Morgan) and Kevin (Lou Taylor Pucci) are pledges who go with Frank to rob the stores. Before they enter the store, another act... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0221097 | Cry Baby Lane | Andrew (Jase Blankfort) and his older brother Carl (Trey Rogers) enjoy listening to ghost stories that the local undertaker, Mr. Bennett (Frank Langella), tells them. One night Bennett tells the tale of a local farmer whose wife gave birth to conjoined twins, one being good-natured while the other was clearly evil. The... | horror | train | wikipedia | Inept in every way you can imagine.. When a film gains a certain reputation, it makes many curious to see it, to find out whether it lives up to the hype or not. This is especially true of previously banned or lost films, as being allowed to see them for the first time makes you interested whether the fuss surrounding ... |
tt0125037 | Xiao Qian | Ning Choi-san is a timid debt collector whose job requires him to travel to rural areas. He arrives at a town but is forced to seek shelter in a deserted temple in the forest on the outskirts because he ran out of money due to his inability to collect the debts as initially planned. That night in the temple, Ning meets... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This is one strange film..
Even allowing for problems in translation, Chinese Ghost Story is thoroughly odd.
It may well take you more than one viewing to figure out everything that is going on.
I wouldn't even posit on where they got the theology behind it.However, it is still a highly entertaining film.
It is a love ... |
tt0095877 | Platoon Leader | Lt. Jeffrey Knight, a new officer from West Point, is airlifted to an outpost in Vietnam, where he meets his platoon, a group of tough witted veterans of the war. Platoon Sergeant McNamara explains to Knight that the platoon does not need a leader that follows rules. Lt. Knight's actions are also frowned upon by all of... | violence | train | wikipedia | If you want to see the Vietnam War as it was experienced by a real Platoon Leader, this is it.
Authentic, down to the mannerisms, slang, terror and disillusion of it all, this film has none of the wierd phantasms of Apocalypse Now or the left wing political hype of Oliver Stone's Platoon.Richard C.
Caporiccio, LTC, US ... |
tt0050512 | Hit and Run | Charlie Bronson (Dax Shepard) is enrolled in the Witness Protection Program, staying in Milton, California under the supervision of incompetent U.S. Marshal Randy Anderson (Tom Arnold). Charlie's girlfriend Annie Bean (Kristen Bell) is a professor at Milton Valley College and has a doctorate in Non-Violent Conflict Res... | murder | train | wikipedia | Cleo Moore's Last Movie. Cleo Moore was one of the sexiest blonde starlets of the 1950's but sadly this 1957 release was her swan song. She had starred in around ten films and was well known by the public but I guess there was just too many beautiful blondes around at the time. She's the best thing in this standard lit... |
tt0130444 | Aimée & Jaguar | The film explores the lives of the characters Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewish woman who assumed a false name and who belongs to an underground organization, and Lilly Wust (Juliane Köhler), a married mother of four children, unsatisfied with her philandering Nazi officer husband.
The film begins in 1997,... | violence, queer, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | A True Unconventional and Sensitive Love Story, In a Sad Period of German History.
In Berlin, along the Second World War, Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader) is a bright Jewish lesbian working in a Nazi newspaper under a false identity and being member of a resistance organization.
This true unconventional and sensiti... |
tt0097779 | Looking for Miracles | Set in the summer of 1935, 16-year-old Ryan Delaney (Greg Spottiswood) wants to go to university on a scholarship, but his struggling mother (Patricia Phillips) wants him to stay home, find work, and take care of his 10-year-old brother Sullivan (Zachary Bennett). Due to circumstances relating to the Depression, the br... | depressing | train | wikipedia | Memorable performances in a true to life film.
This movie has been a personal favorite of mine for a long time.
I first watched it on the Disney Channel when I was young.
It took me a long time finally get the video and hope it will be released on DVD soon.
I believe the reason why I admire this film so much is that th... |
tt1415283 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | On a farm during World War II, while her husband is away at war, Isabel Green is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, run by the slightly mad Mrs. Docherty, she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman, Megsie, ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Meanwhile the children's' vile London cousins come to stay - two little brats who bawk at the state of the earthy farm abode.Enter Nanny McPhee - an otherworldly being who appears when a family needs her most - squashed-nosed and snaggle-toothed, she calmly teaches the children five important lessons, though when thing... |
tt0120522 | Winterschläfer | The film is set in the deeply snowy alpine winter resort of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria; the story begins shortly after Christmas Day, with five people returning, not all of whom are connected.
Laura, a surgical nurse, and Rebecca, a translator, live together in the house that Rebecca inherited from her great aunt. René i... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033110 | Strike Up the Band | Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney), a student at Riverwood High School, also plays the drums in the school band, but dreams of playing in a dance band. He and his "pal" Mary Holden (Judy Garland) sell the school principal the idea of forming the band and putting on a dance. The principal is initially doubtful, but then agre... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I can't help it, I love Mickey and Judy, and this is their best film together.
It has fun songs ("Our Love Affair" and "Do the La Conga" especially), good Busby Berkeley productions (both the aforementioned, especially the fruit-as-orchestra dream sequence!), but more importantly, it perfectly evokes the ideal small mi... |
tt0171433 | Keeping the Faith | The film begins with a drunken and downtrodden Catholic priest telling his story to a sympathetic bartender (Brian George). Father Brian Finn (Edward Norton) has been dedicated to his calling since he was a child and now shares the duties of a New York parish with an older priest, Fr. Havel (Miloš Forman). Rabbi Jacob ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1519664 | Ticking Clock | The movie opens outside a rundown suburban house. Inside, a woman is seen viciously murdered and partially dissected in the bath tub. As the killer, Keech (Neal McDonough), washes his hands, a baby starts to cry. Keech approaches the baby. Despite the savagery of his attack on the woman he is surprisingly gentle with t... | murder | train | wikipedia | I so wanted this to be an enjoyable movie with Cuba Gooding Jr.Not the case.Although occasionally believable, on a whole the acting was way beyond par.
The storyline, although showing some potential, was far from well executed.I'm sure this made for a good movie if you'd just skimmed through the script.
An action/horro... |
tt1213648 | London Boulevard | The film opens with Harry Mitchel (Colin Farrell) (convicted of GBH under never-explained circumstances) leaving prison. He is propositioned by his friend and former partner-in-crime, Billy Norton (Ben Chaplin), to live in a nice 'acquired' apartment, but on condition he work for Billy's criminal boss. On his way to a ... | revenge, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | Because I could not stop if I started."I mainly wanted to see London Boulevard because of the pairing of Keira Knightley and Colin Farrell, and that part of the movie certainly didn't disappoint me.
Beyond Farrell and Knightley's hounded actress, Anna Friel, David Thewlis, and Ray Winstone each help carry the story alo... |
tt2236182 | Rise of the Zombies | A water-borne virus has led to a widespread outbreak of zombies in San Francisco. A group of survivors, including Dr. Lynn Snyder (Mariel Hemingway) and others, create a refuge on Alcatraz Island. Snyder receives communications from Dr. Arnold (French Stewart), a scientist conducting experiments to create a cure for th... | violence | train | wikipedia | Yes, here's another one from The Asylum but it always shocks me that so many people go into these films expecting a good movie.
Personally speaking, when I watch these movies I hope to at least be entertained (by good or bad things) or that the film at least offers something you don't normally see.
Mariel Hemingway, Ch... |
tt0287986 | Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite | The film begins with Michèle's first journal entry, "I am 20 years old, and I have ruined my life!" This is just one of the many journal entry titles that are flashed before every particular scene in the film. Michèle had just recently broken up with her boyfriend so she meets up with some of her friends at a café. It ... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Search for Spirituality Loses Me. This is the story of a woman, played by Audrey Tautou, who searches for herself by searching for a religion she can relate to.
She tries all of the major religions and ends up with Judaism when she starts to data Francois, who is lapsed in his faith.Her spiritual quest drives her, Fran... |
tt0296915 | Valentín | The story takes place in 1969 and is told through the eyes of Valentín, an eight-year-old small cross-eyed boy (Noya) whose thick black-rimmed glasses sit heavily on his face. He lives with his grandmother (Maura) due to the divorce of his parents. He dreams of being an astronaut one day and intently follows the on-goi... | allegory, comedy, boring | train | wikipedia | Valentin is one cute, smart-mouthed kid.
Valentin is the Amelie Poulin of the Latin younger set, and just as adorable as Kolya, the Cinema Paradiso kid, and the Life is Beautiful kid.
No one knows about it, but many would enjoy this very charming, warm-hearted movie, that reminds us of the innocence of our own youth an... |
tt0009645 | Sporting Life | As described in a film magazine, Lord Woodstock (Graves) is in financial difficulties and is counting on a fight and a race to reestablish his fortune. He has plighted his troth to Norah (Binney), daughter of his trainer Miles Cavanagh (Eldridge). His sister Kitty (Binney) is in love with Joe Lee (Richmond), a Gypsy. M... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039216 | Bowery Buckaroos | Louie is singing the song "Louie the Lout" about his days in the old west to the boys in the Sweet Shop. All of a sudden a man arrives on horseback and Louie hides from him in the back of the store. The man identifies himself as a sheriff of Hangman's Hollow, a town out west where Louie is wanted for a murder that took... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Brains happens to be somethin' I am dissipated with.".
The eighth Bowery Boys film from Monogram has Louie the Sweet Shop owner wanted for murder from his days living out west.
Louie explains to the Bowery Boys how he was framed, which leads Slip and the others to decide to head out west to clear Louie's name.
There's... |
tt0071338 | Cockfighter | Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) has just received a Reno divorce in Nevada. That night, she discovers one of her neighbors, Laury Palmer, and Palmer's gentleman caller both murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is Palmer's other boyfriend, Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney), an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cuttin... | violence, cult | train | wikipedia | "Cockfighter" is one of a number of collaborations between Monte Hellman and Warren Oates, with a brilliant, austere script written by Charles Willeford (also author of the book) and equally simple yet elegant cinematography by Nestor Alemendros, D.P. of Malick's "Badlands" and "Days of Heaven".This film really capture... |
tt0076295 | The Last House on Dead End Street | Terry Hawkins (Watkins) has just been released after spending a year in state prison on drug charges. He expresses interest in filmmaking, and claims to have previously made stag films that he was unable to sell. Terry believes audiences want "something more," so he decides to make snuff films.
After choosing a large a... | cruelty, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | Although it is now apparent that the across-the-board use of pseudonyms was an attempt by a distributor to "steal" the movie, for a long time it simply was not known who was responsible for this film (in actuality, a director named Roger Watkins wrote, produced, directed and starred in this movie).
This is partly becau... |
tt0118951 | Decampitated | After doing business with a strange travel agent, a group of teenagers, Vince, Candace, Paige, Garret, Toby, April and Roger, head out for a cabin in the Colorado woods. They accidentally crash their car while driving to the cabin, so, while the rest of the group set up the camping equipment, Vince leaves to attempt to... | murder | train | wikipedia | I think they're dumb ugly films and have never seen the appeal.
For that reason I wasn't exactly the demographic for this going in.Here we see Troma do a spoof of your traditional slasher flick.
We have a group of 20 somethings go camping in the forest, a mixed bag of your traditional stereotypes and they fall foul of ... |
tt0323013 | Lakshya | Karan Shergill (Hrithik Roshan) is a young man from Delhi who has no goal or for his future. His father (Boman Irani) is a businessman and his brother is a successful individual living in America. His girlfriend, Romila Dutta/Romi (Preity Zinta), a student activist and reporter who espouses fashionable causes out of we... | flashback, cult, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | The promos were slick and the music sounded good.But when i read the box-office report on this movie i was surprised at the lukewarm response this movie got because i thought this movie would be a runaway hit.However what can people like us do when such gifted film-makers like Farhan Akhtar are discouraged because thei... |
tt0264429 | Black Mask 2: City of Masks | Kan Fung had escaped from the clutches of the organization responsible for his superhuman abilities. He plans to find any geneticist who will be able to cure him. Meanwhile, he has decided to use his powers for the greater of good, calling himself Black Mask. Lang, another high ranking member of the organization, has b... | violence | train | wikipedia | The effects were done nicely, the wire work is great, and Jet Li not reprising his role of the Black Mask is entirely forgivable.
The only gripe I have really it took me some thought after watching the movie to figure out what animal Claw was bonded with.Yes, it departs from the original's style, but aren't you getting... |
tt0073169 | Les innocents aux mains sales | The action takes place in Illyria, a fictional Eastern European country, during the latter stages of World War II. (Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Albania and surroundings.) The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc.... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | I would like to give this wonderful film more than 7 points but it cannot measure up to the superb 'Helene' group of films Chabrol made during the period immediately prior to it.Many reviews and books are rather scathing about 'Les Innocents aux mains salles', and this disregard, although understandable is largely unfo... |
tt0078952 | Chapter Two | George Schneider is an author living in New York City whose hours are occupied by his work, by softball games in the park and visits from his married brother Leo, a press agent who has been trying to introduce widower George to eligible women. George's emotions are still raw from the death of his wife, and he continues... | romantic, autobiographical | train | wikipedia | Marsha Mason gets an Oscar Nomination for Playing Herself.
CHAPTER TWO is a long and rambling film version of one of Neil Simon's best plays.
Like BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BILOXI BLUES, this story is based on a part of Neil Simon's own life.
James Caan plays George Schneider, a fictionalized Simon, a writer who has j... |
tt1743880 | Napoleon Dynamite | Napoleon Dynamite is a socially awkward 16-year-old boy from Preston, Idaho, who lives with his older brother, Kipling Ronald "Kip" Dynamite. Kip, 32, is unemployed and boasts of spending hours in Internet chat rooms with "babes" and aspiring to be a cage fighter. Napoleon daydreams his way through school, doodling lig... | absurd, satire | train | wikipedia | Quirky and fun, just like the movie.
If you liked the movie, or King of The Hill, you will probably like this show.
The characters are awkward and goofy.
They make some funny references to the movie, like when Napoleon tries his dance act to distract an angry crowd.
When the crowd ignores him, he says "I don't even kno... |
tt0084854 | Venom | The story opens with a Creole woman digging up a small briefcase from the ground in the pouring rain. She then proceeds to get in her car and drives down the Louisiana road. Meanwhile, at a local burger joint, high school senior, Eden (Agnes Bruckner), is working with her best friends, Rachel (Laura Ramsey) and CeCe (M... | cult, grindhouse film, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116622 | In the Blink of an Eye | The film starts with the two detectives, Larry and David, in search of a missing singer in an abandoned trailer park. After getting shot at twice, David is saved by his cell phone, which took the bullet that was aimed for his heart. David kills the kidnapper. Then a man, Kevin, comes for the singer, tells the detective... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073535 | Peur sur la ville | Policeman Jean Letellier is under pressure because the infamous gangster Marcucci escaped from him publicly. Moreover during the pursuit an innocent bystander was killed by a stray bullet. Letellier is investigated for having fired the deadly bullet.
Before Letellier is cleared, a serial killer begins to murder young w... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | Skip through the special features on the DVD of Peter Yates Bullitt (1968) and you'll find an interesting featurette entitled Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality; a promo made at the time of the film's production.
FACT: Next to French superstar Jean-Paul Belmondo's stunt work in Peur Sur La Ville, McQueen was merely ... |
tt0808526 | Life During Wartime | The plot revolves around the Jordan sisters featured in Happiness: Trish, Joy, and Helen.
Since the events of Happiness, Joy has married Helen's former neighbor Allen Mellencamp, who continues to struggle with his compulsion to make obscene phone calls.
Trish has been raising her three children, Billy (now off at colle... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1705134 | State of Emergency | After a chemical plant explodes, the military quarantines the surrounding area. Jim helplessly watches his girlfriend Emilie die of a wound sustained while trying to find safety, and he retreats to a farmhouse. Sporadic media reports indicate that the chemical plant may have stored biological weapons that are responsib... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0308644 | Finding Neverland | The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and his close friendship with her sons named George, Jack, Peter and Michael, who inspire the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up.
Following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, Ba... | dramatic, cute, fantasy, boring, romantic | train | wikipedia | Marc Forester's fascinating film biography adapted by David Magee from Allan Knee's play, "The Man Who Was Peter Pan," now comes to us in this delightful, moving account, 'Finding Neverland.' It presents historical reality between lushly imagined expeditions to a fictitious Neverland.
It's performed impeccably by Johnn... |
tt0052543 | Al Capone | Chicago, 1919: A young Al Capone arrives to work for mob boss Johnny Torrio. He meets Torrio's top man, "Big Jim" Colosimo, who runs business and politics in the First Ward while secretly on Torrio's payroll.
Prohibition is enacted a year later, causing Torrio and other gangsters like Dean O'Banion, George "Bugs" Moran... | cult, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042788 | Night and the City | Harry Fabian (Widmark) is an ambitious American hustler and con man operating in London, always looking for a better deal. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol (Tierney), nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross (Sullivan), and Helen (Withers), who is Phil's estranged wife. While att... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0090852 | Clockwise | Brian Stimpson (Cleese), headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters' Conference. Extremely disorganised as a young man, Stimpson is now obsessively organised and punctual, and his school runs "like clockwork". He is the first headmaster of a comprehensive school ... | cult, comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | A much underrated comedy detailing the collapse of a stern, disciplinarian headmaster during a chaotic journey to deliver a speech at a convention of snobbish educationists.Cleese begins in a very restrained way and is watchable and funny as he gradually descends into anarchic despondency.
The most surprising things ab... |
tt0346507 | Andaaz | Young Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) lives with his elder brother, Rohit, his sister-in-law, Kiran, and his niece. After an accident fractures his leg, he is unable to walk for some time. Due to psychological reasons, he cannot walk even after the fracture heals. When the Malhotras move to Dehra Dun, Raj befriends their n... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1975249 | 6 Bullets | The core concept of 100 Bullets is based on the question of people willing to act on the desire of violent revenge if given the means, opportunity, and a reasonable chance to succeed. Many of the first issues involve the mysterious Agent Graves approaching someone who has been a victim of a terrible wrong. Graves gives... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, boring, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | This is a Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick.I've seen a number of his similar films over the years and feel that they have all been better than average.
Meaning that if you like action movies, Van Damme delivers with ones that you will probably watch again sometime.Like Assassination Games (2011), this one features hi... |
tt0030044 | The Dawn Patrol | During World War I, the pilots of an RFC squadron deal with the stress of combat primarily through nightly bouts of heavy drinking. The two aces of the squadron's "A Flight", Courtney (Richard Barthelmess) and Scott (Douglas Fairbanks Jr), have come to hate the commanding officer, Brand (Neil Hamilton), blaming him for... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Several long-shots looked exactly the same.In a way this might have worked out because director Edmund Goulding who was not known for action films could concentrate on the actors and he got very good performances out of Errol Flynn, David Niven, and Basil Rathbone who step into the parts that Richard Barthelmess, Dougl... |
tt0046906 | Destry | The sheriff of a small western town dies of a 'heart attack' (actually shot in the back) and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers (Edgar Buchanan), and leading crook Phil Decker (Lyle Bettger) appoint the town drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby (Thomas Mitchell), as the new sheriff, believing that he will b... | good versus evil, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Destry -- director George Marshall's remake with Audie Murphy of Destry Rides Again, which starred Jimmy Stewart -- is one of the rare exceptions.
But, given a good script and good direction, Audie Murphy was a far better actor than his many B movies would lead one to expect, and Destry was one of his best performances... |
tt0031398 | Gunga Din | On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message. Colonel Weed (Montagu Love) dispatches a detachment of 25 British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers, MacChesney (Victor McLaglen),... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | As for his loyalty to the British, there were many Indians who clearly preferred British rule to that of their fellows - and not just the maharajas and princes.If you read the story - and watch the movie with an objective eye - at the end, all the major characters have nothing but respect for Gunga Din. Sergeant MacChe... |
tt4698792 | My Sweet Audrina | Audrina Adare claims she is seven years old when the novel opens, although it is later revealed that Audrina's memory is unreliable. Audrina lives at Whitefern, a Victorian Era mansion, with her father Damian, mother Lucietta, her aunt Ellsbeth and her cousin Vera. The family takes special care to keep Audrina unaware ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A Pretty Mess.
Once again, Lifetime TV attempts to adapt a novel by the much loved cult author V.C. Andrews.
The Dollanganger series was a mixed bag, successful in some ways, but failing when they made alterations to the source material.
"My Sweet Audrina" falls victim to the same kind of amateurish "tweaking" of the o... |
tt0341334 | The Dead Zone | In the town of Castle Rock, Maine, Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken), a young schoolteacher, is in love with his colleague Sarah Bracknell (Brooke Adams). After having a headache following a ride on a roller-coaster, Johnny politely declines when Sarah asks if he wants to spend the night with her.
As he drives home thr... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0193164 | A Flintstones Christmas Carol | The Bedrock Community Players is mounting A Christmas Carol, and all of the town's citizens are either planning to attend or be involved in the production: Barney Rubble is playing Bob Cragit, with Betty as Mrs. Cragit and his son Bamm-Bamm as Tiny Tim; Mr. Slate is Jacob Marbley; Wilma Flintstone is serving as the sta... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | Not quite classic status, but a nice Flintstone twist on the timeless story.
A Flintstone Christmas Carol was very good.
I loved the twist on one of the all-time great Christmas stories A Christmas Carol especially, however it doesn't quite make classic status for me.
No it isn't, but as well as putting the twist to Ch... |
tt0114576 | Sudden Death | Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French Canadian-born firefighter with the Pittsburgh Fire Bureau who suffered a personal crisis after he was unable to save a young girl from a house fire. Now removed from active duty, Darren has become demoted to being fire marshal for the Pittsburgh Civic Arena.
While atten... | suspenseful, action, violence | train | wikipedia | I've not been a big fan of Van Damme's films, but "Sudden Death" is easily his best movie to date.
Jean-Claude Van Damme would be near the top of my list of actors that I only admire although I've seen a few films where he has his name is on the poster."Sudden Death" is the second film that Van Damme has starred in wit... |
tt5891144 | Spies Are Forever | === Act I ===
At the Russian Weapons Facility in 1957, Agent Curt Mega has been captured and is tortured for information involving his agency. Agent Owen Cavour is revealed to be one of the Russian operatives, and he and Curt escape the compound, communicating with Cynthia Houston, the director of the Americans and als... | dark | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0258038 | Pootie Tang | Pootie Tang, born in "a small town outside Gary, Indiana", is portrayed as a ladies' man who is "too cool for words", even as a young child. His life is marked by the deaths of his mother "Momma Dee", and shortly thereafter his father "Daddy Tang", who dies after being mauled by a gorilla during his shift at the steel ... | cult, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | I can imagine someone who isn't a fan, or at least an observer, of the above things would hate this movie like poison, but for me, who has seen more Jay-Z videos than I ever wanted to see and who can't help laughing when I see a man use kung-fu to bounce bullets off his hair (a gag too complicated to explain, but seaml... |
tt5547858 | Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn | Radiant Dawn is divided into four parts, each of which begins with a prologue chapter that introduces the situation, followed by a series of chapters that is resolved with an "Endgame" chapter.
=== Part One ===
Three years after the Mad King's War, detailed in Path of Radiance, Daein, the war's instigator and eventual ... | violence | train | wikipedia | The most expensive best Fire Emblem game ever. I have payed a lot of money to find this game at a used video game store, then later on played Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Wii, and boy that was a much longer challenging game, it was very long tedious game, much more complex than Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.This i... |
tt0278766 | Ten Little Indians | Ten people travel by aerial tramway to a snowbound mansion, invited there by a Mr. U.N. Owen to spend the weekend. They discover that none of them has actually ever met Owen, including his secretary as well as a married housekeeper and cook, all hired through an agency.
Framed copies of the children's nursery rhyme "Te... | murder | train | wikipedia | This is a rare, live television Presentation of one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries.
First aired on NBC on January 18th, 1959.
Quite well done, with great performances from it's cast, Most notably Jones as the Judge and Brent as the Doctor.
The movie only runs about an hour, which makes some of the plot appe... |
tt0469062 | Danika | Danika Merrick (Marisa Tomei) suffers from increasingly disturbing, paranoid hallucinations. Most of her hallucinations involve threats to her family and media-fuelled fears such as child kidnappings, car accidents, her children lying and terrorism. Danika confides to her husband, Randy (Craig Bierko), and Evelyn (Regi... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Relatively new cinematic team of director Ariel Vromen and writer Joshua Leibner pounce onto the scene with a surprisingly fine little film that has basically gone unnoticed.
This is a tough movie to review: almost anything that is said about it diminishes the impact of a fresh look.Danika (the superb and grossly under... |
tt0803057 | The Promotion | Doug Stauber (Seann William Scott) is the assistant manager of a branch of Donaldson's, a supermarket chain in Chicago. He believes that he is a "shoo-in" for manager of a Donaldson's that is scheduled for construction just a few blocks away from his home. Everyday, Doug deals with the pressures of being the assistant ... | prank, satire, boring, flashback | train | wikipedia | My first clue that "The Promotion" might have a little more below the surface than the usual Seann William Scott junior gag fest was the trailer...it didn't have too much easy humor and the plot seemed genuinely human, and even sensitive.
Something was up.After seeing the film, I am pleased to say that lurking under th... |
tt0064137 | Castle Keep | The film opens with long, beautiful shots of ancient European art and sculptures being blown to pieces amidst the sounds of war and dissonant screams; a lone narrator begins his tale of "eight American soldiers" as the scene abruptly flashes back to a few weeks beforehand. Prior to the Battle of the Bulge, a ragtag squ... | tragedy, anti war, psychedelic, satire, violence | train | wikipedia | Now that I've watched CASTLE KEEP for myself, all I can say is that it's arguably the strangest mainstream war movie ever and decidedly not for all tastes!The relatively large cast (for what turns out to be an introspective film) is uniformly excellent and is well up to the requirements of the brilliantly surreal, funn... |
tt0367652 | Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | Gigolos in Europe are being terrorized by a serial killer. In Malibu, Deuce Bigalow's wife Kate has died from a shark attack, and Deuce is invited by his former pimp T.J. Hicks to Amsterdam. Deuce goes to take his mind off of Kate.
After T.J. shows Deuce his boat, or "float crib," the pair go to a coffee shop where the... | comedy, humor, satire, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | Americans may even be offended at how the war in Iraq is mentioned by a Frenchman, and the aggression against people waving an American flag, sending out a political stab by Mr. Schneider.There is much eye for detail, like the shirts Deuce is wearing, or the fact that he calls Eva 'ay-va' as the Dutch would do, the fun... |
tt0102432 | Men of Respect | Mike Battaglia, a powerful lieutenant in the D’Amico crime family, executes a large-scale hit on the family's enemies, earning a promotion to caporegime and the undying respect of his boss, godfather Charlie D'Amico. Despite the Don's generosity, however, Battaglia secretly resents D'Amico for passing him over as his s... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067824 | Tang shan da xiong | Cheng Chao-an (Bruce Lee) is a Chinese man from mainland China who moves to Thailand to live with his cousins and work in an ice factory. He meets his cousin Hsu Chien (James Tien) and Hsu's younger brother by accident when Hsu Chien stands up to local street thugs - Cheng Chao-an had largely stayed out of the fracas a... | cruelty, grindhouse film, murder, cult, violence, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1584730 | III Slices of Life | "Sexual parasites, disembowelment, zombies, serial killers, demon children, violent vixens, rabid office workers, aliens, mummies, skeleton warriors, vampires, werewolves, dragons, medusa, beasts, giants, robots, cyclops' and angry mmbryos all spring to life from the flesh covered sketch books featured in Anthony G. Su... | violence | train | wikipedia | I was hoping to be able to look past the budget and enjoy the film.Unfortunately it is impossible to look past non professional actors and watch a film in which this will be the only movie the main characters will be in because it just makes you want to cringe wit every line of dialog spoken.This has three stories and ... |
tt0399942 | Paap | The story is about a young girl, Kaaya (Udita Goswami), living in the beautifully serene valley of Spiti, waiting to join a Buddhist monastery, an idea which has been fed to her since childhood by her father (Mohan Agashe) and one which she has never questioned. When Lama Norbu, a senior lama from the monastery has a d... | pornographic, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | A unique visual experience......
This film has a sort of small independent filmaker arthouse feeling to it.
The story itself is quite simple and starts of with some very stunning visuals i the title song.
Then begins the story with a violent murder.
thus this is where Kaya(Udita Goswami) the budhist monk girl meets the... |
tt0075201 | Shao Lin mu ren xiang | Little Mute (Jackie Chan) is a new Shaolin student who is mute. He struggles to keep up with the other students and to complete the grueling tasks assigned to him by his instructor. He is haunted by the memory of his father's murder at the hands of a masked bandit who was skilled in martial arts.
One night, a drunken m... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | Kung Fu film "branches" out....
Under-rated film featuring a mute Jacky Chan who begins training at a Shaolin monastery.
This films best draw-card is it's plot.
The typical plot mechanisms are used, but they didn't bother me, and the story held my attention better than most modern movies I see.Jackie's fighting is grea... |
tt0049706 | Safari | While American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau terrorists attack his farm, slaughtering the labourers and livestock. Duffield's young son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a corruptio... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0780485 | Blood Car | Archie Andrews is a vegan kindergarten teacher who buys products from Lorraine's vegetarian road side stand. He is developing an engine that runs on wheatgrass with no results until he accidentally cuts his finger and the blood falls in the wheatgrass, which filters to the engine and then causes it to run.
Andrews then... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | That is what works for "Blood Car." This indie film, directed by Alex Orr and starring Anna "My Girl" Chlumsky and Mike Brune is a fun romp into the camp of yesteryear, serving up generous portions of horror, humor, and political satire of our current affairs.
"Blood Car" bested my expectations with its over-the-top ac... |
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