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tt0077402 | Dawn of the Dead | Tensions are running high in the United States. The recently deceased are returning to life as shambling, flesh-eating ghouls, and political dissidents are threatening social stability. In the city of Philadelphia, Fran (Gaylen Ross) an employee of WGON-TV and Radio learns that her program director Givens is broadcasti... | comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse film, murder, cult, horror, violence, good versus evil, absurd, action, satire, claustrophobic, revenge, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | Dawn of the Dead is one of the best zombie apocalyptic movies of all time, I highly recommend this film to any horror fan..
It's not just one of the towering horror films, or horror comedies (what will a poor dead fellow do when the escalator starts?!) but one of the great sequels, more ambitious and ass-kicking than i... |
tt0128996 | Cinderella | "Once upon a time in a bustling village marketplace in a tiny, picturesque kingdom...," thus begins the fanciful fairy tale of "Cinderella," a classic story of sibling rivalry, love at first sight and beauty within. The story opens as Cinderella's Fairy Godmother (Whitney Houston) sets the stage for the journey about t... | fantasy | train | imdb | null |
tt0113481 | Johnny Mnemonic | In the 21st century, information is the ultimate commodity. The most valuable of information is transported in mnemonic implants in the heads of professional mnemonic couriers like Johnny (Keanu Reeves - Speed) who offer both security and confidentiality for the right price.But Johnny has paid a heavy price of his own ... | psychedelic, violence, sci-fi | train | imdb | My review of the underrated cyberpunk film, Johnny Mnemonic(1995) starring Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Denis Akiyama, Dolph Lundgren, Henry Rollins, Barbara Sukowa, and Udo Kier.
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 American cyberpunk sci-fi action film directed by Robert Longo.
It was loosely based on the sh... |
tt3631112 | The Girl on the Train | We meet Rachel (Emily Blunt) as she commutes on a train. She tells us her husband always said she had an overactive imagination. Rachel explains that she has been on this train for years and always sits in the same seat, three cars down, so she has the perfect view of a neighborhood. She says she is a new person now an... | violence, murder, flashback | train | imdb | None of us have quite had a commute that changes our lives quite like Rachel Watson in The Girl on the Train though.Emily Blunt stars as Rachel Watson, an alcoholic divorcée who takes the same train to work each day.
On her journey, Rachel fantasises about the relationship of Scott (Luke Evans) and Megan Hipwell (Haley... |
tt2661044 | The 100 | Story is post nuclear, according to the narrator, the character Clark. There are 12 stations combined; now only the Ark is left: cobbled together from the original twelve."One from many". Another hundred years, four more generations. Prisoners are kept if they are under eighteen year old. They are incarcerated in a "sk... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | OK it's not perfect (sometimes the science makes me frown) but it does so much right I barely pay attention to the increasingly rare blips now.Heading towards the end of season 2, every scene is compelling and feels important and you care about what happens because they have built it in the right way.
Don't expect the ... |
tt0046045 | Marilyn | Marilyn is set in a small roadside garage and cafe in the quiet English countryside. Marilyn (Sandra Dorne) is the pretty but bored young wife of the garage owner George (Leslie Dwyer)- a dour hard-working with the typical views on women prevalent at the time, in other words Marilyn is expected to look pretty for him, ... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0084434 | An Officer and a Gentleman | Zachary "Zack" Mayo (Richard Gere) is preparing to report to Aviation Officer Candidate School. As he is doing so, he has brief flashbacks of his childhood. After the death of his unnamed mother (who committed suicide), an adolescent Zack was sent to live with his only living relative, his father Byron Mayo (Robert Log... | violence, sentimental, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | 'An Officer And A Gentleman' is a brilliant film with great performances from Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr. and Debra Winger.
Richard Gere embodies the character of Zack Mayo, a troubled young man who, due to neglect and ill parenting by a military father, signs up with the Navy to get some direction in his misguided... |
tt1014759 | Alice in Wonderland | Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) is the daughter of Charles Kingsleigh (Marton Csokas), a wealthy man who planned to find profitable shipping routes through the world in the 19th century. When she tells him of her adventures in Wonderland (later to be revealed as 'Underland'), he declares her mad, but that all the bes... | fantasy, alternate reality, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, inspiring | train | imdb | What we end up with is a mid-point that fails to get to grips with what enchants people about the Alice story, and another chance to see a beautiful waif walk around twisted, quasi-Gothic landscapes to a score by Danny Elfman.Not that this isn't an enjoyable experience in itself, and as seen in the vast Screen 1 at the... |
tt1424361 | Morrer Como Um Homem | Once upon a time there was a war In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL. Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbons drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from younger artists threatens her star status.
Under pressure from her young boyfriend Rosário to assume her female identit... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0095875 | Plain Clothes | Undercover cop Nick Dunbar's (Arliss Howard) brother Matt (Loren Dean) is accused of killing his teacher, Mr. Bradwood (Mack Harrell) at Adlai Stevenson High School. Nick loses his temper with Hechtor (Larry Pine), the detective in charge, and gets suspended. Nick's partner Ed (Seymour Cassel) pretends to be Nick's dad... | murder | train | wikipedia | The first time I saw Plain Clothes was a coincidence.
Changing channels on a Saturday night and finding (and sticking with) this movie.
It is an eighties high school comedy with a funny little cross over to thriller.Watching B-movies is fun and I do it lots.
I have no high expectations and I don't pay a fee to go to th... |
tt0101507 | Boyz n the Hood | The story opens in 1984, focusing on three young black male youths, Tre, Doughboy, and Ricky, as they grow up in South Central, Los Angeles. Tre Styles is an intelligent young student of about age 10, but encounters disciplinary problems at his young age -- he mouths off to his teacher, who gives him the opportunity to... | comedy, cruelty, murder, dramatic, cult, violence, tragedy, revenge, storytelling | train | imdb | This is not a hip-hop film, nor a detached and dehumanized story about "gang violence" (the great over-simplified scapegoat of the issues treated in this film), its a story about growing up fatherless or motherless in a war zone with a faceless enemy, where people do not value each other's lives at all and value their ... |
tt0091167 | Hannah and Her Sisters | The story is told in three main arcs, with most of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties hosted by Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Elliot (Michael Caine). Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the narrative; most of the events of the film connect to her.
Elliot becomes i... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0050146 | El ataúd del Vampiro | NOTE: Sequel to "El Vampiro" (1957)Doctor Mendoza [Carlos Ancira] has heard so much about the vampire encountered by his colleague, Doctor Enrique Zaldívar [Abel Salazar], at Marta González's [Ariadna Welter] hacienda that he and his henchman, ex-con Barraza [Yeire Beirute], went back to Sierra Negra and found the coff... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0484562 | The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is a day away from his fourteenth birthday. As the Stanton children walk home, Miss Greythorne (Frances Conroy), the local mistress of the Manor, and her Butler Merriman Lyon (Ian McShane) invite the siblings to a Christmas party. Later, two farmers, Dawson (James Cosmo) and Old George (... | paranormal, good versus evil, stupid, flashback | train | imdb | Key elements left out, characterizations gutted, the mythos it was based on trivialized.After such great adaptations as LotR, Narnia and the Potter books to see this classic ruined was a sad sight.The books concepts depend on British folktales and legends (Arthurian based) and the movie seems to have tossed that aside ... |
tt0443518 | The Girl in the Café | As powerful a film as I can remember, made more powerful by the subtle, gentle development of the two characters by Richard Curtis. Matters of the heart brought to the global stage so effectively that you cannot look away....cannot look away...cannot look away.
A couple both as shy as each other meet in a cafe. There a... | romantic, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0360201 | Wimbledon | Peter Colt, a British professional tennis player in his thirties whose ranking has slipped from 11th to 119th in the world, has never really had to fight for anything, as his wealthy family allowed him to easily pursue his tennis ambitions. Though he earns a wildcard spot to the Wimbledon tournament, he feels it's time... | romantic, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Now with the prime of his life behind him, ranked number 119, Peter decides to throw in the towel and play his last ever Wimbledon tournament before gracefully bowing out of the gentleman's sport for good and going to work at a tennis club tending to clucky old ladies.
Be sure to keep an eye out for Bettany, who is mor... |
tt0995031 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa | Badri (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, a Bengali classical dancer. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from United States and decide to stay i... | romantic | train | wikipedia | it's got all the best parts of the old Indian classic movies: lavish, luxurious sets and costumes; huge crowds that pop up out of nowhere for various odd and assorted reasons; extraneous music numbers (no particular reason why, but we'll both just jump on a bicycle that popped up out of nowhere and weave madly through ... |
tt0083629 | The Beast Within | While driving through Mississippi on their honeymoon, Caroline and Eli MacCleary (Bibi Besch and Ronny Cox) are stranded on a deserted road when their car is stuck in the mud. Eli walks several miles to a service station they stopped at earlier to get a tow. Meanwhile, a strange creature, held captive in the cellar of ... | cult, grindhouse film, murder | train | wikipedia | If you analyze the plot too much the holes become big enough to drive a truck through, but just ignore the urge to do that, and you'll find you're watching an near-classic of transformation horror.A newly-wed (Bibi Besch) is raped by a mysterious beast on her wedding night.
One of the better, and most overlooked, monst... |
tt0116692 | Jenseits der Stille | Jenseits der Stille is film about a musically talented girl growing up in a house with deaf parents, and the struggles that ensue from that as she matures. The main character, Lara, has many responsibilities as the only one who can hear in her house. Her mother and father constantly depend on her to assist them with ev... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | German films are like a tombola.You pull a lottery ticket and mostly its waste money.
Caroline Link,the director,from Bad Nauheim,my home town,is with Tom Tykwer and Hans-Christian Schmid the only hope for the german film.
The mood of the movie simply progressed with ease and gentleness, and at the same time hurled you... |
tt0282267 | WrestleMania X-Seven | WrestleMania X-Seven is the 17th annual WrestleMania, promoted by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, until it became the WWE after losing a lawsuit to the World Wide Fund in 2002), and it took place on April 1, 2001, at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The attendance record was a record-breaking 67,925 and it... | cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0107840 | Poetic Justice | Justice (Janet Jackson) is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles. She was named Justice by her late mother, who gave birth to her while attending law school. After the shooting death of her boyfriend Markell (Q-Tip), Justice falls into a deep depression. She spends the majority of her time in the house she... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095889 | Poltergeist III | After battling the Reverend Kane and his long-deceased followers in the first two Poltergeist movies, an unnerved Steven and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) ask Diane's sister, Patricia Gardner (Nancy Allen), to take in their youngest child, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke). Carol Anne is soon shipped... | paranormal, haunting, good versus evil, insanity, psychedelic, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0454082 | Black Christmas | On a snowy winter night on Christmas Eve, in the Alpha Kappa Gamma sorority house, Lauren (Crystal Lowe) is getting changed into her pajamas. In the next room Clair Crosby (Leela Savasta) is writing a Christmas card to her half-sister, Leigh (Kristen Cloke). Suddenly she hears something from her closet. She goes over t... | dark, cruelty, murder, violence, flashback, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | And, for a slasher film coming in the wake of "Scream" and its kindred, "Black Christmas" just shows a general lack of common sense when an obvious threat is lurking (can you really feel sorry for a security guard who lingers in a maniac's room long enough to get knocked off?).
But in an odd way, "Black Christmas" avoi... |
tt0191133 | The Fighting Temptations | In the year 1980, a young boy named Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his mother, MaryAnn (Faith Evans), are run out of their hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia, after MaryAnn is soon discovered to be singing secular music when she sings in a church choir also. Aunt Sally Walker (Ann Nesby), Darrin's great-aunt, attempt... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098384 | Steel Magnolias | Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah), a reserved beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) to work in her home-based beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana. At the same time, in another part of the neighborhood, M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field), and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), are preparing for Shel... | cult, humor, cute, sentimental | train | wikipedia | Another movie that is part of my permanent video collection and never get tired of watching, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the beautifully expanded version of Robert Harling's play about the relationship between six women who frequent the same beauty parlor.
I am pretty sure the first phrase that comes to mind for most people whe... |
tt0821640 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) walks into a building where his assistant, Melanie, meets him and gives him all of his messages and such. He stops behind a camera and takes one photo of a bunch of women in their underwear. He and his assistant keep walking and run into more women in their underwear, who invite him to... | humor, flashback | train | imdb | Matthew McConaughey as womanizer Connor Mead is type cast as a rake waiting to be changed into a loving human being, The plot with returning dead lovers to teach him a lesson about having feelings is not quite as exotic as it sounds, for it is a device mainly to show him as a callow youth squiring and losing the love o... |
tt0212720 | Artificial Intelligence: AI | The story takes place in the future where the greenhouse gases have caused the polar icecaps to melt, flooding coastal cities. To combat over-population, people wishing to have children must apply for a license.The film starts in the offices of a company called Cybertronics, where its owner, Professor Allen Hobby (Will... | fantasy, cruelty, boring, depressing, allegory, sci-fi, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt1152398 | Beastly | Kyle Kingsbury, rich, handsome, and popular, is also selfish, shallow, and cruel. He plays a mean "practical joke" on an outcast girl in his class. The girl is really a witch named Kendra in disguise. The witch then curses him for his cruelty. He is turned into a beast; however, because he performed a small act of kind... | romantic, fantasy, boring | train | wikipedia | I was expecting this tragic love story, just like the original movie, with plenty of tear-jerking moments, but it just wasn't there, in terms of script and acting.The plot was rushed, and therefore the audience didn't have enough time to appreciate the story line, even though we all know it like the back of our hands.O... |
tt0054953 | The Guns of Navarone | The year is 1943, and 2000 British soldiers are holed up on the island of Keros in the Aegean. Rescue by the Royal Navy is impossible because of massive guns on the nearby island of Navarone. Time is short, because the Germans are expected to launch an assault on the British forces, to draw Turkey into the war on the A... | cult, suspenseful, action, violence | train | imdb | null |
tt5127076 | Unsolicited Material | Shot with Eds home video camera, Ed opens the documentary explaining that he is an aspiring comedian who videotapes his life 24/7 to share if following a childhood dream was the meaning of life or an unrealistic waste of time.Made from the 10000 tapes he left behind, this documentary explores the illusion of fame in so... | satire | train | imdb | Euphoric to tragic to satire: a category of its own. I couldn't have predicted an outcome as truly unique as this.Over the years the project has captured some comedic moments that are pure gold.But the vast amount real life experiences which vary from the euphoric to sometimes tragic prove to be an ingredient that just... |
tt0048728 | To Catch a Thief | John Robie (Cary Grant) is a retired infamous jewel thief or "cat burglar", nicknamed "The Cat", who now lives in a hilltop villa in the French Riviera growing grapes and flowers. The modus operandi of a recent series of robberies leads the police to believe that Robie is active again; they attempt to arrest him, but h... | murder, atmospheric | train | wikipedia | Enjoyable and riveting comedy-thriller by master of suspense , the great Alfred Hitchcock .On the French Riviera a retired jewel thief nicknamed ¨The Cat¨ (Gary Grant) falling for a gorgeous American girl (Grace Kelly), a high society woman accompanied by her mother (Jessie Royce Landis) , she suspects he's up to his o... |
tt0080465 | Borderline | The film follows a United States Border Patrol Agent in Charge, Jeb Maynard (Bronson), who is forced to track down the killers of a young Mexican boy and his colleague and friend, a veteran Senior Patrol Agent, "Scooter" Jackson, portrayed by (Wilford Brimley). Jeb Maynard is the Patrol Agent in Charge of the "fictiona... | murder | train | imdb | Charles Bronson has a long-listed filmography that has undeserved sleepers mixed among the favourites, but also there are quite a few standard vehicle efforts.
Entertaining for the odd 97 minutes, but nothing really there to make it overly memorable.
Maybe to see a steely Ed Harris make his first real dent in the major... |
tt1485096 | The Prodigy | Is Prevalent's latest wonderfully creative animatedfeature film. It highlights the story of a lovely yet
humble young girl in Ancient China who is an exceptional champion. Her name is "KG" - the "Kung-Fu Girl" with a big heart. Although she is an underdog, and the odds are against her; she discovers that there is no li... | psychedelic | train | imdb | Horrible.
This was by far one of the worst movies my son and daughter have ever picked out.
The animation on the DVD cover and stating it was from the artists and animators of Shrek and Sharktale on the cover seemed like a straight out lie.
I have seen video games with better graphics and story lines.
I am a huge fan o... |
tt1610996 | Absentia | As the film begins we see Tricia removing old posters and replacing them with new ones. When she comes home, she finds that her younger sister Callie has arrived. She comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare Tricia's husband, who has been missing for seven years, 'dead in absentia.' Tricia is pr... | fantasy | train | imdb | This somber yet deeply unsettling film managed to give me the willies even in the less-than-ideal Horrorhound Weekend screening.Not soon after a pregnant woman (Katie Parker) declares her missing husband (Morgan Peter Brown) legally dead, she begins to having terrifying visions that hint that maybe she spoke too quickl... |
tt1758610 | Unconditional | Samantha Crawford's life is like a storybook: she's happily married, living on a beautiful ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she's told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. She senses God's love all around her-just like the little bird in the next book she's working on.In ... | realism | train | imdb | Through a seemingly random encounter with two girls, she is reunited with one of her oldest friends, Joe Bradford.I'm not sure whether or not the character of Samantha exists, but the parts about Bradford are all based on the actual man, who was involved in the production of the film.
He is a truly inspiring figure, an... |
tt0492486 | Shrooms | American student Tara and her college friends visit Ireland to meet with local resident and friend Jake, and go camping in woodlands surrounding a long-disused children's home. Whilst collecting psilocybin mushrooms for later consumption, Tara ingests a deathcap mushroom and suffers a seizure after which she experience... | horror, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | I am not surprised by the polarized opinions regarding this movie, although I do think there is a lot of overreaction.Shrooms is simply a decent little movie that seems promising when you first begin to watch it, thanks in great part to solid direction tricks.
However, eventually it fails to deliver because of a very, ... |
tt0964587 | St. Trinian's | Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley), an uptight daddy’s girl, unwillingly transfers to St Trinian’s from the distinguished Cheltenham Ladies’ College at her father’s (Rupert Everett) request. Annabelle is clearly different and doesn’t fit in, telling her father, Carnaby Fritton, that the school is "like Hogwarts for pike... | comedy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1038919 | The Bounty Hunter | The movie opens with Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) driving down a freeway in his Blue Delta 88. He realizes there is smoke coming from the trunk of his car and he starts calling out Nic? Nicole? before pulling over on the side of the road. He opens up the trunk, which is billowing smoke, and Nicole Hurley (Jennifer Aniston... | comedy, action, murder, romantic | train | imdb | The action is cliché for the small amount of time it graces us with its presence, and most of the humor falls flat, maybe because you've already seen/heard the jokes before, from other, better movies.For all their likability, both Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston seem to be on auto pilot.
The Bounty Hunter is no exce... |
tt0096895 | Batman | In a back alley of Gotham, a tourist family is mugged, and the mother and son threatened. Shortly thereafter, the crooks who swiped the husband's wallet are accosted by a costumed vigilante, that resembles a giant bat. The vigilante tells one of the crooks to tell his friends about him. When the crook pleads to know 'w... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, suspenseful, realism, bleak, mystery, cult, violence, atmospheric, flashback, good versus evil, insanity, action, satire, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | A gangster named Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) was dropped into a vat of chemicals which leaves him disfigures with paint-like white bleached skin and ruby-red lips plus green hair which makes him clown-like as he now calls himself Joker, he begins to terrorize the city of Gotham and stalk a sexy photographer named Vick... |
tt0088814 | The Black Cauldron | In the land of Prydain, Taran is an "assistant pig-keeper" on the small farm of Caer Dallben, home of Dallben the Enchanter. Dallben learns that the Horned King is searching for a mystical relic known as the Black Cauldron, which is capable of creating an invincible army of undead warriors, the "Cauldron-Born". Dallben... | fantasy, paranormal, cult, horror, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | "The Black Cauldron" certainly doesn't fall into the genre of animated Disney family favorite, but instead feels much like the more grim and complicated fantasy films that were made in the eighties.
Well, although not as complex as the aformentioned, this film is not without its charm.The story of Taran, the pig-keeper... |
tt0114069 | Outbreak | Motaba, a fictional virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To maintain the virus as a viable biological weapon, two U.S. Army officers, Donald McClintock and William Ford, destroy the camp where it was found after taking blood samples from the dying victims.Twenty-eight years la... | suspenseful, romantic | train | imdb | Dustin Hoffman is stupendous as always, Rene Russo plays Robbie with realism, Kevin Spacey makes for a good humor man, Cuba Gooding Jr. pulls off the green man trying to earn respect, and being a bad-ass at the same time.
Col. Daniels wants to look into it but General Ford denies his request so he turns to his estrange... |
tt0365929 | Whiteout | It's 1957 and the movie opens inside a Russian cargo plane flying over freezing airspace. Two Russian pilots are in the cockpit talking about the cargo they are carrying. The co-pilot comments that he will go to the cargo hold and take care of things saying it's now or never. The co-pilot enters the cargo hold where th... | suspenseful, mystery, murder, flashback | train | imdb | It's definitely watchable and fairly entertaining, but it could have been a film to remember with that type of setting and the plot, and unfortunately I guessed the twist at the end halfway through the movie.
Kate Beckinsale makes for a very good lead, while being believable at the same time, and that's very important ... |
tt0137494 | Entrapment | Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is an investigator for "Waverly Insurance". Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) is a professional thief who specializes in international art. A priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from an office one night, and Gin is sent undercover to investigate Mac as the chief suspec... | neo noir | train | wikipedia | However, while Connery is one of a handful of men who have retained their looks and masculine appeal beyond middle age, the likelihood that the luscious Catherine Zeta-Jones, who is at the peak of her beauty here, would fall for him tests the bounds of credibility.
If theft were as easy and casual as Connery and Zeta-J... |
tt0084509 | The Plague Dogs | A black dog (Christopher Benjamin) almost drowns, but at the last second he is rescued at some sort of scientific laboratory. The scenery outside that facility is grim and desolate. Dogs are kept onto cages, and when one of them dies, they are shoved aside with pales. Tyson (Warren Mitchell) is a hand workers who treat... | tragedy, violence, cruelty, sadist, flashback | train | imdb | As far away from fluffy Disney films as one could imagine, this is a disturbing account of the hardships of two dogs who escape from an animal testing lab.
The animated version of The Plague Dogs, released four years after the acclaimed Watership Down, never quite achieved the kind of success its predecessor had; not b... |
tt0091954 | Sid and Nancy | The film opens on 12 October 1978, with several police officers dragging Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) out of the Hotel Chelsea following the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Sid is soon driven to a police station and upon arrival is asked to describe what happened. Police officers become frustrated whe... | cult, murder | train | wikipedia | Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious, the bassist for British punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
Filled with all sorts of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Sid and Nancy is a seriously wild ride.If there's anything that makes this film, it's Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb.
Instead, I only want to learn about it in vulgar detail from a... |
tt0107207 | In the Name of the Father | Story of Gerry Conlon, purported ringleader of the Guildford Four, a group of three Irishmen and one English woman wrongly imprisoned for the 1974 IRA bombing of a pub in Guildford, England, that left five people dead. Conlon's father Guiseppe was subsequently imprisoned along with six other Conlon relatives who became... | tragedy, dramatic, violence, historical, realism | train | imdb | Based on a true and very touching story, the film recounts the story of Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis) who is wrongly accused as an IRA terrorist.
Although there have been some minor modifications for the purpose of the film, the backbone of the story is left completely intact.The two protagonists, Daniel Day-Liewis and Pete... |
tt0062185 | Reflections in a Golden Eye | At an Army fort in Georgia, bordering a forest reserve, are Major Weldon Penderton (MARLON BRANDO) and his wife Leonora (ELIZABETH TAYLOR); their neighbors, Lt. Col. Morris Langdon (BRIAN KEITH), his wife Alison (JULIE HARRIS), and their Filipino houseboy, Anacleto (ZORRO DAVID); and Private Williams (ROBERT FORSTER), ... | pornographic, murder, storytelling | train | imdb | If one comes to it cold, hearing only that it is only a movie about "a closeted homosexual in the military", which is true of the Brando character, and expects some kind of serious dramatic narrative experience - like for example in "The Sergeant" which also came out in 1968 - the approach of "Reflections", which I thi... |
tt0443706 | Zodiac | On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun, at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Mageau survives; Ferrin dies.
One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives encrypted letters written by the killer calling himself the "Zodiac" and taunting the police. Political car... | neo noir, cruelty, murder, violence, cult, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0092641 | Best Seller | The movie opens in 1972 as a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers. He survives and publishes a book titled Inside Jo... | violence, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Twenty years ago Woods starred in one of my all time favourite movies David Cronenberg's stunning 'Videodrome'.
Even so I highly recommend underrated 1980s Woods movies like 'Cop', 'The Boost' and this one, 'Best Seller', for some of his greatest performances.
Director John Flynn had previously made the seriously under... |
tt0077713 | Day of the Woman | Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) is a short story writer who drives out of her home in New York City to an isolated cottage by a lake in the countryside of upstate New York to write her first novel. The arrival in town of the attractive and independent young woman attracts the attention of Johnny (Eron Tabor), the local... | suspenseful, cruelty, murder, realism, mystery, violence, cult, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | These guys all get what's coming to them, and Jennifer makes sure that the punishment fits the crime, turning the men into the helpless, pleading victims and feeding their own sadism right back to them.Okay, so not all of the plot points make sense, and not everyone is going to agree with Jennifer's decision to kill th... |
tt0204626 | The Watcher | Retired FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell (James Spader) lives in Chicago, where he is struggling to come to terms with his failure to capture a serial killer back when he was working in Los Angeles. Campbell attends therapy sessions with Dr. Polly Beilman (Marisa Tomei), but otherwise has no other friends or social life... | suspenseful, neo noir, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Joel rejoins the police in an effort to save his potential victims as well as catching him.I, like many others, wasn't too bothered by this film when it was released - it looked like it would be yet another serial killer movie, and it was!
The action scenes are not great and the film never really has a real air of mena... |
tt1922777 | Sinister | The film opens with Super 8 footage depicting a family of four standing beneath a tree with sacks over their heads and nooses around their necks. An unseen figure pulls at a rope attached to a partially sawed-through branch of the tree, causing their deaths by hanging.
True crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Hawke) moves int... | tragedy, violence, horror, murder | train | wikipedia | The movie debuted in this same town's SXSW Film Festival in March.Ethan Hawke is Ellison Oswalt, a true crime author and devoted family man with a what-have-you-done-for-us-lately fan base and editor anxiously awaiting his next blockbuster.
As the film opens, the Oswalts are moving into yet another new house, but Ellis... |
tt1654523 | Night Train to Lisbon | Walking over a bridge in Bern, Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of ancient languages, notices a young woman in a red coat standing on the railing, about to leap. Dropping his briefcase, he runs and pulls her down. She helps him gather the papers that have spilled from his briefcase and accompanies him to the school... | romantic, atmospheric, flashback | train | wikipedia | There's so many layers, so many subtle metaphors, so much poetry in the imagery and storytelling, that despite being such a straightforward story you can't help feeling like you're walking through a maze, a labyrinth of emotions and thoughts, where present, past and future merge into a vast uplifting eternity.
This is ... |
tt0080678 | The Elephant Man | London Hospital surgeon Frederick Treves finds John Merrick in a Victorian freak show in London's East End, where he is kept by a Mr. Bytes. His head is kept hooded, and his "owner", who views him as retarded, is paid by Treves to bring him to the hospital for exams. Treves presents Merrick to his colleagues and highli... | avant garde, cruelty, gothic, depressing, dramatic, violence, cult, atmospheric, psychedelic, historical | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0120744 | The Man in the Iron Mask | France is under the reign of the militaristic King Louis XIV (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is bankrupting the country with his unpopular wars. When starving peasants in Paris start rioting for food, he responds by ordering his chief adviser Pierre to send them rotten food - although he later orders Pierre executed for this ... | violence, action, boring, flashback | train | imdb | I never saw this movie in the theaters (it seemed like another Leo-mania "no REAL talent" type of film), but I remember a friend recommending it to me one night about 5 years back.
I almost had to ask myself if this was the SAME actor playing Phillipe!The plot was good (eh...might have been predictable, but still...gre... |
tt0110598 | Muriel's Wedding | A socially awkward, fat, naïve "ugly duckling", who is obsessed with the music of ABBA, Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is the target of ridicule by the more fashion-conscious girls she considers her friends. She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding and marriage to a man who will help get her... | cult, comedy, psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0274546 | Hellraiser: Hellseeker | Kirsty Cotton and her husband, Trevor Gooden, are driving in a car, joking and laughing. Trevor states they are going to work out an issue and she agrees. They kiss, Trevor taking his attention away from the road long enough to nearly hit another car. Instead of a head on collusion, their car crashes over the edge of a... | good versus evil, murder | train | imdb | What I'm trying to say here is that my expectations were low.Although _Hellseeker_ isn't as good as _Hellbound_, it's very satisfying because it's the first sequel since that has actually catered to fans of the original two films.
In his commentary, director Rick Bota says that Kirsty and the other elements from the pr... |
tt0054152 | Our Man in Havana | In the first shot, a quintessentially British man in a dark suit and hat, tightly rolled umbrella, and immobile face, strides along Havana streets besieged by grinning musicians and hawkers. Hawthorne (Noel Coward) is a Secret Service official based in Jamaica charged with recruiting a group of secret agents to report ... | comedy, murder | train | imdb | No, tonight will be Our Man in Havana, the blackest of black comedies, directed by Carol Reed from Graham Greene's novel.
I liked Ernie Kovacs as Segura, the brutal police chief; he had a nice vulgarity blended with sensitivity that worked for me.Now my pleasure would be complete if this picture were available on DVD, ... |
tt0137523 | Fight Club | We back out of the webbing of neurons and brain cells as the title credits appear, finding ourselves emerging from the sweat-glistened skin of the protagonist: our narrator (Edward Norton), as he looks down the barrel of a gun that's been stuck in his mouth. The gun is held by a man named Tyler (Brad Pitt) who checks h... | dark, comedy, cruelty, neo noir, mystery, psychological, thought-provoking, cult, violence, storytelling, atmospheric, flashback, clever, insanity, psychedelic, action, satire, philosophical, plot twist, entertaining, sadist | train | imdb | I will say that I cannot recall *ever* having been "asked" by a film to both suspend my disbelief the way this film asks in its third act AND at the same time come to terms with an understanding that there is no room--or need--for disbelief.Perhaps these comments will not make sense to the average movie goer who will d... |
tt0427152 | Dinner for Schmucks | Tim Conrad is a mid-level financial executive, who comes up with a way to invite wealthy Swiss businessman Martin Mueller to become a client of his firm. Impressed by Tim's ingenuity, his boss Lance Fender invites him to a "dinner for winners" in which he must find and bring an eccentric person with a special talent; t... | psychedelic, humor | train | wikipedia | "The idiot" is funny because he is clumsy, do some stuffs too quick without thinking of the aftermaths, but he is not in any way somebody that look like he escape from an asylum with 10 of IQ like Carrel character in this remake..Very hard to go to the end of this movie..
My English isn't good enough to express what i ... |
tt0978762 | Mary and Max | A narrator (Barry Humphries) introduces us to Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore), a charming and personable 8 year-old girl living in Mount Waverly, Melbourne, Australia. She resides in a quaint house with her mother, Vera (Renée Geyer), a dissheveled kleptomaniac who is addicted to sherry and includes it in nearly a... | comedy, psychological, psychedelic, humor, philosophical, romantic, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | There's a constant stream of humour (ironic, black, childish), and I really enjoyed the small perfect touches on growing up in an Australian suburb in the 70's and 80's, and the depiction of grey New York, as it appears to the easily frightened Max. The animation is constantly a joy to watch, and I highly recommend see... |
tt0036342 | Shadow of a Doubt | Couples in costumes in a room with 1900 décor are dancing to the music of The Merry Widow waltz by Franz Lehar.A man dressed in a suit is lying on a bed, deep in thought. Money bills are on his dresser and tumbled on the floor.The landlady, Mrs Martin (Constance Purdy) knocks, opens the door and tells "Mr. Spencer" (Jo... | romantic, humor, murder, suspenseful | train | imdb | It is the purest example of murder in a "normal" setting, bringing the audience uncomfortably close to the killer, helped along with plenty of the grisly gallows humour that the Master loved.Hitch's British pictures had great charm and character, but they were often technically a little haphazard.
I own the Hitchcock c... |
tt3410834 | Allegiant | Picking up shortly after the previous film, 'Insurgent' left off, now that Jeanine is dead, Evelyn (Naomi Watts) has assumed control of Chicago and is placing everyone in Erudite that worked for Jeanine on trial, while also sealing off the gates to the rediscovered land outside the city.Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four... | suspenseful, murder, violence, good versus evil, psychedelic, romantic, brainwashing, revenge, sci-fi | train | imdb | The set of David's office is so over-designed and green-screened to the point that it just became a distraction.There are large swathes of the film's running time where nothing seems to happen, no surprise considering this is the first of two parts of what is one book.
If you've watched the movies but started liking th... |
tt0033918 | Moon Over Miami | After the main title and opening credits, the audience enters Texas Tommys drive-in greasy-spoon on Texas State Highway 73 (Texas Tommys slogan is Service with a Song) where the carhop sisters, Kay and Barbara Latimer, sing What Can I Do for You? A much anticipated letter from a lawyer arrives. Together with their Aunt... | romantic | train | imdb | One of my favorite Betty Grable films!
Betty's costumes were really stunning and I wonder if the studio used a different designer for this film.
It's all about losing out on an inheritance for the two Latimer sisters and their Aunt Susan because of taxes, so the three take off for Miami so Betty can find a millionaire ... |
tt1690953 | Despicable Me 2 | A secret laboratory near the Arctic Circle is stolen by a mysterious vehicle using a giant magnet. The Anti-Villain League (AVL) recruits former super-villain Gru, now a devoted father to Margo, Edith and Agnes, to find out which evil person stole the lab, which contained a powerful mutagen known as PX-41 which can mak... | romantic, humor | train | imdb | To watch this film you don't really need to have seen the first however I would recommend you do as at points the film refers to Despicable Me (1).I'm going to keep this review short and simply say, I gave this film a 9* rating as I found it strongly entertaining, not as funny as I thought but still a great film!
Havin... |
tt0062861 | Diabolik | In a nameless European country, Inspector Ginco (Michel Piccoli) takes every precaution to ensure that a $1,000,000 shipment of money reaches a local bank. Despite having decoy armored trucks, the real one containing the money is sidetracked to a marina where a masked career thief, known only as Diabolik (John Phillip ... | cult, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt1369706 | The Ward | At the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is attacked and killed by an unseen force during the night.The next day, Kristen (Amber Heard), a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised and cut, whilst setting fire to an abandoned farmhouse. The local police find her and ta... | flashback | train | imdb | I've worshiped the great ones (Assault on precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Prince of Darkness) enjoyed the good (Christine, Star Man, Big Trouble in little China, They Live, In the mouth of madness, Vampires) and stomached the bad (Escape from L.A, Village of the damned, Memoirs
, Ghost... |
tt0112688 | Clockers | In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of "clockers" - street-level drug dealers - sell drugs for Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), a local drug lord. Rodney tells Ronald "Strike" Dunham (Mekhi Phifer), one of his lead clockers, that another dealer, Darryl Adams (Steve White), is stealing from him and "got to be got", impl... | violence, murder | train | imdb | Just as heat represented racial tension in Lee's masterpiece "Do The Right Thing", Strike's sickness represents the illnesses plaguing the ghetto: drugs, guns, liquor.Like DTRT, this film looks at community.
When Spike Lee applies his formidable talents to a genre piece like Richard Price's best selling drug noir novel... |
tt0116224 | Escape Clause | Ramsey is a rags to riches story success in insurance with "the ramsey curve" which is a theorem intended to help prevent companies from committing insurance fraud. He gets a call from a stranger stating that his wife paid him 10k to kill Ramsey. Later, after that same man confronts Ramsey and scares him, the would be ... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0138704 | Pi | Max Cohen is the story's protagonist and unreliable narrator. Unemployed and living in a drab Chinatown apartment in New York City, Max is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He is capable of doing simple arithmetic calculations involving large numbers in his head... | mystery, avant garde, psychological, cult, atmospheric, insanity, psychedelic, philosophical, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Pi is the oddest, hippest, most chilling account of the descent into the abyss.Following mathematical clues derived from an analysis of the stock market, Maximillian Cohen begins his descent into madness as he attempts to discover the nature of everything through the peculiar numerical entity known as Pi.Thrilling enou... |
tt0475290 | Hail, Caesar! | Set in Hollywood of the 1950s, the film starts with Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) going to confession at a local church. The priest is already used to hearing from Eddie too often. Eddie confesses that he has been hiding his smoking habit from his wife.Eddie drives to a house where a young actress, Gloria DeLamour (Natash... | satire | train | imdb | null |
tt0145529 | Time Chasers | Nick Miller has discovered the key to time-travel. Using a small plane located at his local airport in Vermont, the local college professor manages to fly 50 years into the future, and return to the present day (1991).Hoping to capitalize on this discovery, Nick places two calls:
-the first call is to a local company c... | cult | train | imdb | I feel badly for the actors and directors of this film who may come across this site's comments about it, which was fairly well done - for a low-budget film.All the criticisms about the film are true: The evil CEO's office in an apparent library, the antique computer with outdated floppy disks, and the fairly wooden ac... |
tt0094315 | The Whales of August | The events take place during a single summer day in Maine, in a cottage on an island. The camera stays indoors except when the characters take walks to the water. Two elderly widowed sisters are summering in the cottage, as they have done for 60 years. The sisters frequently relate events of the past to each other. Sar... | flashback | train | imdb | I'm 22 years old and yet this movie about two elderly sisters and their friends touched my heart deeply.I must admit before I begin that I am a fan of Bette Davis and Vincent Price, and that Miss Lillian Gish is my all time favorite actress, so my view of this film may be skewed.
However, I must admit and admire the sh... |
tt0101597 | Closet Land | Set in an unspecified country, Stowe's character is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her book, entitled Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behaviour, has been locked in a closet as punishment. While in there, the child is ... | insanity, allegory, cult, brainwashing, flashback | train | wikipedia | I saw this movie only a few days ago at a convention, and was moved to think about a side of torture tactics that I had never examined.
The power of mental abuse can surely override any physical abuse, and that is shown through Madeline Stowe's wondrous acting in this movie.
The basis of the plot is this: A children's ... |
tt0056869 | The Birds | Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is a young San Francisco socialite whose wealthy father owns a large newspaper. As the film opens, Melanie is visiting a pet shop to buy a mynah bird for her aunt. While in the pet shop, she meets a man named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) who mistakes her for a shop clerk. Melanie pretends t... | horror, cult, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0070003 | Dracula | "Bistritz, Hungary May 1897".Natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula on business. Jonathan shows up, and finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. He reacts very strongly to a photograph of Harker's fiancee Mina and her best friend Lucy. Af... | gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt0064639 | Marooned | Images of natural scenery. Then cut to the launch of a space rocket. Three astronauts go in that rocket: Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), Clayton Stone (James Franciscus) and Buzz Lloyd (Gene Hackman). Back at base, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) wonders if after eight months in space they could perform the easiest manual ta... | psychological | train | imdb | John Sturges' Marooned, based on the Martin Caidin novel, tells the story of three Apollo astronauts trapped in orbit when their main engine fails to fire, and the slow, agonizing realization that there's pretty much nothing that can be done for them.Unless.It's a slow movie, with Sturges taking his time (or his sweet ... |
tt1630036 | Courageous | Nathan Hayes (Ken Bevel) is at a gas station in Albany, Georgia, trying to clean his windshield when his truck is stolen. Hayes runs after the truck, clinging to the side and fighting the thief through the open window. Hayes is then thrown from the truck and it crashes. The perpetrator escapes, and Hayes is shown in pa... | inspiring, christian film | train | imdb | I give Courageous a 10 out of 10 My top 10 faith-based movies of all time are: 1) Ben-Hur; 2) Suing the Devil; 3) Soul Surfer; 4) Facing the Giants; 5) Chariots of Fire; 6) End of the Spear; 7) The Climb; 8) Gospel of John; 9) Time Changer; 10) Courageous You're missing out if you haven't seen these films!God is workin... |
tt0399295 | Lord of War | The movie begins with Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) standing in a sea of spent shell casings. The rest of the movie is told in flashback, starting in 1982 and ending in the completion of the opening scene. The opening credits sequence shows a 7.62x39mm round being produced and going through various stages before getting fi... | comedy, boring, murder, violence, satire, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt1401143 | Rare Exports | At the top of a large hill, an excavation team at the behest of an American has begun to dig deep into its core. When the excavation chief makes a startling discovery of sawdust deep within the mountain, the elder American financing the dig is ecstatic. He requests that the men keep excavating, but also demands that th... | comedy | train | imdb | null |
tt0084370 | My Favorite Year | Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), the narrator, tells of the summer (in his "favorite year" of 1954) he met his idol, swashbuckling actor Allan Swann (Peter O'Toole). In the early days of television, Benjy works as a junior comedy writer for a variety show starring Stan "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna). As a special upcomin... | action | train | wikipedia | It's so note-perfect, from the opening shot of midtown Manhattan 1954 with the cars, outfits, and bustle all coming together beneath the strains of Les Paul and Mary Ford's "How High The Moon" into a tight closeup of Benjy Stone carrying a cardboard cutout of his hero, Alan Swann, through an uncaring, jostling crowd.I ... |
tt0045631 | City That Never Sleeps | The story begins with a voice-over the "Voice of Chicago" introducing the world and main characters of the film. There's Sally "Angel Face" Connors (Mala Powers), an exotic dancer; Gregg Warren (Wally Cassell), a former actor working as a performance artist, a "Mechanical Man"; Johnny Kelly (Gig Young) a cop having an ... | romantic, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0099785 | Home Alone | The McCallister family prepares to spend Christmas with Peter and Frank's brother Rob in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kate's home in a suburb of Chicago the night before their flight. Eight-year-old Kevin, their youngest son, finds himself the subject of ridicule from his siblings and cousins. After getting into an ar... | cult, comedy, violence, humor | train | imdb | He brought in a great comedy about a boy who accidentally is left home alone when his family goes on vacation and takes on two burglars.
Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are the perfect comedy duo of two idiots who can't rob the place because a 8 year old child has out witted them and set some clever and very funny traps aro... |
tt0056315 | L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock | In 1885 London, the famous Professor Bernard Hichcock has created a new method of anaesthesia and has become rightly famous for it. A renowned, brilliant, and humane surgeon, he also happens to be a necrophiliac who enjoys sexual games with his beautiful and very willing wife, Margaretha. The games include slowing his ... | gothic | train | imdb | null |
tt0059742 | The Sound of Music | Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg in 1938. Her love of music and the mountains, her youthful enthusiasm and imagination, and her lack of discipline cause some concern among the nuns. The Mother Abbess, believing Maria would be happier outside the abbey,... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1535108 | Elysium | In the year 2154, the earth is polluted, vastly overpopulated, and disease runs rampant through the dilapidated slums that the cities have become. The wealthiest people have fled the planet and taken refuge on Elysium, a Stanford Torus high-tech space station, just beyond earth's atmosphere.While those on Earth are pol... | boring, murder, allegory, violence, flashback, satire, romantic, sadist, sci-fi | train | imdb | Jodie Foster plays Elysium's defense minister Delacourt and Sharlto Copley (who was also in District 9) plays an undercover agent named Kruger who is positioned on Earth.
I suspect that so much talent and expense is spent on the visuals that insufficient amounts of funding and time are left for the associated story.I j... |
tt0029442 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Having got off the train, Rudolf Rassendyll, a British subject, dressed up in the typical tweeds of an English sportsman, is going through passport check at a small principality somewhere in Europe. He is asked whether he is here for the coronation, he tells them he is on a fishing holiday. He notices that people keep ... | action, murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0181984 | Boiler Room | In 1999, Seth Davis (Ribisi), a 19-year-old Queens College dropout, runs an unlicensed casino in his home near the campus, catering to college students. Although he earns a successful living, he is a disappointment to his father, Marty (Rifkin), a New York City federal judge. One night, his cousin Adam (Kennedy) stops ... | violence | train | wikipedia | If you're anything like me then this film takes you on a ride where you are the main character every step of the way until finally you return to life with a much deeper understanding of the desires people succumb to in modern society.
This film includes very young appearances by a lot of famous actors, Ben Affleck, Vin... |
tt3530002 | The Night Before | Christmas Eve, 2001Ethan Miller (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) just lost his parents in a car accident. His best friends Isaac Greenberg (Seth Rogen) and Chris Roberts (Anthony Mackie) stay by his side and start a tradition to hang out every Christmas Eve. In 2008, while out at a bar, the guys meet a woman that tells them they... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0371724 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The epic tale of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins, rather unassumingly, on Earth as dolphins, heralded by our humble narrator, The Guide (Stephen Fry), as the second most intelligent creatures on the planet, decide to leave Earth before its impending destruction. Their attempts to warn humans of the danger a... | comedy, whimsical, flashback, absurd, humor, satire, philosophical, romantic | train | imdb | Passing from the hands of one director to the next (James Cameron, Spike Jonze and Jay Roach), it wasn't until the idea landed in front of Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith that things truly started to take shape.Douglas Adams died from a heart attack in 2001, but after reading the books, watching the film and drawing ... |
tt1717715 | Xi you ji: Da nao tian gong | Sun Wukong, (The Monkey King) is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India.
Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China.
This m... | fantasy | train | imdb | I just saw this film with my mother, a 65-year old Chinese woman (who has trained under some masters of kung fu), who grew up reading the stories of the Monkey King (whereas I'm more familiar with the Japanese Series, 'Monkey Magic').
My mother was delighted at how faithful this film was, with so many of the characters... |
tt0327554 | Catwoman | The figure of a limp woman with long curly hair is seen drifting underwater, and a voiceover questions the end of a life that never truly existed. This life ended in murder, the victim herself unsure of who her killer was and why she was killed. Her death was only metaphorical, for in her place a new life begins.The st... | good versus evil, paranormal, revenge, murder | train | imdb | And that was just the first half hour, at which point, for the sake of my brain and stopping it melting with the sheer tedium, I walked out of the cinema.If you're genuinely sad enough to believe that paying good money to see Halle Berry in a PVC suit is good enough reason to spend time gawking at this trash, then fine... |
tt0080761 | Friday the 13th | In a brief prologue set in 1958, two summer camp counselors at Camp Crystal Lake, named Barry (Willie Adams) and Claudette (Debra S. Hayes), sneak away from a camp fire sing-along to have sex. Before they can completely undress, an unseen assailant sneaks into the room and murders them both.The film moves forward to (t... | suspenseful, grindhouse film, cruelty, gothic, murder, boring, cult, horror, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist, prank | train | imdb | It is my second favorite "Friday the 13th" movie and my all time favorite film in the horror genre.
Then fast forward to 1980 and a bunch of teenagers are hired to open up the camp, despite the warnings and then one by one they are killed off.We have a beautiful cast in the film that I like such a: Betsy Palmer, Adrien... |
tt0881934 | The Killing of John Lennon | The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his insane mind. It starts with him living in Hawaii and how he does not fit in with anyone including his job; family; friends etc. He says he is searching for a purpose in his life and that it has no direction.... | murder | train | imdb | I saw a finished cut, "straight from the Avid", but with at least partly a temp soundtrack.Plot summary: This is a dramatized telling of the events surrounding the murder of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman.
It answers some of the questions about Lennon's death that I still had ofter seeing "The US..." The challenge w... |
tt0120184 | Sphere | Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) is called to a location in the Pacific Ocean, for what he thinks is a plane crash. His specialty is psychiatry and dealing with crash survivors. The helicopter pilot (Huey Lewis - yes THAT Huey Lewis!) tells him they've been ferrying all kinds of scientists to this location.Onboard a... | psychological, murder, violence, horror, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, claustrophobic, suspenseful | train | imdb | null |
tt0064107 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown | The film starts with Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy laying on a hill, staring at the clouds in the sky. Lucy asks both Charlie Brown and Linus what they see. Linus' views are incredibly detailed, making Charlie Brown feel inferior that he is only able to see a 'ducky' and a 'horsie' in the clouds.Sometime afterward, Ch... | psychedelic | train | imdb | Meanwhile Linus goes cold-turkey.I have seen several of the Peanuts features and have enjoyed them as a fan but been the first to put my hands up and say that they are neither great films or totally captured the spirit of the strip.
Only the actual spelling bee final is a little slow as it is a couple of minutes of spe... |
tt0249478 | Domestic Disturbance | Susan Morrison (Teri Polo), recently divorced from her husband Frank (John Travolta) who is a struggling boat builder, is getting married to an industrialist who is younger and wealthier. His name is Rick Barnes (Vince Vaughn). Danny (Matt O'Leary), Susan and Frank's 12 year old son is clearly unhappy with his mother r... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | imdb | This was a decent thriller with good-guy "Frank Morrison" (John Travolta) trying to save his former family from the dangerous new husband.
Definitely a movie that will entertain but a one-look film and nothing more, especially with the ending being as predictable as it turned out..
There are points that seem implausibl... |
tt0070672 | The Seven-Ups | New York City circa 1973. A business type enters an antique store as a heavily bearded type is shown upstairs by one of the store's owners. A burly deliveryman with a glass water cooler bottle enters and trips over the businessman, smashing up several antiques. A loud argument ensues and uniformed police must intervene... | murder | train | imdb | The stunt driving coordinator for that scene did "Bullitt" and "The French Connection" as well as many other noatable movie chases.
(In fact, that line may not even have been stale when this film was made.) THE SEVEN-UPS demonstrates all that was right with the best films of the golden age: sparse dialogue, realistic a... |
tt1411250 | Riddick | Five years after Kyra's death, Riddick has become increasingly uneasy in his role as Lord Marshal of the Necromonger fleet. His refusal to swear into the Necromonger faith has caused dissent among his subjects and assassination attempts by his subordinates. After the latest attempt on his life, Riddick strikes a deal w... | comedy, murder, violence, flashback, humor, action, revenge | train | wikipedia | A brief summary Act 1-Riddick is stranded on what might be his home planet and has to re-man up after becoming soft while leading the Necromongers (Riddick being the only person hard enough to ever soften up when taking over a galaxy dominating army) There is a dog in act one but it plays very well into the story and I... |
tt0374180 | Romasanta | 1850. Wolves plague the forests. People are disappearing. The mutilated cadavers present precise surgical cuts along with savage gashes. It's a contradiction that terrorizes the local villagers, who are too frightened to enter the forests. Rumours about the legend of the "Werewolf of Allariz" spread.Barbara and her sis... | gothic | train | imdb | If you're one of those people who quite enjoyed "La Pacte des Loups" (Brotherhood of the Wolf) a few years back but were left disappointed by some of the more ridiculous historical inaccuracies, then you might want to take a look at Romasanta.The story of Manuel Blanco Romasanta is quite a well known one in Spain.
He w... |
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