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tt0049710 | Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima | At a mountain waterfall Kojiro Sasaki reflects on his unknown status and dreams of greatness. He slices a bird in half and tells Akemi he must kill Musashi. Akemi runs away, horrified.In Nara, there is a martial arts tournament. A burly heavy set man calls out any challengers, Musashi and Jotaro watch as spectators. As... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1087853 | Gutterballs | On January 1, 2008 at the Xcalibur Bowling Centre, a disco-themed bowling alley in Surrey, British Columbia, Egerton, the janitor, has allowed two groups of teenagers to bowl against one another after hours. The "prep", Steve, is still bitter after his best friend Jamie, the "jock", had sex with Lisa, a girl with whom ... | revenge, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | I also took little guilty pleasure in the rape-revenge aspect because three times as many innocent people were killed than the attackers, and many of the death scenes reserved for the uninvolved parties were far more sadistic and torturous than what was dished out to the actual rapists.
By allowing his cast to behave l... |
tt0375210 | White Noise | The title 'White Noise' refers to the phenomenon known as Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). People believe that you can hear voices of the dead in the white noise of a detuned radio and even see faces from the white noise on the television set. Michael Keaton stars in this thriller as Jonathan Rivers, a man who had jus... | paranormal, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0114898 | Waterworld | The movie Waterworld is a post-apocalyptic story about a mutant named Mariner (Kevin Costner). As the polar ice-caps in the world have all melted, very little land remains, causing some humans to mutate into growing webbed feet and gills, to adapt to their new environment.'Normal humans' however, hate, shun and attempt... | cult, stupid, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0019254 | La passion de Jeanne d'Arc | After having led numerous military battles against the English during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc is captured near Compiegne and eventually brought to Rouen, Normandy to stand trial for heresy by French clergymen loyal to the English.
On 30 May 1431 Joan is interrogated by the French clerical court. Her judges ... | insanity, historical, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc was made, perhaps, years ahead of its time- my guess would be that if it wasn't burned after its initial release, it would've had as stunning an impact on the film world years down the line as Citizen Kane did.
Though the use of close-ups and distorted angles were not comple... |
tt0085636 | Halloween III: Season of the Witch | In northern California, on the night of Saturday, October 23, we see a man running down a semi-rural road as the movie opens. Obviously being pursued, the man Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) runs into a junkyard to try to hide or find help. Then we see his pursuers coming down the road in a car and enter the junkyard. The ... | paranormal, cult, horror, gothic, murder | train | imdb | It looks and feels cheap, and tacky, the first one is so slick, well made, and well filmed, this one looks like a cheap 80's b horror movie, the acting is wooden.
You can forgive those elements in a horror film if it has a unique factor, something striking, but no, they've even taken Michael Myers out, result, this isn... |
tt0478970 | Ant-Man | In 1989, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) resigns from SHIELD after realizing that Howard Stark (John Slattery) had been trying to replicate his shrinking technology.In the present day, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has just served his last day at San Quentin State Prison. Waiting to pick him up is his old cellmate, Luis (Michael P... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, melodrama, revenge | train | imdb | But this film had jokes in the right moment, it was very well used.To be honest, i was very surprised by Ant-Man. Paul Rudd makes a very good performance as Scott.
And I was glad I did.Paul Rudd ("Friends", "Anchorman") plays ex-con Scott Lang who is recruited by brilliant scientist and would-be superhero Dr Hank Pym (... |
tt0050292 | Daughter of Dr. Jekyll | The movie opens with a swirling mist and narration about the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886 and titled: "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"). There follows a close up of a man, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields), mid-transformation into a Mr. Hyde like character. ... | gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt0087910 | The Philadelphia Experiment | In 1943 United States Navy sailors David Herdeg (Michael Paré) and Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco) are assigned to the destroyer escort USS Eldridge during a project to make it invisible to radar. The ship is in Philadelphia harbor, filled with equipment from a team led by James Longstreet (Eric Christmas). During the expe... | romantic, action | train | wikipedia | The modern day reaction of Jim to his old friend seems unrealistic at first until you think about it, and the explanation given about Jim's psychological problems after the experiment makes perfect sense and adds a bit of unexpected realism.
I've seen every time travel movie ever made, and I must say that the Philadelp... |
tt0080180 | Zulu Dawn | The film is set in British South Africa, in the province of Natal, in January 1879. The first half of the film revolves around the administrators and officials of Cape Colony, notably the supremely arrogant Lord Chelmsford (Peter O'Toole) and the scheming Sir Henry Bartle Frere (John Mills), who both wish to crush the ... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Released in a badly cut version in 1979 just before the resurgent interest in Burt Lancaster for his performance in "Atlantic City and Peter O'Toole for "Stunt Man", this fine historical epic died an ignominious death at the box office, on the second half of a double bill with the horror film "Silent Scream".
That film... |
tt0365498 | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater | === Characters ===
The protagonist of Snake Eater, Naked Snake (David Hayter/Akio Ōtsuka), known as Big Boss in subsequent games, is a young former Green Beret assigned to the CIA unit FOX. During his mission, Snake is assisted by fellow FOX members over his radio: Major Zero (Jim Piddock/Banjō Ginga), commander of FOX... | violence, dark, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044502 | Clash by Night | Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her home town, the fishing village of Monterey, California after ten years "back East." Her fisherman brother Joe (Keith Andes) is not particularly pleased to see her, but accepts her back into the family home. His girlfriend Peggy (Marilyn Monroe) is more welcoming. When Joe ask... | sadist, melodrama | train | wikipedia | In transposing a Clifford Odets play from New York to a Californian fishing community some of the more florid dialogue seems unnaturally heightened but the performances of the three principals (Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and particularly Paul Douglas) are stunning and the emotional core of the film is so strong that... |
tt1564367 | Just Go with It | In 1988, Daniel "Danny" Maccabee (Adam Sandler), a 22-year old man, leaves his wedding right before the ceremony is about to begin after learning that his fiancee is cheating on him, and was only marrying because he was going to be a doctor and provide her with a comfortable lifestyle. He goes to drink alone at a bar, ... | comedy, boring, psychedelic, entertaining, stupid | train | wikipedia | Sure, Jennifer Anniston is the "uglier chick," which is like saying a million dollars isn't that much money, but she did a good job in the movie.The only complaint I had was Adam Sandler used all the lines I planned on using with the girl I took to see it!.
so this is where I'm coming from.I think the whole cast was ne... |
tt0068200 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Its 1917. A black wreath is put on the front door of a terraced house. Soon after, a mother with 2 children and a baby are seen moving out of the house.Its now a dark early Christmas evening and a smartly dressed old man is weaving his way through the market in Camden Town, noticeably shying away from a lit brazier. He... | horror, cruelty, haunting, flashback | train | imdb | The story is really one that I would love to share with my whole family.This one feels like a Dickens Narrative due to the time period it is set in, which adds to the overall feel and believability..
its a good old story with the sweetest ending EVER.It really encapsulates the film genre of the 1970's and the old way o... |
tt2870612 | As Above, So Below | In the opening scene, there is a bus just crossing over the Iranian border. A woman, Scarlet Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) is speaking into her camera, saying she has come to Iran to search for a piece of history about to be lost in a hidden catacomb that is about to be demolished by the government. She tells the camera that... | dark, murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | Seriously, that alone makes the movie worth a watch if you're a horror fan.
It's not anything spectacular, none of the film is honestly, but I was satisfied at the end of this movie and that's more than I can say about a lot of the found-footage movies I've seen recently.A pleasant surprise in horror is good acting, an... |
tt0119177 | Gattaca | In "the not-too-distant" future, where genetic engineering of humans is common and DNA plays the primary role in determining social class, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is conceived and born without the aid of this technology. Suffering from the nearly eradicated physical dysfunctions of myopia and a congenital heart defect, a... | comedy, boring, neo noir, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, thought-provoking, atmospheric, flashback, inspiring, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0037913 | Mildred Pierce | Following several gunshots, Monte Beragon (Zachary Scott) collapses in the living room of a beach house. He whispers the name "Mildred," and dies. His wife, Mildred Pierce-Beragon (Joan Crawford), soon arrives at the police station and acts suspiciously nervous, though denies killing her husband. When the police reveal... | melodrama, romantic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | With those broad shoulders, those wall-to-wall eyebrows, that steely look on her face, and wrapped in those expensive clothes, the inimitable Joan Crawford exudes glamour and resolve as famed Mildred Pierce, housewife turned businesswoman, in this Michael Curtiz-directed film, part mystery, part melodrama.The film's st... |
tt0083169 | Taps | Bunker Hill Military Academy has just concluded another school year. Cadet Brian Moreland, a junior, meets privately with the academy commandant, retired Brigadier General Harlan Bache. Bache promotes Moreland to Cadet Major, the paramount rank at BHMA. Bache also reflects on the time when he was a cadet at West Point ... | philosophical, violence, entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Taps" presents a twist in the way students in a military academy of certain reputation perceive how honor is, above all, the thing to live for, even over all other qualities a man could possess.
The teachings of this military institution, molding young men 12 to 18 years old, have a profound effect, especially in the ... |
tt3247714 | Survivor | The film opens in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan at night where Johnny Talbot, the son of American Embassy superior Bill Talbot (Robert Forster), is in an operation against the Taliban. However, the helicopter carrying Johnny and Ray is hit by a missile. Immediately, the Taliban capture them both. The next morning, Joh... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0052104 | Queen of Outer Space | We open with a long shot of a rocket awaiting launch. Captain Neal Patterson (Eric Fleming), Lt. Mike Cruze (Dave Willock) and Lt. Larry Turner (Patrick Waltz) wait outside the Colonel's office. When admitted they are introduced to Professor Konrad (Paul Birch) and told their next assignment is to take Konrad to the Sp... | satire | train | imdb | But after the captain rebuffs the evil queen's advances and the plot turns to action, the film starts taking itself seriously and its sense of goofy fun dissipates quickly.But, in fairness to Bernds: if he wasn't in on the joke, neither were any of his cast, who perform with earnest sincerity throughout.Although the fi... |
tt0055471 | Splendor in the Grass | Kansas, 1928: Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis (Natalie Wood) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty), the son of one of the most prosperous families in town. In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace (Pat Hingle), who... | romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | And why wouldn't it be - with Kazan at the helm and an original screenplay by William Inge.The film begins with a similar theme to "Rebel Without a Cause" - that is why won't parents treat their children like human beings and really help them come to terms with becoming adults?
Barbara Loden is particularly memorable a... |
tt0905372 | The Thing | Antartica, 1982. Three Norwegian scientists are in a snow cat are following a signal. They stop suddenly, and after a few moments, a crack in the snow/ice causes the snow cat to fall into a fissure in the ice and gets wedged. The lights from the snow cat are pointed down into the fissure and reveal a spaceship.Sander, ... | violence, horror, murder, claustrophobic | train | imdb | null |
tt0093493 | Mannequin | In Ancient Egypt, Ema "Emmy" Heshire (Kim Cattrall) hides in a pyramid from her mother, who wants her daughter to marry against Emmy's will. Emmy prays for the gods to get her out of the mess and to find her true love. The gods answer her prayer by making her disappear.
Philadelphia, 1987; young would-be artist Jonatha... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0018876 | The Farmer's Wife | Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) dies, and shortly afterwards his daughter marries and leaves home, leaving him on his own with his two servants. His wife had told him that he should remarry after her death, so he pursues some local spinsters who were at his daughter's wedding after he and his house... | romantic | train | wikipedia | "The Farmer's Wife" is a charming rustic, semi-romantic comedy from the silent picture era.
Without seeing the credits, you might never guess that it was made by the "Master of Suspense", Alfred Hitchcock - but if you know who the director was, it is easy to see the masterful touches Hitchcock was known for.The story i... |
tt0042530 | Deadly Is the Female | At the age of 14, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination w... | realism, murder, violence, atmospheric, flashback, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | I found that the movie is just as good as I remember it.The film is essentially a story of a boy named Bart Tare (Russ Tamblyn) who loves guns for sport but refuses to harm any living being with them.
In all, it is a classic scenario of "Bad Girl" leads a "Good Boy" into evil.Personal opinion is that John Dall did a be... |
tt0099653 | Ghost | Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze), a banker, and Molly Jensen (Demi Moore), a talented potter, are a loving couple who move into a New York City apartment. At work, Sam discovers discrepancies in some bank accounts and confides in his good friend and colleague, Carl Bruner (Tony Goldwyn). Carl offers to investigate the matter... | fantasy, mystery, murder, paranormal, dramatic, humor, romantic, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | Thanks to the great acting trio of Patrick Swayze + Demi Moore + Whoopi Goldberg, for together they registered indelible moments into Ghost.
It is scraped in our memory how in time Molly and Sam happen to keep their thoughts off each others' feelings, and that taught us: "Love begins with emotions, ends with thoughts".... |
tt0275847 | Lilo & Stitch | Dr. Jumba Jookiba is arrested and put on trial by the Galactic Federation for "illegal genetic experimentation", as evidenced by his creation Experiment 626, a living creature which is capable of creating untold chaos. Jumba is imprisoned while Experiment 626 is supposed to be exiled on a desert asteroid. 626 manages t... | cute, entertaining, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | However, as the film progresses, all those characters (small child, big sister and alien) all become nicer and more caring "people." There also is a good "no one is left behind" family message.
He eventually crash lands on one of the islands of Hawaii (Kauai?) where a little five-year old orphan girl named "Lilo" (Dav... |
tt0419984 | Mr. Woodcock | During their childhood, John Farley (Seann William Scott) and many of his classmates were tormented by their sadistic gym teacher, Mr. Jasper Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton). Since then, things have turned out quite well for John, who has gone on to become a successful self-help author and motivational speaker about "let... | flashback | train | imdb | Like last year's School for Scoundrels, Woodcock is yet another movie in which Billy Bob Thornton plays a violent dick (no pun intended) and fails to be anywhere near as funny as he should be, thanks to a sloppy, almost laugh-less script.
Just about every truly funny part was crammed into the commercials.I love Bad San... |
tt0086066 | The Outsiders | The film opens with Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell) sitting at his desk in his room, writing. He talks about walking home from the movies one night. As he is bouncing and messing with a ball, he recites parts of the movie that he'd just seen when a group of guys pull up in a red Corvair. They start to call him a grea... | tragedy, cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0027800 | The Invisible Ray | THE INVISIBLE RAY synopsisDiane Rukh (Frances Drake) stares out the window from their home in the Carpathian Mountains upon the road below. Mother Rukh (Violet Kemble Cooper), seated in a chair, inquires whether her son Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) is still working in his lab. Diane confirms this, saying that he is p... | insanity, revenge, murder, romantic | train | imdb | There is no doubt that during the decade of the 30s, the names of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi became a sure guarantee of excellent performances in high quality horror films.
This formula would be repeated in several films through the decade, and director Lambert Hillyer's mix of horror and science fiction, "The Invis... |
tt0087843 | Once Upon a Time in America | The story is divided among three distinct time periods: the early 1920s, the early 1930s and the year 1968. The story is also jumps back and forth between these times and is summarized chronologically here.In 1968, David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro), returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NY following a pr... | cruelty, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, sadist | train | imdb | If you want to see this film the way Sergio Leone saw it, you have to make sure you get the director's cut.
He understood perfectly what Sergio Leone wanted and composed most of the music even before the movie was shot.Last but not least there is also the acting and the script.
He ended up doing a film in Italy for an ... |
tt0320691 | Underworld | Background: 1,400 years ago, Vampires had decided that the best way to ensure the survival of their species was for three Elders--Viktor, Marcus, and Amelia--to 'leap frog' through time, one ruling while the other two
slept, each being awakened at their appointed time according to a never-to-be-broken covenant. 1,000 y... | dark, fantasy, gothic, murder, paranormal, violence, cult, revenge, flashback, action, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1003052 | Secret défense | If French political thriller Secrets of State were any more topical, it would be about what you ate for breakfast. This fast-paced and meticulously-researched tale shows the recruitment and training of a young female Secret Service operative alongside a parallel story about how an unlikely but deadly young male terrori... | murder | train | imdb | Magnificent and intelligent French thriller about the restless war against terrorism.
This splendid film gives an insider's view into the French anti-terrorist Agency .How traineers are recruited , besides , how terrorists are created , as each is skillfully directed to their aims .
Both sides are playing a deadly ches... |
tt1041829 | The Proposal | The opening segments of the movie intersect between Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) and Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) as they wake up and get ready for the workday. While Margaret has time to work out and leisurely read the paper as she eats her breakfast, Andrew wakes to find he's overslept and leaps out of bed in a pa... | comedy, absurd, humor, entertaining, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0053125 | North by Northwest | At the end of an ordinary work day, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) hurries from a Madison Avenue office building to a business meeting at the Oak Room bar of the Plaza Hotel. After asking his secretary to phone his mother, he realizes that she won't be able to reach her by telephone, so he will n... | comedy, mystery, murder, clever, humor, suspenseful | train | imdb | Never did he challenge our endurance to keep still in our seats for such a long period of time, and yet the film's 135 minutes go by so fast it could only be explained by movie magic itself.Cary Grant is one of those actors that a filmgoer either falls in love with or deeply envies.
Sometimes this film manages the very... |
tt0981227 | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | The movie opens in Nicks (Michael Cera) room, the screen pans the scene as Nick leaves a message on his ex-girlfriend Triss (Alexis Dziena) answering machine. Nick tells her that he is leaving the last of his mixed cds on her doorstep, making this volume # 12 of the Road to Closure series. Nick is heartbroken that they... | romantic, cute | train | imdb | null |
tt0137363 | Arlington Road | Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a widower and college history professor at George Washington University with a son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark). While driving he encounters a boy, Brady (Mason Gamble), staggering in the road with horrific injuries to his hands. Michael takes him to hospital, and meets his parents Oli... | cult, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119794 | Nirvana | The film tells the story of a virtual reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who finds out that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multip... | romantic, alternate reality, sci-fi | train | imdb | No, no, it's not thought-provoking like eXistenZ of David Cronenberg and then again YES forget about Matrix - Nirvana is magical in a way a Hollywood film will never be.
While the movie doesn't have the big budget a Hollywood blockbuster would have had, it still manages to create an interesting & convincing near-future... |
tt0024894 | The Black Cat | The movie opens with the airplane circling the Earth, A Universal Picture, logo, and the title and credits. At a busy train station, passengers come and go. A train official examines the papers of Peter Alison (David Manners) and his wife, Joan (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells). Satisfied, he closes the door of their ... | murder, cult, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | Ulmer, marks the first scream, or should I say, screen teaming of Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, billed in the credits only as KARLOFF, and Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi.Suggested on the immortal story by Edgar Allan Poe, the plot, compliments of screenwriter Paul Ruric, set in Hungary, gets right down to business with Doct... |
tt3040964 | The Jungle Book | The panther Bagheera (voice of Ben Kingsley) opens the film by saying that there are many stories in the jungle, but none quite like that of the man-cub Mowgli (Neel Sethi). Mowgli is seen running through the jungle above the trees with his wolf brothers. Since he was a baby, Mowgli has grown up with the wolf pack, rai... | good versus evil, flashback | train | imdb | Along the way, Mowgli learns valuable life lessons as his epic journey of self-discovery leads to fun and adventure.Disney Picture is the best company in making top and number 1 family movies.Everything is excellent about this movie.I guarantee you this top movie will win too many Oscars..
The Jungle Book is a live-act... |
tt0049922 | The Violent Years | The story starts off with 4 girls dressed as boys robbing a gas station. They nearly kill the attendant by bashing him in the head with a gun. Later we find out these are really 4 bad high school girls going on robbery sprees in surrounding towns. The gang is lead by Paula (Jean Moorhead), who takes her 3 accomplices o... | murder | train | imdb | Wood, Jr. I for one definitely intend to give a great deal of thought to the problem of bad girls in tight sweaters.10 stars...or zero stars...?
Bad dialogue, bad editing and ham acting plague "The Violent Years" as much as any other Ed Wood production."The Violent Years" follows the exploits of a gang of four school g... |
tt0120891 | Wild Wild West | The story opens in Louisiana in 1869. A man fitted with a magnetic collar runs through a forest trying to escape a large spinning saw blade flying through the air. The saw blade eventually catches the man and decapitates him. From the decapitated man's perspective, we see another man in a Confederate Army general's uni... | comedy, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, action, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0413300 | Spider-Man 3 | Months after the events of Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) attends the opening night of Mary-Jane Watson's (Kirsten Dunst) new Broadway show, Manhattan Memories. Also attending is Harry Osborn (James Franco) who recently found out about Peter's secret identity and has accused him of murdering his father, Nor... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, humor, action, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0091203 | Highlander | In 1985, a man named Russell Nash (Christopher Lambert) is attending a wrestling match at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He feels a strange tremor and is compelled to leave. As he heads to his car, Nash is confronted by a man named Iman Fasil. Fasil identifies Nash by his real name, Connor MacLeod, and challen... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, cult, violence, historical fiction, good versus evil, flashback, romantic, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0053221 | Rio Bravo | The town drunk - former deputy sheriff, Dude, (Dean Martin) enters a saloon through the back door. He's dirty, unshaven and broke. A man called Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), the brother of the wealthy, corrupt local rancher Nathan, (John Russell) stands at the bar smiling as he watches how desperate Dude looks for a dri... | good versus evil, cult, suspenseful, psychedelic, humor | train | imdb | Howard Hawks labours to create setting, mood and pace introducing genuine characters are colourful for the flaws they have as their positive points presenting heroes one can empathise with, people with three dimensions, not thin caricatures that popular many of today's movies.No character empathises this more than Dean... |
tt1247640 | Banlieue 13: Ultimatum | Three years after the events of the original film, the authorities are attempting to return law and order to ravaged District 13. The death of gang overlord Taha Bemamud has left a power vacuum, and total control of the area is now being fought over by five rival territorial gang lords who want to step into Taha's posi... | violence, realism | train | imdb | The first movie had arguably the best action sequences I'd seen for a long time, so it's no surprise for a sequel to pop up, which cranks up the action 10 fold.
Pretty good sequel with plenty of noisy acting , impressive stunts and breathtaking scenes.
Set in the rundown ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ... |
tt1195478 | The Five-Year Engagement | One year after Tom Solomon met Violet Barnes, he surprises her with a ring. Tom's plan is simple: As they head out to a New Year's Eve party, he fakes a reason to drop by work. The staff patio at the über-trendy Birch, with its view of San Francisco's Bay Bridge, is the perfect place to pop the question. Tom is nervous... | bleak, romantic, depressing | train | imdb | null |
tt0489270 | Saw III | The aftermath of a Jigsaw game is discovered by a SWAT team. The victim, Troy, was meant to rip chains from his body in order to escape from a bomb. Lieutenant Daniel Rigg calls Detectives Mark Hoffman and Allison Kerry to the scene. Kerry, who is guilt-ridden over the disappearance of Eric Matthews, points out that th... | gothic, murder, violence, flashback, clever, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | "Saw III" is a classic case of an ambitious sequel that has a few really nice ideas and some scenes that will make fans of the franchise very happy, but in the end it doesn't, it can't hold a candle to the original.
It's a rule of the series by now that a "Saw" movie must include a lot of gory deaths as well as an unex... |
tt0443680 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | In 1881, young, starstruck Robert "Bob" Ford (Casey Affleck) seeks out Jesse James (Brad Pitt) when the James gang is planning a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri, making unsuccessful attempts to join the gang with the help of his older brother Charley (Sam Rockwell), already a member. The train turns out to be carry... | suspenseful, boring, murder, violence, flashback, philosophical, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, is a deliberately paced, stunningly visualized, and emotionally charged exploration of the early development of mass media celebrity in America.
However, instead of the understated, "realistic" performances featured in those films, The Assassi... |
tt0821642 | The Soloist | The film opens up in the early morning. A man is cycling by as a paper boy is driving around delivering newspapers. A newspaper hits a door and the main articles title is Life Has A Mind by Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.). Steve Lopez is cycling around town and goes in the opposite direction of a bunch of cyclists. Lop... | romantic, violence, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Perhaps lower expectations propped up my perceptions of it, however, it still stands as time well spent.The film is based on a true story involving a top columnist at the LA Times, Steve Lopez, played with grace by Robert Downey Jr., who becomes invested in one of his more colourful subjects, Nathaniel Ayers, an accomp... |
tt0167427 | Superstar | Mary Kathering Ghallagher (Molly Shannon) wants one thing in life, a kiss. Not just any kiss mind you. She wants a Hollywood fireworks type kiss. The only way that she can get what she wants is to become like all those people she saw on T.V. She had to become a SUPERSTAR! Sky Corrigan (Will Ferrell) is her passion and ... | tragedy, stupid | train | imdb | null |
tt0103905 | C'est arrivé près de chez vous | Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a witty, charismatic serial killer who holds forth at length about whatever comes to mind, be it the "craft" of murder, the failings of architecture, his own poetry, or classical music, which he plays with his girlfriend Valerie (Valérie Parent). A film crew joins him on his sadistic adventur... | dark, avant garde, comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, satire, romantic, sadist | train | wikipedia | It is the masterpiece of the dark violence/comedy genre.Man Bites Dog was way ahead of its time - before Pulp Fiction, before reality TV, before movies about the "real lives" of serial killers (Dahmer, Bundy, etc..) there was Man Bites Dog. Simply, this film is superb.Benoit is a charismatic "up-n-coming" serial killer... |
tt0120324 | A Simple Plan | Hank Mitchell is an ordinary guy who works at a small town feed store. His wife Sarah is expecting, and life is good. One day, Hank goes out with his brother Jacob, a simple loser, and Jacob's friend Lou, the town drunk. Hank and Jacob visit their father's grave, and on the way home a fox runs in front of Jacob's truck... | comedy, psychological, neo noir, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, tragedy, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0348150 | Superman Returns | For five years, Superman (Brandon Routh) has been away from Earth, coaxed into space by a belief that Krypton may still exist. In the time he's been away, the world has changed--not only has terrorism become rampant, but Lois Lane has been living with Perry White's nephew, started a family, and won a Pulitzer Prize for... | good versus evil, stupid, flashback | train | imdb | Brandon Routh's portrayal of Clark Kent/Superman, I feel, is second only to Christopher Reeves, whom he does a great job of capturing.
From the casting of Brandon Routh (who I actually find slightly better than Christopher Reeve because of the emotional complexity and sense of mystery Routh brings to the character) to ... |
tt0976051 | The Reader | === Characters ===
Michael Berg, a German who is first portrayed as a 15-year-old boy and is revisited at later parts of his life: when he is a researcher in legal history, divorced with one daughter, Julia. Like many of his generation, he struggles to come to terms with his country's recent history.
Hanna Schmitz, a f... | philosophical, romantic, sentimental, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0180052 | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | In 2080, there is a colony on the Moon called Little America. A retired smuggler called Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy), who just left prison, buys a nightclub, in an attempt to fulfill a long-time wish of his. Additionally, this prevents the murder by ingestion of battery acid of the club's previous owner, Anthony Frankowsk... | humor | train | wikipedia | (Although, I have found out that many great films flopped, among them "It's a Wonderful Life.") Finally a few months ago, a friend of mine said: "Hey Adam, let's watch 'Pluto Nash'!
It's on NetFlix!" I scoffed, but after he persisted, I agreed.I'm glad I did."Pluto Nash" was refreshingly entertaining, and in no way was... |
tt0471041 | The Tournament | A series of TV news reports are shown about acts of violence across the globe; gunfights, shootings, explosions, terrorist attacks, and other acts of murder, both small and larger scale. In some of these reports, the newscasters say that authorities are dismissing some of the random explosions as accidental. A voiceove... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | A solid cast: Ving Rhames (always bad-ass), Robert Carlyle, Ian Somerhalder (who does surprisingly well!) and a action-packed small role for Scott Adkins.
The star cast is decent, the hot n attractive Kelly Hu (her sex scene from Farmhouse man), Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Liam Cunningham, Scott Adkins n Sebastian Fou... |
tt1507364 | The Highwayman | The movie and subsequent series follow the adventures of "The Highwayman", one of a mysterious group, presumably of U.S. Marshals, conducting crime-fighting missions and solving bizarre mysteries. Each Highwayman in this group is equipped with a high-tech, multi-function truck.
The pilot movie used a different opening ... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0105665 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | A body wrapped in plastic floats down a river in Washington State. It is 17-year-old Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley).FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (David Lynch) calls Agent Chester Desmond (Chris Isaak) about the mysterious murder of Teresa Banks in the town of Deer Meadow.At a small airport, Cole introduces Chest... | dark, avant garde, mystery, murder, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0257044 | Road to Perdition | In 1931, during the Great Depression, Michael Sullivan, Sr. is an enforcer for Irish mob boss John Rooney in Rock Island, Illinois. Rooney raised the orphan Sullivan and loves him more than his own biological son, Connor. Rooney sends Connor and Sullivan to meet with disgruntled associate Finn McGovern, but Connor shoo... | boring, neo noir, depressing, murder, violence, revenge | train | wikipedia | He did himself proud as this is one of the best-looking crime films you'll ever see.Of course, the acting ain't bad when you have Tom Hanks and Paul Newman playing the leads!
I loved so much about this movie...the time taken to develop the characters, the attention to detail, the superb performances, the stunning light... |
tt2294677 | In a World... | Don LaFontaine "The Voice" of trailers dies age 68. In the voice over world, five voices make all the money, recording 60 trailers a week, sometimes 35 a day. Don is labelled as the voice of God in archival interview footage. TV interviews with Sam Sotto (Fred Melamed) and Gustav Warren (Ken Marino) about their memorie... | humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0070212 | The Iceman Cometh | It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. The patrons, who are all men except for three women who are prostitutes, are all dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in each others' company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from ... | tragedy, avant garde | train | imdb | "The Iceman Cometh" was part of American Film Theatre, an experiment by producer Ely Landau.
But collapse it did, and the legal can-of-worms that it left, with the AFT's liabilities mixed with the rights of authors and their estates, is probably what keeps the films out of theatrical circulation and unavailable on vide... |
tt1817771 | Freaks of Nature | In an all out war who will win? What will be left? In the nearly ancient right of Mortal
Combat , when you had thought that you had seen it all - you will be overtaken, overcome . Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Zombies? Vampires? Aliens? Creatures of Various report -
From all walks of ghoulish life...and ... | dark, comedy, murder, allegory, violence, flashback, satire | train | imdb | It's even more fun describing it to a friend.When it was playing at one local Portland theater, with no local reviews and no advertising I knew I had to check it out.No spoilers here.I'm just going to say this horror comedy combines vampires, zombies and aliens in a totally original way.
'FREAKS OF NATURE': Four and a ... |
tt1967545 | Labor Day | In 1987, Adele Wheeler is a depressed single mom who lives in a rural home with her 13-year-old son, Henry. While they are clothes shopping, a bloody man approaches Henry and makes them take him home to look after him. The man is revealed to be Frank Chambers, a convict who is wanted by the local police after breaking ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | The movie tells the story of Adele (Kate Winslet), a woman who slowly shut herself off from the world, relying heavily on her young son Henry (Gattlin Griffith), whose father abandoned them to another wife and other children.
If you're interested in a good adult romantic drama, look no further than the movie "Labor Day... |
tt4520364 | Morgan | The opening scene shows Dr. Kathy Grieff (Jennifer Jason Leigh) entering a secured room. She is there to meet with Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), and the whole thing is seen through surveillance cameras. Kathy sits down to have lunch with Morgan. Morgan looks at her own hands curiously on both sides as Kathy says she couldn... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | Lee Weathers shadows the scientists to see how they work with Morgan and her responses in preparation for the real psychic-evaluation the next day.I felt the story to be compelling with some minor plot holes that I chose to ignore as the overall experience was worth it.
The movie is set at a slower pace so don't expect... |
tt0424774 | The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D | Max is a lonely child who creates a dreamworld named Planet Drool (similar to Fantasia), where all of his imagination and dreams come to life. He creates two characters, with the first one being Sharkboy who was raised by sharks and his dad. The second character is Lavagirl who can produce fire and lava, but has troubl... | violence, storytelling | train | imdb | I hadn't planned on wasting my time reviewing this mess, but there are some subtleties that crept into my consciousness after the second forced viewing which may enhance a prospective viewer's experience.First of all, this movie obviously was designed for younger kids.
Any movie that gets a kid to write has got to be O... |
tt1821549 | Nebraska | An old man walks along the snowy roads of Billings, Montana. A police officer stops him. The man seems aimless.David picks up the old man, his father Woody, at the police station. Woody explains that he was walking to Lincoln, Nebraska, to collect a million dollars he won in a mail order sweepstakes. David explains tha... | entertaining | train | imdb | He doesn't miss a note.Nebraska is the story of a family of usual dysfunctionals living where else but Nebraska - a quiet, distant father with a little dementia, Woody (Bruce Dern), his two sons, David and Ross (Will Forte and Bob Odenkirk), and their perpetually complaining mother Kate (June Squibb).
Woody runs into h... |
tt0025316 | It Happened One Night | It Happened One Night begins with a rich heiress named Ellie Andrews sequestered by her father on his yacht, disapproving of her marriage to a famous aviator named King Westley. After an argument, she escapes the yacht and swims away. She buys a bus ticket to travel back to New York to her husband, where she meets an o... | romantic, comedy | train | imdb | But in doing what he did for Clark Gable's character, Capra created a whole new type of screen comedy, the classic screwball comedy and It Happened One Night surely set the mold.Capra's autobiography told the story of the making of It Happened One Night which in itself could be a movie.
It Happened One Night directed b... |
tt0061582 | Django spara per primo | At the start of the film, "Django" meets up with a bounty hunter who happens to be taking the body of Django's dead father to town for a $5000 bounty. Django kills the bounty killer and then decides to bury the bounty hunter instead of his father. He then takes his father's body into town for the money.The rich town ba... | western, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0791071 | Beauty and the Beast | The story begins when an old gentleman, father of five children, finds himself amidst great financial troubles. He had received news of his numerous ships carrying his valuable cargo being caught and destroyed in the China Sea. Finding himself in great debts, the heartbroken old gentleman sees no other option but to se... | fantasy | train | imdb | I personally did find this one charming....
Then again I may be biased as I did grow up watching the Golden Films animations, and slowly going through re-watching them(as well as the Burbank and Jetlag animations) a lot of them are sweet and likable.
Golden Films' version of Beauty and the Beast is no exception.
It is ... |
tt3322940 | Annabelle | The film starts with the same opening scene of the film "The Conjuring", in which two young women and a young man are telling Ed and Lorraine Warren about their experience with the doll that they believe to be haunted, known as Annabelle.One year earlier in 1970, John and Mia Gordon (Ward Horton and Annabelle Wallis) a... | horror, murder, flashback | train | imdb | If that fact alone is enough to get one person not to watch "Annabelle", then I've done my job as a critic.If you went into "Annabelle" wanting to see something along the lines of "Child's Play" or at the very least, a doll-centric horror movie where dolls are either animated in some fashion or at the very least, trip ... |
tt0400426 | Far Cry | Jason Brody is on vacation with a group of friends in the Rook Islands, celebrating his younger brother Riley getting a pilot license. However, on a skydiving trip, they land on a pirate-infested island and are kidnapped by a pirate lord named Vaas, who plans to extort ransom money from their parents, and then sell the... | cult, stupid | train | wikipedia | The main difference between Bloodrayne and FarCry really is that the story from Farcry wasn't the games strong point whereas Bloodrayne had a strong story and thus Boll had more chance to mess it up.The action in this movie is actually fairly good.
But the lighter mood this gives to the film actually helps.While I thin... |
tt0075378 | The Van | Bobby and his best friend, Jack, sabotage their high-school graduation ceremony by rigging the stage to collapse. After leaving the graduation ceremony, Bobby and Jack (Harry Moses) drive up to another van and notice Sally (Connie Lisa Marie), his secret high-school crush, sitting alone inside, eating ice cream. Bobby ... | cult | train | imdb | Racing vans, the total ass-wipe with the baddest van, the water bed, the smoking of herbs, the hot 70's chicks, the 'makin love in my Chevy van song, it was all so new to me.
When I watch this movie, it makes me want to get my skates, with 4 wheels, not in a strait line, go to the park and hunt down some babes with fea... |
tt0151804 | Office Space | Office Space is the first feature-length film directed by writer/creator Mike Judge. It is based on his "Milton" animated shorts. Office Space did not generate stunning box office on its original release in 1999, but the film, along with red Swingline staplers, have since attained cult status.This film chronicles the d... | comedy, boring, cult, flashback, psychedelic, humor, satire, philosophical, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0120873 | U.S. Marshals | The film opens with closed-circuit television footage of an exchange between two men taking place in a parking garage, which appears to be foiled by agents of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). The two agents appear to be shot and killed by one of the two men making the meeting.The scene cut... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0072951 | Escape to Witch Mountain | We meet Tia and Tony as they are arriving at another orphanage. They do not remember who their families were or where they came from but know they have special telekinetic powers which make getting along with the rest of the kids difficult. During a movie trip, Tia gets a strong feeling about a man getting into a car a... | paranormal, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0106856 | Falling Down | Michael Douglas plays a disturbed man whose true identity is unknown through most of the film. He is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a very hot summer day and finally just gives up and abandons his vehicle. D-Fens, as he is credited in the film (based on his vanity license plate), begins walking west, trying to reach h... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, tragedy, home movie | train | imdb | Set them against the decadent back drop of modern day LA where if you are 'Not economically viable,' you are of no use, and the result is Falling Down.The tag line 'The Adventures of an Ordinary man at War with the Everyday World,' makes Joel Schumacher's masterpiece sound like the benign story of a working stiff with ... |
tt0480255 | The Losers | The Losers are an elite black-ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, led by Lt. Col. Franklin Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - Operational Control. The rest of the team consists of Capt. William Roque (Idris Elba) - Demo And Tactical; Sgt. Linwood "Pooch" Porteous (Columbus Short), - Transport And Heavy Weapo... | revenge, comedy, action, dark, murder | train | imdb | Good times.Some great locations, good editing (also nice marriage of comic book style to live action style in the credits),decent soundtrack.The Losers doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should you..
I enjoyed The Losers against my better judgment.The premise and follow-through is kind of predictable, as it... |
tt0114787 | Underground | Underground depicts the life of two friends throughout World War II, Cold War, and the Yugoslav Wars.The film opens in Belgrade, the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, early morning, 6 April 1941, as two roguish bon vivants Petar Popara nicknamed Crni (Blacky) and Marko Dren are heading home following a night out on... | comedy, murder, psychedelic, satire, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | Those who have seen "Underground" have probably noticed that we are not watching one film but a collection of at least 10 films in one single masterpiece!!I watched with great enthusiasm the work of Kusturica after "Underground" in films like "Arizona Dream" or "Black Cat White Cat" films which prove to be more elabora... |
tt0047050 | Green Fire | The film opens with adventurer Rian Mitchell (Stewart Granger) inside a dark mine shaft, deep in the side of a Colombian mountain. He chips away at a vein of greenish ore, pockets a sparkling specimen, and starts back toward the entrance. On his way out, he stumbles upon a bronze conquistador's helmet. Chiseled above t... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | Before writing this review I looked up emeralds in Wikipedia and found that Paul Douglas was wrong when he said during the film that emeralds are only found in two places, Colombia and the Soviet Union, specifically Siberia.
Would that were the only thing wrong with this film.Still Colombia is the area best known for i... |
tt1205071 | Paintball | A truck rumbles down a potholed track. In the back sit a group of passengers, their eyes blindfolded. They don't know each other, but they have a lot in common: they're young, urban workaholics, with an appetite for extreme experiences. They've signed up for a weekend of adventure. As they head out into the unknown, th... | murder, sadist | train | imdb | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning The premise behind this abysmal action thriller has a group of people going for a good old bit of paint ball, only to find themselves really fighting to stay alive as a barrage of real bullets are fired at them.
It's... |
tt0330099 | The Brown Bunny | The film opens with a motocross race shot from high above the racetrack. The racers careen around the track and the sound goes in and out as the racers get further from the camera. The camera focuses on one racer in particular, number 77, as he tries to keep up in the race. He is far from first, but is still in the rac... | romantic, avant garde, flashback | train | imdb | Terrible, unforgivable waste of precious celluloid.Watching a road through a dirty windshield for hours might seem a clever metaphorical statement if you're on crack, or are as delusional as the director, who probably thinks of himself as the greatest film-making entity that ever lived.Me?
I saw Buffalo 66 long before ... |
tt0426459 | Feast | The people in the bar are all having a good time when a man covered in blood enters through the door. He tells everyone that they are in big trouble, but no one really heeds his warning until he exposes the head of a vicious looking monster. He is promptly decapitated by one of the monsters, and the young girl known on... | comedy, boring, bleak, cult, violence, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt1386588 | The Other Guys | Officers PK Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) and Chris Danson (Dwayne Johnson) are the most bad ass cops that New York City has ever seen. The movie opens with them engaged in a high speed chase creating a wanton destruction path of every block that they cross. They do manage to capture the criminals at high speeds. Howev... | clever, comedy, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1045655 | The Haunting of Molly Hartley | A young woman walking through the woods following a trail marked by string. She gets a little nervous because during her walk she keeps hearing strange noises. At the end of the trail is an old house. The girl is Laurel Hartley and its 1997. Once inside she looks around and is surprised by her boyfriend, who presents h... | insanity, cult, murder, haunting, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0080365 | American Gigolo | Julian Kay (Richard Gere) is a gigolo ; a young man who makes a living as a wealthy ladies' escort. His official pimp/employer, Anne (Nina Van Pallandt) realizes that he is her star prostitute despite not being faithful to her. A small 'chauffeur' gig is planned for the next day, but Julian looks more interested in get... | intrigue, neo noir, murder, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0075686 | Annie Hall | The comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) ended a year ago. Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity.
Annie and Alvy, in a lin... | comedy, thought-provoking, flashback, psychedelic, humor, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The film that bested Star Wars for the 1977 Best Picture Oscar, Annie Hall is a remarkable achievement in filmmaking that transcends its simple, romantic premise to create a stunning portrait of not only 70's pop culture, but of human nature cumulative.
Directed and co-written by Woody Allen, who has since directed oth... |
tt0319061 | Big Fish | Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), a charismatic teller of tall tales, is a source of frustration to his only child, William (Billy Crudup). At Will's wedding, Edward embarrasses him by telling the guests an impossible-sounding story about the day of Will's birth, involving a giant catfish that ate his wedding ring. Will be... | fantasy, boring, stupid, whimsical, thought-provoking, cute, magical realism, flashback, psychedelic, humor, action, romantic, entertaining, storytelling, sentimental | train | imdb | This movie is an absolute treat for our hearts, ears and especially our eyes with each cartoon/fantasy-like scene painted with Tim Burton's reliable brilliance and magical touch.
"Big Fish" combines Burton's unusual humor with a heart-wrenching story of a father-son deathbed reconciliation.
Albert Finney and Ewan McGre... |
tt0810922 | Take Me Home Tonight | The film is set in 1988 Los Angeles. Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) is a recent MIT graduate who works at a Suncoast Video store while trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, something that his police officer father (Michael Biehn) has grown impatient with. While working one day, Matt's high school crush,... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0108101 | Shadowlands | C. S. "Jack" Lewis (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is a serious professor of literature at Cambridge University. He also write some famous books for children and young teenagers entitled The Chronicles of Narnia. He is also a renown conference speaker and supports his Christian views strongly. He still shares a house with his br... | philosophical | train | imdb | This picture is a beautiful, thought provoking, and highly effective meditation on how love, death, god, joy, and pain all coexist in the strange universe that is life.
Yes, the film's magnificently depicted scenes of death and grieving never fail to jerk tears from my eyes, but Lewis's closing lines regarding the choi... |
tt0116996 | Mars Attacks! | The President of the United States, James Dale (Jack Nicholson), is alerted when a number of spacecraft have been reported launched from the planet Mars, and are on a course to Earth. While General Decker (Rod Steiger) demands immediate Military deployment, Professor Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan) suggests that the Ge... | comedy, stupid, cult, psychedelic, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0076731 | Snowbeast | Winter 1977. The Rill Lodge and Ski Resort in Colorado is holding its 50th Annual Winter Carnival and is expecting a record turnout. Unbeknownst to the assembled people, however, something is lurking in the woods, not quite human and not quite animal. Two friends skiing on the North slope, Heidi (Annie McEnroe) and Jen... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0086465 | Trading Places | Brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke own a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia. They witness an encounter between their managing director—the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III, engaged to the Dukes' grand-niece Penelope—and street hustler Billy Ray Valentine, who Winthorpe has arrested for susp... | comedy, adult comedy, cult, humor, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1091722 | Adventureland | In 1987, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) has two plans. The first plan is to have a summer vacation in Europe after graduating with a comparative literature degree from Oberlin College. His second plan is to attend a journalism graduate school at Columbia University when his holidays end. A few days after his graduatio... | romantic, psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The reason being that the film was marketed as another raunchy-sweet comedy from the Apatow empire, when in fact it has almost nothing to do with those films, and is very different from most of writer/director Greg Mottola's previous film "Superbad" (which is great in its own way, but it's nothing like this film).
It i... |
tt0065112 | Topaz | The story is set in 1962 and opens with images of a Soviet military parade on the Red Square. In Copenhagen, Denmark, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer defects to the West with his wife and daughter after a chase through the streets from the Soviet embassy to the US embassy. Upon arrival in Washington, DC, CIA... | suspenseful, intrigue, murder | train | imdb | Although not as humorous, nor as romantic, nor even as exciting as the director's best films, the movie is nonetheless an intelligent and intriguing spy drama, one that compares more to a motion picture like DAY OF THE JACKYL than usual Hitchcock fare.His other spy dramas, like NORTH BY NORTHWEST, may be more fun, but ... |
tt1322302 | La hora cero | The film begins at night, at the Venezuelan slums. A young hitman explains that he is called La Parca (Zapata 666) because he always brings death. [La Parca is the representation of death in the Spanish world, usually dressed in a black robe and with a skeleton bodywhose hand holds a scythe] Images of a starving dog an... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0082418 | Friday the 13th Part 2 | Two months later after Crystal Lake's brutal massacre, Alice (Adrienne King), wakes up after dreaming about Mrs. Voorhees' decapitation. She talks on the phone to her mother, then she takes a shower and decides to boil the kettle. When she opens the fridge, she finds Mrs Voorhees' severed head, before being stabbed in ... | grindhouse film, gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence, flashback, insanity, humor, suspenseful | train | imdb | In my opinion this sequel is my favorite Friday the 13th film it is It is one of my personal favorite horror movie because of Amy Steel!
This movie is my number 4 favorite slasher Friday the 13th film in the series and I love Amy Steel so damn much as Ginny Field!
One of the most memorable final shocks rounds everythin... |
tt1046997 | Miracle at St. Anna | In 1983, Hector Negron, an aged Puerto Rican World War II veteran, works as a post office clerk in New York City. After recognizing a customer, Negron shoots and kills the man with a German Luger pistol. Several hours later, rookie reporter Tim Boyle and Detective Tony Ricci are at the crime scene seeking information. ... | revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4671848 | Taylor Swift: Bad Blood | A young lady executive, a beleaguered Taylor Swift, her top apparently ripped off, down to not much more than her short skirt and sheer stockings, fights for her life against several assailants in an office on the top floor of a high-rise building, and is unexpectedly aided in her struggle by a mysterious dubious-looki... | sci-fi | train | imdb | pointless and empty. The star is Taylor Swift and a host of other famous people. That's nice, but then, they appear, in a flash, and then, somebody else, so big deal! Big deal! Look, we're here to see the Taylster, and behold in here just how beautiful the Taylster really is, so, please! keep the other lot, and just gi... |
tt0404112 | Hitman: Contracts | The hunter has become the hunted, as 47 is seriously wounded by one of his own targets, who seems to have been expecting him. Bleeding to death and taking refuge in a hotel room somewhere in Paris, France, 47 drifts in and out of consciousness as an army of heavily armed National Police units converge around the hotel.... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | Once again you take control of Agent 47, the infamous Silent Assassin.
This time his world is amazingly intricate and incredibly dark.
Something that I say really reflects the overall motif that the previous two games were trying to achieve.
In "Contracts" there are no daytime missions like in the previous two games.
T... |
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