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tt0472043 | Apocalypto | It is the early 16th century, somewhere in the Central American jungle. A tapir runs frantically through the forest before it springs a trip wire trap and is impaled on a swinging branch full of spikes. Young Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) puts the tapir out of its misery and eagerly divides its internal organs between h... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder, realism, violence, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, action, revenge, historical, sadist, prank | train | imdb | Whatever problems you might have with Gibson, from his personal politics to his previous work, there is no denying the determination of his vision, or the sheer sense of daring and imagination in attempting to pull off a project of this size and pitch; taking elements of an already well-documented real life civilisatio... |
tt0129686 | Hornblower: The Even Chance | The film opens with seventeen-year-old Midshipman Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) coming aboard the HMS Justinian He is greeted by fifteen-year-old Midshipman Archie Kennedy (Jamie Bamber) and is introduced to Lieutenant Eccleston (Robert Bathurst) and Lieutenant Chadd (Roger May) who both welcome him aboard. Eccles... | violence, action, historical fiction | train | imdb | I Have just finished watching the entire series of Hornblower and must say that few seafaring adventures can beat it.It ranks up there with the original Mutiny on the Bounty,The Sea Hawk and Master And Commander as one of the greatest of its kind.
Ioan Gruffudd is perfectly cast as young Hornblower,a seasick midshipman... |
tt0090213 | Tuff Turf | James Spader is the cool guy named Morgan (A "tough guy" named Morgan?). He's your basic rebel whose father loses his company in Connecticut and somehow logically ends up in an apartment in California.Wait, what? I forget why his dad was bringing his business acumen from Conn. to Cali, but it's not really important to ... | cult, violence | train | imdb | Interesting film staring James Spader as the young punk rich kid, Matt Clark as his shell shocked father, Robert Downey Jr. as his high school buddy and Kim Richards (Escape To Witch Mountain) as his soon to be girlfriend.
The music was non-stop and the story's tone and shape zips-around, as early on we seemed to move ... |
tt0360033 | The Stranger Beside Me | A female voice-over states that she wishes she could envision a time before the killings. The images are of Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy (Billy Campbell), carrying the body of a blonde young woman across the fields up to a barn. Ted clumsily applies lipstick to the woman's face, and those reminiscences are mixed with a ... | dark | train | imdb | Somewhat decent but not as good as the book!.
Ann Rules' books including the Stranger Beside Me offers a detailed complex and complicated version of the events around Ted Bundy.
Who would have thought that even a seasoned policewoman turned writer would be sitting next to a serial killer on Tuesdays nights for a Suicid... |
tt0283509 | No Man's Land | Two wounded soldiers are caught between their lines in no man's land, in a struggle for survival. Ciki is a Bosnian Muslim, and Nino is a Bosnian Serb. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. They trade insults and even find some common ground. Confounding the situation is Cera, a wo... | comedy, murder, anti war, violence, thought-provoking, satire, tragedy, suspenseful, sentimental | train | imdb | I'm glad the IMDb featured this flick as its movie of the day, it is a great film and one which I think a lot of people passed over because it has...
I saw this early this morning at the a film festival in Gotemburg.The director was there and all.It´s a very frightening anti-war film that has three main characters two ... |
tt0164212 | Under Suspicion | Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman) is about to give the main speech in an exclusive party in Puerto Rico. He is called to the police station to be questioned about his finding of a raped and murdered young girl the day before. Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman), and the younger Detective Felix Owens (Thomas Jane) question him. H... | mystery, murder | train | imdb | Most of this dialogue-intensive film takes place in an office in a Puerto Rican Police Department with a top detective (Freeman) grilling a wealthy attorney (Hackman) about the rape/murders of young girls.
Featuring outstanding performances by both principals and technical and artistic excellence, the film's story unfo... |
tt0086491 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | PrologueThe film starts with a driver (Albert Brooks) and his passenger (Dan Aykroyd) driving on a rural two-lane road very late at night, singing along to Creedence Clearwater Revival's cover of "Midnight Special" on a cassette, which then breaks. The pair make a game between themselves about TV theme songs, then the ... | psychedelic, philosophical | train | imdb | Directed by Joe Dante who, at that time, was best known for "The Howling" with films such as "Gremlins" still in his future, this is the story of a little boy who hears people's thoughts and has a way of "wishing people away" if he gets angry enough at them.
The star of this story is the art direction and sets as we ar... |
tt0093437 | The Lost Boys | Brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) travel with their recently divorced mother, Lucy (Dianne Wiest) to the small beach town of Santa Carla, California to live with her eccentric father (Barnard Hughes). Michael and Sam begin hanging-out at the boardwalk, which is plastered with flyers of missing people... | comedy, gothic, murder, cult, horror, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0245238 | Lost and Delirious | Mary (Mischa Barton) is a 14-year-old freshman new student at an all-girls boarding school located somewhere in rural Ontario and she is assigned a dorm room with Paulie (Piper Perabo) and Victoria, nicknamed Tori, (Jessica Paré), two seniors. In an effort to get the shy Mary to break out of her shell, Paulie and Tori ... | dark, depressing, queer | train | imdb | null |
tt1139668 | The Unborn | The movie starts off with Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) jogging during the wintertime in a park. Stopping to take a breath on the running trail, Casey sees a glove on the ground. She picks it up and turns around, seeing a pale little boy with a missing glove. She stares again and the boy becomes a dog with a strange wh... | revenge, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0273657 | Hornblower: Retribution | At the tribunal in Jamaica, the officers on the Renown are being charged with mutiny.Flashback to the Renown in St. Domingo. The men killed in the skirmish at the fort are being given a proper burial at sea. First Lt. Buckland is now the acting captain. Captain Sawyer is in his cabin, restrained by a straightjacket. He... | violence, action, historical fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt0049944 | The Werewolf | The movie opens with a scene of a small village in the mountains at night. It is the downtown business district of the small town of Mountaincrest (Big Bear, California), lit by street lights and neon signs. A narrator (an uncredited Fred F. Sears) tells us, "The word lycanthropy is defined as a human being having the ... | murder | train | imdb | Interesting horror film about a man who becomes a werewolf because of science.
No full moon or silver bullets are involved here.This might be the first horror film to have a person becoming a werewolf through scientific means!
The performances are good (especially Steven Ritch as the werewolf), the scenery is beautiful... |
tt0450385 | 1408 | The movie opens with a strong rainstorm on a road. We see a car approaching us. The car stops by a local lodge. A man gets out and runs in soaking wet. This man is Mike Enslin (John Cusack). He walks up to the front desk and starts talking to the elderly couple who run the establishment. They tell him how they've been ... | boring, fantasy, murder, psychological, paranormal, horror, atmospheric, haunting, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, claustrophobic | train | imdb | While doing some research before reviewing 1408, I was shocked to discover that this was the first time since 2004's Riding the Bullet that a film based on a Stephen King story had gotten the big screen treatment.
Based on a short story by the great Stephen King, "1408" is one of the genuine movie sleepers of summer 20... |
tt0101329 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | Several years after living in New York City, the impoverished Mousekewitz family discovers that conditions are not as ideal as they had hoped, as they find themselves still struggling against the attacks of mouse-hungry cats. Fievel spends his days thinking about the Wild West dog-sheriff Wylie Burp, while his older si... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Fievel Goes West may not have as many touching moments as the original, but that's because it's more of a fast-paced western comedy rather than a heartwarming, sometimes tragic tale (tail?) as An American Tail was.
The film as a whole is a gem, but the one thing truly, wonderfully beautiful thing about Fievel Goes West... |
tt3072482 | Hardcore Henry | Note: this entire, experimental film takes place from the first-person POV (point-of-view) of Henry.The film starts with a memory from Henry's childhood. Three bullies stand before him, and one of them is holding a toy of Henry's. The bully hurls the toy against the wall and smashes it. A man, Henry's father (Tim Roth)... | comedy, avant garde, suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, absurd, psychedelic, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | I am not a major fan of FPS games, but having the entire movie filmed with Go Pro's, along with the great action made this a very fun and enjoyable movie.
The acting, while little of it, was passable and did not really strike me as "bad." If you are a person who can't stand something like the Bourne movies for their sh... |
tt0844760 | Starship Troopers 3: Marauder | In the past eleven years of "The Second Bug War", the Mobile Infantry has improved their weapons and tactics. However, as they adapt, so do the Bugs, and many new Arachnid variants have developed. The United Citizen Federation now finds itself engaged in trench warfare on the frontier planets. The Federation puts a pos... | violence, revenge, satire, romantic, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116483 | Happy Gilmore | At the beginning of the movie Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) talks about his life. His mom moved to Egypt because of his father's obsession for hockey. Shortly after that, his father was killed by a hockey puck to the head. Then Happy was forced to move in with his grandmother (Frances Bay). Happy Gilmore had many jobs l... | cult, comedy, humor | train | imdb | "Happy" is a hot-tempered hockey player who can hit a golf ball 400 yards so he tries his hand on the PGA tour to help raise money for his grandmother.
I just shake my head even writing that last sentence, it sounds so stupid....but this is a stupid movie with an incredibly stupid story but is hilarious, for the most p... |
tt0483607 | Doomsday | It's 2008 and the Reaper virus has spread throughout Scotland, resulting in the country being walled off by the British government. A Scottish woman brings her young daughter, who has an injured eye, to soldiers for rescue. The mother convinces the soldier to airlift her daughter to safety. She then hands the girl a le... | boring, murder, violence, cult, psychedelic, entertaining, sadist, sci-fi | train | imdb | Writer and Director Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) an obvious student of genre movies, has managed to smoothly craft together a cinematic Frankenstein's monster of sci-fi action clichés.
I have to admit, it was somewhat surreal watching such a film on the big screen, particularly the extended Sol/feast sc... |
tt0101420 | Begotten | The story opens with a robed, profusely bleeding "God" disemboweling itself, with the act ultimately ending in its death. A woman, Mother Earth, emerges from its remains, brings the dead body to arousal, and inseminates herself with its semen. Becoming pregnant, she wanders off into a vast and barren landscape. The pre... | avant garde, psychedelic, cult, cruelty, violence | train | wikipedia | It's a movie that most people don't understand, and if you read through these comments you'll find a lot of people whose lack of ability to figure this film out results in them shrieking about 'pretentiousness' with the fervor of a gibbon rattling the bars of its cage at feeding time.
Don't watch this film while, or so... |
tt0478813 | Klopka | === Intro ===
The film opens with Mladen Pavlović (Nebojša Glogovac), sporting bumps and bruises on his face, nervously smoking a cigarette while talking to unrevealed individual(s). Among other things, he says that he is trying to "do this one thing right, after a series of wrongs that never should have happened".
The... | murder, atmospheric, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The story was thoughtful without being pretentious, the acting was superb, and the little nods to Serbian society (and how that reflects on the rest of us as well) were thought-provoking without being in your face.
A jewel of a film: the kind that comes perhaps once a year.
Every serious moviegoer enters each theater w... |
tt0324127 | Suspect Zero | Harold Speck, a traveling salesman, is approached by a man in a diner who asks him an uncomfortable question. After leaving the diner, Harold is found dead with his eyelids cut off and clutching a symbol which appears to be a circle with a line through it. The murder is investigated by FBI Agent, Thomas Mackelway (Aaro... | paranormal, violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Suspect Zero, a new mystery/horror/thriller/detective-FBI film, tries to make a lot of twists and turns in telling a story that is perhaps all-too-simple at the core.
While the acting is fair by the leads (Kingsley, as a man who may or may not be the suspect, plays a tortured soul better than anyone I can think of; Eck... |
tt3447364 | Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! | Synopsis as provided by Srijana Mitra Das in the Times of India (4 April 2015):It's 1942 and Calcutta is ruled by the British Raj. Its underworld is ruled by Chinese gangsters smuggling opium from Shanghai. A vicious fight breaks out within one such gang at the Calcutta docks where gangster Yun Gong brutally blinds one... | violence, murder, romantic | train | imdb | "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!" stars Sushant Singh Rajput, Neeraj Kabi, Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee, Meiyang Chang, and Divya Menon in major roles.
Banerjee seems to have a penchant for making dark films like "Shanghai" and "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!".
It's never a cinch to recreate a certain epoch in history and t... |
tt0335266 | Lost in Translation | Bob, a 55 year old, looking bored, oblivious, is a still famous actor who comes to Tokyo to shoot a commercial for $2 million. As soon he arrives and is greeted by a bunch of smiling overly friendly Japanese crew, he gets a fax from his wife Lydia, 45 years old, reminding him that he forgot his son's birthday. The next... | boring, depressing, realism, atmospheric, satire, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | That doesn't mean its the best movie ever made, in fact, I can name many that are technically better than this film, like the one I named before.
Both are great films, both are rated R in the U.S., but only one of them can carry along its story without brutal murders.So what can I say about Lost In Translation that has... |
tt0479651 | Dasavatharam | <<<<contains spoiler>>>>>The story has the underlying themes of Chaos theory and chain of events. It begins with the 12th century with a conflict between the worshipers of two Gods namely Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. The king being a Lord Shiva devotee decides to sink the Vishnu idol which is opposed by Rangarajan(kamal... | murder | train | imdb | Himesh should not have been the composer, instead AR Rehman would have been good.Kamal's hard work and perseverance is evident throughout the movie and that works good for the movie.KS Ravikumar has been roped in just to add the commercial elements to keep the investments safe and he does it quite good.Not a regular Ka... |
tt0150377 | Double Jeopardy | Libby Parsons seems to have it all. Her husband, Nick, is devoted to her and their four-year-old son Matty. The family live in a beautiful home on the Pacific Northwest waterfront. When Nick scores yet another business triumph, he buys a yacht to celebrate. Leaving Matty with their friend Angie, who is a teacher at Mat... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1079444 | Dead Like Me: Life After Death | In Seattle, Washington, a crew of Reapers, who live and work among the living and whose job is to gather souls of people who are about to die, find themselves confronted by change, as their habitual meeting place, the Der Waffle Haus restaurant, burns down on the same day that their boss and head reaper, Rube, disappea... | comedy, psychedelic | train | imdb | Wynter just devours the scenery playing Daisy as a vapid, talentless idiot.It's nice that talented original cast members Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Jasmine Guy, et al, got work, but they deserved a better vehicle than this shoddy, mawkish mess.
While it was nice to see the return of the show, this reeked of Straight to D... |
tt0066476 | The Touch of Satan | Jodie Lee Thompson (Michael Berry) is taking a trip to San Francisco from Austin, TX. Stopping at a small town for some supplies, the gas station attendant informs Jodie that there's a killer on the loose, and that a local farmer was recently murdered.Jodie drives off, and eventually takes a detour through an area wher... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0037101 | Murder, My Sweet | Marlowe is in a police station, a bandage over his eyes. He explains what happened in a flashback.Moose Malloy comes in to Marlowe's office. He's just got out of prison and wants Marlowe to find his ex-girlfriend, who he's not seen in eight years. Malloy takes him to a place called Florian's, where his ex used to work.... | cult, mystery, murder, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | The really big draw in MURDER is Dick Powell, not just delivering a career-changing performance (and being the first actor to play Marlowe) but also giving the best interpretation of Marlowe on film- and that includes Bogart's fine outing in Hawks' THE BIG SLEEP(1946), Robert Mitchum's two disappointing films, and Elli... |
tt1046947 | Last Chance Harvey | Divorced American Harvey Shine writes jingles for television commercials, a job not in keeping with his dream of being a jazz pianist and composer. His position at work is tenuous as he departs for London to attend his daughter Susan's wedding. Upon arrival at Heathrow Airport, he encounters Kate Walker, a single Londo... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042367 | Cyrano de Bergerac | In a Paris theater in 1640, a play begins before a fairly full house. After a few painfully dull lines are delivered by principal actor Montfleury (Arthur Blake), a boisterous heckler in a box disrupts the proceedings. The heckler is Cyrano de Bergerac (José Ferrer), poet and supreme swordsman, who says he cannot endur... | romantic, action | train | imdb | Jose Ferrer first performed "Cyrano de Bergerac" on Broadway in 1946, where it achieved a very successful run (for a revival).
This was in 1950, in a Stanley Kramer-produced film for which Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar, beating out such actors as James Stewart in "Harvey", William Holden in "Sunset Blvd.", and Spence... |
tt1645080 | The Art of Getting By | George (Freddie Highmore) is a loner high school student with a penchant for drawing and skipping class. He has a nihilistic view of the world which is why he never does homework and skips school frequently. His academic delinquency puts him on academic probation. One day while on the school roof he encounters another ... | depressing, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0311429 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | In an alternate 1899, several high profile crimes occur in various nations throughout Europe, each allegedly carried out by nationals of other countries, leading Europe to the brink of war. An emissary of the British government, Sanderson Reed (Tom Goodman-Hill), arrives in a gentlemens club in Kenya, hoping to recruit... | gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, alternate reality, violence, sci-fi | train | imdb | It seems to be divided between people who don't like the movie because it's not enough like the original graphic novel and people who don't like it because they've never heard of half of the characters that are members of the League.
Having been critically panned by both film critics and fans of the original comic book... |
tt2366608 | Lost River | A young boy runs out of a house into the tall grass outside. We see a slow montage of a crumbling city and a young family as a 1920's ditty plays. Two brothers play together. A house burns slowly.The older brother, Bones (Iain De Caestecker) says goodbye to a neighbour who is escaping the decaying city. "Get out of her... | psychedelic, neo noir, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0083806 | Deathtrap | Sidney Bruhl (Caine) is a playwright who is most famous for his mystery thriller "The Murder Game." Following the debut of the latest of a series of flops, he returns to his home in East Hampton and to his wife Myra (Cannon). He tells her that he's received a play called "Deathtrap" from a former student from a playwri... | paranormal, psychedelic, horror, murder | train | imdb | It is an appropriate image: originally written for the stage by Ira Levin, who authored such memorable works as ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE STEPFORD WIVES, the play was one of Broadway's most famous twisters, and under Sidney Lumet's direction it translates to the screen extremely well.DEATHTRAP is one of those films that ... |
tt0236348 | Josie and the Pussycats | Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is an executive with record label MegaRecords. The label, headed by the trend-conscious and scheming Fiona (Parker Posey), manufactures faddish pop bands for consumption by the teenage market. Conspiring with the United States government, they add subliminal messages under the music to brainw... | brainwashing, cute, satire | train | wikipedia | Since this movie was made we have witnessed the fall out of bands like Back street boys the breakdown of pop-stars like Brittany Spears and a slew of young actors & actresses separated from family & friends whose entire personalities have been written and designed by stylists and are seen battling like some weird "Fash... |
tt0303970 | The Era of Vampires | Prologue. In 17th century rural China during the Ching dynasty, when
a dead body isn't resting in peace, chemical and physical changes can
build up, allowing it to leave the grave in the form of a zombie, feeding
on the flesh of humans. Over time, the zombie will turn into a vampire. If
you are bitten or scratched by a... | paranormal | train | imdb | To me, Tsui Hark constructed a BRILLIANT homage to the "hopping corpse," and "demon" movies of the 1980's and early 1990's while adding some great kung-fu sequences.
Hong Kong humor is usually quite different than American humor...I'm sure a lot of people missed when RAIN, CLOUD, THUNDER, and LIGHTNING (ridiculously st... |
tt0270991 | Hollywood Vampyr | Vista del Mar College, Los Angeles: Young Goth girls are committing ritual suicide. The last two were
daughters of one of the professors at the college. One of his colleague,
Professor Fulton [Muse Watson], sees the Goth movement as a deadly cult phase that kills
innocent kids. Fulton's student Tom Weidder [Jeff Marche... | cult, gothic | train | imdb | A dark gothic story with a strong positive message. I saw this film at the Modesto Film Festival, I felt it was one of the best that screened. The cast was amazing. Trevor Goddard played a great villain and it was cool to see Muse Watson not play a villain. It was nominated for six awards, but only won one - Nora Zimme... |
tt0349903 | Ocean's Twelve | At the beginning of Ocean's Twelve, the eleven members of Ocean's Eleven are living their lives separately off the fortunes of their Vegas casino heist in the first film. Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), the owner of the three casinos, confronts each member of the team in turn, demanding the team return his money, with in... | revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | And these films do indeed have A lot of Hollywood star power in them; Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherina Zeta Jones, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle...
Unfortunately, the audience may not gain the same pleasure as the actors did....If you were like me, absolutely blown away by the chic... |
tt1259521 | The Cabin in the Woods | The movie opens with a pair of middle-aged men walking through some kind of facility discussing mundane details about marriage and potential children, while a younger woman in a lab coat is trying to inform them about an incident at the Stockholm facility. The two men are not particularly concerned about what she is te... | dark, comedy, murder, stupid, paranormal, violence, horror, plot twist, flashback, clever, psychedelic, satire, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt1080012 | Faintheart | As the camera pans through a wood, subtitles suggest we're in Mercia, and its the 11th Century.
A line of viking warriors advances towards their foe, the Normans. Just as they stop to set a shield wall, Richard's (Eddie Marsan) mobile phone rings. His (ex) wife (Jessica Hynes) wants to know where he is. He should be at... | home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0090837 | Chopping Mall | Park Plaza Mall has just installed a state-of-the-art security system, which includes security shutters across all exits, and three high-tech security robots, programmed to disable (using tasers and tranquilliser guns) and apprehend would-be thieves.
Four couples (Married pair Rick and Linda, Greg and Suzie, Mike and L... | violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0051433 | The Bravados | Jim Douglas (Gregory Peck) is a rancher who has been pursuing the four outlaws who he believes murdered his wife six months earlier. He rides into the town of Rio Arriba, where four men, Alfonso Parral (Lee Van Cleef), Bill Zachary (Stephen Boyd), Ed Taylor (Albert Salmi) and Lujan (Henry Silva), fitting the descriptio... | revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0067229 | I Drink Your Blood | The film opens on a bizarre Satanic ritual being conducted by a long-haired hippie type named Horace Bones. Nude and freaked out on LSD, Horace and his small group of cohorts are oblivious to the fact that they're being watched by Sylvia, a young girl observing them from the trees. One of the hippies is pregnant and is... | violence, cult, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | The acting wasn't too good either, but it's obviously on a low budget, so I can forgive that.The plot is that a group of Satan worshiping hippies come to a small town to wreak havoc on the local population.
What self respecting exploitation and horror fan is going to resist *that* title?When a sadistic, Satan worshippi... |
tt1438173 | Bait | The movie opens with a hungover Josh being woken up by Rory. Rory tells Josh he shouldn't have proposed to his sister, Tina. Rory gives Josh his grandmother's hangover drink. Rory says Tina is at the beach, and that she has something for him. Josh sees Tina bending down and picking something up. She turns around and sh... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1139797 | Låt den rätte komma in | Twelve year old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is so wimpy that he's constantly picked on by the other boys at his school, especially Conny (Patrik Rydmark) and his two friends, Martin (Mikael Erhardsson) and Andreas (Johan Sömnes). Out of fear, Oskar never fights back. In the evenings, however, he sits in the courtyard rehear... | dark, boring, cruelty, murder, gothic, suspenseful, violence, cult, horror, atmospheric, romantic, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | In this Swedish film, adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist's bestselling book, director Tomas Alfredson dares to mix pleasure and pain in a way that is both horrifying and tender."Let the Right One In" has a storyline which, although it reveals some secrets early on, is best left as a surprise.
But there is a deep dark s... |
tt1258972 | The Man with the Iron Fists | In nineteenth century China, Jungle Village is home to several warring clans. The village blacksmith creates deadly weapons for the clans, intending to use his payments to purchase the freedom of his lover Lady Silk, and leave the village. The region's governor tasks the Lion Clan's leader Gold Lion with protecting a l... | murder, violence, historical fiction, flashback, psychedelic, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | The music cues are embarrassingly overdone...any time the film wants you to feel an emotion, the sappiest orchestral music instantly kicks in, to the beat of a hip hop song.I think it's possible that RZA could make a good film someday, but this certainly isn't it..
Juvenile Kung-Fu. The film had potential with a decent... |
tt0441821 | SideFX | NOTE: Read SideFX as Side Effects, and the moral of this movie will fall
into focus.There's a new drug called AYCE on the University campus in Dallas, and
party animal Matt [Todd Swift] can't wait to slip it into his friends' drinks at his super
Halloween bash next Friday. Tuesday [Amanda Phillips], the girl with whom ... | pornographic, violence, murder | train | imdb | A good variation on zombie movies..
A good way to describe the plot of Side FX is to say it's a variation of a zombie movie.
A new drug that's supposed to be 10 time better than ecstasy has a little side effect.
It makes the user lose their normal state of mind and crave blood.
By craving blood, I mean bite chunks out ... |
tt0033553 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | In London, in 1887, prominent physician Henry Jekyll incurs the ire of his older colleagues because of his experiments and views on the possibility of separating the good and evil aspects of man's nature. Hanry is deeply in love with Beatrix Emery, the daughter of Sir Charles Emery, who likes Henry, but is concerned ov... | gothic, murder, violence, good versus evil, insanity, romantic, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | HYDE back in the '30s and always assumed that because of this his performance was superior to Spencer Tracy's.But having just seen the Tracy-Bergman-Turner version, my opinion has changed.
All of the performances are first rate except for an uncertain Lana Turner who has a pallid role and can do little with it.The only... |
tt0138703 | Phantasm IV: Oblivion | The film opens where its predecessor left off. Mike flees from Boulton mortuary in the hearse, while Reggie is trapped inside by The Tall Man's spheres. However, The Tall Man decides to let Reggie go for the moment.Mike's spherical brother Jody persuades a reluctant Reggie to go looking for Mike. On the way, Reggie run... | good versus evil, flashback | train | imdb | These serve as really interesting backdrops for Mike, Reggie, Jody and the Tall Man (all the original actors returned, too).
The film actually ends with a flashback- a poignant and subtle scene that is unlike the endings of the other three movies, leaving the series with what could be a perfect close.
There must have b... |
tt0047898 | Bride of the Monster | We open in the woods after dark during an intense storm and see the old Willows property out on Lake Marsh, roll credits. Wandering around out in this foul weather are Mac (Bud Osborne) and Jake (John Warren). A bolt of lightning strikes a tree bough and it falls off. They decide to make for the Willows place as a refu... | cult | train | imdb | You can see the movie the way Ed Wood intended it.The lighting is competent; the camera work is competent.But what elevates BOTM to film nirvana is Bela Lugosi's performance as Dr. Eric Vornoff (sp?).
If you look past the cheesy octopus (no worse than the hysterical devil bat), the cheap sets and the lame acting (bette... |
tt0162137 | The 7th Guest | The game begins with a flashback to 1935 in the town of Harley-on-the-Hudson. A drifter named Henry Stauf kills a woman to steal her purse, beginning a series of deplorable acts. One night, he has a vision of a beautiful doll, and the next day begins carving it. He is able to trade the doll for food and drinks & a plac... | insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0446051 | Third Man Out | At the home of John Rutka and Eddie Santin, Rutka is apparently shot by an unknown assailant.The next day, private eye Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) arrives at the Albany Medical Center to meet with a client. While there, he sees his life partner, lobbyist and aide Tim Callahan (Sebastian Spence), who is escorting his b... | neo noir, murder | train | imdb | Masterful gay detective movie with a good ending.
I'm used to seeing under-achieving gay movies, with laughable acting, unbelievable writing and downright bad directing.
It was a good match.Thank you and congratulations to Chad Alan, Sebastian Spence, Ron Oliver, and Mark Saltzman..
This is one of the most satisfying "... |
tt0084649 | The Secret of NIMH | Mrs. Brisby (Frisby in the original book) is a very shy, timid, and lonely mouse widow whose family is threatened by a premature warm spell, prompting the farmer to start his mowing early, endangering the cinder block she and her family call home. Normally she would simply pack up their things and move to a new spot in... | fantasy, murder, allegory, cult, violence, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0064665 | Midnight Cowboy | As the film opens, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a young Texan working as a dishwasher, dresses in new cowboy clothing, packs a suitcase, and quits his job. He heads to New York City hoping to succeed as a male prostitute for women. Initially unsuccessful, he succeeds in bedding a well-to-do middle-aged New Yorker (Sylvia Mil... | tragedy, psychedelic, humor, realism, flashback | train | imdb | Somehow, this mismatched pair manage to survive each other which in turn helps both of them cope with a gritty, sometimes brutal, urban America, en route to a poignant ending.Both funny and depressing, our "Midnight Cowboy" rides head-on into the vortex of cyclonic cultural change, and thus confirms to 1969 viewers tha... |
tt0924129 | Crossing Over | (Note: There are several stories interwoven throughout the movie. For simplicity, they are separated out in this description, each with its own paragraph.)
After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, ICE / Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Max Brogan takes care of her little son and brings him to the boy's... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Writer-director Wayne Kramer examines the issues behind the illegal immigrant problem in USA who are either trying to lay low in avoiding the law, or trying their best to gain legal residency with each experiencing different challenges that lie ahead in their quest.And it's quite ambitious for Kramer to try and pull of... |
tt4302938 | Kubo and the Two Strings | A woman (voice of Charlize Theron) is riding in a boat through the ocean on a stormy night with her baby boy resting on her back. A huge wave rises, but the woman strums her shamisen and makes the water part to let her pass. Moments later, the wave returns and crashes down on her from behind. The woman hits her head on... | storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt1282140 | Easy A | The film opens with Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) talking into a web cam about how her little white lie ballooned into an uncontrollable monster. She says she will explain her side, the true side of what occurred. She says that she was a nobody that no one noticed outside her best friend Rhiannon (Aly Michalka). Rhian... | comedy, psychedelic, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0292644 | The Rules of Attraction | The film takes place at the fictional Camden College, a liberal arts school in northeastern New Hampshire and it set in the late 1980s. The opening sequence introduces the three main characters - Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder), and Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), in turn. They are thr... | pornographic, cult, violence, flashback, satire, romantic, entertaining, queer | train | imdb | Too many people like their movies to wrap everything up at the end and have everything explained to them and for Lassie to save the day.
On the other hand if you like a movie to challenge you then I am sure you will find ROA superb.Based on the book of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis it is probably THE best book to ... |
tt0477071 | Premonition | Prologue. The film opens with a recollection of the day when Jim Hanson (Julian McMahon) and his wife Linda (Sandra Bullock) acquired their home. Sepia colors and their 1965 Ford Mustang set the tone and the time... (a flash of white light breaks the reverie).Day 1. A church bell is sounding as Linda awakes. She takes ... | melodrama, alternate reality, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0082869 | Outland | Set in the distant future, Federal Marshal William T. O'Niel (Sean Connery), is assigned to a one-year tour of duty at Con Am 27, a titanium ore mining outpost on Jupiter's third moon Io (pronounced "eye-oh"), a volcanic moon about 2,275 miles in diameter and located 275,000 miles from Jupiter's gas surface. Conditions... | cult, atmospheric, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0277027 | I Am Sam | Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a mentally challenged man with a mind of a child, is living in Los Angeles and is single-handedly raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning), whom he fathered from a homeless woman who wanted nothing to do with Lucy and left him the day of her birth. Although Sam provides a loving and caring env... | psychological, thought-provoking, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic, sentimental | train | imdb | Penn is highly under rated in the world that is movies, as he shows with this Oscar potential performance.The young actress who plays his daughter is amazingly mature in her acting, whilst always managing to capture the innocence of her youthfullness.
I watched it with my 13 year old daughter and it alternately made us... |
tt0082970 | Ragtime | The film begins with a newsreel montage, depicting celebrities of the turn of the 20th century such as Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt and the architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer), as well as life in New York City. The newsreel is accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.). The ... | tragedy, insanity, historical, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0052561 | Anatomy of a Murder | In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler (Stewart), a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his alcoholic friend and colleague Parnell McCarthy (O'Connell) and sardonic secretary Maida Rutledge (Arden).
O... | murder | train | wikipedia | Welch turns in a very good and a very believable performance.With the collision of those elements, a great script and a great cast, adding Otto Preminger as director, an overseer who knew exactly what to do with it all, you then have a very fine film.More than any other movie or play, including modern day presentations... |
tt0104511 | Innocent Blood | The camera pans along the nighttime skyline of Pittsburgh, as a romantic song plays in the background. Then along a common street to a low-rise walk-up apartment building beside a notary office, and into the apartment of a beautiful but lonely young woman named Marie (Anne Parillaud). Marie stands naked, looking out he... | comedy, revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0047149 | Killers from Space | We open with a dawn view of a government installation in the desert. A narrator (Mark Scott) tells us, "Soledad Flats, Nevada. The time is 6:15 a.m. The climax of arduous planning. Operation A-bomb test underway." Detonation is two minutes away and troops are stationed in trenches to witness the test. A jet is aloft ca... | brainwashing | train | imdb | I don't know why, but the scifi and horror films of this cheap, primitive, paranoid era were more fun than those made nowadays.Besides its innate aesthetic value, this film is notable for an early featured role for the great Peter Graves, who died about a month prior to me writing this review.
Mr. Graves' performance h... |
tt0087759 | Murderock - Uccide a passo di danza | At the Arts for the Living Center in New York, Candice Norman (Olga Karlatos) oversees the latest dance routine choreographed by Margie (Geretta Marie Fields). Candice tells Margie that the act needs even "more perfection" in preparation for a visit from three talent agents. The academy director Dick Gibson (Claudio Ca... | cult, horror, murder, violence, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033712 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | On 11th May 1941, Boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery), affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City, but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is "rescued" by 7013 (Edward Everett Horton), an officious angel who assumed that Joe coul... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0954947 | The Killer Inside Me | In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town — patient, dependable, and well-liked. However, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. As a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to the crime ... | mystery, neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092857 | Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | A woman is walking to her car in the parking garage. She gets in and has trouble starting her car. Three thugs appear, break into her car, force her out, and begin to rape her when Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) appears out of nowhere. He shoots the first two thugs, but wounds the third. He follows the third mugger as h... | cult, revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | I am a huge fan of Charles Bronson I have been watching his movies since I was a kid and Death Wish series are my favorite film series.
The movie has tons of action and explosions Paul (Charles Bronson) uses a M16 with M203 grenade launcher to go after Nathan White (John Ryan) and his men at the roller rink.
The movie ... |
tt0049370 | It Conquered the World | After the credits we open in a laboratory/control room for launching and monitoring satellites. Ellen Peters (Karen Kadler) announces that an unidentified object has been spotted. Her colleague, Pete Shelton (Charles B. Griffith) states that all aircraft should have been out of the area twenty minutes ago. The project ... | cult | train | imdb | A lot of people slam Roger Corman and try and act like every movie he made was worthless schlock, but while he definitely did make a few stinkers in his long career, the truth is that he was involved with more good than bad movies, either as a director or a producer.
Graves later became immortal on TV as Mr. Phelps in ... |
tt0452623 | Gone Baby Gone | Boston P.I. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and his partner/girlfriend Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) witness a televised plea by a woman named Helene McCready (Amy Ryan) for the return of her missing daughter Amanda, who was abducted with her favorite doll "Mirabelle". Patrick and Angie are then hired by the child's... | mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, tragedy, plot twist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0063729 | Twisted Nerve | The film opens with Martin playing catch with his younger brother Pete, who has learning difficulties and lives in a segregated school in London. Martin is the only remaining figure in Pete's family life; their father died years ago and their mother has a new life with a new husband. Martin expresses concern for his br... | violence | train | wikipedia | In 1960, two respected British directors debuted shocking psychosexual thrillers, to mixed critical and commercial receptions: Alfred Hitchcock with 'Psycho,' and Michael Powell with 'Peeping Tom.' Both films were shocking in their time, and their influence on low-budget 1960s horror can't be overstated.
The film intro... |
tt0072198 | The Spikes Gang | Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is an aging bank robber of the fading "Old West." Injured and near death, he is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends -- Wil (Gary Grimes), Tod (Charles Martin Smith), and Les (Ron Howard). They refuse any payment from Spikes for their efforts,... | murder | train | wikipedia | Good and unknown western shot in Almeria , Spain , with a great cast by young man actors and a sensational Lee Marvin.
After escape home , three young man friends (Gary Grimes , Charles Martin Smith , Ron Howard) form a strong alliance , a dynamic trio combining raw untamed youth .
Later on , they meet an old man named... |
tt0066549 | Waterloo | The film opens on Château de Fontainebleau in 1814. Paris is besieged by the Austrians and her allies. Napoleon Bonaparte (Steiger) is urged by his marshals to abdicate but he refuses, defiant. Upon hearing the surrender of his last army under Auguste Marmont he realises that finally all is lost and accepts the abdicat... | historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0302674 | Gerry | We are driving a flat, winding, dry and isolated road through desert brush. Everything is quiet. Two young men in a car say nothing to each other. They arrive at a marked "wilderness" trail and head off without anything but the clothes on their back and an extra shirt. With energy and boundlessness they go and go and g... | mystery, psychedelic, avant garde, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0240772 | Ocean's Eleven | Daniel Ocean (George Clooney), a convicted thief, is being questioned by a parole board about his coming release from prison. He claims a reason for his crime was that his wife, Tess Ocean (Julia Roberts), left him, and when asked what he would do if released from prison, there is no answer.Ocean is paroled from his Ne... | comedy, boring, mystery, flashback, feel-good, psychedelic, humor, action, plot twist, entertaining | train | imdb | It's great to see actors like Pitt and Clooney and Damon come together in a movie and interact so well, without having to be the pretty boys or bad-ass heroes of the movie..
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Elliot Gould, Carl Reiner, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Shaobo Qin, Miguel Perez, and Livingston ... |
tt0431197 | The Kingdom | The opening scene of the movie explains how oil drilling has transformed the Middle East and abroad in a timeline sequence. It portrays the conflicts that have risen since the late 1940's for the rightful ownership of the Oil Industry. This includes the United States's involvement in Iraq and al-Qaeda's growing network... | revenge, action, boring, violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1821480 | Kahaani | A poison-gas attack on a Kolkata Metro Rail compartment kills the passengers on board. Two years later Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan), a pregnant software engineer, arrives in Kolkata from London during the Durga Puja festivities in search of her missing husband, Arnab Bagchi. A police officer, Satyoki "Rana" Sinha (Paramb... | plot twist | train | wikipedia | For Kahaani is a ride so thrilling, your mind would be tripping with a million possibilities, even as your tongue invariably ends up either tied, or hanging in the air with anticipation.Kahaani is essentially the story of a heavily pregnant London based Tamil woman's search for her missing Bengali husband in Kolkata, u... |
tt0101004 | Zandalee | Zandalee Martin is a young boutique store owner living in New Orleans who is sexually frustrated and feeling unfulfilled with her marriage to Thierry Martin, and eventually gets tangled in a passionate, sensual and torrid adulterous affair with her husband's mysterious and free spirited old friend Johnny Collins. Zanda... | tragedy, romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Gratuitous nudity livens up dull melodrama.
Nicholas Cage is mis-cast as an irrestistable sex-god/brooding artist who comes to stay with an old friend (Judge Reinhold) and proceeds to VERY unsubtley seduce his wife, Zandalee (Twin Peaks' Erika Anderson).
Despite his lank, greasy (thinning) hair, scraggy goaty, boorish ... |
tt0352994 | Walk on Water | Eyal is an agent in Mossad, the Israeli security service. He is a hitman who targets enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and the agency decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: to find an aging Nazi war criminal and get him "before God does".
In order to track down the old... | queer, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | "Walk on Water" piles layers of personal, family, religious, cultural, historical, employment, geopolitical, sexual, geographical, guilt and responsibility issues on two men -- and still makes it work as the gripping story of two individuals whose lives affect each other.I saw an interview with director Eytan Fox where... |
tt1181791 | Black Death | Black Death begins with a voiceover from Wolfstan (John Lynch), a soldier in the employ of the Church in 13th Century England. As an enforcer of the Church's will, Wolfstan is one of a group who roots out and hunts down all traces of infidelity and sacrileges against God. The opening voiceover talks about the bubonic p... | violence, gothic, revenge, cruelty, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0114814 | The Usual Suspects | On the deck of a ship in San Pedro, California, a figure identified as Keyser speaks with an injured man called Keaton. The two talk briefly, then Keyser appears to shoot Keaton before setting the ship ablaze.The next day, FBI Agent Jack Baer (Giancarlo Esposito) and U.S. Customs special agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palmint... | dark, boring, neo noir, murder, suspenseful, mystery, cult, violence, plot twist, flashback, clever, action, revenge, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | It's a modestly-budgeted piece by a fresh director (who later went on to do the X-Men movies, a FAR departure).A great, gritty script, beautifully-acted characters, and what many have called the greatest movie ending of all time, are some of the shining qualities that make the Usual Suspects an object worthy of praise ... |
tt0101761 | The Doors | California, 1968. In a dark recording studio, Jim Morrison, lead singer for the rock band, The Doors, drinks whiskey while recording spoken-word versions of his poetry. The engineer (a cameo appearance by Doors drummer, John Densmore) plays a pre-recorded music track and Jim begins to recite his work "An American Praye... | insanity, cult, psychedelic, flashback | train | imdb | For 140 minutes we follow Doors singer Jim Morrison from his days as an aspiring film student at UCLA to his death in Paris in 1970 at the age of 27.
Writer-director Oliver Stone based the story of the film on some 150 transcripts detailing the life and character of Morrison.
The only performance among the supporting c... |
tt1616195 | J. Edgar | The film opens with Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) in his office during his later years. He asks that a writer (Ed Westwick) be let in, so that he may tell the story of the origin of the FBI for the sake of the public. Hoover explains that the story begins in 1919, when A. Mitchell Palmer was Attorney General and Hoover's ... | avant garde, neo noir, historical, flashback | train | imdb | Hoover was such a complex man, and his career was so long, with so many chapters, that his story is probably better suited to a 4-to 6 hour HBO mini-series, where more of the details of his life, that this film with its short running time can only hint at, can be more completely told.Dustin Lance Black, who wrote this ... |
tt0373883 | Halloween | Unrated Cut
Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch), a ten-year-old boy living in Haddonfield, IL, is bullied at school and his family life is little better. His mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie) dances at the local strip club and constantly fights with her boyfriend, Ronnie (William Forsythe). Full of rage, Michael hides behind... | murder, realism, violence, horror, insanity, humor, tragedy, sadist, home movie | train | imdb | Zombie tries to go back to the character's origin and reinvent him - it's a recent trend in Hollywood ("Batman Begins," "Casino Royale," the upcoming "Incredible Hulk," etc.), so it's not quite surprising that Hollywood greenlit the project and it got the push it received.But the problem that arises while doing this wi... |
tt0346491 | Alexander | The film is based on the life of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, who conquered Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, and North West India. Shown are some of the key moments of Alexander's youth, his invasion of the mighty Persian Empire and his death. It also outlines his early life, including his difficult relationship w... | boring, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, action, philosophical, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, historical, queer | train | wikipedia | In this film, we see a relationship that is hard for most people today to understand, namely a passionate love relationship between two men in which sex is not very important and possibly even absent.Aristotle essentially explained the whole film near the beginning when he told the young couple something like the follo... |
tt1234541 | The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations | Sam Reide (Chris Carmack) witnesses a woman being killed, then wakes up in an ice-filled bathtub, his vitals being monitored by his sister Jenna (Rachel Miner). Sam can travel back to any time and location during his lifetime (occupying the body of that time in his life), needing only to concentrate on where and when h... | murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071275 | Cani arrabbiati | Four ruthless criminals wait outside the gates of a pharmaceutical company to steal the pay wages from an armored truck which will arrive at the gated complex. Upon the truck's arrival, the heavily armed thieves hold up the truck, killing a number of people in the process. But during the getaway, the thieves car is rid... | insanity, suspenseful, dark, murder, violence | train | imdb | The master of Italian Horror, Mario Bava, makes a heist film that is equal parts violent, ironic and vulgar, most of which takes place in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small car.
Rabid Dogs is a heist film from director Mario Bava (Black Sabbath, Hatchet For The Honeymoon, Diabolik).
It tells the story of a danger... |
tt0098482 | To Die For | Real estate agent Kate Wooten [Sydney Walsh] and her boyfriend Marty Planting [Scott Jacoby] attend a party on a yacht, but Kate ends up in the arms of a mysterious stranger who disappears before she can find out who he is. He turns out to be Vlad Tepish [Brendan Hughes] who just happens to be in the market for a castl... | murder | train | imdb | "Don't forget to lock-up when you leave".
The above line, one of the last in the movie, is just so poignant it pretty much sums up the film.
Colossally underrated vampire flick that is long on style and quite touching romantically.
It should never have worked so well.Well up there with FRIGHT NIGHT, THE LOST BOYS and N... |
tt0384766 | Rome | Rome Opening Credits Intro.Seven years have passed and at the Aventine Collegium Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) deals with restless Romans who are amassing at his gates demanding more rations because they are starving as a result of a dire shortage of grain. As Gaia (Zuleikha Robinson) watches from his balcony eating an a... | romantic, intrigue, murder, historical fiction | train | imdb | I've been a Roman history buff ever since my own high school triumvirate of Caesar, Cicero and Virgil, and I say that this historical fiction is both exciting AND quite accurate with the important stuff.So far, every player has been terrific, in particular Ciarán Hinds as Caesar and Max Pirkis as Octavian.
Rome makes t... |
tt0069371 | They Only Kill Their Masters | The dead body of thirty-nine year old Jenny Campbell (Lee Pulford) is in the surf on the beach outside her isolated house in the ocean-front community of Eden Landing, California. By the wounds, it looks as if her Doberman, who is snarling as he hovers over her body, mauled her to death, specifically by going for her t... | murder | train | imdb | Similarities abound (dead female washes ashore, sleepy town with ugly sexual underbelly, inept police force, quirky citizens, references to pie, to name a few....) Garner plays the police chief of a small coastal town called Eden Landing (mostly represented by the MGM backlot!) When a divorcée is found along the shore ... |
tt1103275 | Two Lovers | Leonard (Phoenix) is walking along a bridge over a creek in Brooklyn, when suddenly he jumps into the water in an attempted suicide. He changes his mind and quickly walks home to his parents' apartment. His mother, seeing him dripping wet, tells her husband their son has tried it again and it becomes evident that Leona... | dramatic, romantic | train | wikipedia | James Gray's latest film tells the tale of Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who had a problematic break-up with his fiancée two years ago, and has since been heading down a suicidal road.
4-months into living back home with his anxious parents (played by Moni Moshonov and Isabella Rossellini) and helping out a... |
tt0065852 | Horror of the Blood Monsters | Prologue: Infected vampire blood was carried to earth
millions of years ago by the Tubaton, vampire men from a distant galaxy.Dr Rynning [John Carradine], an aging scientist, is leading a space expedition into
Spectrum, an unknown solar system that he discovered. Along the way, the
XB-13 runs into a meteor storm and lo... | violence, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0099685 | Goodfellas | The film opens with three men driving in their car late at night on a highway. In the car are Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), Jimmy Conway (Robert DeNiro) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci). Jimmy and Tommy are asleep when Henry hears a loud thumping noise. Trying to figure out the source of the sound, Henry suddenly realizes they ... | dark, comedy, neo noir, murder, realism, dramatic, violence, cult, claustrophobic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0105275 | Romper Stomper | A gang of violent neo-Nazi skinheads from Footscray, Victoria, Australia attack two Vietnamese-Australian teenagers in a subway tunnel at Footscray Station (filmed at Richmond Station). The gang is led by Hando (Russell Crowe) and his friend and second in command, Davey (Daniel Pollock). They meet drug addict Gabrielle... | tragedy, violence, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0114924 | While You Were Sleeping | Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Ellenore Moderatz, a lonely fare collector on the Chicago elevated railway. The highlight of her days is selling a token to a handsome commuter, Peter Callaghan (played by Peter Gallagher), on whom she has a secret crush. Working on Christmas, Lucy witnesses Peter being mugged and pushed onto ... | cute, boring, entertaining, romantic, feel-good | train | imdb | null |
tt0047478 | Shichinin no samurai | A gang of marauding bandits approaches a mountain village. The bandit chief recognizes they have ransacked this village before, and decides it is best that they spare it until the barley is harvested in several months. One of the villagers happens to overhear the discussion. When he returns home with the ominous news, ... | dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, action, tragedy, suspenseful, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0367594 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) has built the greatest and largest chocolate factory in the world. After some of his workers steal his secret recipes, Willy Wonka kicks his workers out and closes the doors. For 15 years, no one has seen any workers entering or leaving the factory, yet his chocolate candy is still being produ... | dark, fantasy, whimsical, violence, flashback, psychedelic | train | imdb | Though I never had a problem with the original "Willy Wonka" move with Gene Wilder (despite how unfaithful it was, it was still a cute and heart-warming movie), I was doing back-flips when I heard Tim Burton, quite possibly my all-time favorite director, would helm a new version of the movie.First and foremost, Johnny ... |
tt0099329 | Cry-Baby | In the school gym, students file in two lines for Polio vaccines. It is here that the audience is introduced to the main cast. The Drapes: Lenora Frigid (Kim Webb), Drape hussy with a manipulative streak and her eyes set on Cry-Baby, Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski (Kim McGuire), tough as nails, with a face that could ... | cult, satire | train | imdb | There seem to be two types of folks who detest "Cry-Baby;" those who think Waters sold out by making anything that cost more than $500 and didn't include coprophagy, and those who insist that all movies be Art with a capital A.I was well into my 20's when the movie first came out, not a fan of 21 Jump Street, and no ... |
tt3332064 | Pan | In the opening scene, a young woman named Mary (Amanda Seyfried) brings her baby to the steps of the Lambert Home For Boys in London. She leaves the boy with a note and a necklace of a pan flute. Mary kisses her baby, Peter, and tells him she loves him before leaving.12 years later.Peter (Levi Miller) is still living a... | fantasy, murder, violence, good versus evil, absurd, humor, action, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | If there was a more awkward movie than Pan released in the last few years I'd certainly like to know about it as Joe Wright's big budgeted wannabe franchise starter is a lavishly coloured and extravagant picture that lacks knowledge of what it actually wants to be or who in fact it's aimed at and judging by the films f... |
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