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tt3280916 | The Atticus Institute | The story of the film is presented in documentary format, with footage of the events punctuated by interviews with people related to them.
In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West (William Mapother) founds the Atticus Institute in rural Pennsylvania, hoping to find evidence that proves supernatural abilities such as ESP are ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Before long the government get involved and things go increasingly badly wrong.The film-makers have taken some care to present this in a manner that replicates an actual documentary.
To this end we have lots of talking heads footage involving people who were connected to the story and there is also retro looking filmed... |
tt0045464 | The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. | Young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) lives with his widowed mother Heloise (Mary Healy). The bane of Bart's existence are the hated piano lessons he endures under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried). Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's influence, and gripes to plumber August... | whimsical, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | (If anyone watches "Paula" and does not have a lump in their throat at the end they are beyond all hope.)The "Hassidics" with the Siamese beard ("Or you will get choked by the beard of the twins With the Siamese beard With a terrible twin on each end" as it says in a deleted song) are simply the boy's two great-uncles-... |
tt0118275 | Brooklyn South | The focus for Brooklyn South was the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City. Francis "Frank" Donovan (Jon Tenney) was the patrol sergeant who presided every day over the morning shift assignments he gave to the uniformed officers. Donovan was an informant for the hated Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB), and secr... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038762 | My Darling Clementine | In 1882 (in reality, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened on October 26, 1881), Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, and James Earp are driving cattle to California when they cross Old Man Clanton. When they learn about the nearby boom town of Tombstone, the older brothers ride in, leaving the youngest brother James to watch ove... | cult | train | wikipedia | Engel, Winston Miller and Sam Hellman, and the great director himself John Ford, offer this most atmospheric depiction of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and the most famous of shootouts in Western folk-lore.The story basically covers the period when Wyatt Earp cleaned up Tombstone and wiped out the Clanton gang at the OK Cor... |
tt0117561 | Schizopolis | Although the film does not have a linear plot, a skeletal structure exists, telling the same story from three different perspectives divided into three acts. At the beginning of the film, Soderbergh speaks to the audience in a style meant to evoke Cecil B. DeMille's introduction to The Ten Commandments. He states, "In ... | comedy, mystery, cult, flashback, psychedelic, absurd, satire, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077031 | The Incredible Hulk | At Culver University in Virginia, General Thunderbolt Ross meets with Dr. Bruce Banner, the colleague and boyfriend of his daughter Betty, regarding an experiment that Ross claims is meant to make humans immune to gamma radiation. The experiment — part of a World War II era "super soldier" program that Ross hopes to re... | violence | train | wikipedia | I remember watching this series growing up, and feeling so bad for poor David Banner, who was played to perfection by the late Bill Bixby; without him, this series would not have worked, and would likely be forgotten.
The sight of David walking away alone on another road, duffel bag over his shoulder, as he hitchhikes ... |
tt0150107 | Chief Charlie Horse | Woodcarver Woody Woodpecker specializes in wooden Indians and wooden nickels who is hard at work on his latest creation: a life-sized statue of an Indian chief, which, by coincidence, is an exact likeness of notorious bandit Chief Charlie Horse. The telephone rings, and a customer asks if Woody has any wooden Indians f... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0385639 | Death Bed: The Bed That Eats | Long ago, a demon fell in love with a woman and conjured up a bed on which to make love to her. The woman died during the act, and, in his grief, the demon wept tears of blood which fell on the bed and caused it to come to life. While the demon rests, the bed's evil is contained, but once every ten years, the demon wak... | gothic, cult, sadist, violence, haunting, psychedelic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | I'm not sure what I can add that hasn't already been said in some of these other fine, and quite hilarious, comments, but Ill try.So you know the plot: there is a bed possessed by a demon that "absorbs" and selectively disintegrates the bodies of whoever (or whatever) lays on it with its orange soda-filled body.
One of... |
tt0204993 | Dark Angel | === Season one ===
In 2009 a genetically enhanced nine-year-old female supersoldier designated as X5-452 (Geneva Locke) escapes along with eleven others from a secret U.S. government institution codenamed Manticore where they were born, raised, and trained to be soldiers and assassins. On June 1, 2009, months after X5-... | psychedelic, sci-fi, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I would really implore that this continues even if set from a few years later, or another version of Dark Angel is made with the original cast, particularly Jessica Alba.
Jessica Alba is perfect for this role and with the popularity of Arrow, The Flash, DC Legends of Tomorrow, Spergirl and various others, I am positive... |
tt0051525 | The Defiant Ones | The film starts with a truck driving at night. It swerves to miss another truck and crashes through a barrier. The rescuers clear up the debris and cover the people killed... mainly prisoners in the back. It is revealed that two are missing: a black man shackled to a white man, because "the warden had a sense of humor.... | suspenseful, realism | train | wikipedia | Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are white and black inmates who, while chained together at the wrist, escape their captors when their prison truck hits the ditch.
Poitier proves that critics aren't just being kind when they cite him as one of the great black actors of his or any other era (though as we see here, he is d... |
tt0076161 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. T... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Just a few quick words to summarize my experience sitting through what looked to be a promising parody by a couple of generally very funny and talented men - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
The rest of the film really became an onerous chore to sit through and only and I mean ONLY was saved by the promise of seeing some g... |
tt0462244 | Daddy Day Camp | Four years after the events of Daddy Day Care, Charlie and Phil take their kids to Camp Driftwood, a camp they attended as kids. But once there, they discover that Camp Driftwood is no longer the kindhearted camp site of their time. To save the run down site, Charlie and Phil buy a partnership from the older man that r... | boring | train | wikipedia | After sitting through the entirety of Daddy Day Camp, I have to wonder what was going through everyone's minds who were involved in the making.
The most likely reason was probably them thinking, "Is it really possible to make a movie this year that is worse than Evan Almighty and Delta Farce?
Let's go for it!" Fortunat... |
tt0068675 | Hannie Caulder | Hannie Caulder (Raquel Welch) is a frontier wife, living with her husband at a horse station between towns in the American West. After a disastrous bank raid, the inept Clemens brothers gang arrive at the station. They murder Caulder's husband, gang-rape her, burn down her house and leave her for dead. The brothers go ... | revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | This offbeat Western could have been another standard revenge flick, but the vivid portrayals from the stars inject lots of spice and no small amount of humor into the proceedings.Raquel Welch portrays "Hannie", and Robert Culp craftily plays "Luther Price", ace bounty hunter, mankiller, and Hannie's mentor.The real st... |
tt0371823 | Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers | The story begins with Troubadour, a French speaking turtle who loves songs, backstage of a show trying to remind the narrator that he promised to use one of Troubadour's songs. The narrator ignores the turtle and accidentally falls through a trapdoor just as the show is about to begin. Consequently, Troubadour is usher... | action | train | wikipedia | I was visiting my grandkids last week and after a long day of activities, and a family supper, my daughter asked me if I wanted to go down to the T.V. room and watch a movie with the kids.At that moment it sounded like the worst idea I had heard in a long time.
So, imagine my surprise when they said they wanted to watc... |
tt1118511 | A Matter of Loaf and Death | Baker Bob is murdered by an unseen assailant that he recognises; he is the latest of twelve local bakers to be killed. Meanwhile, Wallace and Gromit are running a "Dough to Door" delivery service from their bakery "Top Bun". While out delivering, the duo encounter Piella Bakewell, a former pin-up girl mascot for the Ba... | comedy, murder, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The romance begins while Gromit smells a rat.The Wallace & Gromit films are mostly famous for the couple of big Christmas episodes they did that made them famous across the world and I was fine with the BBC holding this special back till Christmas Day because it did seem like their natural home.
Nick Park's favourite c... |
tt0096869 | Babar: The Movie | On the night of Elephantland's Victory Parade, Babar tells his four children the story of his first days as King of the elephants.
On his first day as king, he is asked to choose a name for Elephantland's Annual Parade. Babar promptly selects one, but is informed by the bureaucratic-minded lords that the matter must be... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | I'm the First to Comment On This?
What a Surprise!
"Babar: The Movie" is quite good children's entertainment.
Adults can enjoy it as well.
The animation is nice, and it sticks very close to the television show (yes, I've seen the show - kid shows are great!
:).So, I would recommend "Babar" if you've got kids, or if you... |
tt0350194 | Teacher's Pet | Spot is a dog who wants nothing more than to be a boy, a fantasy he has been fulfilling for one year, dressing as a boy named Scott Leadready II, and going to school with his master Leonard Helperman. Leonard is looking forward to spending the summer with his dog, but Spot proudly declares "I Wanna Be a Boy". Mary Lou ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Those gags are both audio and visual.Nathan Lane's New York City accent was funny as he voiced the lead character, "Spot," the dog who wanted to be changed into a little boy.
And - I didn't really view this as a kids movie since the vocabulary and the jokes were geared (in a non-offensive way) more toward adults.
Secon... |
tt0040745 | Romance on the High Seas | Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) and her husband Michael (Don DeFore) suspect each other of cheating. For their wedding anniversary, Elvira books an ocean cruise to Rio de Janeiro but her husband claims that unexpected business will prevent him from going. Seeing an opportunity, Elvira pretends to take the trip alone, but in ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | One of the delights of "Romance on the High Seas" is the remarkable debut of Doris Day.
Having replaced an indisposed Betty Hutton, Day stepped into this role with all the zest and zip that she brought to her total career.It's rather amazing to me how accomplished Day was in her initial screen effort: her comedic work,... |
tt0088066 | Scream for Help | Christie, a teenage girl discovers that her stepfather Paul is trying to murder her and her mother Karen for her money, but when she tries to tell other people about it, no one will believe her. After a maintenance worker dies in the basement, Christie believes Paul set the trap for her mother after she saw him leave t... | murder | train | wikipedia | Played with such over-the-top antics and foul-mouthed bombast by Rachael Kelly, this single performance makes this movie one of the sleaziest and most entertaining eighties bad movies I have ever seen.
Young Christie thinks that Paul Fox, who has recently married Chrisite's mother Karen, is a conniving philanderer who ... |
tt0164167 | Sidewalks of New York | Harmon (Keaton) is a wealthy landlord. When he goes to visit one of his tenements, he gets caught in the middle of a brawl between groups of kids, one of whom, Clipper Kelly (Phillips) starts to attack Harmon. When Harmon defends himself, he is seen by Clipper's sister, Margie (Page). Harmon falls in love at first sigh... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Obscure cast in surprisingly good film.. There must be at least a hundred boxing movies about the scrappy ethnic kid who hopes that prizefighting will be a ticket out of the slums. Here's the mixture as before ... except that this time the prizefighting kid is female.'Sidewalks of New York' (what an original title!) wa... |
tt3554418 | Khoobsurat | Dr. Mrinalini 'Mili' Chakravarti (Sonam Kapoor) is a physiotherapist who works for the IPL. Her mother Manju (Kirron Kher) hopes that she will find a man someday, stating that it will be even better if he belongs to royalty. As fate would have it, her services are called for by a royal family whose king's legs are fail... | humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0164082 | Last Rites | Father Michael is a New York priest with close ties to the Mafia crime syndicate — his father is a don. The priest's brother-in-law Gino, a mafia boss, is murdered while having sex with Angela, a mistress. She narrowly escapes by hiding in a bathroom and locking the door.
Pursued by hitmen, the mistress comes to the pr... | paranormal, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0087225 | The Ewok Adventure | The galaxy is in the midst of a civil war. Spies for the Rebel Alliance have stolen plans to the Galactic Empire's Death Star, a heavily armed space station capable of destroying an entire planet. Rebel leader Princess Leia has the plans, but her ship is captured by Imperial forces under the command of the evil Darth V... | good versus evil, cult, tragedy | train | wikipedia | All right I know, Star Wars is very much enjoyable for adults.
This movie isn't.Everything is about the Ewoks here, those fuzzy little furballs from The Return of the Jedi.
They talk the same way they did there, by operating with such words as 'gunda' (good) or 'feech' (what seems to be an Ewokian cuss-word).Of course ... |
tt0063032 | Il grande silenzio | Henry Pollicut, a corrupt Utahn banker and justice of the peace, has a man named Gordon and his wife murdered by two bounty killers. To prevent Gordon's son giving them away, one of the killers slices the boy's throat, rendering him permanently mute. Years later, the son, armed with a Mauser C96, exacts his revenge by ... | depressing, realism, western, bleak, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | "That western in the snow" - was my brother's response when he heard that I'd finally tracked down a copy of THE GREAT SILENCE, a.k.a. THE BIG SILENCE (I first saw it 10 years ago on BBC2's 'Moviedrome').If you like Sergio Leone's films (such as THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY and A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS) then you'll probab... |
tt0116407 | Ghatak: Lethal | Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment for his throat and stays with... | good versus evil, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Ghatak is one of my all time favorite movies and easily my best Sunny Deol movie .The dialogues of Ghaatak are excellent because they are very very realistic.One can watch this movie only to hear brilliant dialogues.The songs are very good especially Nigahon Ne cheraa hai and Koi Jaaye to le aaye by Alka Yagnik.This mo... |
tt0089110 | Ewoks: The Battle for Endor | While the Towani family (Jeremitt, Catrine, Mace, and Cindel) are preparing to leave the forest moon of Endor, the Ewok village is attacked by a group of Marauders (originally crash landed from Sanyassa) led by Terak and his witch-like sorceress Charal. Many Ewoks are killed. Cindel escapes, but is forced to leave Jere... | dark, murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, romantic | train | wikipedia | First things first, both this movie and the "Ewok Adventure" were made for TV-movies.
Therefore, to compare them to Star Wars is unfair due to the differences in budgets and people on board.
Both The Battle For Endor and The Ewok Adventure were childhood favorites of mine.
I recommend watching this movie with the whole... |
tt1287468 | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | In Germany, a bloodhound named Rex discovers a Cocker Spaniel puppy stealing secret codes before revealing itself as Kitty Galore, a hairless Sphynx cat. Rex reports this incident to D.O.G. HQ. At a car dealership in San Francisco, the mascot Crazy Carlito plans to destroy the dealership building. The police arrive, an... | revenge | train | wikipedia | After seeing such a low score, I didn't expect it to be that great, but I found myself enjoying the film after a very short time.The movie was actually pretty funny, and I don't normally find kids movies very funny, but this was actually good as a sequel.
I've seen much worse kids movies get higher ratings than this.Yo... |
tt0489237 | The Nanny Diaries | 21-year-old Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), has just graduated from Montclair State University. She has no idea what or who she wants to be. One day, while sitting in the park, Annie sees a young boy about to be hit by a vehicle. Annie saves him and meets the boy's mother, who we meet as Mrs. X (Laura Linney). Whe... | satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | "The Nanny Diaries" did not get very good reviews but I liked the previews so I decided to see it instead of another movie that got much better reviews and I'm glad I did."The Nanny Diaries" is entertaining the entire time.
It might not have you rolling in the aisles like "Superbad," but it is not that kind of movie.Th... |
tt0092048 | Tampopo | A pair of truck drivers, the experienced Gorō and a younger sidekick named Gun, stop at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle shop. Outside, Gorō rescues a boy who is being beaten up by three schoolmates. The boy, Tabo, turns out to be the son of Tampopo, the widowed owner of the struggling business, Lai Lai. When a custome... | psychedelic, humor, satire | train | wikipedia | If you are interested in Japanese culture and you appreciate food in the least, you owe it to yourself to track a copy of this down and watch it, especially if you like a good bowl of ramen!
Even though he also takes dead aim at spaghetti westerns and the Japanese love affair with food, especially their predilection fo... |
tt0070531 | Phase IV | Due to an unknown cosmic event, listed in "phases", ants have undergone rapid evolution and developed a hive mind. A scientific team begins investigating strange towers and geometrically perfect designs that ants have built in the desert. Except for one family, the local human population flees the strangely acting ants... | tragedy, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | But even as a youngster wanting something more un-subtle and action-oriented, I was not turned off by PHASE IV's slow art-film qualities.It is a shame Saul Bass never directed again because this was a valiant effort to do something a little different.
The beauty of these kinds of movies, is that they are not so much pl... |
tt0025546 | The Mystery of Mr. X | London police constables are being killed by a man calling himself "Mr. X" (Leonard Mudie). By chance, one of the murders occurs around the same time and place as a diamond robbery, leading Police Commissioner Sir Herbert Frensham (Henry Stephenson) to suspect the same man is responsible for both, much to the annoyance... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | This is Robert Montgomery's film all the way.
This fine American Actor/Director is at his best and obviously has a lot of fun as he plays a second story man who just happens to steal a valuable diamond at the same time a policeman is murdered by a deranged killer.
The killing takes place on the sidewalk just below wher... |
tt0099260 | China O'Brien | Police Officer China O'Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) is a good cop who teaches martial arts class to her fellow officers. After an altercation with a gang that leads to the accidental death of a young boy, China resigns from the force, and returns to her hometown of Beaver Creek, Utah. Her father, John O'Brien (David Blackw... | violence | train | wikipedia | This film and its sequel remain among the best Western showcases for Cynthia Rothrock's martial ability.
Lori 'China' O'Brien (Rothrock) plays a cop who also teaches martial arts.
Another thing that works in the film's favour is the chemistry between Rothrock and co-star Richard Norton (Australian Karate exponent).
I s... |
tt0390511 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants P... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0194624 | 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 | You need to see it to believe it and even then you'll be scratching your head in disbelief (while laughing your ass off of course).The premise is that of a sick and twisted after school special from hell where all of the wrong lessons are learned.
With so much garbage on television these days, it's refreshing to see a ... |
tt0188518 | Complicity | Yoshioka, an experienced detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman in a red dress. She was drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, but an autopsy reveals that her stomach is full of seawater. Moreover, all the clues he finds relate to himself: A button found at the murder scene matches one that is missing from hi... | murder | train | wikipedia | very enjoyable, but too fast paced.
sometimes, a film can suffer greatly from just one drawback, even if everything else is top notch.
unfortunately, this is the case here.this film, based on iain banks' novel, is an impressive production, with excellent actors, breathtaking scottish settings, believable and very enjoy... |
tt0290028 | Platinum Blonde | Stewart "Stew" Smith (Robert Williams), ace reporter for the Post, is assigned to get the story about the latest escapade of playboy Michael Schuyler (Donald Dillaway), a breach of promise suit by chorus girl Gloria Golden, who has been paid to drop it. Unlike rival Daily Tribune reporter Bingy Baker (Walter Catlett), ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | Absolute junk.
How anyone can find this piece of garbage remotely erotic is beyond me.
The women are almost weighed down with excess silicone as much as by the nonsenical 'story' and daft 'script.' It also has one of the most lacklustre girl on girl shower scenes ever put on celluloid.
The Director seems to have instru... |
tt0384833 | Frankenfish | Medical examiner Sam Rivers and biologist Mary Callahan travel into the bayou to investigate the mysterious death of a fisherman. Having grown up in the area, Sam is comfortable in his surroundings while Mary is not. They find Elmer noodling for catfish in the swamp canals. With Elmer, Sam and Mary travel up river to t... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | You know you have a great film when there are giant, mutant fish beasts, naked people, house boat tailer parks, turtle soup, biologists, lesbians, Chinese Mofia, bloody gore, propeller boats, shotguns, and lines like, "I'm gonna git you, you dumb motherf*cker!" At a breezy 80 minutes in length, this film will have you ... |
tt0218058 | Born to Love You | The film centers around Joey Liwanag (Angeline Quinto), a poor girl who works as a part-time tourist guide for Koreans and likes joining amateur singing contests with her two younger siblings to help her family cope with financial problems. Despite the hardship and low probability, Joey works hard to save up money in o... | comedy, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038348 | La belle et la bête | A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain, and spoiled. They secretly ... | dark, fantasy, cult, atmospheric, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0295691 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | In 1947, "toons" act out theatrical cartoon shorts as with live-action films; they regularly interact with real people and animals and reside in Toontown, an animated portion of Los Angeles. Private detective Eddie Valiant and his brother, Teddy, once worked closely with the toons on several famous cases, but after Ted... | psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | Who made this game so pointless?. They had something with this game. You could go around to different areas and examine everything. They incorporated many of the elements of the movie into the game and they did a pretty good job with the graphics considering it was for the Nintendo. So what went wrong? They basically d... |
tt0313634 | The Scream Team | Two children, Ian and Clare, move into a town where their grandfather has just died. Ian thinks his grandfather's spirit is trying to tell them something, finding some library news clippings about a man named Zachariah Kull, who was accused of burning his home with his wife in it. Later, Ian and Clare capture a ghost n... | horror | train | wikipedia | One of the Best Disney Halloween Movies.
Okay let me start out by saying that this isn't THE best Disney original Halloween movie (Halloweentown I has my vote), but it comes awfully close.
The elements that really bring it together are the three main ghosts: Kathy Najimy, Eric Idle, and Tommy Davidson.
They are way too... |
tt0314734 | Sucker Punch | In the 1960s, a young woman nicknamed Babydoll (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her abusive widowed stepfather (Gerard Plunkett) at the fictional Lennox House for the Mentally Insane in Brattleboro, Vermont, after she is blamed for her younger sister's death. The stepfather bribes Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), an a... | dark, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A lot of obvious fake reviews for this movie.
No it's not the worst hood-movie made but it's hardly a good one and I don't believe that anyone who looked at this objectively could ever give it over a 6 tops, even at that I question your judgment.
Anyways.The lead guy in the first 15 minutes is the biggest piece of crap... |
tt0363908 | Pride | It is 1974 and life is not easy for a black male to find employment, even college-educated Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard). While struggling to find anything better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, is working on the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center operated by the Philadelphia Department of Recreation. The cente... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The DVD 'making of' extra is even better than the movie!.
'Pride' is a small, innocuous movie that tells a story much like animated 'The Lion King', but using real lions and computer animation of animal faces to make it appear that they really are talking.
We see lots of shots of lion cubs romping and running through t... |
tt0023374 | Rasputin and the Empress | The highly fictionalized story takes place in the Russian Empire during the last years of the reign of Czar Nicholas II (Ralph Morgan) and the Czarina Alexandra (Ethel Barrymore). Reform-minded Prince Paul (John Barrymore) has long been concerned about the plight of the common people and knows a revolution is brewing. ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Names have been changed (and that didn't prevent MGM from law suits) and a lot of the information we now know about this period of Russian history - was not known in 1932.As other people have commented about this being the only film that Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore appeared together, this movie doesn't show why t... |
tt0102250 | L.A. Story | Harris K. Telemacher (Steve Martin) is a TV meteorologist living in Los Angeles. He is in a dead-end relationship with his social-climbing girlfriend Trudi (Marilu Henner). He wants to find some meaning and magic in his life, having grown increasingly weary of what he sees as the rather shallow and superficial city of ... | psychedelic, magical realism, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | LA STORY is one of those films that leaves you feeling like maybe you shouldn't have enjoyed the movie as much as you did.
Yet I don't think there is anyone out there that wouldn't ultimately enjoy this fantasy.Steve Martin is in top form (maybe the last decent film he did before BOWFINGER), and the wacky charm through... |
tt0040753 | Saigon | World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs (Alan Ladd) finds out that his friend Captain Mike Perry (Douglas Dick) has only two months to live due to a head injury. Larry and Sergeant Pete Rocco (Wally Cassell) are determined to show Mike a good time before he dies. For a $10,000 fee, Larry takes a flying job workin... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0356614 | Foolproof | The movie starts with Kevin (played by Reynolds), Sam (Booth) and Rob (Jarsky) playing a game, known as "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them. The rules of the game include the three of them... | comedy, humor, flashback | train | wikipedia | Finally, a heist movie that doesn't have any noticeable plot holes, intriguing concept, and for Canadian viewers, doesn't attempt to hide a major Canadian city as somewhere in America.
So "Foolproof" came as a pleasant treat- there is a MAJOR twist in the plot that you will just have to watch for yourself.Watching "Foo... |
tt0036546 | Yankee Doodle Daffy | Porky Pig, a producer, loaded down with luggage and a golf bag, leaves his office in a hurry to board an airplane. Daffy Duck, a talent agent, prevents him from leaving and attempts to secure an audition for his client, a lethargic child performer named "Sleepy" Lagoon (a reference to the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder). Th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Brilliant Daffy, curious title.
Yankee Doodle Daffy is an enjoyable cartoon.
It isn't the best though, the pace is a tad too fast and the title is enough to leave you puzzled as it has little to do with the cartoon itself.
But Daffy himself elevates it, he is absolutely brilliant here, uproariously funny as you'd expec... |
tt2873214 | Bad Turn Worse | After B. J. steals $20,000, he surprises his best friend, Bobby, and girlfriend, Sue, with an impromptu plan to party together one last time before Bobby and Sue leave rural Texas for college. B. J. later confides in Bobby that he stole he money from Giff, a local mobster who employs them. Giff immediately suspects his... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | This film is an example of that very specific sub-genre, the Texas neo-noir.
That American state seems to have all the right ingredients for modern noir, with its sun-baked, dusty, dead-end towns, restless people in them trying to get out of them and places seemingly so remote that the law is run by its own set of rule... |
tt0166286 | No Rest for the Wicked | Santos Trinidad, a corrupt policeman, goes drinking late at night. After he is thrown out of a bar, he aggressively demands that a waitress at another bar serve him despite the fact that they are closed. The owner attempts to defuse the situation by offering Trinidad a free drink, but he inadvertently offends Trinidad,... | psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | This is a great film.It is a real acid trip.. The story line is excellent. THe two lead actors give outstanding performances. The psychedelics effects and editing are top notch. This movie is sure to become a cult classic. The music selection is great, it matches the scenes perfectly. The sound mix is also good.I give ... |
tt3339674 | Burying the Ex | Nice guy and horror fanatic Max (Anton Yelchin) is dating the beautiful-but-manipulative Evelyn (Ashley Greene). Evelyn is an extreme environmentalist working for a blog company that promotes "going green", while Max works a dead-end job at the local horror shop named Bloody Mary's. In many situations, Max often finds ... | comedy, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5973626 | Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders | At stately Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and his ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward), watch their favorite show The Gotham Palace. During the programming, a band that was supposed to play on the show is revealed to be hidden and replaced by four of the dynamic duo's greatest villains: Joker (Jeff Bergman), Penguin (Wi... | violence | train | wikipedia | I particularly appreciated the camera panning homage around the bat mobile.Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar returned to voice their roles from the classic Batman TV shows of the 1960s.
There were other Batman adaptations for the movies before him (Lewis Wilson anyone?) but Adam West is the one we all remember.Juli... |
tt0095871 | Pin | Dr. Frank Linden has a life-size, anatomically correct medical dummy in his office which he calls "Pin". Via ventriloquism, Dr. Linden uses Pin to teach his children, Leon and Ursula about bodily functions and how the body works in a way the children can relate to without it being awkward. Dr. Linden's interactions wit... | tragedy, plot twist, murder | train | wikipedia | Impressively written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Sandor Stern (who is probably best known for scripting THE AMITYVILLE HORROR), this underrated psychological thriller comes as a rare and welcome surprise, especially at a time when Freddy, Michael Myers and Jason were hacking their way through theaters (and sadly... |
tt0059311 | Incubus | In a lake at a rock quarry, a young woman named Mandy and her boyfriend, Ray, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Ray is killed, and Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma. As the attack occurs, teenager Tim Galen experiences... | allegory, revenge, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1199550 | 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... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Believing that she is good enough to drive, she winds up accidentally hitting a man on a dark road, but doesn't realize it until she gets home.
The film has a very suspenseful storyline about a woman (Mary Murdock) who accidentally hits a man (Timothy Emser played by a transformed Kevin Corrigan) on the road and unknow... |
tt0397053 | Deus Ex: Invisible War | === Setting ===
Invisible War is set in 2072, twenty years after Deus Ex, and is based on the premise that a combination of all three of the original game's possible endings occurred. The actions of JC Denton in Deus Ex caused the world to descend into a period of war and economic depression known as "the Collapse", du... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053888 | Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark | === Act I ===
The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. Denmark has a long-standing feud with ... | tragedy, insanity, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "Hamlet" by William ("We all make his praise") Shakspeare is arguably the greatest play ever written - in fact, it's possibly the greatest work of literature ever written in the English language.
Given these facts, imagine my surprise when Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the recently defunct TV show in which bad movies ... |
tt0106056 | Living Single | Living Single centered on six people consisting of four women and two men living the single life in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.
The series focused on two different households in one brownstone, one shared by a trio of independent women and another shared by a pair of male friends who have known each other since th... | romantic, humor | train | wikipedia | Great little sitcom that unfortunately was up against "Seinfeld" for a good portion of its run.
FOX did not handle the exit of the series with any kind of finesse; in fact, it was done very sloppily, with the show being cancelled, and then brought back for a few poorly done episodes.
Synclair and Overton had just about... |
tt1703049 | Trigun: Badlands Rumble | The exposition shows a bank robbery orchestrated by the titanic, towering thief known as Gasback. As a thief, he only pulls off the most difficult heists that offer the biggest rewards. Gasback's trio of henchmen, however, are tired from the increasing danger and expense of each successive job and decide to seize the w... | romantic, comedy, fantasy, prank | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0294590 | Future War 198X | On September 16 of a certain year in the 1980s, the United States conducts an orbital test of the new Space Ranger antimissile laser defense system. American scientist Burt Gains oversees the test under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency with the target warhead being launched from Vandenberg Air... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Future war 198x out of VHS in Australia. This anime is ahead of its time.It was cutting edge animation and controversial when it first came out in 1982.The anime is inspired by General Hackett's book The Third World War and its depiction of war is as realistic as anime can get.(note: for war enthusiasts, the huge tank ... |
tt0078227 | Semi-Tough | Wide receiver Marvin "Shake" Tiller and running back Billy Clyde Puckett are football buddies who play for a Miami pro team owned by Big Ed Bookman (Preston). Bookman's daughter Barbara Jane is roommates with both men, and the film depicts a subtle love triangle relationship between Barbara Jane and her two friends. Sh... | satire | train | wikipedia | "Semi-Tough" has got to be one of the best comedies of all time.
You could really identify with Kris Kristofferson, Bert Reynolds, and Jill Clayburgh as lost children of the 1960s looking for the answers to life in the 1970s.
They parody to a "T" some of the self-help and consciousness raising scams of the times.I espe... |
tt0087277 | Footloose | After a long night of partying, Bobby Moore and four of his friends become drunk and drive over a bridge and crash into a truck, killing all five. Bobby's father Shaw Moore, the Reverend of the Bomont, Georgia church, persuades the city council to pass several draconian laws, including a ban on all unsupervised dancing... | cult | train | wikipedia | (Even if I am torn between wanting to cringe and dance when I hear the theme!)On reflection it's no cheesier than something like "All the Right Moves" (which has a great cast doing their best but suffers from a plodding story) In fact, it's miles better!
Enrolling at the local high school, he is appalled to discover th... |
tt0385988 | Red Riding Hood | Valerie is a young woman who lives in the village of Daggerhorn, on the edge of a forest plagued by a werewolf, with her parents, Cesaire and Suzette, and older sister Lucie. She is in love with the town woodcutter Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry Henry Lazar, son of the wealthy blacksmith Adrien L... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | The creativeness of this movie was lost from the beginning when the writers and directors left out a good story line, only to substitute with horrible special affects.
"Red Riding Hood" (2006) is a silly version of the Grimm Brothers tale with annoying songs.
I watched this movie with a girl I was babysitting and I fou... |
tt0217630 | Loser | Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs), a small-town, intelligent kid from Upstate New York is accepted into NYU on an academic scholarship. Trying to follow the advice of his father (Dan Aykroyd) he tries to gain friends by trying to be polite and interested in others. His attempts are noticed by his new roommates Chris (Thomas Sa... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Amy Heckerling's latest teen comedy, 'Loser', is an old-fashioned charmer where nice guys finish first, sweet girls end up making the right choices, and pushy 'users' get their just desserts!
Perhaps nobility is passe in films today, but 'Loser' makes a great case for working class heroes who succeed by 'doing the righ... |
tt3021360 | Faults | Ansel Roth, a writer and cult specialist, fraudulently uses an expired voucher to pay for a meal at a hotel restaurant and is forcibly removed after refusing to pay. The manager of the hotel tells Roth that his speaking engagement is almost ready, and Roth steals towels and batteries as he checks out. His presentation ... | brainwashing, comedy, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Let me make this clear from the beginning, even if some might claim to see where this is going, you can have a lot of fun watching it develop and going to its destination.The acting is really great and even if the main character is a bit unlikeable, he still is able to pull quite a few things off.
In the last 5 years, ... |
tt0069824 | Fratello sole, sorella luna | Francesco, the spoiled son of Pietro Bernardone, a wealthy textile merchant, returns from fighting in the war between Assisi and Perugia a changed man. Struck by a feverish illness that has forced him to leave the war, Francesco lies on his bed tormented by visions of his past when he was a boisterous, arrogant youth. ... | insanity, avant garde, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Is there something magical about it?I think that what makes me, personally, fond of it are four most basic factors: the director himself, Franco Zeffirelli, whom I have always admired for his "artistic soul", the story, far from the true, but still moving and retaining the gist of Francesco's life - love to God and His... |
tt0029801 | Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge | In a large pine forest in the American Southeast called Pine Ridge, a feud is ongoing between cattlemen who want to burn the forest for grazing land, and "turpentiners" who make their living harvesting pine sap. The cattlemen suspect that the turpentiners are rustling their cattle, not knowing that the man organizing t... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3520702 | Bloodline | Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey for higher position, and reap lucrative profits. However, an investigation ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | You cared about the characters and you so wanted to know what had happened in the past.Without spoilers I will just say that season 2 was dumb and boring and season 3 was weird and stupid.
Smart characters did dumb things.If you can watch Season 1 and then stop, good for you.
Having now watched the complete series in a... |
tt0388644 | Soupçons | In December 2001, novelist Michael Peterson called to report that his wife Kathleen had fallen down a set of stairs and died. The authorities disbelieved Peterson's story that Kathleen had fallen while drunk and concluded instead that Peterson had bludgeoned her to death, most likely with a fireplace poker which was di... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0113501 | Just Cause | Paul Armstrong (Sean Connery), a liberal Harvard professor opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of Bobby Earl Ferguson (Blair Underwood) for murder. Ferguson, a former Cornell University student, who was convicted of raping and murdering a young white girl named Joa... | revenge, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Just Cause takes some of the best parts of three films, Cape Fear, A Touch of Evil and Silence of the Lambs and mixes it together to come up with a good thriller of a film.Sean Connery is a liberal law professor, married to a former Assistant District Attorney, Kate Capshaw and he's a crusader against capital punishmen... |
tt1320291 | The Reef | Luke (Damian Walshe-Howling) is delivering a yacht to a customer in Indonesia, and invites his friend, Matt (Gyton Grantley), and Matt's girlfriend, Suzie (Adrienne Pickering), to join him as he sails there, including Matt's sister, Kate (Zoe Naylor), and fellow sailor, Warren (Kieran Darcy-Smith). To get to Indonesia,... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0053168 | Pickpocket | Michel (Martin LaSalle) goes to a horse race and steals some money from a spectator. He leaves the racetrack confident that he was not caught when he is suddenly arrested. The inspector (Jean Pélégri) releases Michel because the evidence is not strong enough. Michel soon falls in with a small group of professional pick... | romantic, mystery, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203237 | Yu yu hakusho: meikai shito hen - hono no kizuna | Yu Yu Hakusho follows Yusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old street-brawling delinquent who, in an uncharacteristic act of altruism, is hit by a car and killed in an attempt to save a young boy by pushing him out of the way. His ghost is greeted by Botan, a woman who introduces herself as the pilot of the River Styx, who ferri... | paranormal, violence | train | wikipedia | Why not use the show's cast?!. Yu-Yu Hakusho is in my top five list of favorite anime shows, so naturally I got excited when I discovered Poltergeist Report. I was very disappointed when the characters started speaking, however. The dubbed cast for the movie is awful compared to the English cast for the show, which is ... |
tt3504048 | Housebound | Kylie, a troubled young woman, attempts to steal the safe from an ATM. Her accomplice knocks himself out while attacking the ATM with a sledgehammer, and, when she is slowed by attempting to save him, the police capture both. Due to her history of recidivism, she is sentenced by the judge to house arrest for eight mont... | paranormal, plot twist | train | wikipedia | Delinquent serial-offender Kylie is sentenced to nine month's house arrest at her family home in a small town on New Zealand's Twin Coast Highway, forcing her to move back in after many years with her slightly loopy mother, who we learn has long been convinced that the house is haunted.
Initially more than a little sce... |
tt0935075 | Rabbit Hole | Becca and Howie Corbett's four-year-old son Danny is killed in a car accident after he runs out into the street after his dog. Becca wants to give away Danny's clothes, remove Danny's things, and sell their house, but Howie is angry at Becca's elimination of anything that reminds them of their child. Howie also wants t... | tragedy, boring, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Aaron Eckhart also gives a terrific performance as the grieving husband and father and, after 'Love Happens', shows that he is back to serious acting as he was in 'The Dark Knight'.The best aspect of Rabbit Hole is how you begin by knowing very little about these characters but end up knowing them as if they were your ... |
tt0096477 | Yateem | Story revolves around a police officer who kills a bandit and adopts his orphan son. The boy becomes a police officer and falls in love with the man's daughter Gauri played by Farha. The step-mother who is the police officer's wife falls for khrishna(Sunny). Meanwhile, she is also having an affair with Girivar(Danny). ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | Awesome!!. There has been only three Hindi movies till date which can be categorized as pure Western and Yateem is one of them with Sholay and Dacait being the other two. Released in 1988, Yateem was much ahead of its time and narrated a story which would find few takers in even 2008 i.e. a son and a step-mother relati... |
tt0083694 | Britannia Hospital | A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen Mother – referred to as HRH – is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter (Leonard Rossiter), is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary workers (opposed to the exotic ga... | psychedelic, comedy, satire, murder | train | wikipedia | This film completes the Mick Travis trilogy, of which the first two installments are if
(1968) and O Lucky Man (1973).
This would be Anderson's Playtime, in that, much like Hulot in Playtime, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) becomes just one of a million different characters.
Calling Britannia Hospital Anderson's Playti... |
tt0100046 | The Long Walk Home | The film was expanded as a feature.
Set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, it features Whoopi Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American woman who works as a maid/nanny for Miriam Thompson, a well-to-do white woman played by Sissy Spacek. Odessa and her family confront ty... | violence | train | wikipedia | I saw this film by chance, was flipping through the movie channels one day and the description of it appealed to me.
Goldberg is absolutely superb in this powerful film showing what it was like for black people at that time in Montgomery, Alabama.
The real life, 1955, bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama provides the bac... |
tt0050903 | The River's Edge | The movie opens with a boy, Tim, throwing a doll into the water from a bridge. He hears a yell, and sees Samson/John sitting on the shore. The boy pedals off, and Samson smokes a cigarette by the naked corpse of Jamie. Samson leaves in a daze, and Tim spots him at a convenience store. While Samson haggles with the cler... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050882 | Raintree County | In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey (Montgomery Clift), a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) by Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor), a rich New Orleans girl. He has a brief and passionate affair with Susanna while she is visiting. Follo... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | "Raintree" had a $5 million budget, the highest of any American film up to that time, so it was up to Schary to solve problems on the set or behind the scenes before they happened.Schary left the meetings believing Clift was sincere in his desire to straighten up and behave himself.
Greater than his pain had been the f... |
tt0103793 | Benny's Video | The film opens with a home video of the slaughter with a captive bolt pistol of a pig on a European farm. The video rewinds to play the slaughter in slow motion, which emphasizes the hand-held barrel against the pig's fore-skull and the cartridge explosion. A party centered on a game called Pilot and Passengers is brok... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | While I didn't enjoy Benny's Video as much as Funny Games on the whole, it is an overall more shocking film due to the youth of its main character and the matter-of-fact way that the story is presented.
It's not long before the slaughter gun is being put to use again, and the murder of the girl is caught on Benny's vid... |
tt0206357 | Toys | Kenneth Zevo, the owner of the Zevo Toy factory in Moscow, Idaho, is dying. He tells his assistant Owen Owens of his desire for the factory to be given to his brother, Lt. Gen. Leland Zevo instead of his son Leslie. Even Leland is unsure of this, pointing out how Leslie has been apprenticed at the toy factory most of h... | anti war | train | wikipedia | You will never look at war toys the same way again.. Before there was Small Soldiers, there was this film that took something of same subject matter, but in a superior fashion.When the kids in the film see the toy soldiers in the display, the film presents them as a glamourous bunch with light music highlight how cool ... |
tt0075147 | Robin and Marian | An aging Robin Hood (Sean Connery) is a trusted captain fighting for King Richard the Lionheart (Harris) in France, the Crusades long over. Richard orders him to take a castle that is rumored to hold a gold statue. Discovering that it is defended by a solitary, one-eyed old man (Esmond Knight) who is sheltering harmles... | tragedy, violence, action, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Audiences brought up on "The Adventures of Robin Hood" simply could not accept seeing these two beautiful star-crossed lovers ravaged by time, even if they were portrayed by the likes of Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.However like the Flynn film, "Robin and Marian" boasts a superb cast.
When Marian asks Robin why he f... |
tt0085706 | I Am the Cheese | The novel opens with Protagonist Adam Farmer biking from his home in the fictional town of Monument, Massachusetts (based on Cormier's home town of Leominster, Massachusetts) to visit his father in Rutterburg, Vermont. The story alternates with transcripts of tapes between a "subject" and Brint. The subject receives ps... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2510434 | Alien Abduction | The film begins with a group of carefree teenagers on a camping trip. As they spend the night drinking and hanging out, a light appears overhead.
Jean is the first to notice something wrong when she videotapes a UFO overhead. At first her friends do not believe her and are not convinced about the tape. That night while... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1602613 | Only God Forgives | Julian is an American expatriate who runs a Muay Thai club in Bangkok, Thailand as a front for drug dealing. His older brother Billy rapes and kills an underage sex worker and is cornered by Thai police. Lieutenant Chang allows the girl's father, Choi Yan Lee, to beat Billy to death in the same room Billy killed the gi... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Lots of violent, strange et slow films have been presented at the Cannes film festival since its creation but yet every time a film pushes the boundaries of violence while keeping its own style, most critics go mad and sometimes shout at the screening, even leaving the theater before the end and calling it "outrageous"... |
tt0989851 | Ouija | Debbie Galardi recalls playing Ouija with her best friend Laine Morris as children. In present day, Debbie throws her Ouija board into the fire, burning it. Debbie implies to Laine that something strange happened with the Ouija board. After Laine leaves, the Ouija board reappears in Debbie's bedroom. Debbie becomes pos... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0043072 | Tripoli | The USS Essex is maintaining a blockade of the port of Tripoli. General William Eaton (Herbert Heyes) comes on board to recruit a commando squad for a secret mission. Lt. Presley O'Bannon (John Payne) and Lt. Tripp (Lowell Gilmore) are selected for a raid on Derna, with the aid of native forces. Hamet Karamanly (Philli... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Entertaining and Solid; an Intelligent Script and Good Cast Plus Action Scenes.
This is a strongly-scripted and well-made adventure film, with solid stars in Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Howard da Silva .
The story told herein is of a mission featuring a force of US marines sent to combat the 18005 activities of the ... |
tt0279627 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence | The world of Innocence is divided between the "divine" world of Devaloka (divided between the regions of Sensus and Ratio) and the lower human world of Naraka. As Devaloka needed human souls to survive, the Sensus general Asura decided to use the Manifest, an artifact created by the ancient Primordial Giant, to merge D... | violence | train | wikipedia | Engrossing, entertaining, surprisingly accurate. The first episode, in northern Italy, is light, romantic fare (Young Indy, what else?)delightful comedy. Indy does something heroic, but the main plot takes place in town, competing for Giuletta's attention. The second part, in Morocco, is back to James Bondian adventur... |
tt0087062 | City Heat | In Kansas City, 1933, near the end of Prohibition, a police lieutenant known by his last name, Speer (Eastwood), is acquainted with a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy (Reynolds). Speer and Murphy were once good friends, which changed after Murphy left the force.
On a rainy night, Speer comes to a diner f... | neo noir, cult, humor, depressing, murder | train | wikipedia | By most accounts, Clint Eastwood hijacked his long-awaited teaming with fellow superstar Burt Reynolds and the credits bear this out.
After showing writer-director Blake Edwards the door, Eastwood recruited the more malleable Richard Benjamin to direct (in his autobiography, Reynolds said Benjamin was "terrified" of Ea... |
tt0094155 | Tin Men | Set in the year 1963, Ernest Tilley (Danny DeVito) and Bill "BB" Babowsky (Richard Dreyfuss) are two very different door-to-door aluminum siding salesmen in Baltimore, Maryland. Working for different companies, the "tin men" are prepared to do almost anything—legal or illegal—to close a sale.
Their first meeting is in ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | 'Tin Men' is about two aluminum siding salesmen (working for competing companies) who get into a car accident, and both believing the other is to blame, decide to get revenge on one another.
But the more I think about it, I believe it may be true: Like most great movies that are under-appreciated, they aren't trying to... |
tt0089280 | Hobgoblins | The film opens with a security guard named Dennis investigating a deserted film vault at an old movie studio. While inside, his fantasy of being a rock star comes to life, but he dies while performing on stage. His boss, Mr. McCreedy (Jeffrey Culver), closes the door upon discovering the body.
A young man named Kevin (... | cult | train | wikipedia | No matter how you look at this movie, it is just awful.If you view it as a horror, then it is an unscary movie with the monsters being hand puppets.If you look at it as a comedy, then you will notice most of the humor falls flat and is just lame.If it is a romance you will wonder why a guy would stay with such a B**ch!... |
tt0110167 | It Could Happen to You | NYPD officer Charlie Lang (Nicolas Cage) is a kind and generous man who loves his job in Queens, New York, where he lives. His wife, Muriel (Rosie Perez), works at a hair salon and, unlike him, is greedy, materialistic, and selfish, constantly complaining about their situation in life. Waitress Yvonne Biasi (Bridget Fo... | romantic, comedy, feel-good | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5351818 | Rock'n Roll | Rock N' Roll tells the story of Chandramouli (Mohanlal), a composer and drummer, of his return to Chennai from South Africa for a brief visit, and of the incidents happening in that short span.
Gunasekharan (Siddique), a leading music composer, is busy with his composition for the latest film directed by Lal Jose. He f... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A look at the French film industry from an insider.
I had the good fortune of having a tiny speaking part in this movie, a first for me.
The Director and Star of the movie, Mr Guillaume Canet, is a charming and very gracious person and made us all feel comfortable and welcome.
The movie is about an actor who fears he i... |
tt0023101 | Kongo | "Deadlegs" Flint, an embittered paraplegic who lives in the Kongo, controls the natives by using cheap tricks that appear to be magical. Assisting him with his magic tricks are his fiance Tula, two thugs, Hogan and Cookie, and a loyal native, Fuzzy.
Flint has spent the last eighteen years planning revenge against a man... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Every time I show it to people their jaws drop, I burned a TCM showing onto DVD but would love to see an official MGM release.There is no comparison to the original, "West of Zanzibar".
This pre-Code tale of revenge, sex, brutality, and, ultimately, redemption was one of Walter Huston's best performances (not that he w... |
tt0042033 | The Walking Hills | One day in contemporary Mexicali, a poker game in the back room of a cantina includes horse breeder Jim Carey, cowboys Shep and Johnny, a prospector called Old Willy, a stranger in town named Frazee and a drifter, Chalk. Guitar player Josh and bartender Bibbs are kibbitzing. Conversation turns to a legendary wagon trai... | intrigue, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0061391 | Bedazzled | Stanley Moon (Moore) works in a Wimpy's restaurant and is infatuated with the waitress Margaret Spencer (Eleanor Bron). In despair he attempts suicide but is interrupted by the Devil, incarnated as George Spiggott (Cook). ("Mr Spiggott" had previously been one of the characters in the sketch One Leg Too Few).
Spiggott ... | romantic, alternate reality, satire, prank | train | wikipedia | Stanley Donen was brought in a director, Cook toiled over the witty script, Moore did the perky score."Bedazzled" is slightly dated and is quite an uncommercial product overall, but its still a clever and interesting film.
There's funny one-liners ("Yes, Irving Moses-the fruitier etc), totally original ideas (the anima... |
tt0414078 | Halloweentown High | Two years after the previous movie, 17-year-old Marnie Piper (Kimberly J. Brown) prepares to begin a new school year. She asks the Halloweentown Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes bringing a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.... | horror | train | wikipedia | This Halloween Town was again worth the time.
Lucas Grabeel stood out in this debut as Ethan, a warlock worth watching.
He has much to offer the acting world and is going to go places in Hollywood and his newest release, High School Musical may be the launching pad.
The show was fun and the Disney audience loved it.
Th... |
tt0113247 | La haine | The film depicts approximately 19 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP – zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jew... | bleak, revenge, cult, realism, violence | train | wikipedia | As much a realistic portrayal of a torn society as it is an artistic achievement, 'La Haine' is essential viewing.My vote: 10 out of 10Favorite films: http://www.IMDb.com/list/mkjOKvqlSBs/Lesser-known Masterpieces: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070242495/Favorite Low-Budget and B-movies: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls0548083... |
tt0109125 | Angel of Destruction | A controversial rock star Delilah, is hoping her new upcoming album will give her success after a previous two failed albums. After a topless cabaret/glam-metal performance at a local S&M club, she finds a finger with a ring in a box left for her within the dressing room. The sender is a psychotic fan Robert Kell, a se... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
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