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tt1136608 | District 9 | The film opens with a documentary-style series of interviews that introduce the story: twenty years prior, an alien ship arrives above Johannesburg, South Africa. It hovers above the city for three months without any contact; eventually humans take the initiative and cut into the ship. They discover a large group of al... | comedy, boring, mystery, realism, murder, bleak, allegory, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, humor, action, satire, alternate history, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt0368447 | The Village | Covington is a 19th-century Pennsylvania village that is isolated from the rest of the world. The woods that surround the village are off limits to all the villagers because mysterious creatures live there. Many years earlier, the town elders and the creatures reached an understanding that the villagers would not go in... | suspenseful, boring, murder, psychological, stupid, thought-provoking, cult, atmospheric, flashback, plot twist | train | imdb | null |
tt0036367 | So Proudly We Hail! | In 1942, an Army plane brings eight nurses from the Philippines to Australia. They are the only female survivors from the hard-hit Army base in Corregidor,and are put aboard a ship to the US. Their leader, Lt. Janet 'Davy' Davidson (Claudette Colbert), does not speak, and the doctor on board asks the nurses to tell the... | flashback | train | imdb | This film centers around the true horrors that the courageous nurses who served in WWII at Corregidor went through.
Amazing performances by all, including the great Claudette Colbert, George Reeves (from Superman fame), Veronica Lake (In certainly her finest performance), and Paullette Goddard who was nominated for an ... |
tt0290329 | Bijitâ Q | The film's plot is often compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, in which a strange visitor to a wealthy family seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter, and finally the father, before leaving a few days after, subsequently changing their lives.
The film starts off with a question: "Have you ever done it ... | dark, comedy, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | I've seen over half a dozen Takashi Miike movies, so I'm aware of how bizarre his output can be, but nothing can quite prepare you for how extreme 'Visitor Q' is!
He's also breathtakingly prolific, having completed around twenty projects since this, which was released only three years ago(!) Miike's best known movies i... |
tt0468489 | Half Nelson | Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a young middle-school history teacher at a Brooklyn school, with a teaching style that rejects the standard curriculum in favor of an approach based upon dialectics (specifically Engels' three laws of dialectics, though this is never referred to by name).
Though he seems to have it all toget... | humor, boring | train | wikipedia | Set in Brooklyn, New York where he currently lives, Ryan Fleck's first full-length feature, Half Nelson, is a gritty, sensitive, and emotionally harrowing film that meticulously avoids the inspirational clichés of many teacher-student films and the obligatory violence of films set in the ghetto.
In the case of Dan Dunn... |
tt1087472 | Safehouse | A beautiful business partner. A peaceful marina. A good life for former FBI agent Cooper O'Neil. At least it was, until the day his former partner arrived at the marina, dead and carrying a thumb drive that everybody seems to want. Not knowing who to trust, Cooper begins to piece together the puzzle, sinking all the wh... | revenge | train | imdb | Unforgettable. Initially I had mixed thoughts on how to vote. But I have deemed the film unforgettable so I had to go with a 10. I really won't forget some of the scenes ever. Performances by Robert Miano, Sheila Cutchlow and Clayton Myers were superb. Robert's Miano's character, Slavatore, is naturally ruthless. Sheil... |
tt0216746 | Bad Girls from Valley High | Danielle (Julie Benz), Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) are the three most popular and most nasty girls in their high school. While the leader Danielle is used to getting what she wants, she is unable to attract lonesome ex-jock Drew (Jonathan Brandis) due to his mourning over the death of his girl... | comedy, cruelty, murder, plot twist, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | Shamefully Good...Almost.
Having two actresses that I think are really good - Monica Keena ("Dawsons Creek", "Freddy vs.
Jason") and Nicole Bilderbeck ("Clueless" and "Bring It On") intrigued me to watch this film - plus it seemed in the style of the fantastic "Mean Girls".
Instead, the film was a bit of a let down, th... |
tt0107943 | The Remains of the Day | In 1950s England, Mr Stevens (Anthony Hopkins), the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), who worked with him as housekeeper during the years prior to the Second World War. Twenty years later, Lord Darlington (James Fox) has died and his stately country manor has been sold to a ... | romantic | train | imdb | Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Director James Ivory adapt Kazuo Ishiguro's poignant novel with such delicacy that it gets under ones skin in a deeply profound way difficult to express in a few words.The plot opens in the 1950's as meticulous and emotionally repressed butler Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) reviews a lifetime... |
tt0365748 | Shaun of the Dead | The film begins in The Winchester, a traditional London pub. Shaun (Simon Pegg), his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) and her two friends David (Dylan Moran) and Dianne (Lucy Davis) are socializing while the overweight and foul-mouthed slacker Ed (Nick Frost) plays away on the slot machine. Liz is trying to encourage Sha... | comedy, dark, boring, murder, stupid, cult, violence, horror, humor, satire, entertaining | train | imdb | Shaun of the Dead is quite a surprising and brilliant piece of work which I suspect will achieve the accolade of instant cult status as word of mouth snowballs this film to richly deserved recognition.Simon Pegg, both the joint writer and the main star of the film, has been a comedic force for some time, most notably i... |
tt0420223 | Stranger Than Fiction | Harold Crick (Will Farrell) is an IRS auditor who almost compulsively measures, quantifies and rationalizes his life. Suddenly, he becomes aware of a voice narrating his life, "accurately and with a better vocabulary." The voice is that of a writer we learn is struggling with writer's block (Emma Thompson), mostly abou... | avant garde, fantasy, cult, cute, insanity, psychedelic, humor, romantic, storytelling, sentimental | train | imdb | I continually looked forward to seeing the film, and am glad that the great trailer did not reveal everything like I had originally assumed.The film involves Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), an IRS agent who lives his life by a very strict routine.
His writing feels vibrant and fresh, and in a film industry with absolutely... |
tt0132888 | Blood Freak | Narrator [Brad Grinter], puffing on a cigarette: The one constant in this world is that things change.
There is order in change in that one thing leads to the next thing, and
one seemingly random event can affect the course of the future.Herschel [Steve Hawkes], an out-of-work and homeless Vietnam vet, meets and
befrie... | cult, psychedelic, violence | train | imdb | "The natives call it - Tabanga!" in from Hell It Came.Yes, it's about mutant turkeys, good Bible preaching, a hair farm named Herschell, and balding cracker dopers, but Blood Freak goes so much further.
Incredible twisted Christian-Drug-Gore-Turkey Monster film.
Hershel smokes some kind of super addicting pot which cau... |
tt0073324 | Lèvres de sang | Ever since his father died, Frederic [Jean-Loup Philippe] has been unable to remember
anything about his childhood, even though his mother has told him all
about it. One night, while at a party, Frederic notices a photograph of
some castle ruins near a beach. They look familiar to him, and he recalls
an incident that h... | pornographic, gothic, flashback | train | imdb | Another wonderfully evocative, dream-like film from Jean Rollin..
He specializes in haunting, sensual, visually impressive movies that frequently concern memory, or memory loss, and obsessively feature beautiful naked women, usually vampires.
If you haven't seen any of his work, 'Lips Of Blood' is as good a place to st... |
tt0315983 | House of Sand and Fog | The movie begins on a foggy night with a young woman sitting on a widow's walk. Below, ambulances are leaving the house. A police officer asks if she is Kathy Nicolo.On the day it all began, Kathy was awakened by a 6:00 a.m. phone call from her mother, who lives on the east coast. Kathy lies and says her husband is the... | dark, depressing, flashback, melodrama, tragedy, sentimental | train | imdb | Since antiquity, tragedy has been regarded as the highest and most important form of drama for its ability to arouse the deepest sense of pathos and empathy from its audience.Remind yourself of this if you choose to watch 'House of Sand and Fog.' I can state emphatically that 'House' is one of the most artfully directe... |
tt2077909 | Zombies: A Living History | Zombies: are they real? Every culture creates its own version of a zombie. There have been diseases in history that have mimicked behavior of a zombie virus. The plausibility is there. You would never be up against one zombie.you would be up against thousands or millions of zombies. How would you survive? There would h... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0279111 | Gods and Generals | The film centers on the life of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, the God-fearing and militarily brilliant yet eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson, while on a night ride with his staff to plan the next day's battle, is accidentally shot by h... | violence, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0091860 | River's Edge | The movie opens with a boy, Tim, throwing a doll into the water from a bridge. He hears a yell, and sees Samson/John sitting on the shore. The boy pedals off, and Samson smokes a cigarette by the naked corpse of Jamie. Samson leaves in a daze, and Tim spots him at a convenience store. While Samson haggles with the cler... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, melodrama, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0209095 | Leprechaun in the Hood | Sometime in the 1970s, treasure seekers Mack Daddy O'Nassas (Ice-T) and comrade Slug (Barima McKnight) break into a small room inside of a disco nightclub. The duo come across a trove of gold guarded by the statue of a petrified Leprechaun (Warwick Davis). Mack Daddy only presents interest in a magical flute which is s... | cult, violence | train | imdb | OK, it wasn't that bad, I just really wanted to get to use that line for once (my friend who went to see Lep 1 in the theater yelled it out during the movie and got a standing ovation).My same friend also made a good point about watching the Lep series in general: you know exactly what you're getting up front.
It's not... |
tt1655442 | The Artist | It's 1927 and we meet silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) on top of the world. He's behind the screen; in front of it an ecstatic audience is enthralled by his latest starring role. As the credits roll, Valentin takes the stage for what a virtuosic display of bowing, his canine sidekick performing some cu... | dramatic, romantic, action, boring, sentimental | train | imdb | «We didn't need dialogs, we had faces» said the narcissistic Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in Billy Wilder' "Sunset Boulevard", referring to the Silent Era, when she used to be big
before the 'pictures got small'.The reason of this introduction is that after watching Michel Hazanavicius' critically acclaimed: "The A... |
tt0386117 | Where the Wild Things Are | Max (Max Records) is a young boy who feels misunderstood and wants to have fun all the time. He makes an igloo out of snow, but his sister's friends gang up on him and smash it. After making a scene in front of his mother's boyfriend, Max bites his mother and runs away. He keeps running until he stumbles upon a small b... | fantasy, whimsical, cute, psychedelic, romantic, storytelling, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt1618442 | The Last Witch Hunter | The warrior Kaulder (Vin Diesel) seeks out witches with his allies, the Axe and Cross. The witch hunter is haunted by the thoughts of his dead wife Helena (Lotte Verbeek) and daughter Elizabeth (Sloane Combs). The men walk through the woods before encountering a horde of witches, which the men proceed to slay. Kaulder ... | comedy, gothic, murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt1142988 | The Ugly Truth | Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a morning show TV producer in Sacramento, California. Abby firmly believes in true love and is a big supporter of complex self-help books such as Chicken Soup for the Soul and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Coming home from a disastrous date, she happens to see a segment of a... | romantic, comedy, cute, entertaining, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | The comedy is "r" rated with a little raunchy adult humor that can be shocking at times but that is in line with the movies theme of male/female relationships.Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler were both great in the film.
And Katherine Heigl is once again perfect doing comedy.If you are expecting to see a typical roman... |
tt0062374 | Titicut Follies | I saw "Titicut Follies" over seventeen years ago. Thus, what I write is from fading memory. I can't remember all the details. I only wish I could forget about the details I do remember. I'll never shake the indelible anguish I was left with.I saw it once.
I never want to see it again.Plot?
There IS no plot.
Scenes are ... | insanity | train | imdb | null |
tt0324197 | Le temps du loup | Immediately before a global catyclysm, Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home in the countryside only to find it is occupied by a family of complete strangers. The occupants refer to the cataclism and tell her the rules of society no longer apply. Then, without provocation, Anna's husband is shot dead. Anna a... | violence, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | Le Temps du Loup is not about the third world, anyone who thinks that third world countries look any thing like what is happening in Haneke's film is out of his/her mind.
If, at the start of Time of the Wolf, you are aware of Michael Haneke's 1997 shocker, Funny Games, you may believe that this film will be treading si... |
tt0073453 | Night Moves | Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is a retired professional football player now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. He discovers that his wife Ellen (Susan Clark) is having an affair with a man named Marty Heller (Harris Yulin).
Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her 16-year-old daugh... | neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | Private investigator Harry Moseby (Hackman) has his hands full retrieving a teen runaway (Griffith) from the Florida Keys back to Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, the private detective and former athlete Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is hired by the retired obscure Hollywood actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) to find her 16... |
tt2383068 | The Sacrament | Patrick, a fashion photographer, receives a letter from his estranged sister, a recovering drug addict named Caroline, that invites him to visit Eden Parish, a utopian, drug-free community founded by a religious leader. When Patrick investigates, he discovers that they have moved to a new undisclosed location only acce... | brainwashing, cult, horror, murder, dramatic | train | imdb | null |
tt0486655 | Stardust | Tristan Thorn (Charlie Cox) is the son of Dunstan Thorn and a captive princess called Una. The couple met only one night and fell in love instantly. Unfortunately, when Tristan was born, she was not allowed to keep him and instead sent him to live with his father. She put in his basket a "Babylon candle" and a letter t... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, bleak, whimsical, cult, violence, cute, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, humor, romantic | train | imdb | I went to a small advance screening of this movie on July 19th, knowing no more than the names of a few of the actors and that it was a fantasy/adventure quest of some sort.The plot line really is nothing like I have seen, and a unique story is certainly appreciated with everything else that is currently in or coming s... |
tt0078405 | The Toolbox Murders | A person is driving around Los Angeles at night, and a flashback shows a car wreck, an ambulance, and a little girl lying dead on a gurney. The car stops and a person grabs a toolbox from the trunk and heads to a two-story apartment building. The unseen person walks into an apartment, and the resident, Mrs. Andrews, wa... | violence, cult, cruelty, sadist | train | imdb | And I LIKE horror folks.The first 20 minutes or so features a series of murders of young women by various items from a toolbox - drill, hammer, nail gun,etc.
(Maybe he's a country purist and is offended by their lack of Hank Williams?) Anyway, after that the movie rapidly gets duller and duller, a girl gets kidnapped, ... |
tt0098084 | Pet Sematary | The Creed family moves from Chicago to the small town of Ludlow, Maine. They end up befriending their elderly neighbor, Jud Crandell, who takes them to the isolated pet cemetery (misspelled "Sematary") behind the Creeds' new home.Later, Louis Creed is working at the University of Maine when a young student named Victor... | psychological, gothic, murder, cult, violence, horror, flashback, suspenseful | train | imdb | Mary Lambert does a great job with this film and manages to bring across King's creepy story pretty well.
This scary and rather gory adaptation of Stephen King's great novel features outstanding central performances by Dale Midkiff,Fred Gwynne(who sadly died few years ago)and Denise Crosby and some really gruesome gore... |
tt0090633 | An American Tail | The film begins in the small Russian village of Shostka as the camera zooms in on the Moskowitz house. Then, the camera pans down to a tiny door marked Mousekewitz, the dwelling of a mouse family that includes Papa (voiced by Nehemiah Persoff), Mama (voiced by Erica Yohn), their son, Fievel (voiced by Phillip Glasser),... | good versus evil, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0079758 | Prophecy | Tracking two lost lumberjacks through the night, a rescue team nearly follows a hound over a cliff. Two men rappel down to retrieve the fallen hound, but they are killed. The third, hearing screams down below, rappels down to investigate, where he finds his team mates dead, only to be killed himself by an unidentified ... | violence | train | imdb | Reviewers would be accurate to attack the cheesy effects, hokey dialogue at times and overall loss on energy in the film toward the climax, but there's much more going on here.Prophecy is, at best, a) a departure for John Frankenheimer, b) a 70's horror movie with a social conscience and, c) not withstanding amateurish... |
tt0031448 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | The first of two of the Twentieth Century-Fox Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies opens with the 20th Century Fox logo and theme, followed by title and credits shown over a panning shot of the moors. That transitions to a note, "1889 In all England there is no district more dismal than that vast expanse of primitive ... | murder, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0046911 | Les diaboliques | A second-rate boarding school on the outskirts of Paris is run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse). The school is owned, though, by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina (Clouzot). Delassalle also has a relationship with Nicole Horner (Signoret), another teacher at the school. Rather than a... | suspenseful, mystery | train | wikipedia | Set in a French boarding school for boys, "Les Diaboliques" tells the story of two teachers, Christina (played by Vera Clouzot), and Nicole (played by Simone Signoret), who conspire to kill the sadistic headmaster, a man who also happens to be Christina's abusive husband.Like most murder mysteries, the story is highly ... |
tt0338325 | Paparazzi | Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) is a rising movie star who has finally achieved major success with his latest film.Persistent photographers Rex Harper (Tom Sizemore) Wendell Stokes (Daniel Baldwin), Leonard Clark (Tom Hollander), and Kevin Rosner (Kevin Gage), harass Bo and his family, which includes his wife Abby (Robin Tunn... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | In Beverly Hills, the Montana family-man actor Bo Laramie (Cole Hauser) becomes a superstar with the franchise of his action movie "Adrenaline Force".
This is Hollywood's revenge movie against the Paparazzi, those goon photographers obsessed with getting celebrities' pictures at all costs, totally invading their privac... |
tt0938330 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D | Heather Mason (Sharon) has a nightmare in which she runs from faceless men at a fairground. She hides in the merry go round as the faceless men gather round closer and closer. Pyramid Head is shown chained to the center, riding a bike contraption that causes the merry go round to go in circles. Men strapped as horses o... | mystery, boring, violence, alternate reality, horror, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | Unfortunately Silent Hill: Revelation sets out to do two things: A) Continue the story SOMEWHAT from the first film to satisfy Silent Hill fans while having characters reveal story lines piece by piece in "plot dumps" that seem forced and out of place.
I'm going to forget for a second that I've played Silent Hill, I'm ... |
tt0865907 | Into the Blue 2: The Reef | The film begins in Honolulu, Hawaii, with someone dumping large containers into the ocean and then going to meet with a few men in suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed.
We are then taken underwater in the bl... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | i thought i would give this movie a chance because i must admit i really enjoyed the first.
into the blue 1 was pretty good so a sequel was hard to do.
the story was fine if not a little outdated and the acting was fine apart from a few silly actors letting the side down.as u can probably tell there is not a lot to wri... |
tt0318403 | The Lion King 1½ | The film is told through the perspective of Timon and Pumbaa through the literary device known as a frame story. The two are shown in silhouette form watching the original film. Timon interrupts the film to fast-forward to his scenes, but Pumbaa's protest prompts Timon to share his backstory.
Timon is a social outcast ... | psychedelic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Cute, Harmless Fun. Being a fan of the first Lion King, I was definitely looking forward to this movie, but I knew there was really no way it could be as good as the original.
I know that many Disney fans are wary of the direct-to-video movies, as I have mixed feelings of them as well.While watching The Lion King 1½, I... |
tt0196229 | Zoolander | News footage datelined Kuala Lumpur: newly elected Prime Minister Hassan (Woodrow W. Asai) of Malaysia promises to increase the minimum wage and eliminate child labor. The screen rolls up to reveal a large, dimly lit space in a warehouse. Clothing designer Jacobim Mugatu (Will Ferrell) has been called on the carpet by ... | comedy, murder, stupid, bleak, cult, flashback, absurd, psychedelic, satire, brainwashing, entertaining | train | imdb | But whatever it is, it makes for a terrifically fun movie.Ben Stiller is Derek Zoolander, three-time male model of the year, whose brainpower never quite caught up to his really, really ridiculous good looks.
Directed by and starring Ben Stiller, Zoolander is a very funny movie, if you know what to expect.
Audiences we... |
tt0076590 | Rabid | Rose (Marilyn Chambers) and her boyfriend Hart (Frank Moore) are taking a little spin in the Quebec countryside on Hart's motorcycle when they have an accident. A family in a camper van stops in the middle of the road to argue about directions, and Hart must swerve to avoid them, going off the road and crashing. A pati... | cult, horror, murder | train | imdb | The second big-screen feature from Canadian horror genius David Cronenberg was this twisted well-done low budgeter.Following a motorcycle wreck, a young woman receives skin grafts that cause her to have a murderous thrust for blood - which leads to a deadly plague.Rabid is one nicely done little shocker.
Frank Moore is... |
tt1582507 | House at the End of the Street | The story opens with a scene from the point-of-view of a psychotic killer, who looks like a teenage long-haired girl wearing a night-dress, killing first their mother and then their father with a hammer in the middle of a stormy night. The events are blurred and warped as if the killer is deranged or drugged.Four years... | psychological, murder, flashback | train | imdb | This movie was a pleasant surprise to me because I thought it was going to be more of a "horror" movie...I wouldn't call it that, I'd call it a terrific suspense thriller with good twists here and there.
The story is dull and predictable and the acting isn't rocksolid!Jennifer Lawrence played her role well though, she ... |
tt0833476 | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | The film begins with a mysterious Romani people gypsy-like musician (Amitabh Bachchan) leading the crowds at Waterloo station in London in a dance to the title song.
At the station, two strangers, Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta), wait for their respective friends arriving on the same tr... | romantic | train | wikipedia | I saw Jhoom Barabar Jhoom while travelling in Rajasthan, in the Raj Mundir in Jaipur, which is, with some justification, described as the best cinema in Asia (and it certainly beats watching a film in a 'Multiplex' on a screen the size of a large TV in London).As the film ended and the huge audience of all ages rose, m... |
tt0084827 | TRON | Kevin Flynn is a software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM(INT) (EN Commercial( International)), who now runs a video arcade called Flynn's. He wrote several video games, but Ed Dillinger, another ENCOM engineer, stole them and passed them off as his own, earning himself a series of promoti... | fantasy, mystery, allegory, cult, alternate reality, psychedelic, action, comic, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | In short, TRON like its video game counterpart is fun.And for that, and a host of other reasons, it will remain on my list of favourite films.End of line..
If it were released into theaters today, "Tron" would be a smash hit, 'cause the movie-audiences of today would understand it a heckuva lot better than the movi... |
tt0074991 | Obsession | In 1959, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson), a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered when his wife Elizabeth (Geneviève Bujold) and young daughter Amy are kidnapped. The police strongly recommend that he provide the kidnappers with shredded blank paper instead of the demanded ransom, and he agrees ... | violence, neo noir, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0892791 | Shrek Forever After | The movie begins just before Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) rescues Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz) in Shrek. Desperate to lift their daughter's curse, King Harold (voiced by John Cleese) and Queen Lillian (voiced by Julie Andrews) meet with con artist Rumpelstiltskin (voiced by Walt Dohrn), who requests becoming... | comedy, fantasy, action | train | imdb | null |
tt0127349 | Waking the Dead | The first scene of the movie introduces Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) as he is watching news footage showing that Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly) has been killed in a suspected car bombing. The reporter indicates that Sarah was an activist from Chicago involved in helping refugees from the Chilean government and th... | anti war, dramatic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | A small film that only enjoyed limited release in theaters and isn't getting much attention on DVD either, is Keith Gordon's latest, `Waking the Dead'.
His world is turned upside-down when he meets Sarah Williams (Jennifer Connelly), who just wants to feel like she `lives on the planet'.
Anyone who has every loved anot... |
tt0114609 | Tales from the Hood | In South Central, Los Angeles, a trio gang of drug dealers, Stack (Joe Torry), Ball (De'aundre Bonds) and Bulldog (Samuel Monroe Jr.), arrive at Simms' Funeral Home to purchase some drugs from Mr. Simms (Clarence Williams III), the mortuary's eccentric owner. Mr. Simms claims that he found the drugs in an alley and has... | violence, murder, blaxploitation | train | imdb | A white supremacist politician haunted by forces of injustices past highlights the third story, while the fourth focuses on a gangbanger undergoing frightening behavior modification.TALES FROM THE HOOD benefits enormously from solid writing and an entertaining pace.
Though definitely not for all tastes, TALES FROM THE ... |
tt2417854 | Lucky Bastard | Darkness. Police explore a crime scene, a San Fernando Valley house. We view the footage of their crime scene video. They find bodies, one after another -- What the hell happened here?One week earlier. The same house. An attractive young woman sits on a couch. This is Casey (Catherine Annette). She is interviewed by De... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | Lucky Bastard is a "found footage" thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars.
Dave (Jay Paulson) is an eager young fan given a chance to have sex with the fabulous Ashley Saint (Betsy Rue).
Not only were the cameras not overly irritating, but it actually made ... |
tt0295701 | xXx | An NSA mission to collect information on Anarchy 99, a mercenary group of former Russian soldiers goes awry when the agent's identity is discovered. Anarchy 99 has a biochemical weapon named "Silent Night," missing since the fall of the Soviet Union, and NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons believes the only way to get close is ... | psychedelic, cult, comedy, action, murder | train | wikipedia | The way they incorporate their "recruitment program" into the movie is fun and original, and though Vin Diesel doesn't really "act" in it, it's a lot of fun to watch.
For plot, xXx rates a 1.For acting, a 0.For action, a 10.This movie is unbelievably stupid, but somehow people (including me) like it.
Vin Diesel is a pr... |
tt0072684 | Barry Lyndon | PART I: By what means Redmond Barry acquired the style and title of Barry Lyndon.In the opening scene, set in 1750s Ireland, the father of Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) is killed in a duel by a businessman over a disputed sale of some horses. This detail is related by the film's narrator (the voice of Michael Ho... | boring, cruelty, atmospheric, melodrama | train | imdb | In the midst of the many wonderful films made by Stanley Kubrick, it is strange to note how rarely people mention "Barry Lyndon".The film portrays an unusual young Irish man, Redmond Barry, and his endeavours as he is forced to leave his home and tries to make good his life elsewhere.
His life away from home starts out... |
tt1074638 | Skyfall | The film begins in Istanbul, where James Bond (Daniel Craig) finds fellow MI6 agent Ronson critically wounded and the hard-drive of a nearby laptop missing, the contents of the hard-drive not yet revealed. Bond gives chase to the enemy, a professional hitman by the name of Patrice (Ola Rapace), with the help of MI6 ope... | dark, suspenseful, boring, murder, psychological, stupid, mystery, violence, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | Bond 23 and 007 has to literally come back from the dead when a stolen hard-drive makes M (Dench) look bad at a time when a face from her past comes homing into blood thirsty view.There is one sure fire fact in cinema that nobody can dispute, that of there never ever being a James Bond film that all Bondphiles will agr... |
tt0041462 | High Diving Hare | Bugs Bunny is drumming up business for a vaudeville show in a remote Western town, during which there is a poster in the background for Frizby the Magician. Bugs mentions that one of the main attractions is the high-dive act of Fearless Freep, and the name sends Yosemite Sam into a joyful frenzy. Sam says "I'm a-splurg... | psychedelic | train | imdb | One-Joke Story...And It Works Every Time!.
Bugs is in front of the Opry House in an Old West town, barking out all the acts trying to sell tickets for the show.
One of them is "Fearless Freep," the high diver.
"That's my boy!," yells Yosemite Sam, firing his pistols in the air.
He buys a lot of tickets and comes into t... |
tt0065744 | Le frisson des vampires | Isle and Antoine are newlyweds on their way to visit Isle's last
remaining relatives -- two cousins. Upon their arrival to the town, they
learn that the two cousins died just yesterday. Isle and Antoine go on to
the chateau anyway, where they are greeted by two female renfields who
show them to a room.The castle is a s... | pornographic, psychedelic, murder, gothic | train | imdb | On one level, it seems pure exploitation, with its somnolent virgins and lesbian vampires; but it is the prospective male viewer that the film targets - his representative on screen is reduced to an impotent observer, finally breaking down into helpless madness.
Rollin's style is as delirious as ever, fantastic French ... |
tt0027260 | After the Thin Man | This is the second installment of the Thin Man series, the story picks up from where "The Thin Man" left Nick and Nora.Arriving home after three days on the train, Nick and Nora were looking forward to spending a quiet new year with just each other. But their house was occupied by drunken friends; and Nora's most uppit... | comedy, mystery, murder, insanity, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | And if you are a fan of Asta's, he gets more screen time in this outing than any of the others (interestingly, in Dashelle Hammett's book, Asta is female).Of course the chemistry on screen between Myrna Loy and William Powell is unsurpassed, that's why they would ultimately be cast together in 14 films during their car... |
tt0271027 | Kiss of the Dragon | Liu Siu-jian (Jet Li), a Chinese intelligence agent, is sent to Paris to help apprehend Chinese mob boss Mr. Big (Ric Young), who is involved in heroin smuggling. He meets Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard (Tchéky Karyo), a corrupt and violent French police detective, at a hotel. Richard tricks Liu into believing he is sim... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, action, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | KOTD is the perfect excuse for action, with minimal plot and impossible odds.Basically, Jet Li plays a Chinese cop Lui Jian who travels to Paris to help the police bring a crime boss to justice.
I know I sure sighed with relief that Liu Jian (played with subtle excellence by Jet Li) wasn't driven by some emotionally ha... |
tt0172493 | Girl, Interrupted | "Maybe I really was crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted."Susanna is a young woman of eighteen, and her life isn't exactly what a "normal' eighteen-year-old's is suppose to be like. To her, any kind of sex is casual, and it doesn't matter
who she does it with or when, as long as she g... | insanity, dramatic, autobiographical, psychological, melodrama | train | imdb | Her performance was convincing as Suzanna, a confused high-school graduate who is eloquent and insightful on paper yet unable to a rticulate her own desperate melancholy.The movie takes place primarily in the women's ward of a mental institution and follows the dynamic friendship between Lisa (Jolie's character) and Su... |
tt0805564 | Lars and the Real Girl | Lars Lindstrom lives a secluded life in a small Wisconsin town. It is gradually revealed that his mother died when he was born, causing his grief-stricken father to be a distant parent to Lars and his older brother, Gus. Gus left town as soon as he could support himself, returning only to inherit his half of the househ... | comedy, boring, psychological, cute, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Lo and behold, a film that still believes in simple human kindness.There's been a severe lack of that on our movie and television screens lately, which is why I found "Lars and the Real Girl" utterly irresistible.
He's given two of the best performances in the last two years: here in "Lars" and last year in "Half Nelso... |
tt4352354 | A Wound in Time | Based on the Off Broadway play, beautiful Cuban-American cardiac nurse, Negra Centron (Anissa Smith), leads a sheltered life and is haunted by a childhood secret in New York City's tough neighborhood of Spanish Harlem during 1993. She spends time working long hours at the hospital and seldom socializes. She lives in th... | realism | train | imdb | null |
tt0800369 | Thor | Three scientists, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård), and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), are in the New Mexico desert in a four-wheel drive van studying an aurora-borealis-type phenomenon. Suddenly a large tornado/lightning storm develops and they drive towards it. The van hits a man inside the... | comedy, boring, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | The idea of a "classic" director like Kenneth Branagh making a superhero film might initially sound strange, but in the case of Thor that ended up being very appropriate, because the comic always used Shakespearean drama and archaic language to tell the story of the God of Thunder, the political/family conflicts in the... |
tt0105695 | Unforgiven | William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a widower with two young children. He was once a very vicious gunfighter, but after marrying, gave up gunfighting, drinking, and most other vices. His wife died of smallpox in 1878, but he continues to try to eke out a living with his children on their hog farm, and to try to be the ki... | suspenseful, realism, murder, bleak, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Now, desperately trying to support his children with no income, he is tempted back to his killing ways by the bounty offered by the women of a brothel, one of whom's number has been savagely beaten and disfigured by a drunken ranch-hand.The film follows Eastwood as he wrestles with his desire to honour his wife's memor... |
tt0112573 | Braveheart | In the 13th Century England, after several years of political unrest in Scotland, the land is open to an invasion from the south. King Edward I of England (Patrick McGoohan) has decided to conquer Scotland. After invading Scotland and winning the war by 1280 A.D., Edward (known as 'Longshanks') grants areas of land in ... | murder, dramatic, violence, action, romantic, inspiring, revenge, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt0286499 | Bend It Like Beckham | Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is the 18-year-old daughter of Punjabi Sikhs living in Hounslow, London. Juliette "Jules" Paxton (Keira Knightley) is the same age and the daughter of a native English family. Jess is infatuated with football, but because she's a woman, her family won't let her play. However, s... | thought-provoking, cute, queer, feel-good, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | As with all such tales, it is the young folk who feel the need to pull away from the stuffy values of the past, and who end up dragging the reluctant older folk kicking and screaming into the future right along with them.Jess Bharma is a fairly typical teen with dreams of becoming a world-class soccer player.
She recei... |
tt0047472 | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | In 1850, backwoodsman Adam Pontipee comes into a town in the Oregon Territory to search for a bride. Met with ridicule by some locals, he comes upon the local tavern where he meets Milly. Convinced of her worth by the quality of her cooking and her insistence on finishing her chores before she would leave with him, he ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | As good as Brigadoon was, it is outclassed by this, for me, the greatest musical of them all.Howard Keel stars with Jane Powell but for me I cannot look beyond the awesome dancing talent of Matt Mattox as Caleb.
A permanent place in the history of film musicals is obviously the fate of 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'... |
tt0071141 | Angst essen Seele auf | An older German woman named Emmi (Brigitte Mira) enters an Arabic bar in Germany. The patrons all stare at her as she sits at the nearest table. The bartender (Barbara Valentin) walks over and Emmi explains how she needed to get out of the rain, and asks about the foreign music playing. The bartender tells her that it ... | romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | He, Ali, is a black foreign worker from Morocco, 20 years younger than her, speaking a rather bad German (a more faithful translation of the German original title 'Angst essen Seele auf', a quote from Ali, would be 'Fear Eat Soul').
The neighbors are talking about them, Emmi's colleagues ignore her, the merchant refuse... |
tt0050111 | Ali Baba Bunny | In the middle of the Arabian Desert, a rich Sultan has stored all his treasure in a cave and is leaving his guard Hassan to watch the cave. As the Sultan leaves, the trail of a burrowing rabbit crosses the desert towards the cave. Hassan spots the burrow tunneling under the entrance of the cave and attempts to chase ou... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A Great Cartoon You Can Enjoy Many, Many Times.
This is a great cartoon for several reasons: 1 - Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are both in it; 2 - it's filled with classic lines (many by Daffy); 3 - the humor is both subtle and slapstick; and 4 - it looks fantastic with a restored version.
(See it on the Looney Tunes Golde... |
tt0300471 | Shanghai Knights | The film opens in the Forbidden City in 1887, where Chon Lin (Fann Wong) is drinking tea with her father, the Keeper of the Imperial Seal of China. She tells him her brother, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), is doing well as a sheriff in Carson City, Nevada, United States, but her father replies that her brother is dead to him... | entertaining, revenge, murder, violence, bleak | train | imdb | null |
tt0252480 | The Grey Zone | In autumn of 1944, at Auschwitz-Birkenau III, the Fourth Sonderkommando, a small group of Jewish prisoners assigned as laborers in the camp, oversees a load of Jewish prisoners bound for the gas chambers. The kommando's job is to ready the doomed Jews for death, ordering them to undress, turn over their valuables and h... | dramatic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0062430 | Valley of the Dolls | The film opens with a voice-over narration from Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins). She reveals how she started a journey toward success by leaving her small New England town for New York City. When she gets to the city, she takes a work assignment with a talent agency, and immediately she starts to discover the harsh reali... | tragedy, cult, melodrama | train | imdb | Mark Robson directs without a trace of nuance or subtlety; Patty Duke and Susan Hayward come off as boozy drag queens; Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins look and act as if they had taken one downer too many; Dory and Andre Previn's musical numbers are as funny as those in "The Operetta"--the "I Love Lucy" episode which p... |
tt0090057 | Spookies | A 13-year-old boy named Billy runs from home as his parents forget his birthday. Making his way through thick woods, he encounters a drifter who is violently slashed to death after Billy leaves. Billy stumbles on an old mansion where a room is decorated for birthday celebrations. Thinking it is a surprise by his parent... | cult, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | They go all out with nearly everything that you can (or CAN'T) think of: zombies, a spider woman, farting muckmen (hilarious!), a cellar hag, lizard monsters, the Grim Reaper, a half-cat weirdo in biker books with a hook in place of a missing hand, a tall, ugly monstrosity with an exposed heart and tentacles, etc., etc... |
tt0155267 | The Thomas Crown Affair | Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to steal $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-fac... | mystery, comedy, boring, romantic | train | wikipedia | A remake of the steamy 1968 Steve McQueen flick updated to the sleek and self-referential 90s, "Thomas Crown" features Brosnan as the title character - a bored billionaire businessman in the business of "acquisitions".
Or is Crown manipulating her affections like Bobby Fisher manipulates the pieces on a chess board?Wha... |
tt0081777 | Xanadu | The film opens with a large mural of the Nine Muses of Olympia coming to life, with the women emerging from the painting and flying into the sky. One of them returns to Earth.
Sonny Malone is a talented artist who dreams of fame beyond his job, which is the non-creative task of painting larger versions of album covers ... | cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | XANADU is one of the most critically and commercially panned films in Hollywood history, a 'Nouveau Art' musical with Art Deco themes, a weirdly conceived animated interlude, and performances of such widely varying caliber that a viewer might wonder if the actors were all reading from the same script!
But all that bein... |
tt0050986 | Smultronstället | The movie opens when 78-year-old Isak Borg, played by Victor Sjöström, is in bed at home. He dreams about being on a city street with no other people present. A clock hanging above the street has no hands. Isak checks his pocket watch; it too has no hands. A figure appears with its back turned. Isak walks up to the fig... | psychedelic, comedy, flashback | train | imdb | Where the surrealist touches, moody photography, and incredibly smooth direction had made the big hit with me as a near boy, as an aging man I found myself--I hesitate to say painfully, but...well, closely--identifying with old Isak Borg in his strange pilgrimage, both interior and exterior, the day he receives his hon... |
tt0420294 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning | On August 7, 1939, a young woman who works in a meat-packing plant in rural Travis County, Texas, dies giving birth to a child in the back room of the building when she suddenly goes into labor. The cruel plant manager abandons the newborn in a dumpster. A local woman, named Luda Mae Hewitt, discovers the baby while se... | violence, cruelty, murder, sadist | train | imdb | Wow. Impresively taking "Texas Chainsaw" back to its roots, horror fans and cinema-goers alike should definitely give this prequel to the daring 2003 remake a chance.
Jordana Brewster plays Chrissie, who is on a fun road-trip across Texas with her friends, Eric, Dean, and Bailey, played well off of each other by Matthe... |
tt0942384 | Shelter | The movie opens with Zach (Trevor Wright) skateboarding, stopping occasionally to take photographs and spray-paint silhouette graffiti. He arrives home and is greeted by his sister Jean (Tina Holmes) and her son Cody (Jackson Wurth). Jean is headed out, forcing Zach to take Cody with him to the diner where he works.At ... | romantic, queer | train | imdb | It was great to watch a film that used characters that stepped outside of the gay stereotypes seen in most films.
It was even better to see a movie that focused on the love (rather than the sex) between the two lead characters.While there are some scenes that scream "low budget," the end product as a whole was very rew... |
tt0116329 | Fly Away Home | Thirteen year-old Amy (Anna Paquin) is riding passenger with her mother (Deborah Verginella) in their car one rainy night in New Zealand. All seems right and pleasant until the mother loses control of the car and crashes. Amy awakens later in the hospital to find her father, Thomas Alden (Jeff Daniels), who says that h... | tragedy, inspiring | train | imdb | null |
tt0280490 | The Hard Word | Three prisoners are about to be released on bail - DALE (GUY PEARCE), MAL (DAMIEN RICHARDSON) and SHANE (JOEL EDGERTON). Meet the Twentyman brothers. Hard experience and an unspoken bond of family have made them masters of their craft - armed robbery. It's a job and they do it because they're good at it. Their only rul... | revenge, comedy, murder, violence, romantic | train | imdb | 'The Hard Word' is an excellent, well-paced Australian movie, straddling the genres of the American noir caper film and the British thick-ear crime drama.
but 'The Hard Word' is definitely a one-off original, and it's very good.The early scenes in this film take place in the Australian prison system.
(In Britain, crimi... |
tt1361843 | Van Diemen's Land | This is the true Story of Alexander Pearce, an Irishman who was sentenced to forced labour on the island of Van Diemen's Land (Now Tasmania).The Film is initially about the brutality of this wild untamed wilderness for seven runaways. Van Diemen's Land appears to be a place bereft of any kind of life other than the esc... | dark, murder | train | imdb | Despite moving at a slow pace and sometimes lacking in exposition, Van Diemen's Land is an impressive film.
The story of Alexander Pearce's escape, along with 7 other convicts is gut-wrenching, especially when we take into account it is inspired by a true story (to which extent, we may never know).
As soon as the movie... |
tt0098577 | Vampire's Kiss | Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) is a driven literary agent, who is slowly going insane. He works all day, and club hops at night, with little in his life but one night stands and the pursuit of money and prestige. He sees a therapist (Ashley) frequently, and during these sessions, his declining mental health becomes clear th... | absurd, cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0078875 | Die Blechtrommel | In 1899, Joseph Kolaizcek, the grandfather of Oskar Matzerath, the main character, is being pursued by the police through rural Kashubia. He hides underneath the skirts of a young woman named Anna Bronski, with whom he later has a daughter – Oskar's mother. He evades the authorities for a year, but when they find him a... | violence, magical realism, psychedelic, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0130827 | Lola rennt | The movie opens with a series of questions about humanity and what we know to be true. After the credits, the camera zooms into a house and stops at a ringing telephone. Lola picks up and begins talking to Manni. Manni is in a telephone booth and questions her about where she has been since she was supposed to be waiti... | whimsical, thought-provoking, cult, alternate reality, violence, flashback, psychedelic, humor, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | From that moment on, the movie takes us through three stories of Lola's trials trying to get Manni's money in 20 minutes - and with every person she comes into contact with, their lives take on completely different forms, as shown by 30-second photo flash montages.
Well, maybe it isn't all that simple, but while others... |
tt0054020 | The Leech Woman | This Universal International picture opens with Old Malla (Estelle Hemsley) responding to an endocrinologist's advertisement seeking very old women for a research project. In his office Dr. Paul Talbot (Phillip Terry) is serving a drink to his older wife, June Talbot (Coleen Gray). She is an alcoholic and the couple fi... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1216475 | Cars 2 | A secret message is received from a spy named Leland Turbo (Jason Isaacs), giving information about a secret location, and something even more sinister. The coordinates provided in Leland's message are followed by Finn McMissile (Michael Caine), who charters a fishing boat to the coordinates. As they get close, a large... | bleak, violence | train | imdb | 16 years ago, Pixar Animation Studios released the first feature length computer animated film in history, Toy Story.
For director John Lasseter (also head of Pixar), Cars is obviously a very personal film, a nostalgic story about the loss small-town American values in the face of increased modernity.
Returning directo... |
tt1107859 | Kill Switch | A Memphis police detective, Jacob King (Steven Seagal), deals with the traumatic childhood memory of his brother's murder by devoting his life to hunting down serial killers. The story opens with King capturing and throwing from a fifth story window Billy Joel Hill (Mark Collie), a madman who had used timed explosive d... | revenge, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | I will say this, I am very upset he would make such a poor film after making 2 very good films: Pistol Whipped, and Urban Justice.HOWEVER with that aside even knowing there was the classic stunt double in most of the scenes there was still quite a bit of action and yes the editing and showing every punch a billion time... |
tt0066993 | The Devils | In 17th Century France, Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Logue) is influencing King Louis XIII (Graham Armitage) in an attempt to gain further power. He convinces Louis that the fortifications of cities throughout France should be demolished to prevent Protestants from uprising. Louis agrees, but forbids Richelieu from ... | comedy, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, tragedy | train | imdb | Cited by director Alex Cox and critic Mark Kermode as one of the ten greatest achievements in cinema of all time, The Devils is based on a true story set in France in 1634 about the evils of the union of church and state controlled by power hungry, perverse men who prey on faith and fear, and one priest, Father Grandie... |
tt0088748 | Astérix et la surprise de César | The movie begins when Obelix falls in love with the chief's niece, Panacea. His heart is quickly broken when he hears that she is due to be married to the handsome Tragicomix. The two lovers are walking in the woods when they are captured by a group of Romans lead by a fresh new recruit looking to impress the Centurion... | psychedelic, revenge, romantic, historical fiction | train | imdb | Lively adventure with Asterix and Obelix enlisted into foreign Roman Legion and as gladiators to rescue Falbala.
This cartoon movie concerns about our friends, this time Obelix falls in love with Falbala, though she has a fiancée already.
Obelix is utterly enamored, blowing down a lot of trees with irritation his dog I... |
tt0064728 | The Night of the Following Day | The film starts with Dupont's daughter (Franklin) on an airplane and a stewardess, Vi (Moreno) bending over her. As she leaves, we see a chauffeur, Bud (Brando), saying something to Dupont's daughter which we do not hear. He puts her in the back of a Rolls-Royce and drives off. They stop at a junction and Leer (Boone) ... | romantic, neo noir, murder, sadist, flashback | train | wikipedia | The Night Before The Following Day is one of Marlon Brando's most over-looked films.
Looking as fit and trim as he was in Streetcar Named Desire, Brando gives an emotionally charged performance as Bud (Brando's nickname in real life!), the leader of a gang of ruthless kidnappers.
Brando's acting is at its best in an am... |
tt0080421 | Battle Beyond the Stars | The farmers of the peaceful planet Akir are threatened by the space tyrant Sador (John Saxon) and his army of mutants, the Malmori. Sador's huge ship carries a weapon called a "Stellar Converter", which turns planets into small stars. He threatens to use the Converter unless the planet submits to him when he returns in... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0298203 | 8 Mile | In Fall 1995 in Detroit, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. (Eminem), a blue-collar worker from a poor family, struggles with various aspects of his life. He has moved back north of 8 Mile Road to the rundown trailer home in Warren, Michigan of his alcoholic mother Stephanie (Kim Basinger), his little sister Lily (Chloe Greenf... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | This film says something about rap and the human experience that hasn't been articulated this well many times before; it bridges the gap between rap and poetry in a big way, and makes that gap look a lot smaller.All in all, the thing that really defines 8 Mile is how committed to this idea the cast and crew must have b... |
tt0139134 | Cruel Intentions | New York City. 1999. The womanizing Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) is with his therapist Dr. Greenbaum (Swoosie Kurtz) to talk with her over his sexual urges over other women. Sebastian decides that he is more or less cured and bids goodbye to him to set out as a new man. She thinks she has convinced him of sustain... | revenge, cult, cruelty, sadist, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0371746 | Iron Man | A convoy of military Humvees drives across the Afghanistan desert. In one of them is billionaire weapons developer Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), riding with soldiers on duty. He is joking with some members of a convoy who seem to be genuinely amused by his persona and his flamboyant public image. Suddenly, the convoy... | murder, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, humor, action, entertaining | train | imdb | As an avid reader of the Iron Man comics, I was excited but also very scared that this movie would flop.While Robert Downey is not the biggest name in Hollywood, he plays the part perfectly and I was greatly impressed by how he portrayed Iron Man so well.The humor works well for this film also.
Jeff Bridges plays the b... |
tt0832266 | Definitely, Maybe | 38-year-old father Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce. After her first sex-ed class, his 10-year-old daughter Maya insists on hearing the story of how her parents met. Will reluctantly gives in, but decides to change the names and some of the facts relating to the various love affairs of his youth, thereby creatin... | romantic, cute, storytelling, flashback | train | wikipedia | It truly was, as my summary suggests, absolutely wonderful, and that has mostly to do with the performances by the casts' dedication, though the plot and execution of the entire film was remarkable, as well, and the whole atmosphere and the way the movie folds out is incredible.It was so touching and completely enterta... |
tt1220213 | Grace | In the opening scene, a young couple named Michael and Madeline are having sex, attempting to conceive. It is soon apparent that they have succeeded.Michael's parents arrive for dinner: a vegan meal prepared by a now visibly pregnant Madeline. Michael's domineering mother Vivian grimaces at the food and suggests - in a... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0961722 | Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever | Picking up one day after the events of the first Cabin Fever film, Paul (Rider Strong) wakes up in the creek surrounded by bloody water. He is severely infected by the mysterious flesh-disolving virus and he is covered in sores and boils. He begins walking through the forest as his skin begins to fall off. He makes it ... | comedy, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0435761 | Toy Story 3 | Andy Davis (voice: John Morris) is 17 years old, and is heading off to college in a few days. The fact that Andy has grown from a young boy to a teenager about to leave home has not been lost on his toys.Several of them hold out hope that Andy will play with them at least once before he leaves, but those hopes are soon... | comedy, boring, violence, flashback, good versus evil, suspenseful, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | And naturally, Pixar would be at the forefront, leading the cavalry charge of digital animation ranging from great to gawd-awful."Toy Story 3" starts off as comfortably as possible, with our friends Woody and Buzz Lightyear doing what they do the best...playing with Andy in his world of make-believe adventure.
The firs... |
tt0082700 | Cannibal ferox | In New York City, an unnamed man is visiting an apartment to get heroin (using the term "horse") from his dealer named Mike. Instead of finding his usual pusher, the man finds two mobsters who are also looking for Mike, who had apparently skipped town owing them $100,000. After questioning the man about Mike's whereabo... | cruelty, murder, violence, horror, insanity, sadist | train | imdb | The police detectives seek out the touristic guide Myrna Stenn (Meg Fleming), who shared her apartment with Mike.Meanwhile, the anthropologist Gloria Davis (Lorraine De Selle) travels on vacation to Paraguaya, in Colombia, with her brother Rudolph "Rudy" Davis (Bryan Redford) and her friend Pat Johnson (Zora Kerowa) ex... |
tt0089469 | Legend | The Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) alone in his chamber, calls his minion the goblin Blixx (Alice Playten). He confides to Blixx that he wishes to kill the last two unicorns so that darkness will fall upon the world, allowing him to emerge from his cave where he is shielded from the sunlight that is his enemy.He cannot a... | dark, fantasy, gothic, cult, good versus evil, action, brainwashing, romantic | train | imdb | It compares quite favorably with Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" and is a modern classic.The theatrical release of 1986, shamefully butchered (chopped up and badly re-edited) by the mindless suits at Warner, and with its original Jerry Goldsmith score replaced by the rather trite Tangerine Dream soundtrack, is the ... |
tt0454084 | Blind Dating | Danny Valdessecchi (Chris Pine) is an intelligent, handsome, charming young man who happens to be blind. Having been blind from birth, he volunteers for a risky experimental procedure that may restore his sight -- having a microchip installed in the visual cortex of his brain that connects to a camera that would give h... | prank | train | imdb | BLIND DATING is a well-written (Christopher Theo), well-directed (James Keach - brother of Stacy Keach and husband of Jane Seymour) story about the coping of the visually impaired, the quirks of Italian and Indian families, brotherhood, and the gamut of finding the right partner in a world of essential blind dating!
On... |
tt1385867 | Cop Out | The movie opens with Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) in the interrogation room, working on a suspected drug dealer. Paul convinces Jimmy to let him try the interrogation this time and the crazy scene with all the movie quotes from the trailer ensues. They get the guy to rat out his supplier, so the next sc... | comedy, murder, violence, cult, flashback, humor | train | imdb | What he may lack in compelling direction skills, he more than makes up for in witty screenplays with equal balance raunch and insight having crafted classics such as Clerks and Chasing Amy. With Smith absent from the writing role there is absolutely no reason to seek out Cop Out.Calling Cop Out a 'buddy cop' film would... |
tt2140379 | Self/less | Business tycoon and billionaire Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley) is master of his own universe, until he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now on his deathbed, he finds a business card directing him to a man named Professor Albright (Matthew Goode), who informs him about a radical medical procedure called "shedding", in whi... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | Damian(Ben Kingsley) a self made billionaire discovers he is dying, and does have much longer to live, discovers a secret facility that can transfer his soul into a younger body(Ryan Reynolds), when the transfer is a success, Damian really begins to enjoy his new life in his new body, but soon realizes that his new lif... |
tt0084228 | Laberinto de pasiones | Un hombre y una mujer caminan por una abarrotada calle, y se dedican a calibrar y admirar los paquetes de los hombres. Después, en una cafetería, toman algo, y él lee dos noticias: el científico español De la Peña que logró reproducir seis periquitos asexualmente y que el emperador de Tirana ha escapado a Estados Unido... | melodrama | train | imdb | Polysexual self involved drug fiends in screwball classic!!.
I agree with both comments above but wanted to emphasis what a fun insanely gleeful movie this is.
Very camp and sleazy.
A movie about being young.
Worth viewing for Almodovar and Fanny (Fabio) McNamara's horrendous pop group 'performing' 'Suck It To Me'.
Dra... |
tt0120611 | Blade | The movie begins in the year 1967 with a pregnant woman being admitted to a hospital, bleeding from the neck. Paramedics think she was attacked by some type of animal. Doctors perform an emergency C-Section, and her baby (a boy) is born alive just as she dies.Thirty years later a young man named Dennis (Kenny Johnson) ... | gothic, stupid, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, revenge | train | imdb | The best vampire slaying movie ever my number one favorite Blade film.
Blade (1998) is the best action/horror vampire slaying movie ever made!
Blade is humanity's last hope!Wesley Snipes plays a half-mortal, half-immortal charged with ridding the earth of a race of vampires led by Stephen Dorff in this action-packed bl... |
tt0111161 | The Shawshank Redemption | In 1947, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a banker in Maine, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, a golf pro. Since the state of Maine has no death penalty, he is given two consecutive life sentences and sent to the notoriously harsh Shawshank Prison. Andy always claims his innocence, but his cold and measured... | fantasy, psychological, murder, mystery, dramatic, violence, cult, cute, thought-provoking, plot twist, flashback, atmospheric, humor, melodrama, inspiring, revenge, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
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