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tt1226271 | The Damned United | After failing to qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, England manager Alf Ramsey is replaced by Don Revie (Colm Meaney), the highly successful manager of Leeds United. Revie's replacement at Leeds is Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), the former manager of Derby County and a fierce critic of Leeds, because of their violent ... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Chairmen Manny Cousins and Sam Longson enjoy rewarding cameo parts and the footballers themselves are picked as actors rather than surrogate footballers.Critics may carp about the odd anachronism and unconvincing physical shape of the Leeds United team in particular but it is the ego of Brian Clough which bestrides thi... |
tt2294473 | Aku no kyôten | An English teacher named Seiji Hasumi (Hideaki Itō) is loved by his students and respected by his peers. He graduates from Harvard University with an MBA, and works at Morgenstern, a European investment bank, for two years. Hasumi returns to Japan to pursue high school teaching. However, his outward charm masks his tru... | violence | train | wikipedia | As psycho-killer movies go "Lesson of the Evil" is up there with the best of them.
It's by the Japanese horror maestro Takashi Miike and is set for the most part around a school where handsome young teacher Hasami, (Hideaki Ito), has his own somewhat extreme methods of dealing with rule-breakers.
Miike's genius is to t... |
tt2109248 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | After defeating Sentinel Prime and Megatron's army in Chicago, the Autobots have gone into hiding after the government deemed all transformers as threats, and thus, began to hunt them all down. The government has thus replaced the Autobots with their own transformers using technology from the fallen transformers. Meanw... | suspenseful, murder, paranormal, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | imdb | Wahlberg is always fun to watch and the main chick is cute but the last 1.5 hours is straight action and no plot and I wanted to walk out before I had a seizure.Special effects were visually pleasing, but would have been better if I cared what was going on.
I tried so hard to be interested in this flick but I found mys... |
tt0366551 | Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | The movie starts late on a Friday afternoon at the investment bank where Harold (John Cho) works. Two of Harold's co-workers talk about going out for the night to get laid. One, who is heartbroken from a breakup, says he can't go out because he has to work on a project due the next day. The other suggests giving the wo... | cult, comedy, romantic, stupid | train | imdb | null |
tt2281159 | Contracted | In a morgue, BJ has sex with a corpse that has a biohazard symbol on the toe tag; afterward, he handles an empty test tube while washing up.
Samantha is trying to get over a recent break-up with her girlfriend, Nikki. The party's host, Alice, plies her with strong drinks, while Zain offers her drugs. After she becomes ... | romantic, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Contracted: harsh reviews so far, therefore I'll be the first to change the pace a little.I've watched horror ever since I can remember, love it, all types, slashers, zombies, ghosts and so on.
I graded this one with a 6, maybe a little more than I should, but it definitely has to be over 5, and I'll give you the reaso... |
tt0759612 | Longford | The film begins during the late 1960s (during the first premiership of Harold Wilson) at the House of Lords, with Lord Longford, a regular prison visitor, presiding over a reception for a number of ex-convicts whom he had visited and corresponded with when they were incarcerated. He receives a letter from one of the mo... | cruelty, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | This surely is one of the best made for TV dramas you are likely to see, superbly written and featuring a stunning performance from Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford.
I had only ever regarded Longford as an eccentric old fool until watching this film which reveals what great humanity and compassion the man had.
He finds M... |
tt0275230 | Blood: The Last Vampire | The year is 1966. Saya is the only remaining original
vampire, and she hunts Chiropterrans--demons who live off human blood.
Saya's a testy and demanding little bitch but apparently very valuable to
"the top." Her next assignment, as her boss David explains it to her, is
to infiltrate the U.S. Yokota Air Base's High Sc... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Using a mixture of animation cells and computer-generated backgrounds, this is an effortlessly stylized visual breakthrough that hopefully will launch future endeavors in the style.The problem with this particular film, though, is that it is far, far too short.
At just over forty minutes filmed length, the story of a s... |
tt0119094 | Face/Off | September 1991:In a flashback, FBI Special Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) is taking his six year old son Michael for a ride on the Griffith Park carousel in downtown Los Angeles. As they ride around, Archer runs his hand over Michael's face and smiles.Meanwhile, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) sets up a suppressed sniper... | comedy, neo noir, murder, stupid, dramatic, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | I recommend it to any fan of John Woo, Nicholas Cage, John Travolta and action films.
From director John Woo comes this exhilarating action movie that takes a deadly cat and mouse game to the next level!
Travolta and Cage are both extraordinarily good, and with Woo at the helm you know that you'd better hang on for dea... |
tt0118971 | The Devil's Advocate | Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) is a successful defense attorney in Gainesville, Florida. After successfully defending a high school teacher, Gettys, who is accused of molesting a young girl named Barbara (Heather Matarazzo). He is celebrating with his wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) when he is approached by a representativ... | psychological, murder, paranormal, allegory, cult, intrigue, violence, thought-provoking, insanity, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | With movies nowadays being nothing but flashy, over-the-top, masturbatory, CG-fests, "The Devil's Advocate" holds up like osmium.The cinematography is good because it's quite understated and that's a virtue in today's cinema.
At a point, It was as if I could see my jaw on the floor praising in thorough amusement the br... |
tt0088263 | Michael Jackson: Thriller | Here is a synopsis for the full-length official music video of the song, "Thriller" by Michael Jackson. The song was released in 1983, and appears on the album, "Thriller". It was an instant hit single. The song is five minutes and twelve seconds long.The short film starts with a disclaimer, which reads:"Due to my stro... | romantic, dark | train | imdb | This short film displays the absolute highest standard in music video and no-one will ever be able to out-beat this 'King Of Pop' masterpiece!
It shows Michael turning into a zombie and dancing in the street with some spectacular choreography.
Today everybody is still doing the same thing in music video with dancing an... |
tt1331064 | Paper Heart | Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn't fully understand: Love. Michael Cera becomes the object of her affection. Weaving together reality and fantasy, Paper Heart combines elements of documentary and traditional storytelling to bring a fresh perspective to ... | paranormal, psychedelic, storytelling, home movie | train | imdb | Much more so than it pretends not to be.By blending predictable, scripted and entirely acted romantic comedy elements in with what "appears" to be more standard documentary-style interviews, the viewer is left to wonder if anything they are seeing is real, and once that foundation of belief is cracked, the entire movie... |
tt0475784 | Westworld | Ford brings Lowe back in the private lab. Lowe weeps for Theresa Cullen. Ford is philosophical, Lowe gets angry but accepts to do a coverup in return for a memory wipe. Lowe goes to the computer and Theresa's apartment, he burns a private note.Maeve is in the saloon, a new blonde hooker is there instead of Clementine. ... | murder | train | imdb | Most of it was self-explanatory, like the constant debauchery and murder for fun, but the underlying search for hidden motives and "the truth" kept the show going, up to a grand finale.Season two, however, is a bit of a letdown.
Since we now know about the two parallel plots from season one, the audience isn't fooled a... |
tt0327084 | Over the Hedge | While scavenging for food, RJ the raccoon enters the cave of Vincent the bear, who has a wagon full of human food taken from a nearby rest stop. RJ accidentally wakes Vincent from his hibernation, and in a race to escape, causes the stash to roll out onto the nearby highway and get run over. To avoid being eaten himsel... | entertaining | train | wikipedia | It is a much stronger film than other Dreamworks titles like Madagascar and Shark Tale, and really seems like it can stand next to the likes of Shrek 1 and 2.The voice acting is all top-notch, from Willis' take no-nonsense raccoon, to the sadly missed Shandling as a neurotic turtle.
The rest of the voice cast, from Eug... |
tt0119664 | Metro | Scott Roper (Eddie Murphy) is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate (Carmen Ejogo) is a newspaper reporter.While listening to a horse race on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl (Donal Logue) is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the ho... | revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | Metro appears to be a low-budget action affair, which whilst it has nothing new to offer, shows us a different side to Eddie Murphy as an actor that we hadn't seen before in his previous films.
People have in the past often compared this to Beverly Hills Cop 1, in terms of the fact that they are both your typical, run-... |
tt0918927 | Doubt | The movie opens on a working class street in an Irish/Italian Catholic neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y, circa 1964
The pre-title establishing shots are of a quiet church garden with statues of saints and angels, a Russian immigrant playing a zither, a boy named Jimmy (Lloyd Clay Brown) being awakened by his mother for S... | thought-provoking, dramatic, plot twist, flashback, romantic, storytelling, queer | train | imdb | His progressive ways gnaw at Sister Aloysius and she is soon suspecting Father Flynn of inappropriate relationship with altar boys even though she is without concrete proof.The scenes between Streep and Hoffman are riveting from start to finish.
Viola Davis as a troubled boy's mother has one lengthy powerful and painfu... |
tt0281358 | A Walk to Remember | When a prank on a fellow high-school student goes wrong, popular but rebellious Landon Carter (Shane West) is threatened with expulsion. His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as tutoring disadvantaged children and performing in the drama club's spring musical. At these funct... | dramatic, cult, revenge, melodrama, tragedy, romantic, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt1414382 | You Again | In 2002, Marni Olsen (Kristen Bell) is an acne-riddled high school sophomore in Ridgefield, California, with glasses and braces, making a video about how much she hates high school, and reveals how she is tormented and bullied by other children, specifically J-J the high school mean girl (Odette Yustman), who made Marn... | entertaining, flashback | train | wikipedia | But if you watch it keeping in mind that is a light-hearted, fun summer comedy for the family, you will appreciate it, mainly because of the strong and hilarious female cast.
Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Bell and Odette Yustman all shine on-screen in their own ways, yet complement each other so well.
I w... |
tt0327437 | Around the World in 80 Days | A chinese man, Lau Xing (Jackie Chan), robbed and try to escape from the Bank of England. To escape from the police, he observes from a window, two police officers searching for him asking an Oriental man in the street for his identification, and says "Passport...too", he becomes, under the name "Passepartout" (pronoun... | bleak, violence, humor, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0080455 | The Blues Brothers | A prisoner is roused and escorted through Joliet Prison in Illinois. Is he on his way to the gallows? No, he's up for "standard parole". His personal items are returned to him, including a broken watch and prophylactics. The prisoner is released -- it is Jake (John Belushi). He meets his brother Elwood (Dan Akroyd). Th... | comedy, cult, violence, feel-good, psychedelic, action, revenge | train | imdb | When Joliet Jake Blues (Belushi) is released from prison, his brother Elwood (Aykroyd) is there to pick him up, in-- of all things-- a used police car.
It's a fairly simple plot, told in a straightforward manner by Landis, who creates a visually stimulating and aurally satisfying movie that follows the adventures of th... |
tt0065462 | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Following the events of Planet of the Apes, time-displaced astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) and the mute Nova (Linda Harrison) are riding on horseback through the desert of the Forbidden Zone. Without warning, fire shoots up from the ground and deep chasms open. Confused by the strange phenomenon, Taylor investigates... | murder, allegory, anti war, violence, cult, flashback, good versus evil, action, satire, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0970866 | Little Fockers | Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and his wife Pam (Teri Polo) are having a typical busy morning getting their two kids ready to go to school. At work Greg gets a visit from Andi Garcia (Jessica Alba), a former nurse, now working with a company that makes a male enhancement drug called Sustengo. Andi tries to convince Greg to ... | comedy, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0479500 | Nancy Drew | Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) and her father, Carson (Tate Donovan), move from River Heights for a few months and rent a house in Los Angeles, due to it being the home of the murdered movie star, Dehlia Draycott. Despite the mystery, Nancy's father has forbidden her from further sleuthing and encourages her to focus on hig... | prank, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1748227 | The Collection | The film opens with a series of television broadcasts that make clear the Collector has become a serial killer and the focus of a massive police manhunt. As in the first film, the Collector kills all victims but one, whom he kidnaps. Arkin (Josh Stewart), returning from the first film, is the most recent known victim. ... | brainwashing, revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | A sequel to "The Collector", the story is about a serial killer who uses elaborate contraptions to kill groups of people but he always seems to take one away alive, and bring one of his "collection" to his next murder scene.
So they head off to The Collector's house of horrors to find her...The film is pretty much non-... |
tt2980592 | The Guest | Still struggling over the loss of their oldest son, Caleb, to the war in Afghanistan, the Peterson family Mr. and Mrs. Peterson and their children Luke and Anna are unexpectedly visited by David Collins, a former soldier who claims to have been a friend of Caleb's, and is there to fulfill his promise to Caleb to help t... | comedy, revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1452628 | Vanishing on 7th Street | We are at a luxurious cinema in Detroit. One of the employees, Paul (John Leguizamo) is carrying a small torch in his helmet, as if he were a miner. He flirts with the girl (Jordan Trovillion) at the concession and returns to the projector room to change reels. All of a sudden, the power goes out. When the emergency li... | paranormal, flashback | train | imdb | This movie is really mysterious and starts with great promise - people disappearing in the darkness - well, this is frightening.
An unexplained blackout plunges the city of Detroit into total darkness, and by the time the sun rises, only a few people remain-surrounded by heaps of empty clothing, abandoned cars and leng... |
tt0074464 | Eleanor and Franklin | Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Mrs. Roosevelt by her long-time friend Joseph Lash, the first 2-part, 4-hour installment of "Eleanor and Franklin" traces the early lives and relationship of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt to the point of his election as 32nd president of the United States in 1932. A tre... | romantic, depressing | train | imdb | null |
tt0067541 | Wake in Fright | This film, an Australian masterpiece and my favourite was lost for 30 years, but has recently been remastered and released to the public. A more nihilistic view of Australia has never been filmed.
John Grant is bonded by the New South Wales Education Department to teach at the lonely outback trainstop of Tiboonda. Deso... | violence, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0445620 | Paradise Now | Paradise Now follows Palestinian childhood friends Said and Khaled who live in Nablus and have been recruited for suicide attacks in Tel Aviv. It focuses on what would be their last days together.
Their handlers from an unidentified resistance group tell them the attack will take place the next day. The pair record vid... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069372 | The Thing with Two Heads | A car pulls into a pathway and up to a vast mansion. A driver gets out and walks to the boot to get out a wheelchair. An Orderly comes out to open a rear door. Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) is helped out of the car and put in a wheelchair. He gets wheeled up the steps and into the mansion.Kirshner asks if his expe... | blaxploitation | train | imdb | The head of a dying white bigot (Ray Milland) is transplanted onto the body of a black convict on death row (Rosey Grier).*.
The head of a white bigoted doctor (sadly Ray Milland) is attached to the body of a wrongly convicted black man (Rosey Grier) on Death Row. Unfortunately, Grier's head is still attached.
It escap... |
tt0072156 | Shriek of the Mutilated | A very brief pre-credits sequence shows an execution beside a pool, where a young blindfolded woman is decapitated by a man while two other complicit individuals watch.At a university, Dr. Ernst Prell (Alan Brock) lectures a small group of four students, Keith (Michael Harris), Karen (Jennifer Stock), Lynn (Darcy Brown... | violence, cult | train | imdb | SHRIEK truly is the one.Four college students are invited by a professor to go to a secluded island to investigate reports of a killer Yeti/Abominable Snowman.
He jumps into the bathtub fully clothed and cracks open a beer, when his still-alive wife crawls in the room, throws in a toaster that isn't even plugged in and... |
tt0362225 | Ne le dis à personne | The novel and movie have significant differences. The novel takes place in the U.S., while the movie takes place in Paris. The following is the movie version.The movie opens with a nighttime dinner scene at a country home with many of the main characters in the movie. It is revealed that the main character, Alex Beck, ... | violence, mystery, murder, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | If you thought Jack Bauer had bad days wait till you meet Dr. Alex Beck (played superbly by Francois Cluzet) the film starts with him along with his wife spending sometime by a lake when she and then he are attacked, she is murdered and he is put into a coma.
Then things start to turn, when two bodies are discovered bu... |
tt1666186 | Vampires Suck | Becca Crane (Jenn Proske) moves to Sporks to live with her clueless father, Sheriff Frank (Diedrich Bader), after her mother starts an affair with Tiger Woods. Meanwhile, a killing spree targeting random locals is attributed to the Canadians, but the real perpetrators are a group of vampires, who are commonly confused ... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Normally, I don't review movies on here, but when I read everyone else slamming this movie, I thought maybe they should get the perspective of someone who enjoyed it.As a non-Twilight fan (haven't read the books and don't wish to for reasons to numerous to mention), I was determined to see this movie at the time when I... |
tt0110604 | Mute Witness | Moscow, 1993. In an old cinema studio building, an American producer is filming a low budget slasher film. The director, Andy Clark (Evan Richards), is working with his girlfriend, Karen Hughes (Fay Ripley), as his assistant, and his girlfriend's sister, Billy Hughes (Marina Zudina), as his FX make-up artist. Billy is ... | cult, comedy, murder, violence, flashback | train | imdb | What makes it so totally different from the usual thriller/horror, apart from its Moscow setting, the Russians are played by real Russians actors, even the American mute woman - excellent casting idea, because she acts brilliantly.
This is the perfect example of a would-be great film that's merely recommendable thanks ... |
tt2109184 | Paranormal Activity 4 | On October 9, 2006, Kristi Rey and her husband Daniel are killed by her demon-possessed sister Katie, who then abducts Kristi's one-year-old son, Hunter. Text states that Katie and Hunter's whereabouts remained unknown.
Now 5 years later, in November 2011, Alex Nelson (Kathryn Newton) lives in suburban Henderson, Nevad... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | At first, 80% of the movie was completely pointless, and i'm not even mentioning the fact about absence of shocking moments, even "traditional paranormal activity jump scares" were left out.
It just bothers me how they don't keep the movie exciting enough for the Paranormal Activity fans, how would they like to have th... |
tt0416320 | Match Point | Chris Wilton, a recently retired tennis professional, is taken on as an instructor at an upmarket club in London. He strikes up a friendship with a wealthy pupil, Tom Hewett, after discovering their common affinity for opera. Tom's older sister, Chloe, is smitten with Chris and the two begin dating. During a family gat... | romantic, boring, murder, plot twist, clever | train | wikipedia | Match Point draws its audience in quietly and slowly at first, defining its territory as a smart, hip, and sophisticated character study early on (in no way unexpected for Mr. Allen), but then it takes an irreversibly sinister turn as one man threatens to bring everybody we have grown to love and respect down with him.... |
tt0048347 | The Man with the Golden Arm | In the late 1940s, Frankie Majcinek (Frank Sinatra), who is known as Frankie Machine, returns to Chicago's South Side, which is mostly inhabited by Polish Americans, after serving a six-month sentence at a federal narcotics hospital. The denizens of Antek's Tug `n' Maul Tavern, Frankie's favorite bar, are pleased to se... | tragedy, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0497137 | Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a | While working in a radio assembly factory, Cha Young-goon (Su-jeong Lim) loses touch with reality, opens her wrist with a knife, inserts a power-cord and plugs herself into a wall outlet. As this scene unfolds we are brought up-to-date on her story with rapid cuts to her mother's interview with a psychiatric hospital d... | insanity, psychedelic, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | Granted, Cyborg is a far different film from all of Park's other works, and especially in the world of romantic comedies falls into the really freaking weird category, but I found it to be really entertaining.
Young Goon(brilliantly played by Lim Soo Jung)is a patient who thinks she's a cyborg, having a strong dislike ... |
tt0079073 | Dracula | A great storm rages, and the lunatics at Seward Sanitarium in Whitby are restless. Lucy Seward [Kate Nelligan] goes to help her father Jack [Donald Pleasance] while the sickly Mina Van Helsing [Jan Francis], who is staying with the Sewards, remains in bed. Mina is awakened by the storm and sees a runaway ship. She race... | gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt1684226 | The Normal Heart | It's 1981 and Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), an openly gay writer, attends the birthday party of his friend Craig Donner (Jonathan Groff) at a beach house in Fire Island. The atmosphere is hedonistic with lots of drinking, dancing and hot hard bodies everywhere. While playing in the surf Craig starts coughing and collapses,... | sentimental, flashback | train | imdb | The Normal Heart is powerful emotional film about the early days of the AIDS crisis.
The film is well-acted particularly by Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Alfred Molina and Julia Roberts.
Heart-rending, gut-wrenching adaptation by Larry Kramer of his own successful play about the foundation and formation in 1982 of the Gay ... |
tt0102744 | Quigley Down Under | Tom Selleck plays Matthew Quigley, a cowboy and rifleman from America with a keen eye and a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Quigley's weapon of choice is a 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle. He answers an advertisement that asks for men with a special talent in long dista... | good versus evil, revenge, murder, violence | train | imdb | Matthew Quigley, a stoic rifleman arrives in Australia in the 1860s a world far away from his home Wyoming
He is answering an ad from a British landowner who will use his talents as an expert marksman
But things don't go according to plan and, at supper, and after we hear these words, "Nobody knocks me out of my own ... |
tt2137286 | Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess | Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear and introduce Sofia, an eight-year-old girl living in the village with her mother, Miranda who is a shoemaker. One day, Miranda and Sofia are called for a shoe fitting by King Roland II of Enchancia. It's love at first sight for Roland and Miranda. They soon marry, making Miranda th... | fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0195234 | Saving Grace | The first scene shows Matthew Stewart digging a grave for Grace Trevethyn's husband, John (Bill Weston), who has committed suicide. His now widow, Grace (Brenda Blethyn), an English woman living on a beautiful large estate, learns, upon his death, that John's debts had mounted to the point that her assets (home, car, g... | cult, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0113253 | Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers | On October 31, 1989, Michael Myers and his niece Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris) have been abducted by a mysterious stranger in black at the Haddonfield Police Station. Six years later, teenage Jamie (J. C. Brandy) has been impregnated and her baby is born on Halloween Eve. The baby is taken away by the "Man in Black" wh... | insanity, cult, horror, murder, violence | train | imdb | The film had a really REALLY bad director who didnt give a flip about the series, from what I heard treated Donald bad, and wouldnt let Danielle Harris come back as Jamie.
cinematography: Billy Dicksonit's rare to find a film of any genre or of any era that both critics and fans alike just totally got wrong by plain sh... |
tt1959490 | Noah | A prelude tells the beginning of the Book of Genesis. In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God created the world as well as man and woman. After Adam and Eve created sin, they had three sons - Cain, Abel, and Seth. After Cain killed Abel, he took refuge under the eyes of fallen angels called the Watchers, giant mu... | good versus evil, violence, psychedelic, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | That said, I was curious to watch it because I found it hard to believe that Darren Aronofsky would churn out a blockbuster without something of interest in it.The film wastes no time with adding flesh to the basic bones of the story and, if you're looking to get upset by the presence of fallen angel rock monsters, the... |
tt0343737 | The Good Shepherd | A photograph and an audio recording on reel-to-reel tape are dropped off anonymously at the home of Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a senior CIA officer, after the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba fails due to an undisclosed leak. While riding to work on the bus, Edward is approached by a young boy who asks if Edward has ... | violence, intrigue, historical, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0434409 | V for Vendetta | "Remember, remember the fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot."The film opens with a recitation of these words as a flashback sequence brings us to early 1600's England. Guy Fawkes is captured and executed for his attempt to blow up Parlia... | dark, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, avant garde, historical, mystery, thought-provoking, cult, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, satire, philosophical, romantic, brainwashing, revenge, inspiring, queer | train | imdb | null |
tt0050675 | The Man Who Turned to Stone | The title and credits are shown over a picture of a man carrying a woman. We open at night with a truck pulling up to the La Salle Detention Home for Girls. A dormitory room contains over a dozen beds occupied by sleeping women. We zoom in on one sobbing woman. Tracy (Jean Willes) tries to comfort her. Big Marge Collin... | murder | train | imdb | The jacket promo includes a statement claiming, "Weird scientists murder young girls to prolong life." Ah well, it turns out the jacket is far more exciting than the film.
Young inmates of a women's minimum security prison continue to die of "heart failure." This becomes a little too obvious and the handsome young cor... |
tt0084522 | Porky's | The radio-alarm clock starts, and the radio DJ (Don Daynard) says the typical good morning stuff. Edward "Pee Wee" Morris (Dan Monahan) wakes up after an interrupted morning glory, especially because his mother (Ilse Earl) enters without knocking first. He picks up from under his matress his hidden schedule, and goes t... | revenge, cult, prank | train | imdb | Porky's is the original teen sex comedy.I had the great pleasure of seeing Porky's in a late night showing on opening day in March 1982 in a theater packed to the gills with 18-25 year olds (although I was 30).
I hurt for 3 days from laughing so hard.There is a portion of the movie, beginning close to the 1 hour mark t... |
tt0116075 | The Dentist | Dr. Alan Feinstone has everything. A beautiful wife, a nice house, a job as a dentist, a popular reputation and is obsessed with order and cleanliness. However, everything changes, on the day of his wedding anniversary; he spies his wife Brooke having sex with their filthy poolman, Matt. Feinstone waits for them to fin... | cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | After witnessing his wife (Linda Hoffman) engaging in sexual acts with the pool boy, the already somewhat unstable dentist Dr. Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) completely snaps which means deep trouble for his patients.This delightful semi-original and entertaining horror flick from director Brian Yuzna was a welcome change ... |
tt1054487 | Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder | The Planet Express crew visits Amy's parents, Leo and Inez, who are destroying the "old" Mars Vegas and constructing a more extravagant one. A group of eco-feminists (calling themselves "eco-feministas") led by Frida Waterfall protest the destruction of the environment, leading to an accident that leaves Frida's neckla... | cult, comedy, boring, stupid | train | wikipedia | It's been fun, but sadly, all good things must come to an end.While "Into the Wild Green Yonder" isn't the strongest of the four films, it certainly offers up laughs and plenty of the clever, over the top sci-fi concepts that the series is famous for.
The characters we all know and love are once again brought to life b... |
tt0060107 | Andrey Rublev | Note: The following synopsis refers to the original, 205 minute version of the film.
Andrei Rublev is divided into eight chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue only loosely related to the main film. The main film charts the life of the great icon painter through several episodes of his life. The background is 15th c... | cruelty, murder, allegory, violence, atmospheric, flashback, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0354623 | Hellraiser: Hellworld | The film introduces a circle of youths who are addicted to playing Hellworld, an online computer game based on the Hellraiser series. The film opens at the funeral of Adam, one of their friends who was obsessed with the game and ultimately committed suicide after becoming too immersed in the game. The remaining five fr... | good versus evil, revenge, neo noir, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Lines of dialogue like this:"You been away from the dark realm a while, Chels, how'd it feel playin' again?""Just like any other ultra-violent twenty-four hour wildly popular and yet utterly purposeless embraced-by-the-masses Internet role-playing game."It's one of those lines of dialogue that they always put into movi... |
tt1403981 | Remember Me | The movie opens with an 11-year-old girl and her mother standing by the subway waiting for it to arrive. Two men come and shove the mother, stealing her purse. The men climb on the subway and the woman and her daughter stay off. Just before the subway leaves one of the men shoots the mother. The young girl screams. We ... | depressing, murder, dramatic, violence, philosophical, romantic | train | imdb | I'm not a Rob fan, and not to be rude, but I think the Twilight movies are terrible and the books not much better.
Now, you, the reader, are probably wondering what the heck was I doing then, going to see this movie, if I had such a dislike towards Twilight and Rob. The answer is two words: my friend.
Some critics said... |
tt1563738 | One Day | The movie plays out over the years, all featuring one day, July 15th.The story opens briefly on July 15th, 2006, with Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) swimming and then cycling. Then the numbers flip back to July 15th, 1988: Emma and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) are celebrating their college graduation with friends, still wearing ... | tragedy, romantic, sentimental, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0053622 | BUtterfield 8 | The movie opening credits play, while we watch a sleeping Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) snoozing in the morning. She wakes up, and surveys her surroundings purposefully - in search of a morning cigarette. Making do with a glass of scotch instead, she meanders through the apartment, brushing her teeth, washing her face, goi... | tragedy, romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | In the normal scheme of things, lofty MGM wouldn't have touched John O'Hara's novel with a ten foot pole--but shortly before her contract was to end, MGM star Elizabeth Taylor besmirched her image by running off with Debbie Reynolds' husband Eddie Fisher.
Liz fought the project tooth and nail, but MGM was adamant: she ... |
tt0108310 | Telling Secrets | Captions say that, although the plot has been fictionalized, it has been based on a true story.In a plane to Acapulco, it is anounced that passengers need to fasten their seatbelts because they are landing in half an hour. The flight attendant (Tim Regan) tells Faith Kelsey (Cybill Shepherd) to comply, but she says she... | murder | train | imdb | Good vehicle for Shepherd. This is the best I have seen of Cybil Shepherd on screen, aside from several episodes of "Cybil" the television show. I haven't seen her in any plays. Her delivery works in this movie, and look in her eyes became quite frightening at times. This is the 3rd or 4th time I have seen "Telling Sec... |
tt0407362 | Battlestar Galactica | Humanity has reached for the stars and populated twelve planets as colonies of their home planet Kobol in a distant part of the galaxy. Scientific advancement has created robots with artificial intelligence, the Cylons, that rebel against humanity and after a war agree to go their own way. But, 50 years later, the Cylo... | good versus evil, insanity, violence, mystery, romantic | train | imdb | Instead we got a bunch of kids movies, littered with some of the most terrible cinematic decisions ever put on celluloid.And then the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica came along, which I must add, I watched from start to finish only after the show had made it's debut on mainstream television.I was initially sceptical o... |
tt0052847 | Gidget | Frances Lawrence (Sandra Dee) is about to turn 17 years old and is on her summer break between her junior and senior years of high school. She resists the pressure to go "manhunting" with her girlfriends and laments the days when the girls had fun together without boys. Frances also rejects her parents wishing to fix h... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The slight, but very perceptive story concerns a plucky teenage girl nick-named Gidget(contractions of the words Girl and Midget) who mostly just wants to have fun in the sun.
She begins to fall for a more "mature" surf bum(Cliff Robertson), but then finally settles for Moon-doggie(James Darren) who is closer to her ow... |
tt0274812 | Secretary | Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the socially awkward and emotionally sensitive youngest daughter of a dysfunctional family, adjusts to normal life after having been hospitalized following an incident of dangerous self-harm. She learns to type, and begins to work as a secretary for an eccentric attorney, E. Edward Gre... | pornographic, comedy, boring, flashback, psychedelic, romantic, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120177 | Spawn | Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) is a Force Reconniassance Marine Colonel and Black Ops operative. Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen), the head of the covert government agency for which Simmons works, assigns him to infiltrate a biochemical weapons plant in North Korea. Unknown to Simmons, Wynn has ordered his top assassin Jessic... | comedy, murder, paranormal, cult, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | This film is just like the comic that inspired it: Great visuals (I still really like McFarlane's superhero art style), but much like the majority of "Spawn" stories, it really doesn't go anywhere.
And yes, I know it's a Hell-based movie, but the metal soundtrack just got distracting and annoying, instead of enhancing ... |
tt0454919 | Pulse | The plot centers on ghosts invading the world of the living via the Internet. It features two parallel story lines.
=== First Story ===
Kudo Michi (Kumiko Aso), an employee at a plant shop, has recently moved to Tokyo. Her co-workers include Sasano Junko, Toshio Yabe and Taguchi, who has been missing for some days work... | psychological, gothic, paranormal, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | The soundtrack is also good, many low frequency noises, kind of electric ones (reminds me of "The Ring").For a remake of a J horror movie, this one does a pretty good job.
I had just went to see a pre-screening of pulse last night, and I must say that it was not all that bad compared to recent horror films.
The movie g... |
tt1029360 | Poltergeist | (Note: this is a remake of the 1982 Tobe Hooper directed horror film of the same name)The Bowen family - Eric (Sam Rockwell), Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt), Kendra (Saxon Sharbino), Griffin (Kyle Catlett), and Madison (Kennedi Clements) - move into a new home. Upon arriving, Griffin wanders through the house. He notices Maddi... | paranormal, haunting | train | imdb | There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.It has no heart.It has no soul.It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it ad... |
tt0120631 | EverAfter | In 19th century France, a Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) summons The Brothers Grimm (Joerg Stadler and Andy Henderson) to correct their interpretation of the Cinderella story. The Grande Dame reveals a glass slipper and tells them the "true" story of Danielle de Barbarac.
Her story begins in the 16th-century. Danielle is ... | romantic, fantasy, comedy, boring | train | wikipedia | ...A filmmaker decided to do another rendition of Cinderella; and what a beautiful rendition it is!Cinderella was always my favorite fairy tale, but this movie, at first, looked like yet another poor updating.
Who better to help a child of reason and enlightenment?This is a true romance, a rare thing in today's movies,... |
tt0421238 | The Proposition | Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, likely committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.
The film opens in a remote wood building with a violent gunfight between the police and Charlie Burns' (Guy Pearce) gang, w... | dark, murder, realism, cult, sadist, violence, tragedy, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0073705 | Shivers | At Starliner Towers, a modern high-rise apartment complex on Starliner Island located just outside Montreal, prospective tenants are welcomed by the smarmy manager Merrick. In one of the apartment, Dr. Emil Hobbes, attacks a young woman, named Annabelle, who wears a school uniform. He strangles Annabelle to death, slic... | cult, comedy, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0489070 | Hard Luck | As the film begins. A former criminal and drug dealer Lucky (Wesley Snipes) was released from prison and tries to lead a respectable life despite his troubled past. However, Lucky once or twice reflects on the wisdom of his grandfather who supposedly told him "sometimes without bad luck, it would seem you don't have an... | suspenseful, violence | train | wikipedia | To bad it's not working, the stories are to different and it really feels like if someone took two movies and created a mix-tape from them.The action is average and Wesley Snipes is doing his thing, but not more then you could expect from a B-type actor.
Some of the other cast members are doing a real good job and this... |
tt1682180 | Stoker | On her 18th birthday, India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska)—a girl with a strong acuteness of the senses—has her life turned upside down after her loving father Richard (Dermot Mulroney) dies in a horrific car accident. India is then left with her unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India a... | dark, mystery, psychological, murder, horror, flashback | train | wikipedia | As a fan of Chan-Wook Park's Korean films, particular his gross twist on a vampire story in 2009's Thirst, I was incredibly excited to see his first English language offering.
So despite not quite sticking the landing, Stoker is effectively creepy, well acted, and an enjoyable beginning to what I hope will be a long En... |
tt0361596 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore begins the movie begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George W. Bush at Fox News Channel tilted the presidential election of 2000 by prematurely declaring George W. Bush the winner. It then suggests the handling of the voting controversy in Florida constituted election fraud.The film ... | dark, comedy, realism, anti war, cult, violence, satire, brainwashing, historical, entertaining | train | imdb | So I was hardly watching this film with an objective eye.That being said (and if you can still trust my review), Michael Moore has done American voters a big service by making this film.
But for once, Moore has made a film that is woven together with a chronological and thematic logic that ultimately asks one critical ... |
tt0052948 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Scotland, 1880: Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason), a distinguished professor at the University of Edinburgh, has just been granted knighthood for service to the Crown in the field of geology. When he arrives at his lecture hall on the day of the announcement, he is surprised by a gathering of staff and students. They pr... | murder | train | imdb | Even though I've been watching it on TV since I was a kid in the sixties, I'd only seen pan&scan versions, and it wasn't until I got it letterboxed on laserdisc that I finally saw what a big-screen entertainment this movie was meant to be.
(The complete original recordings of the score are available on CD from Varese S... |
tt0373450 | Where the Truth Lies | In 1957, immediately after co-hosting a 39-hour-long polio telethon in a Miami television studio, entertainers Lanny Morris and Vince Collins fly north to open the new showroom of a New Jersey hotel run by mobster Sally Sanmarco, who has intimidated them into appearing in order to improve his own image. In their New Je... | melodrama, violence, queer, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Not really, but hey better safe than sorry.Here is a movie so delightful, messy, strange, sexy, and all together not quite there; that it makes me glad that films like it are still being made.Egoyan soaks the film with a shining visual flare, and the characters leap off screen demanding to be fantastic.
The movie could... |
tt0120082 | Scream 2 | Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) attend Windsor College in Ohio. While attending the preview of Stab, based on a book by Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) about the Woodsboro murders, Phil Stevens (Omar Epps) is stabbed through the wall of a bathroom cubicle. The killer sits next to Maureen Evans (Jada Pinke... | comedy, mystery, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, horror, good versus evil, insanity, satire, romantic, revenge, sadist, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt1098327 | Dragonball Evolution | Two thousand years ago, the demon Lord Piccolo (James Marsters) came to Earth, wreaking havoc along with his minion Ōzaru (Ian Whyte). Seven mystics created the Mafuba and thought they sealed him away for eternity. However, Piccolo breaks free and with his ninja henchwoman Mai (Eriko), begins to search for the seven Dr... | good versus evil, revenge, philosophical, murder | train | wikipedia | Akira Toriyama probably has a noose around his neck right about now.To finish this off: The acting is atrocious, the butt-rock scattered through the soundtrack will make you want to punch the guy running the theater in the face, and the story is basically the manga's, but cut up, put into a blender, stuffed into sausag... |
tt0462423 | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots | Set in 2014, five years after the "Manhattan Incident" (the events of the Plant chapter from Metal Gear Solid 2), Metal Gear Solid 4 portrays a world where the restriction of military intervention on foreign soil has been eased, fueling the need for private military companies (PMCs) to fight proxy wars for business pur... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0084707 | Sophie's Choice | In 1947, the movie's narrator, Stingo (Peter MacNicol), a young writer from the American South, travels to post-WW II Brooklyn. He is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a beautiful Polish immigrant, and her lover, Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline). It is clear to Stingo from the serial number tattooed into Soph... | tragedy, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0804522 | Rendition | CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) is briefing his chief in a square in North Africa when a suicide attack kills his boss and 18 other people. The target was interrogator and torturer Abasi, but he is unharmed.Egyptian-born Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally), a chemical engineer who lives in Chicago with his ... | romantic, violence, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0389328 | Rise | [NOTE: This summary attempts to combine both the edited and the unedited versions of Rise: Blood Hunter, so some scenes may be out of order, depending upon the version being watched. Scenes that appear only in the edited version are marked in blue. Scenes found only in the unedited version are indicated in red.]Busines... | revenge, cult, gothic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0371606 | Chicken Little | In the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little causes widespread panic and mayhem when he rings the alarm bell, claiming the sky is falling. He is humiliated in front of his father Buck Cluck and the entire town when, after telling everyone a piece of the sky "shaped like a stop sign" had hit him on the head, he is un... | psychedelic, cute, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Whreas most kids can watch films like "Shrek" repeatedly because of the sight gags, talented voice-over performances, and hidden jokes that they might not catch the first time around, "Chicken Little" is likely to be forgotten the moment the credits roll.
"Chicken Little" definitely falls into the "anywhere else" camp,... |
tt0082948 | Private Lessons | Philip "Philly" Fillmore (Eric Brown) is a 15-year-old high school student and the son of a rich businessman in Albuquerque who has left town on an extended trip during summer break, leaving the young man in the passing care of Nicole Mallow (Sylvia Kristel), a sexy French housekeeper, and Lester Lewis (Howard Hesseman... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0456554 | Grandma's Boy | Grandma's Boy follows a 35-year-old video game tester, Alex (Covert). The movie starts with Alex and his roommate playing video games together, when their landlord (Schneider) informs them that they are being thrown out for rent delinquency, which turns out to be because of the roommates penchant for Filipino hookers.A... | cult, adult comedy, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0068458 | Death Line | Gary Sherman's Death Line is one of those little-seen, long-forgotten 1970s horror films that's still championed by its core of fans. When the film was shown as part of a horror series at Lincoln Center in 2002, director Guillermo Del Toro (The Devil's Backbone) pronounced it one of his all-time favorites. In the film,... | tragedy, cult, murder | train | imdb | DEATH LINE (USA: Raw Meat) Aspect ratio: 1.85:1Sound format: MonoTrapped by falling masonry during construction of the London Underground, a group of Victorian workers survive in the bowels of the earth for more than a century, breeding amongst themselves and cannibalizing the dead.
A hundred years after their ordeal b... |
tt0970472 | Bekushiru: 2077 Nihon sakoku | By the 2060s, robotics technology has advanced to the point that cybernetics have become plausible. World opinion begins to turn against robotics, leading to the U.N. declaring a unilateral ban on further research and development in 2067. Japan, being home to robotics pioneer Daiwa Heavy Industries, the governing body,... | sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt1054606 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Doctor Parnassus' theater troupe, which includes sleight of hand expert Anton, confidant Percy, and Parnassus' daughter Valentina, performs outside a London pub. The troupe's main attraction is a magical "Imaginarium", which offers whoever enters it a choice between difficult self-fulfillment or easy ignorance. After a... | alternate reality, psychedelic, fantasy, cult, flashback | train | wikipedia | Like so many of Terry Gilliam's films The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is one that is going to need multiple viewings to truly form an opinion on.
But we don't have that so I'm just looking at what's there.The fact is the film is at it's best when galloping around the fantastical worlds of the Imaginarium, with Ledg... |
tt0292506 | The Recruit | James Clayton (Colin Farrell) is constantly looking for information about his father, who presumably had gone missing when Clayton was quite young. While at MIT, Clayton helped to develop a computer program called Sp@rtacus, which turns computer terminals to which it is networked into its slave. The program impresses a... | revenge, suspenseful, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | He is the head guy at the CIA training centre, 'the farm,' which Clayton and fellow trainee/love interest Layla Moore (Bridget Moynahan) go through.The movie is good enough to watch but is not entirely riveting.
This is quite a fair way into the movie, though.I love Pacino, and was quite interested in whether Farrell c... |
tt0090917 | Deadly Friend | In a parking lot, a thief tries to steal from a Volkswagen van but a robot named BB (voiced by Charles Fleischer) stops him. BB lets go of the thief, who is dazed. Paul Conway (Matthew Laborteaux) and his mother Jeannie (Anne Twomey) return from shopping and drive away in the van. Paul is the owner of BB, which he buil... | comedy, gothic, murder, violence, cult, revenge | train | imdb | Like in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven is able to create characters who you actually give a damn about and that's what makes this silly premise actually work.The film is pretty funny at times and the graphic horror is sure to delight gore hounds.
"Deadly Friend" is one of those horror films that came and went wi... |
tt0463398 | Dancing with the Stars | After one of the closest-ever finals, just one point separates the three remaining couples and it's time to crown a champ -- in two hours. The opening dance brings all the couples back to the floor and we're off and running.The one remaining challenge is that the couples will have to perform one more dance to a song fo... | non fiction | train | imdb | null |
tt0913354 | Armored | Early morning, Ty Hackett (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), and tells him to get ready for high school. Ty is a war hero, having earned the Silver Star in Iraq. Both his parents recently died and left him with the mortgage and Jimmy to look out for. Ty is... | suspenseful, murder, storytelling, prank | train | imdb | null |
tt0208502 | Tenshi no tamago | Angel's Egg follows the life of an unnamed young girl living alone in an undefined building near an abandoned city. She cares for a large egg which she hides under her dress, protecting it while scavenging the decrepit Neo-Gothic/Art Nouveau cityscape for food, water and bottles. In a prologue, an unnamed soldier-looki... | psychedelic, avant garde, gothic | train | wikipedia | Director Mamoru Oshii's 1985 film Angel's Egg was a fine example of the themes that would define his movies to come.
Like his later films, Ghost in the Shell, Beautiful Dreamer, Patlabor and Avalon, Angel's Egg is a lush visual landscape filled with beautiful, mystifying (and often stupefying) imagery.
The story involv... |
tt0120399 | U Turn | Bobby (Sean Penn) is a young drifter driving cross-country in a Ford convertable. He has his left hand bandaged and he is transporting a gym bag full of cash to Los Angeles which he owes. After the opening credits, his car breaks down when the radiator hose bursts. He drives to the outskirts of the nearist town which i... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, romantic | train | imdb | I'm not saying that it was the best movie ever, but it sure deserves better than what most people over here say about it.The story starts with Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn), driving somewhere in the middle of the desert in Arizona, on his way to pay the bookies that have already taken two of his fingers because he was too l... |
tt0210945 | Remember the Titans | In 1971, at the desegregated T. C. Williams High School, a black head coach, Herman Boone, is hired to lead the school's football team. Boone is assigned to the coaching team under current coach Bill Yoast, nominated for the Virginia High School Hall of Fame. But, in an attempt to placate rising racial tensions and the... | dramatic, inspiring, feel-good | train | wikipedia | Remember the Titans is much more than a story about a high school football team.
In 1971 the high schools are integrated and Coach Boone is chosen to become the head coach of the football team while Coach Yoast is demoted to assistant coach.Remember the Titans is a powerful film with incredible performances by both Den... |
tt0026685 | Mark of the Vampire | Sir Karell Borotyn [Holmes Herbert] has been murdered just two weeks before the wedding of daughter Irena [Elizabeth Allan] to fiance Fedor Vincenti [Henry Wadsworth]. Sir Karell's body was found with two marks on his neck and drained of blood. The superstitious villagers suspect vampirism and finger the town vampires ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | Fortunately, luck was still on his side as in 1935 he was allowed to direct a remake of his successful silent "London After Midnight", a movie that would reunite Browning with Dracula himself: Bela Lugosi."Mark of the Vampire" is the story of the tragedy surrounding the wealthy Borotyn family.
The patriarch, Sir Karell... |
tt1213663 | The World's End | On June 22, 1990, Gary King (Simon Pegg) recalls himself and his four friends engaged in what was supposed to be a legendary pub crawl known as the Golden Mile in their hometown of Newton Haven, Herefordshire, England . Oliver Chamberlain was the straight-laced one who was called "O Man" for a birthmark on his forehead... | comedy, murder, stupid, violence, absurd, psychedelic, satire, suspenseful, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | Now they're back with the long-awaited third movie of what's become unofficially known as the "Cornetto trilogy." Like it's predecessors, director Edgar Wright loves paying homage to American cinema; "Shaun" pays its respects to George Romero, "Fuzz" nods its head to over the top action, buddy flicks, and "World's End"... |
tt3205376 | Slow West | Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young man from Scotland traveling through the United States in search of his love, Rose Ross (Caren Pistorius). On his journey, he comes by the woods near a Native American camp where a group of union officers are chasing after a Native American. Two run off and chase the man, and ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | In what may be one of the most aptly-named films at this year's festival, Slow West is in no hurry to tell the story of Scotsman Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and his continent-spanning quest to find Rose (Caren Pistorius), the long-lost love from his hometown.
Taking a cue from neo-westerns like Jim Jarmusch's Dead... |
tt1355683 | Black Mass | In the opening scene, Agent Eric Olsen (Lonnie Farmer) is interrogating Kevin Weeks (Jesse Plemons). Olsen asks Kevin to tell him everything he knows about his involvement with the Winter Hill Gang of South Boston, the business dealings of former FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), and anything Kevin can say about... | comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | Goodfellas is an action movie compared to Black Mass.There are a few good qualities here: top shelf production, excellent acting, a clear, concise story of characters making poor choices - leading to predictable consequences.But who cares?
Black Mass is a crime drama movie revolving around the true events behind the Wi... |
tt0330373 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | === Plot introduction ===
Throughout the three previous novels in the Harry Potter series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the difficulties of growing up, and the added challenge of being a famed wizard: when Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, the most powerful Dark wizard in history, killed Harry's... | dark, fantasy, gothic, murder, cult, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Light romance was touched upon yet wasn't over-emphasised and the Yule Ball will please those who enjoyed the scenes in the book but audience members over the age of sixteen might find teens ogling each other a tad dull (Hermione is very out-of-character and the scene does drag).The acting of the adult cast is, of cour... |
tt0085701 | The Hunger | The film opens in a New York night club. The gothic rock band Bauhaus is onstage performing the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead". In the crowd are John and Miriam Blaylock (David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve). Stylishly dressed and predatory, they stalk the crowd and connect with a young couple (John Stephen Hill, Ann Magnuson). ... | neo noir, gothic, murder, paranormal, cult, atmospheric | train | imdb | But Sarandon, though initially easy to seduce (in an erotic lesbian scene) proves to have a will stronger than Miriam's, and Miriam's habit of keeping her collection of ex-lovers cadavers close at hand, proves to be a mistake.This is a strange film, almost as cold and dispassionate as one might well imagine a vampire t... |
tt4572514 | Patriots Day | Boston, MA, April 2013The film opens with Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) and two other police officers trying to get a suspect named Harrold (Rhet Kidd) to open his apartment door. Tommy kicks the door down with such force that he injures his knee. He manages to catch Harrold before Commissioner Ed Davis (John... | murder | train | imdb | Especially if it's based on real events, shows the heroism of simple people and touches the audience's sensitive patriotic spot.That's basically a recipe for Patriots Day. Take the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, the largest terrorist attack in the US since 9/11, show it through the eyes of several regular people,... |
tt1617661 | Jupiter Ascending | In the opening scene, Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) begins by talking about her parents. Her father was a Russian named Maximilian Jones (James D'Arcy). Maximilian met and fell in love with a woman named Aleksa (Maria Doyle Kennedy). They watch the stars together through his telescope. Later on, the two are expecting thei... | murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, revenge | train | imdb | Beautiful, well made fluff mind you, but at its core this movie is a steaming hot mess.Here's the plot from what I gathered: Mila Kunis is suddenly the majesty of the Earth and has to protect it from a bunch of rich douchebags that live in Jupiter's atmosphere who want to use it for harvesting grounds or something.
And... |
tt0310910 | Confidence | A group of grifters rip off their latest mark and celebrate, while the de facto leader of the group, Jake Vig (Edward Burns) narrates about the art of the con. When one of the four grifters is found shot to death, the other three learn that the latest money they stole actually belonged to a local L.A. crime lord called... | plot twist, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | imdb | And for what it is, it's not half bad.Edward Burns plays a con man, Jake Vig. Together with his crew of seasoned, confident fellow con men, he scams people out of money.
The movie is paced smoothly (there are no tedious scenes or moments you feel you've missed something), the acting is excellent (Hoffman's character se... |
tt0387898 | Caché | We watch a street, and in front, a middle-house home. Suddenly, we hear the voices of two people, and the images move back. The comments lead us to know the situation.Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil) is the presenter of a literary TV programme. The programme is going well and he's got many fans, especially female. He's... | suspenseful, boring, violence, haunting, romantic, revenge, storytelling, prank | train | imdb | Michael Haneke the austere Austrian director of such critically acclaimed films as "Funny Games", "Code Unknown" and "The Piano Teacher" has created in "Caché" (Hidden) his finest film to date.Starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche the film is a taut and tense personal thriller, which examines important subjects ... |
tt0467406 | Juno | The film opens with Juno (Ellen Page) staring at a recliner while drinking from a gallon container of Sunny-D bug juice, telling us, "It all began with a chair", after which we see a flashback of Juno and her best friend, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), who's sitting naked in a recliner, waiting for Juno, who removes he... | comedy, cult, flashback, feel-good, psychedelic, humor, entertaining | train | imdb | I like when Juno tells the baby's quirky father, Bleeker (played by Michael Cera) that he is the coolest person she knows, without even trying.
Confident in the strength and appeal of his material, he lets the gentle human comedy speak for itself.In a star-making turn, young Ellen Page takes a daring approach to her ch... |
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