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tt2023587 | Mama | A man kills several of his business partners and his estranged ex-wife, then runs away with his children: a young Victoria and baby Lilly. After speeding on a remote, snowy road, he crashes into the woods and takes the children to an abandoned cabin he wanders upon nearby. Realizing the mistakes he has made, he prepare... | paranormal, suspenseful, horror, haunting | train | imdb | Years later the girls are discovered in the cabin, completely feral and when any sense can finally be made out of them, they talk of being looked after by someone they call Mama; And it seems Mama has come back with them to civilisation
Based on his own 2008 Argentinian short of the same name, Andres Muschietti expands... |
tt1837642 | Revenge | Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp) is the newest arrival in the Hamptons. By all appearances, she's a friendly and sophisticated "girl next door," but with a dark family history, Emily is anything but what she seems. Seventeen years ago, her father was framed for a crime by neighbors he trusted, and sentenced to life. Emily... | revenge | train | imdb | The only thing I am not sure of is how long this show can go, does it have a set end date because a show like this reminds me of an extended mini series since it will have to finish at some point.
There is mystery, love story, money, angry evil lady, and a lot of good looking people.
But then again I'll not be watching... |
tt0454941 | The Sensei | A Woman Warrior returns home. A Boy struggles to become a Man. Two destinies entertwine. The Master will give the final lesson. And the entire town will be changed by...The Sensei."You have a right to defend yourself against hatred"The story centers around McClain, a homosexual teenager who recently lost his lover to a... | good versus evil | train | imdb | Great Film.
I highly recommend The Sensei.
I was afraid at first that it would be a cheesy Karate Kid with a gay kid as the lead, but it was so much more than that.
The movie dealt with many levels of prejudice, including sexual orientation, race, gender, religion, and HIV.
It was touching while sending a powerful mess... |
tt1024943 | Om Shanti Om | Set in the 1970's, Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) is a junior artist in the film industry. He and his friend Pappu (Shreyas Talpade) are trying to become big heroes one day. Om's mother, Bela Makhija (Kirron Kher), inspires and encourages her son to become a hero. Om's whole family consists of junior artists. Om's... | revenge, romantic, melodrama | train | imdb | It's not a better film than Main Hoon Na, but still a good job.In 2007, 3 months before OSO released; SRK unleashed the actor in him and kept the star away in a movie called Chak De India.
Shah Rukh Khan is on his own today, with perhaps Denzel Washington, as a leading man with infinite appeal and effortless charm, int... |
tt0469021 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Norwich radio station North Norfolk Digital is bought out by a multinational conglomerate, with staff members facing redundancies. DJ Alan Partridge is not concerned, but fellow DJ Pat Farrell convinces him to gatecrash a board meeting to persuade the new owners not to fire Pat. When Alan discovers that either he or Pa... | revenge, comedy, satire, suicidal | train | wikipedia | The film contains all the best characters from the TV Series and Steve Coogan's brilliance as Alan just made the film so funny.
Everyone in the cinema was laughing out loud throughout the full 90 minutes.There is also a great sound track and lots of familiar tunes and the scene during the credits will have you laughing... |
tt0238463 | Timequest | On the morning of November 22, 1963, a seventy-something man (Ralph Waite) who wears spacesuit-type clothing materializes in the hotel suite occupied by Jackie Kennedy (Caprice Benedetti). The Time Traveler shows Jackie future television footage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy (Victor Slezak). Short... | alternate history | train | imdb | null |
tt0033627 | 49th Parallel | U-37, the first German submarine to reach Canada, sinks a merchant ship in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, then runs for cover in Hudson Bay. Captain Bernsdorff sends men ashore to capture a trading post - just before U-37 is destroyed by an RCAF bomber. Lieutenant Ernst Hirth, eager but inexperienced leader of the shore par... | murder | train | imdb | After a short while their plight becomes known and the whole world is watching to see which nation, Canada or Germany, can manage to win the metaphorical battle.The most interesting thing - considering the movie as propaganda - is that Powell's intended audience was the United States: he wanted to get that country invo... |
tt0099422 | Dick Tracy | During the film's opening credits, radio news broadcasts and newspaper headlines proclaim various gangland atrocities. As the action begins, a young street urchin (Charlie Korsmo), who calls himself "Kid," is seen eating out of a garbage can and hiding from the cops. The Kid witnesses an illegal poker game between five... | neo noir, murder, violence, alternate reality, good versus evil, romantic | train | imdb | It's not supposed to be "To Kill A Mockingbird" -- it's a fun experience.Stephen Sondhemim's songs are stellar: "Back in Business" is energetic, "Sooner or Later" is just right, "What Can You Lose" is haunting -- even tunes like "Live Alone and Like It" add to the storyGot to love the giddily over-the-top performances ... |
tt0096353 | Urusei Yatsura 5: Kanketsuhen | After falling asleep in class, Lum has a strange dream of a dark hooded figure coming to her as a child on her home planet of Oni. When Lum answers where she lives, the old man cackles with joy, claiming that he will come to claim her when she is older to take her to a dark place.Lum wakes from her dream and asks Ataru... | romantic | train | imdb | My favourite UY movie !!. This is certainly my favourite Urusei Yatsura movie. Summarizing the last chapters of the comic it concludes the story of Lum's and Ataru's fight for love and each other more or less (or so I believe; I haven't actually read the comic that far). The story is complex (for UY), the jokes are wit... |
tt0120630 | Chicken Run | The Tweedys are a troubled middle-aged couple who run their own chicken farm somewhere in a town in Yorkshire, England. Mrs. Tweedy (voiced by Miranda Richardson) is the ill-tempered brains of the pair, while Mr. Tweedy (voiced by Tony Haygarth) is slow, but he can handle the manual work industriously. The coop is run ... | cute, humor, entertaining, clever | train | imdb | null |
tt0808146 | The Naked Mile | Erik Stifler (John White) has a difficult time living up to his family name. He is Steve and Matt Stifler's cousin. He is perhaps the only Stifler about to graduate from high school as a virgin. The film opens with Erik feigning illness so that he can stay home and masturbate. Unfortunately, just as he is about to ejac... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Occasionally there's some vaguely funny stuff going on, like in the scene where the gang plays football against midgets, but whatever potential this movie had is ruined by the ridiculously awful dialogues.
His girlfriend acts like a total bi*ch and refuses to have sex with him so then she gives him a pass to do whateve... |
tt0033650 | The Gay Falcon | A high-brow detective attempts to stop crooks from running an insurance scam.Renowned Lady's man and amateur sleuth Gay Laurence AKA The Falcon (George Sanders) is going to forsake chasing dames and solving crimes for the sake of his fiancée Elinor Benford (Nina Vale). To please Elinor he and his sidekick Jonathan G. "... | romantic, mystery, murder | train | imdb | One of the best B-movie detective films thanks to terrific and witty dialog.
In the case of The Falcon, this is made even worse since the earlier RKO series, The Saint, is virtually indistinguishable from The Falcon--and both starred George Sanders for much of their run!
The plot itself was very good, but what really s... |
tt0090094 | The Stuff | Two miners (Peter Hock & Harry Bellaver) find a yogurt- and ice-cream-like substance that appears from inside the Earth's core in a kind of eruption. They taste it to see whether it's edible, and they like it a lot. They love the way that it tastes so much that they decide to mass-produce it and start selling it. From ... | cult, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0090323 | Wild Geese II | Africa, 1977In a brief flashback to the previous movie, veteran British mercenary Allen Faulkner trains and then leads a group of 50 hired soldiers in an attempt to rescue deposed President Julius Limbani from the fictious African country of Simba. After initially being successful, the mission begins to fall apart, dou... | cult, violence | train | imdb | Scott Glenn too returns a creditable performance, and Edward Fox steps into the shoes of Richard Burton quite seamlessly.
I have just seen this film, and l thought it was quite good, not up to the original but the story line was good, the acting was good, in fact it was a good film with a fantastic idea.Olivier and Fox... |
tt1862079 | Safety Not Guaranteed | Darius Britt (Aubrey Plaza) is a disillusioned college graduate who lives at home with her widower father (Jeff Garlin) and interns at Seattle Magazine. One of the magazine's writers, Jeff Schwensen (Jake Johnson), proposes to investigate a newspaper classified ad that reads:
Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me... | entertaining, romantic, cute, sentimental, flashback | train | wikipedia | Aubrey Plaza plays Darius, one of the interns who at first seems pretty disinterested in the whole situation, ends up being the one who has to pretend like she wants to time travel.
She expects to be working with a total nutjob, completely off his rocker, but instead she finds that Kenneth, the man who put the ad in th... |
tt1640548 | Rampart | The film opens as Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officer Dave Brown (Harrelson) patrols the Rampart Division. Brown is a 24-year veteran of the force, who previously served in the Vietnam War. While training a new officer, he roughs up a suspect to find the location of a meth lab. After work, he goes home to his ... | boring, murder | train | wikipedia | so far gone morally that redemption is no longer even a possibility.Writer James Ellroy (LA Confidential) and director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) present to us Officer Dave Brown, known to his fellow cops (and even his daughter) as "Date Rape" Dave.
This includes Robin Wright (who nearly matches Dave in the tortured... |
tt0239948 | Saving Silverman | Darren Silverman, Wayne LeFessier, and J.D. McNugent, best friends since fifth grade and Neil Diamond fans throughout, form a Neil Diamond tribute band called "Diamonds in the Rough". Darren meets a beautiful but domineering psychologist who is showing signs of being emotionally abusive, Judith Fessbeggler, through a c... | violence, comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0089791 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | Pee-wee Herman has a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he is shopping at the mall. The police tell Pee-wee that they can't help him find his bi... | cult, mystery, psychedelic, entertaining, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0057546 | The Sword in the Stone | In olden times, England is in turmoil. With the death of the King, noone can decide who is the rightful heir to the throne. With war threatening to tear the country asunder, a stone and anvil appear from the heavens in London town, with a sword planted firmly in the anvil. On the hilt of the sword, read the words, "Who... | cute, psychedelic, fantasy, historical, entertaining | train | imdb | As Walt himself once said: "For every laugh, there should be a tear." Disney take children always quite seriously, and a lot of his early films contains a lesson for life, sometimes the lesson can be very sad and cruel, like in "Bambi", sometimes lesser sad, like in "The Sword in the Stone"...
It was one of the last mo... |
tt0769507 | Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi | The movie details several interconnected stories.In the first story, the mother of an 18 year old boy in the countryside of revolutionary China 1976 begins acting strangely once she falls out of a tree trying to retrieve a pair of her shoes that a magical bird, which was repeating "I know, I know, I know" had stolen. A... | psychedelic | train | imdb | The movie basically revolves around two interconnecting stories.
In the first story, the mother of an 18 year old boy in the countryside of revolutionary China 1976 begins acting strangely once she falls out of a tree trying to retrieve a pair of her shoes that a mysteriously appearing bird, which was repeating "I know... |
tt0120789 | Pleasantville | David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) are twins and attend the same high school. Jennifer is concerned mainly with her appearance, relationships and popularity, while David watches a lot of television, has few friends, and is socially awkward. Their mother (Jane Kaczmarek) leaves Jennifer and David alo... | fantasy, whimsical, cute, alternate reality, psychedelic, satire, sentimental | train | imdb | It's an even bigger injustice that it did not get a nomination for best screenplay or cinematography.In the hands of another writer, this movie could have been made as just a parody of 1950's sitcoms like "Leave It To Beaver" or "Ozzie and Harriet." But this film isn't about how clichéd those series look decades later.... |
tt0407304 | War of the Worlds | Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a divorced union container crane operator with few skills as a father. Ray's ex-wife (Miranda Otto) drops off their rebelious but coming of age teenage son Robbie (Justin Chatwin), and meek 10-year old daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) for a weekend visit with their father in New Jersey. (Fil... | violence, action, murder | train | imdb | In other words, special- effects-wise, it isn't just about visuals but the audio as well.Although the story of the father (Tom Cruise) and his two estranged (is anyone pictured married in films nowadays?) kids is so-so at best, the film is all about the action.
Reserving comments on minor difficulties which would revea... |
tt0067140 | Giù la testa | In 1913 Mexico at the time of the Revolution. Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger), a Mexican outlaw leading a bandit family, meets John 'Sean' Mallory (James Coburn), an Irish Republican explosives expert on the run from the British. Noting his skill with explosives, Juan relentlessly tries to make him join a raid on the Mesa V... | western, cult, avant garde, action, flashback | train | imdb | It's really the bridge between Once Upon A Time In The West and Once Upon A Time In America,and it contains a great many elements of both films {which let's face it,despite both being Leone films are quite different}.It starts in humorous vein,right from the opening sequence of the dirty,very poor Rod Steiger character... |
tt2303077 | Avenida Brasil | Aos 11 anos de idade, relatam os especialistas, a criança tem um senso de justiça bastante aflorado. É também nesta fase em que o olhar crítico se acentua. Rita (Mel Maia), a protagonista desta história, tem exatos 11 anos quando sofre um duro golpe e vê o seu mundo virar ao avesso. Esta rasteira lhe deixa marcas profu... | revenge, murder, romantic | train | imdb | A masterpiece of soap operas. Sometimes it's hard to keep a strong story through so long. It usually become boring and always the same, but in this story you'll be always surprised. In the beginning it's very clear that the story is full of secrets, lies, etc. That will be the key for the story to have always something... |
tt0095132 | Il fantasma di Sodoma | Tucked away in a isolated country house during World War II, a group of AWOL Nazi soldiers indulge in orgiastic behavior with a few prostitutes. One, young, Aryan-blond soldier films the cavorting with a movie camera. While viewing the film, the Germans revels are brought to a sudden end when Allied bombs land on the v... | violence, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt3399484 | The Sand | A group of friends are having a party at the beach with some of their classmates. A girl named Heather (Etalvia Cashin) is videoing the party, when two of the boys, Vance (Hector David Jr.) and Gilbert (Cleo Berry), find a large ball covered in a strange gooey substance. All the teenagers agree to put their mobile phon... | violence | train | wikipedia | I watched it from beginning to end.I didn't have high expectations of the movie but the acting was good.No cardboard wooden acting.Its definitely NOT the worst movie of 2015.Talk about hyperbole.A group of young adults are trapped on a beach where something deadly has spawned overnight in the sand..There is some gore,n... |
tt0071807 | The Man with the Golden Gun | The pre-title sequence opens with an international assassin, Scaramanga, relaxing on a tropical beach with a woman, Andrea Anders, his lover. Scaramanga and Anders leave the beach, a short time later a gangster, Rodney, arrives and is met by Nick-Nack, a dwarf who works as a servant for Scaramanga. Rodney has been hire... | cult, murder | train | imdb | There'a also the most outrageous car stunt ever seen in a motion picture, rendered all the more impressive by the fact that it is not a computer enhanced sequence but was filmed for real (including that infamous loop-the-loop in the red sports car).Bond is played by Roger Moore for the second time.
Everything is a litt... |
tt0088011 | Romancing the Stone | Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is a New-York based writer of cheap romance novels. She's a bit clumsy in real life, although in her novels she writes about strong-minded heroines and sexy male adventurers falling in love passionately. One day, she finds her condo, where she lives with only the company of a cat, in a mes... | mystery, cult, action, romantic | train | imdb | Maybe in "Peggy Sue Got Married" or in "Prizzi's Honor" perhaps even in "Body Heat", but, it's safe to say that without her enormously captivating, thoroughly fabulous performance as Joan Wilder opposite Michael Douglas' career best comic performance as Jack Coltin, the movie wouldn't be such the modern-day classic it ... |
tt0790636 | Dallas Buyers Club | A son of Texas, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle. He gets rodeo-goers so pissed off that he has to run away from them. The presence of a cop (Steve Zahn) who pretends to arrest him is what saves him. H... | dramatic, inspiring, flashback | train | imdb | In The Dallas Buyers Club, we actually get two incredible transformations that lead to two stunning performances.Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto each lost approximately 40 pounds for their respective roles as Ron Woodroof, the redneck, three-way loving, alcoholic, drug-addicted electrician/rodeo cowboy; and Rayon, t... |
tt0082010 | An American Werewolf in London | Hiking on a road on the Yorkshire moors of Northern England, American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman come to a small village. They go into the local pub, called the Slaughtered Lamb, where they're coldly greeted by the locals. One of the regulars tells an off-color joke and while everyone, including Da... | comedy, gothic, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, humor, satire, suspenseful, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0288114 | The Mark of Cain | Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russias most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of its orig... | dark | train | imdb | null |
tt0133751 | The Faculty | One evening at Herrington High School in Ohio (home of the Hornets), several teachers and Principal Drake leave after discussing the school's budget. When Drake returns to retrieve her keys, Coach Willis becomes increasingly erratic and stabs a pencil through Drake's hand when she attempts to leave. Drama teacher Mrs. ... | mystery, violence, cult, horror, flashback, satire, suspenseful, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Cameos from Usher, Summer Phoenix and a seemingly pointless role for Harry Knowles (he's been bought!) don't spoil this.Overall as a sci-fi horror it's pretty good if not great there are better films around.
But what really makes this film special are the main characters: a delightful group of funny and interesting s... |
tt0986263 | Surrogates | The movie opens with an intro explaining the back-story in detail. In 2017, humans live in near-total isolation, rarely leaving the safety and comfort of their homes, thanks to remotely-controlled robotic bodies that serve as "surrogates," designed as better-looking versions of their human operators. Because people are... | murder, thought-provoking, alternate reality, psychedelic, action, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0088172 | Starman | In 1977, Voyager 2 was launched containing a gold, phonographic disk with messages of peace embedded within it and inviting visitors to come to the planet Earth. The Voyager probe is intercepted by an alien space ship which sends a small observational scout vessel in response to the invitation in order to establish fir... | comedy, suspenseful, boring, cult, violence, clever, psychedelic, revenge, home movie | train | imdb | His gentle alien comes in the form of a human clone (Jeff Bridges), and as we watch him interact with the rest of our race, we see both the good and the bad in all of us.
John Carpenter directed "Starman" in 1984, hot off the mega-success of the landmark horror movie "Halloween" in 1978 and the cult science fiction/adv... |
tt0106489 | A Bronx Tale | In 1960, Lorenzo Anello lives in Belmont, an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, with his wife Rosina and his 9-year old young son Calogero, who takes a fascination with the local mobsters led by Sonny LoSpecchio. One day, Calogero witnesses a murder committed by Sonny in defense of an assaulted friend in his n... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0111048 | S.F.W. | Cliff Spab and his friend Joe Dice go out one evening to buy beer from a convenience store, where a group of masked and heavily armed terrorists take them and three other people hostage. The terrorists, who call themselves S.P.L.I.T. Image (a play on "Split Image"), have a video camera with which they tape their hostag... | comedy, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, tragedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I just watched S.F.W. and was amazed at how, at least five years before the major trend of 'reality TV' became the in-thing, this movie satirized it, and showed it for how wrong and un-real it is.
I believe her role in this movie was slightly under-rated, she played your typical romantic interest but she also was the r... |
tt0903747 | Breaking Bad | Season 1A struggling high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), is diagnosed with inoperable, advanced lung cancer. On a ride along with his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), Walter sees a former student of his, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), fleeing the scene of a meth lab. He later... | violence, comedy, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | From an artistic point of view - performances, writing, direction, camera, music - this show is every bit as good as the other two mentioned above, but unlike those, 'Breaking Bad' just wants to entertain and therefore enjoys a lot more creative freedom.The show plays like the daydream fantasy of any underachieving, st... |
tt0395495 | Catch and Release | The film opens with Gray (Jennifer Garner) at the funeral of her fiancé, Grady. They were supposed to be married that day, but due to a boating accident that happened during his bachelor party weekend, he was killed. Gray is very upset and eventually seeks solace by hiding in the bathtub. Meanwhile, one of Grady's frie... | romantic, stupid | train | imdb | It was a very friendly audience, but watching the movie, I couldn't help but feel Grant could have and should have done better.The film opens promisingly, teasing us and playing with our expectations as we first see Gray (Jennifer Garner) and the circumstances she finds herself in.
However, Grant never quite builds on ... |
tt0063850 | If.... | Set in a British independent boys boarding school in the late 1960s (most of the scenes were filmed at Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, with the remainder at Uppingham School in Rutland and Aldenham School in Hertfordshire, England, UK). Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is one of three non-conformist boys among the... | comedy, avant garde, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, satire, romantic | train | imdb | Lindsay Anderson, arguably Britain's most underrated director, continued to expand upon McDowell's Mick Travis character in two subsequent movies, but 'If..' has a very different feel from those "sequels", if they can truly be termed that, and can be watched as a stand alone movie.
I left the cinema feeling so goddamn ... |
tt0156843 | Night of the Ghouls | The basic plot involves the police investigating a supposed haunted house. The house is discovered to serve as headquarters for a confidence trickster who pretends to be able to contact the dead, and charges naive customers large amounts of money to allow them to speak to their deceased loved ones.
The movie features a... | cult | train | wikipedia | It offers unrelated footage from the unfinished movie HELLBORN (some of which later turned up in THE SINISTER URGE) which narrator Criswell tries to tie into the plot: there is also footage of Duke Moore that was shot for a 1/2 hour TV show that is woven in also.
The giant octopus is long gone but Lobo (Tor Johnson) ha... |
tt0042876 | Rashômon | Sheltering from a rainstorm in the ruins of the Rashomon gatehouse, a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) and a priest (Minoru Chiaki) sit dejected. A commoner (Kichijiro Ueda) joins them, and wants to hear the "strange story" they have just heard at a murder enquiry in the courthouse garden. The story has horrified the pries... | mystery, murder, paranormal, bleak, flashback, psychedelic, philosophical, suspenseful | train | imdb | Selfish excuses vs trust in other people.Rashomon gets masterful when in one instant there is literally a different point of view: the camera takes another position to shoot the same sequence, thereby forcing the audience to reconsider what they just saw.
'Ghost dog: the way of the samurai' (1999) touched another borde... |
tt0068646 | The Godfather | In late summer 1945, guests are gathered for the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). Vito (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia family, is known to friends and associates as "Godfather." He and Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), the Corleone family la... | boring, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, atmospheric, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt0340377 | The Station Agent | Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage), a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with dwarfism, has a deep love of railroads. He works in a Hoboken model train hobby shop owned by his elderly and similarly taciturn friend Henry Styles (Paul Benjamin). Because he feels ostracized by a public that tends to view him as peculiar due to ... | psychedelic, cute, home movie | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1075747 | Jonah Hex | During the American Civil War, Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) served as a Confederate cavalryman until his commanding officer, Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) ordered him to burn down a hospital. Hex refused, and was forced to kill his best friend, Turnbull's son Jeb. After the war, a vengeful Turnbull and his right-hand ma... | boring, gothic, murder, violence, historical fiction, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | Sometimes I wonder if people that reviewed this film actually watched it, or if they gave it a chance, not like second glancing at it because they're cooking dinner at the same time.Jonah Hex is an entertaining little movie based upon the DC Comic Book character.
I have a good sound system and a nice TV - both made thi... |
tt0097366 | Fletch Lives | Irwin M. Fletcher (Chevy Chase) is back. Our hero starts out dressed in drag as a waitress at a Greek restaurant. He is there getting a story about a gambling ring that is run out of the restaurant. When he gets back to the office with the story, his boss is happy with it,but denies Fletch a vacation he promised him, s... | humor, satire, murder | train | imdb | First of all, how can anyone pick up a video with this sort of picture of Chevy Chase on the front and expect it to not be stupid--in the best possible sense!
And yet I have only recently added the first movie to my private collection.Chevy Chase is one of the best out-and-out comedy actors available in my opinion.
And... |
tt0404203 | Little Children | Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet) is a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother in a small Massachusetts suburban community. She had been working on a doctorate in English, but once she married Richard (Gregg Edelman) and had their daughter, the presently five-year-old Lucy (Sadie Goldstein), she set aside her research. Now she spen... | comedy, dark, psychological, realism, dramatic, thought-provoking, flashback, satire | train | imdb | "You couldn't change the past," the narrator of Little Children tells us at the movie's close, "but the future could be a different story." The lives of the men and women who live in the very paragon of bland suburbia appear to be crunchy (and even somewhat unforgiving) on the outside, but inside they break, well, just... |
tt0103060 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | A young pizza delivery boy named Keno inadvertently encounters burglars on his route and tries to stop them. Seeing him as a witness, the burglars attack Keno, who proves to be an expert martial artist, but he is soon overwhelmed before the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They vanish after rescuing Keno, t... | good versus evil, cult, humor, psychedelic, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1320304 | 30 Days of Night: Dark Days | A year after the Alaskan town of Barrow's population was decimated by vampires during its annual month-long polar night, Stella Oleson (Kiele Sanchez) travels the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. She is fully aware of the risk to her life that her work could bring, but does not care due to her grief... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | If you want to see a good vampire flick, catch the original or "Near Dark" or "Blood and Donuts." Heck, watch anything which shows either talent or enthusiasm, but do not watch this.
After the destruction and rebuilding of Barrow, Alaska, Stella Oleson (Kiele Sanchez) misses her beloved husband Eben and spends her time... |
tt0472160 | Penelope | Many generations ago, the Wilherns were a prestigious, wealthy, and respected family. However, things went downhill after young Ralph Wilhern had a romance with (and impregnated) a servant girl named Clara. Though he wished to marry Clara, Ralph was talked out of the idea by his family and married a young woman of his ... | romantic, fantasy, magical realism | train | imdb | The cast was perfect and all did a great job, the looked like they had such a good time bringing this story to life.Penelope seems like the girl that should be living the high life, a wealthy family, part of royalty, but her life isn't perfect.
Penelope runs away though to find her freedom and instead finds herself and... |
tt0056265 | Muz z prvního století | In the near future in Czechoslovakia (the movie was made in 1961, after all), a space flight is in the final stages of preparation. As the astronauts are being interviewed, Joseph the upholsterer (Milos Kopecký) is gluing the last bits of padding in place. Joseph is lazy and incompetent, and always complaining -- the c... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0288045 | The Medallion | Eddie Yang (Jackie Chan) is a Hong Kong police inspector co-operating with Interpol in the capture of a crime lord named AJ "Snakehead" Staul (Julian Sands). Snakehead procures an ancient book from a Chinese bookstore keeper, which tells the story of a boy being chosen every thousand years to bind the two-halves of a l... | comedy, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, humor, revenge | train | wikipedia | The movie centers a police agent (Jackie Chan) who will face down an evil baddie called Snakehead (Julian Sands) for the possession a medallion with an extraordinary power and he wants to use its magic for his own nefarious plans .
Chan and other agents (Claire Forlani and Lee Evans) will have to face off nasties who a... |
tt0498353 | Hostel: Part II | About a week after the events of Hostel, the film opens with Paxton (Jay Hernandez) in seclusion with his girlfriend Stephanie (Jordan Ladd). The two argue over Paxton refusing to tell the authorities about the Elite Hunting Club in Slovakia since Paxton is aware that the conspiracy and cover up is wider then anyone ca... | violence, dark, murder, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0082484 | La guerre du feu | Eighty thousand years ago, a brutal Wagabou attack on a sleepy Ulam cave dwelling causes much death and injury. Naoh distinguishes himself in the attack, killing a couple of the gorilla-like Wagabou. Nevertheless, the attack, followed by wolf depredations, leads to the extinguishing of the Ulams' fire. Even the flame k... | violence, historical, realism | train | imdb | Their journey brings them not only into contact with other tribes of prehistoric humans at different stages of evolution but also advances their own humanity, as well as teaching them to be "prometheuses" in their own right.An absolutely fascinating film.
At points, there scenes that capture a sense of humor that is so... |
tt0110148 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | A Vampire of 200 years named Louis (Brad Pitt) follows a reporter named Daniel (Christian Slater) hoping to prey on him. Instead, Louis agrees to an interview with a man that does not believe in vampires. After Louis convinces his new friend of his powers, he tells his story beginning with how he was transformed by Les... | comedy, fantasy, gothic, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, horror, atmospheric, good versus evil, revenge, historical | train | imdb | All of these questions help us explore philosophical ideas as old as time, and that exploration is the focus of this film.The story is propelled by vampires Louis (Pitt) and Lestat (Cruise), each representing a different take on life.
Yet might survival require the forgetting of moral consciousness, like Lestat?'Interv... |
tt0028212 | Sabotage | First we see a dictionary page highlighting SABOTAGE, then a power station with one chimney smoking in the moonlight, then a gaudily lit London street at night. The lights in the streets go out. Lit only by flashlight, we see a large machine half in water. Several hands excitedly fuss with the machinery, digging up a m... | suspenseful, murder | train | imdb | Hitchcock later said he should have ended the sequence differently, and many viewers might agree, but what happens is in keeping with the themes and plot of the movie, and the suspense sequence is also masterfully done.
Then there is a tense, famous scene at the dinner table, filmed as an absolutely masterful montage b... |
tt0095740 | Nightmare Beach | At dusk, a number of bikers are standing together outside a prison as if in mourning. Inside, Diablo, a prisoner, is led down "the mile" for his execution. When strapped in the electric chair, Diablo screams and curses at the guards, in particular the police officer, Strycker. Before he is executed, the prison warden a... | murder, prank | train | imdb | You get young people partying, 80s metal non stop, wet t-shirt contests, pretty girls making a buck or two on the side with older gents, sharply dressed biker gang, shady local government figures, and a leather-clad masked killer who offs everybody in high voltage fashion.
The story isn't very special, a beach town bik... |
tt2714900 | Finding Vivian Maier | The film opens up cutting between footage of a handful of people, each in their home, and each pensively waiting to be interviewed. The brief snippets shown clarify that each will be speaking about their recollections of the same woman, as a part of finding insight into the mystery.
Switch to the filmmaker,John Maloof ... | violence, home movie | train | imdb | This element of mystery is what makes John Maloof and Charlie Siskel's documentary Finding Vivian Maier so intriguing, yet also leaves us wanting to know more.
The subject of the film is an unknown photographer whose art has been compared to the masters, though she never exhibited her work and little is known about her... |
tt1374989 | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Set in an alternate England of the early 1800s, the film opens with Colonel Darcy (Sam Riley) traveling to the home of a wealthy family to investigate the emergence of a zombie. He arrives at the home and sits with the family before taking out a small vial containing a particular set of flies that can detect the undead... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, romantic, melodrama, revenge, alternate history | train | imdb | I know most people who love PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen are furious about this movie even existing, let alone being successful.
But I actually liked it a lot!I know the original classic fairly well (I'm a former high school English teacher and a current college librarian) and I was astonished almost from the ver... |
tt0105151 | The Player | Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow (Cynthia Stevenson). He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming st... | comedy, suspenseful, murder, bleak, cult, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097858 | Meet the Feebles | The eponymous theatre troupe is rehearsing the title song with hopes of finding success through being picked up for a syndicated television show. Heidi (a hippopotamus), the star of the show, is insulted by pornographic director Trevor (a rat) and complains to her boss and lover, Bletch (a walrus), who is actually in a... | comedy, dark, boring, cult, violence, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, satire, revenge | train | wikipedia | MEET THE FEEBLES is one of the most outrageously insane films I've ever seen, and I mean that in the BEST possible way...Another home-run from Peter Jackson (BRAINDEAD, BAD TASTE, and most recently LORD OF THE RINGS).
FEEBLES is a gleefully perverse film where all the actors are Muppet-like puppets or people in full co... |
tt0217505 | Gangs of New York | The film opens with Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) shaving dry with an old, rusted straight razor. He deliberately cuts his cheek and then hands the blade to his son Amsterdam, who is about to wipe off the blood. Vallon tells him to leave it there, and his son puts away the blade in a black pouch with a sliver cross clasp... | boring, murder, violence, flashback, action, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0095497 | The Last Temptation of Christ | Jesus, a carpenter in Nazareth, Judea,during the Roman occupation, has been hearing voices and having premonitions that tell him that God has a special plan for him, in atonement for sins. He assumes it is his own sins and is confused about what to do, although he has a firm will to follow any commands from God. Becaus... | avant garde, murder, violence, psychedelic, romantic, alternate history, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0472219 | The Batman vs. Dracula | Joker and Penguin have escaped from Arkham Asylum, and Batman is summoned to round them up. Unfortunately for the Joker, he appears to have been electrocuted when, in order to escape Batman, he jumps into a river with his palm shocker still activated. Penguin, however, makes it to the Gotham City Cemetery where an inma... | violence, psychedelic, horror, comedy, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0405325 | Sky High | The movie begins with a voiceover by Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano) explaining that in his world, there are a large number of superheroes. And the greatest heroes of all are the super-strong Commander (Kurt Russell) and the high-flying Jetstream (Kelly Preston). While the rest of the world only knows these two as h... | comedy, cute, good versus evil, action, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | A great group of kids play the Sky High students, with cool effects to help them into their roles...
Okay, there are a lot of crazy special effects in this movie, but the story is actually driven by the nice performances by almost all the actors instead of lots of SFX.The film is about young Will Stronghold (charming p... |
tt1499658 | Horrible Bosses | Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) narrates about how he has been tied down to his job for months working from 6:00 a.m. to around 10:00 p.m. every day and has had no life, in an effort to receive a promotion. He hurries to his job one morning at a wealthy financial firm in order to make it in time at 6:00 am. He hurries i... | entertaining, revenge, comedy, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Jason Bateman again showing the world he can act and telling his critics to go swivel on his middle finger by how great he was in horrible bosses.I personally rated every single actor in this film as Grade A , the acting was just superb!
Those who think Hollywood is no longer capable of creating a funny comedy for adul... |
tt0800320 | Clash of the Titans | In ancient times, after defeating their predecessors, the Titans, the gods divided the Universe among themselves. Zeus took the skies, Poseidon took the seas, and Hades was left with the Underworld upon being tricked by Zeus. The gods created the mortals, whose faith and prayers fueled the gods' immortality. As time pa... | fantasy, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, action, philosophical, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0116365 | The Frighteners | Important note - There is a Theatrical version and a Director's Cut of the movie. The Director's cut runs 14 minutes longer and this synopsis caters for both versions.A thunderstorm filled, rainy night in the small town of Fairwater. A woman called Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace) is been chased by a mysterious entity ar... | paranormal, cult, comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0065481 | Bloody Mama | Young Kate Barker (Lisa Jill) is brutalized by her father and older brothers, who rape her. Thirty-five years later, the middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker (Shelley Winters) now brutalizes innocent people herself, while indulging her monstrous sexual appetites. She lives by robbing banks with her four sons; the pragmatic Art... | comedy, depressing, murder, cult, violence, satire, sadist | train | wikipedia | Some movies romanticize the life of crime, or make the criminals into sympathetic characters, but Roger Corman's "Bloody Mama" goes in the opposite direction with its depiction of the Barker crime family of the 30's and their ruthless murders, sadism, incest, drug addiction, and insanity.
It's a morbidly colorful mixtu... |
tt0047966 | Cult of the Cobra | The movie opens with title and credits over an Indian shrine to the cobra with flanking burning lamps. We are told the time is 1945 and the place is Asia. A group of G.I.s are wandering around an Indian bazaar. Paul Able (Richard Long) and Pete Norton (William Reynolds) are at a table selling cloth. Pete asks Tom Marke... | cult | train | imdb | American G.I.'s who trespass in on a forbidden Hindu ceremony are relentlessly hunted down by a beautiful woman who has the power to metamorphose into a snake.While the film gets a bit slow in the middle, the end is exciting and so is the beginning.
What made this film great, for me, was the talented snake dancer from ... |
tt0090756 | Blue Velvet | In the small logging town of Lumberton, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns home from college after his father (Jack Harvey) suffers a near fatal stroke. He stays with his mother (Priscilla Pointer) and Aunt Barbara (Frances Bay) while he takes over working at the local hardware store that his father owns. While... | dark, avant garde, neo noir, murder, mystery, cult, violence, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt1091191 | Lone Survivor | In Afghanistan, Taliban leader Ahmad Shah is responsible for killing over twenty United States Marines, as well as villagers and refugees who were aiding American forces. In response to these killings, a United States Navy SEALs unit is ordered to execute a counter-insurgent mission to capture Shah. As part of the miss... | revenge, murder, violence, flashback | train | wikipedia | It forces everything on the action, and the realistic portrayal of the unbelievable hardship and pain, and death, that comes along the way.Check out the overly-long Wikipedia page on this movie for lots of facts about production, and about the liberties they took with the facts.
If you read the book and heard the inter... |
tt1398941 | Superman/Batman: Public Enemies | Lex Luthor has been elected President of United States during a severe nationwide economic depression. Under his leadership, the economy begins to thrive, and he assembles a force of government-employed superheroes consisting of Captain Atom, Katana, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, and Major Force. Superman and ... | violence | train | wikipedia | The sixth DVD project from Warner Bros's DC Animated Universe unit, "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" is a fun, socially-conscious adaptation of the six-part comic book story/graphic novel by writer Jeph Loeb and artists Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines.
Sure, it's short (67 minutes) and not to the letter (no continuity-... |
tt0099938 | Kindergarten Cop | Detective John Kimble is on the trail of a drug-dealing bad guy. He visits a girl named Cindy who may know something about the bad guy whose name is Crisp Cullen. John is handed an assistant, Phoebe O'Hara after he hears that the ex-wife of Crisp is in a school in Oregon with her son, Dominic. but, what's the lady's na... | comedy, fantasy, murder, cult, revenge, violence, cute, humor, romantic | train | imdb | Supporting cast do a nice job, particularly Reed as Arnie's partner and Hunt as his kindergarten supervisor.Many critics found the level of violence to be a little excessive considering it's listed as mainly a comedy, but I don't agree.
They truly don't make them like this anymore, just see awful modern examples such a... |
tt0448179 | Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough | Marie Clifton (Laine) is set to inherit two beautiful diamonds, called the "mother and daughter", which her late mother bestowed to her. Marie's step-father, Jay Clifton (Johnson), challenges the will, claiming that Marie isn't ready for the responsibility, but actually wants to take the diamonds for himself. At a sexu... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0770828 | Man of Steel | The story opens on the Planet Krypton, wherein Lara Lor-Van (Ayelet Zurer), has just given birth to a son. She and her husband Jor-El (Russell Crowe) have birthed their son naturally and in violation of the basic laws of the planet, where babies are to be bred through genetic engineering with a planetary 'Codex' that i... | fantasy, realism, murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, action, revenge | train | imdb | I saw Man Of Steel last night at an advance screening and at no point was I looking down on the movie.From the trailers and TV spots the movie really gets you interested and dying for more.And the Movie itself soars(yes I know ha-ha)above the expectations.First of all Henry Cavill is an excellent Clark Kent/Superman.He... |
tt1403177 | Hesher | Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J. (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression. He becomes obsessed with the car his mother died in and follows it when it is towed away. He and his passive, depressed and pill-taking father Paul (Rainn Wilson) live with T.J.'s grandmother Madeleine (Piper Laurie),... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, humor, revenge, storytelling | train | wikipedia | At first, the character "Hesher" is sort of not likable but the way that Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays him, with a ' Cary Grant-ish' twinkle in his eye and his tongue placed firmly in his cheek, you can't help but cheer for this twisted rocker.
A great job of directing by Spencer Susser is evident by the way he has molded... |
tt0050083 | 12 Angry Men | In a New York City courthouse, an eighteen-year-old boy from a slum is on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death. Final closing arguments having been presented, a visibly bored judge instructs the jury to decide whether the boy is guilty of murder. If there is any reasonable doubt of his guilt they are to ret... | thought-provoking, dramatic, murder, claustrophobic, realism | train | imdb | This is brought to life even more by the amazing performances, Fonda, Lee J Cobb and Joseph Sweeney are of particular note.I started watching this film on a bored relaxed laying about day but by the end i was on the edge of the seat with my hands on my knees feeling more tense than a politician on results day.How a fil... |
tt0112508 | Billy Madison | Billy Madison is the 27-year-old heir to a Fortune 500 hotel company that his father, Brian, has created. He spends his days drinking with friends and creating disturbances across his father's estate. One day, Billy ruins a dinner meeting between his father and his associates by acting obnoxiously. Brian loses confiden... | cult, comedy, stupid, entertaining, prank | train | wikipedia | He is a bad, bad man."Adam Sandler has that brand of comic genius in which you don't know what you're laughing at, but it's damn funny!
Billy Madison in a landslide is Adam Sandler's best film.
Maybe the humor is a little stupid, but that is because before seeing this movie, you have to make sure your brain is not in F... |
tt0375611 | Black | The film begins with Michelle McNally (Rani Mukerji), a blind and deaf woman, visiting her former teacher Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), who now has Alzheimer's disease, in a hospital. The film then flashbacks to the past to her childhood.Michelle was a girl who lost her eyesight and hearing after recovering from an ... | flashback | train | imdb | Nearly EVERY shot is a wonder!Amitabh Bhachchan's acting is his best ever (at least for western audiences), and beats most recent performances from Hollywood.I don't consider this film a remake, but even if you do, you still need to see it..
Which is a real pity because if I had not made an accidental point of presenti... |
tt0312549 | Veronica Guerin | Veronica Guerin is a feisty crime reporter for the Sunday Independent. Suddenly aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class citizens, especially the children, she becomes determined to expose the men responsible for its spread.
Guerin begins by interviewing the pre-p... | suspenseful, murder, violence, flashback, romantic, tragedy, revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0155975 | Psycho | During a lunchtime tryst in Phoenix, Arizona, a real estate secretary named Marion Crane discusses with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, how they cannot afford to get married because of Sam's debts. After lunch, Marion returns to work, where a client drops off a $40,000 cash payment on a property. Her boss asks her to deposi... | insanity, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | While it was a pointless re-make to begin with, the miscasting of the story's most important character sucks this film down completely.As a side note, I feel that Hollywood's propensity for re-making great movies because 'young' people refuse to watch anything that's not filmed in color not only stinks to high heaven o... |
tt0466816 | Hallam Foe | Hallam Foe is a teenage loner who lives on his father's large estate near Peebles. His hobby is spying on people from his tree house. Hallam is convinced that his stepmother (Verity) is responsible for his mother's death by drowning two years earlier. Hallam's sister leaves home to attend university and it becomes clea... | revenge, psychological, boring, storytelling, romantic | train | wikipedia | But where the disbelief needs suspending,Jamie Bell's performance saves the day, on the emotional side through bringing tremendous depth to his character, and on the physical side by making his rooftop athleticism completely believable.
The seventeen year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a weird teenager that misses his ... |
tt1116182 | Affinity | Affinity is a beautifully shot costume drama set in Victorian England. Like Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, it has a lesbian romance at the heart of a tale that explores the underside of "proper" society. With a gloomy prison setting and a host of supernatural undertones, the movie carries a darker tone and creepie... | romantic | train | imdb | I am very disappointed that there where a lot of very low ratings for this movie by a good number of people.
Personally I found that the movie was very captivating, and it made me want to understand better what was exactly happening all along.
The costumes where marvelous, and the twist at the end (although I expected ... |
tt0319970 | Carrie | Several people are being interviewed in a police station, including a high school student, Sue Snell (Kandyse McClure) and gym teacher Miss Desjarden (Rena Sofer). Detective John Mulcahey (David Keith) is investigating the disappearance of high school student Carrie White (Angela Bettis). These interviews are intersper... | paranormal, revenge, gothic, prank | train | wikipedia | For some strange reason, during the prom scene where the blood is poured on Carrie, I was actually waiting to hear the famous line, "They're all gonna laugh at you!" That was such a nice touch in the original, but very difficult to duplicate.
Overall this movie was enjoyable to watch and to see a classic book and film... |
tt0810951 | Look | The film follows several intertwining narratives as the security cameras watch over the characters in several different areas: a gas station, a high school, a mall and an office building. The storylines progress over the course of one week and many of the characters end up interacting with each other in the course of t... | murder, prank | train | imdb | Very well executed.The lack of traditional camera-work and the ugliness that inherently comes with this "security cam" type footage was a big issue for me before I even started watching it, but once into it I forgot it entirely.
The great thing about it is that not only is it fun and enthralling, but it gets your think... |
tt0264395 | Basic | A helicopter circles over the Panamanian jungle. On board is a team of Army Ranger trainees and their instructor, Master Sergeant Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson). Their objective is to move through the jungle while a hurricane rages above, use live ammo to hit pop-up metal targets, then rendezvous at a small bunker.Sev... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0814335 | The Stepfather | The movie starts off with Grady Edwards (Dylan Walsh) in the bathroom looking in the steamed up bathroom/mirror, as he puts some dye into his head and rubs it in. It later shows him showering, and then as he wipes the mirror off, he cuts off the hair on his beard and shaves. He then removes colored contact lenses from ... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | The story begins with Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returning home from military school to find his mother (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David (Dylan Walsh).
Along with his girlfriend Kelly (Amber Heard), his father Jay (Jon Tenney), and Susan's friends (Paige Turco and Sherry Stringfi... |
tt0758774 | Body of Lies | Towards the start of the movie Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), speaks to his CIA superiors. He explains to them how terrorists are turning their back on technology by throwing away their phones and computers and using old methods of communicating face-to-face and with written messages. This terrorist retreat into the stone... | violence, intrigue, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0060196 | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo | The film tells the story of three men who pursue, often at the expense of others, information about the location of a buried treasure of coins. The first character introduced in the movie is Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (the Ugly) - called Tuco - (Eli Wallach), who has a bounty on his head for numerous cr... | murder, western, thought-provoking, violence, cult, atmospheric, good versus evil, psychedelic, humor, suspenseful, historical | train | imdb | A sprawling Western epic that follows the adventures of three gunfighters looking for $200,000 in stolen gold, Sergio Leone's `The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' is a masterpiece, one that continues to get better and better with each viewing.
(Watch the scene when he gives a dying Confederate soldier a puff of his cigar ... |
tt0338564 | Mou gaan dou | Infernal Affairs focuses on a police officer named Chen Wing-Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), who goes deep undercover into the Triad society, and Triad member Lau Kin-Ming (Andy Lau Tak-Wah), who infiltrates the police department. Each mole was planted by the rival organization to gain an advantage in intelligence over the ... | mystery, realism, violence, flashback, inspiring, suspenseful | train | imdb | - and music to the graceful ying-yang undertones (mirror-images are a key theme), the film's most heroic achievement lies in its leads and in the bold ending.Hearing that this is being considered for a remake stateside comes as no big surprise, but how Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio could possibly compete against And... |
tt0086154 | Psycho II | Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is released from a mental institution after being pronounced of sound mind by his psychiatrist, Dr. Bill Raymond (Robert Loggia) after 22 years. At the hearing preceding Norman's release, Lila Loomis (Vera Miles) shows up to protest, producing a petition that she's been circulating with s... | insanity, revenge, cult, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia and Meg Tilly are all great and turn in very good performances.
What a pleasure it is to see good old Norman in this rather decent sequel to the acclaimed the movie 'Psycho' - Anthony Perkins' role in this film is one fantastic, also an interesting and unpredictable plot buffe... |
tt0220514 | Hey, Happy! | Society as we know it may have been lost, but sex and dancing are still in style in this outrageous post-apocalyptic satire. In a not-so-distant future where a variety of environmental disasters have led to the final collapse of Western civilization, sexually ambiguous hipster Ricky G. (Johnny Simone) leads an encampme... | psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt1603257 | ATM | The film opens with an unknown man drawing and organizing diagrams to the song Silent Night. He picks up his parka coat and leaves.While attending an office Christmas party, David Hargrove (Brian Geraghty) offers to drive his co-worker, Emily Brandt (Alice Eve), home. Reluctantly, he allows his slacker friend Corey Tho... | murder | train | imdb | we all know from watching horror films, that there's at least one moment where the hero knocks the evil killer to the floor then just runs off, allowing him to get back up and chase them down all over again.
And in movies like this, it is often frustrating to watch when you know what is going to happen anyway.While the... |
tt0361748 | Inglourious Basterds | Chapter One: "Once Upon a Time..... in Nazi-Occupied France"The film opens in 1941 with Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), a detective of the Waffen-SS, proudly known as the "Jew Hunter," visiting French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite (Denis Ménochet). After making casual conversation in French and taking a glass of ... | comedy, boring, suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, historical fiction, flashback, action, satire, humor, romantic, revenge, alternate history, sadist | train | imdb | Having seen the trailers i had high hopes but had doubts due to a string of self indulgent films (c'mon lets be honest, self indulgence is his tarantinos middle name)I was surprised to find though that he had pulled the cat out of the bag with this one.
Diane Kruger makes a credible Barbara Bouchet (one of Tarantino's ... |
tt1570728 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. | Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is a middle-aged man who learns that his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) has cheated on him with a co-worker, David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon), and that she wants a divorce. After moving into his own apartment, Cal goes to a bar night after night, talking loudly about his divorce, until he attracts t... | comedy, boring, realism, dramatic, cute, plot twist, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | wikipedia | But instead of tripe, I got one of the most unexpected surprises I have seen all year.Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have hit a rough patch in their long-time marriage, and Emily inadvertently announces to an entire restaurant that she wants a divorce.
Jacob (Ryan Gosling), a professional bachelor, takes... |
tt0109456 | Color of Night | Bill Capa (Bruce Willis) is psychoanalyst to the rich and unhinged in New York City. One day, Michelle (Kathleen Wilhoite), one of his most disturbed patients, arrives to her therapy session in a particularly fragile state of mind. Bill seems to make light of her problems, and when he flippantly tells her to "look in t... | insanity, violence, psychological, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1629376 | 7 Khoon Maaf | The film tells the story of a beautiful Anglo-Indian woman Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes (Priyanka Chopra) who goes on to kill all her husbands.[8] Susanna tries to find love but six of her seven husbands have a fatal flaw so she kills them. These killings and her yearning for love is explained by the fact that she had l... | romantic, comedy, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0494232 | Halo 3 | The following occurs directly after the events in Halo: Uprising. Background: The Covenant currently occupies Earth, and is amassed at an excavation of an artifact of Forerunner origin.It is a night sky: several bright pinpoints of white lights hang in the center. It's a tranquil forest, with lust forestry and a windin... | violence | train | imdb | It has everything; sleek, refined graphics, generally improved game play, a multitude of awesome weapons, an incredible storyline, excellent voice acting,.........
This finale to the triumvirate cements both Halo and Bungie's place among the all time greats in the video game world.
Plus, there is online Co-op play, so ... |
tt0104694 | A League of Their Own | Elderly Dottie Hinson (Anne Cartwright) is a former player on the nation's first women's baseball league in the 1940s. As catcher for the Rockford Peaches, she helped break gender barriers and earn nationwide respect for herself and the teams. Recently widowed, she nervously prepares to attend a reunion with her former... | dramatic, cult, boring, entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | Sounds silly, but this was the movie that reminded me to stay strong, at the time when women were expected to stay in the kitchen, as hard as they had to work for it, there was a women's baseball league during WWII.
More and more people show up and the league becomes a huge success.The acting is absolutely superb, we h... |
tt0145660 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Austin Powers is enjoying his honeymoon with his wife, the former Vanessa Kensington. She turns out to be one of Dr. Evil's fembots, who attempts to kill Austin, then self-destructs. Austin grieves briefly, then proceeds to the hotel lobby nude and celebrates being single again.
A NATO monitoring facility observes the ... | cult, humor, cute, entertaining, stupid | train | wikipedia | null |
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