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tt0102536 | Night on Earth | === Los Angeles ===
As evening falls, tomboy cabby Corky (Winona Ryder) picks up Hollywood executive Victoria Snelling (Gena Rowlands) from the airport, and as Corky drives, Victoria tries to conduct business over the phone. Despite their extreme differences socially, the two develop a certain connection. Sometime duri... | comedy, humor, psychedelic, storytelling | train | wikipedia | A stylish Hollywood casting agent mounts a cab in L.A., in New York it's a hapless poor man trying to get home, in Paris we encounter a blind woman, in Rome a priest and in Helsinki a bunch of drunks will tell their story.
Stories are told, because each episode is an encounter with the respective cabbie, who all have a... |
tt0479884 | Crank | The plot revolves around Carlito (Carlos Sanz), who leads a wealthy and influential Mexican-American crime syndicate in Los Angeles. Worried about the encroachment of a group of heavily-armed members of the Chinese mafia, Carlito orders the contract killing of their leader, Don Kim (Keone Young). Carlito's best hitman,... | comedy, stupid, cult, violence, absurd, action, revenge | train | imdb | The previews made it look like it had a clever story, but I was worried that with Jason Statham playing lead, I might just get a re-hash of his "Transporter" films.I got a pleasant surprise.
In the first minutes of the film we are set up with a possible story of corruption between hit men, a botched job, and the set-up... |
tt0097004 | Caged Fury | Kat Collins, grown restless with life in rural Utah, decides to 'take her shot' in Hollywood. Along the way she picks up Rhonda Wallace, who just baled out of a would-be-rapist's pickup truck. Together, they head to LA and meet up with Rhonda's sleazy photograph pal, Buck Lewis, who takes the girls out on the town - me... | violence, cult, sadist | train | imdb | There are some films in this world that are just so bad that they're hilarious, and Caged Fury is one of these.
The hero of the story is Dirk Ramsey, a be-mulleted kung-fu superman who attempts to rescue the inmates of a women's prison.
Most of the actresses in the film are porn stars, and spend the movie swoonig over ... |
tt0057611 | Tystnaden | When Bergman started shooting "The Silence," he explained that it was the final installment of his film trilogy, which started with "Through Glass Darkly," followed by "Winter Light." This trilogy corresponds to the start in a new direction taken by Ingmar Bergman: "chamber films," so named for their analogy to chamber... | bleak, haunting | train | imdb | null |
tt0092530 | Alien Predator | In 1973, the space satellite Skylab was launched into orbit. Experiments with a lethal alien microbe were performed by being tested on animals. In 1979, Skylab crash landed onto Earth, and a huge chunk of the satellite crashed outside a small village in Spain called Duarte. Now it is 1984. A cow has been exposed to the... | violence | train | imdb | The townspeople are being infected by the alien microbes, turning into deranged, beer throwing hosts for alien predators.Fun film is a bit slower going than you'd expect, spending time on the characters' love triangle.
We briefly meet a family including a guy who sounds like a Three Stooges reject.
There's also a smart... |
tt1298594 | The Presence | The film opens with images of a foggy river running through a densely wooded area. Next to the river, theres a quiet, empty cabin. Each room of the cabin is silent and still. A man (Shane West) in a white long sleeve shirt is standing silently staring out a window. Theres a dock to the river outside the cabin. The man ... | haunting | train | imdb | The house in which the story unfolds is a character unto itself - beautiful and creepy and very well photographed throughout.A fun and refreshing ghost story, give it a tumble..
It is certainly somewhat of a "chick flick", which probably accounts for many of the negative reviews (I actually don't see why so many guys d... |
tt0425430 | The Messengers | The movie begins in black and white with Mary Rollins (Shirley McQueen) hiding away her two children, teenage daughter Lindsay (Tatiana Maslany) and young boy Michael (Jodelle Ferland) in an old farm house. She tells her son to be a big boy as they enter a bedroom. All this has been in black and white. The door is clos... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Anyone looking for a highbrow horror tale here can look elsewhere.Getting back to the story though, and a family with a mysterious past move to a new home in the middle of the country, a home with a chequered history of its own, and it is not long before daughter Jess encounters the secrets of the house...Husband Roy i... |
tt0059740 | The Sons of Katie Elder | A steam engine pulls it's cars through a mountainous canyon and on into the Clearwater Station, at Clearwater, Texas. Sheriff Billy Wilson (Paul Fix) and his deputy, Ben Latta (Jeremy Slate), along with Tom Elder (Dean Martin), Bud Elder (Michael Anderson, Jr.), and Matt Elder (Earl Holliman), were all waiting. Tom att... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Katie Elder bore four sons
The day she was buried they all return to the Texas town of Clearwater to pay their last respects
John (John Wayne) is the oldest, the toughest, the gunfighter
Texas, its bigness and its violence echoes in his empty soul
Tom (Dean Martin) is a different breed of hombre
He is good with a ... |
tt0071970 | The Parallax View | Seattle, Washington. Senator Charles Carroll (William "Bill" Boyce), an independent senator, is holding a luncheon atop the Seattle Space Needle. Joe Frady (Warren Beatty), an alcoholic journalist, tries to gain entry to the luncheon, but is turned away. At the restaurant atop the Space Needle, Senator Carroll is holdi... | brainwashing, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | When I hear mention of Warren Beatty these days I almost begin to snore, but before Beatty became a boring old fart he made a handful of very interesting and adventurous movies like 'Mickey One', 'McCabe & Mrs Miller' and 'The Parallax View', hardly safe Hollywood movie star material.
Caan successfully defeats the setu... |
tt0100502 | RoboCop 2 | After the success of the RoboCop program, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) has a new scheme to have Detroit completely under their control. They plan to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on the entire city, taking over its government. They will then replace the old neighborhoods with Delta City, a new plann... | gothic, murder, violence, good versus evil, satire, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Plot: RoboCop 2 is the 1990 sequel to RoboCop. Peter Weller returns as the cybernetic law enforcement officer, who now battles an even more sadistic gang led by a deranged killer known as Cain (Tom Noonan), while mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products prepares to take private ownership of Detroit and unveil a new, mor... |
tt0092067 | Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta | A Special StoneThe Tiger Moth, a flying pirate ship commanded by a pink-haired woman called Dola (voice: Cloris Leachman in the Disney English dub) and manned by her seven or eight grown sons, spots a larger flying ship, from which a girl looks out a window. The men in the cabin with the girl wear dark suits and dark g... | fantasy, whimsical, cult, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0184894 | Shanghai Noon | In 1881, Chon Wang (pronounced as John Wayne) played by Chan is a Chinese Imperial Guard in the Forbidden City. After Princess Pei-Pei (Liu) for whom Wang has affection, is abducted and taken to the United States, the Emperor of China sends three of his guards along with the Royal Interpreter to retrieve her. Wang is n... | entertaining, violence, fantasy, murder, bleak | train | wikipedia | Great fun!Jackie Chan brings his brand of physical comedy to Hollywood with another buddy movie.
Similar to his "Rush Hour" series with Chris Tucker, Chan sets this one in the American old west and chooses Owen Wilson as his partner.I like these better than the Rush Hours.
Tucker and Owen are both excellent playing opp... |
tt1464540 | I Am Number Four | A prelude of the killing of one of the Garde children—No. 3—by Mogadorians. This story is about a 15-year-old boy named John Smith. He has been on the run from the age of 4, and he is from a planet called Lorien.
Most of the book is told in the first-person by Number Four, who takes the name John Smith. As the story be... | mystery, murder, paranormal, good versus evil, action, romantic | train | wikipedia | Do you know that old movie rule that you subconsciously decide whether you're going to enjoy a film or not within the first ten minutes?
She comes across very natural, so that the love story that unfolds is actually engaging instead of vomit-inducing like that of that other movie with the whining Vampires and the shirt... |
tt0101640 | Da hong deng long gao gao gua | The film is set in 1920s China during the Warlord Era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Nineteen-year-old Songlian (Sònglián, played by Gong Li), an educated woman whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt, is forced by her mother to marry into the wealthy Chen family, becoming the fourth wife or r... | depressing, murder, intrigue, insanity, romantic, claustrophobic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | It shows us that film, real film that is, does not need $100 million to look good, rather the combination of a haunting setting in the middle of vastness and the equally haunting beauty of it's star, Gong Li, but at it's heart the house itself resembles a claustrophobic pot, boiling over the surface.This is in my opini... |
tt0033891 | Meet John Doe | When reporter ANN MITCHELL is laid off by managing editor HENRY CONNELL because of streamlining, she begs to stay on since she's supporting her MOTHER and TWO SISTERS, but it's no use. Angry, she gathers up her belongings but then, as a parting shot, types up a fake letter from "John Doe" stating that he's so downtrodd... | entertaining, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0017925 | The General | The Western & Atlantic Flyer "speeds into Marietta, Georgia in the Spring of 1861," pulled by the locomotive "General." The engineer, Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton) gets down to oil around, and is observed by two admiring boys. He has two loves: his engine and his girl. The two boys follow him when he goes to call on Ann... | entertaining, absurd, comedy, murder | train | imdb | `The General', which is set during the Civil War, is about a train engineer named Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton, of course) who tries to enlist in the Confederate Army .
Johnny's efforts to recover the General and to win back his girl's love become an unbelievably funny and action-packed series of events, as Johnny tr... |
tt1078912 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items... | whimsical, boring, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt4425200 | John Wick: Chapter 2 | In the opening scene, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) heads to a warehouse owned by Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare) to get his car back. Abram wants payback against John for killing his brother Viggo and nephew Iosef. John is killing all of Abram's guards before he finally gets to his car. As he drives away, a whole mess of Ab... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0049516 | The Mole People | The film opens with a brief lecture by Frank Baxter. He is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He explains that there are just a few areas left on Earth that are unknown and briefly describes a few theories that postulate there may be places deep under the surface of the Earth where man can... | violence | train | imdb | The thing is, if you've seen a decent amount of horror/sci-fi films from the 50s and early 60s and haven't found much that you liked, "The Mole People" is not for you.
You're sent into what looks like an oven and you're burnt away to ashes.The film does a marvelous job in building up the viewers fears of the fires of I... |
tt1321509 | Death at a Funeral | The film revolves around the funeral service for the father of Aaron (Chris Rock) and Ryan (Martin Lawrence). Aaron, the older son, and his wife Michelle (Regina Hall) live at his parents' home. Aaron and Michelle have been trying to buy their own home and have children but have been unsuccessful. Aaron envies Ryan bec... | comedy, entertaining | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0983193 | The Adventures of Tintin | Follows the unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy as they discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin finds himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless tre... | good versus evil, action, murder, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Spielberg and Jackson and all the team behind the adaptation obviously gave the original material the love and respect it deserved, while making it their own.To clarify the origins of the story itself, you have to know that it isn't the adaptation of one, but three Tintin comics.
Before his passing in 1983, Hergé said ... |
tt2101393 | Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story | Tondo. The Ancient Gangland. Year 1950. Gang wars were in. Violence was the name of the game.Gangsters carried Thompsons and grease guns in a bayong. Police Characters were just too tough resulting in bloody encounters.All notorious hoodlums dreamt to be the King. But one smart and slippery hoodlum rose to power and re... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | Looking At The Picture.
Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story wants to recapture the old style of filmmaking.
At first glance, I thought it looks pretentious because of the black and white color.
But it turns out to be a beautiful aspect to the film.
The only thing that stumbles here is the storytelling.
It paces to... |
tt0414387 | Pride & Prejudice | This film is the story of the Bennet family, a middle-class family in England around 1800. The principal characters are:Mrs. Bennet (Brenda Blethyn), a hyperexcitable woman obsessed with getting at least one of her daughters into a financially advantageous marriage.Mr. Bennet (Donald Sutherland), who is relaxed, easygo... | comedy, boring, dramatic, cute, melodrama, romantic | train | imdb | quite disappointed in all the pompous idiots filled with prejudice about the movie.I know that another version of the well-mined Jane Austen classic would need to be brilliant indeed.
His capitulation to Lizzie is therefore more believable.Similarly Garson, Ehle and Keira Knightley illustrate the lively intelligence, s... |
tt0095159 | A Fish Called Wanda | George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his right-hand man, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), a beleaguered animal lover with a bad stutter, plan a jewel heist and bring in two Americans to help: an alluring con artist, Wanda Gershwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a "weapons man", Otto West (Kevin Kline). Wanda and Otto are lovers prete... | comedy, dark, cult, absurd, psychedelic, humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0104870 | Mikey | A young boy, Mikey, sets newspapers on fire in his basement. He blames his younger sister, Beth, when his foster mother admonishes him. His foster mother Grace Kelvin disciplines him and he yells at Beth, taking her doll and throwing it in the pool. When Beth reaches to get it, Mikey causes her to fall into the pool an... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0450314 | Punisher: War Zone | Frank Castle, who has been the Punisher for five years, assaults a party for mob boss Gaitano Cesare, and kills him and the guests. Billy "The Beaut" Russotti escapes to his recycling plant hideout, and Detectives Martin Soap and Saffiotti, who were staking out the party, inform Castle. Castle infiltrates Russoti's hid... | neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, revenge | train | wikipedia | This movie is just what I wanted, and what I expected.Ray Stevenson is perfect as Frank Castle, and everyone else is at least good enough for an action movie.
I was a bit worried that I would be let down after reading some of the early reviews, my suspicious about the reviewers not understanding the character were conf... |
tt0069427 | Twins of Evil | The Gellhorn twins, Maria [Mary Collinson] and Frieda [Madelaine Collinson] have journeyed from Vienna to Karnstein in order to live with their aunt and uncle, Gustav [Peter Cushing] and Cathy [Kathleen Byron] Weil, following the death of their parents. Gustav Weil is a severely puritanical witch hunter who spends his ... | cult, gothic | train | imdb | The delicious Collinson twins, Mary and Madeleine, are reason enough to catch this technically accomplished and subtly erotic horror flick from Hammer; these ladies are sex incarnate and burn up the screen every time they appear.Twins aside, director John Hough's contribution to English vampire lore is a very tight, ex... |
tt0017750 | Chicago | At the start of the silent version of Chicago, Amos Hart (a much more sympathetic role than in either the source play or the later musical) wakes up and makes breakfast for Roxie, his wife, who makes light of his obvious affection. He goes to his job at a nearby cigar store, meeting Katie, the cleaning girl, who thanks... | satire, murder | train | imdb | Phyllis Haver stars here as Roxie Hart in a story based on a hit Broadway play from 1927.
He's an expert on law and headlines, especially after he gets his $5,000.Haver, who looks a lot like Laura La Plante here) is terrific as the hard-boiled Roxie as she learns the ropes in prison and in the court room.
Victor Varcon... |
tt0072281 | The Three Musketeers | D'Artagnan (Michael York) and his father (Joss Ackland) engage in an exhausting sparring duel. The father shows his son a signature move, which ends with the point of the sword at his son's chest, and advises to use it in a fight only as a last resort. He gives the boy 15 crowns and a letter to the commander of the Kin... | comedy, violence, historical fiction, action, humor, historical | train | imdb | D'Artagnan grows with his experiences and becomes a leader of men by the end of the novel; one who has confounded Cardinal Richelieu at every turn and preserved the honor of his Queen and country.Oliver Reed was perfectly cast as Athos, the melancholy drunkard.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Richard Lester's comic take of the o... |
tt1189073 | La piel que habito | The camera pans along the town of Toledo in Spain, and across the gated entrance to the clinic/estate known as El Cigarral. In one room, a young dark haired woman, Vera Cruz (Elena Anaya), does yoga stretched over a sofa. Vera wears only a flesh colored bodystocking that covers her whole body completely, except for her... | psychological, boring, murder, flashback, insanity, romantic, revenge | train | imdb | Nice Almodóvar film revolving around a a nutty doctor (Antonio Banderas) who creates a type of synthetic skin and attempts to remake the bruised body of beloved beings , then , he kidnaps people .
It also uses the more complex and fractured time structure style of Almodovar's more recent work, to great effect.In the en... |
tt0049013 | The Black Sleep | The picture opens with narration over a black screen. Basil Rathbone tells us, "The ancients who wrote in the sensory tongue made first mention of the strange drug they called Nind Andhera. This drug was first introduced into the city of Lahore in the Punjab in the 703rd year after the death of the Prophet, praise his ... | insanity | train | imdb | null |
tt0283003 | Spun | Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is a regular customer of Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), a methamphetamine dealer. Spider Mike and his girlfriend Cookie (Mena Suvari) are constantly arguing, and Ross strikes up a friendship with Nikki (Brittany Murphy), a fellow addict. Speed scab ridden Frisbee (Patrick Fugit), an avid gamer, ... | pornographic, boring, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0082235 | Dark Night of the Scarecrow | In a small nameless town in the Deep South, "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake), a large but gentle retarded man, befriends young 10-year-old Marylee Williams, (Tonya Crowe). Some of the townspeople are upset by the friendship between Marylee and Bubba, and the brooding, mean-spirited postman Otis Hazelrigg (Charles Durning) ... | cult, revenge, cruelty, murder, violence | train | imdb | That way, "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" doesn't have to rely on blood, disembowelings and gratuitous special FX for its shock value.All you old-school horror fans check this out: here's a relatively recent movie that earns every shock and scare it gets with its eerie atmosphere, earnest performances and an especially v... |
tt0080057 | Zombi 2 | A man fires a bullet into the head of a body wrapped in a sheet. He says to an off screen person, "The boat can leave now. Tell the crew."Several days later, an apparently abandoned sailboat sails into New York harbor. Two officers of the harbor patrol board the boat to investigate and find the living quarters in squal... | cruelty, murder, violence, cult, horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0100258 | Night of the Living Dead | Barbra (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny Blair (Russell Streiner) drive to rural Pennsylvania for an annual visit to their father's grave. Barbra is attacked by a strange man (Bill Hinzman) walking in the cemetery. Johnny tries to rescue his sister, but the man throws him against a gravestone; Johnny strikes his head on the st... | suspenseful, cult, horror, violence | train | wikipedia | Wanting to re-visit the genre he created, George Romero approached Tom Savini to direct a remake of his 1968 masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead.While the film follows the original closely, it does have some important changes.
Other changes help blend the film much better into Romeros Dawn and Day. The use of tools b... |
tt0086879 | Amadeus | The story begins in 1823 as the elderly Salieri attempts suicide by slitting his throat while loudly begging forgiveness for having killed Mozart in 1791. Placed in a lunatic asylum for the act, Salieri is visited by a young priest who seeks to take his confession. Salieri is sullen and uninterested but eventually warm... | murder, dramatic, flashback, humor, tragedy, historical, sentimental | train | imdb | So, the rumor that Salieri killed Mozart has been around for almost a couple of centuries though we all know there isn't an iota of veracity in it.That being said, Peter Shaffer's movie adaptation of his own play is still an astounding achievement.
Shaffer clearly understands the difference between stage and film; the ... |
tt0417741 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Severus Snape, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, meets with Narcissa Malfoy, Draco's mother, and Lord Voldemort's faithful supporter Bellatrix Lestrange. Narcissa expresses concern that her son might not survive a dangerous mission given to him by Lord Voldemort. Bellatrix feels Snape will be of no help until he su... | comedy, mystery, boring, murder, fantasy, cult, revenge, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Emma Watson hits the spot, portraying Hermione's emotional vulnerability with gentle confidence and softness.As for Radcliffe, it's easy to miss the evolution he's undergone as Harry, since there are other actors ostensibly given more to do in this outing, like Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright, both of whom get the opportu... |
tt0337741 | Something's Gotta Give | Harry Sanborn is a wealthy New York music mogul who has had a 40-year habit of dating women under 30, including his latest conquest, Marin Klein. The two drive to her mother's Hamptons beach house expecting to be alone, but are surprised by Marin's mother, successful playwright Erica Barry, who is there with her sister... | comedy, boring, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Diane Keaton gives the performance of her career in 'Something's Gotta Give,' writer/director Nancy Meyers' smart and savvy take on middle-age romance.
The chemistry generated between Keaton and Nicholson in this film is so glowing and palpable one wonders why no filmmaker ever saw the potential of this dynamic duo unt... |
tt0048394 | Muerte de un ciclista | In Madrid, driving down an isolated road after a secret tryst, María José (Lucia Bosè), and her lover Juan (Alberto Closas) hit a cyclist and kill him. Instead of staying and calling the police for help the two run away as their relationship is a clandestine one and Maria's powerful husband Miguel Castro (Otello Toso) ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0091605 | Der Name der Rose | The movie opens with the arrival of Franciscan monk William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his novice assistant, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater) at a Benedictine Abbey in Northern Italy in 1327. They are there to attend an important conference.The abbey is in fear, however, over the recent death of one of their youn... | romantic, mystery, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt1409024 | Men in Black 3 | The Men in Black are a secret law-enforcement agency that is responsible for policing the extraterrestrial life hidden on Earth, as well as protecting the world from any aliens who attempt to destroy/invade the planet.The film begins on LunarMax, a MiB prison situated on the moon. A one-armed criminal, a Boglodite name... | entertaining, murder, violence, plot twist, humor, action, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | He can perfectly imitate the facial expression and voice of Agent K and it's a lot better when he's around.The plot sounds like a generic time traveling story, but there are imaginative and wonderful sequences in these.
I needed to see that.In this film, a vicious alien villain known as Boris the Animal escapes from hi... |
tt0112462 | Batman Forever | In Gotham City, a few years after defeating the Penguin, the crime fighter Batman stops a hostage situation caused by a criminal known as Two-Face, the alter ego of the former district attorney Harvey Dent, but Two-Face escapes and remains at large. Edward Nygma, a researcher at Wayne Enterprises who idolizes Bruce Way... | comedy, murder, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1186367 | Ninja Assassin | The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu (Sho Kosugi), trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins. One of these orphans, Raizo (Rain), was forced to train as an assassin for the clan. The training was both brutal and hard especially for him because he was to be the next successor ... | dark, boring, cruelty, murder, gothic, neo noir, violence, flashback, good versus evil, revenge | train | wikipedia | First off I would like to say that anyone who thinks this movie sucks because it has very little plot is an idiot.Now let me tell you what Ninja Assassin isn't.Its not a serious thinking movie, it's not a Gandhi, it's not a Saw type movie.And it isn't a Twilight that's for sure.The reason why Ninja Assassin is so frigg... |
tt0493406 | Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves | AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE, THE HOME OF THE BRAVE, A MECCA FOR IMMIGRANTS WHERE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS AN INALIENABLE TRADITION. A YOUNG MAN IS ACCUSED OF MURDER. HES ON THE RUN, AN UNDERDOG AND A MAN AGAINST THE ODDS. HE BECOMES A FUGITIVE AND IS VICIOUSLY HUNTED DOWN, IN A TIME WHEN STEALING A HORSE GOT YOU HUNG BUT... | violence, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0438315 | Peaceful Warrior | Dan Millman is a university student as well as a locally famous gymnast who dreams of winning a National Championship competition. He suffers from restlessness, and on one occasion Dan attempts to compensate for the restlessness by running along streets before sunrise. At a car-service station, he encounters an old man... | inspiring, philosophical, stupid | train | wikipedia | I was invited to a screening of The Peaceful Warrior in NYC Thursday April 13th, having just learned of this film's existence a few days earlier.I was looking forward to the film, but with some trepidation, considering that prior attempts at communicating spiritually oriented books or ideas had fallen short of my expec... |
tt0887883 | Burn After Reading | Faced with a demotion at work due to a drinking problem, Osbourne Cox angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and decides to write a memoir. When his pediatrician wife Katie finds out, she sees it as an opportunity to file for divorce and continue her affair with Harry Pfarrer, a deputy U.S. Marshal. She copies her husb... | comedy, dark, murder, violence, satire, entertaining | train | wikipedia | The movie may not start brilliantly (not that it isn't good even early on), but once the Coens start firing on all cylinders they never stop, and the dream cast certainly doesn't either (Brad Pitt has a smaller role than most cast members here, but he is absolutely brilliant in the role), showing tremendous comic skill... |
tt0111613 | Das Versprechen | In August 1961 the world was already divided, but no one ever dreamt of the long border reaching its full height. Moscow had the copyright for the concept and execution, and German firms delivered the barbed wire. An unjust regime has committed a new injustice, the west protested, threatened, and lamented, but the wall... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Recent German History summed up in compelling drama.
THE PROMISE (Das Versprechen) by Margarethe von Trotta is must viewing.
There is no easier and more entertaining manner to understand recent German, and Central European, history than by watching this film.
It plays very well on video, and the interesting locales and... |
tt0078721 | 10 | During a surprise 42nd birthday party for George Webber, a well-known composer of popular music, he finds himself coping badly with incipient middle age. When he catches a glimpse of a mysterious woman en route to her wedding, he is instantly obsessed by her beauty, and - despite the presence of his lover Samantha Tayl... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0087777 | The Naked Face | A patient of Chicago psychoanalyst Dr. Judd Stevens (Moore) is murdered after a session, stabbed while wearing a raincoat belonging to the doctor. Police detectives McGreavy (Steiger) and Angeli (Gould) investigate. McGreavy bitterly resents the doctor from a previous case in which Stevens' testimony led to a cop kille... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0086129 | Porky's II: The Next Day | Images from the first part of Porky.Edward "Pee Wee" Morris (Dan Monahan) wakes up shouting "I've been laid!" with joy. It's the following morning, after all the events in the first part. He increases the line in his maturity chart - the one he keeps under his mattress. His penis doesn't look as responsive as always, b... | revenge, cult, satire, humor, prank | train | imdb | This is not the sequel you've been waiting for."Porky's II: The Next Day" offers up some laughs but the rest is filled in with sub-plots about the KKK, political campaigning, American Indians and right-wing religion.
THIS in a movie with a character named Pee-Wee?Maybe Bob Clark felt he needed to do some social atoneme... |
tt0098663 | The Wizard | Jimmy Woods is a young boy who has suffered from an unnamed, but serious mental disorder ever since his twin sister Jennifer drowned in the Green River two years earlier. He does not interact with anyone, barely ever speaks, spends most of his time building things out of blocks or boxes, and he always carries his lunch... | cult | train | wikipedia | It not only combined our two favorite entertainment vehicles -- Nintendo and movies -- but also provided a thrilling sneak preview of the year's most anticipated game, Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo was cool) thought they'd died and gone to eight-bit heaven.When we finally got mom and dad to take us to the theater or pick ... |
tt0117509 | Romeo + Juliet | In Verona Beach, the Capulets and the Montagues are arch-rivals. The animosity of the older generation—Fulgencio and Gloria Capulet and Ted and Caroline Montague—is felt by their younger relatives. A gunfight between the Montague boys led by Benvolio, Romeo's cousin, and the Capulet boys led by Tybalt, Juliet's cousin,... | comedy, boring, murder, cult, clever, psychedelic, action, romantic, tragedy, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Beautifully choreographed and shot, wonderfully acted by both the supporting cast and the main 2 stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, and extremely sly modernization techniques to the dialogue.
The amazing thing about this movie is that it has managed to re-do Shakespeare's famous tragedy in a modern setting whil... |
tt1267297 | Hercules | On a stormy night, the son of the god Zeus and human Alcmene (Karolina Szymczak) was born. His mother named him Hercules, which meant "glory of Hera", to appease the goddess herself. Hera saw the boy's birth as an insult and planned to have him killed. Two serpents emerge from the eyes of a Hera statue and slither thei... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | The acting was - in general - excellent, with only one or two instances where I thought it was a bit too cheesy or overdone.Dwayne Johnson was fantastic; having seen him in several films I was expecting a less solemn, more caricatured, performance.
But he was excellent, and I have gained a little more respect for him a... |
tt1229238 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed in Budapest by assassin Sabine Moreau, taking Russian code he had stolen from an individual known only as "Cobalt".
Meanwhile, IMF agent Ethan Hunt has purposely become incarcerated into a Moscow prison to acquire Bogdan, a source of information on Cobalt. With help of Jane Carter, Ha... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, dramatic, flashback, action, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | In fact, this might even be the best of the Mission Impossible films.It has a good mixture of interesting action scenes, suspense, drama, humor, great scenery of Venice, Italy, and fine acting.
"Mission Accomplished"...Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is the forth film in the franchise (though first not to acknowle... |
tt2388805 | Verliefd op Ibiza | Ibiza! The ultimate party island. The white beaches, the finest clubs, the most famous DJ's and beautiful people.Kevin (Jan Kooijman) is a young footballer who recently made a multimillion deal by transferring to FC Barcelona. He hardly realizes what is happening to him. Too young, too rich, too beautiful. His girlfrie... | romantic | train | imdb | As predictable as they come.
No pun intended with that summary line by the way.
And while it is very predictable (I defy anyone watching this, not foreseeing where it will end after 10 minutes or less), it is still fun to watch.
Which is something that can be attached to the actors and the writer of the movie.
They are... |
tt0945513 | Source Code | A man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up on a train sitting across from a woman named Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan). The woman knows him by the name Sean Fentress, but he doesn't seem to know her and appears uncertain of his own identity. After eight minutes, a bomb goes off on the train, and the man awakens to find him... | mystery, murder, alternate reality, flashback, psychedelic, action, romantic, suspenseful, alternate history | train | imdb | null |
tt0325703 | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | The film begins on Santorini island, Greece, during a wedding when it is interrupted by an earthquake. The earthquake uncovers the Luna Temple, built by Alexander the Great to house his most prized treasures. Among these treasures is a glowing orb with a pattern resembling a code etched into it. Lara finds this orb, as... | paranormal, cult, action, boring, violence | train | imdb | That is why I don't know why it has lower rating that the first Lara Croft: Tomb Raider movie...
Although Cradle of Life won't go down in movie history as an all-time classic, I am mystified at why so many critics and moviegoers hated it.In my opinion, this movie is much better than the first Tomb Raider film.
The firs... |
tt0066995 | Diamonds Are Forever | After the murder of his wife, James Bond (Sean Connery) is relentlessly pursuing Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray). After interrogating several of Blofeld's associates worldwide, Bond traces him to a facility where he is surgically creating look-alikes of himself. Bond kills a test subject who is lying in a mud bath.... | cult, revenge, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0085811 | Krull | In outer space a large asteroid-like object floats above the planet Krull. It suddenly changes course and lands on the planet. From fissures in the rock pour out a vast army of strange and fearsome creatures called Slayers. They fan out and begin to terrorize villages and cities. The ruler of the Slayers and inhabitant... | cult, action, romantic, fantasy | train | imdb | After they snag up our hero, Prince Colwyn's bride-to-be, he goes on a quest to save her with the help of a star-shaped boomerang with knives called the Glaive and a band of strange characters including a cyclops and a goofy guy who can change into animals.Good time fun worth the rental price.
I believe the content of ... |
tt0078480 | Watership Down | The story begins with a prologue, narrated by Michael Hordern, establishing the Lapine culture and mythology and describing the creation of the world and its animals by Lord Frith, the sun god. All the animals co-exist peacefully and eat grass together but the rabbits, led by Prince El-ahrairah, quickly multiply and ov... | allegory, violence, cult, atmospheric, psychedelic, romantic | train | imdb | British animated film about a bunch of rabbits leaving their old warren (which one psychic rabbit can tell is going to be destroyed) and searching for a new one.
I recommend reading the book first (also try "Traveler" by Adams, another classic), then purchasing the film, then the soundtrack--wait, better yet, write you... |
tt0080768 | Fukkatsu no hi | A film that describes the development of a deadly Virus weapons system by the USA Military during the height of the Cold War epoch during the early 1980's.
A small group of multinational scientists stuck in the Antarctic learn to survive after a human engineered virus knocks out most of earth's population.
The film beg... | romantic | train | imdb | I have always loved this movie since I first saw it in the eighties but have been stuck with the shorter (105 or 115 minute)American versions.
As is the case with most Japanese movies edited for America, from Gojira to the present, they have a tendency to take out the poignant parts and edit so that some of the origina... |
tt0429573 | An American Haunting | This synopsis is from the UNRATED VERSION.A girl (Jane Powell) (Isabelle Almgren-Doré) is running through snowy woods near her house in Boston, Massachusetts. Something unseen is chasing her. She approaches the house and tries to open a double door. It opens and she rushes in, closing it and an inner door which she lat... | plot twist, haunting, storytelling, flashback | train | imdb | Sadly, it doesn't register in us at all.Overall, this movie has good acting, good cinematography, few honestly scaring scenes and a different interpretation to the original Bell Witch Haunting.
Being a ghost story, and one that is trying to scare the viewer here and there, sudden jolts of sound is important and utilize... |
tt2375605 | The Act of Killing | Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. Their foray into filmmaking is being celebrated in the media and debated on television, because Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers.... | absurd, psychedelic, historical | train | imdb | null |
tt1093369 | Hush | On a stormy night, a coupleZakes (William Ash - NICHOLAS NICKELBY, MAD ABOUT MAMBO) and Beth (Christine Bottomly THE WAITING ROOM, VENUS) are making their way up the M1 when they are cut off by a maniacal truck driver. For a fleeting moment, the roll door on the back of the truck opens and Zakes glimpses what looks lik... | suspenseful | train | imdb | It had suspense and some good moments, i thought it was better than i was lead to believe and wouldn't recommend it but if you do hire it then you wont be too disappointed and just enjoy it for what it is a low budget film with some good moments..
However, it is fairly unambitious with character detail (after the openi... |
tt0023427 | Scarface | The film opens with a statement that the film is an indictment of gang rule and a call to the individual to do something about it since the government is your government. On 22nd Street in Chicago, a gentleman is cleaning up a club where some men who are hanging out are discussing the fact that Johnny Lovo is looking f... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Inevitably, Scarface will be compared with the near-contemporary gangster films, Little Caesar and Public Enemy, and Paul Muni with their stars Edward G.
Paul Muni's Tony Comonte is neither intelligent nor personable; his manners are crude; and at times he is almost childlike in his behavior: for instance, when he is e... |
tt0762121 | The Nativity Story | This is a conflation of the stories of the birth of Jesus found in biblical accounts by Matthew and Luke.Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes) lives in the small town of Nazareth. She's still young enough to play with the other children of the town, although she must also work to help her poor family get by. The people of the to... | murder, whimsical, flashback, good versus evil, melodrama, storytelling | train | imdb | If you believe that Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus and everyone else in the actual events were white, Anglo-Saxon Europeans living in Central Park in New York or in California, you will be disappointed with this movie.
If you want to see how people really appeared, lived and responded to the actual culture in Israel at t... |
tt0077234 | The Big Sleep | Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October. He wants Marlowe to deal with an attempt by a bookseller named Arthur Geiger to blackmail his wild young daughter, Carmen. She had previously been blackmailed by a man named Joe Brody. Sternw... | revenge, neo noir, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | The first movie version, while justly famed for the chemistry between Bogie and Bacall, really didn't come close to doing justice to Raymond Chandler's original novel.
The nudity, the drugs, the pornography, the homosexuality were all a little too strong for a mainstream movie of that time.In addition, Chandler's convo... |
tt1598778 | Contagion | DAY 2.Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) is coughing in an airport lounge and gets a call from John Neal (Robert G. Beck), an old acquaintance who she just had sex with. A montage where we see several other people ensues.A young man in Hong Kong gets off a boat, sweating. He goes home to his family and his sister looks at h... | boring, mystery, realism, murder, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | imdb | Stephen Soderbergh's latest direction, "Contagion" (2011), even though bringing less than expected excitement, is an absorbing movie to watch, efficient as a social and behavioural study, but no less as an accomplished collection of individual case studies, offering sufficiently thought-provoking arguments, such as the... |
tt0091763 | Platoon | Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young American who has abandoned a privileged life at a university to enlist in the infantry, volunteering for combat duty in Vietnam. The year is September 1967. Upon arrival in Da Nang, South Vietnam, he sees dead soldiers in body bags being loaded into his plane, but more distressin... | psychological, murder, anti war, cult, violence, dramatic, action, revenge, historical | train | imdb | In Platoon, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a young, naive U.S. soldier who, upon his arrival to Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him.
No doubt, Platoon shows the Vietnam War was a big mist... |
tt0050861 | The Prince and the Showgirl | The film is set in London in June 1911. George V will be crowned king on 22 June and in the preceding days many important dignitaries arrive. Among those arriving are the 16-year-old King Nicholas VIII of Carpathia, with his Prince Regent father, Charles (Laurence Olivier), a secondary Prince of Hungary and widower of ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0451957 | Urban Legends: Bloody Mary | In 1969, three high school footballers tried to drug and kidnap their prom night dates. Their plan works with two of the girls but the third, Mary Banner (Lillith Fields), tries to escape. The football captain chases her into a storage room and punches her, knocking her out. Unable to revive her nor able to hear her he... | tragedy, prank, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0380389 | Goal! | The film starts with a clip showing Santiago Munez playing football as a child in Mexico. The same night, his family illegally enter into the United States to find a better living. Santi grows up in the USA and works with his father as a gardener. At night he works as a busboy in a Chinese restaurant. He also plays foo... | prank, flashback | train | imdb | "Goal!: The Journey Begins" is the first of a trilogy as a young Mexican illegal immigrant (Kuno Becker) in Los Angeles has a chance at the brass ring in England of all places playing soccer for one of their professional teams after being discovered by scout/former player Stephen Dillane.
Really clever, nice ethnic mix... |
tt0858479 | Smart People | Carnegie Mellon English Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) is a widowed parent of his alienated college son, James (Ashton Holmes), overachieving high school daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), and sibling to his adopted ne'er-do-well brother, Chuck (Thomas Haden Church) that he cannot evade enough. The professor... | romantic, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | He has a dead-beat brother-in-law (Thomas Haden Church who steals every scene he's in), a daughter (Ellen Page) who is a young Ann Coulter in the making, and a son (Ashton Holmes) to whom he never talks.This film is quite funny!
Page and Church were definitely the stand-outs, but I appreciated Dennis Quaid and Sarah Je... |
tt1676684 | Lady Gaga: Paparazzi | Serial Pictures presents a Josh Akerlund production. Birds chirp and the scene opens on sunny sky and palm trees at a stately mansion. Fountain, chandeliers, designer elegance. White marble statuettes, exotic orchids, and an abundance of cash lying about. Leggy cutely-fringed blonde Lady Gaga is in bed with her French ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0034583 | Casablanca | In the early years of World War II, December 1941, the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca attracts people from all over the world, particularly Nazi-occupied Europe. Many are transients trying to get out of Europe; a few are just trying to make a buck. Most of them -- gamblers and refugees, Nazis, resistance fighters,... | murder, dramatic, atmospheric, flashback, humor, romantic, suspenseful, sentimental | train | imdb | And there are quite a few moments of comedic delight, just think of the pickpocket ("This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere!") or the elderly couple on the last evening before their emigration to the US ("What watch?").But 'Casablanca' is not only great as a whole, it still stands on top if we break it apa... |
tt0331953 | Club Dread | Pleasure Island is a resort off the coast of Costa Rica, owned by famous musician Coconut Pete. Staff members Rolo, Stacy, and Kelly sneak into the jungle to have sex. They are ambushed by a masked figure, who stabs Rolo to death. The killer chases the girls through the jungle. The killer pushes Kelly off a cliff and d... | cult, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | Especially Cocanut Pete who everyone seems to think was a unfunny atempt at Jimmy Buffet, in case you didn't notice, in the movie they take a shot at him being a Jimmy Buffet rip off "Play Maragrita Ville!".And before you dismis my recamendation as yammering from a Broken Lizard fan boy don't think so soon, I have neve... |
tt0085385 | Curtains | Samantha Sherwood (Samantha Eggar) is on stage practicing a role while the stage director, Jonathan Stryker (John Vernon), watches by the spotlight. Stryker later drives Samantha to a mental institution to have her committed. After Dr. Pendleton (Calvin Butler) mentions Samantha's placid composure, she attacks Stryker ... | insanity, cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt1277953 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | The story continues from the events of the second film. Alex (Ben Stiller) has a nightmare about himself and his friends still stranded in Africa and finding they have all gotten old. He then wakes from his dream on his birthday, and the animals present him with a miniature model of New York City. Alex suggests to Mart... | sentimental | train | imdb | This film has them traveling with a group of circus animals all throughout Europe on the run from a French animal hunter who has killed every animal and has mounted their head on her wall, except for a lion.This movie stars the voice talents of Ben Stiller (Tower Heist, Tropic Thunder), Chris Rock (Grown ups, The Longe... |
tt0181852 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Following the events of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", John Connor (Nick Stahl) has been living off-the-grid in Los Angeles. Although Judgment Day did not occur on August 29, 1997, the date given by the Terminator in the previous film, John does not believe that the prophesied war between humans and Skynet has been aver... | entertaining, violence, action, alternate history, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0092580 | Aria | This is an anthology film featuring 10 different segments told entirely in the song of opera."Un ballo in maschera"A fictionalized account of a 1931 assassination attempt on King Zog of Albania (Theresa Russell) in Vienna, Austria during his visit to an opera house. It is notable for his shooting back at his three woul... | psychedelic, murder, violence, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0300015 | I Capture the Castle | Cassandra Mortmain lives with her family in a tumbledown castle near the coast in England. Their father, James Mortmain, is a selfish, eccentric novelist. Their stepmother, Topaz, a nudist and artist, Rose, the oldest sister,
is very beautiful. Their younger brother is somewhat odd and isolated from people his
age. Ste... | insanity, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0093779 | The Princess Bride | Fairy tale story-within-a-story with an all-star cast.In the frame story, a grandfather (Peter Falk) reads a favorite book to his sick grandson (Fred Savage). The book he reads, The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern, is about the most beautiful woman in the world, the hero who loves her, and the evil prince who says he ... | comedy, fantasy, murder, whimsical, cult, feel-good, good versus evil, clever, psychedelic, action, humor, romantic, revenge, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | With something for everyone, The Princess Bride combines romance, action, adventure and parody to create the perfect movie.Cary Elwes and Robin Wright are beautiful to watch and the story of their love is a wonderful backdrop to the adventure and intrigue played out in this story.
If you like dry humor and fast wit, Th... |
tt0479968 | One Missed Call | The film begins with a fire at a hospital, with a young girl named Laurel being rescued. When asked where her mother is, Laurel just looks at the burning hospital. A few days later, a girl named Shelley (Meagan Good) is talking to her friend Leann (Azura Skye) on the phone, when she is scared by her pet cat. She looks ... | stupid, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Here's my sad story about One Missed Call:It was a rainy Sunday afternoon (I live in Seattle) so I went to the local video store looking for a mindless movie to watch while laying about.
I know that many people have given this a low rating but I believe that is mostly because many people had preconceptions before watch... |
tt0988045 | Sherlock Holmes | The movie begins by showing the Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow logos embedded into a cobblestone pavement. We transition to Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) and Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) riding in a carriage in the middle of the night. Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) follows on foot. He's in a tremendous hu... | comedy, boring, mystery, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, clever, action, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | And yes, we can tell that this movie takes place THAT early in their relationship because Watson has not yet married his wife (the retconning did annoy me, too, by the way, but you just can't avoid a little re-imagining here and there).Speaking of unavoidable, Irene Adler, Holmes' one uncapturable (is that a word?), si... |
tt0848557 | Diary of the Dead | The movie begins with news reporters filming a story about the death of an immigrant couple and their child. As they are wheeled out of their apartment building on a gurney, the mother and the child suddenly wake up and attack the emergency services crew on site. Both are shot in the head, but not before biting quite a... | horror, revenge, humor, violence, stupid | train | imdb | There are also some shots at censorship, social media, and the propaganda potential for the mainstream media.Unfortunately, Diary of the Dead feels like a watered-down reboot of his classic franchise, modernized and targeted at teenagers, with the requisite group of stereotypical dumb ass characters found in every dire... |
tt1929263 | Heaven Is for Real | The movie opens in Lithuania, with a young girl starting to paint a portrait. The story then shifts to Imperial, Nebraska where Todd Burpo (Greg Kinnear) is installing a garage door for a warehouse. In addition to that job, Todd is also the high school wrestling coach, a volunteer firefighter, and the pastor of the loc... | christian film | train | imdb | This movie does an excellent job of sharing important information about the very real issues that near death experiences (NDEs) bring up.
This one leaves it open to interpretation whether little 4-year-old Colton Burpo actually experienced a trip to heaven while he was unconscious on the operating table at death's door... |
tt1935302 | Monsters: Dark Continent | Ten years after the events of the previous film, four closely knit friends from Detroit—Michael, Frankie, Inkelaar and new father Williams—are U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East for their first tour as they must deal with the monsters and a new insurgency on the rise. They meet their team leaders, Forrest and Fr... | anti war, revenge, suspenseful, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Now that I've watched it, I can't stress how much of a disappointment it was.MONSTERS: DARK CONTINENT is NOT a Sci-Fi / Horror movie.
To bad they were overwhelmingly used as backdrop props, looking like a herd of buffalo at times.I'll never understand why this wasn't just strictly a war movie.
It could have been an abo... |
tt0235198 | Ôdishon | Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), a middle-aged widower who lost his wife to an illness seven years prior, is urged by his 17-year-old son, Shigehiko (Tetsu Sawaki), to begin dating women again. Shigehiko is somewhat doubtful of his father's love life, but plans to move out when he finishes school and does not want his... | cruelty, murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | Art-house horror flicks are not a very common genre (few come to mind except 'Don't Look Now') but Takashi Miike's film 'Audition' is a welcome addition to the canon.
The early stages of this film resemble a work by Claude Sautet, only seen through a Japanese sensibility, about the relationship between an older man and... |
tt3316948 | American Ultra | Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) is in a holding cell, handcuffed and trembling. A man enters the room while another (Bill Pullman) watches them. Mike sees flashes of the last few days, as well as items such as a bloody spoon, a frying pan, and a shot-up teddy bear.Three days earlier:Mike was living peacefully in the smal... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, insanity, absurd, satire, romantic, brainwashing, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Some of the dialogue landed with a thud and Walton Goggins could've toned it down a bit, but otherwise American ULTRA was a pretty slick little action film.
(Credit to Mr. Moiz)Small-town stoner Mike Howell (Jesse Eisenberg) spends most of his time getting high and writing a graphic novel about a superhero monkey.
I co... |
tt0266075 | Yeogo goedam II | The film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, Yoo Shi-Eun (Lee Young-jin) and Min Hyo-Shin (Park Ye-jin). As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Unable to cope with the social pressures of having a lover o... | atmospheric, revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | I saw this movie after having seen the first and third installments (except for a common setting at an all-girl Korean school, the three have no plot connections).
There are some horror elements, but the film is more successful when it focuses instead on character development and on unfurling its back story (largely th... |
tt1477076 | Saw 3D | The movie opens with a glass cage which contents is in full view of confused onlookers. Two men who apparently know each other wake up chained to either end of a table saw inside the cage. Suddenly, a girl is unveiled; suspended above the two men. The puppet, "Billy" rides in on a trike and says they each have to decid... | clever, revenge, violence, flashback | train | imdb | This movie was a huge letdown , publicity made me believe that this will be final piece of the puzzle which will connect all the previous movies, so i was at least expecting something more intelligent and a shocker twist of an ending, what we got instead seemed to be a rushed attempt to close all loopholes from the pre... |
tt0861739 | Tropa de Elite | Captain Roberto Nascimento (Wagner Moura), top member of BOPE, narrates the film, briefly explaining how the police and the drug lords of Rio de Janeiro cooperate with each other (policemen collect periodic bribes and drug lords are left free to operate) in the 1990s.
In 1997, in medias res, officer Captain Oliveira (M... | violence, realism | train | wikipedia | The main plot revolves around the captain of an elite police unit trying to find a replacement for himself, while dealing with the birth of his child and the horrendous stress of his job, and a mission to clear out a dangerously violent slum.There are no wholly good people in the movie, and it's frighteningly easy to c... |
tt0090056 | Spies Like Us | Set in the Cold War Era anti-communist USA, this spy parody brings to light the differences and similarities between the USA and the USSR. Fitz-Hume (Chase), a Press Representative for the US State Department is a lazy womanizer with the gift of gab. Millbarge (Aykroyd) is a code breaker and language expert with US Int... | humor | train | imdb | null |
tt0081070 | The Long Good Friday | A shady character, Colin (Paul Freeman -Raiders of the Lost Ark), carrying a suitcase of money pockets a couple handfuls of cash before making the delivery. In a country farmhouse the three men dividing the money in the case are attacked by gunmen. Outside a pub Colin's accomplices are abducted and killed. Colin is lat... | comedy, neo noir, murder, realism, cult, violence, plot twist, revenge | train | imdb | He's on his own with two or three of his most trusted accomplices attempting to discover what the hell's going on and this is very interesting as we find out what they find out, and at the same time as they do creating a nice, steady, plodding feeling of consistency.As the battles and discoveries occur whilst the film ... |
tt2263944 | Dragon Ball Z: Doragon bôru Z - Kami to Kami | The film begins with the awakening of Bills, the God of Destruction. As he has his breakfast, his valet Whis enquires as to why he has awoken ahead of his schedule. Bills explains that hed had a dream of fighting a warrior called a Super Saiyan God. He confirms this dream with a visit to the Oracle Fish, who had predic... | violence, action, entertaining | train | imdb | The movie is everything a classic Dragon Ball fan like myself wanted, the classic planet destructing battles, overpowered villains with ridiculously edgy personality and Goku once again doing whatever it takes to beat the stronger opponent.
i was the one who requested and added this page to IMDb just to let the world k... |
tt0360009 | Spartan | Robert Scott is a former U.S. Marine Corps Force Recon Master Gunnery Sergeant, acting as a selection cadre member for 1st SFOD-D. While observing an exercise designed to evaluate Delta candidates, Scott meets a recruit, Curtis, as well as Sergeant Jacqueline Black, a knife-fighting instructor.
Scott is drawn into a cl... | comedy, mystery, neo noir, murder, violence, intrigue, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | If you go by the plot, or by the casting (Val Kilmer's done his share of stupid actioners), you might well go into this expecting guns, explosions, and improbably ninja-esquire super-agents who parachute around and kill things with their teeth.But this is Mamet, so what you get instead is a sort of weird emotional flat... |
tt1703938 | Gosa 2 | The film opens at a swim meet. Chung Taeyeon and her best friend Yoon Narae are both competing, with Lee Sehee in the stands cheering them on. Taeyeon comes in first with Narae in third place. While both swimmers have pictures taken of them, Taeyeon calls Sehee out from the crowd and gets her to pose with them for a pi... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0039420 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | In the early 1900s, young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves to the seaside English village of Whitecliff despite the fierce disapproval of her caterwauling mother-in-law and domineering sister-in-law. Despite its reputation of being haunted, she falls in love with and rents Gull Cottage, where she takes up residence... | haunting | train | wikipedia | That's what makes for great movies.Gene Tierney is perfect in her role as Lucy, a young widow, very strong-willed and with a mind of her own.
I particularly liked her expressions which were corrected by him, such as: (she describes) sheets bellying in the wind, (he, correcting her) sails billowing; (she, in a flurry fo... |
tt0119051 | The Edge | Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins), a billionaire, and two other men, Robert "Bob" Green (Alec Baldwin), a photographer, and Stephen (Harold Perrineau), his assistant, arrive in a remote North America locale via Charles's private jet, along with Charles's much-younger wife, Mickey (Elle MacPherson), a beautiful fashion mo... | suspenseful, prank, violence, romantic | train | imdb | Boy, here's an intense film, a survival-in-the-wilderness adventure/thriller starring the unlikely duo of Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin.
It's not hard to guess who's the villain, in addition to a man-eating bear who stalks the two of them after their plane crashes in the woods of Alaska.The sophistication of Hopkins... |
tt0453560 | Toxic | The plot of the movie was not told in a straight forward fashion and had past and present mixed together. Below is the plot pulled apart and pieced back together in chronological order.Lucille is suffering from a mental disorder from her brother dying when she was young and her father never forgiving her for it. It is ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
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