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tt2249079 | The Amazing Spider-Man | In 2000, Oscorp scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Later, he and his wife, Mary, are aboard a private jet hijacked by a man sent to assassinate Richard. The plane crashes, killing both Richard and Mary, after he uploads the video.
Fourteen years later, Richard's son Peter con... | violence | train | wikipedia | Fantastic game!.
I used to work in a Game store, so I'm used to playing plenty of games to recommend to other people, but since leaving I've still picked up games here and there, the most recent being Spec Ops: The Line and The Amazing Spider-Man, the latter being played a lot more because of how good it is!
I've alway... |
tt0096639 | Lonesome Dove | It is 1876. Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, two famous ex–Texas Rangers, run a livery called the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove.
Working with them are Joshua Deets, who is an excellent tracker and scout from their Ranger days... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The Lonesome Dove mini-series contains every core element of a classic story of the mythic Old West: romance, tragedy, courageous and independent yet very human heroes, vicious yet believable villains, plenty of action, and the overall grit and determination of frontier life.
What makes the film even better are the tru... |
tt0437232 | Catch a Fire | The film begins in "Northern Coalfields, South Africa, 1980". It revolves around Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man (played by Derek Luke) who is accused of carrying out an attack against the government, and an Afrikaner police officer, Nic Vos, played by Tim Robbins. Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrator... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | This movie, set in the 1980's, depicts and contrasts the brutal oppression of White South Africa with the opposition of the ANC, most notably Joe Slovo, a hero of the time.
Told through the eyes of Patrick Chamusso, a gentle man whose quiet life becomes radicalized by oppressive forces, the movie is powerful, emotional... |
tt2094018 | Hours | With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different years and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book Mrs Dalloway in... | flashback | train | wikipedia | I will admit that I would probably not watched this movie if Paul Walker had not tragically passed away last Sunday.
This quiet little film certainly introduced me to a whole new and better Paul Walker."Hours" is about Nolan Hayes.
Just watch it (especially if you thought 'The Impossible' was a great piece of film)One ... |
tt0317751 | Janwar | Mr. Srivastava lives a very wealthy lifestyle with his wife and two sons, Mahendra and Sunder. He plans to get his sons married to women from equally wealthy backgrounds. Mahendra falls in love with Seema, who is poor and lives with her stepmother. This creates considerable acrimony in the family, and Seema is not acce... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Lighthearted Romantic Drama. Janwar Directed By Bhappie Sonie...Is A Romantic Drama....Script Is Fine....Screenplay Is Better For Such Script...Everything Works..Story Is About Mr. Shrivastava Who Lives A Very Wealthy Lifestyle With His Wife And Two Sons, Mahendra & Sunder.... Mahendra Falls In Love With Seema, Who is ... |
tt0405422 | The 40 Year Old Virgin | Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is a 40-year-old virgin who lives alone, collects action figures, plays video games, and whose social life seems to consist of watching Survivor with his elderly neighbors. He works in the stockroom at SmartTech, an electronics store. When a friend drops out of a poker game, Andy's co-worker... | comedy, adult comedy, cute, flashback, humor, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066730 | 10 Rillington Place | The film begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbour Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with carbon monoxide gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He bur... | murder | train | wikipedia | The name is taken from the scene of the murders; 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London.Chillingly portrayed by the great actor Richard Attenborough , Christie was a little mouse of a man who first lured his victims home on some pretext or other, usually by saying that he could perform some desired medical procedure... |
tt0072666 | Zaat | The film begins with Nazi mad scientist Dr. Kurt Leopold in his lab, where he has lived alone for about 20 years (it is revealed later in the film that he graduated cum laude from MIT in 1934). He is contemplating his former colleagues' derision for his "formula", which is described as "ZaAt" (read Z-sub-A, A-sub-T, bu... | cult | train | wikipedia | I suppose it establishes some plot points and clarifies things for the audience, but there are so many ramblings and offshoots that you just kinda of give up and give in.The "monster" looks like an early draft of a Silurian costume from Doctor Who, with a fur neckpiece (??).
The opening narration dwells on them (giving... |
tt0383058 | The Magic Flute | The opera begins with the overture, which Mozart composed last.
=== Act 1 ===
Scene 1: A rough, rocky landscape
Tamino, a handsome prince lost in a distant land, is pursued by a serpent and asks the gods to save him (aria: "Zu Hilfe! Zu Hilfe!" segued into trio: "Stirb, Ungeheuer, durch uns’re Macht!"). He faints, and ... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | My favourite Magic Flute.
I love this production of The Magic Flute, and it is my personal favourite of all the productions I've seen of this magnificent opera, and I have seen quite a few.
The Magic Flute has a wonderful story that never fails to captivate me when I see it, the characters I fell in love with immediate... |
tt0044355 | Androcles and the Lion | Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his Roman persecutors. While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. His wife runs off. Androcles sees that the cause of the animal's distress is a large thorn embedded in its paw, w... | satire, philosophical | train | wikipedia | From 1938 to 1950 Pascal only produced three films but they were PYGMALION with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller, MAJOR BARBARA with Hiller, Robert Morley, Rex Harrison, and Robert Newton, and CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA with Vivian Leigh, Claude Rains, Steward Granger, and Flora Robson.
However, Pascal only produced one last f... |
tt0160862 | She's All That | Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) is the big man on campus at his Southern California high school. His popular but narcissistic girlfriend, Taylor Vaughan (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), ditches him for a faded reality TV star from The Real World, Brock Hudson (Matthew Lillard), whom she met on spring break in Florida. Although bit... | cult, comedy, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | Silly but fun teen romantic comedy about a high school jock (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) who bets his friend (Paul Walker) that he can turn a geek (Rachael Leigh Cook) into the prom queen.
I still like it, yes, but now that I have seen so many more movies there are a lot of predictable, therefore lesser, parts.For starters it... |
tt0190335 | Kuraingu furiman 2: Fûsei kakurei | Yō Hinomura, a Japanese potter, comes into the possession of some film showing an assassination by an agent of the 108 Dragons, a powerful Chinese mafia. When he refuses to turn the film over to them, they kidnap him. Hypnotized, he is trained as an assassin for them and his body is tattooed with dragons. He is given t... | cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0476649 | Darna Zaroori Hai | Darna Zaroori Hai interweaves six stories into one film. Five children get lost in the middle of a forest until they find a haunted house. Inside, there is an old woman who agrees to tell them six scary stories, and they will all compete on who is able to sit through all six stories without getting scared.
=== Addit... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1183921 | The Vicious Kind | The film opens with Caleb Sinclaire sitting in a diner, forlorn and smoking a cigarette. He begins to cry, but composes himself when his younger brother, Peter approaches the table. Peter is an idealistic college student on Thanksgiving break and Caleb is begrudgingly giving him a ride home. At school, Peter has found ... | bleak, romantic, comedy, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119338 | Hurricane | The film tells the story of middleweight boxer Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, who was convicted of committing a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. His sentence was set aside after he had spent nearly 20 years in prison. The film concentrates on Rubin Carter's life between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fig... | insanity, violence, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037073 | The Million Dollar Cat | While Tom is throwing darts at an apple on Jerry's head à la William Tell (he even throws one between his legs while blindfolded), a telegram arrives. Though it is meant for his owner, Tom reads it himself and discovers that he has been left a million dollars in a will from his owner's eccentric aunt, making him ecstat... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | Money Can't Buy Tom's Happiness.
Tom gets interrupted from playing William Tell with darts (with Jerry being the poor victim with the apple on his head) when he gets a telegram stating his "eccentric Aunt Harriet" died and has left him a million dollars!Jerry is all excited, too, as happy as Tom. How could that be?
Wel... |
tt0114432 | The Shooter | During a mission in a country where "we are not supposed to be in", sniper Bob Lee and his spotter Don 'Donnie' Fenn are deemed to be expendable and are forced to find their own way out. Donnie is killed. 36 months later, Bob Lee Swagger reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated mountain home in the Win... | suspenseful, comedy, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I quite like watching Dolph Lundgren movies that are high on atmosphere.
I'll get to that after a brief round up of the plot.So the Dolphage here is US Marshal Michael Dane, who has been sent abroad to kidnap Simone Rosset (Maruschka Detmers), a sniper who is accused of assassinating a Cuban official in New York, and b... |
tt4450826 | Minority Report | In April 2054, Washington, D.C.'s PreCrime police stops murderers before they act, reducing the murder rate to zero. Murders are predicted using three mutated humans, called "Precogs", who "previsualize" crimes by receiving visions of the future. Would-be murderers are imprisoned in their own happy virtual reality. The... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | "Minority Report", the movie, was a visual delight with compelling action and a storyline that was multi-faceted, dealing with issues like guilt, free will, and technology.
I am sorry to say that Fox's 'Minority Report", the television show, has some of the same technological trappings, but none of the charm or surpris... |
tt0325191 | Sabah | Sabah is a 40-year-old single immigrant from Syria living in Toronto with her family. She is responsible for her mother's well-being. Since her father's death, her brother Majid has been the family authority figure.
His niece, Souhaire, does not want him choosing her husband. His marriage is rocky, and he insists on tr... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093502 | Marusa no onna | A female tax auditor, Ryōko Itakura, inspects the accounts of various Japanese companies, uncovering hidden incomes and recovering unpaid taxes.
One day she persuades her boss to let her investigate the owner of a string of love hotels who seems to be avoiding tax, but after an investigation no evidence is found. Durin... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | Tax Collectors Can Be Fun. Who would think a two-hour film (and subtitled for non-Japanese speaking viewers) about tax collectors could be interesting?
This was, although nothing extraordinary.....just pretty entertaining with an interesting lead character and strange soundtrack.I found Nobuko Miyamoro fascinating as t... |
tt0291082 | Cinderella II: Dreams Come True | In the royal palace, Cinderella's mice friends Gus and Jaq head to a chamber where the Fairy Godmother is reading the story of Cinderella to the other mice. Much to their disappointment, Gus and Jaq arrive just as she has finished the story. With her help, the mice set off to make a new book to narrate what happens aft... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | I don't mind the sequels for the modern films, (example: The Lion King) but the Disney-Disney movies, the ones that were directed and produced by Walt himself (example: Fantasia)should be left alone.
I love the original Cinderella movie, WHY RUIN IT WITH SUCH A CRAPPY SEQUEL?
We've all got to admit, Disney is attemptin... |
tt2446502 | Zombie Hunter | The film opens with a news report on "Natas", a strange drug which has been reported to induce zombie-like effects in those who consume it. The film then fast forwards in time, to an Earth mostly inhabited by zombies. The Hunter (Martin Copping) drives along a post-apocalyptic wasteland and meets a hostile "Death Angel... | violence | train | wikipedia | This movie was like watching a bad movie spawned from the "Borderlands" games mixed with elements blatantly stolen from the "Resident Evil" universe.The storyline was fairly straight forward, and anyone who have seen just a single zombie movie should be familiar with the essentials of the storyline here as well.
A lone... |
tt0027367 | Black Legion | When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan. Dressed in black robes and hoods, Taylor and the Legion mount a to... | murder | train | wikipedia | But it made a tremendous impact and viewing it almost 70 years later, still makes an impact.Warner Brothers as the working class studio was the only one who could have made a film like Black Legion.
Working class stiff Humphrey Bogart gets passed over for a promotion at a job, losing it to Polish American Henry Brandon... |
tt0022958 | Grand Hotel | Doctor Otternschlag (Lewis Stone), a disfigured veteran of World War I and a permanent resident of the Grand Hotel in Berlin, wryly observes, "People coming, going. Nothing ever happens", after which a great deal transpires. Baron Felix von Geigern (John Barrymore), who squandered his fortune and supports himself as a ... | murder | train | wikipedia | John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, and Joan Crawford all check into the Grand Hotel one day and their lives are never the same.
This was the Depression in America too and many could identify with her.No one epitomized class and old world elegance like John Barrymore, he was not better on film... |
tt0088766 | The Bad Seed | Eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark appears to be what every little girl brought up in a loving home should be. Outwardly, she is charming, polite and intelligent beyond her years. To most adults, she's every parent's dream: obedient, well groomed, unassuming and compliant. She does her homework on time, gets good grades and ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039628 | Miracle on 34th Street | Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) is indignant to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Percy Helton) is intoxicated. When he complains to event director Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), she persuades Kris to take his place. He does so well, he is hired to play Santa at Macy's f... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2804026 | Aurangzeb | The story is set in the town of Gurgaon, an industrial city near NCT Delhi. The film is presented from the view of ACP Arya Phogat (Prithviraj Sukumaran). ACP Arya, a police officer, has been brought up by his uncle, DCP Ravikant Phogat (Rishi Kapoor). His father, police inspector Vijaykant Phogat (Anupam Kher), had lo... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | This review is not for the fan of Dabang, Bodyguard, Jab tak hai jaan and many more stupid movies comes around in past 2-3 years Honestly ask yourself how many times you went for a movie and it gives you a 2-3 hrs pain with it terrible story ding dong songs and a dumbass direction , for example almost every movie of Sa... |
tt0337742 | Las Vías del Amor | Gabriel is an electronic engineer and former seminarian who is consumed with remorse and guilt; when he was a child he lost his brother Nicholas. That loss caused Gabriel's father a heart attack. His mother has never forgave him for that.
Gabriel tried to purge his guilt in the priesthood, but left the seminary because... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0841046 | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story | Dewey Cox begins his quest for stardom in Springberry, Alabama in 1946. While playing with his brother Nate, Dewey accidentally cuts his brother in half at the waist with a machete. This leads Dewey's father to frequently repeat the phrase "The wrong kid died" throughout the film. The trauma causes Dewey to lose his se... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | It follows the formula nearly perfectly, and follows fake rock-star legend Dewey Cox (and yes, they do have plenty of puns with his name, but this is to be expected) through his life in the 50's, 60's, 70's and into today.The surprise of "Walk Hard" is that although it was written by the guys who made "Superbad" and "K... |
tt0033317 | Adventures of Captain Marvel | During an archaeological expedition to Siam's volcanic Valley of the Tombs to find the lost secret of the Scorpion Kingdom, a device of great power, the Golden Scorpion, is discovered hidden inside a sealed crypt. While examining it, the device's quartz lenses are aligned and powerful energy beam erupts, causing an exp... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | I was seven years old when I saw this serial in a theater in 1941.I now own 49 titles of Republic serials,mostly tapes and a few on DVD.This serial is my favorite.For those who have not saw this serial,I won't give away any secrets.The plot concerns a group of scientists and an ancient artifact with lenses that can tur... |
tt1032846 | 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile | The film follows the story of Otilia Mihartescu (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabriela "Găbița" Dragut (Laura Vasiliu), two university friends in an unnamed Romanian town. The film is set in 1987, one of the last years of the Ceaușescu government. When Găbița becomes pregnant, the two girls arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe (Vl... | bleak | train | wikipedia | If you invest your time and emotions in this one, you will not be disappointed.The acting, camera work, cinematography are of the highest quality, especially given the budgetary restrictions and scarcity of available resources.This movie is yet more ample proof that one does not necessarily need a 200 million dollar bu... |
tt0091554 | The Morning After | Charlie Lester is a public relations speech writer for an oil magnate. He is married with two children. As the film opens we see him drinking heavily at an office party and then having an argument with his wife Fran after he tipsily returns home. The song "Yesterday", sung by Joey Scarbury, is played several times in t... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Fonda and Bridges are both terrific, as usual, and the story of their meeting and falling in love along with the moral rebirth that love sparked in both would have made a fantastic movie.
Jane Fonda, Raul Julia, and Jeff Bridges are the main charactors in this suspense thriller.
Jane's falling star crashes right into J... |
tt1778342 | The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore | Morris Lessmore sits on a balcony in the French Quarter of New Orleans writing a memoir. Suddenly a storm strikes, blowing Morris’s writing out of his book and blowing him off the balcony. While Morris frantically grabs for his book, the storm blows away the buildings.
After the storm, Morris finds the city and its res... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Charming, humorous, and poignant is the best way to describe The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore, a little piece about the power of stories and how they can positively affect our lives.
The animation utilizes a variety of techniques from CG to stop motion, and, combined with the great background and character... |
tt0339727 | Stateside | Dorri Lawrence (Cook) is an actress and singer who resides in Hollywood, California. She has undiagnosed schizophrenia, which causes problems in her career. After another concert goes wrong due to her untreated disease, she is finally sent to get help for her schizophrenia.
Meanwhile, Mark Deloach (Tucker) is a rich hi... | insanity, flashback | train | wikipedia | Knowing a lot of the mental illness of schizophrenia, I can state that the producers of this movie have done a very good job of showing a real person with schizophrenia.
Cook does a great job of showing that person.Yes, movie is somewhat disjointed and the ending somewhat abrupt.
You know the one, where the girl and gu... |
tt0055872 | The Creation of the Humanoids | The Earth is suffering the aftereffects of a nuclear war that destroyed 92 percent of humanity. Lingering radiation has caused the birth rate to fall below replacement level and the population continues to decline. A robotic labor force maintains a high standard of living for the survivors and the humanoids of the titl... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | According to the story, World War III has depleted the Earth's population, but reconstruction efforts are progressing rapidly with the help of a newly developed race of `humanoids' (hairless, green-skinned androids who possess high intelligence and who serve with total faithfulness).In fact, the androids are so intelli... |
tt0033373 | Ball of Fire | A group of bachelor professors (one was a widower) have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang. The professors are accustomed to working in... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Not only is he a convincing complete geek, but he's funny, AND sexy!The story is pretty silly (inspired by "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", really): A group of dorky professors are writing an encyclopedia, and English Professor Cooper decides he needs more information on Slang.
Let's see, there's Gary Cooper, Barbara St... |
tt0028315 | Stowaway | Barbara "Ching-Ching" Stewart is an orphan living in Sanchow, China. When bandits threaten, she is sent to Shanghai for safety. Accidentally separated from her guide, Ching-Ching finds herself in Shanghai all alone with her dog until she meets a westerner, Tommy Randall, a rich playboy traveling about the world by ocea... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0390249 | Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | The game starts when U.S. Marine Corporal Joseph D. "Joe" Griffin wakes up on the USS California to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He makes his way topside, putting out fires and aiding crewmen along the way, and, once topside, meets up with Gunnery Sergeant Jack "Gunny" Lauton, his comm... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0030811 | Suez | During a tennis match in Paris between Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power) and his friend Vicomte Rene de Latour (Joseph Schildkraut), the enthusiastic admiration of Countess Eugenie de Montijo (Loretta Young) for de Lesseps attracts the attention of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Leon Ames). Bonaparte sees to it that both ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054817 | Five Minutes to Live | A man named Fred (Vic Tayback) sits in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he teamed up with hardened criminal Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) to execute his plan.
Cabot is to take the wife of the bank's vice president hostage. He is to hold her until he gets a call from Fred informing hi... | cruelty, murder, neo noir, cult, violence, claustrophobic, romantic, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | This strange little B-movie was originally titled FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE, but was re-released in 1966 as DOOR-TO-DOOR MANIAC because Cash' star had risen considerably in those years.
He stars as Johnny Cabot, a level-headed murderer who teams up with another con (Tayback) in a scheme to hold a bank president's wife hosta... |
tt0043371 | Callaway Went Thataway | Mike Frye (MacMurray) and Deborah Patterson (McGuire), co-owners of an advertising firm, have a big hit when they recycle some old Western films starring "Smoky" Callaway (Keel) for a new television audience. Tom Lorrison (Fay Roope), the show's sponsor, is eager to make more films, but nobody has seen Smoky in ten yea... | satire | train | wikipedia | It's the early days of television and much of the programming consists of old western movies.
Suddenly, the films of Smoky Callaway (Howard Keel) are discovered by a new generation and he becomes a star once again.One problem: the real Smoky Callaway is a hopeless drunk who has disappeared somewhere in Mexico.
Enter Ho... |
tt0138563 | Kurt & Courtney | The film begins with a recap of Cobain's death and the media coverage which followed. Broomfield then interviews Cobain's aunt Mari who helped his love for music when he was a child. This interview is followed up with several from friends and schoolteachers who knew Cobain when he was growing up before moving onto Coba... | violence, murder, romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0255868 | Carmen | Place: Seville, Spain, and surrounding hills
Time: Around 1820
Act 1
A square, in Seville. On the right, a door to the tobacco factory. At the back, a bridge. On the left, a guardhouse.
A group of soldiers relax in the square, waiting for the changing of the guard and commenting on the passers-by ("Sur la place, chacun... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | radically underrated.
Before all, my English is far too poor to write anything.
But I can't believe my own eyes, seein' so PERFECT production with so PERFECT cast(marvelous Ramey, wonderful Baltsa, very good Carreras)with such low rating 3.4 !!!!!!!
3.4 ??????????????Jesus Christ and God in heaven, one must be blind an... |
tt0034717 | The Falcon's Brother | Sleuth Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), known as "The Falcon," with his assistant, "Lefty" (Don Barclay), arrive at dockside to meet a Latin American cruise ship. On board is Lawrence's brother, Tom (Tom Conway) who is pronounced dead, a victim of suicide by homicide inspector Timothy Donovan (Cliff Clark). Diane Medford... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102753 | Rambling Rose | In 1971, a grown Buddy returns to his former family home and reflects back on his youth during The Great Depression when Rose (Laura Dern) came to live with his family in order to escape her miserable life in Birmingham where she was being forced into prostitution. The Hillyers are an eccentric family who take Rose in ... | romantic, depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | Appealing In Its Own Way. I haven't seen this film in quite a while but I have pretty good memories about it.
It's an intriguing film, something different and appealing even though some of the subject matter is "inappropriate."I saw the last word because it involves a 13-year-old boy whose hormones are raging and his b... |
tt2820528 | The Dark Defender | While drinking coffee with his sister Debra, Dexter is called to a murder scene at a comic book store. Talking to a witness about the victim, a shopkeeper who had been bludgeoned to the head with a snow globe, he sees a poster of The Dark Defender, a vigilante killer based on the Bay Harbor Butcher. Later, at a Narcoti... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091060 | Flodder | When it emerges that the Flodder family’s current state-owned house is on a toxic waste dump, the city council is forced to find somewhere to move them. Social worker, Sjakie, proposes to move the family to an upper-class neighbourhood hoping that the change in social environment will have a positive effect on the prob... | humor | train | wikipedia | A brilliant and outragously funny satire of society.
"Flodder" is one of the funniest movies ever made and few people realise that it is a Dutch movie made by none other than the Holland version of John Carpenter, the famous Dick Maas, author and director of the thriller "Amsterdamned".
The Flodder family is the reinca... |
tt0995845 | The Courier | "The Courier" lives in a derelict flat where he has adopted a mouse as his pet. When he visits his old friend Stitch at his boxing gym, he is contacted by a stranger who tasks him with delivering a suitcase to a man known as "Evil Sivle". The stranger does not know where Sivle is and explains that the finding of this p... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Mickey Rourke and Lili Taylor, two actors who can really deliver the goods, were incredibly wasted and about a third of the way into it you realized it was going to be all style and no substance, and that was when I just stopped caring.
The movie started out great, getting to know the courier and his type of work, just... |
tt0072409 | Willie Dynamite | We first see Willie Dynamite as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the movie's title song, 'Willie Dynamite.' Willie is driving his 'pimped-out' purple Cadillac on the streets of midtown Manhattan. The front license plate reading the first part of his nickname - 'Willie,' and the back license ... | violence, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | ******SPOLIERS****** "Willie Dynamite" is miles above the average "Blaxploitation" films made in the 1970's by it's not glorifying the title character in any way but showing him as a ruthless as well as tragic and misguided person.
A person who's self-destructive lifestyle as a big time city pimp lead to disaster not o... |
tt0068950 | Mimì metallurgico ferito nell'onore | Set in both Sicily and mainland Italy, the film follows the adventures of a man nicknamed Mimi (Giancarlo Giannini). Mimi is a poor labourer who is pressured by his employers to vote for the mafia candidate in a local election. Frustrated by the system and assured that the ballot will be secret Mimi votes for the commu... | revenge, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0418141 | Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster | The Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Loch Ness in Scotland to see the famous Blake Castle, the home of Daphne Blake's Scottish ancestors as well as her cousin, Shannon. The castle grounds are home to the first annual Highland games, composed of many traditional Scottish sports. When they arrive, Shannon informs them that t... | psychedelic, horror | train | wikipedia | Better than the last one.
Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico was no doubt the weakest of the modern Scooby Doo animated features.
Loch Ness Monster is a considerable improvement.This time the gang head off to Scotland to see the Highland Games and visit Blake castle, Daphne's ancestral home.
And wouldn't you know, th... |
tt0271219 | Tadpole | Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) is a 15-year-old boy, portrayed as mature beyond his years, traveling home from school for Thanksgiving. He speaks fluent French, quotes Voltaire and finds girls of his own age to be inexperienced in life. When an attractive girl from his school, Miranda Spear (Kate Mara), who is obviousl... | psychedelic, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055214 | The Naked Edge | In the aftermath of a theft and murder, Martha Radcliffe (Deborah Kerr) increasingly suspects her husband George Radcliffe (Gary Cooper), whose testimony in court convicted the main suspect, of being the real culprit.
Businessman Jason Root (Martin Boddey) is stabbed to death on a night when George and a clerk named Do... | murder | train | wikipedia | Cooper and Kerr in a Hitchcock-Like that is Hitchcock-Lite.
Michael Anderson's 1961 thriller, "The Naked Edge," is a nicely done mystery that echoes Hitchcock's "Suspicion" in many respects.
Although looking tired as Radcliffe, Cooper manages, like Cary Grant in "Suspicion," to maintain his nice-guy image, while sugges... |
tt0369994 | Strangers with Candy | The series' main character, Geraldine Antonia "Jerri" Blank (played by Amy Sedaris), was a "junkie whore"/runaway returning to high school as a freshman at age 46 at the fictional Flatpoint High School (home of the Concrete Donkeys) in the town of Flatpoint.
Created and written by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Col... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0067321 | La figlia di Frankenstein | Somewhere in Western-Central Europe in the 1860s, a trio of grave robbers, led by a man named Lynch (Herbert Fux), deliver a corpse to Baron Frankenstein (Joseph Cotten) and his assistant Dr. Marshall (Paul Müller), for obvious reanimation purposes.
Baron Frankenstein's daughter Tania (Rosalba Neri) arrives from school... | revenge | train | wikipedia | It's as good a reason as any I've heard in a movie for creating a monster.I've always thought that Lady Frankenstein was better than its reputation suggests.
Lady Frankenstein comes across to me as an Italian Hammer-style film - rich, vibrant colors, nice Gothic touches, attention to details, and a lot of fake looking ... |
tt0044825 | The Las Vegas Story | Happy (Hoagy Carmichael), as the piano player at the Last Chance casino in Las Vegas, wonders what split up Linda Rollins (Jane Russell) and Dave Andrews (Victor Mature). Dave went off to fight in the South Pacific, but when he returned, Linda was gone. Happy soon finds out.
Linda reluctantly returns to Las Vegas by tr... | murder | train | wikipedia | Las Vegas 1952 would have been the place to be so a film starring the beautiful Jane Russell being the affection of not one, not two, but three men made it a place that all men would want to visit.
Jane Russell who plays a former Las Vegas lounge singer named Linda Rollins and is currently married to an addictive gambl... |
tt0039895 | They Made Me a Fugitive | Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after the war, is drawn into the world of crime. His psychopathic crime boss Narcy (short for Narcissus) deals in the black market, transporting goods in coffins to his headquarters in a funeral parlour. Clem finds the activity harmless enough, until one ... | revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0088256 | Thief of Hearts | A burglar, Scott Muller (Steven Bauer), teams up with Buddy Calamara (David Caruso), a valet at a high-society restaurant. Buddy keeps an eye on Mickey and Ray Davis, a rich married couple, while Scott robs their home.
One night, one of the items Scott takes is a diary belonging to the wife (Barbara Williams). Scott re... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3405236 | Raees | Raees, from Fatehpur, Gujarat gets involved in illegal liquor trade at a very young age. Along with Sadiq, Raees works for a notorious gangster Jairaj, smuggles alcohol illegally by bribing the police. Though he is a smuggler, he lives by the philosophy, as taught by his mother that every occupation is good, and no rel... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The movie can feel a bit long, but if you're going for a great Shah Rukh performance and some good old popcorn- entertainment,And It Gives A Good Message To Viewers.
Raees SRK has shown and proved " Form is temporary, Class is permanent " Shah Rukh Khan and Nawazuddin 's bravura performances, Action sequences, Well res... |
tt0097236 | Dream a Little Dream | Bobby Keller (Corey Feldman) is a slacker high school student who, while running through a short cut through a backyard in his neighborhood one night, collides with Lainie Diamond (Meredith Salenger), over whom Bobby has recently been obsessing. During the collision, elderly professor Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards) i... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0027538 | Donald and Pluto | Donald is a plumber fixing pipes in the basement of a house (presumably Mickey's house, since Mickey is mentioned on the title cover of the episode). Donald first has trouble with pulling his hammer off a magnet, which it gets stuck to. When he unscrews the lid covering the pipe, water spurts out and hits Donald in the... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0163579 | Chill Factor | Ten years after a covert military experiment on a remote Pacific island went wrong and killed eighteen servicemen and his assistant, Dr. Richard Long (David Paymer) is still trying to forget the havoc and death that his experiment caused.
Living in the small town of Jerome, Montana, Long still conducts scientific exper... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | I've always looked upon Cuba Gooding Jnr as a semi decent actor but if this is the kind of film he is going to be starring in, then I can see him descending the same way as Charlie Sheen.You can see from the outset that the makers tried to make one of those high octane action thrillers, which are ten-a-penny these days... |
tt0119216 | The Good Life | On his 40th birthday, Tom Good is no longer able to take his job seriously and gives up work as a draughtsman for a company that makes plastic toys for breakfast cereal packets. Their house is paid for so he and his wife Barbara adopt a sustainable, simple and self-sufficient lifestyle while staying in their home in Th... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0020530 | Un chien andalou | The film opens with a title card reading "Once upon a time". A middle-aged man (Luis Buñuel) sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb. He then opens the door, and idly fingers the razor while gazing at the moon, about to be engulfed by a thin cloud, from his balcony. There is a cut to a c... | absurd, cult, avant garde, psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | Un Chien Andalou(1929) like the rest of Bunuel's early works experiments with use of film image and surrealism.
Un Chien Andalou(1929) was an artful collaboration between two surrealistic masters in Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
fascinated by the interest of human faces and the rapid changes of... |
tt0258970 | Sleeping Beauty | After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess, and at the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of Stefan's friend King Hubert, so... | good versus evil, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Very cute. I remember the Jetlag productions with fondness, and Sleeping Beauty was one of the ones that I had vivid memories of. Re-watching it as part of my quest to re-visit the Jetlag, Golden Films and Burbank animations, my memories were mostly correct. The animation is quite good here, the backgrounds are colourf... |
tt0061744 | Hamraaz | Kumar (Sunil Dutt) is a well-known stage actor in Bombay, who performs plays along with his partner Shabhnam (Mumtaz). While on a trip to scenic Darjeeling, he meets and falls in love with Meena (Vimi), the only daughter of a wealthy military contractor, Verma (Manmohan Krishna). Shortly thereafter, Kumar and Meena get... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Wonderful suspense thriller with beautiful songs.
The movie starts with an ordinary love story of a girl with a military man, they marry without telling the girl's father.
The girl's father somehow agrees and asks them to do the marriage again.
War breaks out and the husband dies in the war leaving the girl pregnant.
F... |
tt0104291 | Forever Young | In 1939, Captain Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson) is a United States Army Air Corps test pilot. After a successful run and subsequent crash landing in a prototype North American B-25 Mitchell bomber at Alexander Field in Northern California, McCormick is greeted by his longtime friend, Harry Finley (George Wendt) who's a ... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Without a clue what happened to him or what to do, Daniel turns to the two boys for help.It sounds rather corny and obvious and, in a way, I suppose it is but by not ever playing it for laughs or being self-mocking the film creates a tone that means it all works as long as you meet it on its terms.
Wood works well with... |
tt0814207 | Marvel: Ultimate Alliance | The game begins with Dr. Doom and the Masters of Evil launching an attack on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier U.N.N. Alpha. Nick Fury sends out a distress call to all available super heroes for assistance. Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor and Wolverine respond to the call. Along with the other heroes, they save the Helica... | good versus evil, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Good game featuring many marvel characters..
Basically a semi sequel to the x-men legend games, this game has a massive team of heroes working together to stop Dr. Doom's evil plans.
The heroes have their varying strengths and weaknesses as was the case in the legends games.
Though I have to admit, I was a bit disappoi... |
tt1528401 | Electric Dreams | Miles Harding is an architect who envisions a brick shaped like a jigsaw puzzle piece that could enable buildings to withstand earthquakes. Seeking a way to get organized, he buys a personal computer to help him develop his ideas. Although he is initially unsure that he will even be able to correctly operate the comput... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0790628 | The Incredible Burt Wonderstone | In 1982, young Albert is harassed by bullies. His mother gives him a special magic trick set by veteran magician Rance Holloway as his birthday present. He studies the instructional video and begins to practice some tricks, attracting the attention of a classmate, Anthony. They practice together and eventually become p... | bleak, entertaining | train | wikipedia | As apposed to the 1 min hacker of pentagon in every film.It's a genuinely funny the story of two life long friends and magicians who share a magical act and are threatened by the modern chris angelisc magician played by Jim Carrey.
Its a innocent throw back to the era of stage magicians when rabbits from hats would tri... |
tt1191971 | Zone of the Dead | In 1986, in Chernobyl a mass grave of bodies is discovered, resembling victims of the Plague. The Chief of Bureau (Eugeni Roig) arrives at the scene and is informed that a man cut himself on a corpse’s ribcage and died of infection minutes after. Seconds later, that same man rises up attacks them both.
Twenty years lat... | violence | train | wikipedia | Ken Foree is an absolute legend and it's great to see him returning to the zombie horror genre.And now for the bad news, which is absolutely everything else.
Having read some good reviews on this film, I decided to give it a go as I'm a big fan of zombie flicks even bad ones.
It is not entirely without its saving grace... |
tt0114011 | Now and Then | In 1991, four childhood friends reunite in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana. Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore), a science-fiction writer, narrates the story. As an adolescent (played by Gaby Hoffmann) Samantha was considered the "weird" girl who liked performing seances and was interested in science fiction and the supe... | paranormal, flashback | train | wikipedia | In this coming-of-age story set in both the 1970s and 1990s, the younger cast is brilliant and natural, particularly Christina Ricci and Gaby Hoffmann.
And at these points, the movie groans along like a garbage disposal with too many potato peels crammed in it.Remarkably, the dismal acting of these veteran actresses is... |
tt0097191 | Desperate for Love | Alex Cutler and Cliff Petrie are 17-year-old teens who have been close friends since they were young. Alex is the most popular guy in school, with a promising future, while Cliff is an introverted teen who has never had a girlfriend. Lily Becker, an attractive cheerleader who is very popular despite the fact that she i... | murder | train | wikipedia | $0.88 and worth every penny.
although i am not a big fan of either Christian Slater or Brian Bloom i found this movie as okay as one could say about any other made-for-TV movie.
there were too many times where i felt like i was left hanging, too much i had to add to the story to have it make sense and DID HE DO IT OR D... |
tt1691920 | I Melt with You | Former college friends—Ron (Jeremy Piven), Jonathan (Rob Lowe), Richard (Thomas Jane), and Tim (Christian McKay) reunite in Big Sur during Spring Break to celebrate Tim's 44th birthday. Each of the men enjoy some degree of professional success but are unfulfilled with their lives: Ron is a rich stockbroker, but is curr... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Before I saw it, I'd read reviews about "self-indulgent, whining white guys," but I think these people missed the point entirely.
Weird and crazy, mostly out of focus and shaky/abnormal shot help portray the chaos of this film.If you honestly sit and watch this film for what it is (an experiment to dive into the soul a... |
tt2043933 | Night Moves | Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a retired professional football player now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He discovers that his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) is having an affair with a man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin).
Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her 16-year-old daugh... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070913 | 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... | absurd, psychedelic, comedy | train | wikipedia | It is a no holds barred comedy that breaks ground that "Happiness" will sweep in to master.Polanski combines his psychedelic absurdity of "The Magic Christian" with the stark strangeness that he would later delve into in "The Tenant." It is a valiant attempt to create a surreal sexual comedy.
For most films, the lack ... |
tt0112495 | Beyond Rangoon | Andy Bowman persuades her sister Laura to go on a trip to Burma after Laura’s husband and son are killed in a home invasion and Laura had gone into a deep depression. One night, unable to sleep because of nightmares, Laura leaves her hotel in Rangoon and gets caught up in an anti-government protest. She is very impress... | violence, historical | train | wikipedia | If you allow yourself to identify with the Patricia Arquette character, you will find it to be a very moving story of a woman regaining a sense of purpose to her life, and finding a new will to live.Arquette's performance is brave because it is purposefully "wooden" -- it's a way of defining her character's spiritual d... |
tt1865368 | Frenemies | The story takes place involving three intertwined stories told by teenage friends who all go to the same school. The first story focuses on how a kid and a dog who are best friends become frenemies and how they become best friends again. The second story focuses on how two BFFs become total frenemies over a senior edit... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0058988 | The Bounty Killer | Two of the highest ranked bounty killers in the Thrice Burned Lands, Drifter (Matthew Marsden) and Mary Death (Christian Pitre) team up to exterminate a party full of yellow-tied corporate criminals. Drifter’s explosive killing style is in stark contrast to Mary’s graceful way of delivering death to white collar scum. ... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The Pharisees.
The Bounty Killer is directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and written by Ruth Alexander and Leo Gordon.
It stars Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen, Buster Crabbe, Fuzzy Knight and Johnny Mack Brown.
Music is by Ronald Stein and cinematography by Frederick E.
West.Willie Duggans (Duryea) ... |
tt0057637 | Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki | 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
But Jerry emerges from his hole avoiding a Christmas-themed mousetrap placed by his hole. Jerry nears the Christmas presents, jumping merrily around the tree, licking candy canes and jumping onto a plush toy lion ... | romantic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Wonderfully funny fantasy.
In the best tradition of Soviet fantasy, Dikanka is entertaining from start to finish.
There isn't much a plot (hijinks during the night), but the practical effects are charming, and I laughed harder than I had in a long time.The best element is the Devil himself.
Rather than a figure of fear... |
tt0049830 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Misfit Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford) is sent to Americanize the village of Tobiki on Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands. His commanding officer, Colonel Wainwright Purdy III (Paul Ford), assigns him a wily local, Sakini (Marlon Brando), as interpreter.
Fisby tries to implement the military's plans by encouraging t... | satire | train | wikipedia | The wonderful cast - Glenn Ford, Paul Ford (ironic - no relation!), Eddie Albert, Marlon Brando and Harry Morgan - do a fine job of playing out the movie's humorous meditation on culture clash, and the ability of a strong but flexible people to maintain their Eastern ways in the face of Western "aid".
Brando, in partic... |
tt0055024 | It Happened Here | === Setting ===
The film opens with the statement: "The German invasion of Britain took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk." After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying forces manage to restore order, largely suppressing the resistance movement. However, due to demands from the Ural ... | alternate history, murder | train | wikipedia | This augments the feeling of realism and makes it an even bigger shock to see German troops marching through London, or relaxing off-duty, taking in the sights and admiring the women.
The wrong-headed justifications of Fascism that pepper this film sound like real people's words and they're spoken by what clearly are r... |
tt0088708 | American Ninja | Private Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) is conscripted into the U.S. Army by a judge, as an alternative to prison. Joe ends up fighting off the Black Star Order of ninjas while stationed in the Philippines. He saves Patricia Hickock (Judie Aronson) — daughter of Colonel William Hickock, Joe's commanding officer — from... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119991 | Rebecca | A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine) is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married. The young woman is now the second "Mrs. ... | gothic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Mr. Dance is an excellent actor and he gives a very good performance as Maxim.
Diana Rigg portrays Mrs. Danvers rather as a tragic character than as a villain.
I found Charles Dance to be a much more believable Maxim de Winter, with some definite sex appeal that was lacking in Olivier's portrayal.
Emilia Fox was perfec... |
tt1460798 | Henry & Me | Jack (Austin Williams) is an eleven-going-on-twelve year old boy living a privileged life in upstate New York. He and his parents (Joseph Gian and Lucie Arnaz) are major fans of the New York Yankees and have attended many of their games. As he and his father are called to dinner, Jack goes through a temporary state of ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Great Movie!. Thanks to Hulu, I was able to see this movie. I glanced over it, then after awhile , I said, I should watch this before its taken down (hulu takes movies down some reason..space maybe for newer movies to come in?)Anyway, glad I did, very inspirational movie, I felt at times I wanted to cry. It's so unique... |
tt0078176 | Romeo & Juliet | The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who, like their masters, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about marrying his daughter Juli... | tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | He seemed much older than Juliet, too, which would be interesting if it were part of the play but it isn't.Much more affecting were Juliet herself, the Nurse, and old Capulet.
I couldn't help comparing Mercutio and Friar Laurence unfavorably with their Zeffirelli counterparts.It was nice to get more of the dialogue tha... |
tt0415949 | Keeping Up with the Steins | Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) is the 13-year-old son of Jewish couple Adam and Joanne Fiedler (Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz). After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein (Larry Miller) - which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme - Benjamin's parents decide to go all out for h... | satire | train | wikipedia | Interesting thing about having seen 'Keeping Up with the Steins' on a Sunday at Fallbrook in the Valley - there was a fieldtrip of some school that had seen fit to come see the film as a group, then hold a sort of Q&A in the lobby.
I love being in a full theatre when going to a film, particularly a comedy as you'll get... |
tt0089869 | The Quiet Earth | 5 July begins as a normal winter morning near Hamilton, New Zealand. At 6:12 a.m., the Sun darkens for a moment, and a red light surrounded by darkness is briefly seen.
Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) is a scientist working for Delenco, part of an international consortium working on "Project Flashlight", an experiment to c... | cult, alternate reality, psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0045573 | Born to the Saddle | Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler's gun. Dagget looks on Bill as 'good luck' and nur... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Amazing!.
I thought this film was so well done.
This is a tale of young man growing up trying to make sense of it all.
After his uncle is killed by a mover and shaker named Matt Daggett in town, Young Billy (played amazingly by Chuck Courtney) gets shot by his uncle which was meant for Daggett!
Daggett and his wife tak... |
tt0061098 | To Trap a Spy | U.N.C.L.E. suspects that the U.S. industrialist and tycoon Andrew Vulcan, an officer of WASP (an international criminal organization), plans to kill Prime Minister Ashumen of the newly independent African nation of Western Natumba. Solo is assigned by Mr. Allison, the head of U.N.C.L.E., to thwart the assassination and... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111280 | Star Trek: Generations | In the year 2293, retired Captain James T. Kirk, Montgomery Scott, and Pavel Chekov attend the maiden voyage of the Federation starship USS Enterprise-B, under the command of the unseasoned Capt. John Harriman. During the voyage, Enterprise is pressed into a rescue mission to save two El-Aurian ships from a strange ene... | cult | train | wikipedia | Even though Star Trek will always work better as a TV Series, this is actually a very good film and I'll explain why below.Originally I wasn't too fussed on the film because I was an avid Trekkie who had loved 'The Undiscovered Country', had been a huge fan of the TNG series and remembered that Scotty said in Relics th... |
tt0024962 | The Rise of Catherine the Great | This historical drama recounts the events that led to the accession of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias. The film opens with the arrival in 1744 of Princess Sophie Auguste Frederika – whose name would be changed to ‘Catherine’ – from her father’s court of Anhalt-Zerbst (in modern Germany) to the court of... | tragedy, insanity, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0428251 | 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... | violence | train | wikipedia | I had never heard of it, but luckily I have access to rental screeners before they are released, otherwise I never would have seen this film.Typical story, guy gets killed, guy comes back to life, guy starts killing people.
A bit of voodoo gets thrown in just for good measure.Sure, the story isn't the greatest, and it'... |
tt4193394 | Indignation | Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a Jewish college student from Newark, New Jersey, who describes his sophomore year at Winesburg College in Ohio. Marcus transfers to Winesburg from Robert Treat College in Newark to escape his father, a kosher butcher,... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4939956 | Spotlight | In 1976, at a Boston Police station, two policemen discuss the arrest of a Catholic priest for child molestation and the presence of a high ranking cleric talking to the mother of the children. The Assistant District Attorney then enters the precinct and tells the cops not to let the press get wind of what happened. Th... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1355207 | Korkusuz | 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... | cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044486 | Carrie | Several people are being interviewed in a police station, including a high school student, Sue Snell (Kandyse McClure) and gym teacher Miss Desjarden (Rena Sofer). Detective John Mulcahey (David Keith) is investigating the disappearance of high school student Carrie White (Angela Bettis). These interviews are intersper... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | In Columbia Clay, Missouri, the young and naive Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones) boards the train expecting to meet her older sister in Chicago and have a better life in the big city.
Unable to find another job, she looks for Charles, and he invites her to have dinner at the Fitzgerald's, the most expensive restaurant of... |
tt0211661 | Terror Tract | === "Nightmare" ===
In the first story, "Nightmare", a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him（best sex sence） and plans to shoot the boyfriend and make it look like she did it, then hung herself. But the boyfriend manages to kill him and dumps the body in a nearby lake, but then needs the car keys from the pock... | violence, comedy, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Real estate man John Ritter shows three houses to a young couple (David Deluise, Allison Smith).
It's worth seeing for the bits involving Ritter (who's very good) and the final story..
The suburban real estate agent Bob Carter (John Ritter) is driving the newlywed Allen Doyle (David DeLuise) and his wife Mary Ann Doyle... |
tt0079640 | North Dallas Forty | Wide receiver Phil Elliott (Nolte) plays for a late 1960s era professional football team based in Dallas, Texas named the North Dallas Bulls, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys.
Though considered to possess "the best hands in the game", the aging Elliott has been benched and relies heavily on painkillers. Ellio... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | North Dallas Forty rates as one of the all-time best sports movies ever made and is probably the best football film ever.
Nick Nolte gives one of his best performances as a world weary receiver facing the end of his playing days and still not wanting to become a full-fledged adult.
written by pete gent, a former dallas... |
tt1002992 | House of Fears | The film opens with a man and a woman arriving at a digging site somewhere in Africa. The man enters a nearby cave, and finds all the workers brutally murdered, while the woman discovers a monkey statue. As the pair flee the scene, the woman takes the statue with her.
In Salem, Oregon, America a security guard, Hamadi ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | if you're going into this knowing it will be just another horror movie where horny teens end up somewhere and get hacked up, that's what it is.
The movie didn't attempt to change or go beyond the horror genre that we've been looking at for the past "forever," but again, if you go in knowing this, you'll end up liking i... |
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