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tt0408642 | Crash Twinsanity | After Crash destroys Doctor Neo Cortex's space station and rescues Crunch Bandicoot from Cortex's control, Cortex and Uka Uka escape and are preserved in ice in Antarctica. Three years later, the ice that is preserving Cortex and Uka Uka is heading towards the Wumpa Island, home of Crash and his family. Cortex escapes,... | good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | It Definitely had its Moments.
I really like this games.It is fun,has good characters,some good levels,and sometimes where you'll just want to tare you're hair out!
Though it is funny,it is a good game,it can just get really really annoying because some of the levels are repeated.It is still a pretty so so game and des... |
tt0291350 | Sennen joyû | The film opens with a woman leaving to embark on a spaceship from the moon to Earth. An earthquake occurs and it is revealed that this is simply a scene from a movie being played out on a television. Genya Tachibana, a TV interviewer, and his cameraman Kyoji Ida head off to a new job: Ginei Studios, a prestigious but b... | historical, cult, psychedelic, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Here at his second feature film, ripe after a four years hiatus, he makes the wait well-worthed with a cunning cinematographic experience that literally plunges the viewer into the wonderful world of film.Using the animation medium to push storytelling in film to new levels of effectiveness, Kon tells the story of a le... |
tt0340376 | The Statement | Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), a French Nazi collaborator, orders seven Jews executed during World War II. Some 40 years later, he is pursued by "David Manenbaum" (Matt Craven), a hitman who is under orders to kill Brossard and leave a printed 'Statement' on his body proclaiming the assassination was vengeance for th... | revenge, dark, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It's about a French collaborator, the Vichy Government, France's failure to confront the role its officials -- some still in power -- played in the Holocaust, and the efforts of right wingers in the Catholic Church to shelter the collaborator.
Michael Caine is superb in the leading role, and Tilda Swinton and Jeremy No... |
tt4228746 | Zid | ZID starts off with a flashback which has the film's protagonist Rohan Achrekar aka Ronnie(Karanvir Sharma), a crime reporter with 'The Daily'(a newspaper based in Goa), narrating an incident to his newspaper's editor Karan(Mohan Kapoor) and the area's DSP (Rajeev Saxena). He says that with the help of the editor, he f... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Nice movie.
It's a great movie and thrilled towards the end.
..its like fresh air in the stale films like hollyday.
...naam bada Darsham chhota.
..anubhaw sinha has worked nice and a wachable thriller.
..manaara kapoor was gud ...just some more gud songs may leads it to top grosser of bollywood box office.
..and some m... |
tt0141937 | The Uninvited | Kang Jung-won (Park Shin-yang), an interior decorator, is overcome with inexplicable anxiety as his long-overdue wedding with Hee-eun (Yoo Sun) approaches. One evening, Jung-won falls asleep on the subway on his way home. He is barely able to wake up at the last station. As he comes round, he sees two young girls aslee... | paranormal, flashback | train | wikipedia | This Is Based On A True Story ?.
I am particularly attracted to haunted house and ghost movies, even bad ones, but this movie which is supposed to be documenting the true story of Doretta Johnson's experiences in Madison,Indiana has every contrived haunted house plot point from every haunted house movie ever made, and ... |
tt0349330 | 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-... | flashback, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Dark Angel.
I want the show back.
Why did they cancel it anyway.
I totally loved it.
It has the perfect mix of everything and its an excellent show.
I am no stuck watching reruns at night on SItv. Maybe if they get enough feed back from viewers they will pick the show back up.
They probably wont but its a good thought.... |
tt0068997 | The New Centurions | Three rookie cops, Roy Fehler, Gus Plebesly, and Sergio Duran, report for duty with the Los Angeles police department. Roy is married with a daughter and intends to eventually become a law student. Gus is a father of three. Serge is a native of East L.A., who never expected to end up patrolling its streets.
Each is ass... | violence | train | wikipedia | Scott is a cool, uniformed policeman who employs his own unique methods of dealing with petty crime once again, it's the character who knows his beat and knows how to keep it under control
Faced with the task of rounding up prostitutes in the local Red Light district, Scott is well aware that dragging them into court... |
tt0065009 | Some Girls Do | A series of inexplicable accidents befall the development of the world's first supersonic airliner, the SST1 - a man falls victim to a homicidal air stewardess (an uncredited Maria Aitken) and two women (Yutte Stensgaard and an uncredited Joanna Lumley) perform separate acts of sabotage during tests. The Air Ministry c... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Three years after 'Deadlier Than The Male', Richard Johnson was back as Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond, this time investigating mysterious sabotage incidents involving the S.S.T.-1, Britain's newest supersonic airliner.
The same ingredients ( beautiful girls, gadgets, nice location filming, fast-moving action ) are here, but ... |
tt0039842 | So Well Remembered | At the end of World War II in the Lancashire mill town of Browdley, town councillor, newspaper editor, and zealous reformer George Boswell (John Mills) recalls the past 26 years of his life. In 1919, he defends Olivia Channing (Martha Scott) when she applies for a library job. Her cotton mill owner father John Channing... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A typically well-made British drama (with an Anglo-American cast including John Mills, Martha Scott and Trevor Howard); rarely seen today and deserves a far wider audience.
Based on a novel by James Hilton ("Lost Horizon"), who also does the narration, "So Well Remembered" captures perfectly the gloom of a poverty-stri... |
tt0061135 | The Ugly Dachshund | Fran Garrison (Suzanne Pleshette) and her husband Mark (Dean Jones) are a young happy married couple and the proud owners of an award-winning Dachshund named Danke. The movie begins with them frantically getting into the car and heading to the hospital as "the pain has started and it's about time". In a hurry to the ho... | humor | train | wikipedia | Funny gags throughout the film and just a great comedic story.
If you are a dog lover than you will be an "Ugly Dachshund" fan.
The dogs are adorable and the actors do their part to make this wonderful family comedy.
Totally under-rated.I suggest sitting down a group of young kids and asking them what they think of it,... |
tt0083146 | Sweet 16 | In a few weeks, Scottish teenager Liam will turn 16. The film opens with him using his tripod-mounted telescope outdoors on a clear night to show other children the stars and planets. He and his friends exemplify the violent "ned" subculture; they no longer attend school, but instead, hang around isolated areas or wand... | paranormal, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Parts of it are quite masterful like a scene near the end (prominently featured in all the promotional artwork) where the central girl and a male admirer go skinny-dipping at night in a lake lit only by a single cross-shaped key light.
(It's unfortunate that most slasher movie fans are such gore-hounds that they don't ... |
tt0045589 | The Caddy | The story centers around Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis), whose father was a famous golf pro. He wanted Harvey to follow in his footsteps, but poor Harvey is afraid of crowds. Instead, at the advice of his fiancée Lisa (Barbara Bates), Harvey becomes a golf instructor. Lisa's brother Joe (Dean Martin) becomes Harvey's firs... | flashback | train | wikipedia | When Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis split up in 1956, the consensus was that Jerry's comic talents would sustain his career, but that Dino would have a rough going.
Most critics did focus on Jerry's talents, Dean was the straight man who sang a nice song occasionally.
But of all their joint films, The Caddy is best rememb... |
tt0095296 | Hero and the Terror | Danny O'Brien (Chuck Norris) is a cop who likes to work alone that never waits for his back up. In L.A. he is trying to apprehend the notorious Simon Moon (Jack O'Halloran), also known as The Terror. Simon has been killing women by snapping their necks and taking them to his lair in an abandoned movie theater. O'Brien ... | good versus evil, violence, revenge, humor, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119896 | Picture Perfect | Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is struggling in the advertising business in New York City: she cannot move forward despite her talent. Her boss, Mr. Mercer (Kevin Dunn), passes her up for a promotion because she is "not stable enough". Her co-worker, Darcy (Illeana Douglas), invents a story claiming Kate is engaged to Nick (J... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I only saw this film because of Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Aniston both being in it.
She ends up winning the affections of a man she has a crush on in her office (Bacon), but then Nick begins to actually fall in love with her.The title derives from the fact that she works at a picture agency, and that's where a lot of th... |
tt3527166 | Set the Thames on Fire | Art is a down-on-his-luck lowlife pianist, whose life has stalled in a grief filled frozen moment – shipwrecked on the lonesome shore of his own life. Sal is a cracked pinball machine; full of energy, light and fun but out of control and dangerously chaotic. Having escaped from Bedlam Psychiatric Hospital, Sal is an ea... | psychedelic, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | Unbelievably SAD. I saw it with half an eye on my work - couldn't bear to watch it. There's a moment, when an aging magician performs one last trick, which made me pause and almost cry, but otherwise all of the other characters were representatives of a world lost onto itself - the horrifying image of every man for him... |
tt0097880 | The Mighty Quinn | Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is the chief of police on a small, unnamed Caribbean island (the novel was set on the fictional island of St. Caro). When Donald Pater, the millionaire owner of a luxury resort hotel, is found murdered, everyone assumes that the culprit is Maubee (Robert Townsend), a petty crook who als... | murder | train | wikipedia | I can't stop watching this old movie because it's so much fun, the characters are so comfortable to be with, the locations are so relaxing, and Washington is, as always, a wonderful actor.Though it is not the high point of the movie, my favorite moment occurs when Quinn (Washington) loosens up, sits down at the piano, ... |
tt1169841 | Return of Hanuman | Devas are ’busy’ in their Swarglok (heaven). Technology has crossed boundaries of earth and even non-mortal devas have become techno-geeks. They converse in Hinglish.
Hanuman sees a village boy who is bullied by local hooligans. He decides to help him but for that he has to take birth as a human. He decides to do so af... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Bajrang Dude..... I recently discovered "Returns of Hanuman". Now I really regret that why didn't I watch it on big screen. And thats the reason that ROH didn't do well on box office cos we all missed it on silver screen. I am very much sure that ROH would be discovered by larger population in near future (and its beco... |
tt0276501 | Shiqi sui de dan che | Guei (played by Cui Lin) is a seventeen-year-old country boy who came to Beijing to make a living. Along with a number of other boys from the country, Guei finds employment with a courier company, which assigns them brand-new bicycles for use in their deliveries. The company manager (Xie Jian) announces to them that si... | bleak, realism | train | wikipedia | Beijing Bicycle, on the other hand, can serve as an instructional manual for any high-school bully wannabes on how to reduce the stammering geek next door to a shell of a man.It's therefore understandable that the movie can be very difficult to watch at moments.
Beijing Bicycle by Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshu... |
tt0328733 | Bakuten shoot beyblade | === Beyblade ===
A young boy named Tyson (Takao Kinomiya) enters the Japan Regional Beyblade Qualifying Tournament, where he encounters Ray Kon (Rei Kon) and Kai Hiwatari. After defeating them, they organize a team, known as the Bladebreakers, along with Max Tate (Max Mizuhara). Kenny tags along as their manager. The B... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I found my old Beyblades and was inspired to watch the original series from beginning to end.
However, I was wrong and truly enjoyed watching this original series.The concept of Beyblades is quite simple.
It works well in the context of the series, although it was sometimes slightly too predictable as to the outcome.In... |
tt0085933 | Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War — Major Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious South African with a guilty secret from his youth; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence (Conti), a British offi... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | Well, I re-watched it recently and it has lost none of it's power.The acting in the movie is adequate without ever being great (the notable exception being Tom Conti who is fantastic in his role as the misunderstood titular character).However, the movie moves beyond the acting and once you are embroiled in the atmosphe... |
tt0814023 | Battle Royale | Battle Royale takes place in a fictional police state version of Japan in the year 1997. The state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国, Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku), originated after a population uprising was put down by the combined military and police forces. From time to time, fifty randomly selected classes o... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066863 | The Brotherhood of Satan | Ben (Charles Bateman), his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri), and Ben's young daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl) are driving through the American Southwest to K.T.'s grandmother's house for a birthday celebration. They come upon an automobile accident in the town of Hillsboro, and when they attempt to report it, they meet the lo... | paranormal, cult, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035657 | Baby Puss | A little girl named Nancy is playing dollhouse, and pretending to be the mother and has also dressed Tom, apparently the family pet, up to be her baby. She scolds Tom, who is hiding under some furniture. She drags Tom out by his tail and threatens to spank him. Tom is resentful over his treatment and feels humiliated. ... | comic | train | wikipedia | Once again, very enjoyable.
There may be the odd joke that I agree could be perhaps a little on the mean-spirited side of things, but this is occasionally.
Overall, Baby Puss is very well animated and very funny, well to me it is.
Tom is great here and takes his humiliations well, while Jerry is as cunning as usual, an... |
tt0029952 | Bulldog Drummond's Peril | The intended wedding of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) to Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) at her villa in Switzerland is stopped short (once again) when someone murders the Swiss policeman who is guarding their wedding presents. The killer makes off with their prize possession, a synthetic diamond, mad... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of the weaker entries in the Drummond series, but it's still entertaining.
Perhaps I've seen too many of the Drummond films too close together.
The villains don't appear evil or sharp enough to harm a fly, let alone our hero.There is a nice sequence of that wonderful 30s "lab equipment" working its magic.
Another t... |
tt0079727 | The Plumber | The film opens as Dr. Brian Cowper (Robert Coleby) takes a shower in the apartment he shares with his wife Jill (Judy Morris), who is a masters student in anthropology. As he exits the building's elevator on his way to work, an ominous character is seen entering and randomly choosing the button for the ninth floor. He ... | comedy | train | wikipedia | A bush-walk that defies explanation at HANGING ROCK, a country town with a lurid secret in THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS, oveflowing domestic storm-water in THE LAST WAVE and here, the humble PLUMBER, or maybe the stranger from Hell?Filmed for the most part in Jill Cowper's (Judy Morris's) apartment, if not the bathroom itse... |
tt0042281 | The Breaking Point | Harry Morgan (John Garfield), is a sport-fishing boat captain whose business is on the skids and whose family is feeling the economic pinch. He begins to work with a shady lawyer, Duncan (Wallace Ford), who persuades him to run illegal immigrants into California. Harry also begins a flirtation with Leona Charles (Patri... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120681 | From Hell | In 1888, Mary Kelly (Heather Graham) and her small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. When their friend Ann Crook (Joanna Page) is kidnapped, they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder o... | dark, psychological, gothic, murder, mystery, paranormal, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, revenge, historical | train | wikipedia | The critics, nit-pickers and historical pedants who've trashed this superb piece of truly cinematic movie-making have totally missed the point.So what if Johnny Depp's English accent isn't exactly "right" for his character?
For the record, the theory behind the killings is pretty much right out of JACK THE RIPPER: THE ... |
tt0267548 | Haseena Maan Jaayegi | Amirchand (Kader Khan) is the ill-fated father of two mischievous sons - Sonu (Sanjay Dutt) and Monu (Govinda). Both of them are always up to one prank or the other, most of them aimed at stealing money from Amirchand.
In the opening scene, they call up their father, acting as gangsters, and ask for a huge sum if he wa... | prank | train | wikipedia | Roller coaster ride of fun with many funny moments.
The movie is really a roller coaster ride of fun with many sub plots.From beginning to end there is fun in every scene.
Even though Govinda and Sanju are main characters in the plot he other characters also deliver fun.The movie is roller coaster of fun because every ... |
tt0197273 | Bartok the Magnificent | Russia is being terrorized by an evil witch known as Baba Yaga (Andrea Martin), and the only one who is not afraid of her is Bartok the Magnificent (Hank Azaria). Bartok, an albino bat, has just arrived in Moscow and is impressing everyone with his performances, including Prince Ivan (Phillip Van Dyke). However, Ivan's... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This film, about a circus bat in Russia, off to save the prince from the "evil" Baba Yaga, will no doubt have a great appeal on children.
It is sure to entertain them and they will be likely to sing and dance along with it as soon as they know the words of the songs.As an older person, such as a grown-up or teenager, t... |
tt0048310 | The Lone Ranger | In 1933, a boy, Will, who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger, encounters the elderly Comanche Native American Tonto at a sideshow in a San Francisco fair. Tonto proceeds to recount his experiences with that Old West adventurer.
In 1869, lawyer John Reid returns home to Colby, Texas via the uncompleted Transcontinental ... | murder | train | wikipedia | Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels reprise their television roles in this western classic that has the Lone Ranger and Tonto defusing a war between ranchers and Indians.
The picture was filmed in beautiful color with excellent sound, and has a solid cast and a very good music score, including the signature William Tell ... |
tt0057441 | The Quick and the Dead | An unnamed gunslinger known only as The Lady enters the Old West town of Redemption circa 1881, where she enters a single elimination gunfighting contest held by Redemption's ruthless mayor and former outlaw John Herod. While there she meets Cort, a former Herod henchman turned preacher whom Herod has captured and forc... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1282022 | Batman: Arkham Asylum | === Characters ===
Arkham Asylum is set in the fictional Arkham Asylum, a facility on Arkham Island off the coast of Gotham City that houses criminally insane supervillains. The game features a large ensemble of characters from the history of Batman comics. Three voice actors, who worked on the DC Animated Universe ser... | gothic, murder, violence, insanity, psychedelic, sadist | train | wikipedia | The long-time voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy, reprises his role as the Caped Crusader, and Mark Hamill sounds appropriately sociopathic as the Joker, one of the best voice-over jobs in the game, and that's saying a lot.The bad?
the game is excellent in all aspects (Story, game play, actions, level designs, graphics).The... |
tt0045013 | The Pathfinder | At the beginning of the French and Indian War in 1754, the Mingo Indians allied to the French massarcre the Mohican tribe allied to British. Pathfinder and Chingachgook discover the only survivor, a child named Uncas. Angered that the British did not protect their allies the Mohicans, Pathfinder gains entry to the Brit... | revenge, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Colorful and nostalgic western. George Montgomery stars in a minor western matinée feature that is a takeoff of "The Last of the Mohicans". Here, the plot angle has the Pathfinder and his Indian sidekick on a mission to divine French plans for an attack on the U.S. colonies in the Great Lakes region. The French have en... |
tt0435576 | Point Pleasant | A young girl named Christina washes up on the shore near Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey during a violent storm. After being resuscitated by lifeguard Jesse Parker, the girl is taken in by the family of a local doctor, the Kramers, and quickly befriends their teenage daughter, Judy. The show follows Christina's attemp... | good versus evil, paranormal, murder | train | wikipedia | Also I felt cheated by Fox, just as I was really getting into the program "WHAM THEY CANCEL IT"!!!I hope that the rest of the episodes will be either aired VERY SOON or put to DVD.
It is a teen supernatural thriller, but not like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - the monsters are more or less human and there is very little ... |
tt0079877 | The Seekers | In 1821, a British sailing ship, the Becket, anchors on the New Zealand coast. Philip Wayne (Hawkins) and Paddy Clarke (Purcell), respectively First Mate and Bos'un, land to explore. They discover a Māori burial cave, but are captured by the local tribe. Accused of sacrilege, they manage to impress the tribesmen enough... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | historical drama at it's best. "the Seekers" is the third and last mini-series based on John Jakes best-selling Bicentennial books about the fictitious Kent family. Here the focus shifts from Philip Kent, played in the 1st two by Andrew Stevens, but here by Martin Milner to show how much time has passed), to his son Ab... |
tt0112750 | Crying Freeman | Yō Hinomura, a Japanese potter, comes into the possession of some film showing an assassination by an agent of the 108 Dragons, a powerful Chinese mafia. When he refuses to turn the film over to them, they kidnap him. Hypnotized, he is trained as an assassin for them and his body is tattooed with dragons. He is given t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0080474 | Brubaker | In 1969, a mysterious man (Robert Redford) arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas. As an inmate, he immediately witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care. Brubaker eventually reveal... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Though Shawshank Redemption has gotten the critical raves and the box office receipts that could make it the best prison story ever filmed, my personal choice for the best film ever done about the penal system is Brubaker.Based on the true life experiences of Thomas Murton, the co-author of the book the film is based o... |
tt0171135 | Brown's Requiem | German-American Los Angeles-based detective Fritz Brown is hired by the mysterious caddie Fat Dog Baker, who wants him to spy on his sister Jane and her benefactor, the much older businessman Sol Kupferman. Brown recognizes Kupferman as a man he had seen at the Club Utopia before it was burned down some years before. B... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Great looking film noir.
All of these reviews worth their salt catch on to the fact that this is a great adaption of the book.
What they fail to mention is that the locations in this movie really give it that dark, haunting feel that is the underbelly of Los Angeles.
The city's most interesting aspect is hidden in its ... |
tt0285312 | Ruîgi manshon | The game begins with Luigi having won a mansion in a contest. Despite not having entered any contest, he promptly told Mario about the mansion, and the two agreed to meet up outside it that evening. Luigi takes a flashlight with him and he follows the map to the mansion. Upon finally arriving at his new mansion, which ... | magical realism | train | wikipedia | Very fun, very cute little game.
While Mario gets zillions of games to himself every year, it's not often that Luigi gets his own lead, unless you count 1993's MARIO IS MISSING on the SNES.In this cool little game, Luigi goes Ghostbusting in a haunted mansion (one of those Scooby-Doo types) that he has mysteriously won... |
tt0101897 | Flight of Black Angel | Captain Eddie Gordon, a top gun pilot of an Air Force academy, is a talented and aggressive pilot who proves too much for his fellow instructees to match. His flight instructor, Matt Ryan (Peter Strauss) tries to encourage him to practice restraint, but with little success.
After his birthday party at his home in Las V... | murder | train | wikipedia | Surprisingly good.
Before he had the big budget of U-571, director Jonathan Mostow proved back in 1991 that he has what it takes to create a gripping movie.
I rented this because I was writing a screenplay with a similar premise.
The aerial combat sequences here are just as -- if not more so -- thrilling as anything in... |
tt0306359 | Monrak Transistor | The story begins in a jail, where a prisoner is being interrogated. The action is taking place in the background, behind bars and is blurred. The focus is on a bottle of laxative. Seems the prisoner has stolen a necklace and swallowed it. Soon, the necklace is passed. And it's not even real gold.
The old jailer picks u... | melodrama, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Beautifully crafted and original movie.
I picked this movie up because it was "Voted Thai best film of 2001" - though I had serious reservations about doing so when I saw the artwork, which makes it look like a terribly sugary romance.
I'm glad I decided not to judge this one by the cover, because what's inside is so m... |
tt0685628 | The Sign of Four | The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not bee... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Excellent adaptation.
One of Conan Doyle's best Holmes stories is adapted to perfection in this, the first feature length Holmes adventure from Granada Television.
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke are fantastic (as always) and the supporting cast are quite good, not to mention appropriately quirky (especially importan... |
tt0044320 | Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd | Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson (Lou Costello) and Rocky Stonebridge (Bud Abbott) are on their way to Death's Head Tavern, where they work. They encounter Lady Jane (Fran Warren), who asks them to bring a love note to the tavern singer, Bruce Martingale (Bill Shirley).
At the tavern, the notorious Captain Kidd (Charles L... | action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0041509 | The Inspector General | Georgi (Danny Kaye), an illiterate member of a wandering band of Gypsies led by Yakov (Walter Slezak) escapes from a travelling medicine show after he innocently lets slip that the elixir they're selling is a fraud. Tired and hungry, he wanders into the small town of Brodny and whilst trying to sample the contents of a... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Freely based on Nikolai Gogol's play , "The Inspector General" about a false Inspector who comes to examine a little corrupt town .
It deals with an illiterate called Giorgi (Danny Kaye, able to tongue twist faster than anyone else) along with his boss (Walter Slezak) , both of whom are wandering and acting as medicine... |
tt0831399 | The Three Musketeers | In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris i... | historical fiction | train | wikipedia | One of Golden Films stronger animations. I say this as someone who generally likes the Golden Films Productions animations, my favourites being Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid and Pinocchio. The Three Musketeers is such a timeless story, and I was expecting something decent while not expecting something completely faith... |
tt0494271 | La sconosciuta | Irena (Kseniya Rappoport), a Ukrainian prostitute on the run, is determined to find a job in an elegant apartment building in northern Italy, and starts by cleaning the stairs. She does it in order to inch her way into working for a family residing in that building. She befriends Gina (Piera Degli Esposti), the nanny o... | violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0063402 | P.J. | New York City private eye P.J. (Peter Joseph) Detweiler needs the work, so he accepts an offer to be a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison.
Orbison takes the family to the Bahamas, where a romantic attachment between P.J. and the married Maureen seems to be growing. Or... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Needs to be seen in its original form.
PJ was originally released in the late 60s when movies were rated either "G" or "M"; anything with any questionable content was rated "M" and Studio execs, with the wisdom of their breed, realized they might as well put in as much as they could get away with.
The result was some d... |
tt0431114 | Today You Die | Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a Robin Hood kind of thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help out others. The work keeps getting riskier, and at the urging of his girlfriend Jada (Mari Morrow), Banks has decided to pull one final job, going in with some men who... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | "Today You Die" is another ridiculous action film from Seagal.
Interestingly the car chase stolen from Weller's epic, made almost 10 years ago and ironically probably cheaper than this garbage, is actually by far the best action scene of the film.
Seagal does however feel the need to talk like he is a gangsta rapper... |
tt3339966 | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | In the first season, Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) was in 8th grade when she was kidnapped for fifteen years by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm). The Reverend held Kimmy and three other women hostage in an underground bunker, and convinced them that doomsday had come, gone, and had left them the sole survivo... | cult | train | wikipedia | I'm a little late to the party as I've only watched Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this year, but I figured it was time to watch it since I'm a fan of Tina Fey and 30 Rock.
I wanted to like it and I was very excited to watch it, but it was honestly a big let down compared to the previous two seasons.
Overall, this show is a... |
tt0117483 | Ripper | Molly Keller (A. J. Cook) narrowly avoids being murdered by a serial killer, after managing to escape an island. Five years later, she takes a forensic psychology class taught by Marshall Kane (Bruce Payne), a world-renowned expert on deviant violent offenders. Also taking the class are Jason Korda (Ryan Northcott), Ch... | revenge, neo noir, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0037098 | The Mummy's Curse | The Southern Engineering Company is trying to drain the swamp of Cajun Country for the public good. However, the efforts are being hampered by the superstitions of the workers, who believe the area to be haunted by the mummy and his bride.
Two representatives of the Scripps Museum, Dr. James Halsey (Dennis Moore) and D... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091178 | Haunted Honeymoon | Larry Abbot (Wilder) and Vickie Pearle (Radner) are performers on radio's "Manhattan Mystery Theater" who decide to get married. Larry has been plagued with on-air panic attacks and speech impediments since proposing marriage. Vickie thinks it is just pre-wedding jitters, but his affliction could get them both fired.
L... | satire | train | wikipedia | Gene Wilder is completely charming and does some great understated acting in this film; Gilda Radner is funny everywhere she goes.
Dom DeLouise pulls off a great drag character, and no one works too hard on their jokes--it's just a good time, filmed with surprising confidence.
Though it looks like it's going to be anot... |
tt0098519 | Troop Beverly Hills | On the last day of school in 1989, Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) is a socialite Beverly Hills wife with a heart of gold recently separated from her husband, Freddy (Craig T. Nelson), a wealthy owner of an auto shop chain. Freddy feels Phyllis has become a self-absorbed "shopaholic" who never follows through on her comm... | horror, storytelling, home movie | train | wikipedia | A stereotypical portrayal of a Beverly Hills "Wilderness Girls" troup of pre-adolescent girls and their flighty but maternal leader, Phyllis Neffler, played by Shelley Long.
If only all girls scouts were as fun as Troop Beverly Hills!
The film about a down and out divorced house wife with a passion for fashion becoming... |
tt0025617 | The Painted Veil | On a brief trip back to London, earnest, bookish bacteriologist Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is dazzled by Kitty Garstin (Naomi Watts), a vain London socialite. He proposes; she accepts ("only to get as far away from [her] mother as possible"), and the couple honeymoon in Venice. They travel on to Walter's medical post ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0056417 | The Road to Hong Kong | The story is told in flashback as Diane (Joan Collins) explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians.
Harry Turner (Crosby) and Chester Babcock (Hope) are defrauding people in Calcutta by selling a "Do-it-yourself interplan... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105792 | Waxwork II: Lost in Time | The film opens with a reenactment of final scenes of Waxwork, with Mark and Sarah leaving the burning waxwork (the part of Sarah having been recast from the first film). The disembodied zombie hand from the first film follows Sarah to her run-down flat and kills her stepfather with a hammer, a murder for which Sarah is... | murder, violence, cult, good versus evil, satire, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0156066 | Shake, Rattle & Roll | === Christmas Tree ===
Stephen (Nash Aguas), his mother Myrna (Gina Alajar), and his two sisters Hazel (Lovi Poe) and Eunice (Sophia Baars) planned to visit their Lola Susana (Boots Anson-Roa) during the Christmas Break. During the long journey, Stephen has a dream concerning his deceased father Chuck (Tonton Guttierez... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0031826 | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | The Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn) returns in triumph to London after having dealt the Spanish a crushing naval defeat at Cadiz. In London, an aging Queen Elizabeth (Bette Davis) awaits him with love, but also with fear, because of his popularity with the commoners and his consuming ambition. His envious rivals include Si... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | She walks the razor's edge of lonely command and tormented despair.DeHavilland's Penelope is a pivotal character whose envy of the queen and discounting by Essex drives her to attempt to destroy their relationship but finally realises where her loyalties lie.But the highlight of the film is the intimate exchanges betwe... |
tt0093072 | The Garbage Pail Kids Movie | A garbage can spaceship is seen flying near Earth. The same garbage can is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four older teenage bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money and drops him in a puddle. Dodger goes to Manzini's antique shop ... | cult, humor | train | wikipedia | I decided to find this movie and watch it because I hadn't seen it since it first come out, and I was sure I enjoyed it as a kid- What was wrong with me!!!
As a lover of movies, I sat down to see The Garbage Pail Kids Movie after hearing from so many people how bad it was.
The humour was also very grotesque, I know the... |
tt0357054 | The Last Shot | FBI agent Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) has been assigned to come up with an elaborate scheme to take down infamous mob boss John Gotti. He assumes the role of a Hollywood producer and tells all the right lies to enlist a stooge to help execute his sting. He finds unsuspecting wannabe screenwriter/director Steven Schats (M... | satire | train | wikipedia | But it isn't until the first 20 or so minutes into the film that the significance of the movie can be appreciated.Based on an apparently true news article, THE LAST SHOT takes a pot shot at not only Hollywood, but also organized crime, production magnates, the FBI, and little people with big dreams lost in the elusive ... |
tt0144189 | Exposé | Paul Martin (Kier) is a novelist who rents out a secluded cottage in the British countryside in order to complete his new book, a pretentious sex romp. Plagued by recurring paranoid nightmares, he has split with his girlfriend Suzanne (Richmond) and is having problems writing his book. Paul employs a secretary, Linda H... | murder | train | wikipedia | Quite flawed, yet oddly compelling. Far from being incidental, the theme of continuing child sexual abuse *is* the story of "Footsteps." (Alternate title: "Expose.") A haunting, disconnected portrayal of the deep effects on the psyche of this type of abuse, the film itself takes on the characteristics of those sexually... |
tt3612032 | Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort | Daria and Nick ride their bikes deep in the Hobb Springs Bike Trail. After bathing in a small watering hole, they start having sex. Afterward, they ride their bikes again until Nick falls off and discovers that an unknown assailant has shot him with a bow and arrow. The assailant, Three Finger, then kills Nick with an ... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0062692 | Baazi | Madan (Dev Anand) comes from a once well-to-do family background who is now out of work and lives in a shanty with a sick younger sister Manju (Roopa Verman). Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in a big way. He develops a reputation for being a lucky gambler and is one day found and escorted by a stranger ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Dharmendra-Waheeda starrer suspense-thriller. There have been many Bollywood movies made under the title - Baazi. The most famous one among them is Dev Anand-Geeta Bali starrer film which was released in 1951 and directed by Guru Dutt. However today I am reviewing a lesser known Baazi starring Dharmendra and Waheeda Re... |
tt1482859 | Hansel and Gretel | Hansel and Gretel are the young children of a poor woodcutter. When a great famine settles over the land, the woodcutter's second, abusive wife decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves, so that she and her husband do not starve to death, because the kids eat too much. The ... | paranormal, psychedelic, avant garde, magical realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0072402 | Where the Red Fern Grows | When leaving work in Idaho's Snake River Valley, Billy Colman sees a pack of dogs attacking a stray coonhound. He chases the pack away and takes the stray home to feed it. Once it has rested, Billy sets it free, knowing that it will return home.
The experience reminds Billy of his childhood growing up in the Ozark Moun... | tragedy, depressing | train | wikipedia | Good Family Movie.
Today's young people should really take a look a look at this family movie.
If your kids are acting up, force them to watch this movie, and then they will appreciate on how easy they have it.
Life was simple then, and family values were high, I especially liked when Billy spent the extra ten dollars ... |
tt1168764 | Urduja | Set in the 13th century, the film is a fictionalized tale of Princess Urduja, legendary warrior princess of Pangasinan.
As the only daughter of Lakanpati, chieftain of the Tawilisi tribe of Northern Luzon, Urduja grew up as a warrior with the ability and willingness to defend her people from their rival tribe, the Badj... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | It Could've Been So Much More. I am not a cartoonist, nor an animator, nor a general 2D person. Professionally speaking, I avoid projects that require animation and movement. I hate it and I hate the technicalities involved with it.Now Urduja is a good try, considering the various factors that dictate that everything e... |
tt0806088 | Heyy Babyy | Arush Mehra (Akshay Kumar) lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia with roommates Tanmay Joglekar (Ritesh Deshmukh) and Ali Haider (Fardeen Khan). Arush works for a popular dance club, while Tanmay entertains children as 'Eddy Teddy', and Ali takes care of their apartment. Mostly he watch... | humor, melodrama | train | wikipedia | Thought process as you watch "Hey Babyy":: First-half:: Is it the same Sajid Khan who directed the weakest segment of Darna Zaroori Hain?
Fardeen Khan, loved him in his Chupke-Chupke attire and of course the take it slowly episode.Ritiesh Deshmukh, dependable as usual and IMO he should stop getting slapped in every oth... |
tt0038671 | Kitty Kornered | The neighborhood's cat owners all (literally) throw their cats out for the night. Porky Pig attempts to do the same, but his four cats (a tall black and white lisping cat (Sylvester), a medium-sized tabby, a diminutive kitten, and a dumb drunkard cat) attempt to turn the tables and throw him out into the snow. Porky st... | comic | train | wikipedia | Has To Be One Of The More Frenetic Cartoons Ever.
Porky Pig is trying to put out his four cats for the evening and one them is the cat we know as Sylvester, who became a lot more famous when he was paired with Tweetie, which began the year after this cartoon was released.At 9 p.m., according to this story, all cats wer... |
tt2027136 | Kristy | The film opens with a hooded figure photographing a young woman's corpse in an empty field, followed by a montage of internet screenshots and video of women being killed in what appears to be ritual murders by a cybercult, and footage of the murders being uploaded on an anonymous underground website, where members are ... | cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1433822 | The Apparition | On May 21, 1973, six people conduct The Charles Experiment, a parapsychological experiment, in which they stare at a drawing of a deceased man, Charles Reamer, hoping to summon his spirit. Years later, four college students, Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) a... | paranormal, psychedelic, suspenseful, haunting | train | wikipedia | True to its title, 'The Apparition' arrives almost too quietly in cinemas this week – though rather than being a marketing gimmick like how the first 'Paranormal Activity' built its cult status, there is a much more straightforward reason why this low-budget B-grade horror flick has come without any fanfare.
After sett... |
tt1193507 | My Own Love Song | In Marysville, Kansas, a paralyzed former singer, Jane, argues with her stuttering friend Joey about his belief that he can talk to the invisible world. One day, during her physiotherapy treatment, he messes up her house while searching for a book about angels that he has lent her. He is taken by the police to a hospit... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Two lost souls go on a journey to discover themselves again..
I saw a preview for this film in Paris in the presence of both the director (Olivier Dahan, who is French) and Forest Whitaker.
The director described it as simple and happy while Forest mentioned magic.
They were both right.
The film was beautiful.
The whol... |
tt1052040 | Seventh Moon | Newlywed Melissa (Amy Smart) and her Chinese-American husband Yul (Tim Chiou) are spending their honeymoon in China, where they intend to visit his relatives. During the day they participate in the "Hungry Ghost" Festival, a sort of local Halloween where they drink and celebrate and learn of the tradition of leaving of... | dark | train | wikipedia | The concept of hungry ghosts is a central part of the tradition of Chinese Ancestor Worship, and had great potential for an excellent movie melding the supernatural and horror.
The script writers even set it during an actual event in the Chinese year, a festival sharing much in common with the true traditions of All Ha... |
tt0098194 | The Return of the Musketeers | Twenty years after the events of The Four Musketeers, Cardinal Mazarin has imprisoned the Duke of Beaufort. Mazarin hires d'Artagnan to bring together Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, to work for him. Porthos accepts, but Athos and Aramis decline. By this time, Athos has a son named Raoul.
Milady de Winter's daughter, Justi... | cult, action, murder, romantic, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Unfortunately, the tragic accident suffered by Roy Kinnear casts a palor over the ending.The original cast is as good now as in the original films.
C. Thomas Howell is completely forgettable as Athos' son, Raoul.Part of the problem with this film is that Mazarin never seems as formidable as Richelieu and Cattrall is a ... |
tt0137115 | Mothman | In Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home to the legend of the Mothman, a group of high school seniors camp out next to a river near an old mill where the Mothman is supposedly buried under the incinerators. While pranking their friend Jamie by trying to scare him with the Mothman's legend, the teenagers accidentally drow... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1303828 | Defendor | Dr. Park (Sandra Oh), a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington (Woody Harrelson), a vigilante known as "Defendor", who tells about assaulting a police officer who claims to be working undercover. Dooney (Elias Koteas) is a corrupt detective who Defendor believes is in the employ of his nemesis, "Captain Indust... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0005059 | The Captive | The Captive chronicles the life of a young woman named Sonia Martinovitch (Blanche Sweet) who lived during the midst of the Balkan Wars. She lives close to the Turkish border on a small farm in Montenegro with her older brother Marko Martinovich (Page Peters) and younger brother Milo (Gerald Ward). Nearby, a Turkish no... | cruelty | train | wikipedia | Entertaining Silent Highlights Forgotten Balkan Wars. Early in the 20th century, four independent Balkan states formed the Balkan League and defeated the Ottoman Empire during the years just prior to World War I. Set in Montenegro, one of the four independent states, Cecil B. DeMille's "The Captive," filmed in 1915, de... |
tt0084881 | Waga seishun no Arcadia | "At the end of their lives, all men look back and think that their youth was arcadia." — Goethe
During the early 20th Century, some time after World War I, aerial explorer Captain Harlock F. Phantom is embarking on what is to be the magnum opus of his long career, the traversing of the Owen Stanley Mountains in New Gui... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Great movie. In my heart, I believe this to be a great movie, for its time. The 1982 animation was acceptable, but doesn't compare to Queen Emeraldas Or Harlock Saga.Now, on with the praise. I have grown up with Captain Harlock, under the guise of Albator (which is the French name) up here in Canada, and though I did... |
tt0040067 | Aag | Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan (Ajay Devgan) and Raj Ranade (Prashant Raj Sachdev) are bodyguards of a politician but, after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai (Rajpal Yadav), who in turn, gets them employed with a gangst... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0810644 | Korgoth of Barbaria | Korgoth is infected with a deadly parasite by Gog-Ma-Gogg and extorted to steal an item known as "The Golden Goblin of the Fourth Age" from the wizard Specules, whom Gog believes to have recently died. He journeys with a group of Gog-Ma-Gogg's henchmen to Specules' castle, picking up a girl and killing several things a... | violence | train | wikipedia | This is the kind of show America has been needing for a long time.
Blood, Violence and the occasional maiden in distress.
Korgoth meets all the needs of teenagers who are tired with the Disney channel and Nickelodeon cartoons.
This randomness doesn't occur often in cartoons, well neither does a lot of blood and violenc... |
tt0030604 | Porky in Wackyland | A newspaper shows Porky traveling to Africa to hunt the rare dodo bird, worth four sextillion dollars. Porky uses his airplane to go to Dark Africa, then Darker Africa, and finally lands in Darkest Africa. When Porky lands, a sign tells him that he's in Wackyland ("Population: 100 nuts and a squirrel"), while a voice b... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | This cartoon is an early pinnacle of animation insanity, the prototypical Warner Brothers short.
A blitzkrieg of jokes, puns, and free-wheeling mayhem, WB-style cartoons sometimes equaled, but never surpassed, "Porky in Wackyland".
For these, and many other, reasons, "Porky in Wackyland" is the blueprint for the best o... |
tt0277371 | Not Another Teen Movie | In the stereotypical high school community of John Hughes High in Southern California, attractive Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), a popular cheerleader, separates from her talented football star but slacker boyfriend, Jake Wyler (Chris Evans). After Jake discovers that Priscilla is now dating timid and weird Les (Riley Smit... | romantic, humor, stupid, adult comedy, flashback | train | wikipedia | The point of spoofs and satires, to me, are not just to take familiar scenes and do something retarded and gross with them, but instead to actually make fun of all the things in the original movies that, while watching them, we all turned to our friends and said "wait a minute, thats kind of stupid".
It is, unlike many... |
tt0089878 | Rainbow War | In the Golden kingdom, a young boy creates a flying golden ring, large enough to carry a man. Using it, he leaves the Golden kingdom to explore the other lands. The Blue king sees him in his ring, leaving a trail of yellow light through the air, and gets an idea of his own; a blue hot air balloon, which his people can ... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | A Joyous Celebration of World Diversity circa Expo '86!.
Bob Rogers greatest triumph!
David Spear's beautiful score!
This short film made for the Canadian Pacific Pavillion at Vancouver's underrated Expo 86 extols all the virtues of good filmmaking.
A succinct allegory with gorgeous set design, rollicking special effec... |
tt2119474 | Maximum Conviction | It should be an easy day's work for former black ops operative Cross (Steven Seagal) and his partner Manning (Stone Cold Steve Austin). They and their group have been hired to oversee and orchestrate the decommissioning of a secret military penal facility, and organize the transport of the inmates to their new civilian... | murder, violence, flashback, humor, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2290836 | The Healing | Odong (Robert Arevalo) suffers from a severe stroke, Seth (Vilma Santos) decides to bring him to Manang Elsa (Daria Ramirez), a faith healer. Elsa, who apparently has the ability to heal people from illnesses, performs the "healing" and prescribes herbal medicine. As Seth and her father prepare to leave, a man, who is ... | suspenseful, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, plot twist, flashback, good versus evil, haunting, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Symptoms persist.
"The Healing" is a horror film by Chito S.
Roño starring Vilma Santos and Kim Chiu.
The movie revolves around the risks of believing in faith healers and the consequential phenomenon of evil doppelgängers.I am glad that this is not a horror flick taken from worn-out concepts.
The idea of doppelgängers... |
tt0038427 | Courage of Lassie | A collie pup is separated from his mother and grows to young adulthood in the forest. After being swept away in a torrent and then shot by a young hunter, he is found by Kathie Merrick (Elizabeth Taylor) and carried to her home. With the help of a kindly shepherd, Mr. MacBain (Frank Morgan), she tends him back to healt... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | This film starts off with a collie named Bill who breaks away from his family and encounters all kinds of friends in the woods which are bears, ravens, hawks and even travels on a pile of wood through all kinds of rapids that almost drown him.
Bill no sooner takes a chance and relaxes in the grass when he is shot by hu... |
tt0398839 | Cattle Call | Cattle Call follows the three male protagonists as they hold a fake casting call in Hollywood for a fictional independent film entitled Perfect for Me with the hope of meeting women. Richie is looking for a relationship, while Sherman and Glenn are more interested in sex. After going on dates with the girls, they event... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Dull and mediocre but it had a few chuckles..
It ain't no Vacation movie but I guess I could say it was worth the rental..sorta.
I had small mixed feelings about this movie.
The premise of the movie was good, it was just the movie itself that was bad.
Diedrich Bader had a very weak performance in this movie and Thomas ... |
tt1112285 | Fear Itself | While carving jack-o'-lanterns in Xander's basement, the gang discusses plans for Halloween; Buffy continues to mope over her situation with Parker. They decide to go to the Alpha-Delta house for a party. The next day at school, Buffy and Oz both express their concerns for Willow and her use of magic. Buffy spots Parke... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | This show is not excellent but it isn't bad either, each week the show seems to be improving, not to mention a more well known variation of cast members.It is entirely up to the viewer their own points of view but in mine its worth giving it a watch, especially the new years day or eater episodes.Unfortunately those wh... |
tt0111534 | U.F.O. | The story opens with a team sent to a house in the countryside at midnight. They find a truck with one man dead and a trail of blood leading back to the house. Inside they find several targets (none of which are seen) and receive the kill-order. A series of gunshots rings out, accompanied by a series of screams. Moment... | humor, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0102469 | Mortal Thoughts | The film revolves mainly around a scene in which Cynthia Kellogg (Demi Moore) is interrogated by two investigators at the police station. The deposition given by Cynthia is supported by detailed flashbacks throughout the film. The interrogation arouses particular suspicion about whether Cynthia's own husband could have... | neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Not being a fan of either Demi Moore or Bruce Willis, I was not prepared to be blown away by both their performances in Mortal Thoughts.
The two actors give nuanced and very real performances as regular Jersey folks, and Glenne Headly steals the movie.
Joyce is constantly talking about killing Jimmy, and since the movi... |
tt1706598 | Every Secret Thing | The movie is told in non-chronological order, with present scenes intercut with flashbacks that slowly reveal the details of the past as the movie progresses.
18 year old Ronnie Fuller and Alice Manning have just been released from Juvenile Hall after serving 7 years for the kidnapping and murder of the bi-racial grand... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | A three year old child goes missing in a small town where two teenage girls live, girls who had been recently released from prisoned for a previous child kidnapping and murder.
Of the former, it is perhaps not as intriguing as it could be, although admittedly it does have some twists and turns; of the latter it is perh... |
tt0066093 | Monte Walsh | Montelius "Monte" Walsh (Tom Selleck) is an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era. He and his friend Chet Rollins (Keith Carradine), another long-time cowhand, work at whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse". Their lives are divided between months on the range and... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Yes, because "Monte Walsh" now joins my list of one of the five best westerns ever made; and, no, because at the tender age of 21, I would not have appreciated this masterpiece; which, in these especially troubled times, seems more relevant than ever.According to TCM host, Robert Osborne, William Fraker directed only 4... |
tt0030879 | Too Hot to Handle | Union Newsreel reporter Chris Hunter (Clark Gable) is sneakier and has fewer scruples than his rivals in war-torn China. When the Japanese do not oblige with a convenient aerial attack to film, Chris fakes one with a model aircraft with his cameraman José Estanza (Leo Carrillo).
Outraged when he finds out, Chris's main... | romantic, humor | train | wikipedia | very funny Gable and Loy outing.
Clark Gable is a newsreel photographer doing stories on the China-Japan war in Shanghai, Walter Pidgeon is his rival, and Myrna Loy an aviatrix in "Too Hot to Handle," a 1938 film from MGM.
Gable and Pidgeon know each other well and besides stealing each other's film, they fake stories ... |
tt0106393 | Best of the Best II | After returning home from South Korea, three members of the U.S. National Karate Team set up a martial arts studio in Las Vegas. Travis has been secretly competing at "The Coliseum", a brutal underground fighting arena run by Weldon, whose protégé Brakus is the owner and undefeated champion. Ordinarily a challenger mus... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Eric Roberts and Phillip Rhee avenge the death of their friend with some spectacular fighting.
Director Robert Radler wound up working on Power Rangers episodes, Eric Roberts usually appears in magazines making jealous comments about his much more successful sister, and Philip Rhee...well, the less said about Best of t... |
tt0078122 | Préparez vos mouchoirs | Raoul and his wife Solange are eating in a restaurant when Raoul expresses concern with Solange's apparent depression, as she eats little, suffers migraines and insomnia, and also sometimes faints. He finds another man in the room, Stéphane, to be her lover and hopefully enliven her again. Stéphane is puzzled by Raoul'... | romantic, comedy | train | wikipedia | Offbeat Comedy About Love and Sex à la Bertrand Blier.
What might seem an already risqué love triangle between two misogynous men (Depardieu and Dewaere, repeating their successful teaming of "Les Valseuses") and a pathologically passive woman (Carole Laure) develops into a REALLY unconventional love quartet when a 13 ... |
tt0043482 | Drums in the Deep South | Best friends Clay Clayburn (James Craig) and Will Denning (Guy Madison) graduate from West Point and visit their friend and fellow graduate Braxton at his Georgia plantation in 1861. Clay had once loved Braxton's wife Kathy (Barbara Payton) and still does. When war is declared they soon find themselves fighting on oppo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Really a far better "Civil War" motion picture than I had expected although I must say I found both the Confederate major and his lost love a bit cardboard.
What is remarkable about this film is that it shows us in detail how some southern soldiers climb trough an inside cavern a gigantic rock taking some cannons and f... |
tt1309374 | House of Dust | 1951 - Having already killed OCD patient Billy Brown (Michael Goodin) at the Redding House Asylum, a psychiatrist (Stephen Spinella) experiments on simple-minded inmate Melvin Veman (Peyton Clarkson) and sociopath Levius Laitura (John Lee Ames). With Levius still alive, the psychiatrist has his orderlies put the bodies... | insanity, psychological, murder | train | wikipedia | Not the worst, but NOT the best..
As far as the haunted house genre of movie, this one was not one of the best in it's field, by far, however there have been much worse.
The acting was actually not that bad at all.
The actress who plays "Gaby" also has a role on the MTV show Teen Wolf.
This is also not the first role f... |
tt0035432 | This Gun for Hire | In wartime San Francisco, chemist and blackmailer Albert Baker (Frank Ferguson) is killed by hit man Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), who recovers a stolen chemical formula. Raven is double-crossed by his employer, Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), who pays him with marked bills and reports them to the Los Angeles Police Departme... | mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | Rather than a flawed, weak man and a femme fatale, "This Gun For Hire" gives us a coldly amoral killer as the male lead and a tough, streetwise woman as the main "good guy" (her cop boyfriend spends most of the film running around frantically and accomplishing nothing).
Note that I said 'reported robbery.' The second i... |
tt0081614 | Tendres cousines | The story begins on 5 July 1939. The film opens with a narration by Julien, who states that he is going on 15, and that he is in love with his cousin Julia, and also that Julia's younger sister, Poune, is in love with him. His self-obsessed sister Claire is about to marry for money. He lives with his mother who has tak... | pornographic, romantic | train | wikipedia | More than just photography (and a lack of them).
Most reviews say that this is the weakest point in Hamilton's short movie career.
This movie is a bit different from the rest, and considering it the best or the worst depends on what you expect from a movie, and what you expect from Hamilton.Knowing Hamilton as a photog... |
tt0321021 | Without a Trace | Susan Selky is a well-known English professor at Columbia University. She lives in a Brooklyn brownstone with her 6-year-old son Alex (Danny Corkill). One March morning, Susan sees Alex off to school, which is only two blocks away. Alex turns to wave to his mother, then disappears around the corner.
Susan returns home ... | violence, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1073482 | Banshee!!! | Sage Ryan, daughter of a demised garage owner, is a professional car thief. The police know her, but have always failed to convict her. Due to her aptitude to elude police she is notorious known as "The Banshee".
One day everything changes when she steals a distinct vintage car (a 66 Dodge Charger) right before a date.... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | One Fine Performance is Only Redeeming Feature.
While this film deserves to be panned for its overall failure, an outstanding and memorable performance by Kerry McGann redeems this lackluster effort from total oblivion.
She is simply excellent as a local police officer who goes to battle with the dreaded titular banshe... |
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