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tt0116130 | Down Periscope | Lt. Commander Thomas Dodge (Kelsey Grammer) is about to be passed over a third time for his own nuclear submarine. The reasons given are (1) his unorthodox command methods, (2) an unfortunate "brushing" incident with a Russian submarine, and (3) after the incident, the rumor of a genital tattoo ("Welcome Aboard!") rece... | prank | train | wikipedia | I was pleasantly surprised that the movie still had an appeal after all these years and many of the actors in the film did a great job without being overly done.
Being an ex-submariner on both diesel and nuc boats, I wasn't looking for a true to life Navy movie.
I don't want to get into specifics about little things th... |
tt0113305 | Higher Learning | At Columbus University, a fictious college in southern California, we first see Malik Williams (Omar Epps), a young black man, Kristen Connor (Kristy Swanson), a young white woman, and Remy (Michael Rapaport), another young white man, at the opening freshman pep rally and as they are decorating their rooms. Malik and K... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt2151849 | The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead | The Book of the Dead is set in the Nara period at around 750 CE, the era when Buddhism was being introduced from China.
Iratsume, a young woman from a noble house, becomes obsessed with the new religion and spends much of her time hand-copying the sutras, trying to understand the teachings of the Buddha. On the eve of ... | violence | train | wikipedia | I love horror films.
No, I like CLEVER horror films - ones that make you think, keep you guessing and twist your perceptions of what you think you know.
The Eschatrilogy is such a film.When a stranger walks into the refuge of a lone young man following what looks like the end of civilization, and then faints at his fee... |
tt0091829 | Rawhead Rex | Howard Hallenbeck (David Dukes) travels to Ireland to research items of religious significance. He goes to a rural church to photograph some graves. Meanwhile, three farmers are attempting to remove an ominous stone column from a field. Two of the farmers head home. A thunderstorm appears out of nowhere, and smoke pour... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0107302 | Kalifornia | Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) is a graduate student in psychology as well as a journalist, who has written an article about serial killers, which draws interest from a publisher that offers him a book deal. After the book deal advance is spent, Brian realizes that he needs to start working on finishing his book. His g... | dark, neo noir, murder, bleak, cult, horror, violence, atmospheric, insanity, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt4263482 | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale | The film starts with William (Ralph Ineson), the patriarch of a Puritan family, on trial in 1630s New England. He dismisses those around him as false Christians, and the others claim that he speaks ill of the word of God.In a flashback, William's family includes his wife Katherine (Kate Dickie), eldest daughter Thomasi... | gothic, murder, violence, horror, insanity, suspenseful | train | imdb | "The Witch" lives in that territory as a horror movie for cinephiles, not for audiences who love the thrill of a good scare.That's not to say "The Witch" isn't scary; it is.
Writer and director Robert Eggers, who makes his feature film debut, builds his terror with tension drama and mystery, not by creating the pervasi... |
tt0086993 | The Bounty | London, 1790. Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) arrives in court, facing charges that his ship, The HMS Bounty, was taken by mutiny. Admiral Hood (Laurence Olivier) and Captain Greetham (Edward Fox) ask him to tell the court his story.Bligh recounts his story. In December 1787, he recruits Fletcher Christian (... | violence, action, cruelty, flashback | train | imdb | The acting (particularly by Hopkins) is superb, and the cinematography and realism are stunning.Unlike some of the previous comments for this film I think it is pretty loyal to the true historical facts of the real mutiny.
An able commander trying to carry out his orders, but let down by those around him.The confrontat... |
tt2649264 | Untitled Murder in Paris Project | Misfits Slate and Kelly are wannabe police officers who both get put on desk duty - Slate for being over-zealous with her weapon; Kelly for being too scared to pick his up. The deciding moment happens between the two of them, so each blames the other for their demotion.Slate has taken a leave of absence from the force ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt2112287 | Thale | Two men are in plastic biohazard-type suits working as a cleaning crew on a crime scene. One of the men, Elvis, is vomiting continuously in a bucket; and you get a sense that he is inexperienced at this type of work. The second man, Leo, is calmly using handfuls of paper towels to mop up a large pool of congealed blood... | flashback | train | imdb | Thale is visually stunning, interesting in mythology and well - played movie.
Yes, the story is poor and screenplay has some holes, design of "hurdles" is quite upsetting (the CGI is done well, but they look really strange), but this has an mysterious atmosphere, supplemented by shots of beautiful nature and melancholi... |
tt0433362 | Daybreakers | 10 years after the Outbreak (2019).A view of the world during daylight shows the world to be empty. Focus on a newspaper says that a German blood substitute failed. During night, the desolate city is shown to be alive and booming. This is the world of the vampires.On a television two vampires are debating the current s... | cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1176251 | Gigantic | Not so typical boy meets girl story, that is delusional and twisted. Quite a bit like this media driven life since the main characters all act like they are at the top of their game (Like they are on some sort of metaphysical stage.). Intermixed with the controversy of brutal and crazy honesty, there lies a hair of tru... | romantic, psychedelic | train | imdb | Some jaded film-goers might feel they've watched Paul Dano portray Brian's charisma-free loner cousins overplaying their quirkiness in far too many Indie projects.
In 'Gigantic' Brian possesses the stubborn ambition to adopt a Chinese baby - a plot contrivance which appears designed to distract from his stupefying dull... |
tt0118694 | Faa yeung nin wa | The story takes place in Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung), a journalist, rents a room in an apartment of a building on the same day as Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung), a secretary from a shipping company. They become next-door neighbours. Each has a spouse who works and often leaves them alone on overtime shifts.... | romantic, depressing, atmospheric, melodrama | train | wikipedia | I think that New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell wrote the best one line review of In the Mood for Love when he said that it is "dizzy with a romantic spirit that's been missing from the cinema forever." How true those words are!
So, given this cinematic climate, Wong Kar-wai's latest film feels like a much neede... |
tt0346156 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | The film is set in New York City in 1939. The moment his zeppelin docks in New York, Dr. Vargas (Julian Curry) sends a pair of bullet-like metal vials to Dr. Jennings, another scientist; within moments, Dr. Vargas is gone and his name is crossed off a list.Dr. Jennings (Trevor Baxter) arranges to meet reporter Polly Pe... | boring, neo noir, murder, alternate reality, atmospheric, psychedelic, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | But the movie is just too good not to like, sorry guys.It gives the great atmosphere of old cinema plus comic books, and it does so perfectly using flying funny looking evil robots, strange laser guns, and comic-book like dialog.
Computer generated special effects have been around for quite some time now, and often que... |
tt0085404 | The Day After | The story follows several citizens—and people they encounter—in and around Kansas City, Missouri and the college town of Lawrence, Kansas, 40 miles (64 km) to its west.
The film's narrative is structured as a before-during-after scenario of a nuclear attack: the first segment introduces the various characters and their... | insanity, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1611224 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | In 1818, Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) lives in Indiana with his parents, Nancy (Robin McLeavy) and Thomas (Joseph Mawle), who work at a plantation owned by Jack Barts (Marton Csokas). There, Lincoln rushes to the aid of his friend, a young African American boy, William Johnson (Anthony Mackie), being beaten by a s... | revenge, stupid, historical fiction, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | If I had any complaints it would be that I did feel like the film dragged a bit in the middle.Overall, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a fun flick that delivers on exactly what it promises.
And, yes, Benjamin Walker makes a good Lincoln especially with the beard later on in the movie.
Ridiculously over the top but i... |
tt0093828 | Real Men | This is a fully detailed synopsis which does contains spoilers.The movie opens with a secret U.S Agent walking through a forest holding a map and a glass of water. He is shot and the government thinks it was an inside job and without the agent to meet the requirements, the person with the package the government wants w... | comedy | train | imdb | for me, real men was an utterly hilarious experience.when i saw the movie, i never heard of it, and was therefore without any expectations about plot, people playing in it or general need for suspension of disbelief.
i guess that it came upon me pretty quickly that nobody in this movie took themselves seriously, and ev... |
tt0436697 | The Queen | The film begins on the eve of the 1997 British general election, which sees Tony Blair (Sheen) elected as the United Kingdom's first Labour Party Prime Minister in 18 years. While posing for an official portrait, the Queen (Mirren) talks with the artist and expresses her regret about not being allowed to vote. She is s... | boring | train | imdb | This glowing, suspenseful docudrama retells the story of the days of upheaval in London and elsewhere, in 1997, shortly after Tony Blair had just won for Labor, by steering clear of trades unions and welfare statism, while flogging his "let's modernize Britain" program, window-dressing for his Clinton-like political sh... |
tt0414852 | Banlieue 13 | In 2010, social problems such as violence, drugs and organized crime have overrun the poorer suburbs of Paris, especially a Banlieue commonly referred to as B13 (Banlieue 13, or District 13 or Borough 13 in English), a ghetto with a population of some two million. Unable to control B13, the authorities construct a high... | revenge, action, murder, violence | train | imdb | When the government learns that local kingpin (Larbi or Bibi Narceri , Sami Narceri's brother ; even though Bibi Naceri co-wrote the script, he still had to audition for the part of Taha along with other actors) has acquired a nuclear weapon , Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) and Leito (David Belle , the originator of Le Parko... |
tt1727388 | The Way Way Back | The Way Way Back begins with four people in a car Trent (Steve Carell) driving, his girlfriend Pam (Toni Collette), a divorced Mom, sitting beside him. Trent's teenage daughter Steph (Zoe Levin) lies across the backseat listening to music; Pam's son Duncan (Liam James) sits in the rear-facing seat in the trunk of the c... | dramatic, cute | train | imdb | There are no big action scenes or special effects here, just really good writing with actors who can bring such a realistic story to life.The movie begins with the boy, Duncan, riding in a car with his family to his mother's boyfriend's beach house.
Of course, there are the usual complaints from critics about how it "d... |
tt1093370 | Jab We Met | Aditya Kashyap (Shahid Kapoor), the son of a recently-deceased famous industrialist, demoralized by his mother's public affair and subsequent departure, gets even more depressed after attending the marriage of the woman he loves to another man. Feeling ashamed to face the world, he walks out of the wedding, boards a tr... | romantic | train | imdb | Imtiaz Ali's Jab We Met is one of the most refreshing love stories made in recent times.
It is a very simple, interesting and charming film about a heart-broken and serious guy who meets an extremely vivacious and talkative girl who gradually manages to change his perception of life and love.
The store line is the usua... |
tt0088117 | Silent Night, Deadly Night | It's Christmas Eve 1971, and the Chapman family - father, mother, and two sons, Billy, age 5, and infant Ricky - are traveling in their station wagon along desolate Utah roads, with the radio for company. They arrive at their destination, a state mental hospital, where they visit Grandpa. Grandpa is severely mentally i... | cruelty, murder, cult, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Silent Night, Deadly Night tells the story of a boy whose parents were killed in front of him as a child, and it was by a man dressed as Santa Claus.
A classic to many fans of horror and independent cinema, Silent Night Deadly Night definitely wins the award for having the most gorgeous, super nice, hunk of a killer ev... |
tt0482599 | Shutter | Shutter tells the story of photographer Ben (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife Jane (Rachael Taylor). The film begins with the couple's wedding, and the audience learns that they are planning to leave their apartment in Brooklyn for Japan, where Ben has been hired to take pictures for a particular client. The couple has... | revenge, flashback | train | imdb | In North America, after getting married, the photographer Benjamin Shaw (Joshua Jackson) and his wife Jane (Rachel Taylor) travel to Japan for a job opportunity with Ben's friends Bruno (David Denman) and Adam (John Hensley).
Jane investigates and finds that the victim was Ben's former shy and weird girlfriend Megumi T... |
tt1125798 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | On a mission in the Bering Sea, Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish, Captain Price, "Gaz", and several SAS members find a nuclear device onboard a cargo ship. Suddenly, the ship is attacked, and the team evacuate with the cargo manifest, which provides evidence of ties between the Russian Ultranationalist Party and a rebel facti... | violence | train | imdb | This is one of the few games which takes me out of myself (the way a really great movie does) and throws me into the shoes of an SAS soldier or Marine, and has me wondering if I'll make it to the end.I'm not a game reviewer, but these are some things that have earned Infinity Ward high marks in my book with this title:... |
tt1397280 | Taken 2 | The film opens with a funeral taking place in the small village of Tropoje, Albania. The funeral is attended by the Albanian mafia where several armed men stand over the graves of their fallen brothers. Their leader, Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija), tells them that they will have their revenge, and they will kill Brya... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | In "Taken 2," it's not as complicated and the stakes don't feel nearly as high.Simply, the Albanians that Mills killed en route to finding his daughter want revenge, so they track him to one of his private security jobs in Istanbul.
As it happens, Kim and her mother, Lenore (Famke Janssen), decide to surprise him by fl... |
tt0067924 | Vampire Circus | Count Mitterhaus [Robert Tayman] was a vampire, preying on the children of the town of Stetl. With the death of one more child, the people became sufficiently enraged that they stormed the Count's castle and drove a stake through his heart. With his dying breath, Mitterhaus vowed, "Your children will die to give me bac... | gothic, cruelty, murder, violence, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Not sure why 'Vampire Circus' isn't mentioned when people talk about the best Hammer movies, because it certainly deserves to be.
The Strong Man, The Twins Who turn into bats, The Midget Clown and The Panther who turns into a man, The Body Paint Dancers, Um...OK, maybe they are not your usual circus folk, but they sure... |
tt0114214 | The Quick and the Dead | The scene opens with Ellen (Sharon Stone) riding across the prairie toward a town, when an idiot digging multiple holes looking for his gold, shoots at her. She falls off her horse and knocks him out as he checks to see if she is dead. After chaining him to his wagon, she continues into town. A large, single eliminatio... | comedy, suspenseful, boring, murder, cult, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0084805 | Tootsie | Michael Dorsey is an actor living and working in New York City. Most of his work seems to be on the stage; he is adept at disguises, and has a tendency to tailor his own look at the audition based on what he thinks the director wants. However, he is also very stubborn and willful; for instance, he has one confrontation... | cult, entertaining, romantic, queer | train | imdb | Hoffman feels his Dorothy character should be doing specials and giving advice and whatnot, but Pollack reminds him, "You have NOTHING to say to women, Michael." In other words, you're lucky you've gotten away with the stunt up to this point, now you should be looking for a way to get out.Overall Tootsie is wonderful e... |
tt0077681 | The Hills Have Eyes | The film begins somewhere in the rural southwest USA in a desert ghost town. At the town's sole gas station, called Fred's Oasis, an old man named Fred (John Steadman) is seen packing his truck and drinking alcohol, looking very worried. He frequently glances at the arid and barren landscape around him, and makes conti... | good versus evil, revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0168122 | Pirates of Silicon Valley | Partially based on the book "Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" written by Paul Feiberger and Michael Swaine, the director Martyn Burke jump cuts through key moments in time for the two companies in telling the tale of Apple's rise, Steve Jobs' business relationship with Bill Gates, the schism bet... | historical | train | imdb | Nevertheless, it manages to capture the essence of how much of modern computing came to be: the cluelessness of Xerox about what its own computer scientists were doing; Steve Jobs' artistic vision at Apple; and Bill Gates' ruthless business practices at Microsoft.
Still, as long as you recognize that the portrayals are... |
tt1623288 | ParaNorman | In the small New England town of Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, a boy named Norman Babcock is able to speak with the dead, including his late grandmother and various ghosts in town. Unfortunately, almost no one among the living believes his ability is genuine and he is isolated emotionally from his family while being ri... | fantasy, paranormal, horror, clever, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | I absolutely adore stop motion animation, and I genuinely fell in love with Coraline, LAIKA's previous effort, but the trailers for the film didn't capture my interest in the story in the way I hoped they would and this film also didn't have the benefit of being helmed by the brilliant Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Ch... |
tt0080917 | In God We Tru$t | A naive monk, Brother Ambrose (Feldman), is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters. He is at first robbed and later befriended by con artist Dr. Sebastian Melmoth (Boyle), and meets a prostitu... | satire | train | wikipedia | A clear-eyed look at religion in America.
Marty Feldman plays a meek monk who emerges from the monastery he's lived in all his life to get the money needed to save it.
He travels to the big city and meets a number of characters who are obsessed with religion, money, or both.
This movie manages to show devotion, delusio... |
tt0308383 | The Human Stain | The opening scene shows a car driven off the icy road.Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a professor who has revitalized Athena, a small New England college. During a class discussion he calls two missing students "spooks". He is accused of making a racist epithet, and quits. His resignation is too much for his wife (Ph... | revenge, boring, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0083192 | This House Possessed | This synopsis is too short and may not include the required detailed description of the entire plot. We normally require that synopses be at least 10 lines long.
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Gary needs a vacation from his rock-star career. Sheila is the beaut... | paranormal | train | imdb | null |
tt1486193 | 5 Days of War | In this intensely human portrayal of courage under fire, acclaimed director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) combines heart pounding action with real human drama, as he tells the riveting story of a war reporter caught behind enemy lines during the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia. As a nation fights for its very... | violence, murder | train | imdb | The War between Georgia and South Ossetia/Russia in August of 2008 would seem to be a great background to a well-plotted, carefully crafted film that captures all the intrigue of the Caucasus.
5 Days of War is a twisted train wreck of special effects laden action and blatant propaganda with a parade of terrible acting.... |
tt0033723 | Hold That Ghost | Chuck Murray (Bud Abbott) and Ferdie Jones (Lou Costello), gas station attendants, aspire to better jobs waiting tables at Chez Glamour, a high-class nightclub, where Ted Lewis and The Andrews Sisters perform. However, Chuck and Ferdie cause a ruckus and wind up back at the gas station. Gangster "Moose" Mattson (Willia... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | I've seen it maybe 10 times now over the decades with no loss of pleasure.It has Ted Lewis and the Andrews Sisters as pleasant musical bookends to what has previously been described as a Ghosts & Gangsters tale.
This combination of haunted house scares and A&C slapstick works terrifically, for several reasons--the supp... |
tt0424095 | Flushed Away | Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is an upper class pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. While his owners are away on holiday, Roddy plays around the house. A common sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing against Germany in t... | psychedelic, entertaining, romantic | train | wikipedia | Maybe it did, to begin with, and the start is just a tad slow, but it soon picks up speed and the jokes, verbal and visual, just keep coming.Like the best family films, Flushed Away appeals to audiences of all ages, but the very young might find it a bit long.
(How often do you find references to Kafka in an animated f... |
tt0064073 | Beatrice Cenci | Italy, 1599. The entire Cenci family awaits their fates on the morning of their execution for murder. Frequent flashbacks show reason why.Four years earlier: Francesco Cenci (George Wilson) is a rich landowner and nobleman, but is hated by everyone, including his entire family. He's a vicious, conniving, cynical tyrant... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Fulci's Best Non Horror Movie.
A terrificly executed period piece from the Godfather of Gore, Beatrice Cenci(1969) is a masterpiece of tragic beauty.
This movie is a contradiction to the accusation of Fulci as a misogynist from his later films.
Adrienne LaRussa does a nice job in conveying the almost gentle nature of t... |
tt0066450 | They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | A prostitute is yelling a man (the murderer is unseen), suddenly he chokes her and hits her on the head with the vase. The jainitor (Mealie) discovers the body and reports to the landlord, Rice Weedon.Det. Lieut. Virgil Tibbs of the San Francisco homicide squad receives an anonymous phone call (Rice Weedon) accusing hi... | neo noir, murder, blaxploitation, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt2043757 | 2-Headed Shark Attack | A group of friends wakeboarding are attacked and eaten by a two-headed shark. Later, a group of 23 people are sailing on a ship, called the Sea King, led by professor and captain Franklin Babish, his co-captain Laura, and his wife, Anne, when the ship hits a dead shark, killed by a two-headed one. The dead shark become... | absurd, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0317219 | Cars | The movie begins with two announcers, Bob Cutlass (voice of Bob Costas) and Darrell Cartrip (Darrell Waltrip) preparing for the opening of the Dinoco 400, the final race in the Piston Cup Series, the most famous and prestigious race in the United States. So far this racing season, three racers have emerged as the most ... | comedy, sentimental, clever, flashback, entertaining, prank | train | imdb | And along with those characters and personalities comes a story which yes, contains a well-traveled theme, but it comes with so much charm that even Grouchy McKilljoy's hard little heart can't help but be warmed.Don't worry if you're not a racing fan; I assure you it's not a requirement to enjoy the movie.
Well, yeah, ... |
tt0102216 | King Ralph | The entire royal family of the United Kingdom is electrocuted in a freak accident while posing for a family photograph. Sir Cedric Willingham (Peter O'Toole) leads a search for any surviving heirs to whom to pass the crown. A researcher finally locates a living heir named Ralph Jones (John Goodman), an American.
In Las... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0490204 | Reign Over Me | When the Twin Towers went down in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything important in his life. Five years have passed since Charlie's wife and daughters died, and now the once-successful and sociable man has become a withdrawn shadow of his former self. He does not discuss his loss, causing his in-laws t... | comedy, dramatic, violence, flashback, insanity, melodrama, inspiring, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1717229 | The Unforgiving | [From film's own website]Rex Dobson (Ryan Macquet) and Alice Edmonds (Claire Opperman) find themselves stranded alongside the R106, a freeway just outside Johannesburg. Waiting for help, they are abducted by a masked madman who does unthinkable things to them. Both survive, but wish they hadnt. As their stories unfold,... | violence, plot twist | train | imdb | Fair effort.
I have no what the budget of this film was but I'm guessing it's pretty darn low.
A pity this was completely ignored on its theatrical run out here considering it's an okay-ish little suspenser.
It's not really a horror film - at no point is the film ever truly disturbing and this, essentially, is my main ... |
tt1307068 | Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | A broadcast announces that a seventy mile wide asteroid nicknamed 'Matilda' is on a collision course with Earth and that a last-ditch effort to destroy it has failed. The world has three weeks until impact, at which time all of humanity will be wiped out. Dodge Petersen (Steve Carell) and his wife, Linda (Nancy Carell)... | dark, comedy, depressing, clever, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | In "Seeking A Friend for the End of the World", what's amazing is just how long that calm lasts.Throughout the first part of this film, you can't help but wonder, as you watch, how you would react if you heard nonchalant reports on radio and TV about a 70-mile wide asteroid heading for Earth and destroying life as we k... |
tt2802144 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | In the year 1997, a helicopter flies into a compound in the Middle East. Four men apprehend a terrorist leader and tie him to a chair. One of the men, Harry Hart, a.k.a. Galahad (Colin Firth), threatens to shoot the terrorist until he gives him answers. The terrorist lifts his head to reveal a grenade pin in his mouth.... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, flashback, action, comic, brainwashing, revenge | train | imdb | 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' was being shown just around the corner from where I live, and because I loved two of director Matthew Vaughn's previous films, 'Layer Cake' and 'Kick-Ass', I naturally took the chance to see it.
I don't know, maybe Matthew Vaughn has read that interview too and saw the potential, because ... |
tt0045699 | Donovan's Brain | The movie opens with the credits and the title over a train approaching and stopping at a station. Sitting in a car, waiting for her husband, is Janice Cory (Nancy Reagan, credited as Nancy Davis). Dr. Patrick J. Cory (Lew Ayres) has just arrived on the train. They drive home to a remote spot outside of town in Green V... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0814022 | Bangkok Dangerous | Joe (Cage) is a professional freelance contract killer who works strictly by the rules; never socializing outside his work, staying secluded in quiet spots, never interacting or meeting with his handlers and always leaving on time without a trace. He usually hires young pickpockets or small-time criminals as his local ... | philosophical, violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I, myself, understood the idea, but saw no reason in remaking the Thai movie that had the same idea and add almost nothing to it other than production costs.Bottom line: sad-good-assassin story, with no twist.
We know this is the prototypic pitch of every thriller in its type, yet we still pay the full price of a cinem... |
tt0177858 | Im Juli | The film begins on a hot summer day on a country road. A man stops by the side of the road and watches a solar eclipse. When it is over, he opens his trunk and sprays bug spray on the dead body he has inside. A hitchhiker then comes up behind him to ask for a ride but is instead hit by the man's car. The driver decides... | romantic, psychedelic, entertaining | train | imdb | Part romantic comedy and part road picture, the story is full of twists and delights as it takes you on a ride across Europe, switching languages as we go - German, English, Bulgarian, Turkish.
The audiences here at the film festival loved it and it was a near-miss for audience favorite (right behind another more serio... |
tt0345551 | Latter Days | Elder Aaron Davis, a young Mormon from Pocatello, Idaho, is sent to Los Angeles with three other missionaries to spread the Mormon faith. They move into an apartment next to openly gay party boy Christian Markelli and his roommate Julie, an aspiring singer. Christian and Julie work as waiters at Lila's, a trendy restau... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I'm not going to go into my entire life story here, but I will tell you that i'm a straight person, so it may seem a little odd that I'd like to watch this movie.
I know what it's like to be shunned from the people you've grown up with, not exactly how aaron does, but I have a definite feeling and this movie went strai... |
tt0119365 | Incognito | Harry Donovan (Jason Patric) is a talented and enterprising painter who takes in large amounts of cash for his expert forgeries of old masters he produces for clients. Keeping a low profile he is disconnected with his own artistic capabilities and his drive to produce the fake work of old masters is in part an ignoring... | neo noir, murder | train | imdb | A relatively unknown movie, I bumped onto it as it was shown on the TV: I started viewing it hoping it to be at least watchable, and I was pleasantly surprised to realize that in fact it was really good.The story is about a highly talented arts forger (Patrick), who agrees to paint a fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000... |
tt2103281 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | In this sequel to 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes', almost a decade has passed since the outbreak of the ALZ-113 virus which then spread across the globe. The human population has mostly died off from the virus and from violence, while the ape population has thrived and grown. A montage of news reports is shown on a gl... | suspenseful, realism, murder, violence, action, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt1392190 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) explains in a voice-over narration that he was once a cop and road warrior and is now trekking through post-apocalyptic Australia, running from haunting thoughts of his dead wife and child and other people he's failed to save. As he stands on a ridge looking around, a two-headed lizard crawl... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | When I wrote this review 3 years ago I had no idea how many people hate this movie and they are preferring Mad Max 3 over this film.
I got an rated R bloody action film that I wanted in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Mad Max: Fury Road is my second favorite film in the franchise and this movie did it right and it correct that thi... |
tt2105044 | V/H/S | The film is presented as an anthology of short horror films, built into a frame narrative which acts as its own short horror film. Each short film is linked together with the concept of found footage (each segment is from the VHS tapes found in the room).
=== Tape 56/frame narrative ===
Directed by Adam Wingard
The fra... | paranormal, violence, horror, murder, prank | train | wikipedia | Listen, the only way to truly enjoy a horror film is in a large, pitch black room with deafening surround sound and a group of people just as scared as you are.
Some of the segments are better than others (trust me, you'll know which ones) but overall, V/H/S is one of the most imaginative, jolting, riveting, heart-beat... |
tt0052993 | Last Train from Gun Hill | An attractive American Indian woman and her young son are in a wagon, passing through a secluded, wooded area. They nervously pass by two dismounted, shiftless cowboys who are killing time by guzzling whiskey. The woman glances apprehensively over her shoulder as the two men mount up and follow along. As the men draw e... | violence, revenge, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | Last Train from Gun Hill has the star power to help back up a storyline that is, on the surface, seemingly too straightforward: a Marshall (Kirk Douglas) finds that his wife has been killed.
When he finds out that it is the son of a cattle baron (Anthony Quinn), despite his old friendship with the baron, he decides to ... |
tt0058150 | Goldfinger | The pre-title teaser sequence shows Bond emerging from the water in a Latin American country. His mission is to destroy the operations of a drug lord, who deals heroin to finance revolutions. Bond infiltrates the man's secret lab and lays out a large quantity of C4 explosive with a timer. Shortly after he meets his con... | suspenseful, murder, cult, action, humor, revenge | train | imdb | The car Aston Martin DB5 James Bond 007 was driving was so cool, it has so many accessories it was beautiful to watch it.Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.This movie has so much impact it is well acted it has great brilliant plot.Gert Fröbe R.... |
tt0107711 | Nowhere to Run | Sam Gillen (Van Damme) is a convict who gets sprung from Federal custody somewhere in the Midwest by his bank-robbing partner. In their last heist, Sam's partner killed a bank guard, and Sam took the rap for it. Sam's partner gets killed in the break, forcing Sam to go it alone in search of the loot, which is buried on... | cult, revenge, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0291337 | Max Payne | On a cold stormy winter night, an N.Y.P.D helicopter flys over the Hudson River towards the city, Two police cars drive to where the helicopter is heading: The Aesir Corporation Head-Quarters. A man is standing on the ledge with a sniper rifle in his hand, looking down on the nightmare that changed his life... His name... | revenge, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | Max Payne is like a tribute to such Hollywood action icons, such as The Matrix (1999) and director John Woo. This is one of the best video games I have played in a long time.
Never in a video game have I seen such good graphics, great dialogue, and intense action.At best, a game like Max Payne runs like a television ma... |
tt0310775 | Boksuneun naui geot | Ryu is a deaf-mute man working in a factory. His ailing sister is in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but Ryu's is not a match. After he is laid off from his job, Ryu takes his severance money and contacts a black market organ dealer to exchange one of his kidneys for one that his sister can use. The dealers disa... | comedy, dark, neo noir, murder, psychological, violence, absurd, revenge | train | wikipedia | You'll wince a great deal during this movie, that's for damn sure.Park Chan-wook directs with such beautifully composed images that are far from the the garish MTV-style action/thriller movies produced in Hollywood these days.
I know absolutely NOTHING about Chan-wook Park, but after watching 'Sympathy For Mr. Vengeanc... |
tt0413267 | Shrek the Third | Harold has fallen ill and his ogre son-in-law Shrek and daughter Fiona are next in line to be king and queen. Shrek declines, insisting that an ogre as king is a bad idea and that there has to be someone else for the job. With his final few breaths, the king tells Shrek that there is one other heir who can become the n... | cult, fantasy, satire, comedy, violence | train | imdb | This installment of Shrek is so unlike the first two in terms of energy and humor that its almost like one of those cheesy made-for-TV or straight-to-video versions that the studios make just to cash in on the popularity of a title.The movie slogs through a story about Shrek and Fiona having to replace the deceased fro... |
tt0118799 | La vita è bella | In 1939 in the Kingdom of Italy, Guido Orefice is a young Jewish man who arrives to work in the city where his uncle Eliseo operates a restaurant. Guido is comical and sharp and falls in love with a girl named Dora. Later, he sees her again in the city where she is a teacher and set to be engaged to a rich but arrogant... | comedy, whimsical, cute, melodrama, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The movie showed the cruelty of life and yet managed to shed some light and insight into the beauty of love and life in general.I urge anyone who has not seen La Vita è bella to go out there and watch it.
I feel sorry for people who refuse to watch a movie like Life Is Beautiful just because it is a foreign film.
The w... |
tt0176269 | Universal Soldier: The Return | Seven years after the events in the first film, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), now an ordinary human after having had his cybernetic implants removed, is a technical expert who is working for the US government with his partner Maggie (Kiana Tom), who has been through countless hours of combat training with him, ... | cult, violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | I don't know about you all, but I rented this movie to see Van Damme trade punches with the 290 pound Goldberg and Michael Jai White while uttering dozens of slightly pathetic/slightly amusing one liners at every conceivable opportunity, and I got just what I asked for =)If you don't like it...
tough.Go rent "The Piano... |
tt0482572 | Pride and Glory | Opens with a Football game where the NYPD are playing. Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell) is the main player and gets the word from the coach to do everything to keep their lead - they are up 14-10. He tells the team he believes in them all and they can do it. Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) sits by Megan Egan (Lake Bell) and watc... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Voight is believable and realistic as the patriarch of the family of cops and the chief, trying to keep his family in order as he thinks it should be.Despite the inspired performances of the main characters, however, Pride and Glory falls short due to awkward pacing, pointlessly convoluted side-stories revealed in equa... |
tt0103002 | Subspecies | Three scholars -- two Americans (Michelle [Laura Mae Tate] and Lillian [Michelle McBride]) and native Transylvanian Mara [Irina Movila] -- arrive at historic Pledmar Fortress in Pledmar, Transylvania where they have obtained permission to reside while studying Transylvanian folklore. One legend has it that, some 500 ye... | cult, violence | train | imdb | bad brother as the vampire sons of old King Vlad - handsome, noble, boring Stefan and hideous, jealous, scheming, fascinating Radu - battle over the rights to their inheritance.
I wish the movie said more about its nature and history.) Into the middle of this gory sibling squabble wander the obligatory clueless bunch o... |
tt1703199 | Grave Encounters | Jerry Hartfield, the producer of Grave Encounters, a famous ghost investigation television series, explains that Grave Encounters was cancelled in 2003 after the fifth episode, when the cast and crew, along with the footage for episode six, mysteriously went missing. The footage was finally recovered in 2010 and brough... | paranormal, insanity, cult, horror | train | wikipedia | And because I know there are a lot of people out there who still have to see it, I will not spoil anything, which makes it a bit harder to review the movie at this time, but I'll give it my best.I loved the beginning of the movie, especially as a 'ghosthunters' and 'ghost adventures' fan.
If you're going to watch a mov... |
tt0210070 | Ginger Snaps | In a small suburban neighborhood, a mother finds her dog's mutilated body strung across the lawn. Meanwhile, a slideshow of Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle) creating staged deaths for a school project plays in their classroom. Their teacher and the school's guidance counselor, Mr. Way... | comedy, gothic, murder, violence, cult, satire | train | imdb | 'Ginger Snaps', while not totally perfect, is one of the freshest horror movies I've seen in ages, and one of the best werewolf movies of recent years.
The teens act and talk like REAL PEOPLE, and the honesty about sex, drugs and puberty is rarely seen in contemporary movies, horror or otherwise.
Although Isabelle is t... |
tt0089003 | Death Wish 3 | Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) has come back to New York City after being banned since the events of the first film to visit his Korean War buddy Charley (Francis Drake), who is attacked by a gang in his East New York apartment. The neighbors hear the commotion and call the police. Paul arrives and Charley collapses dea... | revenge, cult, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Death Wish 3 is the year of Rambo one of my all time favorite classic action films from Charles Bronson and it is really underrated.
This movie it is not for everyone it is more for action junkies like my self it is for fun and entertaining.To you, this is underrated misunderstood prototypical "good" action movie -- in... |
tt0064160 | Cherry, Harry & Raquel! | The film begins with a monotone narration about the developing evil of marijuana in modern society and the need for vigilance in stopping the actions of the "pushers" and the "smugglers."
Harry, a small town border sheriff, lives at the site of a defunct silver mine with his girlfriend Cherry, an Englishwoman who works... | pornographic, psychedelic, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Like "Supervixens," the film is a swiftly paced excursion into sex and violence.
The story takes place in the Nevada desert
Frank Bolger is a conspicuous man in the community who also happens to run a drug-smuggling ring on the side
The local sheriff is in on it, acting as his hit man.After a hot scene with one of th... |
tt0450345 | The Wicker Man | Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) journeys to the remote Hebridean island Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Rowan Morrison (Gerry Cowper), about whom he has received an anonymous letter. Howie, a devout Christian, is disturbed to find the islanders paying homage to the pagan Celtic gods of the... | revenge, cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I haven't seen the original, but just wanted to drop a quick note to anyone who happens to scroll down this far: Wicker Man is the worst movie I've seen this year.
If you're reading this, there's probably a good chance you may have seen a YouTube video that has become very popular: a collection of "highlights" from the... |
tt0048696 | Tarantula | A severely deformed man stumbles through the Arizona desert, falls and dies. Dr. Matt Hastings, a doctor in the nearby small town of Desert Rock, is called in by the Sheriff to examine the body at the local mortuary. Asked to define the cause of death, he finds himself perplexed: the deceased was someone he knew and ha... | suspenseful, horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1132626 | Saw V | The film starts with Seth (Joris Jarsky ) in the pendulum trap. It is revealed Seth is a murderer who was released early from prison due to a technicality. Seth is told by Jigsaw's puppet that if he wants to live he has to destroy the things he has used to kill-his hands.The trap is later revealed to be unwinnable, but... | clever, revenge, gothic, violence, flashback | train | imdb | The knowledge gained doesn't force any re-evaluation of the past events it concerns; you just see and know a bit more about them, and to no great effect, except for the fact that Tobin Bell's performance is always compelling, maybe even more so when he's talking to people who aren't stuck in Jigsaw's deathtraps.The Saw... |
tt1831806 | The Thompsons | In this sequal to, 'The Hamiltons', they were a dysfunctional, orphaned family struggling in sunny suburbia. On the outside, they appeared normal enough, but they hid a very dark secret... in order to survive, they needed to drink blood because they all were natural-born vampires. After moving from their house, a blood... | boring, murder, flashback | train | imdb | First of all I must say that it is nice to have a vampire movie that is not tailor-made for a teenage girl audience with sparkly vampires and big hair.
However, that being said, then I will flip the sword around and say that this vampire movie is far from being amongst the more interesting or appealing of vampire movie... |
tt0110081 | Huo zhe | The story begins some time in the 1940s. Xu Fugui (Ge You) is a local rich man's son and compulsive gambler, who loses his family property to a man named Long'er. His behaviour also causes his long-suffering wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) to leave him, along with their daughter, Fengxia and their unborn son, Youqing.After he l... | realism, suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | Now that director Yimou Zhang ('Hero' & 'House of Flying Daggers') has become more popular, I'm hoping this will change.'Huozhe' or 'To Live' takes us on a trip in China that will last us from the 40's through the 70's.
Through that time, we will see life through the eyes of Fugui and Jiazhen, a husband and wife with 2... |
tt0085244 | The Big Chill | Harold Cooper (Kevin Kline) is bathing his young son when his wife, Sarah (Glenn Close), receives a phone call at their Richmond home telling her that their friend, Alex, has committed suicide by slashing his wrists in the bathtub of their vacation house in South Carolina, where he had been staying.
At the funeral, Har... | cult | train | wikipedia | "The Big Chill" is often regarded as the best Hollywood movie to demonstrate ensemble acting.
A problem that can affect similar films is the unequal division of time that each character receives, but "The Big Chill" avoids this problem.
Some of the careers of the talented cast bloomed after this- Kevin Kline won an Osc... |
tt0313300 | The Blue Butterfly | Inspired by a true story, The Blue Butterfly is about ten year-old Pete Carlton (Marc Donato) who is diagnosed as terminally ill and his determined mother will stop at nothing to ensure her sons dream. Funny and intelligent, yet somewhat shy, Pete is stoic and incredibly courageous when it comes to his condition. He se... | storytelling | train | imdb | I didn't know what to expect from this movie and the longer I watched it the more enjoyable it became.
There is some very beautiful cinematography in this movie and even if it were not an excellent movie that alone would make it worthwhile The elusive Blue Butterfly becomes a symbol of hope and well as the source of pr... |
tt0382943 | Return to Sleepaway Camp | Alan (Michael Gibney) is a boy at summer camp. Unfortunately Alan is a bully, who is bullied by other kids in turn. Among his abusers are his stepbrother Michael (Michael Werner), his "friends" Vinny (Christian Hess) and T.C. (Christopher Shand), and a chubby girl, Bella (Shahidah McIntosh). The film opens with several... | dark, cruelty, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | I was truly looking forward to this being a HUGE fan of the original and was devastated once the DVD had reached the five minute mark.I kept checking the box to make sure I had been sent the right movie.
- ços the money sure isn't up there on the screen.Cheaply shot, badly graded, sloppily edited, appallingly scored, a... |
tt0110329 | Leprechaun 2 | Leprechaun 2 (also known as One Wedding and Lots of Funerals) is a 1994 horror film sequel to Leprechaun which centers on a sadistically evil leprechaun (Warwick Davis) hunting for a bride. It's assumed that the film takes place a few years after the events of the first film. chronologically it is the fifth film.This i... | good versus evil, cult, violence | train | imdb | Don't get me wrong, the original wasn't as scary or as a nightmare as this one; this time as the trailers said, "He's Back!" This time Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) is on the search for his bride after his latest 1000 birthday and wants to breed more leprechauns.
Like the first movie, he wants his gold after it has been s... |
tt0387564 | Saw | The film begins with photographer Adam Faulkner (Leigh Whannell) waking up in a bathtub filled with water. In his instinctive flailing, his foot catches and removes its plug; as the water drains a glowing blue object can be briefly seen to be washed away with it. After a few cries for help it is revealed that he is not... | mystery, gothic, murder, psychological, cult, violence, horror, plot twist, flashback, clever, insanity, claustrophobic, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0963178 | The International | The film begins with Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) standing outside in the pouring rain in Berlin, Germany. Across the street, his partner Thomas Schumer (Ian Burfield) meets with André Clement (Georges Bigot) in a car. Clement talks to Schumer about how the International Bank of Business & Credit (IBBC) i... | realism, revenge, action, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0045888 | House of Wax | The movie opens with title and credits over the streets of turn of the century New York City at night in the pouring rain. A solitary figure walks down the street holding an umbrella. We enter the Wax Museum with various tableaux of crimes of the past, and then enter the workshop where Prof. Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1790864 | The Maze Runner | Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up in an ascending elevator. With him are supply containers marked WCKD. When the elevator reaches the top, a door above him opens and he's surrounded by a Lord of the Flies type gaggle of young men/boys. Thomas takes off running, but stops when he realizes he's in a small glade surrounded ... | mystery, murder, violence, horror, flashback, action, suspenseful | train | imdb | It was jammed with stock lines: bland, insinuating lines that were supposed to put me on the edge of my seat but instead left me thinking, 'Okay, when are we going to get to the POINT of this movie?' We got to see the intimidating-jerk-who-doesn't-listen-to-reason character, the hardened-guy-who-will-later-be-reduced-t... |
tt0059037 | The Cincinnati Kid | A casually dressed 30-ish man walks purposefully down a sidewalk. He passes a New Orleans' style funeral. He meets a young boy, they know each other and toss quarters, the man wins and gently teases the boy.Title sequence, bluesy jazz funeral march.At a card game, the man wins by calling his opponent's bluff. The Loser... | suspenseful | train | imdb | Like the rest of the English-speaking world, I've recently succumbed to poker-mania, and started wasting some of my spare cash in amateur Texas Hold 'Em games.Due to my newfound interest in card-playing, and my appreciation for old movies, I picked up "The Cincinatti Kid" on DVD.
Set in New Orleans, during the Depressi... |
tt0116308 | Fire | The film's prologue takes place in a field of flowers. Radha (Karishma Jhalani), a young girl, relaxes with her mother (Ramanjeet Kaur) and her father (Dilip Mehta). Radha's mother tells a story of a group of people living in mountains who'd never seen the sea. They were sad, and then an old woman told them they had to... | queer, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt3460252 | The Hateful Eight | Note: The movie is divided into six narrative sequences, all of which take place chronologically, with the exception of Chapter Five, which takes place before the others.Chapter One: "Last Stage to Red Rock"Set in the dead of winter in post-Civil War Wyoming, Major Marquis "The Bounty Hunter" Warren (Samuel L. Jackson)... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | OK - if you've already seen the movie and hated it, my review won't change your mind, so move along folks, move along, there's nothing to see for you here, thanks.Now for you, dear film fan, who is about to watch 'The Hateful Eight', but who is now slightly worried because of some very mixed critical reactions - for YO... |
tt0108002 | Rudy | In the early 1970s, Daniel Eugene "Rudy" Ruettiger grows up in Joliet, Illinois dreaming of playing college football at the University of Notre Dame. Though he is achieving some success with his local high school team (Joliet Catholic), he lacks the grades and money necessary to attend Notre Dame, as well as the talent... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | "Rudy" had kind of a lame title for a sports movie, and i remember the first time I saw a preview of it, I was totally moved and involved by the scenes and then guffawed aloud at the end when the announcer intoned, "RUDY." That set the rest of the theater laughing too, so imagine my surprise when i saw it a couple mont... |
tt0089885 | Re-Animator | At University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber, back to life. There are horrific side-effects, however; as West explains, the dosage was too large. When accused of killing Gruber, West counters: "I gave him life!"
West arrives at Miskatonic Universi... | comedy, cult, violence, horror, insanity, humor, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Re-Animator is one of those fun horror movies that is so over the top that it is just a lot of fun to watch, kind of like the spectacular Evil Dead films, although not quite to that same level of skillful horror/comedy mix.
It's amazing to me that Richard Bond, the music composer, didn't think anyone would notice him p... |
tt2084970 | The Imitation Game | BASED ON A TRUE STORY.We hear Alan Turing saying, "Are you paying attention? Good. If you're not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are and I am sitting where I am, that y... | tragedy, humor, historical, mystery, flashback | train | imdb | The whole audience were laughing and applauding and crying in places, including the man next to me who had to borrow a hankie from his wife.The film switches between the drive of the team of code breakers to solve the Enigma code, young Alan Turing and the events after the war that destroyed his life.
A lovely script t... |
tt0103644 | Alien³ | Scenes that were cut from the theatrical version of the film but restored for the 2003 DVD "Assembly Cut" appear in red. Scenes that appear only in the Theatrical Version and no longer in the Assembly Cut appear in blue.In the opening credits of the film, the Sulaco, the large military ship carrying the survivors from ... | dark, boring, neo noir, gothic, murder, allegory, cult, violence, suspenseful | train | imdb | But even though Weaver is there, the movie just doesn't have the same power as the first two films.Ripley (Weaver) crash lands on a prison planet and is taken in by a doctor (Charles Dance).
Once again its up to Ripley to destroy the monster.The acting in this film was pretty good, and the visuals are amazing, but this... |
tt0035612 | The Adventures of Tartu | In 1940, demolition expert Captain Terrence Stevenson, an Englishman born in Romania and educated in Germany, is summoned to the Foreign Office. Because Stevenson knows both Romanian and German fluently, he is asked to go on a mission disguised as Romanian chemical engineer Jan Tartu and destroy a poison gas factory in... | murder | train | imdb | The versatile Robert Donat is Captain Terrence Stevenson a.k.a. Jan Tartu, a British spy well versed in Russian and Rumanian that is assigned to aid Czech partisans in destroying a poison gas factory operated by Nazis.
A good-sized budget, wonderful stars, a good script and excellent direction by Harold Bucquet make fo... |
tt0145681 | The Bone Collector | The credits appear over newspaper articles and photos detailing the successful career of forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington). One story details Rhyme's involvement in convicting a cop.Rhyme is investigating a transit cop's death in a sewer tunnel when a falling concrete beam crushed him. He wakes up in a ... | revenge, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0092608 | Back to the Beach | In the opening scene, Bobby (Demian Slade), a 14-year-old punk teen wearing black leather clothing with a few facial piercings, narrates the story about his parents; his father (Frankie Avalon) was known as the Big Kahuna, a professional surfer from southern California who was also a teen idol and pop singer in the 196... | storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | For those of us who grew up on Beach Party movies, this is a fun revisiting of the genre.
Done as a combination homage/spoof to these early/mid 60's drive-in specials, the movie reunites some of the principle players and revisits the myth of California as Shangri-La.Annette, Frankie, Connie and dozens of guests in came... |
tt0109578 | Death Wish V: The Face of Death | Back In New York City, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is in the federal Witness Protection Program using the name Paul Stuart, teaching architecture at a local college. Kersey is invited to a fashion show given by his girlfriend, Olivia Regent (Lesley-Anne Down), who was formerly married to mobster Tommy O'Shea (Michael... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, cult, revenge | train | imdb | The beginning of this final installment of the long-running "Death Wish" series is shaky with inappropriate humor (even the title comes off as a tasteless pun, as a central character is disfigured by having her face bashed into a mirror) and a lot of mobster-movie clichés (the henchmen to Michael Parks' villain are how... |
tt0370986 | Mysterious Skin | *The beginning of the movie is told from the main characters' point of view, i.e. Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Brian (Brady Corbet), so for the beginning this will be told in an omniscient sort of view. I also might over explain things. Sorry.*Summer of 1981: The movie opens with an 8 year old Brian Lackey in the cr... | cruelty, dramatic, violence, queer, flashback, brainwashing, romantic, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0242653 | The Matrix Revolutions | Bane/Smith and Neo are both in an unconscious state. The former is said to be merely asleep, whereas neural patterns of Neo are identical to those of people who are connected to the Matrix. Morpheus, dispirited after the destruction of the Nebuchadnezzar and discovering the true nature of the Prophecy at the end of the... | suspenseful, fantasy, murder, avant garde, mystery, cult, alternate reality, violence, psychedelic, action, philosophical, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | In this explosive final chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity battle to defend Zion, the last real-world city, against the onslaught of the machines that have enslaved the human race.
It is my second favorite film in the trilogy because it ends the story and answers what happened with Neo (Keanu Reev... |
tt1212452 | Bag of Bones | This is a synopsis of the book - not the made for tv movie.The main character, Mike Noonan, is an author living in Derry, Maine who suffers from severe writer's block after the death of his wife, Johanna (called Jo), from an undiagnosed brain aneurism. Particularly disquieting to Mike is that his wife had just bought a... | paranormal, revenge, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0100661 | Sonny Boy | Some kind of wooden pyramid is burning in the desert. Next thing we know, we are in 1970, in New Mexico. A car reaches a motel. A man wants to stay there but his wife would rather find a nicer place.Another man, Weasel (Brad Dourif), starts to steal the car. The couple notices, and Weasel shoots the man. The narrator r... | murder | train | imdb | Smith playing Slue, a small town crime boss.
David Carradine plays his transvestite (I think) squeeze, Pearl, while Brad Dourif and Sydney Lassick are his two henchmen, Weasel and Charlie P.
When Sonny Boy gets loose, his actions threaten to turn the town against Slue.I had wanted to see this one after reading about it... |
tt3203606 | Trumbo | The movie starts in the year 1947 with Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) in his bathtub, writing a script on a typewriter. At this point in time, he is an established screenwriter in Hollywood. We next see Trumbo on set as the film he wrote is shot. He attends a party with Edward G. Robinson (Michael Stuhlbarg). Trumbo go... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0837564 | Spider-Man 3 | NOTE: The summary concerns the Xbox360/Ps3/PC versions of the game and not the Wii/Ps2.Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man aka Peter Parker, returns to save the city yet again. The game opens with a psychotic group known as the Mad Bombers and their leader Luke Carlyl (Neil Ross) who set a skyscraper ablaze and promp... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1700841 | Sausage Party | The film opens at the supermarket Shopwell's on a new day as customers are rolling in. The food there live in their own world where they greet each morning with a song about "The Great Beyond", where the "gods" (shoppers) take the food to their ultimate destiny.A pack of sausages and a bag of buns are placed next to ea... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt2885628 | Nina Forever | We open with a man splayed out on the road, seemingly dead. His motorcycle is crashed a few feet away from him, smoking and beeping. Just when it appears that the man is dead, he comes to and moves.We cut to a supermarket parking lot, where Holly (Abigail Hardingham) is discussing the accident with some of her co-worke... | comedy, adult comedy | train | imdb | ...with a bit of Rom-Com/Horror thrown in for good measure.We all bring baggage into a new relationship - this film makes the invisible visible and takes you on an enjoyable journey through the process of 'letting go': grief, loss, flights of fantasy, darkness, obsession.
And the level of gore is appropriate for the te... |
tt0070849 | Ultimo tango a Parigi | Jeanne (Maria Schneider) is a 20-year-old Parisian woman wondering the streets looking for an apartment to live for herself and her fiancée. She goes alone to look at an apartment in a region of the Left Bank. There, she runs into a middle-aged, obviously depressed man (Marlon Brando) who is also looking at it. Jeanne ... | tragedy, romantic, murder | train | imdb | Okay, so I am not supposed to say anything about other user's comments, but I should mention that reading those comments is what lead me to write this...I don't know if this is an enjoyable movie experience, but it is nonetheless a triumph of cinema.This film has very little to do with sex.
Marlon Brando delivers a fer... |
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