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tt0117765 | Striptease | Former FBI secretary Erin Grant (Demi Moore), loses custody of her young daughter Angela (Rumer Willis) to her ex-husband Darrell (Robert Patrick), who is a criminal and cost Erin her job. To afford an appeal to get her daughter back, Erin becomes a stripper at the Eager Beaver, a Miami strip club. A Congressman named ... | comedy, neo noir, murder, stupid, cult, flashback, satire | train | wikipedia | Brilliant characters, an intriguing storyline, hilarious incidents, sex, violence, the works...I gave the movie a 5 because Robert Patrick and Burt Reynolds were absolutely hysterical and on-point (I'm sure THEY actually READ the book), but aside from those two gems this movie was a disgrace.What happened to the plot?!... |
tt0318292 | Amar te duele | The story begins in a suburb of Mexico City with Ulises, whose father sells clothes in the market. He is accustomed to living humbly as he belongs to a low socioeconomic class, and could be considered a "naco". Ulises' environment is one of drugs, crime and graffiti, his great passion. One day, Ulises and his friends d... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "Amar te Duele", as well as some recent films from Mexico, introduces international audiences into an inside look of the society south of the border.
In a way, the screen play, by Carolina Rivera, capitalizes in a variation of the Romeo and Juliet story, as it presents us with a couple of teen agers in love, each one c... |
tt0034277 | They Died with Their Boots On | George Armstrong Custer (Flynn) enters West Point and quickly establishes himself as a troublemaker by showing up in an outlandish uniform he had designed himself, which makes him appear to be a visiting foreign general. After the misunderstanding, he signs up as a cadet and begins to stack up demerits for pranks and a... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | (This one may actually be more honest about it, though, as it essentially admits along the way that it's not to be taken as particularly fact-based, but more of a stylishly semi-heroic portrayal.) It's worth noting that audiences of the time were no more naive about the story than we are today; the NY Times review conc... |
tt4761916 | Unfriended 2 | In Fresno, California, high school student Laura Barns is relentlessly bullied after a video of her passing out and defecating herself at a party is uploaded to YouTube without her consent, causing her to fatally shoot herself in public, with a video of her suicide appearing on LiveLeak. A year later, her former best f... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | I'll tell you one of the best things about it is the fact it doesnt rely on ridiculous jump scares every 10 seconds like most horror movies these days.
Considering that the original movie was a huge commercial success and made back 65 times it's budget I wasn't shocked to hear a sequel was being made, I didn't expect i... |
tt0102116 | The Indian Runner | The story, set in 1960s Nebraska, involves two very different brothers: small-town deputy sheriff Joe and criminal Frank Roberts.
Before the events of the film, Joe had tried to farm for a living, but was unable to make ends meet, and the bank eventually foreclosed on his property. He became a deputy sheriff as a way t... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | But it's the magic of the mix of all these and so many more subtleties about the experience of this film that makes it not just a terrific, achingly beautiful thing, moving, illuminating, but, I believe, having revisited it so many times over the last thirteen years (like so very few others among the hundreds seen once... |
tt2652092 | The Good Lie | During the Second Sudanese Civil War, siblings Mamere, Paul, Jeremiah, Theo, Daniel and Abital escape after their families and village are massacred. After numerous days of walking in the wilderness, they join a group of refugees but leave after they are caught by enemy soldiers and many people are killed. After sleepi... | cute | train | wikipedia | Acting wise, Whiterspoon's work is great in this movie, realistic and never overwhelming and so Corey Stoll does a great job.But I was greatly pleased with the excellent performance of Arnold Oceng, all the Sudanese actors in the movie, all former refugees, and the stunning newbie Kuoth Wiel.Overall, I'd suggest to bri... |
tt1489167 | Down Terrace | Upon release from prison, Bill (Robert Hill) and his son Karl (Robin Hill) arrive home at Down Terrace in Brighton. With the help of his wife Maggie (Julia Deakin), Bill decides to find the rat in his criminal operation and a tale of recrimination, betrayal and murder ensues. Meanwhile, Karl grows increasingly edgy and... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0109791 | Felidae | Francis, an intelligent and cynical cat, is moved to a gloomy, dilapidated house with his owner Gustav Löbel, an architect and erotic novelist. During Francis's exploratory tour of the house, he discovers a cat's corpse. At the crime scene, he meets and befriends Bluebeard, a foul-mouthed, one-eyed Maine Coon.
Soon, Fr... | horror, psychedelic, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0026123 | The Black Room | In a Tyrolean castle in the late 18th century, twin sons, Gregor and Anton, are born to the de Berghmann baronial family. The baron is concerned: an old prophecy in the family states that the younger brother shall kill the elder in the Black Room of the castle.
Some years later in 1834, it is revealed that the Baron Gr... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120321 | Smoke Signals | Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) and Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) live on the Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho. Thomas is an eccentric storyteller and Victor is an angry young man who enjoys playing basketball.
Victor and Thomas are brought together through Victor's father, Arnold (Gary Farmer). Arno... | storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | The first scene, narrated lyrically by Evan Adams as Thomas Builds-the-fire, sets the tone for a story handed down, as with Native American culture, in true oral tradition.The French title, Le secret des cendres (The secret of the ashes) more accurately describes the book and the movie, both of which must be experience... |
tt0019788 | Coquette | The story is about Eliza Wharton, the daughter of a clergyman. At the beginning of the novel she has just been released from an unwanted marriage by the death of her betrothed, the Rev. Haly, also a clergyman, whom Eliza nursed during his final days in her own home. After this experience, she decides she wants friendsh... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | It's rather unfortunate that this is the only film for which many current movie fans remember Mary Pickford, because of the neglect of silent films and because of the undue weight given to well-known but arbitrary motion picture awards.
Nor is it one of the worst movies ever - it does contain some stretches of genuinel... |
tt0098672 | The Woman in Black | The story begins with Arthur Kipps, a retired solicitor who formerly worked for Mr. Bentley. One night he is at home with his wife Esme and four stepchildren, who are telling ghost stories. When he is asked to tell a story, he becomes irritated and leaves the room, and begins to write of his horrific experiences severa... | gothic, haunting | train | wikipedia | It is a story of a young middle class man who, at ease with life and the developing new technology around him is suddenly taken out of this familiar environment and made to face the world where the curse of an evil woman still holds sway and kept watch for like sea frets and the danger of the marshes if traveling to th... |
tt0091790 | Pretty in Pink | High school senior Andie Walsh lives modestly with her underemployed working class father, Jack. Andie's best friend, Phil "Duckie" Dale, is in love with her, but is afraid to tell her how he truly feels. In school, Duckie and Andie, along with their friends, are harassed and bullied by the arrogant "richie" kids, spec... | cult, comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I have watched this over a dozen times and I don't care if some people refer to this as a "chick flick".A young girl falls in love with a boy from the other side of the tracks.
When I watched Pretty In Pink it made me laugh, but more importantly it brought me back to a time that was fun, had less pressure ( in some way... |
tt0346136 | Webs | Four electricians, Dean, Junior, Ray and Shelly, are sent to cut off the power in a condemned building before it's torn down. They notice there's a difference between the floor plans and the actual size of the building. Upon breaking down a door they discover an old laboratory, which encloses an atomic pile (vintage nu... | violence, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | One person commented Webs, raises the issue of, "If you could do it, should you?" And that might be just a little beyond its creator's true intentions but it does speak to a lot of the negative comments.
Is Webs a bad movie?
You bet and I hope they never stop making movies like this.
Webs wasn't made to take your atten... |
tt0119592 | Mad City | After being sacked from his job at a museum, former security guard Sam Baily returns to the place with a shotgun and dynamite and takes his former boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages. Local television journalist Max Brackett is in the museum using the restroom aft... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | That kind of "reporting" should be exposed and ridiculed.Whatever, you can enjoy this film for the acting alone with Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky, Mia Kirschner and Ted Levine.
Here, it's a museum, and a man is in a predicament something like Al Pacino was in that film except Travolta's chara... |
tt0037885 | Love Letters | Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotten), an American soldier in Italy during World War II, has been writing letters for his friend, Roger Morland (Robert Sully), a man who admits he "never had any standards, manners or taste." Alan has never met Victoria Remington, but regards her as a "pin-up girl of the spirit," to whom he can ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1351784 | Psychosis | In 1992, a group of young Anarchists seeking to preserve the local wildlife are brutally murdered. The killer is later found collapsed by a river due to wounds he'd sustained while attempting to kill the lone surviving anarchist.
The movie flashes forward 15 years as successful crime novelist Susan moves into a nearby ... | paranormal, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037563 | The Bullfighters | Private detectives Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy travel to Mexico City in pursuit of an infamous female larcenist named Hattie Blake (Carol Andrews), who is publicly known as ”Larceny Nell”. Meanwhile, an American sports promoter, Richard K. Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) meets with publicity man ”Hot Shot” Coleman (Richard La... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Laurel and Hardy, in their last American made movie, have made a silly little film with enough story and gags to entertain the little ones and make the adults smile.
A great moment occurs when the boys are sitting in a hotel lobby near a fountain and Stan decides to "investigate" what a particular faucet is for.
THE BU... |
tt0082984 | Reborn | In Reborn! a boy, Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada, is chosen to become the tenth boss of the Vongola Family, as he is the great-great-great-great grandson of the first Vongola boss—who moved to Japan from Italy. Timoteo, the Vongola IX—the current head of the family—, sends Reborn, an infant hitman from Italy, to train the r... | romantic | train | wikipedia | REBORN (Bigas Luna, 1981) **1/2. This was a complete obscurity for me when I chanced upon it on the weekly TV guide but, with that cast (Dennis Hopper, Michael Moriarty, Francisco Rabal) and director (Bigas Luna), I decided to check it out. As it turned out, it's a bizarre and wildly uneven religious satire (with some ... |
tt0180793 | The Last September | Preface
Although The Last September was first published in 1929, a preface was written for this text decades later to be included in the second American edition of this novel. Concerned that readers unfamiliar with this particular chapter of Irish history would not fully comprehend the anxieties of these times, Bowen t... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | "The Last September" tells of the beginning of the end of the Anglo-Irish, circa 1920ish, in Cork, Ireland by examining the clockworks of one family of privilege surrounded by rebellion, on the cusp of degentrification, and trying to keep a stiff upper lip in the face of waning denial.
Beautifully filmed and visually d... |
tt0311455 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring in Mount Doom to conquer all, abandoning a great part of his power to it in order to dominate, through it, at a distance, the other Rings of Power, which had been granted to lords of Elves, Dwarves and Men. An army of men and elves battle Sauro... | good versus evil, fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0441936 | Mulawin | === Plot ===
Long ago, in the dense forests of the Philippines, there lived a race of "bird-men" called Mulawin, men and women with feathers and wings like an eagle's. In those days, this noble and peace-loving race freely interacted with human beings, although they never moved too far away from the forest because it i... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097446 | Goldeneye | In 1986, at Arkhangelsk, MI6 agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan infiltrate a Soviet chemical weapons facility and plant explosives. Trevelyan is captured and gunned down by Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, but Bond flees as the facility explodes.
Nine years later, in Monte Carlo, Bond follows Xenia Onatopp, a memb... | flashback | train | wikipedia | the missing Bond film?. 'Goldeneye' is the story of Ian Fleming's exploits in the Secret Service during World War II, and plays like the Bond movie we had all forgot - incidentally, Charles Dance, who plays Fleming, would have made a wonderful Bond in his day; what a shame it never happened.With a TV feel but a strong ... |
tt1930315 | Cyberbully | Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment) is a teenage girl who is being raised by her single mother, Kris (Kelly Rowan), along with her younger brother, Eric (Robert Naylor), living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is close friends with two other girls, Samantha Caldone (Kay Panabaker) and Cheyenne Mortenson (Meaghan Rath). Earlier,... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | This movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, as it consists of abysmal acting, poor directing, and in my opinion, the worst drama script I have ever read in my entire life.
If I wanted to be informed about cuber bullying I would read an article about it.Now that the elephant in the room is out of the wa... |
tt0133122 | New Rose Hotel | Set in the near future, huge megacorporations control and dominate entire economies. Their wealth and competitive advantage reside in the human capital of their employees and the intellectual property they produce. Corporations jealously guard their most valuable employees and go to great expense to keep them safe and ... | flashback, murder, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050166 | Band of Angels | Amantha Starr (Yvonne De Carlo) is the privileged daughter of a Kentucky plantation owner. However, after he dies, a shocking secret is revealed: unbeknownst to Amantha, her mother had been one of her father's black slaves. Legally now property, she is taken by a slave trader to New Orleans to be sold. On the riverboat... | revenge, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Clark Gable dominates the film as an ex-slave trader and plantation owner in the antebellum South.
He's got a great hate for his benefactor who he really sees as no different than other, crueler slave holders.Today's audience which has seen Steven Spielberg's great true film Amistad about the illegal African slave trad... |
tt0339160 | Hitman 2: Silent Assassin | The game starts with a conversation between two men in the port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They travel to a remote laboratory operated by Dr. Ort-Meyer, finding everyone inside dead. A review of the security footage shows a man in a suit killing several guards and orderlies. Recognizing the man as Agent 47, one of ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0423731 | Samurai chanpurû | A young woman named Fuu is working as a waitress in a tea shop when she is abused by a band of samurai. She is saved by a mysterious rogue named Mugen and a young rōnin named Jin. Mugen attacks Jin after he proves to be a worthy opponent. The pair begin fighting one another and inadvertently cause the death of Shibui T... | psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111359 | Tall Tale | In 1905, Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl), a young farmer from the western town of Paradise Valley, is unhappy with his life as a farmer and dreams of life in New York City. His father, Jonas (Stephen Lang), likes to tell Daniel tall tales about Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry to which Daniel has heard many times lea... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | This is a Disney family movie, and the lead character is 12 years old.
The barroom scene with Calamity Jane is a treat for lovers of Old West humor, and Texas son Patrick Swayze is perfectly cast as Pecos Bill.
It is a great family movie that is based on the Tall Tales that many of us learned in literature classes.
If ... |
tt3489184 | Constantine | God and Lucifer have a standing wager for the souls of all mankind. Angels and demons are forbidden to manifest on Earth; instead, their hybrid off-springs (human-angel and human-demon) can be used to influence humans.
In a church ruin in a Mexican countryside, a scavenger named Manuel finds a spearhead wrapped in a Na... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Being a MASSIVE fan of the Hellblazer comics, I was dead excited to see that they were finally going to bring an accurate version of John Constantine to life.
It's true to the source material (making it different from both Arrow and Gotham) without being a slave to it (making it worth watching instead of just reading).... |
tt0068323 | Buck and the Preacher | Buck and the Preacher opens with a deep rhythm and blues soundtrack reminiscent of a John Wayne Western that was given deep soul and harmony from the 1970s. The camera switches scenes to a camp of African-Americans who have been just freed from slavery and are heading West for a better life. A band of men on horseback ... | blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Buck and the Preacher was the first movie I ever saw about the black experience after the civil war that was centered on their migration west.
I've seen this movie three times since it was originally shown, and have enjoyed it as much each time, while Buck, a no-nonsense Wagon Master played by Sidney Poitier takes his ... |
tt0114594 | Swimming with Sharks | Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant. Guy, who has just graduated from film school, believes that his new job is a golden opportunity. Despite warnings from Rex, the outgoing assistant who has become hardened under Buddy's reign, Guy remains optimistic.
Buddy tur... | comedy, cruelty, murder, bleak, satire, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | The movie charts his learning of the ways of Hollywood through becoming an assistant for fastidious big-shot producer Buddy Ackerman (Spacey), and his subsequent unlearning of the 'normal' moral values that apply almost anywhere else.
"Swimming with Sharks" was made right around the time Kevin Spacey was becoming a ris... |
tt0059894 | The War Game | Filmed in black-and-white with a running time of just under 50 minutes, The War Game depicts the prelude to, and the immediate weeks of the aftermath of, a Soviet nuclear attack against Britain. The narrator says that Britain's current nuclear deterrent policy threatens a would-be aggressor with devastation from Vulcan... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0031890 | The Saint Strikes Back | While dancing at a New Year's party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, so Templar guns him down first at the stroke of midnight. Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Francisco police request the assistance of Inspector Henry Fernack (Jonathan Hale) of the NYPD. B... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "Well, not the man who knows everything, just the man who knows the important things." George Sanders is the mysterious, charming and dangerous Simon Templar: "You're important to me—that's why I know you," he explains to an annoyed Wendy Barrie, whom he has just forcibly escorted from a nightclub—moments before the co... |
tt0108968 | Touched by an Angel | The episodes of the series generally revolved around the "cases" of Monica (played by Roma Downey), a young angel recently promoted from the "search and rescue" division, who works under the guidance of Tess (played by Della Reese), a sarcastic boss who showed greater respect as an authority figure of her employee. Mon... | inspiring, philosophical | train | wikipedia | What we must rely on is faith and hope to give us the strength to go on with out lives when tragedy or insurmountable difficulties strike us down.The angelic combination of actors, Roma Downey, John Dye and the legendary Della Reese give a completeness, perhaps whole roundness to these inspiring hours.
The addition of ... |
tt1629705 | Blackthorn | Twenty years after his disappearance in 1908, an aged Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), living under the assumed name James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia, decides to end his long exile and return to the United States after learning of the death of Etta Place. He writes to her son, Ryan, who is in fact his own ... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | I am not to sure about the stories take on Butch, but besides that I really enjoyed it, the scenery was fantastically caught on film, the story moves at a nice pace, and at times really hit a nerve with me about life, friends that have come and gone, and growing old, and looking back at what we might have done differen... |
tt0490798 | When a Killer Calls | A killer goes into a house, killing a mother and her two children. In the process, he takes pictures on his cell phone of the attack. Elsewhere, Trisha (Rebekah Kochan) is babysitting a girl, Molly, while her parents are out. She needs this to go well because her last babysitting job with the Hewitts did not end on a g... | murder | train | wikipedia | "When a Killer Calls" is an unusually nasty slasher flick, with some very unpleasant and unsettling sequences.
The decision was clearly made to try and cash in on the remake of "When a Stranger Calls" by pretty much putting in -- almost word for word -- the phone call sequences from that movie.
So for the beginning of ... |
tt0057985 | The Curse of the Living Corpse | In 1892 New England, Rufus Sinclair suffers from catalepsy and lives in fear of being pronounced dead and buried alive. To prevent this, he leaves detailed instructions to the family and his staff, but when he is found, his greedy family—eager to claim their inheritance—have him quickly interred. Rufus leaves specific ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | But despite the general cheesiness of the film and the very, very familiar plot (sort of like an "old dark house" style film), the overall effort is still fun and entertaining.
Once upon a time, The Curse of the Living Corpse was a staple of local free broadcast television horror and all-night movie slots.
I say spare ... |
tt0211174 | Up, Up, and Away! | Scott Marshall (Michael J. Pagan) comes from a family of superheroes. His father, Bronze Eagle (Robert Townsend), has the gift of flight. His mother, Warrior Woman (Alex Datcher), has the power of super strength and superior hand-to-hand combat skills. His brother, Silver Charge, is gifted with super speed, electrical ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0365960 | Zero Day | The film begins with the introduction of Andre Kriegman (based primarily on Eric Harris) and Calvin Gabriel (based primarily on Dylan Klebold) announcing their intention to attack their high school, calling their plan "Zero Day". They keep a video diary on the camera, carefully hiding it from their friends and families... | violence, revenge, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | The film was clearly following the basic outline of what happened at Columbine High School of April of 1999, but what struck me was how believable the two lead actors were.
I think what most people will find disturbing is they will actually have feelings for the two lead characters, Calvin and Andre (Played by Cal Robe... |
tt0021048 | The Lash | When Francisco Delfino (Richard Barthelmess) goes off to study for four years at a university in Mexico, his home in California is a part of Mexico. By the time he returns (around 1850), however, California in the hands of the United States. He finds his family living in fear and the family estate is in shambles. Altho... | revenge, murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108911 | Bishôjo senshi Sêrâ Mûn S | An extraterrestrial entity named Princess Snow Kaguya (プリンセス・スノー・カグヤ, Purinsesu Sunō Kaguya) arrives on Earth in an attempt to freeze it, but a fragment of her comet has been lost and she is unable to proceed without it. She has her henchwomen, the Snow Dancers, search for the missing fragment. In Tokyo, a young astron... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Unlike so many long term animes that get the first season right then go downhill, Sailor Moon only gets better and better with each passing episode and the story only becomes stronger.It's really ashame how many people pass this off as some second rate anime to be shunned.
With all three movies and most of the series, ... |
tt0082926 | Polyester | The life of fat housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is crumbling around her in her middle-class suburban Baltimore home. Her husband Elmer (David Samson) is a polyester-clad lout who owns an X-rated theater, causing anti-pornography protesters to picket the Fishpaws' house. She also states that "all the neighborhood wo... | pornographic, comedy, murder, cult, absurd, psychedelic, satire, humor | train | wikipedia | I have to comment on this movie.It was 1981 and it was my birthday.I moved to a new job and knew absolutely no one and went to a theater to see "Polyester" knowing nothing about it.It was raining and as soon as I entered to buy a ticket three employees started laughing and looking at me.They said you are the only one h... |
tt0117276 | Overnight Delivery | Wyatt Trips (Paul Rudd) is a student at Twin Cities College, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is in a long-distance relationship with his high school girlfriend, Kimberly Jasney (Christine Taylor), who is currently a student at the University of Memphis. Wyatt loves Kim, even though they have never consummated their relation... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1920029 | La casa de al lado | The Condes, a wealthy and influential family, appear to have it all: money, power, and a close, beautiful family. They were recently rocked by a tragedy when Adolfo (David Chocarro), husband of the eldest daughter Ignacia (Catherine Siachoque) died by falling out a window in the family mansion. The other 2 siblings are... | suspenseful, murder, horror, haunting, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0040257 | Cry of the City | Martin Rome (Richard Conte), a hardened criminal, is recuperating in a hospital from a shootout that leaves a police officer dead. At the hospital, he is briefly visited by his fiancée, Teena Ricante (Debra Paget). A shady lawyer representing another crook, Niles (Berry Kroeger), claims that he participated in a jewel ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Victor Mature and Richard Conte are in great form as Candella and Marty respectively.
There is no real romantic sub-plot - Teena appears briefly at the beginning and the end, but plays no part in the story - and Candella is too busy making himself at home in the Rome household to go out and get a girl.
Yes, it's a typi... |
tt0107617 | Mùi du du xanh | A young girl, Mùi, becomes a servant for a rich family. Mùi is notably peaceful and curious about the world. The family consists of a frequently absent husband, a wife, an older son, two younger sons, and the husband's mother. When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he takes all the household's money. He... | romantic | train | wikipedia | She quietly goes through her ordinary life, giving every tiny moment all her attention and invisibly enriching the lives of all those around her, until near the end of the picture she is given off to a family friend whom, coincidentally, she has fancied since she was little.
Even more astounding than the richness a... |
tt1488584 | My Super Psycho Sweet 16 | Madison Penrose (Julianna Guill) prepares for her sweet sixteen. She wants to have her birthday party at the Roller Dome, a once popular roller skating rink with a violent history to match. She and her parents go so far as to hire a party planner (Jacob Gentry). A few days before the party, while alone in the roller ri... | violence, prank, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Good Slasher Film.
It has a name like so many second rate holiday horror films that came out in the 1980's.
This movie did such an excellent job of being what a teen slasher film is meant to be.
There are terrible characters, bloody deaths for those characters and even and ending worthy of the genre.I won't give a full... |
tt4271918 | An Inspector Calls | At the Birlings' home in April 1912, Arthur Birling - a wealthy mill owner and local politician - and his family are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, the son of one of Birling's competitors, Croft Limited. In attendance are Arthur's wife Sybil and their adult children Sheila and Eric. Eric... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | So if you like good drama you would be hard pressed to beat this and all the more amazing was the fact it was mostly delivered in a drawing room, so that speaks volumes for the way it was acted.
It's a whodunit of sorts but who did it isn't the point (while being the only point - it'll make sense after) An inspector ca... |
tt0073335 | Mahogany | Tracy Chambers is a sassy industrious young woman living in the projects of Chicago who dreams of becoming a fashion designer. She has worked her way up from salesgirl to secretary and assistant to the head buyer at a luxury department store (modeled after, and filmed at, Marshall Field's on State Street, Chicago). Her... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | Casting Diana Ross as a fashion model was truly inspiring since it gives her an opportunity to look sensational throughout.
Billy Dee Williams is fine as her idealistic boyfriend intent on changing the world rather than his clothes, but the most fun is provided by Anthony Perkins whose performance could be subtitled "N... |
tt1890513 | Ragini MMS | Ragini (Kainaz Motivala) and Uday (Rajkummar Rao) go to a secluded house, set deep in a forest, for a weekend of fun. Upon arrival, Ragini and Uday discover worms in their bag of food; but neglect it. Uday has plans of recording a video of Ragini, without her knowledge, so that he can fulfill his dream of becoming an a... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | In short, not a bad deal.What jars are some of the horror sequences, the director's sudden realization that horror movies should have horrifying effects - and hence a surfeit of effects (sound and visual) at the end.
RAGINI MMS - Movie Review : Watch the original 'PARANORMAL ACTIVITY' instead of this cheap imitation..
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tt4667854 | SiREN | One week before his wedding day, Jonah and his groomsmen hit the town for a wild night of club hopping and debauchery. But the party becomes a savage fight for survival when they unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities.
Jonah tries to figure out a way to save his friend Rand, who was kidnapped and to... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2663812 | An Adventure in Space and Time | In 1966, William Hartnell (David Bradley) is in his dressing room at the BBC. He insults a stagehand who calls him to the set, where the delay caused by his absence is noticed. Hartnell enters in costume, ready to film his last moments as the First Doctor and stands in front of the TARDIS console.
Three years earlier, ... | historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1792131 | Spooky Buddies | The movie opens in the year 1937 where Sherrif Jim and others from the town of Fernfield set of to the manor of Warwick the Warlock. Warwick has kidnapped five puppies so he can sacrifice them to the Halloween hound, an evil hound who can open a portal to ghosts but only if he has the souls of five puppies of the same ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Halloween movie for children.
My six year old son found this movie to "spooky" to finish.
He begged me to turn it off because he was scared.
I found it cute and was surprised he didn't like it, since he is such a big fan of these films.
At the time I rented it, the clerk warned me that some other children also found it... |
tt0020740 | Captain Thunder | Victor Varconi is a Mexican bandit who brazenly flaunts his ventures until the people of El Paramo demand that something be done about it. Charles Judles, the Mexican sheriff, offers a large reward for the capture of Varconi. Meanwhile, a pair of lovers, played by Fay Wray and Don Alvarado are disappointed when Wray's ... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Wray Walks Away With It. Welcome to 1930.
Talkies are one year old and studios are continuing to experiment madly with all kinds of plots, all kinds of screenplays, and all levels of acting competence.
In this film we get broad elements of slapstick and mushy love scenes, and, because it's pre-Code, a little skin delic... |
tt0104487 | Illusions | According to film scholar and critic Clyde Taylor, “Dash's film plays inventively on themes of cultural, sexual and racial domination.” The film is set in Hollywood in 1942, a time when the role of the film industry was to create an illusion for the audience to believe in. This illusion was based on the creation of Ame... | romantic | train | wikipedia | About as entertaining as a root canal..
This film is like watching paint dry--NOTHING exciting happens.
The better part of the film is spent watching Heather Locklear sleeping, having the same bizarre nightmare over and over again.
Locklear, Carradine, Samms and Beatty never seem to leave the house, which gives the fil... |
tt0071334 | Claudine | The film tells the story of Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll), a single Black Harlem mother, living on welfare with six children, who finds love with a garbage collector, Rupert Marshall (James Earl Jones), whom she calls "Roop". The pair's relationship becomes complicated because of a number of factors. Among these are... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119640 | McHale's Navy | The basic plot revolves around McHale's crew's wacky schemes to make money, get girls, and have a ball, and the efforts of Captain Binghamton (McHale's superior) to rid himself of the PT-73 crew for good, either by transfer or court martial. Although they are forever getting into trouble, they (almost always unwittingl... | revenge, cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0051911 | Marjorie Morningstar | Marjorie Morgenstern is a student at Hunter College and the girlfriend of an eligible young man, Sandy Lamm, who attends her family's synagogue. Her parents are happy with her choice of mate, and her mother Rose Morgenstern (Claire Trevor) tells her father, Arnold (Everett Sloane), that she hopes the two kids marry.
Ma... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I guess I can appreciate the film more than most since I saw a lot of the characters in my youth and afterwards.Everett Sloane and Claire Trevor, formerly of the Bronx, now reside in a doorman building in Manhattan.
In fact Claire Trevor has the best performance in the film.The Morgensterns have two children, daughter ... |
tt0036670 | Brazil | The movie is set in a fictional urban world, ruled by a “Ministry of Information”. The only recognizable ideologies are consumerism and terrorism control, leading to the desire to possess complete information about every citizen and the installation of a massive bureaucracy. Sam Lowry is an intelligent, but unambitious... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Virginia Bruce Lends A Much Needed Spark. Brazil has some entertaining musical and dance numbers that are worth a look. Tito Guizar is an impressive singer, but as an actor he personifies the word: bland. The only real spark in this film is Virginia Bruce. She has a wonderful screen presence. She's animated, and emotio... |
tt1458915 | Tactical Force | Captain Frank Tate leads a four-member SWAT team consisting of Tony Hunt, Jannard and Blanco. They manage to stop a shop robbery and save the hostages, but inflicting great property damage. Their superior gets angry and orders them to go through training, which they do not take seriously.
Ilya Kalashnikova and Demetriu... | cult, humor, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | But while it looks like they really had fun doing it the only reason I watched through the whole thing was to see all martial arts scenes with Michal Jai White because those few were the only half good thing about the flick.I'm pretty sure if any SWAT member ever sees this movie he'll face-palm himself black and blue b... |
tt0102767 | The Refrigerator | The film opens with a couple drunk driving through the streets of New York. Upon arriving at their apartment, they make love in front of the kitchen. Afterwards, the wife walks into the kitchen whereupon the refrigerator opens up and sucks her in.
Steve & Eileen Bateman move to New York, renting the apartment with the ... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041088 | Act of Violence | After surviving a Nazi POW camp where comrades were murdered by guards during an escape attempt, Frank Enley (Van Heflin), returns home from World War II. The "war hero" is respected for his fine character and good works in the California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife and baby had settled after moving fr... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | In "The Search" he made use of a ruined Berlin to tell the story of a very young concentration camp survivor - a young boy separated from his mother - using the ruins as a metaphor for the many ruined lives.In "Act of Violence" Zinnemann returns to the aftermath of war - this time telling of two prisoner-of-war camp su... |
tt0301526 | The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze | Ducky's relationship with her brother Spike becomes turbulent when he repeatedly keeps her awake at night with his snoring, and for eating her leaves. She tells Cera about her feelings, and confides that she does not know how to express them; Cera agrees to teach her. Meanwhile, the children are attending a school in w... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately, this LBT has a spoilt, usually positive Ducky who is now grumpy and a storyline that is good for teaching but not very good for a LBT film.
Luckily, the plot is all right and the songs are good, especially "Family" and the learning songs.
The animation is quite good as well, sort of in between LBT 7's an... |
tt0082242 | Dead & Buried | James Farentino stars as Dan Gillis, sheriff of the small New England coastal town of Potter's Bluff. In the film's opening scene, a mob of townspeople attempt to kill a visiting photographer. He is beaten, tied to a post then set on fire. He survives and is taken to a hospital, where he is murdered just out of sight o... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0913445 | Young People Fucking | The film intertwines the story of four different couples and one threesome over the course of one sexual encounter, with specific chapters for each one: prelude, foreplay, sex, interlude, orgasm and afterglow. Each couple represents a specific archetype. The first out of five is called The Best Friends because the char... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0337909 | Calendar Girls | When Annie Clarke's husband John dies from leukaemia at an early age, her close friend Chris Harper, anxious to purchase a comfortable sofa for the visitors' lounge in the hospital where he was treated, hits upon the idea of printing a calendar featuring some of the members of the Knapely branch of the Women's Institut... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | Annie´s best friend Chris (Helen Mirren)comes up with the idea of a nude calendar with the women of the W.I. club to raise money for a settee at the leukemia ward at the local hospital.
At first everybody is quite suspicious but the calendar turns out as a tremendous success which brings the girls even to Hollywood.I h... |
tt0181047 | Tekken 3 | Nineteen years after the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 2, Heihachi Mishima has established the Tekken Force: a paramilitary organization dedicated to the protection of the Mishima Zaibatsu. A squadron of the Tekken Force searches an ancient temple located in Mexico under the premise of an excavation project. Soon af... | violence | train | wikipedia | The best video game in history..
No game, fighting or otherwise, has ever touched the majesty and depth of Tekken 3.
The improvements on Tekken 2 are palpable, adding side-stepping and a much needed, flowing, 3D element.
The characters become part of your life as you play the game, with countless holds, throws and spec... |
tt0117876 | Tenchi Muyô! In Love | The year is 1996, one year after the events of Tenchi Universe. After being defeated by the Jurai Emperor and the Galaxy Police (GXP) centuries ago, the monstrously-powerful Super A-1 class criminal, Kain, was permanently imprisoned in a subspace container of the GXP's headquarters. However, Kain managed to escape and ... | violence, psychedelic, comedy, adult comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | Great movie (even dubbed); painless intro for anime novices..
My wife never had any experience with anime before she was with me; over the years I've sent her scurrying out of the room with much of what I watch...
Tenchi Muyo In Love, though, kept her interest piqued.The animation: beautiful; the usual Tenchi OVAs and ... |
tt0066819 | The Beguiled | During the middle of the American Civil War in 1863, injured Union soldier John McBurney is rescued from the verge of death by twelve-year-old Amy, a student at an all-girl boarding school in rural Mississippi, the Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. The eponymous headmistress reluctantly agrees to take h... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, romantic, melodrama, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2516720 | Susie Q | In the fictional town of Willow Valley, Washington during the year 1955, teenager Susie Quinn prepares for her Winter Formal. She and her boyfriend, Johnny Angel, are oblivious to the fact that an inebriated motorist would soon force their car into a waterway where they subsequently drown. Forty years later, a teenager... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0038259 | The Woman in Green | When several women are murdered and their forefingers severed, Holmes and Watson are called into action, but Holmes is baffled by the crimes at the start. Widower Sir George Fenwick (Paul Cavanagh), after a romantic night alone with his girlfriend Lydia Marlowe (Hillary Brooke), is hypnotized into believing that he is ... | good versus evil, murder | train | wikipedia | It's an excellent film of the splendid Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone series including two first-range nasties : one man , Henry Daniell as Doctor Moriarty and one woman, Hillary Brooke as an illusionist with malignant aims.In the flick appears the usual of the Arthur Conan Doyle's novels : Mycroft (Sherlock's brother)... |
tt0104892 | Mistress | A young woman is torn between the affections of her two lovers. One is a young bachelor who brings passion into her life. The other is a married old man who has kept her as his mistress for years.
Architect JD (John Lloyd Cruz) has a chip on his shoulder about his businessman father Rico (Ronaldo Valdez) never really a... | comedy, satire | train | wikipedia | the most accurate depiction of Hollywood outsiders trying to bust in.
Knowing several real-life wannabe actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers, none of whom are exactly 'A-List,' I thought this movie was an accurate portrayal of the twists and turns that the life of a project and one's personal life take while... |
tt0119280 | Mrs Brown | Several screens of text giving some background are shown before a bust is shown flying over a palace wall and shattering into countless pieces. The film shows the story of a bereaved Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her relationship with a Scottish servant, John Brown (Billy Connolly), and the subsequent uproar it provo... | romantic, intrigue | train | wikipedia | No question, we all seem to agree that Dench deserved the Oscar (ok, Hunt was cute in AGAIG but a long way from 'Best'), Connolly is surprisingly good in this very dramatic role (I'm not exactly a huge fan of his comedic work), and Sher was very clever as Disraeli.
But this movie is just a little bit more that just gre... |
tt0087523 | Euer Weg führt durch die Hölle | A group of gorgeous American models take a long trip to South America, to participate in a photo session on a location deep in the jungle, apparently somewhere around Peruvian tropical forest. While flying over a cocaine plantation, their plane is shot down by Cesar, a dangerous drug lord, and the girls are taken priso... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | The latest weapon in the war on drugs: fashion models..
It's paced incredibly well, features the required dose of delectable nudity and exploitation, and is overall pretty well shot.
It also features a B movie cast to die for, which is what may bring this diversion to the attention of sleaze aficionados.
The godawful t... |
tt0035937 | The Ghost Ship | Tom Merriam (Russell Wade), a young merchant marine officer, joins the crew of the ship Altair. At first, all seems well and Merriam bonds with the captain, Will Stone (Richard Dix). The ship, already shorthanded due to the death of a crew member before it left port, loses another ("the Greek") when he develops appendi... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | This was pretty good entry in the Val Lewton Horror Collection, even though it's anything but "horror." This film is a straight drama, almost a film noir about a paranoid sea captain (Richard Dix) who eliminates anyone who disagrees with his "authority," a key word in this movie.Russell Wade is the captain's protégé, a... |
tt0308208 | Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever | Returning home with his mother Vinn (Talisa Soto) from a trip to Berlin, Michael Gant, the son of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) director Robert Gant (Gregg Henry), is kidnapped and his security detail is wiped out by the attacker, ex-DIA agent Sever (Lucy Liu). FBI agent Jeremiah Ecks (Antonio Banderas), left the a... | murder | train | wikipedia | No, they pay these actors for face and name recognition, so when a movie like Ballistic: Banderas vs Liu comes along we don't have the inconvenience of learning about characters and plot.
Sarcasm aside - I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I think Ballistic would have been a better, more sophisticated, film i... |
tt0094050 | Stranded | The episode begins with Jerry and George at a drug store to purchase medicine where George becomes involved in an altercation with the cashier (played by Gwen Shepherd), accusing her of short-changing him ten dollars. He is removed by the security guard. George gets invited to a party on Long Island and brings Elaine a... | tragedy, violence, plot twist, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Will you help them get away"?. There are films that never seem to see the light of day and the late 80's obscure Sci-fi thriller "Stranded" happens to be one. Supposedly from the producers who brought us "Critters" and having the young up and coming star Ione Skye in the cast. I'm surprised that it wasn't a little mor... |
tt0301231 | Duniya | Shivlingu a.k.a. Shivu, an innocent villager who works as a manual laborer in stone quarry realizes that his mother is seriously ill. He gets his mother to Bangalore for treatment, but his mother dies and he is unable to arrange finances for her funeral. He manages to pay with the only ornament he had in order to carry... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1134629 | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | The film chronicles the life of a woman named Pippa Lee (Robin Wright), with flashbacks to her tumultuous past. Pippa Sarkissian (Blake Lively) was the youngest child and only girl in her large Christian family. Her mother Suky (Maria Bello) was a neurotic mother with an obsessive fixation on her daughter's looks. By h... | comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | This will be regarded as 'a woman's movie' since it is written and directed by a woman (Rebecca Miller) and its central character (Robin Wright Penn) and most of the support roles (Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Blake Lively, Mario Bello, Monica Bellucci) are women too.
Keanu Reeves is excellent in his role as well, and... |
tt0037438 | Voice in the Wind | Jan Foley (Francis Lederer), an amnesiac Czech pianist is a victim of Nazi torture for playing a banned song. Living under a new identity on the island of French-governed Guadalupe, Jan tries to recall his past life while working for crooked refugee-smuggler Angelo (Alexander Granach). To the melancholy island of Guada... | murder | train | wikipedia | Beautifully written, directed and acted independent film..
Rare that an independent film could be made of such maturity in a time of studio run films.
Arthur Ripley helped create the character of Harry Langdon in the 20s.
A skilled writer, he had a keen eye and his direction of him own screenplay for Voice in the Wind ... |
tt1142978 | Ghostbusters | Parapsychologists Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are called to the New York Public Library to investigate recent paranormal activity. They encounter the ghost of a dead librarian but are frightened away when she transforms into a horrifying monster. After losing their jobs at Columbia University, the ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | first off, i always thought the ghostbusters movies would make a good video game.
a few years ago i thought this in my mind, just a passing thought that GB's would be a cool game to play.
and let me tell you, its so worth it.I notice some guys are saying that this game "sucks" if your a hardcore gamer.
The game has ple... |
tt0100123 | Matters of the Heart | Hope Dunne lives in a chic SoHo loft, content with her life as a top photographer. So when she accepts a London assignment at Christmas to photograph a world-famous writer, she never expected to fall in love. Finn O’Neill is taken aback with Hope and they have a windswept romance with Finn whisking her away to his pala... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Jane Seymour and Classical Music in One of the Most Beautiful Romances Ever Made.
In Cromwell, the sensitive teenager Steven Harper (Chris Gartin) dreams on becoming a pianist.
However, his rude father Glenn Harper (James Stacy), who is a disabled veteran from Vietnam, questions his masculinity since he wanted his son ... |
tt0936468 | Dard Divorce | Nathalie Stein, an embittered and exhausted young woman, is currently going through a bitter divorce from her husband Tim. A qualified attorney, she is doing her best to ensure that her two children, Jeremy and Elisabeth, never see their father again. Tim arrives to pick the children up for what is believed to be one l... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0436498 | 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... | violence | train | wikipedia | Awfully Bad. In Los Angeles, a meteor bringing some sort of disease falls on a group of homeless and turns them into flesh eater zombies.
Gangs of the Dead (2006) * 1/2 (out of 4) Also known as LAST RITES, this film was re-titled and thrown on DVD and is yet another stab at the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD line with some A... |
tt0041716 | On the Town | Three sailors – Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie – begin their shore leave, excited for their 24 hours in New York ("New York, New York"). Riding the subway, Gabey falls in love with the picture of "Miss Turnstiles", who is actually called Ivy Smith, and fantasises about what she's like in real life ("Miss Turnstiles"). The sail... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Chip (Frank Sinatra) wants to see the sights; Ozzie (Jules Munshin) wants to play; and Gabey (Kelly) immediately falls into an obsession over a girl he sees on a subway poster, `Miss Turnstiles' of the month, Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen), and vows to find her.
Vera-Ellen has a great number early on in the film, in which Miss... |
tt0030396 | The Mad Miss Manton | At 3:00 am, Melsa (Barbara Stanwyck) takes her little dogs for a walk. Near a subway construction site, she sees Ronnie Belden run out of a house and drive away. The house is for sale by Sheila Lane (Leona Maricle), the wife of George Lane, a wealthy banker. Inside, Melsa finds a diamond brooch and Mr. Lane's dead body... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | This is a delightful comedy/mystery, very much of its time, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.
Stanwyck does a great job as a madcap socialite (though the title would have you think she's a crazy bag lady) who gets involved in a murder and with reporter Fonda.
Miss Manton has a mouthy maid played by Hattie McDa... |
tt0064860 | I quattro dell'Ave Maria | Cat and Hutch arrive in El Paso where they unsuccessfully try to get bounty for Bill San Antonio from his last earthly remains – the boots. Instead they go to the bank manager Harold – which Bill in the first film disclosed as his partner in setting up the robberies – and announce themselves as Bill to see if they are ... | western, revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | The second, and in my opinion the best in the Cat Stevens/Hutch Bessy trilogy, Ace High' has enough fun for everyone to come out and play.
Eli Wallach joins the party for this film and, as a testament to the quality of actors involved, does not steal every scene he is in.
Director Colizzi went on to direct a few more ... |
tt0065032 | The Stalking Moon | U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Indians, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Indian son.
Sam Varner (Gregory Peck) is a scout retiring from the Army to his ranch in New Mexico. He agrees to escort Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint) and her son after she begs him. ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091983 | Something Wild | Mary Ann Robinson, a teenage girl attending college in New York City, is brutally raped while walking in a park near her home in the Bronx. Traumatized by the experience, Mary Ann washes away all the evidence and destroys her clothing. She hides the rape from her mother and stepfather, with whom she has an already dist... | cult, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0115097 | Andersonville | The film begins with a group of Union soldiers being captured and forced to surrender at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864. They are transported to prisoner-of-war Camp Sumter, near Andersonville, Georgia. When they enter, they discover a former comrade, named Dick Potter, who explains the grim realities of daily exi... | murder | train | wikipedia | My opinion is that Andersonville is the best Civil War movie ever made, period.
As a former Civil War reenactor, I'm not going to sit here and nitpick at all the "mistakes." Were there mistakes?
You don't have to take a test after watching this movie!I think the REAL factor in Andersonville being such a great producti... |
tt0150111 | Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror | A group of teenagers become lost in middle America and arrive in Divinity Falls, where forgotten children have taken on the duty of serving "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". The teenagers have less than a week to get out of the town. However, they find that their car is destroyed, and the children are held accountable. A... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Unlike many people who apparently don't like the Children of the Corn sequels, I happen to believe this is the best one of the series, I simply love this film, I think it is a great Slasher flick, not scary, just lots of fun, the cast was atractive,it was well acted, it has several familiar faces and there was MORE bl... |
tt0113188 | Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain | In June 1980, Beth Easton (Christina Ricci) and her recently widowed mother, Kate (Polly Draper) move from Los Angeles to a small town in northern Washington, where they move into Kate's aunt's farmhouse. At first, Beth misses L.A. and resents their new life in the country. In town, she encounters Jody Salerno (Anna Ch... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Being a teenager this was a very good movie, and christina ricci is one of my absolute favorite actresses so it was a great movie for me and my friends to watch on a saturday night with a bowl of popcorn and a few sodas, go see it!!.
In fact, I don't know why I let this movie go for so long before getting it myself and... |
tt0047684 | Yankee Pasha | [On-screen text: "Salem, Mass. 1800"] Fur trapper Jason Starbuck (Jeff Chandler) arrives in Salem. A general store owner challenges him to a horse race, but his rider's fiancee, Roxana Reil, gives a helpful tip to Starbuck on how to win the race.
A romantic attraction develops and Roxana's father advises her not to mar... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | From Salem to Morocco, he searched for the woman he loved..
Just picture yourself as a teenager in 1954 and this film comes out.
It starts as a western, it has a bit of a pirate movie, and then it switches to one of those "Ali Baba" type of films that people used to enjoy so much.
No, there is more, there is the beauti... |
tt0381772 | Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks | Jakers! takes place in two different settings, in two different time periods.
In the present time (the frame story), Piggley Winks lives in the United States of America (or Great Britain, according to different versions) and tells stories of his childhood in a rural area in the south of Ireland to his three grandchildr... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | You're telling me it's a kids' show?
But I didn't even notice it!.
Why isn't anyone talking about this show?
Why isn't everybody watching it?
Seriously, as far as kids shows go, this is a true landmark, and one of the finest things going on TV at the moment.
I read that this show is aimed at children from 3-7 years old... |
tt1319716 | It's a Wonderful Afterlife | Mrs Sethi (Shabana Azmi) is a widow living in Southall who wants to marry off her only daughter, for she is alone and unhappy. Her daughter, Roopi, (Goldy Notay) is a little plump and opinionated. Mrs Sethi finds that all her matchmaking efforts are rudely rejected. She avenges this behaviour toward her daughter by mur... | paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | I don't believe this film was meant to be a serious comment on the British Asian way of life, just a wry look at the lengths this mother would go to in order to secure a husband for her daughter.
The characters were engaging, making me want to know what was going to happen to them all, and I never yawned once, which is... |
tt0249516 | Foodfight! | Foodfight! takes place in the "Marketropolis" supermarket. After closing time, the supermarket transforms into a city in which all the citizens are "Ikes", personified well-known marketing icons.
In the Ikes' world, heroic cereal mascot Dex Dogtective is about to propose to his girlfriend, Sunshine Goodness, a raisin m... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This movie is so bad, it looks like something that some kid made on a 3d modeling program in his spare time and was super excited to show to parents.The only thing i liked is that it spawned 2 great review videos on YouTube.Seriously, if you spent so much money making it, you should at least finalize the qualityI think... |
tt2235902 | Geography Club | Russel Middlebrook is keeping a secret from his two best friends Min, a bright Chinese American girl, and Gunnar, a bright and socially awkward boy. Neither of them know he is gay and that he has been visiting an internet chat room to chat with other gay teens. When he discovers another guy from his high school in the ... | cute, queer | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1330015 | Christmas Town | It all begins when Liz McCann and her son, Mason, leave on a trip to visit Liz's estranged father Jack for Christmas. He gave them instructions, but they just can't seem to find the exact place. Liz was driving, and Mason suddenly tells her to stop. She thinks her son saw something, but it was just a reindeer. Mason ru... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0272880 | Tekken | Mere moments after Jin Kazama's departure from the Hon-Maru dojo, G Corporation helicopters approach and begin deploying Jack-4s pods into the building. Heihachi Mishima and his son, Kazuya, are awoken to a squadron bursting through the walls. At first, the two battle the Jacks together until Kazuya leaves Heihachi for... | violence | train | wikipedia | I personally am a huge fan of the Tekken series (specifically 3 and Tag Tournament), and when I saw that there was a Tekken anime, I was thrilled.
This movie had very little redeeming qualities to it: the characters were mostly annoying (ie- Lee Chaolan, Nina and Anna, Heihachi, Jun Kazama), and as has been mentioned b... |
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