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tt0247586 | Nueve reinas | The film opens at a convenience store early in the morning. Juan, a con artist, successfully scams the cashier, but later makes the mistake of attempting the same scam again on the next shift. Marcos, who has been observing the whole time, steps in pretending to be a police officer and takes Juan away. As soon as they ... | plot twist, intrigue | train | wikipedia | This is a great film, one of the best non-American movie that I've seen.
You can see it 9 times and never get tired of it, it's so well performed and directed that it's just perfect.From the beginning to the end this picture keeps you alert, there are no boring moments, even if you don't speak Spanish the dialogues can... |
tt0120866 | Titus | A boy eating lunch in a 1950s-style kitchen plays war with his surrounding toys. A bomb blast outside the window frightens him under the table from where he is rescued and taken to an Amphitheatre, where an invisible audience cheers. An army resembling the Terracotta Army enters; Romans under the command of Titus Andro... | murder, cult, psychedelic, tragedy, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Now comes `Titus,' a film based on one of Shakespeare's earliest, bloodiest and least well known plays, `Titus Andronicus,' and, in many ways, this film is the most bizarrely conceived of the four, since it creates a world in which - amidst the architectural splendors of ancient columned buildings - Roman warriors, dre... |
tt0087985 | Red Dawn | "Red Dawn" envisions an alternate history of mid-1980's America. A few title cards that precede the opening credits tell of famine in the Soviet Union, leading to food riots in Poland. The USSR subsequently invades Poland. Troubles in Central America include Cuba and Nicaragua building their armies to immense, unpreced... | cult, cruelty, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1320253 | The Expendables | A group of elite mercenaries, the Expendables, are deployed to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia to halt local pirates from executing the hostages. The team consists of leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), former SAS soldier and blades specialist Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Jet L... | boring, murder, violence, cult, psychedelic, action, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | With a cast like Jason Stathum, Randy Couture, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Dolph "I Must Break You" Lundgren, and cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, you'd think it would be one crazy mess.
So let's get them out of the way first shall we?Q) Is the plot descent, with a substantial storyline inclu... |
tt0096486 | Young Einstein | Yahoo Serious plays the lead role as Albert Einstein, a Tasmanian youth growing up on his parent's apple farm where he spends most of his time listening to music and thinking about the universe. When young Albert falls out of an apple tree and lands on a plank, causing a box of apples to fall on his head, he comes up w... | absurd, historical fiction | train | imdb | "Young Einstein" is not a great movie.
But it's an original, low-budget and very likeable movie.Of course, it's all complete nonsense.
The plot involves Yahoo Serious splitting beer atoms, inventing the electric violin and the surfing board, running into the cute Marie Curie and having a very bad hair day, and is of co... |
tt0279286 | On the Line | Kevin Gibbons (Lance Bass) is singing in his prom night with his band. Everything is going alright, until the girl of his dreams arrives with her boyfriend, and Kevin fucks it up big time: he starts sweating, freezes and then passes out.Seven years later, Kevin works for an advertising agency which wants to prepare a c... | romantic | train | imdb | Lance Bass and his friends are past their college years, and Lance's love interest just finished grad school.So with that, it is difficult to predict who the movie was targeting, but it certainly got my attention..
Will Kevin connect again with Abbey, even as he's fighting off the attentions of other women?With NSync m... |
tt0079437 | Last Embrace | The film opens in a Mexican cantina across the border from El Paso, where government agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) is canoodling with his wife. Harry spots an informant that he was supposed to meet in a few days. Realizing he is about to be attacked, he shoves his wife to the ground and starts shooting at the infor... | cult, neo noir, violence | train | imdb | A very decent effort from director Jonathan Demme before he went on to better things,LAST EMBRACE is inevitably compared to the works of Alfred Hitchcock,with many scenes derivative from many of the master's most famous works(VERTIGO,THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH,STRANGERS ON A TRAIN,etc.),but this is actually an effective... |
tt0086567 | WarGames | David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is an intelligent, underachieving teen who spends most of his free time playing arcade video games or messing around on his computer. During an automated modem search, he finds a strange computer that appears to be affiliated with a game company. A list of games appears, but Lightman ... | anti war | train | imdb | Imaginative story, great cast (who, despite other reviews, do not phone it in) Wargames is a true gem, as it was recently listed by AFI as one of the top 100 sci fi movies of all time.
While it's not a film classic, it's a very, very good popcorn thriller of uncommon craft, charm, and humanity.Seattle high schooler Dav... |
tt0222012 | Hey Ram | The movie begins at present day with Saket Ram (Kamal Hassan), an 89-year-old South Indian Brahmin who is dying. The scene reverts to the past as Saket remembers the 1940s, when he and his good friend, were archaeologists working together under their boss, Mortimer Wheeler, in Mohenjo-daro (Indus Valley Civilization) i... | psychedelic, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | The film supports religious harmony and breaks a lot of myths (including the one that Gandhi said 'hey ram' after being shot).
In fact, the main character, Saket Ram (Kamal Haasan in a powerhouse performance)learns to appreciate Gandhi by the end of the journey.
Ram" is not only an epic film but perhaps the biggest cas... |
tt1110626 | The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream | Zach Conroy and Celeste Mercier are the hottest couple on and off the ice until a nasty spill knocks Celeste out of competition. With their dreams of gold medals put in ice and their romance chilling as a result, Zach has to find another partner for the championship in Paris. And fast.
In glides Alejandra Alex Delgado,... | romantic | train | imdb | Better.
OK, not sure why I felt compelled to comment on this movie, but having now sat through both the original (pretty good), the 2nd one (awful), and this one (much better), I have a good basis of comparison.This was not high art, but it was a FAR better movie than the 2nd one.
the key here being a pair of relativel... |
tt0051654 | Giant from the Unknown | The movie opens with title and credits shown over a rainstorm in a high mountain forest and a 16th century axe imbedded in an old log.We are in the small mountain village of Pine Ridge (Big Bear, California). A station wagon drives into town. Young Charlie Brown (Gary Crutcher) tells the townsfolk that the sheriff will... | murder, melodrama | train | imdb | This was the decade that brought us giant ants and other mutant insects, evil aliens coming to take over our bodies, good aliens out to save mankind from destroying itself, Godzilla and all his Japanese monster buddies destroying every inch of Japan, and the films of Richard Cunha, Missile to the Moon, She Demons, Fran... |
tt0110631 | Nattevagten | A young law student, Martin (Waldau), takes a job as night-watchman at the local morgue. It seems a good idea as he needs the money, the quiet will be great for studying and the current watchman is retiring. Before he leaves, the watchman shows Martin his duties, one of which is checking on the morgue itself. This seem... | insanity, cult, suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0076504 | Orca | Captain Nolan (Richard Harris) is an Irish Canadian who catches marine animals to pay off the mortgage of his boat, and returns to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark for a local aquarium, but a scientist named Ken (Robert Carradine) is targeted by the shark. An orca comes and kills the shark, savi... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098105 | Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | The police must investigate a series of robberies along a strip of land in the city. The mayor (Kenneth Mars) assigns Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) and Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) to the case. While on stakeout the Wilson gang, composed of Ace (Gerrit Graham), Flash (Brian Seeman), and Ox (Darwyn Swalve), manages to slip... | comedy, prank | train | wikipedia | We all know them from before, and once you've seen one episode, you kinda saw them all.Weak point of the movie is the absence of Mahoney (the star of the series) and Zed (the funniest).
In "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege", the gang's all here to save a crime-ridden city from the wrath of 3 white guys named the Wils... |
tt0449059 | Little Miss Sunshine | During a strained and awkward family dinner, it is revealed that Frank, a homosexual professor and renowned scholar of Marcel Proust, tried to kill himself after a love interest left him for an academic rival. Cued by her father to change the subject, Olive tells the family about the beauty pageant routine she is worki... | comedy, depressing, cult, suicidal, cute, clever, feel-good, psychedelic, humor, satire, philosophical, inspiring, entertaining | train | imdb | And although getting there is only half the fun and family drama, you have got to see what happens to believe it when they finally arrive and Olive gets to "do her thing." The strong cast sounds not a single false note, and when the more touching moments arrive, they don't seem forced the way they would in most other b... |
tt0016884 | Flesh and the Devil | "When the Devil cannot reach us through the spirit,
He creates a beautiful woman to reach us through the flesh."
- Hermann SudermannWhen they were young children in Germany, Leo von Harden [John Gilbert] and Ulrich von Eltz [Lars Hanson] rowed out to the Isle of Friendship where, in the presence of Ulrich's younger sis... | romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0042332 | Cinderella | The film opens in a tiny kingdom, and shows us a chateau, wherein lives a widowed gentleman, and his daughter, Cinderella. Feeling that his daughter needed "a mother's care," he remarried a woman with two daughters of her own, named Anastasia, and Drizella.However, upon the death of Cinderella's father, her Stepmother ... | romantic, fantasy | train | imdb | William Phipps has little dialog as the prince (future talk show host Mike Douglas provided his singing voice) but film (and Disney) veteran, Verna Felton was born to play the fairy godmother, and she made the best number, (the Oscar-nominated "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo") her own show-stopper.
The leading mice, Gus and Jaq a... |
tt1838618 | Paranormal Xperience 3D | It's 2011, in Madrid. Professor Fuentes (Miguel Ángel Jenner) is tying five Medicine students up to chairs. He explains methodically that he is going to make an experiment above the power of the mind, and subsequently he asks for a volunteer without specifying what for. José "Jose" Aguas (Maxi Iglesias) is so cocky tha... | murder | train | imdb | Some medical students investigate an abandoned mining location in search of supernatural deeds.
This commercial terror Spanish deals with some students of the Faculty who are brutally murdered by a mysterious killer .
Filmmaker Sergi Vizcaino brings this scary and stylish story plagued with depraved gore murders .
This... |
tt0120428 | Vampire Journals | Zachary [David Gunn] sees his beloved fall prey to a vampire. Zachary stakes and
beheads him, but it is too late for Rebecca. In his grief, Zachary becomes
a vampire hunter, vowing to destroy his Master's entire bloodline, which
includes the music loving Ash and Ash's Master, Radu (reference is to Radu from Subspecies)... | violence, gothic | train | imdb | If you like gothic vampire movies, then Full Moon Entertainment's Vampire Journals (1997) is for you.
Like my previous reviews i don't want to lose time writing about the movie plot line 'cause i think that if you are reading this it's because you have already seen it right?
Here we have really beautiful movie, great s... |
tt0099637 | Un gatto nel cervello | Dr. Lucio Fulci (more or less playing himself) is a former medical doctor-turned director of gory horror films. He wraps up shooting for the day on his latest film 'Touch of Death' with Brett Halsey playing the human monster/cannibal of women. Fulci leaves the Cincettia Studios for a local restaurant down the street. T... | violence | train | imdb | In a stroke of daring even Fellini and Michael Powell never tried in their self-reflexive classics, Fulci plays himself--or rather, a particularly tormented and increasingly unhinged version of himself, driven mad by the combination of guilt and bloodlust triggered by making hyperviolent horror movies.
"Cat In The Brai... |
tt1659337 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | The movie opens with Charlie (Logan Lerman) writing a letter to an anonymous pen pal, discussing his upcoming first day in high school. On his first day, he is harassed by classmates but befriends his English teacher, Mr. Anderson (Paul Rudd).Charlie attends a school football game alone and notices the flamboyant Patri... | gothic, sentimental, dramatic, atmospheric, flashback, plot twist, romantic, prank | train | imdb | Freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman) almost by accident becomes friends with Patrick (Ezra Miller) and his stepsister Sam (Emma Watson).
The key characters spring to life thanks to the efforts of four strong performances from young actors: Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson, The Three Muskateers) plays Charlie, Emma Watson (Harry ... |
tt0077394 | Damien: Omen II | A week after the burial of Robert and Katherine Thorn, archaeologist Carl Bugenhagen (Leo McKern) learns of the survival of their adopted son Damien. Confiding to his friend Michael Morgan (Ian Hendry) that Damien is the Antichrist, Bugenhagen attempts to convince him to give Damien's guardian a box containing the mean... | good versus evil, violence, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | Although not as creepy as the first film, DAMIEN: OMEN II has its moments, and is worth seeing for anyone who likes to have a fun time with all this biblical stuff..
It doesn't make him any more mysterious, it just feels incomplete.A good portion of the movie is spent with nothing much going on except for a few people ... |
tt1426329 | Lovelace | In 1970, 20-year-old Linda Lovelace (Amanda Seyfried) is living with her overbearing parents in Davie, Florida. While out dancing one night with her best friend, Patsy (Juno Temple), she attracts the attention of Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), and the two soon develop a serious relationship. He is much older than her... | flashback, violence, pornographic, home movie | train | wikipedia | However, the primary faults of "Lovelace" lie not in what they left out, but in a questionable storytelling structure where the filmmakers obviously tried to be too clever in their narrative.Basically, the first half of the film chronicles a 21-year-old, naive Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried) who lives with her strict, ... |
tt1986953 | Storage 24 | A military aircraft crashes into central London, releasing its highly classified contents. Following the crash, a malfunction at the Storage 24 facility causes the security shutters to lock, trapping several people inside: Charlie, his best friend Mark, Charlie's ex-girlfriend Shelley, her best friend Nikki, Nikki's bo... | violence | train | wikipedia | But that said, you have to have some standards and a point when you stand up and say it's just not good enough to blame costs and accept poorness because of a willingness to be indie cool.Storage 24 is a bad film, yes there is a good portion of gore for those inclined, the creature design is decent and the inner confli... |
tt0082766 | Mommie Dearest | Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4:00 a.m. and engages in a strict morning ritual: scrubbing her face and arms with soap and bo... | cult, melodrama | train | wikipedia | It made me see What Ever Happened To Baby Jane - it was like watching it for the first time, after "Feud" - and now "Mommie Dearest" - Oh dear, Oh dear - It's not that Faye Dunaway is not very entertaining, she is, but her Joan is a one note, maybe one note and a half, a caricature trying to be taken seriously.
It is t... |
tt0457419 | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium | from PluggedinOnline.com:Mr. Magorium never outgrew his toys--pretty remarkable, considering the guy is 243 years old.Magorium, a lively fellow with wild hair, who has a pet zebra named Mortimer and a fondness for shoes, has been running Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium for the last century or so. It's a place that makes... | whimsical, dramatic, psychedelic, fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0838247 | After.Life | After a horrific car accident, Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified, and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn't believe she's dead, despite the funeral director's reassurances that she is merely ... | plot twist, mystery | train | imdb | After Life explores the beliefs about the soul and what happens to it after we die.The film is about Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), a school teacher who supposedly dies in a traffic accident.
It seems that the inability to love is the motive in After-Life whereas the inability to live life is Jigsaw's motive.While the ... |
tt2967224 | Hot Pursuit | Practically since she was a baby, Rose Cooper (Reese Witherspoon) has always tagged along with her father, a respected police officer in San Antonio, Texas, in his police cruiser. As she got older, he let her ride along for some of his arrests. This inspired Cooper to pursue a career in law enforcement. However, as an ... | violence, murder, adult comedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0185125 | Todo sobre mi madre | The film centers on Manuela, an Argentine nurse who oversees donor organ transplants in Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and single mother to Esteban, a teenager who wants to be a writer.
On his seventeenth birthday, Esteban is hit by a car and killed while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a ... | melodrama, romantic, queer, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0083844 | Don't Go to Sleep | A family is moving to grandmother's home for a while. The father, Phillip (Dennis Weaver) is not good fun. He likes kitchen electric appliances and is the one who is driving. The mother, Laura (Valerie Harper) is worried about living with her own mother, but she hopes that this will be the opportunity to forget Jennife... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | Given the lack of real menace in the movie, the direction was surprisingly effective in making things creepy.I only wish that made-for-TV productions kept this sort of sensibility.Entirely worth tracking down for aficionados of early 80s horror..
I could only remember bits and pieces: a family of five gets into a car ... |
tt0075648 | Airport '77 | A privately owned luxury Boeing 747-100, Stevens' Flight 23, flies invited guests to an estate in Palm Beach, Florida, owned by wealthy philanthropist Philip Stevens, who also owns the jetliner. Valuable artwork from Stevens's private collection is also on board the jetliner, to be eventually displayed in his new museu... | suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | Featuring Oscar-winning and nominated stars like Lemmon, Grant, de Havilland, Quinlan, Kennedy and Stewart, it also offers one of the best caliber casts of the '70's disaster cycle.
Of course all good plans go awry and they go down in the Bermuda Triangle into some relatively shallow area of the Atlantic.Hey they could... |
tt0443274 | Vantage Point | U.S. President Henry Ashton (Hurt) attends a political summit in Salamanca, Spain, to promote an international treaty. Displayed with eight differing viewpoints, an assassination attempt on the president occurs, relayed in a time span of 23 minutes. Each time the events unfold from the beginning, a new vantage point is... | romantic, mystery, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | As the Bourne series raises the bar for action films, and audiences balk at two-plus hour runtimes, the filmmakers of Vantage Point seem like they are trying to bring a fresh, new, unconventional take on the action/thriller genre.
Though it may annoy some people, I felt the new take turns Vantage Point into a taut terr... |
tt0041546 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | In Edwardian England, Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, 10th Duke of Chalfont, is in prison, awaiting his hanging for murder the following morning. As he writes his memoirs, the events of his life are shown in flashback.
His mother, the youngest daughter of the 7th Duke of Chalfont, eloped with an Italian opera singer named Maz... | comedy, murder, revenge, flashback, humor, satire, plot twist, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095174 | Frantic | Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford) is a (rather arrogant) surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. While Walker is taking a shower, his wife myst... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | A mix-up with luggage and a smuggled substance lead him into the life of the mysterious Michelle who is more mixed up with his wife's disappearance than she lets on.I have seen this film several times and I think the fact that it isn't a spectacularly gimmicky film is a big part of the reason why it doesn't really stic... |
tt0257360 | About Schmidt | The movie opens with shots of a large building in Omaha, NE, called the Woodmen Building. Actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is sitting in his dull, gray office watching the clock until it hits five. There are packed boxes all around him, implying that this is his last day at work.The clock hits five and Warren so... | dramatic, comedy, satire, depressing, flashback | train | imdb | It's a realistic, brutally true example of a failed life, and it's so tragic.Nicholson plays Warren Schmidt, an insurance salesman, whose life crashes down on him when he retires.
Everyone, simply everyone, does a great job portraying the various characters, from the hotshot newly educated young man who takes Schmidt's... |
tt0065854 | The House That Dripped Blood | In The Cloak episode, temperamental horror film star Paul Henderson [Jon Pertwee] has rented the house for the duration of the filming of his latest vampire movie. Paul longs for the days when movie castles and wardrobes weren't made out of cheap materials, so he decides to go shopping for a real cloak. In the costume ... | murder | train | imdb | The box says "Rated PG - For Scary Images," and I must say, the sight of a vampiric Ingrid Pitt floating magically through the air towards one of her victims is a very scary image.One of the things I like most about this movie is the way the humor and horror COEXIST in the film.
Another anthology from horror studio Ami... |
tt0808276 | Fritt vilt | The film opens in the 1970s. A young boy with a birthmark across his eye is running frantically through the snow. As he tries to escape what's chasing him, he falls into a ditch. His pursuer isn't seen as the boy is bombarded with snow, helpless to escape being buried alive.During the opening credits, the police questi... | dark, murder, violence, cult, flashback, romantic | train | imdb | While snowboarding in the ice mountains with Jannicke (Ingrid Bolse Berdal), her boyfriend Eirik (Tomas Alf Larsen), Mikail (Enfre Martin Midtistigen) and his girlfriend Ingunn (Viktoria Winge), Morten Tobias (Rolf Kristian Larsen) has an accident and breaks his leg.
However on the next morning they find that they are ... |
tt0080601 | Death Car on the Freeway | Aereal images of lanes and lanes of highways with cars roaring by.Becky Lyons (Morgan Brittany) is an actress who is memorizing her lines while Robert "Bobby" Lessentein (Hank Brandt), a cute guy, is filling out the tank of her car. As she has forgotten to cash in a check, she puts very little petrol on his car, but it... | murder | train | imdb | For car fans there's a lot of cool old cars to look at and some decent crashes.
It definitely borrows from "Duel" (one of the immensely overrated Spielberg's only decent films) but manages to come up with a fresh take on it.
The best thing about this movie is that the action is for real, back in the days when movie-mak... |
tt0879843 | Katyn | Katyn describes the tragedy of a generation. The film follows the story of four Polish families whose lives are torn apart when, at the outset of WWII, a great number of Polish soldiers (who are also fathers, husbands and brothers) fall into the hands of Soviet troops and later brutally become victims of Stalinism. The... | violence, historical, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0094082 | Suspect | Set in Washington DC, Suspect centers on three disparate characters. Carl Wayne Anderson is a homeless, deaf-mute Vietnam veteran accused of murdering Elizabeth Quinn, a file clerk at the Justice Department. Kathleen Riley is the beleaguered Federal Public Defender assigned to represent Anderson. An agribusiness lobbyi... | neo noir, murder | train | imdb | This movie version of "Suspect" finds Cher portraying a public defender that has been given a murder case in which her client, played by Liam Neeson, is deaf, dumb, and homeless.
Unable to verbally communicate in his defense, Neeson has to rely on Cher's ability to search through the evidence to prove his innocence.Cau... |
tt1650554 | Kick-Ass 2 | Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) stands several feet away from Mindy Macready (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she aims a gun at him. She fires a round at his chest, throwing him off his feet, but it's shown he was trying out a bulletproof vest. Dave says that was awesome but is nervous when he sees Mindy pull out a bigger ... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, humor, satire, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0471711 | Futurama: Bender's Big Score | Two years after Box Network executives canceled Planet Express' contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back "on the air." As the crew celebrates, Hermes is decapitated, causing his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is placed in a jar while his body is repaired. Lars, the man who performs the proce... | cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | But thankfully, like Family Guy before it, Futurama has now been given a new lease of life in the form of 4 direct to DVD movies (to be split into 16 episodes to make up a new season).
When Family Guy released Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, I feel it suffered the problem of seeming too much like an over-long episode... |
tt0032976 | Rebecca | A naïve young woman (Joan Fontaine) is in Monte Carlo working as a paid companion to Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates) when she meets the aristocratic but brooding widower Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter (Laurence Olivier). They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married. The young woman is now the second "Mrs. ... | dark, mystery, cruelty, gothic, murder, comedy, atmospheric, flashback, romantic, suspenseful, sadist, home movie | train | wikipedia | The supporting cast also includes some brilliant performances, especially Judith Anderson ('Laura') as the extremely creepy Mrs. Danvers, George Sanders who plays Rebecca's slimy cousin, and Nigel Bruce in a typical role as de Winter's bumbling brother-in-law Major Lacy.
I have debated on whether Laurence Olivier's cha... |
tt0154420 | Festen | Respected family patriarch and businessman Helge (Henning Moritzen) is celebrating his 60th birthday at the family-run hotel. Gathered together amongst many family and friends are his wife Else (Birthe Neumann), his sullen eldest son Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), his well-traveled daughter Helene (Paprika Steen), and his... | comedy, psychological, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, satire, plot twist | train | wikipedia | "Festen" aka "The Celebration" was the impressive directorial debut of the young Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg ("It's All About Love", "Dear Wendy"), and the first film made according to the rules of the daring Dogme 95 movement.
When we watch the only scene in which Christian weeps, with Gbatokai leaning over and... |
tt2132285 | The Bling Ring | Five teenagers climb over an iron gate and break into the mansion at the top of the driveway. The gang's ringleader, Rebecca (Katie Chang), playfully says, "Let's go shopping". The teen robbers steal jewelry, clothing, and artwork before climbing back over the gate. A security camera records their movements.One year ea... | comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt2172934 | 3 Days to Kill | The film opens at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA. Agent Vivi DeLay (Amber Heard) meets with the CIA director and another man to discuss their target, Wolfgang Braun, aka "The Wolf" (Richard Sammel). The man is attempting to sell arms to terrorists along with his associate, The Albino (Tomas Lemarquis). The men ass... | violence, comedy, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Kevin Costner's filmography in order I come to 2014's three days to kill.Plot In A Paragraph: Ethan Renner (KC) an estranged father, with limited time to live, desperately tries to reconnect with his estranged wife and daughter before his death.
3 Days to Kill began with some ... |
tt0119116 | Le cinquième élément | The story's premise is that every five thousand years, in conjunction with a planetary arrangement, a 'Great Evil' appears whose purpose is to destroy life. In preparation for the next appearance in 2263, a group of aliens called the Mondoshawan arrive on Earth in 1914 to extract the only weapon capable of defeating th... | murder, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, satire, action, romantic, sci-fi | train | imdb | Leeloo it seems was genetically manipulated to be the ultimate weapon against pure evil but her beauty and butt-kicking hide a more fragile nature that Dallas and a host of others will have to step up and help her save humanity.This amazing sci-fi adventure from Luc (Leon) Besson has a little something for everyone.
Be... |
tt0449092 | Rings | In October 2013, on an airplane bound for Seattle, passenger Carter, reveals to Faith that he has watched Samara Morgan’s cursed videotape before heading to the bathroom. Faith tells another passenger Kelly, who reveals she has seen the tape too. She rushes to the bathroom and asks Carter if he made a copy and after le... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0258068 | The Quiet American | [The first synopsis is a far shorter summary of the film with more of a historical context; appearing a few paragraphs down is a second, "chronological" synopsis of the film.]I.Set in the early 1950s in Saigon, Vietnam, during the end of the First Indochina War, on one level The Quiet American is a love story about the... | anti war, revenge, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0457400 | Land of the Lost | Three years after being kicked out of the science department for his theory of Time warps, and his attempt on Matt Lauer's life, Rick Marshall is reduced to working as a teacher at the George C. Page Museum until he meets Holly Cantrell whose finding urges him to create a tachyon amplifier to enable time warp travel. T... | comedy | train | imdb | you're telling me that crank is funnier than this film...I can't accept this, so here I am I've signed up at IMDb because of the unfair ratings this film is getting.Anyway about this film I thought it was kind of similar to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but not really aimed towards kids both in my opinion were great ... |
tt1234721 | RoboCop | Television personality Pat Novak (Samuel L. Jackson) starts off an episode of his show "The Novak Element" by pointing out that every country in the world except for the United States is under high security with droids from multinational conglomerate OmniCorp.His camera crew takes a look from Tehran where one OmniCorp ... | murder, violence, flashback, action, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0417056 | Pledge This! | When a dorm toilet explodes on the first day back to school, a group of misfit girls are forced to leave their housing and search for a new home. They ultimately decide on pledging a sorority. However, not many sororities are normal at South Beach University. The girls decide to pledge the most popular and exclusive so... | humor, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | But I thought that it would be a more or less fun 90 minutes if i wanted to watch a simple brainless sex comedy with lots of fart jokes.
This movie made me stupid.The acting is terrible, and Paris Hilton's voice-over is annoying at best, and sometimes ambiguous about whose voice-over it actually is.
Its so bad that it ... |
tt0455957 | Goya's Ghosts | During the Last Bastion of the Spanish Inquisition, 1790-1810, An Inquistador named Lorenzo (Javir Baldem) is being painted on various visits by artist Fransisco Goya when his fellows say Goya is painting whores as angels. Lorenzo tries to defend his work, saying it is those people--the whores and maimed --who the chur... | insanity, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0099864 | It | On a cloudy day in Derry, Maine, a little girl is riding her tricycle down the street. Her mother, seeing a storm approaching, calls for her to come inside as she brings in the laundry. The little girl then spots a clown behind the laundry. A moment later, her mother comes outside to bring in the rest of the laundry, a... | dark, comedy, gothic, murder, paranormal, horror, flashback, good versus evil, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Stephen King's book is awfully graphic and the movie would have been twice as scary if they had shown a bit more gore.
That is the big climax?"Bottom line is that for a TV movie with such strict time limits "It" did a very good job at bringing this scary book to life.
However, considering that the book upon which it is... |
tt3521164 | Moana | Gramma Tala (voice: Rachel House) is telling a story to a group of children, with an animated tapa cloth illustrating her words. From the ocean sprang the island goddess Te Fiti. She lay on her side, with her curves becoming mountains and valleys. And in the center was her heart, a stone with a spiral shape on one side... | storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt1164999 | Biutiful | Warning some spoilers!!!Uxbal (Javier Bardem) is in the snowy woods and meets ups with a younger man (whom we later figure out is his father who died young in exile in Mexico from rebelling against Franco). They share a cigarette and talk about random things- sounds of the sea.Uxbal and his daughter Ana (Hanaa Bouchaib... | paranormal, violence, murder, bleak | train | imdb | null |
tt0083366 | Zorro: The Gay Blade | In 1840s Madrid, Spain, Don Diego de la Vega is in bed with a married woman. They are caught by her husband, Garcia, and Diego must sword fight with him and his five brothers. During the altercation, Diego's mute servant Paco reads (via gestures) a letter from Diego's father ordering Diego's return to California. Diego... | cult, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1135503 | Julie & Julia | (NOTE: Julie & Julia is two stories in one movie: That of Julia Child, world-acclaimed chef, author and teacher; and Julie Powell, struggling would-be writer and student of Julia. The two women never meet, and their stories do not intersect.)The camera pans from a crane down to a shipping dock, where a French car with ... | inspiring, comedy, boring | train | imdb | null |
tt0795351 | Case 39 | Social worker Emily Jenkins (Renée Zellweger) is assigned to investigate the family of ten year-old Lilith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lilith, and proposes to her department to take the ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0091278 | Iron Eagle | Doug, a graduating high school senior, must quickly come to grips with manhood in a time of great emotional stress. He demonstrates leadership of his peers as together they develop materials and information to effect a rescue mission. He interacts with a skilled Air Force veteran to accomplish this daring mission. An u... | cult | train | imdb | I have Iron Eagle on DVD and to me it was totally worth $9.99 at Best Buy. If you love laughing at dated, unrealistic action movies, this one is a must-see.
Oh yeah, and I think its plot was only marginally stupider than 1986's other fighter pilot action pic, Top Gun..
It was the best air combat movie I had seen at the... |
tt0847520 | Scar | The film begins with Joan Burrows (Angela Bettis) jogging home one day. She has flashbacks of her younger self as a little girl (Brittney Wilson) being tortured. The person torturing her cuts open her cheek, which has left a scar. Joan drives to her home town to see her older brother Jeff (Christopher Titus), who is th... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Some of the cast had been in much better genre film, Angela Bettis in the much superior "May" and Titus in the cult classic "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", both of which are much more worthy of your valuable time than this dreary number.
While driving to her hometown Ovid, Colorado, to visit her brother and local she... |
tt1179904 | Paranormal Activity | Young couple Katie and Micah move to a new house in San Diego. Katie claims an evil presence has been haunting her since she was a child, so Micah sets up a camera in their bedroom to record any paranormal activity that occurs while they sleep. A famous psychic Dr. Fredrichs, who reveals that Katie is being haunted by ... | dark, boring, psychological, murder, paranormal, horror, atmospheric, haunting, psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Scenery - granted that the whole movie is filmed in or on the characters' house, the static viewpoint of the camera gets a little boring.
I'm not easily scared, but given the circumstances in which I watched PARANORMAL ACTIVITY I was quite tense.This film is a lot like Blair Witch, Cloverfield in the use of the home ca... |
tt2199711 | Vishwaroopam | The film opens in a rundown pigeon shop in New York City where an old man feeds them. He then sends one pigeon away. It flies high and lands in a skyscraper off the office window of a psychologist who is conducting a session with her client Nirupama (Pooja Kumar), a nuclear oncologist, who begins to confide that hers w... | violence | train | wikipedia | I would describe this as a film with technically great, with high production value, with a casting perfectly fit, with great direction - good example for great film-making.Much credit goes to Kamal Haasan.
Kamal Haasan once again makes sure that his creativity is beyond the imagination of Indian audiences and surprises... |
tt0058997 | Bunny Lake Is Missing | Young ANN LAKE has just moved to England from America with her successful but controlling brother STEPHEN. The two are extremely close, with Stephen doting upon Ann. In a hurry the day she enrolls her child, BUNNY, in a private school, Ann leaves her with the school's female German COOK, then runs off to do errands.Tha... | suspenseful, psychological | train | imdb | Preminger made a number of better films "Laura" and "Anatomy of a Murder" come to mind but I have a special fondness for "Bunny Lake" even though at times it drags and is overly talky.Among the merits of casting Carol Lynley and Keir Dullea, it can be successfully argued that they look like siblings often not the... |
tt0091374 | Lady Jane | Somerset has lost the power struggle with Northumberland and is executed. Northumberland, ruler of the realm due to Edward VI's minority, sees that the succession is key as Edward is unmarried. He will call on his friend Suffolk, Henry Grey, as Suffolk's wife, Frances Brandon, granddaughter of Henry VII, and their daug... | intrigue | train | imdb | The most famous of the Tudors are King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I, but this film offers up a look at the intrigues within the court in the period between Henry's death and Elizabeth's accession, as Catholic Princess Mary strives to gain the throne after the death of her Protestant brother King Edward VI.
The reli... |
tt0117038 | Michael | Michael (John Travolta) is not a stereotypical archangel. He epitomizes the freedom that an angel might command if living among mere mortals. As the tagline says, "He's an angel, not a saint."Two reporters, Frank Quinlan (William Hurt) and Huey Driscoll (Robert Pastorelli), one cynical and the other innocent, work for ... | romantic | train | imdb | How even the little things that we take for granted, like pie, are fantastic and how we should enjoy every minute like it was our last.For a much more detailed and well written review see the fine work of jhclues who echoes my feelings about the movie so much that I feel it would be redundant of me to restate, probably... |
tt0061534 | The Crucible | === Act One ===
Betty Parris, the ten-year-old daughter of Salem preacher Reverend Samuel Parris, lies motionless. The previous evening, Reverend Parris discovered Betty, some other girls, and his Barbadian slave, Tituba, engaged in some sort of ritual in the woods. The village is rife with rumors of witchcraft and a c... | allegory | train | wikipedia | A Dream Cast for a Great Play. I saw this as a teenager and was deeply impressed by it; it was my first Arthur Miller play. It had a dream cast! It would be wonderful to see it again. This and the sixties Hallmark Hall of Fame version of Saint Joan starring Genevieve Bujold are two old TV broadcasts I would really like... |
tt0073012 | The Four Musketeers | (Sequel to The Three Musketeers)Porthos (Frank Finlay) recaps the events leading to D'Artagnan (Michael York) becoming a musketeer. The original trio, including Porthos' companions Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and Athos (Oliver Reed) find themselves on a rescue mission behind enemy lines during the battle of La Rochell... | humor, action, murder, historical fiction | train | imdb | Videos and DVDs should be released only in a double-box.Most "Musketeer" movies are travesties loosely based on Dumas.
It uses little more than the names of characters, and it's woefully inadequate.The script-writer in Lester's "Musketeers" movies was George MacDonald Fraser, author of the "Flashman" series.
Even Cardi... |
tt2305051 | Wild | In the opening scene (set in the year 1995), a young woman named Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) is seen reaching the top of a cliff while carrying a big pack. She is exhausted and takes a seat, where she removes one of her boots. She peels off the sock to reveal that one of her toenails is about to fall off from al... | flashback | train | imdb | A wonderful performance from Reese Witherspoon anchors this very good film about a troubled young woman who embarks on a miles-long hike as a sort of personal therapy to deal with the downward spiral of her life in the wake of her mother's (Laura Dern) death.
The movie's editor deftly integrates flashbacks of Dern and ... |
tt0050147 | Attack of the Crab Monsters | We open with a montage of drawings depicting underwater scenes and the credits. A launch from a seaplane approaches a beach on a Pacific Island. The first to step ashore is Dr. Karl Weigand (Leslie Bradley) the leader of the second expeditionary team to visit the island. Next is Dr. James Carson (Richard Cutting), he i... | cult | train | imdb | How can anyone who reads the title or the plot, about a research team on a lonely island being stalked by giant crabs that eat the brains of their victims and then can then talk like them, and expect it to be anything other than it is?
The visual effects, the destruction of the island and the crabs themselves are a cut... |
tt0295700 | Wrong Turn | Chris Finn (Desmond Harrington) is on his way to a job interview and is driving through the mountains of West Virginia. There is then a chemical spill on the road, so being short on time, he decides to take a different route, an abandoned dirt road in the middle of nowhere. He then by accident crashes into a car sittin... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, horror, insanity, humor, revenge, prank | train | imdb | But if you love horror films then you probably have an ear to ear grin as well.I really liked some of the early editing of this film by director Rob Schmidt, who allows the scares and shocks to come with brilliant accuracy.
But come on, this isn't exactly an intelligently written and detailed drama.I liked `Wrong Turn'... |
tt0045229 | Thief of Damascus | The Thief of Damascus
Paul Herneid plays The General Abu Amdar
John Sutton plays Khalid
Helen Gilbert plays the Caliphs daughter Princess Zafir
Jeff Donnell plays Sheherazade
Lon Chaney Jr. plays Sinbad
Robert Clary plays Aladdin
Elena Verdugo plays the lady barber NeelaThe movie opens with scenes of Middle Age Soldier... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt2361317 | Live by Night | Set in the 1920s, the film starts with the voice of Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck) discussing his time fighting in France back in 1918 during World War I, and how he witnessed many good men die for nothing. In the years since he returned home to Boston, he had tried to do good, but he would eventually go down a different p... | revenge, violence, romantic | train | imdb | In both directing and writing the screenplay (based on a novel by Dennis Lehane), Affleck has aimed for a "Godfather" style gangster epic and missed: not missed by a country mile, but missed nonetheless.Morally bankrupted by his experiences in the trenches, Joe Coughlin (Affleck) returns to Boston to pick and choose wh... |
tt0044081 | A Streetcar Named Desire | After the loss of her family home, Belle Reve, to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from the small town of Laurel, Mississippi, to the New Orleans French Quarter to live with her younger, married sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Blanche is in her thirties and, with no money, she has nowhere else to... | tragedy, insanity, romantic, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | It's the clash between Blanche's stately delusions and Stanley's gritty realism that soups up the drama in this Tennessee Williams play, converted to film classic by director Elia Kazan.The drama is absorbing.
But the performances of Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, as Stanley and Blanche, are what make the film the cin... |
tt0093693 | Overboard | The initial scenes establish that Joanna Stayton (Goldie Hawn), is a spoiled brat who always gets her way, the ultimate rich bitch, and the pampered wife of pretentious socialite Grant Stayton III (Edward Herrmann).Using Roman numerals after your name is Hollywood shorthand for "pretentious snob", and Grant is that, an... | revenge, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0061089 | This Property Is Condemned | The film is a frame story in which an unkempt girl, Willie Starr (Mary Badham), tells the story of her dead sister Alva (Natalie Wood) to Tom, a boy who she meets on the abandoned railroad tracks of Dodson, Mississippi in the 1930s. The viewer sees this story in flashback.
A stranger, Owen Legate (Redford), arrives in ... | melodrama, revenge, depressing, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0084237 | The Last Unicorn | Two hunters (Jack Lester, Kenneth Jennings) ride through the forest searching for game when they come to a quiet part of the forest. One hunter announces that the forest is magical; hence why there is no snow that falls and it always seems like spring, and that there must be a unicorn living there. The other hunter is ... | fantasy, cult, cute, flashback, good versus evil, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0280590 | Mr. Deeds | Multibillionaire Preston Blake freezes to death while on a mountain climbing expedition. With no widow or legitimate children, it is initially unclear who would earn the right to Blake's massive fortune.
It is found that Blake has a living grandnephew named Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), who runs a pizzeria in New Ha... | fantasy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | I keep hearing Sandler is a major Hollywood player these days with an equal footing as producer as he is actor (he has produced a considerable amount with fellow actor Rob Schneider - the similarly inane but funny - mostly in spite of yourself - Hot Chick being the most recent example, in which he has a cameo role and ... |
tt0056993 | Diary of a Madman | DIARY OF A MADMAN aka THE HORLA The film begins with this quote: the vulture has eaten the pigeon; the wolf has eaten the lamb; the lion has devoured the sharp-tongued buffalo; man has killed the lion with an arrow, with a spear, with gunpowder; but the HORLA will make of man what man has made of the horse and of the o... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0327850 | The Rundown | Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for a man named Billy Walker (William Lucking). He is dispatched to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and te... | cult, comedy, entertaining, violence | train | wikipedia | This movie proved me wrong and has rapidly moved up into my list of favorite films.Beck (The Rock) is somebody who chases down people that have irritated the mob, be it financially or socially.
The man makes a perfect psychopath and I always brighten up when I see him on screen."The Rundown" is an excellent film which ... |
tt0416212 | The Secret Life of Bees | The film begins with Lily having a flashback to the day her mother died. Her mother is packing when T-Ray enters the room and grabs her. She grabs a gun but drops it. Lily appears to pick it up. Then, a gunshot is heard and Lily states that she accidentally killed her mother.
In the night, Lily sees many bees in her ro... | dramatic, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Writer/Director Gina Prince-Bythewood, winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Sundance hit, "Love & Basketball," has now brought the beloved, acclaimed best-seller, "The Secret Life of Bees" to the screen.1964, South Carolina.
This is due in part to Gina Prince-Bythewood's excellent adaptation and the wonderful act... |
tt3099498 | Tusk | Best friends Wallace Bryton and Teddy Craft host the popular podcast The Not-See Party, where they find and mock humiliating viral videos. Wallace announces plans to fly to Canada to interview the "Kill Bill" Kid, an Internet celebrity famous for severing his leg with a samurai sword. In flashbacks spread throughout th... | dark, horror, satire | train | wikipedia | The very definition of "not for everyone", Tusk is an oddball, absurd, twisted midnight movie that plays more like a demented fever dream than a horror or comedy film.
Don't believe the tempting notion that this is based on a true story, supposedly Kevin Smith and his mate where discussing a Gumtree add which advertise... |
tt0112302 | Tom and Huck | The film opens with Injun Joe (Eric Schweig) accepting a job from Doctor Robinson (William Newman). Then Tom Sawyer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is running away from home. He and his friends ride down the Mississippi River on a raft, but hit a sharp rock, which throws Tom into the water. His friends find him washed up on t... | good versus evil, cult, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | There have been some pretty good Tom Sawyer movies made.
While Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an adequate Tom, Brad Renfro is not a very good Huck.
Becky Thatcher looks to be about 25 years old and stands next to Tom like a giant.
This version of the classic novel by Mark Twain makes a nice little movie, but fails to captur... |
tt2779318 | The Day of the Doctor | A police constable walks the beat by the Coal Hill School and passes by a sign advertising "I.M. Foreman, Scrap Merchant". Inside the school, Clara Oswald is giving a lesson. As her students leave, a teacher runs into the classroom informing Clara that her "doctor" called, and left an address. She grabs her helmet and ... | clever | train | imdb | So, when I first thought about this review, I thought that it would include references to other anniversary shows, the Anniversary Season, the one-shot DIMENSIONS IN TIME, which was so something-for-everyone that it wound up having to be written out of continuity.Then I saw this episode and the constant assault of joke... |
tt0108394 | Trois couleurs: Bleu | Julie, wife of the famous composer Patrice de Courcy, must cope with the sudden death of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in the hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdose, but cannot swallow the pills. After being released from the hospital, Julie closes up th... | mystery, psychedelic, humor, atmospheric, romantic | train | imdb | This film requires a commitment by the audience to really consider Kieslowski's implications, for he is telling us (throughout this trilogy) what he thinks makes a "good" person.
She plays an enigmatic woman,'Julie,' we're witness to her terrible loss(her husband who was a famous composer and her daughter died in a car... |
tt1037705 | The Book of Eli | The film opens in ash-filled woods. A corpse lies rotting on the ground and a malnourished hairless cat climbs over it and begins nibbling at its feet. Nearby a figure in an NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) combat suit lies in wait. An arrow shoots into the cat, killing it instantly. Eli (Denzel Washington) walks ov... | thought-provoking, violence, action, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1034389 | The Eagle | The Year is A.D. 140, and it has been 20 years since Rome's legendary Ninth Legion marched north into Caledonia (modern Scotland) to gain control over all of Britain. The Legion was completely defeated, to Rome's embarrassment, and the Legion's prized standard, a golden eagle, captured. Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing ... | revenge, historical, violence, historical fiction | train | imdb | Jamie Bell is rather fantastic as the slave who has every reason to hate Rome except for his growing respect for his Roman master; he's unpredictable and tortured and terribly interesting to watch.It's not a perfect movie--sometimes I wasn't sure that it knew what message it was trying to convey--but generally I liked ... |
tt1984248 | Slaughter Is the Best Medicine | Conway, an ex-military man, travels to a remote farm where he finds his old friend Vet, a hardened man of war. He convinces Vet and his disbanded team of mercenaries to go into the treacherous Gallows Wood on one last capture mission, for which they will be rewarded handsomely. The target is the defected Professor Blac... | insanity, revenge, murder | train | imdb | Very enjoyable for zero budget, but terrible marketing!. I bought this film as SAS Black Ops, though I have to say that I like the original title of Slaughter better. For a film made for nothing it's quirky and enjoyable. As a Hollywood film... basically it*s not. For me the packaging is not anything to do with the fil... |
tt0102175 | Jungle Fever | Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) is a successfully married African American man who works at an architectural firm in New York City. One day, an Italian American woman named Angela "Angie" Tucci (Annabella Sciorra) is hired as a temporary secretary at the place. Flipper complains to his partners Jerry (Tim Robbins) and L... | murder | train | imdb | However his life is thrown into chaos when his wife Drew finds out.The opening credits are catchy and the material is just the sort of racial issue that Spike Lee made his name but somehow the film itself really failed to catch my imagination or hold my attention.
Firstly the film feels like a series of disjointed conv... |
tt0067713 | Scars of Dracula | A vampire bat enters a sealed room inside Castle Dracula with a coffin containing ashes: it regurgitates blood onto the ashes and reanimates them. Later a village girl is found dead and brought to the local tavern, and the landlord [Michael Ripper] realizes that Dracula [Christopher Lee] is back. He sends all the villa... | good versus evil, violence, gothic | train | imdb | Soon his brother Simon and his finance Sarah have gone looking for him, where they encounter unwelcoming locals and learn that Paul has passed through to Dracula's castle.Out of the Hammer Dracula films I've watched (which would be Horror of Dracula, Dracula - Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Taste... |
tt0087298 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | The night after the events at Higgins Haven, Jason Voorhees's body is found and delivered to the morgue. After reviving from his wounds and escaping from the cold storage, Jason kills coroner Axel with a hacksaw, and then stabs nurse Robbie Morgan with a scalpel. The next day, a group of teenagers drive to Crystal Lake... | grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, sadist | train | wikipedia | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is my all time favorite horror slasher 80's film it is the best one and it is tied with Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives it is my third favorite Friday the 13th film this is a good a really good film.
And the gore, in addition to being really effective, doesn't seem quite as harsh... |
tt0327056 | Mystic River | Three young boys, all the best of friends, are playing stick hockey on a side street in a gritty area of Boston near the port facilities on the Mystic River. As is so often the case with street games like this, the gutter drain finally sucks up the last of their hockey balls and they are suddenly left with nothing to d... | dark, mystery, murder, dramatic, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | Lovers of great acting had best not pass up 'Mystic River,' Clint Eastwood's powerful, award-laden adaptation of Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel.
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon play three working class Bostonians forever bound together by a mutual childhood tragedy that has since gone on to define the kind o... |
tt0118531 | One Eight Seven | Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dennis Broadway (Method Man), a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Kevin Reynolds' 187, although billed as another "straight-laced-teacher-turns-troubled-urban-highschool-teens-into-well-rounded-individuals" movie, goes above and beyond this tired premise.
The student as well as the faculty roles are all given unique personalities, backgrounds, and adequate motivation for their action... |
tt0038975 | The Spiral Staircase | Set in early 20th century New England, the screenplay by Mel Dinelli is about a serial killer who is murdering disabled young women in the community. His next victim apparently is Helen, a mute girl who works as a live-in companion for wealthy, bedridden Mrs. Warren, who urges her to leave the house, as does Dr. Parry,... | insanity, suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | She's currently fretful because a serial killer is on the loose and he preys on women with afflictions...Based on Ethel White's novel "Some Must Watch," The Spiral Staircase harks back to the days of the "old dark house" thrillers and encompasses a German expressionist sheen.
Siodmak expands his talent and knowing from... |
tt0066550 | Watermelon Man | Los Angeles, 1968. Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) lives in an average suburban neighborhood with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea (Estelle Parsons), who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love, and two children, 10-year-old Burton (Scott Garrett) and eight-year-old Janice (Erin Moran). Every morning ... | comedy, blaxploitation | train | imdb | Melvin Van Peebles' big Hollywood film is a very smart, funny, and in the end tragic satire of race relations in America c.
Biting satire is often a better way to express righteous anger than simply getting all righteous, and this is an example: under the laughs, this is a deeply angry film.Godfrey Cambridge is magnifi... |
tt0816442 | The Book Thief | In April 1938, a voice representing Death (Roger Allam), tells about how the young Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse) has piqued his interest. Liesel is traveling on a train with her mother (Heike Makatsch) and younger brother when her brother dies. At his burial she picks up a book that has been dropped by his graveside... | sentimental | train | imdb | The scenery was breathtaking and captivating, and I felt transported, insulated from the realities of a terrible war in a terrible time by the endearingly human performances of the actors and the depth they lent to their characters.The only complaints I have would be slight spoilers for both the movie and the book and ... |
tt0044030 | Show Boat | Note: Although the basic plot of Show Boat has always remained the same, over the years revisions and alterations were made by the creators, and over time by subsequent producers and directors. Some of these revisions were for length and some for convenience, as when a different actor played a certain role and was unab... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0118884 | Contact | The film opens with a shot of Earth from space and an audio track of various samples of recognizable mass communications from world history. The shot suddenly begins to travel outwards from Earth at impossible speed, passing Mars, the Asteroid Belt of the Solar System, passing Jupiter, travelling through Saturn's rings... | boring, thought-provoking, intrigue, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, tragedy, inspiring | train | imdb | null |
tt1913166 | Nurse 3-D | The film opens with Abby Russell at a night club where she explains to the audience via a narration that her "job" is to murder cheating men in order to "keep scum off of the streets"- a job that she thoroughly enjoys. She then murders a man by slicing through his femoral artery and then throwing him off the roof of th... | violence | train | imdb | In New York, Abby Russell (Paz de la Huerta) is a nurse of the All Saints Memorial Hospital and a serial-killer of unfaithful husband after hours.
the premise is simple enough: Abby (Paz De la Huerta) is a nurse by day and a seductive killer by night, targeting unfaithful men.
I'm only saying this because everyone kept... |
tt4682786 | Collateral Beauty | The film opens with Howard (Will Smith), Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet), and Simon (Michael Pena) at a company meeting with all of their employees to discuss the great year they've had. They all work for an ad agency, and Howard gets up to explain to everyone the three abstractions in life: Love, Time, and... | home movie | train | imdb | It makes you sad, angry, question...but in the end you learn that ALL those emotions are life and love and I thought the performances portrayed that perfectly.
I want to say thank you, to all the actors and all the people that were involved in this movie.I watched this movie twice, because it was so emotional to me and... |
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