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tt0079817 | Rocky II | Picking up immediately after the events in the first Rocky movie, Rocky II begins with the events of 14th round of the Bicentennial New Years Day fight from the first movie. The fight lasts the entire 15 rounds with each fighter suffering many devastating injuries. After the fight, Rocky calls out for Adrian, who runs ... | violence, revenge, cult, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | I like them; they entertain me, and I think they all serve their purpose.What's particularly interesting about 'Rocky II' is that apart from repeating the central theme of fighting Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Rocky (Stallone) goes through a character arc here that many sequels totally ignore we see the after-effect... |
tt0339489 | Palabras encadenadas | Locked in a dark basement, Laura, a psychiatrist in her early thirties, contemplates in horror a video where a man confesses to be a serial killer. Its Ramón, an apparently normal man in his forties, who seems to be quite harmless. Gagged and bound to a chair, Laura realizes that its the same person who kidnapped her a... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0073486 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | In 1963 Oregon, Randle Patrick McMurphy (Nicholson), a criminal who has been sentenced to a fairly short prison term, decides to have himself declared insane so he'll be transferred to a mental institution, where he expects to serve the rest of his term free of prison labor and in (comparative) comfort and luxury.His w... | psychological, depressing, dramatic, cult, violence, insanity, satire, claustrophobic, sadist, sentimental | train | imdb | But nonetheless, I was surprised at how easily the film surpassed my expectations and easily led me to understand how it merited all that praise.Based on the novel by Ken Kesey, the story follows Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who, in an attempt to get out of spending more time in prison, pleads insanity for... |
tt2395385 | 1 | While on the phone with his girlfriend Jill (Ashley Hinshaw), who has moved away to attend college, David (Rhys Wakefield) prompts her to explicitly wish that he were there to see her compete in a fencing tournament, only to surprise her with an unplanned visit. After the competition, David approaches Jill's similarly ... | paranormal, murder | train | imdb | I guess the one thing everyone can agree on is that it's a 'B-movie.' Therefore, most likely everyone concerned with making it knew that it was never going to be a massively commercial box office smash.
It starts off like some sort of adult-humour piece like American Pie, then it progresses into a looping version of Gr... |
tt0032484 | Foreign Correspondent | In mid-August 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, the editor of the New York Globe, Mr. Powers (Harry Davenport), is concerned about the crisis in Europe, the growing power of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents to get answers about whether war will ensue. A... | murder | train | wikipedia | After a short intro we are thrust directly into the action and from there on in, it's one thrilling set-piece after another.We go from kidnapping to assassination, to car chase, to discovery of plot, to escape from a hotel, to a twist regarding the leader of the enemy, to a wonderful sequence with a hired bodyguard who... |
tt0773262 | Dexter | {{This synopsis covers the story arc of all eight seasons. Without naming names, it still spoils storylines. It is provided as a reference for viewers who have seen the show from beginning to end.}}Dexter is a serial killer with a "code" which directs his compulsions to kill only the guilty. As a blood spatter analyst ... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, satire, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0791304 | Georgia Rule | Rebellious 17-years-old Rachel screams, drugs, drinks, fights with everyone and has sex with several boys; she is, in a word, uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in her mother Lily's San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Felicity Huffman, played Lindsay Lohan's distressed mother and slowly throughout the movie it is seen how closely alike they are.
From the looks of the finished product, I'd say a lot of the film ended up on the cutting room floor - too many scenes are simply not dealt with the way they should have been - like when Jan... |
tt0082351 | Eye of the Needle | A man calling himself Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland) is actually "the Needle," a German spy in England during World War II. The Needle dropped out of sight in Germany in 1938 and now inhabits a series of drab bed-sitting-rooms in England while he spies on the British war effort. He is known as the Needle because of hi... | suspenseful, intrigue, murder, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0424136 | Hard Candy | The movie opens with a chat window between Lensman319 and Thonggirrrrl14. It is obvious that they have been chatting and they make a plan to meet at a local coffee shop that day at 11am. At the coffee shop (called Nighthawks after the famous painting by Ed Hopper) we meet Thonggirrrrl14, Haley Stark (Ellen Page) who is... | comedy, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, mystery, psychological, cult, sadist, violence, insanity, claustrophobic, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | The slow, suspenseful film is set mainly in the Los Angeles home of photographer Jeff, a 32 year old man whom Hayley, a mature 14 year old girl who met him online, suspects to be a pedophile.
It is a movie about Hayley (more than excellent Ellen Page) and Jeff, about pedophilia and about how a pedophile must feel.
It i... |
tt0081248 | Le notti del terrore | Professor Ayres obtains a tablet from an ancient Etruscan cave. He proceeds to hack at a cave wall, while a stone mechanism activates behind him. Turning around, he sees a skeletal zombie looming towards him and within seconds, several more catch him and eat him.A group of people arrive at the country mansion where Ayr... | revenge, cult, grindhouse film, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0111973 | Fushigi Yûgi | Middle-school student Miaka Yki feels a lot of pressure to pass the entrance exam for the competitive Jonan Academy. Her friends do not believe she will get in, but she is determined to because her mom expects her to. Her best friend, Yui Hongo, is smart and has also applied to the Jonan Academy. While at the library o... | romantic, alternate reality, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1467304 | The Human Centipede (First Sequence) | Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists in Germany, are drugged and involuntarily detained by crazed surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter (Dieter Laser) when they seek help at his house after they get a flat tire. The women awake in a makeshift medical ward. They witness Heiter kill a kidnapp... | comedy, murder, stupid, cult, horror, insanity, sadist | train | wikipedia | If you want to know what this movie is about in a nutshell, here are some key plot points - mouth sewn to anuses, swallowing feces, and humans turned into slaves without dignity.
Wow, what a pointless and redundant film.It would seem word of mouth has spread into the anus of the internet and shat out this crap film.Des... |
tt0060666 | Manos: The Hands of Fate | While on vacation near El Paso, Texas, Michael, Margaret, their young daughter Debbie and their dog, Peppy, drive through the desert in search of a hotel called "Valley Lodge." Margaret insists they are lost, and Michael claims they are not. They are then pulled over by a local deputy for a broken taillight, but are le... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic, murder | train | wikipedia | That's what makes a film truly bad: the fact that despite its overbearing weaknesses it isn't even entertaining!Many people look back at the sixties and think, with obvious resentment for today's cinematic output, that "they don't make them like this anymore!".
Every so often, someone comes onto IMDb (or a similar foru... |
tt0064780 | The Over-the-Hill Gang | Jefferson Rose, a young, Boulder, Nevada newspaper publisher, tries to run for mayor of his corrupt town. His father-in-law, Captain Oren Hayes, is a former Texas Ranger who happens to visit town the day Jefferson is roughed up by a few of the Sheriff's finest. Captain Hayes admires young Jefferson's desire to clean-up... | violence | train | imdb | Laughs and a Tear or Two. A cast of grizzled veterans make this film a joy to watch, if you can get over the script, which falls weak in the midst of skillful actors.
Still, 'The Over The Hill Gang' was well-casted by virtue of the fact that virtually all the stars were veterans of Westerns, and played their roles admi... |
tt0220100 | Timecode | We begin simultaneously with a screen showing 4 different stories that will converge during the film. Lauren Hathaway (Jeanne Tripplehorn) clandestinely flattens the tire of the car belonging to actress Rose (Salma Hayek) her lover. Lauren is suspicious of her faithfulness and plants a secret microphone on Rose so she ... | psychedelic, avant garde | train | imdb | null |
tt0884224 | War, Inc. | The movie opens with Brand Hauser (John Cusack) in Iqaluit, Northern Canada. He enters a bar where some German gentlemen are chatting. He asks for a shot glass, fills it with hot sauce, and throws it back in one gulp. His synapses start firing as he pulls out a gun and shoots each of the Germans. He takes a photo of on... | absurd, comedy, satire, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | It isn't.This is an old-fashioned screwball comedy, with ridiculously coincidental plot twists, stock characters (given some depth in fun performances by John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei and Hillary Duff) and a straightforward approach to the political content.You see, the filmmakers' political points are things ... |
tt0070814 | Tom Sawyer | Tom Sawyer (Johnny Whitaker) and Huckleberry Finn (Jeff East) play hooky from school and have a plan to revive a dead cat with the spirit of a man who is on his death bed. Sawyer and Finn talk with Muff Potter (Warren Oates), the town drunk, but are interrupted when Injun Joe (Henry O'Brien) says that Doc Robinson (Ric... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0976026 | Cheeni Kum | Two extremes... in age, character and attitude, meet and against all odds fall in love. They decide to get married. And, like any Indian man, Buddhadev Gupta [Amitabh Bachchan] respectfully comes to ask Nina's [Tabu] father, a true Gandhian played by Paresh Rawal.. and chaos ensues.Cheeni Kum focuses on Buddhadev Gupta... | romantic | train | imdb | At the point in this romantic comedy where they are definitely getting interested in each other, Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu are sitting on a bench in a park in London, and she tells him animatedly to run to a tree across a meadow and touch it and run back.
It's the kind of thing you tell a little boy to do -- a brillian... |
tt0023649 | Vampyr | NOTE: Quotes indicate text titles from silent movie."This story is about the strange adventures of young Allan Gray [Julian West]. His studies of devil worship and vampire terror of earlier centuries have made him a dreamer, for whom the boundary between the real and the unreal has become him...One afternoon, during on... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic, murder, gothic | train | imdb | "Vampyr", one of the first horror movies with sound, is the work of the highly influential danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer.
After directing the monumental "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc" in 1928, Dreyer decided to make this modest film based on the novel "In a Glass Darkly" by Sheridan Le Fanu; while this is indeed hi... |
tt0257756 | High Crimes | Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is happily married to her husband, Tom [Jim Calviezel]. The movie opens with her having sex and becoming pregnant.Claire is a high profile lawyer who is pretty famous. While Claire and Tom are strolling along the street, a SWAT team swoops down on them and takes Tom away.He is charged with mu... | violence, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd (`Kiss the Girls') team up again in this courtroom thriller, which is entertaining despite its worn plot and obvious ending.
The reason it doesn't descend to a level consistent with the screenplay's unoriginality is the superior acting by the three principal performers.Claire (Ashley Judd... |
tt2446980 | Joy | The film opens with a scene from a soap opera. One woman (Donna Mills) convinces another woman (Susan Lucci) that she needs to be a strong woman. Hands her a gun. Two male actors walk up and add to the scene, all filmed in a master shot from set so you can see how silly it looks when seen this way.We are told this film... | flashback | train | imdb | A convention of idiots came together to write some reviews of Joy. This movie isn't about a mop.Nor is it about feminism.Nor is it about the QVC channel.The movie is about not giving up, and trying to realize one's potential.I noticed that most of the reviews weren't about the movie, they were personal attacks aimed at... |
tt0040522 | Ladri di biciclette | The film tells the story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-World War II economy of Italy. With no money and a wife and two children to support, he is desperate for work. He is delighted to at last get a good job hanging up posters, but on the sole condition that he has a bicycle which must be us... | paranormal, romantic, bleak | train | imdb | "The Bicycle Thief" was originally released in 1948 and won an Honorary Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film the following year (the movie was not released in the U.S. until 1949).
THE BICYCLE THIEF is the best of a group of films that depicted the hardship and despair that Europeans, specifically Italians, wen... |
tt0143860 | Der schwarze Tanner | During the Second World War Tanner (Otto Mächtlinger), a swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy for the so called Anbauschlacht, a plan to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep mountain pastures are not suited for agriculture. Most of the villagers agree. However some... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0083658 | Blade Runner | In 2019, humans have genetically engineered Replicants, which are essentially humans who are designed for labor and entertainment purposes. They are illegal on earth, and if they make it to our planet they are hunted down and killed.Rick Deckard is a blade runner, a hunter of replicants. A group of replicants makes it ... | dark, boring, neo noir, gothic, murder, fantasy, mystery, dramatic, cult, atmospheric, action, philosophical, romantic, blaxploitation, sci-fi | train | imdb | Dick's post-apocalyptic bounty hunter story 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' is a visionary work of art; it's a dystopian masterpiece and I'd personally call it as much a milestone of science fiction as Kubrick's '2001' (and be advised to watch the version known as the "final cut" if you want to catch 'Blade Runne... |
tt0100409 | The Prince and the Pauper | Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, T... | good versus evil, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104029 | Cronos | "In 1536, fleeing from the Inquisition, the alchemist Humberto Oganelli disembarked in Veracruz, Mexico. Appointed official watchmaker to the viceroy, Oganelli was determined to perfect an invention which would
provide him with the key to eternal life. He was to name it the Cronos device. Four hundred years later, one ... | cult, comedy, gothic, atmospheric | train | imdb | null |
tt0104691 | The Last of the Mohicans | It is 1757, the French and Indian War rages across the English Colonies and the British have been fighting the French for territory in North America for three years. Indian tribes fight on both sides and the colonists are caught in the middle. Three men, Chingachgook (Russell Means), his son Uncas (Eric Schweig), and a... | murder, cult, violence, romantic, revenge, historical | train | imdb | Its vision of early America, as it was during the French and Indian War, is captured in its utter brutality and beauty, complete with the many driving ambitions and clashing cultures of everyone involved.This movie has a bit of everything, including action, romance, war, and passionate drama.
The director, Michael Mann... |
tt0066132 | Nella stretta morsa del ragno | In an attempt to convince journalist Alan Foster [Anthony Franciosa] that his horror
stories are not pure fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe [Klaus Kinski] challenges the journalist to
spend All Soul's Eve in Lord Thomas Blackwood's [Enrico Osterman] mansion, a challenge from
which no one has ever returned. Alan's evening in the... | gothic, murder | train | imdb | Still, he sets the tone admirably for the next 90 minutes of flickering candelabra, ethereal vampire beauties and white muslin curtains billowing softly by moonlight.It would be easy to dismiss this movie as a compendium of Gothic horror cliches.
In truest Gothic horror tradition, Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno does ver... |
tt1214962 | Seeking Justice | In New Orleans, Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) is a humble English teacher at Rampart High School. Will's best friend Jimmy (Harold Perrineau) also works at the school. Will's wife Laura (January Jones) is a musician who is in a local orchestra. One night, after a performance, Laura is beaten and brutally raped by a strang... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, flashback, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0416185 | Resurrecting the Champ | Erik Kernan Jr. (Josh Hartnett) is a young sports reporter for a major Denver newspaper. He is frustrated that his editor is burying some of his reports on sporting events. Ralph Metz (Alan Alda), the editor, explains that Erik's stories are boring, too dry with no personality. Erik's father, dead for some time, had be... | flashback | train | imdb | Jackson in a lot of movies and so I am quite aware what a fine actor he is, so I wasn't surprised he was so good in this film.
Josh Hartnett was fine in the co-leading role of this story but it was Jackson who really got my attention in every scene.This is a very involving story that grabs you and won't let go.
You lea... |
tt0324216 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | In the beginning of the film, there is archive footage of a police search of the Hewitt house. The two officers survey the house and desend into the basement, noting the fingernaill scratch marks, human blood and hair embedded into the walls.It is August 1973, where five young adults, Erin (Jessica Biel), Kemper (Eric ... | insanity, violence, murder, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt0951318 | Bra Boys | Bra Boys, the documentary, is a film about the cultural evolution of the inner-Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle of its youth the tattooed and much maligned surf community known as the Bra Boys. The story is narrated by Australian actor Russell Crowe and is told through the eyes of members of ... | prank | train | imdb | "Bra Boys" is a tribe they don't like to be thought of as a gang that have each others back in the financial struggle that some of the families have.
The story is centered around the Abberton family, as Russ said, with the film being written and directed by famous surfer brother Sunny Abberton.
The film also follow... |
tt0089767 | Pale Rider | Somewhere in California, at the end of the Gold Rush, several horsemen come riding down from the nearby mountains. They ride as if on urgent business.At a mining camp by a creek, prospectors calmly pan for gold and inspect their sluice boxes. A woman hangs up laundry. The riders approach the camp, crossing through the ... | revenge, psychedelic, murder, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0068284 | Blacula | In 1780, Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall), the ruler of the Abani African nation, seeks the help of Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses to help, and transforms Mamuwalde into a vampire, whom he names Blacula and imprisons in a sealed coffin. Mamuwalde's wife, Luva (Vonett... | cult, blaxploitation | train | wikipedia | Though it may not be the best vampire/horror flick in the world, and it takes liberty with historical facts (a slave trade in Transylvania?!) it does contain a rather touching love story.
The great Shakespearean actor William Marshall (Dr. Daystrom to you original Star Trek fans) plays the tormented African prince magn... |
tt0170691 | Tigerland | It is September 1971 and it is clear that the US is losing the Vietnam War. In the opinion of the average American soldier who came of age during the Peace movement of the 1960s, Vietnam was "lost a long time ago". Roland Bozz (Colin Farrell), a draftee who is opposed to the war, is shown to be an unruly soldier with n... | violence, cruelty, storytelling | train | wikipedia | But the point the film is making is that many, if not most, of the young guys drafted into the army in the late 60s and early 70s absolutely did not want, or deserve, to be there.Roland Bozz is one of those young men.
However, his actions do not just affect him and he starts to change his ways slightly, but the stresse... |
tt0120694 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | Marion Whittington (Nancy Stephens)--formerly Marion Chambers--returns home to find that her house has been broken into. She goes to her neighbors and phones the police, but her teenage neighbor insists on investigating her house. After getting the all-clear, Marion goes in and finds that her office has been ransacked;... | murder, cult, horror, violence, good versus evil, insanity | train | imdb | It proved that not only could horror be widely appealing at the hands of gifted writers and quality filmmakers, but also showed that the old tropes and clichés could be "hip" and "cool" again when handled with care and a degree of nostalgic love.So, it should come as no shock that after the colossal misfire that was th... |
tt0876563 | Gake no ue no Ponyo | Deep under the surface of the ocean, a sea-wizard named Fujimoto (English: Liam Neeson Japanese: George Tokoro) stands at the bow of his submersible, surrounded by an air bubble and an assortment of sea creatures. They swim circles around him as he pours magic potions into the water. Out of a side porthole, a red goldf... | romantic, cute, magical realism, entertaining | train | imdb | I thought that the trailer featured its song which was quietly hypnotic, and I didn't have to wait for an invite to make sure I got my ticket for the sneak preview of the movie, scheduled to open here next week.For fans of Studio Ghibli films, you'll probably know what you're in for, as Miyazaki has yet another winner ... |
tt0481536 | Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | Following the events of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold Lee and Kumar Patel purchase plane tickets to Amsterdam so Harold can pursue a romance with neighbor Maria. Before boarding their plane, they encounter a friend from college named Colton, and Kumar's ex-girlfriend, Vanessa, who are getting married in Tex... | bleak, cult, humor, satire, flashback | train | wikipedia | As a fan of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, I really didn't think they could recapture the magic of the first film in the sequel.
I thought Neil Patrick Harris shined in this movie, along with the guys who play Harold and Kumar.
In a world gone crazy where reality TV humiliates and tears every shred of decency fro... |
tt1020885 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Jimmy (Mathew Horne) and Fletch (James Corden) are two friends living in London, experiencing life problems. Jimmy is dumped by his unscrupulous girlfriend, and Fletch is fired from his job as a clown for punching a child. They decide to escape their woes and hike to a remote village in Norfolk that they find on an old... | comedy, boring, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | It's audacious, rude, blasphemous and somewhat morbidly erotic—and yet, I couldn't have been more pleased with such a piece of popcorn-trash-cinema.The movie takes place largely within a small rural area of Norfolk which has a history involving an ancient curse that creates lesbian vampires out of all the town's female... |
tt1600196 | The Drop | We open with a montage explaining what a drop bar is. Its the central bar that holds all the collection money from other mob owned businesses to be picked up later. In this story, it's the Chechen mafia. The drop bar location always changes.Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) is a bartender at neighborhood bar in Brooklyn calle... | plot twist, murder, violence | train | imdb | The Drop is getting a lot of attention because of Gandolfini, who gives another memorable performance, but The Drop is much more than an opportunity to see one our generation's greatest actors one last time, it's one of the best films of the year.
It makes sense that The Drop is written by Dennis Lahane (writer of Myst... |
tt0455967 | John Tucker Must Die | The movie begins with Kate (Brittany Snow) discussing her mother Lori's (Jenny McCarthy) series of bad relationships which always causes them to move to a new town. She and her mother move to a suburb of Portland, Oregon and Kate gets a job as a waitress. While at work, she sees popular local boy John Tucker (Jesse Met... | revenge, adult comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2428170 | Creep | Aaron, a freelance videographer, is driving to the home of a person who has hired him to do eight hours of work. He arrives at a house in the wilderness with a long stretch of stairs leading to the front door. Aaron knocks but no one answers so he decides to wait in his car. He turns the camera to focus on an axe lying... | murder | train | imdb | Employing found footage in a way that actually makes sense in the context of the plot, Creep is the story of an increasingly awkward relationship between two men that feels frighteningly plausible.The film rests upon – and succeeds because of – Mark Duplass' excellent performance as the type of person we've all met at ... |
tt0810913 | Jack and Jill | When you get together with your family for the holidays, everybody has that one family member who drives you crazy. They mean well, and you love them, but stillFor Jack, that's his sister his twin sister Jill. Growing up, their lives were incredibly intertwined. But ever since Jack moved away, they have moved in differ... | comedy, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0870117 | Hammer & Tickle | What would happen if they introduced Communism to Saudi Arabia? Nothing at first but soon there would be a shortage of sand.Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.This is the first ever film about Communist joke... | humor | train | imdb | Interesting and accessible film that gets the structure, content and tone just right. Having been to Russia for a few weeks for work recently I was interested in the night of programming that the ever reliable BBC4 screened recently. With this film the focus is less on the specific history of Russia but more the status... |
tt0046446 | Torch Song | Jenny Stewart (Joan Crawford) is a Broadway musical star of renowned drive and perfectionism. In her relentless determination to give her audiences her best ("No Jenny Stewart show is going to be a flop."), she orders everybody around with incessant demands. When her rehearsal pianist suddenly quits, he is replaced by ... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1130080 | The Informant! | As the film opens, Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) is explaining that nearly everything people eat contains corn and that his company, ADM, is involved in almost all meals. He is overseeing ADM's production of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry, but there are problems and the company is losing mon... | insanity, plot twist, comedy | train | imdb | With Mark Whitacre as the main character, we follow him into the case and we immediately start to get the impression that this guy really doesn't have his head in the real world – like he doesn't understand the consequences of anything he says and does, which perhaps accounts for his rather cheerful outlook and easy pe... |
tt0065214 | The Wild Bunch | The movie takes place in 1913, during the height of the Mexican Revolution. In the fictional town of San Rafael, Texas, the Wild Bunch - led by Pike Bishop (William Holden), and also including Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine), Lyle and Tector Gorch (Warren Oates and Ben Johnson), Angel (Jaime Sanchez), Buck (Rayford Ba... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, realism, bleak, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0210047 | Fool's Fire | A family of "little people" are peacefully having dinner when the thundering sound of horsemen is heard. One of the male adults helps the other family members to hide, but with nowhere else in the house to hide he jumps out a window and flees, only to be ridden down by a horsemen, captured and kidnapped to a foreign ki... | revenge | train | imdb | Eerie,strange and beautiful adaptation of great Poe story.
I accidently caught this strange and beautiful tv movie when it first aired in the early 90's, while I was on a ski trip.
With its weird and eerie and incredibly beautiful fairy tale atmosphere it is very reminiscent of Jim Henson's "Storyteller", and it's a sh... |
tt0078239 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The original Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band performed during WWI in France, as the Allies' "most effective weapon." Their melodies cheered troops engaged in battle and
stopped hostilities, leading to their receiving the coveted Golden Eagle Award. Back at
their hometown of Heartland, they continued performing th... | brainwashing, cult, psychedelic, flashback | train | imdb | The SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER backlash was just beginning with PEPPER'S release, and even though Peter Frampton had proven himself still able to chart with such current hits as his cover of "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" and "I'm In You," (please hold your snickers), his album sales had begun to wane, a surefire indicator t... |
tt0076168 | Hong Xi Guan | An opening narration explains that the ruling Manchurian Court has tracked a resistance movement against its rule, to the Shaolin Temple, which they were using as a cover for their activities. They ordered one of their chief enforcers, priest Pai Mei, to lead a raid on the temple. Pai Mei and his right-hand lieutenant,... | grindhouse film | train | imdb | null |
tt0190138 | The Whole Nine Yards | Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a Quebec dentist from Chicago, who happens to be genuinely likable to almost everyone who knows him. However, he is trapped in a miserable marriage to the daughter of his late ex business partner. His wife Sophie (Rosanna Arquette) and mother-in-law (Carmen Ferland) hate him, ... | cult, comedy, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | At first the actors seem to be each in a parallel movie, with Matthew Perry doing physical slapstick comedy, Bruce Willis deadly serious, Rosanna Arquette just nasty, Amanda Peet being her "Jack and Jill" character (one of my TV guilty pleasures) and Natasha being like a super-model.Then something clicks in and it just... |
tt0065126 | True Grit | Mattie Ross's father was murdered by Tom Chaney when she was 14 years old. While collecting her father's body in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Mattie asks the local sheriff about the search for Chaney. He tells her that Chaney has fled with "Lucky" Ned Pepper and his gang into Indian Territory, where the sheriff has no authori... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | "Come see a fat old man sometime!"John Wayne's parting comment in this film is directed as much at us the viewers as it is at the young woman his Rooster Cogburn character is addressing.
In a way, Wayne throughout the film plays off the image he cemented in dozens of great and near-great westerns, with a nod that by 19... |
tt4573800 | A Deadly Adoption | Robert Benson (Will Ferrell) sits in his luxurious garden on a sunny afternoon chatting to his friends, with his baby in his arms. He is an author and his friends agree that his bestselling books have helped them manage their money. They toast him and wish him well on his journey as a "financial guru".Robert's pregnant... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | After much speculation it turned out the movie wasn't at all a comedy/parody, although some moments could've been interpreted in a funny way(the garage door opening being one of them), it is actually a Lifetime tribute with essential elements of their movies that have been popular with its audience: a life-altering acc... |
tt0108211 | Stalingrad | The movie begins in 1942 with some German troops relaxing in Italy. They are playing cards, swimming and drinking. They are enjoying themselves until they hear music and realize they are late for their formations, and they rush to join their ranks. Everyone is praised for their fighting in Africa and the soldiers are a... | anti war, cruelty | train | imdb | That he is a German and she is Russian is not as important as that they are both souls in torment with no way out.The human agony of that scene is superior to anything I have seen in over 60 years of watching movies.The other is the final scene between Dominique Horwitz and Kretschmann as Fritz and Hans clinging to eac... |
tt0042248 | Big House Bunny | Needing to get away from hunters, Bugs digs a tunnel and accidentally winds up in Sing Song Prison (a clear reference to Sing Sing Prison; "No Hanging Around") and utters his catch phrase " . As he tries settling himself to his hiding spot, prison guard (later a prisoner) Yosemite Sam (here called Sam Schultz, presumab... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068416 | Cosa avete fatto a Solange? | Enrico and Elizabeth are making out in a rowboat when Elizabeth sits up and thinks she sees a girl running along the shore. She interrupts the kissing session again when she sees a knife being swung. Enrico, thinking she just wants an excuse to stop, angrily rows the boat to shore Enrico and Elizabeth leave, and a pen ... | pornographic, cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, insanity, suspenseful, sadist | train | imdb | Be it the convoluted plot, the ingenious camera work, the brilliant score by Maestro Ennio Morricone or the constant, tantalizing suspense - there is not a single aspect that is not brilliant about this stunning film, that I highly recommend to any suspense-lover in general.Henry Rossini (Fabio Testi), a married Italia... |
tt0051746 | How to Make a Monster | We open with the title and credits written on a makeup mirror using a lipstick. We zoom in on a drawing of the Teenage Werewolf, then dissolve to an actor in Werewolf makeup getting a last minute touchup. The Teenage Werewolf is Larry Drake (Gary Clarke) and the makeup artist is Pete Dumond (Robert B. Harris). Also pre... | revenge, murder | train | imdb | Those that did were largely of a teenage audience, something that AIP clearly understood, and the success of their movie ensured a revival of the whole genre.In this clever, self-referential sequel (of sorts), American International Studios are closing down production of horror movies in order to make more musicals, wh... |
tt1302169 | Desperate Hours: An Amber Alert | Edward "Eddie" Larson (Tom Berenger) is a criminal who doesn't refuse to commit any crime. He attacks some cowboys around a bonfire, steals the car of two sweet elderly ladies, and then steals a convinience store. He also steals a Betty Boo doll belonging to the young daughter of the owner. With all that, he approaches... | violence | train | imdb | only Tom Berenger and not much else. Larsan (Tom Berenger) is a dangerous armed drifter. He gets out of prison and confronts his ex-wife looking for his daughter Kaylee. The car breaks down. He carjacks 18 year old Debra (Genevieve Buechner) leaving her friend Sandy (Jessica Parker Kennedy) behind. 17 year old Katie (B... |
tt0100507 | Rocky V | Shortly after Rocky Balboa's victory over Ivan Drago in Moscow, he, his wife Adrian, his brother-in-law Paulie, and his trainer Tony "Duke" Evers return to the United States, where they are greeted by Rocky's son, Robert. At a press conference, boxing promoter George Washington Duke attempts to goad Rocky into fighting... | dramatic, revenge, cult, action, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0069113 | The Poseidon Adventure | The SS Poseidon, a trans-Atlantic passenger steamship slated for retirement, is making its way across the Atlantic from New York City to Athens on its last voyage. On the bridge, company representative Linarcos (Fred Sadoff) orders the ship's master, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen), to empty ballast and proceed at fu... | cult, suspenseful, claustrophobic | train | imdb | For a film nearly thirty years old, Poseidon Adventure is still so effective that it would cause anyone planning to take a cruise to think twice.
Thank God for Stella Stevens' character...The actors are great, the camera-work and timing are great, and even the special effects are fairly impressive (particularly for the... |
tt0035169 | The Palm Beach Story | This story begins with the wedding of Gerry (Claudette Colbert) and Tom Jeffers (Joel McCrea), and the wedding follows with the caption, "And they lived happily ever after... or did they?" Time then flashes forward about four years to the Jeffers apartment where the Wienie King (Robert Dudley) is touring the Jeffers ap... | comedy, romantic | train | imdb | "The Palm Beach Story" is a lopsided comedy (part of it's funny and part of it's not), but the movie is back-ended with all of the funniest bits, so it allows you to forget the slower parts and it sends you out on a high.After a sensationally bizarre opening credits sequence, the movie settles down into a slightly less... |
tt1285010 | Summer's Blood | Summer (Ashley Greene) has run away from home and is searching for her father who had abandoned her and her mother when she was very young. A policeman catches her red-handed while she is attempting to steal from a store. She escapes from the policeman with the help of stranger, Peter (Tom Hoxey). She hooks up with him... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0097390 | Fright Night Part 2 | Three years after the first film, 20-year-old Charley Brewster, as a result of psychiatric therapy, now believes that Jerry Dandrige was nothing but a serial killer posing as a vampire. As a result, he comes to believe that vampires never existed.
College student Charley, along with his new girlfriend, Alex Young, go t... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0383574 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | The wedding for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is disrupted with the arrival of Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Co. who has warrants to arrest the two and the ex-Commodore James Norrington for helping Captain Jack Sparrow to evade his hanging. Elizabeth is imprisoned while Beckett negotiates with Will to... | comedy, mystery, fantasy, murder, cult, historical fiction, action, romantic, entertaining, sci-fi | train | imdb | This movie has everything a good blockbuster should have: star cast, special effects, a healthy dose of drama, romance, a villain (so to say), sadly also a rather weak story, with an ending just calling for "part three" (just like the last second in the Matrix trilogy) I didn't get that feeling, that the adventure is f... |
tt0183505 | Me, Myself & Irene | Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey) is a veteran Rhode Island State Police trooper who has been taken advantage of by others, starting with his former wife Layla (Traylor Howard). Despite his friends warning him of Layla's infidelity, Charlie refused to accept she was in an affair, even after she gave birth to triplet bla... | comedy, cult, flashback, absurd, humor, romantic | train | wikipedia | This is a Farrelly Brothers film with Jim Carrey in the lead role, what were they expecting?
And Me, Myself and Irene is one of the most gut bustingly funny films I've watched in months.The story concentrates on a Rhode Island police officer named Charlie Bailey-Gates (Carrey), a downtrodden member of the community who... |
tt2172584 | Maps to the Stars | Agatha arrives in Los Angeles and employs limousine driver Jerome to take her to the site of the former house of child star Benjie Weiss. Agatha has severe burns to her face and body, and takes a copious amount of medication. Benjie visits a child suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the hospital; however, the girl l... | psychological, murder, dramatic, violence, haunting, satire, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | It has been called 'narratively unwieldy' by the 'tomato-meter', and the events in the latter stages of the film are certainly dramatic and in quick succession, however Maps to the Stars is a great, grotesque satire from David Cronenberg, who could also be described in such terms!Julianne Moore is brilliantly unhinged ... |
tt0087803 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Winston Smith is a man who lives in Airstrip One, the remnants of Britain broken down by war, civil conflict, and revolution. A member of the middle class Outer Party, Winston lives in a one-room London apartment flat. His sustenance consists of black bread, synthetic meals, and "Victory"-branded gin. Telescreens in ev... | brainwashing, alternate reality, satire, dramatic | train | wikipedia | And the great Cyril Cusack does a classic turn as Charrington, the pawnshop proprietor.Right from the opening scene, in which we look in on a screening of a short propaganda film, brilliantly conceived and executed by Radford, during the daily "two minutes hate", climaxing in Dominic Muldowney's memorable, genuinely st... |
tt0123755 | Cube | The film opens with a man, Alderson (Julian Richings), waking up in a cube-shaped room with glowing, computer circuit-like walls and six doors, one at the center of each wall, ceiling and floor. After recovering from his confusion, he opens two of the doors and looks into them to find rooms that differ to the one he is... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, mystery, psychological, allegory, cult, alternate reality, violence, plot twist, insanity, psychedelic, claustrophobic, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | I'm glad to say that definitely is not the case.Despite the low budget and practically unknown cast, the film manages to be clever, intriguing, thought-provoking and highly enjoyable.
With its limited budget and digital effects in use even before Titanic glorified them, Cube still proves itself as one of the more origi... |
tt0070948 | Zardoz | The story opens with a speech made by Arthur Frayn/Zardoz (Niall Buggy) who states that he is immortal. He explains that this story "may" happen in the future. He is a "fake god" and a magician. But he is invented too, asking if the viewers of the movie themselves are part of a fiction. He asks "Is God in show business... | suspenseful, whimsical, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0387808 | Idiocracy | The narrator (Earl Mann) explains that natural selection is indifferent to intelligence, so that in a society in which intelligence is consistently debased, stupid, irresponsible people easily out-breed the intelligent, creating, over the course of five centuries, an irremediably dim and sexually motivated dystopia. De... | comedy, bleak, cult, absurd, satire, brainwashing | train | imdb | I had anticipated it for a long time, and was afraid going in that it couldn't possibly live up to my expectations.It exceeded them.I adored this movie.Hilarious from start to finish (stay until after the end credits!), it is absolutely remarkable how a movie about dumb and annoying characters can be so intelligent, wi... |
tt0076252 | Jäniksen vuosi | For years now an advertising executive called Vatanen has lost his taste of life. The expectations of his younger days are far from coming true. He is tired of his wife, his job and the place where he lives. There is an ulcer on the way.An average day in early spring brings a great change to Vatanen's life. He is out o... | psychedelic, boring | train | imdb | Archetype of finnish mentality.
Jäniksen vuosi is one of Jarva's most political movies.
It takes stance strongly against modern day society's authority status in the life of the common man, and how it has estranged men from the nature completely.
It challenges the whole concept of freedom and wealth in our welfare soci... |
tt0019884 | Flight | After causing the loss of the big football game for his college, Lefty Phelps wins the respect of Panama Williams, a Marine flyer who has witnessed his defeat, when Lefty defends himself against accusations of throwing the game. Upon graduation, Lefty enlists in the Marine Corps flying school where Panama, an instructo... | melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0087884 | Paris, Texas | The film opens with sweeping shots of the vast, barren Texas desert as the camera follows a man wandering through this terrain. The man is shown entering a rundown bar as he collapses in exhaustion. The next day, a doctor treating the speechless traveler makes a call to a family member, who we discover is the brother o... | psychedelic, depressing, home movie | train | imdb | null |
tt0171698 | Rites of Passage | 2 guys ambush and kill some hunters in the woods.Del Sr. (Dean Stockwell) gets caught by his son Del Jr. (Robert Glen Keith) having an extra-marital affair. He takes Del Jr. to a cabin in the woods to talk things out. Youngest son Campbell (Jason Behr) is already there.That night the two guys from the beginning turn up... | violence | train | imdb | A highly personal project from director Victor Salva is a nicely executed, low-budget independent thriller..
This is basically a character-driven thriller exploring some routine familial issues between a middle-class father and his two sons.
I say routine, because the conflicts are reasonably familiar: the father's hav... |
tt0470752 | Ex Machina | Ex Machina tells the story of a computer coder, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), who wins the chance to spend a week at the house in the mountains belonging to Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the CEO of the company he works for.Caleb is airlifted into the middle of a reserve owned by Nathan, and is then left to make his way on foot thr... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder | train | imdb | A perfect setting for the subject that is explored in this tight, tense sci-fi thriller.Ex Machina is the best science fiction film on artificial intelligence since Blade Runner.
Thought-provoking and terrifyingly suspenseful, an induced state of paranoia may linger long after the end credits begin to roll.The less you... |
tt0462329 | The Hard Corps | Phillip Sauvage (Jean-Claude van Damme) is a man who has been dealt a hard deck of cards in life. Having suffered under savage fighting conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Al-Qaida takes children as hostages and blows them to bits, Sauvage had to take some time off in the psych ward in a VA Hospital. Little does ... | romantic, cult, violence, flashback | train | imdb | The action scenes are way better then in Second In Command and much more martial arts oriented then Wake of Death, with some more trademark kicks.
Fox is sexy and perfect for her role and the story involving a former heavyweight champ who needs security from a rap-mogul/gangster is very fresh considering its new territ... |
tt0133152 | Planet of the Apes | Astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner), Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Stewart are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crashes in a lake on an unknown planet after a long near-light speed voyage, during which, due to time dilation, the crew ages only 18 months. As the ship sinks, Taylor finds Stewart... | good versus evil, violence, alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104155 | Dust Devil | Joe Niemand (John Matshikiza), a Sangoma near Spitzkoppe in Namibia, begins a tale that states "back in the first times, in the time of the red light, Desert Wind was a man like us. Until by mischance, he grew wings and flew like a bird. He became a hunter, and like a hawk, he flew to seek his prey. Taking refuge in th... | allegory, cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The titular Dust Devil is an evil demon that preys only on those who have lost the reason to live.This includes Wendy,who has broken up with her husband and is now making her way aimlessly across the South African desert.Feeling lonely,she picks up a stray by the name of Hitch and the nightmare begins...Richard Stanley... |
tt0111438 | Timecop | In 1863, Confederate soldiers are carrying a gold bullion as a payday for the army. Suddenly, they are cornered and shot by a highwayman using anachronistic automatic pistols and futuristic tech equipment, leaving them stranded and dead. The mysterious highwayman steals the trunk containing the gold and then suddenly v... | alternate reality, cult, humor, violence | train | imdb | Best Van Damme Sci-Fi-Action comic book classic film!.
Just Like Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd, Van Damme's Timecop is very Underrated action sci-fi flick ever.
I love this movie to death and it is my 6th favorite best Van Damme movie.What I meant in the top written: "to take a few sci-fi leaps of faith" This movie ... |
tt0492962 | Destricted | Destricted is an art-based film where seven directors, including controversial director Larry Clark (Kids), explore modernistic views of sex, sexuality, and pornography in modern film. The film features seven short films all of which are explicit in nature.Balkan Erotic Epic (Marina Abramovic):
The first of the films f... | psychedelic, avant garde | train | imdb | 'Destricted' is best described as seven short art-house porn films.
None of them really succeeds as an interesting mix between art and porn, although 'Impaled' by director Larry Clark and 'Balkan Erotic Epic' by director Marina Abramovic have some interesting elements.
The second shows myths from the Balkan around the ... |
tt0070046 | Executive Action | A narrator states that when President Lyndon Johnson was asked about the Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission report, he said he doubted the findings of the Commission. The narration ends with the mention that the segment did not run on television and was cut from a program about Johnson, at his own request.... | murder | train | wikipedia | By 1973, the year of the film's release, critics, such as Mark Lane's 1966 Rush to Judgment, had shredded much of the Warren Commission Report (1964), putting the government's lone assassin theory on the strictly defensive.
In short, many Americans were ready to believe in 1973 what they weren't ready to believe in 196... |
tt1605717 | Frank | Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), an aspiring songwriter, witnesses a man trying to drown himself while walking along the beach of his town. The man is taken to the hospital and Jon talks to Don (Scoot McNairy), who explains the man was a keyboardist in an experimental band, the Soronprfbs, managed by him. Jon mentions that he p... | comedy, entertaining | train | imdb | Although you might assume a movie about an alternative rock band with a lead singer who wears a giant fake head that he never takes off would be a work of fiction, the truth, as they say, is stranger, and provides a compelling basis for a movie."Frank" is co-written by Jon Ronson based on his experience playing keyboar... |
tt0465602 | Shoot 'Em Up | A man, Smith (Clive Owen) sits on a bench ready to eat a carrot. A woman in a yellow coat runs past chased by a man driving an old black Camaro. The carrot eater follows and stops the man from killing the woman inside an abandoned factory building by driving the carrot through the man's head. Suddenly several other gun... | comedy, boring, murder, cult, violence, satire, comic | train | imdb | null |
tt0052227 | The Space Children | We open with a background of space nebulae and stars, the title sequence, credits, and the actors who portray the space children. A station wagon appears on a lonely road approaching the beach along the California coast. Inside we meet Dave Brewster (Adam Williams), his wife Anne (Peggy Webber) and their two sons. In t... | anti war | train | imdb | While not Arnold's best film, IMHO (I find it a bit preachy and badly hampered by the rubbery silliness of the Big Alien Brain), this is still a memorable film.
The children, alienated from their preoccupied and overworked parents, are almost adopted by the space creature, which takes them under its protection (a drunk... |
tt0491152 | Something Borrowed | Based on the book "Something Borrowed"Character History:
Rachel is a just turned 30 lawyer who is very attractive, but down to earth, used to be overshadowed by her larger than life best friend since childhood - Darcy. It is hinted that Darcy didn't have a normal family or childhood by how she constantly goes on about ... | comedy, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | The only person we hear any reason from is Ethan, and by then we all want to smack some sense into the main characters.What bothers me incredibly about this movie is that it basically drives loyalty between "best friends" straight into the ground.
Obviously the movie wasn't about her, it was about Rachel, but it sends ... |
tt0113762 | The Mangler | William 'Bill' Gartley (Robert Englund) is the mean owner of a factory, shouting and bossing everybody around. He looks from a corridor outside his office in a higher floor. He's got some weird metal crutches attached to his knees and has trouble walking. Men and women earn their bread in a noisy, warm, full of vapours... | cult, horror, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0039757 | The Red House | Pete Morgan and his sister Ellen are prosperous farmers, but their farm is starting to look rundown due to Pete's advancing age and his handicap from an artificial leg. They are known as "the mysterious Morgans" because of their adopted daughter Meg. No one knows who her parents were or how Pete and Ellen came to adopt... | insanity, romantic | train | imdb | Sometimes memories of things from youth don't hold up but in this case, RED HOUSE remains a bizarre and scary movie into adulthood.Robinson's performance is very atypical but effective.
Robinson)living with his sister(Judith Anderson) and adopted daughter(Allene Roberts)is hard pressed to deal with a young man(Lon McCa... |
tt1852770 | Dracula 3D | The tale begins with Jonathan Harker, journeying by train and carriage from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle situated in the Carpathian Mountains on the border of Transylvania. The purpose of his mission is to catalogue the big library of Dracula. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manner, Harker... | good versus evil, violence, gothic | train | imdb | The Italian master of horror, Dario Argento, delivers his cheesiest movie...in 3D.Looking at the trailers, i already knew that Dracula 3D would have been a fun and trashy cheesefest (and i gotta be honest, i have seen better CGI effects in movies made by The Asylum).Sure, the film is a fun and trashy cheesefest, but it... |
tt2024519 | The Broken Circle Breakdown | «Ciclo Interrompido» conta a história de amor entre Elise e Didier. Ela tem a sua própria loja de tatuagens, ele toca banjo numa banda. É amor «à primeira vista» apesar das grandes diferenças. Ele fala, ela escuta. Ele é um ateu convicto, embora, ao mesmo tempo, um ingénuo romântico. Ela tem uma cruz tatuada no pescoço... | tragedy, dramatic, sentimental, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0090022 | Silverado | The story opens with a man sleeping in a remote cabin in the Old American West. The door to the cabin bursts open and a gunman enters, shooting at the sleeping man, who is barely able to grab his pistol and shoot back, killing his would-be killer. The man continues to aim at the sides of the cabin and shoots another ma... | cult, murder, violence | train | imdb | Two film makers decided to test the waters, however; Clint Eastwood, reviving an older version of his "Man with No Name", directed and starred in his SHANE homage, PALE RIDER; and Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from the huge success of THE BIG CHILL, fulfilled his life-long dream to make a western, with SILVERADO.
Neither film... |
tt1259571 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | A thick, yellow moon slowly transforms into the title "New Moon."We hear Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)'s voice, quoting Friar Lawrence from "Romeo and Juliet": "These violent delights have violent ends.." and, although we don't know it yet, she is having a nightmare. She fights through a crowd of group of red cloaked st... | good versus evil, paranormal, romantic | train | imdb | I will preface this review by saying that I have not read any of the twilight books, but I did watch the first movie before going to see this film, and I am looking at the series purely from a cinematic stand-point.That being said, I thought this movie was a massive failure.
Quite simply, it was so terrible I found mys... |
tt0480239 | Atlas Shrugged: Part I | Based upon the controversial 1957 novel by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged follows the struggles of Dagny Taggart, a railroad heiress trying to maintain her integrity, and keep her family's railroad alive in the midst of a rapidly decaying world. She faces increasingly corrupt government agencies, the cowardly incompetence of... | alternate reality, philosophical | train | imdb | Those who agree with Rand's philosophy and enjoyed the book, but are repulsed by the relatively low-budget treatment of the film and the somewhat stunted screen writing that isn't entirely faithful to the original work, and (3.
Those who are completely ignorant of Rand's work and are seeing the film and judging it in a... |
tt0090660 | Armed and Dangerous | Officer Frank Dooley (John Candy) of the LAPD is framed for the theft of a television set by two corrupt detectives. He is dismissed from the force, but escapes criminal punishment at his day in court. The court's next case features hapless defense attorney Norman Kane (Eugene Levy) attempting to defend a white suprema... | murder | train | wikipedia | Great John Candy movie!.
Armed and Dangerous is one of John Candy's best films!
Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Brion James, Robert Loggia, James Tolkan, Kenneth McMillan, and Tom Lister Jr. were all good.
I don 't like to make fun of anybody but it was so funny every time Candy would make fun of him and I loved Lister doing hi... |
tt0097240 | Drugstore Cowboy | "Bob" Hughes (Matt Dillon) is the leader of a crew of drug addicts consisting of him, his best friend Rick (James LeGros), his wife Dianne (Kelly Lynch), and an underage girl with no family named Nadine (Heather Graham). Together, they travel across the U.S. Pacific Northwest in 1971, supporting their drug habits by ro... | romantic, cult, philosophical, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0203019 | Men of Honor | The movie starts off by introducing Master Chief Leslie W. ("Billy") Sunday (Robert DeNiro), a US Navy Diver, who has recently gone AWOL. He is badly beaten and awaiting disciplinary actions. Sunday and several other Navy members watch TV coverage of an ongoing salvage operation, when Sunday recognizes a familiar face ... | inspiring | train | imdb | Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is unquestionably a man of great courage and principle, and his strength of character shines through brightly in this film.
If a director is going to make a human-interest story, he needs to humanize the characters.Cuba Gooding Jr. gives an outstanding performance as Brashear.
This is ... |
tt0417385 | 12 and Holding | The film explores adolescent issues through the minds of three friends and their reactions after a boy named Rudy Carges (Conor Donovan) is killed in a tree house set on fire by local bullies Jeff and Kenny, who carelessly didn't find out he was inside until too late. The boy's twin brother Jacob, a boy with a huge bir... | revenge | train | wikipedia | This is a haunting coming-of-age film about children, bound by a common, shocking tragedy, who struggle to get on with life and overcome their own troubling problems.
These are very cool kids, even the most troubled, who easily win your affection.During the course of the movie, one of the children queries the others by... |
tt1017451 | The Runaways | The Runaways (aka: Neon Angels) is based on lead-singer Cherie Currie's book 'Neon Angel' - a reflection of her experiences as a rock star, but also delivering a strong anti-drug warning to teens and others. David Bowie's "Space Oddity" serves as a metaphor for the narrative-- a slow countdown, a surreal but spectacula... | cult | train | imdb | I was a bit shocked that at the end of "The Runaways" when you get the obligatory "what happened to them" text on the screen, only Jett, Currie and Fowley are mentioned.The most shameful omission here is the tragic Sandy West, the band's doggedly devoted drummer and perhaps the best female drummer in the history of roc... |
tt0387037 | Aurora Borealis | Ever since the death of his father, 25-year-old Minneapolis-born-and-bred Duncan Shorter (Joshua Jackson) is content with shuffling aimlessly through life ditching one dead-end job after another. His brother, big-shot Jake (Steven Pasquale) uses his appartment sometimes, to meet with Sandy, (Katie Griffin), his lover, ... | suicidal | train | imdb | i caught this at Tribeca 2005 and i was not expecting what i got - a realistic portrayal of a family in a drama film which wasn't melodramatic or preachy.
instead of distilling the personalities down to identifiable quirks, the cast and crew of aurora tackled the near impossible task of fully fleshing out the majority ... |
tt5052524 | Operator | In order to cut costs, health company Welltrix chooses to automate their customer service operations thereby adding predictability but in the process eliminating customer service operators. Martin Starr plays Joe, the programmer who is creating the voice simulation software to do that. The main problem is that the scri... | sci-fi | train | imdb | Just so effing sad.
So here's the deal.
The movie was filmed beautifully.
The characters portrayed each other well.
But the movie was just so sad.
And the kind of sad that is not necessary.
I feel what I was watching "The Lobster" and the highlight of that movie was a dog who used to be a human getting killed.
Geese I ... |
tt1790885 | Zero Dark Thirty | Part 1: THE SAUDI GROUPTwo Years After Sept. 11 CIA BLACK SITE:Dan (Jason Clarke) walks into a dingy room where a terrorist financier, Ammar (Reda Kateb), is being held captive by several other CIA members wearing balaclavas. He makes the rules clear: If Ammar doesn't look at him when he's being addressed, Dan will hur... | dramatic, suspenseful | train | imdb | It takes her almost 10 years, a little waterboarding, a couple of dead colleagues and a lot of arguing with her superiors, but she manages to follow the lead all the way to the now famous raid in Abbottabad.It's a very captivating film (even with its 160 minutes runtime), and the big raid at the end is quite intense an... |
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