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tt0378793 | Speak | 14-year-old Melinda Sordino (Kristen Stewart) starts out her freshman year in high school and struggles on the first day. She doesn't have any friends to hang out with and appears awkward and uncomfortable when speaking to others. Throughout the day, she is made fun of by several students, repeatedly called a "squealer... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Anyone who has been to high school should get a big kick from some of the send-ups in "Speak." And for anyone who has doubted the talents of Steve Zahn, just look for the scene where he sees what Melinda (Stewart) has done in the supply closet.I hope to see this movie in theaters soon, and I give it my highest recomme... |
tt0111333 | The Swan Princess | King William (Dakin Matthews), widowed father of newborn Princess Odette, and Queen Uberta (Sandy Duncan), widowed mother of young Prince Derek, decide to betroth their children in the hopes of uniting their kingdoms. Rothbart (Jack Palance) is an evil sorcerer who wishes to take William's kingdom for himself, by maste... | psychedelic, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Compared to previous attempts by competing studios to break Disney's stranglehold on the animated film market, The Swan Princess really is a good movie.
The songs, though not particularly memorable and vaguely cheesy in the manner of much older animated flicks, did not bring the movie to a grinding halt and actually ma... |
tt0054195 | Pollyanna | The title character is named Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in the fictional town of Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what sh... | romantic | train | wikipedia | This Pollyanna does not spend all her time chatting her mouth off and misinterpreting every cold act of her aunt's as an expression of love, which made her very annoying in the book, but rather, she really gets to know people and very subtly brings out the best in them.
This is an absolutely remarkable film.It is uplif... |
tt0058249 | Le journal d'une femme de chambre | In Normandy at the end of the 19th Century, a beautiful and ambitious young chambermaid named Célestine (Lea Seydoux) enters the service of her new employers, the Lanlaire family, which consists of a bitter wife and her perverted husband. Monsieur Lanlaire has a reputation for molesting and impregnating his chambermaid... | satire, revenge, psychedelic, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | In the 30's, the witty, literate and quite sophisticated chambermaid Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau) comes from Paris to work for the dysfunctional Monteil family in the country, more specifically for the fetishist on shoes and maniac for cleaning Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne).
He is an incipient Nazi, a xenophobic anti-Semi... |
tt0089945 | Rustlers' Rhapsody | The concept of the movie is explained in a voiceover intro by G. W. Bailey, who wonders what it would be like if one of the 1930s/1940s Rex O'Herlihan movies were to be made today. At that point, in a scene reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, the cinematography shifts from black & white to color and the soundtrack changes... | western, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0479008 | Dante's Inferno | The exhumation of Lizzie Siddal's desiccated body is seen, followed by a shot of Rossetti dancing among the flames of a bonfire of paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough. A voice-over informs us that Rossetti is a founder of a revolutionary group of artists called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The figure of the young... | good versus evil, allegory, violence, satire | train | wikipedia | Innovative take on a literary classic.
I saw this film at the Huntington Beach Film Festival in April 2007, and I loved it!
Sandow Birk has an amazing ability to modernize classics, and his adaptation of the Divine Comedy is a prime example.
I was delighted to see that he still isn't afraid to use popular culture in hi... |
tt0827545 | Captain Barbell | In every version of the story, major changes in the story plot are applied, but the core story remains the same. Enteng, a poor, wimpy and skinny but kindhearted boy always gets bullied by other people because he is undersized and easy to pick on. He tries to practice weight training and exercise to improve his physiqu... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Clark should kill this Teng....
And they are calling this as "The ORIGINAL Superhero"???
Who are they kidding.
For those who've seen Smallville should know what I'm talking about.
A lot of elements or should I say situation and characters are strangely copied from Smallville.
Teng is obviously copied from Clark Kent's ... |
tt0115674 | Big Bad Beetleborgs | === Season 1 ===
Set in the fictional town of Charterville, three "typical average kids"—two siblings, Drew (Wesley Barker) and Jo (Shannon Chandler/Brittany Konarzewski), and their friend Roland (Herbie Baez)--enter the supposedly haunted Hillhurst Mansion after accepting a dare from rich snobs Van and Trip. The house... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Okay, I guess....
This show had a rather interesting premise.
The main stuff of a story was a lot like Power Rangers, but sub stories dealt with the these goofy monsters that lived in a haunted house.
They had some interesting stories and was a lot better than the other stuff on the Fox line up..
This was my favorite s... |
tt0013014 | Cinderella | Villains: In some versions, her father plays an active role in the humiliation of his daughter; in others, he is secondary to his new wife, Cinderella's stepmother; in some versions, especially the popular Disney film, Cinderella's father has died and Cinderella's mother has died also.
Although many variants of Cindere... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | This early Disney version of Cinderella is worth a look for his fans.
Nearly 28 years before making the classic feature-length animated version of Cinderella, Walt Disney made a short 7-minute version for the Laugh-O-Grams studio in Kansas City.
In this one, the title character is doing dishes with her cat while her st... |
tt0240890 | Serendipity | Serendipty is a romantic drama about how the hand of fate affects two people who meet by chance at Christmas in New York.
During the Christmas season in New York City, Jonathan Trager (John Cusack) meets Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) trying to buy the same pair of black cashmere gloves at Bloomingdale's. They feel a mu... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Jonathan Trager (John Cusack) is shopping for a gift for his girlfriend, and Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) is looking for something for her boyfriend when they reach for the same pair of gloves on a rack at Bloomingdales.
For Jonathan, it's a significant emotional experience, and he realizes something has happened, tha... |
tt0861773 | Ghost in a Teeny Bikini | While shooting for a film directed by her boyfriend, Ted Wood, Jr., Muffin Baker learns from a telegram that her rich uncle, Cyrus, has died. Together they travel to the estate of the deceased, where her last will is to be read. The lawyer, Archibald Weisenheimer, and her daughter, Evilyn, put plans together to murder ... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1091909 | Murdoch Mysteries | The series takes place in Toronto starting in 1895 and follows Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) of the Toronto Constabulary, who solves many of his cases using methods of detection that were unusual at the time. These methods include fingerprinting (referred to as "finger marks" in the series), blood testing,... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Having neither read the books nor seen the original television movies, I come to the series with unbiased (if ignorant) eyes.
We, at least, have been captivated by William Murdoch as portrayed by Yannick Bisson, a character who is a genuinely honest, gentle and quiet man of strength facing ethical, moral, professional ... |
tt0287839 | Children of Dune | Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad'Dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid climate and have started to move out of the sietches and into the villages and cities. As the old ways erode, more and more p... | sci-fi | train | wikipedia | I think I liked David Lynch's stillsuits better, these ones don't look like they'd do the job very well, but I suppose it was a trade off with seeing some of the wonderfully figured women =)The part that would be the end of <i>Dune Messiah</i> had me nearly in tears.
The screenplay by John Harrison managed to fit in en... |
tt0068583 | La fille de Dracula | Dracula's Daughter begins a few moments after Dracula ends. Count Dracula has just been destroyed by Professor Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Von Helsing is taken by police to Scotland Yard, where he explains that he indeed did destroy Count Dracula, but because he had already been dead for over 500 years, it cannot b... | pornographic | train | wikipedia | The horror elements of the film are, at best, arbitrary merely a springboard for plot development (or what passes for it) and the overall 'look' of the picture: Howard Vernon, for one, as an amusingly unhealthy-looking Dracula (photographed from odd angles to give some dimension of menace to his part) is horribly mis... |
tt0013030 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Mary Smith (Merle Oberon), daughter of presidential hopeful Horace Smith (Henry Kolker), has lived a cloistered life free of any scandal. Although she is devoted to her father and supports his political aspirations, she longs for a life of her own. Believing she needs some excitement in her life, Mary's free-spirited U... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Mary Miles Minter's Third To Last Silent Film. Jessica ( Mary Miles Minter ) after having become fed up by her husband Weston (Robert Schable ) philandering ways, goes to her Wyoming ranch. However, her husband follows and begins flirting with saloon proprietress Molly ( Viora Daniels ) and that consequently angers ran... |
tt0988083 | Killer Movie | Celebrity Jake Tanner (Paul Wesley) travels to a small town to film a reality TV-show about the town's hockey team. However, town local Jaynie (Leighton Meester) is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the murder is passed off as an accident. Jake meets with the show's prod... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0068280 | Black Girl | The plot continually shifts back and forth between Diouana's present life in France where she works a domestic servant, and flashbacks of her previous life in Senegal. During flashbacks of Diouana's life in Senegal, the viewer learns that she comes from a very poor village outside of Dakar. Most people in the village c... | violence, blaxploitation, melodrama | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0376076 | Pithamagan | An anonymous woman dies while giving birth. Her child is found and raised by the caretaker of the graveyard. The child, named Chithan (Vikram), grows up among corpses with minimal human contact is perhaps more feral than autistic. He growls like a wolf, runs like an gorilla has the unkempt appearance of an orangutan bu... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | A Fabulous Masterpiece.
An absolutely fantastic movie, to say the least!!
This movie is the stand-out proof, if any were required, that Tamil cinema has been there on top with the best in the world when it comes to meaningful n powerful contributions to cinema.It's a simple story about an extraordinary man and his rela... |
tt0923985 | We Are the Strange | We Are the Strange focuses on "two diametrically opposed outcasts" as they "fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world." These two outcasts are an abused woman named Blue who has a mysterious degenerative disease and a living doll named eMMM.
The two meet in the Forest of Still Life, where Blue follows eMMM to Stop... | cult | train | wikipedia | When M dot Strange was told to think outside the box, he overshot a little.
At the screening at Sundance, M dot Strange said that he pretty much locked himself in his room with a bunch of broken toys, and nine computers.
He stayed there for more than a year with only his frighteningly twisted imagination, and came out ... |
tt2081437 | The Liability | Young and naive 19-year-old slacker, Adam (Jack O'Connell), lives with his mum, Nicky (Kierston Wareing), in the home of her intimidating gangster boyfriend, Peter (Peter Mullan) and is sent to conduct a day of driving for Peter's associate after Adam inadvertently views an incriminating video on Peter's laptop. This t... | flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098936 | Twin Peaks | === Season one ===
In 1989, logger Pete Martell discovers a naked corpse wrapped in plastic on the bank of a river outside the town of Twin Peaks, Washington. When Sheriff Harry S. Truman, his deputies, and Dr. Will Hayward arrive, the body is identified as homecoming queen Laura Palmer. A badly injured second girl, Ro... | avant garde, mystery, murder, neo noir, paranormal, cult, violence, magical realism, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | The initial Laura Palmer murder case is unravelled expertly, by episode 16, with many great surreal and shocking moments, notably the scenes involving Bob. The show's brand of off-the-wall deadpan humour was perhaps at its best in the initial episodes, for example, Cooper's rock-throwing in the woods and Leland's bizar... |
tt0093051 | From the Hip | Fresh out of law school, Robin "Stormy" Weathers (Judd Nelson) cannot stand the tedium of case filing and research. Desperately wanting to "practice law" and go to trial, one morning he intentionally withholds the fact that a trial is scheduled to begin that very afternoon to compel his superiors to let him try the cas... | satire, murder | train | wikipedia | A little known, great great movie.
Quite simply I love this movie, not because I have an affinity to any of the actors but simply because it's a very easy way to pass a couple of hours.For movie which attempts to broach one of the legal systems greatest dilemmas (how to defend the guilty) the screenwriters and director... |
tt0037306 | Springtime for Pluto | The Spirit of Spring in the form of a faun dances through the countryside playing his panflute and melting the snow, heralding the end of winter and the beginning of spring. When his revitalizing influence reaches Pluto's doghouse, it causes mushrooms to magically sprout up under Pluto's chin, waking him from his winte... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0071840 | Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare | A bunch of thieves kidnap a boy in a red hoodie from his mother's arms. This is followed by an action-packed car chase full of breaking boxes, defacing cars, and slim getaways. The chase ends when the kidnappers are saved by an oncoming train, which cuts off the police from their trail. They find this a perfect opportu... | violence, cult, neo noir, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | Although Lenzi's own VIOLENT NAPLES is also a well-made, highly effective genre entry, this one comes close to beating out that one when it comes to sheer brutality and an almost unbelievable barrage of nasty violence.A rarity in most Italian crime thrillers, this film benefits enormously from an intriguing and woefull... |
tt0071249 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Teresa, the pregnant teenage daughter of a powerful man known only as "El Jefe" (Spanish for "The Boss"), is summoned before her father and interrogated as to the identity of her unborn child's father. Under torture, she identifies the father as Alfredo Garcia, whom El Jefe had been grooming to be his successor. Infuri... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, realism, cult, violence, insanity, melodrama, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | On the trail are hit men Quill & Sappensly, Bennie & his prostitute girlfriend Elita, and some other Mexican bandit types, all of them are on a collision course that will bring far more than they all bargained for.This was the one film where director Sam Peckinpah felt he had the most control, the one where we apparent... |
tt0112174 | Spellbinder | A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders. Paul meets a girl there na... | alternate history | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0780607 | The Signal | Three MIT students – Jonah, Nic, and Haley – are on a road trip to move Haley to California, a decision that stresses Nic's relationship with her. Haley feels Nic is distancing himself from her and Nic explains he doesn't want his disability to hold her back (Nic walks with forearm crutches, and the possibility of musc... | comedy, violence, cult, flashback, insanity, romantic, entertaining, sadist | train | wikipedia | Even as an avid horror buff, low budget titles like this tend to slip through the net usually simply due to their lack of big name distribution.Let's hope that with "The Signal" however, this doesn't happen.Why?
Because this movie is powerful, thoughtful and downright terrifying in its execution.The movie opens with a ... |
tt0242508 | Harvard Man | The story concerns Harvard student Alan Jensen, the point guard of the Harvard basketball team. When his parents' house is destroyed by a tornado, Alan is desperate for $100,000 to replace their home. He is approached by his girlfriend Cindy Bandolino, whose father is an organized crime boss. Cindy convinces Alan to th... | plot twist, philosophical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0035885 | Flesh and Fantasy | First segment The setting is New Orleans. Plain and embittered Henrietta (Betty Field) secretly loves law student Michael (Robert Cummings). On Mardi Gras night, a mysterious stranger (Edgar Barrier) gives her a white mask of beauty that she must return at midnight. At a party, Michael falls in love with Henrietta but ... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | Flesh and Fantasy is a rare forties Hollywood attempt at an art film, and while I cannot say it's wholly successful, it's a good try.
Directed by the highly esteemed French director Julian Duvivier and produced by the highly esteemed French actor Charles Boyer, it consists of three stories of the supernatural, told to ... |
tt1103256 | Red Sands | In 2002, Jeff Keller, who mysteriously survived the slaughter of his troops during a mission, is debriefed by an officer. The facts gathered indicate that he and his soldiers had been ambushed by al-Qaeda fighters who killed them all, leaving Keller for dead.
Two weeks before, in September 2002, Keller's crew gets a mi... | insanity, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | i wish there were more army/horror films it makes a good genre.
i have read bad reviews all over the net for this film ,but i enjoyed this movie .
While patrolling the desert, they find a millenary temple with a stone carved idol; their translator Gregory Wilcox (Callum Blue) explains that worshippers come to that plac... |
tt0137338 | 200 Cigarettes | The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. Monica (Plimpton) is throwing a big New Year's bash and is desperately afraid no one will attend. Early on the only person to have arrived is her friend Hillary (Catherine Kellner). As she tries to convince Hillary to stay, we learn about vario... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0036189 | Mystery of the 13th Guest | When Marie Morgan (Helen Parrish) was eight years old, she attended a banquet held by her dying grandfather, who disliked everyone in his family except for her. That day he instructed her to return to his house upon her twenty-first birthday to read his will alone. Marie arrives at the house, and although it has been v... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1156466 | Undisputed III: Redemption | Years have passed since Yuri Boyka suffered a humiliating defeat and a broken knee at the hands of George "Iceman" Chambers. Humbled by his injury, he has relegated to becoming the prison janitor. Meanwhile, mob boss Gaga has expanded his prison tournament enterprise into an inter-prison tournament called the Prison Sp... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | Strong fighting movie with predictable plot but still good..
You will enjoy him and supporting actors; Mykel Shannon Jenkins aka Turbo and Mark Ivanir as Gaga.For once, not the average crap of usual action movie "alone against the world".
This is a packed with action movie about an international prison mma tournament.F... |
tt0071391 | Dark Places | Libby Day, the novel's narrator and protagonist, is the sole survivor of a massacre in Kinnakee, Kansas, a fictional rural town. After witnessing the murders of her two sisters and mother, in what appears to be a Satanic cult ritual, she escapes through a window and later testifies in court against her teenage brother.... | paranormal, insanity, murder | train | wikipedia | "Dark Places" tells of a man who inherits a house that is reputed to contain a stash of money hidden somewhere by the original owner.
The new owner moves in, despite warnings from local people that the house is cursed, and enthusiastically begins hunting for the loot.
Unfortunately for him, there are other people tryin... |
tt0387522 | Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies | The film begins with Puff acting out the lies of a girl named Sandy, who has developed a persistent habit of making up absurd lies on most occasions, and shows how this has alienated most of her friends and leaving only her dog as a companion. Puff moves to intervene when she causes a household accident and falsely bla... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0168794 | The Five Senses | The Five Senses is about interconnected stories linked by a building which examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by Ruth Seraph, a massage therapist who is treating Anna Miller. Ruth's daughter Rachel accidentally loses Anna's pre-school daughter, Amy Lee, in the park, when Rachel is distra... | romantic, home movie | train | wikipedia | This year, "The Five Senses" deserves equal success by being merely natural -being able to tell a human story intelligently.
The film is a collection of love vignettes with each character cleverly highlighting one of the human senses.
Writer and director Jeremy Podeswa has intertwined a human drama of finding a missing... |
tt0073092 | Hard Times | The novel follows a classical tripartite structure, and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7, "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing", Book II is entitled "Reaping", and the third is "Garnering."
=== Book I: Sowing ===
Superintendent Mr. Gradgrind opens the no... | violence, depressing | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0011647 | The Round-Up | Following the quelling of Lajos Kossuth's 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule in Hungary, prison camps were set up for people suspected of being Kossuth's supporters. Around 20 years later, some members of highwayman Sándor Rózsa's guerrilla band, believed to be some of Kossuth's last supporters, are known to be inte... | murder | train | wikipedia | Moving Into Features. So Joe Schenck cut a great deal with Paramount to get Arbuckle into features. And as long as they were paying him an amazing sum of money, they gave him a role in this western until they could get a comedy vehicle ready for him. Paramount got its money's worth out of its stars by putting them in a... |
tt0078902 | Breaking Away | Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. Now turning 19, they all graduated from high school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned water-filled quarry, but also... | inspiring, prank | train | wikipedia | My wild enthusiasm after leaving the theatre was similar at the time to my previous reaction to 'Star Wars', a fact that I attribute to the natural electrical charge of the endings of both films.Of course, a nine-year-old lacks the world experience to empirically understand the central messages of this film, and at the... |
tt0004099 | His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz | King Krewl (Raymond Russell) is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry his daughter, Princess Gloria (Vivian Reed), to an old courtier named Googly-Goo (Arthur Smollett), but she is in love with Pon, the Gardener's boy (Todd Wright). Krewl employs the Wicked Witch named Mombi (Mai We... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Often Unrefined, But Enjoyable & Creative.
There are times when the rather unrefined nature of this Oz fantasy feature stands out, but any rough edges are smoothed out by the enjoyable and creative nature of the story and the characters.
It's one of an unfortunately small number of Oz features made by L.
Frank Baum's o... |
tt0258967 | The Unsaid | "A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past."
Psychiatrist Michael Hunter (Andy García) and his wife are watching their daughter Shelly's school play. Their son Kyle, who is suffering from depression, stays at home, because he can not s... | revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104139 | Dr. Giggles | In the town of Moorehigh in 1957, the patients of Dr. Evan Rendell kept disappearing. After some investigation, the citizens of Moorehigh found that he and his son Evan Jr. (nicknamed "Dr. Giggles" for his hideous laugh), were ripping out patients' hearts—in an attempt to bring back the doctor's dead wife. The townspeo... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | A Surprise: 'Dr. Giggles" Is A Funny Guy. This was a surprisingly entertaining B-type film with a lot of good lines by "Dr. Giggles" (Larry Drake).
Dr Evan Rendell or Dr Giggles from the title wonderfully played by Larry Drake is,along with officer Joe Vickers(Bobby Ray Shafer)from "Psycho Cop" series,one of the funnie... |
tt0179566 | Double Dare | The film begins with Bell finishing her work on Xena and Epper searching for continuing work in Hollywood despite her age, even considering liposuction before forgoing cosmetic surgery. Xena ends its run and Bell struggles with what to do next in her career. Meanwhile, Epper negotiates to have a women's category includ... | non fiction | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0452592 | Borderland | The action begins with Mexico City policemen banging on the door of what seems to be an abandoned house. Ulises (Damian Alcazar) and his partner enter the house and find gruesome remnants of animal sacrifices and human remains. The two are ambushed by the occupants and Ulises is forced to watch them torture and mutilat... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0039545 | Lady in the Lake | Tired of the low pay of his profession, hard-boiled private detective Phillip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) submits a murder story to Kingsby Publications. He is invited to the publishers’ offices to discuss his work but soon realizes it is merely a ploy. A few days before Christmas, publishing executive Adrienne Fromset... | cult, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0066079 | Das Millionenspiel | Das Millionenspiel ("The Game of Millions") is a successful TV show from the private station TETV. To win the grand prize of one million German marks, a candidate has to survive seven days on the run while being hunted by the Köhler gang. Of the first 14 candidates, 8 were killed during the course of the game.
Bernhard... | cult, satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0158653 | Coming Home | The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan.
Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the la... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A disappointment for fans of the book.
"Coming Home" could make a very engrossing 6-8 hour mini-series; unfortunately this production is all surface fairy-tale gloss with none of the depth and intent of the book.
Vast and important chunks of the original story are missing; most of the remnants are turned upside-down an... |
tt0050874 | The Quiet Gun | Doug Sadler (Lee Van Cleef), a cattle rustler comes to town. He’s in a secret partnership with saloon owner John Reilly (Tom Brown). They plan to run the stolen cattle into Hell’s Canyon, located on land belonging to Ralph Carpenter (Jim Davis). Carpenter and his wife Teresa (Kathleen Crowley) are separated, so Reilly ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0360348 | All Cheerleaders Die | The film opens with Maddy Killian (Caitlin Stasey) recording footage of her childhood friend Alexis (Felisha Cooper) as she prepares for the final days of school before summer break and for cheerleading practice. She discusses how important it is to remain fit and how dangerous cheerleading can be, pointing out how eas... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0119948 | Il principe di Homburg | The Prince of Homburg, a young officer of the Great Elector (Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg), is exhausted after a long campaign. Walking in his sleep, he puts on a laurel wreath. Several noblemen notice this, and the Great Elector plays a trick on the Prince, which leads him to declare his love for the El... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt5810762 | Resident Evil: Biohazard | In 2017, Ethan Winters, a civilian with an unknown background, is drawn to a derelict plantation in Dulvey, Louisiana, by a message from his wife Mia, who has been missing for the past three years. Exploring a seemingly abandoned house, Ethan finds Mia imprisoned in the basement. During their escape, Mia suddenly becom... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097940 | Mystery Train | The film consists of three stories that take place on the same night in downtown Memphis. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by the night clerk (Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and bellboy (Cinqué Lee), where the principal characters in each story spend a part of the ni... | murder, cult, atmospheric, psychedelic, humor, storytelling | train | wikipedia | 'Mystery Train' is probably the most entertaining, interesting and understated of indie-fave Jim Jarmusch's early work (i haven't seen 'Coffee and Cigarettes' yet).
The films portrayal of Elvis' birthplace of Memphis, possibly one of the most featureless, gritty and desolate representations of urban America ever commit... |
tt1566648 | Waiting for 'Superman' | Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and his surprise when he realizes upon entering adulthood that Superman is a fictional character and that no one is powerful enough to save us all.
Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Things such as the ... | depressing, sentimental | train | wikipedia | The system should reward the teachers, parents and children who do want to teach and learn.Regardless of your politics or personal involvement in education, I commend Mr. Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") and Mr. Gates and Ms. Rhee for rocking the boat ...
I can't remember the last time I got so caught up in a docum... |
tt0252381 | Dino Crisis 2 | On May 10, 2010, TRAT is selected to investigate the disappearance of Edward City and its surrounding countryside. Their mission is to travel through the Time Gate, locate 1300 survivors and collect data on what happened to the Third Energy project. Intelligence operative Regina is brought along as an adviser due to he... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0214841 | Karz | Ravi Verma wins a legal battle against Sir Judah, his dead father's business partner. Shantaprasad Verma, Ravi's dead father, was a rich man in Coonoor, whose property was unjustly usurped by Sir Judah after his death. Ravi gives the good news to his mother without realizing that Judah has already set contrary plans in... | good versus evil, revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0189584 | The Big Kahuna | Larry Mann (Kevin Spacey) and Phil Cooper (Danny DeVito), who are both experienced marketing representatives working for an industrial lubricants company, attend a trade convention in Wichita in the American Midwest. They are joined in their hospitality suite by Bob Walker (Peter Facinelli), a young man from the compan... | philosophical | train | wikipedia | Bottom line is, I'll long remember Danny DeVito's touching, understated performance.He and Kevin Spacey (Phil and Larry, respectively) play experienced industrial lubricant salesman who've been sent to a convention in Wichita.
Facinelli is devout, Spacey is not, DeVito rides in the middle lane and tries to keep the pea... |
tt0156413 | The Clown at Midnight | Years ago, opera singer Lorraine Sedgewick (Vicki Marentette) was killed in her dressing room at an opera house, supposedly by Lorenzo Orsini (Jonathan Barrett), one of the lead actors in a performance of Pagliacci. When Orsini was thought to have fled to Europe afterwards, the opera house closed down.
Years later, hig... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | the clown at midnight is a story about a teenage girl that is going to help clean up an old opera house with her 7 friends even though her mother was murdered in that same opera house 15 years ago once a couple of the student drop the ones left get suspicious and try to escape the masked killer and some of them are mu... |
tt0458480 | Simon Says | In the forest, Leanne and Clay are making out. Their friends Sam, Sarah, Lani, Will and Jenny are watching them and giggling. Leanne and Clay discover them and get angry. Leanne and Clay leave the campsite in the group's van. The others begin drinking and laughing around a campfire. An unseen attacker axes Will while h... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0023686 | What Price Hollywood? | Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans (Constance Bennett) is an aspiring actress who has an opportunity to meet film director Maximillan Carey (Lowell Sherman) when she serves him one night. He is very drunk but is charmed by the young girl, and he invites her to a premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Adhering to his polic... | satire | train | wikipedia | Another film that deserves a wider viewership and a DVD release, "What Price Hollywood?" looks at the toll Hollywood takes on the people who make it possible.Adela Rogers St John wrote the Oscar-nominated story of a fading genius of a director, destroyed by drink, who launches one last discovery into the world.
Lowell ... |
tt0337711 | Rugrats Go Wild | The Rugrats go on an adventure through the safari. Tommy impersonates Nigel Thornberry, who is his role model and spoofs his nature show. However, the babies' broadcast is cut short when they come across a tiger and then a crocodile, both of which threaten them. Just as they begin sinking in quicksand and are nearly at... | bleak | train | wikipedia | The end credits for "Rugrats Go Wild!" include a section headed "Klasky Csupo Accounting," which unfortunately figures; this third theatrical outing for the Rugrats and second one for the Wild Thornberrys plays more like a marketing exercise than an actual movie.With this big-screen crossover of two TV shows, you'd thi... |
tt0071910 | Il portiere di notte | It is 1957, Maximilian Theo Aldorfer, a former Nazi SS officer who had posed as a doctor in order to take sensational photographs in concentration camps, and Lucia Atherton, a Holocaust survivor, had an ambiguous sadomasochistic relationship. Flashbacks show Max tormenting Lucia, but also acting as her protector.
Lucia... | pornographic, cruelty, murder, bleak, flashback, sadist | train | wikipedia | These aesthetic qualities produce a sense of doom and sadness, yet also show beauty and love amidst the hopelessness.Dirk Bogarde gives a really masterful performance as Max, a former Nazi SS man who bears a huge burden of guilt.
Another character, an Italian who survived awful times, appears like a dog who has been be... |
tt0045607 | The Captain's Paradise | In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec Guinness) is escorted through an angry, clamouring crowd by a platoon of soldiers. They enter a fort and it is clear that he is to be executed. The commander (Peter Bull) orders the men to line up in two rows and gives the order to fire. As the shots ring out, the scene changes ... | plot twist, comedy | train | wikipedia | Alec Guinness made a few silly comedies and "The Captain's Paradise" is the best.
Mr. Guinness portrays an international naval captain who is married to two different women at the same time: Celia Johnson as your average housewife and Yvonne De Carlo as your average sexpot.
It is the tale of an English sea Captain (Al... |
tt0430431 | One Night with the King | The movie is set in Susa, Persia (now Iran). King Xerxes holds a great feast for all the people to attend. Hadassah (the main protagonist) longs to go to Jerusalem to see the Holy Land and prepares to leave with the caravan along with her friend, Jesse. They stop by the King's feast before he goes marching to war to av... | violence, romantic | train | wikipedia | She definitely matured and grew gracefully into the role of Queen Esther as the movie progressed -- and fortunately her dialog improved as well.I was very drawn into scenes that featured other actors from the beginning however.
It has everything...a beautiful love story, humor, intrigue, great acting, noble characters,... |
tt0112792 | Dangerous Minds | LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a discharged U.S. Marine, applies for a teaching job in high school, and is surprised and pleased to be offered the position with immediate effect. Showing up the next day to begin teaching, however, she finds herself confronted with a classroom of tough, sullen teenagers, all from ... | inspiring | train | wikipedia | So running into this tonight, I finally decided go give in and give it a watch.My final assessment is that although this movie bears comparison to a long list of great-teacher-inspires-kids movies, I now embrace the movie because Michelle's portrayal brings it over the top, also, I was positively impressed with Renoly ... |
tt0119502 | The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Told from Neal Cassady's (Thomas Jane) perspective, in a form of a letter, the film follows his life before and after the suicide attempt by his longtime lover, Joan (Claire Forlani). Demonstrating Neal's active mind and ever changing thoughts, the film jumps back and forth between before and after the attempt.
The sto... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Seeing that the whole movie is based on a letter from Neal Cassidy to Jack Kerouac, I reckon Stephen Kay did an excellent job of re-creating the essence that was Cassidy and his neer-do-well existence.You felt for Neal (played very well by Thomas Jane ).
He could almost taste the sweetness of a well balanced life - the... |
tt1363127 | Northern Lights | Homicide detective Nate Burns (Cibrian) once lived a tough life in Baltimore, but decides to move to a small Alaskan town, after being offered the position of chief of police. Burns leaves Baltimore just a few weeks after his partner is shot and killed, feeling partially responsible for what has happened.
Nate finds hi... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0328589 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is a San Francisco writer whose seemingly perfect life takes an unexpected turn when she learns that her husband has been cheating on her. The divorce—and the loss of her house to her ex-husband and his much-younger, pregnant new partner—leaves her depressed and unable to write. Her best frie... | comedy, realism, romantic | train | wikipedia | "Under the Tuscan Sun" is a polarizing film that seems to leave viewers (and critics) either in love with a story of growth and renewal or dismissive of its line.
I'm firmly in the former camp.Based so loosely on Frances Mayes's own account of her regeneration in beautiful Italy as to carry an end credit pronouncing th... |
tt1294226 | The Last Song | At seventeen, Veronica "Ronnie" Miller (Miley Cyrus) remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved to North Carolina three years prior. Once a classical piano child prodigy under the tutelage of her father, Steve Miller (Greg Kinnear), Ronnie now ignores the instrument and has not s... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Mr. Sparks's death sequences are so surprising, that you could almost say they're completely unrelated to the genre that the previous two hours were aiming to be.And when a movie like Precious thinks its portrayal of a teenage girl in emotional turmoil is accurate, it's alarmingly mistaken.
That's what made the most re... |
tt0116334 | For Ever Mozart | The film is divided into four parts, which Godard has subsequently given by name.
=== Theater ===
In the first part, Vicky Vitalis, an elderly film director, is casting a new project called "Fatal Bolero," assisted by his nephew, Jérôme. A group of hopeful actors lines up to audition, but Vicky is dissatisfied with eac... | avant garde, murder, violence, psychedelic, satire, philosophical, romantic | train | wikipedia | It is Necessary to Dream (with spoilers).
This seemed quite accessible to me, at least in the context of late Godard.
The title is a pun on "Il Faut Rever", setting the theme of art in troubled times.
The story is about a group of young and somewhat naive actors setting off to perform the Musset play "On Ne Badine Pas ... |
tt1104836 | Feast III: The Happy Finish | Honey Pie is mauled and beheaded by a monster who quickly digests and excretes her head. Lightning survived the explosion near him and stumbles off. The remaining survivors (Biker Queen, Tat Girl, Tit Girl, Secrets, Bartender, Slasher and Greg now with a pipe lodged in his head) are then attacked by monsters on the roo... | revenge, psychedelic, satire, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0060899 | Ride Beyond Vengeance | A census taker (James MacArthur) arrives in the Texas town of Cold Iron, with a population of 789. He goes into the local bar for a cold beer, and tells the bartender the town has an unusual number of citizens named "Jonas" and "Reprisal." He observes a painting above the bar of a violent street fight. He is then told ... | violence | train | wikipedia | Although produced on a low budget by television producers Mark Goodson And Bill Toddman ("The Price is Right") and featuring several names mostly familiar to TV audiences, it has a dynamic, if pessimistic script more concerned with character development than standard action--not that the film lacks action or violence.
... |
tt0047101 | Human Desire | Returning Korean War vet Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) is a train engineer, usually working alongside Alec Simmons (Edgar Buchanan). Alec's daughter Ellen (Kathleen Case) is in love with Jeff.
Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) is a gruff, hard-drinking assistant yard supervisor married to the younger and more vibrant Vicki ... | murder, melodrama | train | wikipedia | The film turns out to be gloomy, often bleak melodrama that has a striking affinity with Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity" in its plot, dealing with a married woman (Gloria Grahame) trying to get rid of her bland husband (Broderick Crawford) through the help of a train engineer (Glenn Ford).
If you stop concentrating o... |
tt0056219 | Maniac | Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) is a deranged man that due to his suffering from his abusive mother when he was a child, he becomes a serial killer that murders young women and scalps them to add towards his mannequin collection. After he awakens in his bed screaming and crying from having a nightmare about killing a couple o... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0360463 | Chalte Chalte | Geeta and a young man are in love and want to marry. Unfortunately the young man tragically passes away, leaving behind a devastated and shocked Geeta, who eventually loses her senses and is confined to a mental hospital. Years later, Geeta recovers and is discharged, only to find that the man she thought was dead is s... | murder | train | wikipedia | Psychotic woman in case of mistaken identity (poss spoiler). What attracted me to this film was the soundtrack which features the famous song "chalte chalte mere geet yaad rakna kabhi alvida na kehena" This where it all ends for this film though. This film fails to live up to any type of expectation. The story though i... |
tt0181947 | 3 dev adam | The story takes place in Istanbul, where a violent criminal organization led by Spider-Man ("Spider's Gang") surfaces in the city with counterfeit United States dollars. A small task-force consisting of Captain America, Santo and Captain America's girlfriend Julia arrives to help local police stop Spider-Man and his ga... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0077223 | The Bermuda Depths | On a Bermuda beach, a sleeping Magnus Dens (Leigh McCloskey) is approached by a beautiful but mysterious woman (Connie Sellecca), who seems to recognize him. In the meantime, Magnus is dreaming of his childhood, playing on the same beach, watching a turtle egg hatch with his friend Jennie. Jumping a few years later, bo... | paranormal, horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0048281 | The Ladykillers | Mrs Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding lopsided house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where ... | comedy, murder | train | wikipedia | But it doubles as a sly, subtle rummage around the psychology of the respectable, old-fashioned middle classes, with Katie Johnson deserving top billing alongside Alec Guinness (she doesn't get it) for her remarkable turn as the lady in question, the redoubtable Mrs Wilberforce.
The screenplay, deservedly Oscar-nominat... |
tt0280928 | MediEvil | In the year 1286, an evil sorcerer named Zarok plotted to take over the kingdom of Gallowmere with his undead army. It is told in legend that the champion, Sir Daniel Fortesque, led the King of Gallowmere's army to victory and managed to kill Zarok before he succumbed to his mortal wounds. In reality however, Dan was i... | comedy, gothic | train | wikipedia | You'll wonder how you ever left the grave without it. This is what it would look like if Tim Burton made a video-game. Hundreds of years ago, in the kingdom of Gallowmere there was a popular and trusted knight, and when the sorcerer Zarok attacked, it was this man, Daniel Fortesque, who led the force against the fiend.... |
tt0110955 | The Ref | In a charming Connecticut village, Lloyd and Caroline Chasseur (Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis) are in marriage counseling on Christmas Eve; the session doesn't go well and their problems become evident. Caroline has had an affair, and Lloyd is miserable and blames the problems with their son, Jesse (Robert J. Steinmiller... | comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0099399 | Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) is a wealthy and powerful drug kingpin who controls the cocaine industry with an iron fist. His drugs pour steadily into America, corrupting the country's youth and causing a feud between the DEA and San Carlos, Cota's country of origin.
The film opens during a carnival in Rio de Janeiro, as an... | cult, revenge, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | Compared to the big studio tentpole Summer blockbusters, all Norris films are like home movies.
To me personally, however, the line between these big budgeted action flicks and Chuck's is becoming thinner and thinner as time goes by (what at first seems like innovation soon becomes just another cliché as it is imitated... |
tt0094668 | Appurushîdo | Deunan Knute, a young soldier and one of the Global War's last survivors, is rescued by Hitomi, a Second Generation Bioroid. Knute's escape attempt is stopped by her former lover Briareos Hecatonchires, now a cyborg. She realizes that the war had ended and she is in a Utopian city called Olympus. Its population is half... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1131749 | Poison Ivy: The Secret Society | Recently orphaned country girl Danielle "Daisy" Brooks leaves her ranch and her boyfriend William behind to pursue her college degree, and transfers to Berkshire college, an elite New England private school haunted by the mysterious death of a young college student, Alexis Baldwin. Her first week as a college freshman ... | murder | train | wikipedia | This movie had some potential in the script, and the actors had moments where they shined through, but for the most part this movie was a muddled mess.The plot to this film seems like it was originally intended for teenage girls.
If that had been the case, and the nudity and rather boring sex scenes had been excised I ... |
tt0022913 | Freaks | The film opens with a sideshow barker drawing customers to visit the sideshow. A woman looks into a box to view a hidden occupant and screams. The barker explains that the horror in the box was once a beautiful and talented trapeze artist. The central story is of this conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra, who seduces and... | dark, suspenseful, cult, horror, atmospheric, psychedelic, revenge, sentimental | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0872230 | My Soul to Take | Family man Abel Plenkov (Raul Esparza), a sufferer of schizophrenia, accidentally discovers that he is the Riverton Ripper, a local, masked serial killer. After killing his pregnant wife, Sarah (Alexandra Wilson), and then his psychiatrist, he is shot down and carted away in an ambulance, leaving his young daughter Lea... | paranormal, revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | It keeps you wondering, guessing and a little annoyed you didn't see it coming.Admittedly, I do scroll through the reviews to get an idea of how people viewed the movie and how they rated it.I have my own 5 Star system which got this film a 4.5.If you are new to IMDb.....never, ever take the scoring system to heart.
Na... |
tt0107969 | Rising Sun | During a commencement gala at the newly opened Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a Japanese keiretsu, a professional escort named Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detectives Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery), a former polic... | mystery, neo noir, murder, suspenseful, violence, intrigue, revenge | train | wikipedia | Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes and Harvey Keitel star, along with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako and Tia Carrere.
It's Japanese-big business-politics intrigue with surveillance cameras being the key to figuring out a murder.Connery and Snipes complement each other as a "buddy" cop duo with Connery being mostly... |
tt0086807 | Spitting Image | At the time he wrote The Spitting Image, Lembcke had not found a single substantiated media report to support the now common claims of spitting. He theorizes that the reported "spitting on soldiers" scenario was a mythical projection by those who felt "spat upon" by an American society tired of the war; an image which ... | satire | train | wikipedia | Ignore the dreadful 1994/1996 era and you have the best satire series ever made..
What on earth went wrong?
From its start in 1984 through to 1993 this was the best satire series on TV, but when Giles Pilbrow took over as producer in 1994 things went from bad to worse.
The witty humor turned into spiteful name-calling ... |
tt0070195 | The House in Nightmare Park | Struggling actor Foster Twelvetrees (Frankie Howerd) is invited to a large country home by Stewart Henderson (Ray Milland) to perform a dramatic reading for his family. Outwardly, Stewart is complimentary and enthusiastic, but his more sinister intentions were made clear when earlier he secretly sliced a poster of Twel... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0034445 | Alias Boston Blackie | In the Christmas spirit, Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) decides to entertain the inmates at his old "alma mater" by bringing a variety show headed by clown Roggi McKay (George McKay). Roggi drops one of his showgirls, Eve Sanders (Adele Mara), as she has already visited her prisoner brother, Joe Trilby (Larry Parks), ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Watchable, fast-paced.
Its just entertainment and was meant to be just that.
I give it a solid "7" vote because is accomplishes what it sets out to do- it entertains you and will hold your attention.
No lofty pretensions, no Oscar awards were expected here.Sit back and watch, be entertained, its fast and cute in a well... |
tt0466771 | Puff, Puff, Pass | The film opens with an infomercial, given by Dick Dupre (a parody of Don Lapre) played by John C. McGinley, which Larry (Danny Masterson) and Rico (Ronnie Warner) are watching. Larry and Rico are two stoners who live in a one-room apartment, and after watching the entire infomercial, they decide to start a "tiny classi... | comedy | train | wikipedia | Not that bad.
If you go into watching this movie looking for the pothead humor of Half Baked or even That 70s Show, you will not find what you are looking for.
By that I mean there is no "Man I am so high" giggle giggle jokes.
Although there is a fair share of toilet humor, literally.
The acting, in my opinion was good... |
tt0054073 | Meghe Dhaka Tara | To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon, a medium to portray struggle of common man He was successful neither in his career nor could he become a good family man or husband. Still he was an artist who never compromised for personal gain, fame or profit.
The story of the film starts in... | melodrama | train | wikipedia | One charge laid against the revered director Satyajit Ray was that, much like Kurosawa in Japan, his films weren't national or native enough, that they gave a Westerner's view of India, one moulded in Western forms, rather than something 'authentically' Indian.
That said, 'The Cloud-Capped Star' seems to me to be a tru... |
tt1911658 | Penguins of Madagascar | In Antarctica, three young penguin brothers – Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico – defy the laws of nature to save an egg the other penguins believe to be doomed. After saving it from a pack of leopard seals and accidentally setting themselves adrift on an iceberg, the egg hatches into Private.
Ten years later (after the even... | good versus evil, revenge, comedy, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0030138 | Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Larry "Buster" Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), and Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) - accidentally accompanied by wisecracking reporter Happy Hapgood (Donald Kerr) - swing into action in Zarkov's rocketship, believing th... | good versus evil | train | wikipedia | Flash, Mars, and the Zeitgeist.
From certain standpoints, this serial is superior to the 1st Flash Gordon chapter-play.
The available prints are and photography are generally of better quality, some of the special effects are superior, there are certain exotic space novelties, like the Clay People's subway to the queen... |
tt0067588 | Play Misty for Me | Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) is a KRML radio disc jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program. He lives a rather freewheeling bachelor lifestyle. At his favorite bar, seemingly by chance, he encounters a woman named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Wal... | neo noir, murder, cult, flashback, insanity, romantic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Clint Eastwood made his directorial debut with this 1971 suspense/thriller, `Play Misty for Me,' in which he also stars as Dave Garver, a late night radio disc jockey for a small station in Carmel, California.
During his show, he opens the phones to take requests, at which times a frequent caller-- a woman named Evelyn... |
tt0120667 | Fantastic Four | Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and now... | entertaining, action, murder, boring, fantasy | train | wikipedia | Fantastic Four reminds of the quirkiness superhero films were once predicated upon, and while it may get a bit too corny at times, and its focus can never really settle, it's also a very commercial film that satisfies on some level of entertainment when it gives every card in its deck a fair time to shine.We open by lo... |
tt0049405 | The Killer Is Loose | An employee of a savings and loan company successfully robs a bank as an inside job. At first, bank employee Leon Poole (Wendell Corey) is considered a hero during the bank robbery, but the police quickly figure out he's involved in the crime. The cops catch up with Poole and his young wife at their apartment. Poole's ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | Watching "A Killer is Loose" it's not hard to see how Budd Boetticher garnered a reputation as one of the top B movie directors.
With the limited resources allotted to the makers of B movies, not to mention the casting of often second rate actors, a lot of skill went into creating the few B movies which have endured.Bo... |
tt2099556 | Antiviral | In a dystopian near-future, Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones) is employed by the Lucas Clinic, a company which purchases viruses and other pathogens from celebrities who fall ill, in order to inject them into clients who desire a connection with celebrities. In particular, the pathogens supplied by the Lucas Clinic's excl... | psychedelic, satire | train | wikipedia | Antiviral is a sci-fi/horror film from the mind of Brandon Cronenberg, David Cronenberg's son.
The film follows Syd March, a man who works for a company that harvests diseases from celebrities and then injects them into paying clients.
The new flesh here being David Cronenberg's son Brandon, who seems to have inherited... |
tt0395585 | House of 9 | The film opens up with surveillance camera views of a mansion and its rooms; the views alternate among images of nine people being kidnapped. Lea (Kelly Brook), an abductee, wakes up in a bedroom. She notices others in nearby bedrooms, and runs to the main door, bangs at it, and shouts to be let out. She finds the wind... | psychedelic, suspenseful, cruelty, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042296 | Caged | A married 19-year-old, Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker), is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her equally young husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical, she finds out that she is two months pregnant.
Marie has trouble adjusting to the monotonous and cutthroat world o... | cruelty, sadist | train | wikipedia | Not only is it a good prison drama, but it is a good example of film noir moviemaking as well.It was a bit of daring to show how corrupt the prison system can be and "inmates decaying" as one character put it.The lead character (Eleanor Parker) goes from being an innocent to becoming as hard as anyone else in the priso... |
tt0025011 | Crimson Romance | In 1916, childhood best friends, Bob Wilson (Ben Lyon) and Fred von Bergen (James Bush), are test pilots working for an American company that builds bombers for the European allies. Since he is German-born and faces prejudice against his heritage, Fred loses his job and, unable to find other employment, decides to retu... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Friendship or Country?. When Fred is forced to leave his job as a test pilot for being a German immigrant his friend Bob goes with him. These are the days prior to America's entry in to World War One and anti German hysteria is running high. Unable to find work Fred decides to return to Germany "where he's wanted" and ... |
tt0055458 | Snow White and the Three Stooges | Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarries because of the pleading of his people. His new Queen is a beau... | action | train | wikipedia | The sets and opulent costumes boost this film considerably, as do the presence of the very dark, traditional elements of European folklore, and I think this movie would have been a GREAT fantasy film if there had been seven dwarfs in it!
I would agree that Carol Heiss is not a very good actress, but the character of Sn... |
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