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tt0083081 | Silsila | Orphaned at very young age, brothers Shekhar Malhotra (Shashi Kapoor) and Amit Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) lead independent lives. Shekhar is a Squadron Leader with the Indian Air Force, and Amit is an emerging writer. Shekhar has fallen in love with the lovely Shobha (Jaya Bachchan), while Amit seeks to woo the attrac... | cult, romantic | train | wikipedia | Taking pity on the devastated young woman, he decides to marry her, leaving behind the love of his life, Chandni.
There begins a new extramarital relationship between the two, through which the story deepens and grows.This is Silsila, Yash Chopra's take on relationships and adultery in a modern 80s India.
A romantic dr... |
tt0099165 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | New York City, 1985. Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) is a financial wünderkid who is about to earn a million dollars through a bonds scheme. His life looks perfect. His wife Judy (dark-haired Kim Cattrall) is a bit eccentric and posh, but she plays the perfect-mother-and-wife game to their only daughter Campbell (Kirsten Dun... | revenge, comedy, satire | train | imdb | After giving us two excellent films - "The Untouchables" and "Casualties of War" director and auteur Brian De Palma tried to get the masters degree on major filmmaking with the very complex best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe.
After confessing that the director he admires in a most intimate way is Stanley Kubrick, Brian De... |
tt0058404 | The Night of the Iguana | The defrocked Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton) is to be the tour guide and historian for a church ladies' bus tour of Mexican religious historical sights. Even before boarding the old fashioned school bus, Shannon develops a contentious relationship with the lesbian leader of the women's group, Judith Fell... | dramatic | train | imdb | Whether or not Richard Burton always plays a drunk, whether or not it should have been in colour, are not in the least bit relevant to the significance, the concepts and the issues at play in this brilliant film, this monument to the resilience of human souls, to the compassion that can bring such succour on long, tort... |
tt0080527 | The Children | Two maintenance employees of a nuclear power plant are conducting an outdoor safety check when they become anxious to leave. Eager to get to the local bar and have a drink, they skip part of the test. Unfortunately a large buildup of pressure causes a yellow toxic gas to leak from one of the pipes. The gas forms into a... | murder | train | imdb | When a school bus drives into the fog from a nuclear plant leak, the children inside are transformed into black-fingernailed zombies that incinerate anyone they touch, apparently from the inside-out.
The premise is great-a radioactive cloud turns children into zombies, but the acting and directing bring the film down.
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tt0080461 | Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) | Charlie Brown is surprised in class, when it is announced that he and Linus have been selected as part of a student exchange program. Charlie leaves school to pack, and willingly invites Snoopy and Woodstock to come along. The surprises continue as Charlie finds a letter in the mailbox: and it's addressed to him! Howev... | romantic | train | imdb | This is by far the best of the Peanuts movies.
It is a classic that far outperforms the Holiday films and still gives us the imaginative exploits of the Peanuts gang.
The storyline adds depth to the characters, with Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Marcy, Linus, and (of course) Snoopy all heading to France for a studen... |
tt0276751 | About a Boy | Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) is a 38-year-old bachelor who prides himself on being "cool". Thanks to royalties from a successful Christmas song that his father composed, Will does not need to work to maintain his leisurely lifestyle. He spends most of his free time smoking, watching television and reading about pop cultur... | comedy, realism, whimsical, dramatic, cute, flashback, feel-good, psychedelic, romantic, entertaining, storytelling | train | imdb | null |
tt0061809 | In Cold Blood | It is November 13, 1959. Perry Smith, a dwarfish, dreamy, soft-spoken man of Cherokee Indian and Dutch descent has been paroled from prison for the past few months. He's on a Greyhound Bus drifting from an unknown location to Kansas City and strumming his guitar. A little girl is fascinated by his strumming, but after ... | suspenseful, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Based on Truman Capote's best-selling book, and with B&W lighting comparable to the best 1940's noir films, "In Cold Blood" presents a terrifying story, especially in that first Act, as the plot takes place largely at night and on rain drenched country roads.
The film's final twenty minutes are mesmerizing, as the rain... |
tt1049956 | The Caller | When troubled divorcee Mary Kee sets up home in her new apartment, she stumbles across an old telephone which she quickly falls in love with. Struck by its antique charm, she gives it a place of pride in her home. Before long, Mary begins to receive strange phone calls from a mysterious, unknown caller. Over time, she ... | murder | train | wikipedia | I saw this at Cinequest in San Jose, in the gorgeous California Theater, but this movie would look good in the homeliest cineplex.
This is the rarest of thrillers: one that makes its impact through careful character studies and a refusal to give up its secrets.
Frank Langella gives a sterling performance as the corpora... |
tt0116409 | The Ghost and the Darkness | In 1898, Sir Robert Beaumont, the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule. He seeks out the expertise of Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson, a British military engineer, to get the project back on track. Patterson travels from England to Tsavo, te... | revenge, violence | train | wikipedia | ...Well according to Hollywood anyway, since "The Ghost and the Darkness" actually takes lots of liberties with its story, about the two man-eating lions of Tsavo.
In fact the main part of the movie is being played by Val Kilmer, who plays his character in a way like we're used of him; a humble way and he doesn't try t... |
tt1945084 | Everly | We open to the sounds of a woman being assaulted. A naked Everly (Salma Hayek) enters her bathroom, her body shaken from sexual abuse. She flushes the toilet to cover the sound of her taking off the top. Inside, in a plastic bag are a phone and a gun. She calls her police contact, Detective Roberts, frightened. Getting... | violence, revenge, comedy, murder, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1568346 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Note: this is an English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel trilogy by Stieg Larsson. But with the same setting in Stockholm, Sweden.On his birthday, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), retired CEO of Vanger Industries, receives a pressed flower in the mail from an anonymous sender and phones retired inspector G... | dark, suspenseful, gothic, murder, mystery, violence, atmospheric, flashback, psychedelic, action, revenge | train | imdb | The lights dim, the movie begins with a brief prologue, and the zany and incredibly weird opening credits begin, set to a creepy cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." From the beginning, we are in for a wild ride as Stieg Larsson's incredibly popular novel "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is brought to life on scr... |
tt0087957 | Purple Rain | The film opens at the First Avenue nightclub in Minneapolis where the band 'The Revolution' is playing their song "Let's Go Crazy". The lead singer, The Kid (Prince) has an energetic style that the people seem to dig. Arriving at the nightclub is aspiring performer Apollonia (Apollonia Kotero), who wants to see the man... | cult, violence | train | imdb | Such conditions have existed in the realm of film vehicles for music stars since the genre began, (with some mind-boggling examples of the worst of the lot offered by every star from Elvis, to Frankie Avalon, to Vanilla Ice.) What you watch these movies for is not the deep plots, solid writing or impeccable direction.
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tt0101889 | The Fisher King | Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a cynical, arrogant shock jock talk radio host, becomes suicidally despondent after his insensitive on-air comments inadvertently prompt a depressed caller to commit multiple murders at a popular Manhattan bar. Three years later, while heavily intoxicated and depressed, he attempts suicide. B... | comedy, murder, thought-provoking, suicidal, flashback, insanity, psychedelic, melodrama | train | imdb | A touching yet humorous tale, THE FISHER KING brings together amongst the best performances given by Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, as well as Terry Gilliam's finest directorial effort.
Solid supporting performances by Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl round out a great film that ranks among my personal favorites.Bri... |
tt0083190 | Thief | Frank (James Caan) is a highly experienced jewel thief and hardened ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his lucrative criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing part of his life vision: a family beginning... | comedy, suspenseful, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, revenge | train | wikipedia | Michael Mann's best movie, with James Caan' best performance.
Cann is helped by a superb supporting cast, who on the surface may seem a motley bunch, but all are very good - Tuesday Weld ('Who'll Stop The Rain'), Jim Belushi (his movie debut), a memorable cameo from country legend Willie Nelson, and especially a fantas... |
tt0347618 | Neko no ongaeshi | A young girl named Haru awakens to another day, where it seems she's a few steps behind everything. Rushing to school, she comes in late for class, to mocking laughter from her classmates, and even from one guy in her class whom she has a crush on.After school, walking home with her friend Hiromi, Haru curses her misfo... | romantic, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0043899 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman. The resultant ringing of church bells in the village brings the local police and the resident archaeologist, Geoffrey Fielding (Harold Warrender), to the beach. Fielding returns to his villa, ... | romantic, murder | train | wikipedia | Sure, there are flaws, mostly in the script which occasionally seems to think it's smarter than it actually is and goes for the sort of intrusive voice-over narration that never fails to annoy, but also in scenes where Lewin's decisions as director become frustrating and in the score which is generally quite good but o... |
tt0808417 | Persepolis | At the airport, Marjane is unable to board a plane to Iran. She then takes a seat and smokes a cigarette. She reflects on her childhood, full of politically driven conflict. As a young girl, Marji lived in Tehran and wanted to be a prophet and a disciple of Bruce Lee. Her childhood ambition is the general uprising agai... | comedy, avant garde, murder, flashback, psychedelic, autobiographical, humor, philosophical, romantic, historical, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Traditionally animated in black and white flashbacks, it tells the story of a French-speaking woman's childhood and young adulthood in Tehran, Iran, and in Vienna during the 1980s and '90s.Marjane Satrapi grew up in a family of revolutionaries against the Shah's regime and the Islamic government that subsequently took ... |
tt0785016 | Kill Kill Faster Faster | 'Kill Kill Faster Faster' is a contemporary film noir inspired by the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Joel Rose. Produced by rising UK outfits Aria Films and Full Circle Films. Director Gareth Maxwell Roberts has written the screenplay with author Joel Rose. The film runs for 93 minutes and was completed... | revenge, flashback | train | imdb | Dark, turbulent, touching, brilliant......
I was lucky enough to be invited to a pre-release screening of KKFF and where so many of these occasions have been disappointing, this was ninety-odd minutes well spent to say the least.
Based on the novel by Joel Rose of the same name, it's the story is of Joe One-Way, a reco... |
tt0073341 | The Man Who Would Be King | In 1885, while working as a correspondent at the offices of the Northern Star newspaper in India, Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) is approached by a ragged, seemingly crazed derelict, who reveals himself to be his old acquaintance Peachey Carnehan (Michael Caine). Peachy tells Kipling the story of how he and his ... | avant garde, satire, murder, historical fiction | train | wikipedia | Terrific performances by Caine, Connery and even Christopher Plummer, who gives a brief, but good performance as Rudyard Kipling, the man who wrote the short story this film was based on.
Even his lesser work has value, and his best films, which certainly includes THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, are unforgettable.The tragic... |
tt0084021 | Grease 2 | It is 1961, two years after the original Grease. The first day of school has arrived and the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies dance and sing as they enter the high school ("Back to School Again"). The Pink Ladies are now led by Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer), who feels she has "outgrown" her relationship with her ex-b... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0094716 | The Beast of War | A rustic Afghan village in a dry, rocky terrain. The villagers look up to the sound of jet airplanes, explosions rock the hillside and buildings and a group of three tanks approach, firing and destroying more of the village. People and goats run for their lives. An Afghan man fires an anti-tank round but misses. Women ... | revenge | train | imdb | Allegedly came out during a change of administration at COLUMBIA, and they knew not what to do with it, and at a time when the 'blockbuster' mentality was starting to become the norm, THE BEAST may have played in what, five cities for a week or two.....they say the most valuable gems can be the hardest to find...and TH... |
tt0219699 | The Gift | Set in the fictional town of Brixton, Georgia, young widow and mother of three young boys Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), is the town fortuneteller. The town is abuzz with the disappearance of Jessica King (Katie Holmes), fiancée of Wayne Collins (Greg Kinnear), the school's principal.As the search for Jessica begins, t... | paranormal, violence, intrigue, murder, flashback | train | imdb | Who could believe that she is Australian?In short, 'The Gift' is well worth seeing, primarily for Cate Blanchett, but also for the supporting actors Keanu Reeves (very impressive and effective) Hilary Swank (underused) and the magnificent Giovanni Ribisi - who is both explosive and reticent as Buddy Cole.
In a small to... |
tt0036809 | The Falcon Out West | A society detective turns cowboy to solve a Texan's murder.Tom Lawrence A.K.A. The Falcon (Tom Conway) is enjoying an evening out at a New York night club when he is approached by Mrs Irwin (Joan Barclay), who asks him to prevent her Ex-husband Tex Irwin (Lyle Talbot) marrying gold digger Vanessa Drake (Carole Gallaghe... | murder | train | imdb | null |
tt0100201 | Mr. Destiny | The story begins on "the strangest day" of Larry Burrows' (James Belushi) life (his 35th birthday) consisting of a series of comic and dramatic misadventures. Larry, who blames all of his life's problems on the fact that he struck out during a key moment of his state high school baseball championship game on his 15th b... | psychedelic, alternate history | train | wikipedia | DESTINY without giving a nod of appreciation to each and every cast member, from the goodhearted James Belushi to the murderous Courtney Cox. This movie lacks the gravitas and scale to make it a great film, but it's a fine cheer-up on a rainy afternoon.
Living the part of your life you wished were better is something t... |
tt1245112 | [Rec]² | Reporter Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco), and her cameraman Pablo, are covering the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the documentary television series While You're Sleeping. While they are recording, the firehouse receives a call about an old woman, Mrs. Izquierdo, who is trapped in her apartmen... | violence, murder, claustrophobic | train | wikipedia | REC 2 takes the supernatural elements of the first movie and further explores them, which sets it apart from some similar zombie-type films.
REC 2 Continues The Creepy Atmosphere Of It's Predecessor While Giving Something New. I am huge fan of the original horror film "REC," which of course inspired the American remake... |
tt2740710 | Atlantic Rim | Following the mysterious disappearance of an oil rig and a reconnaissance mini-submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, scientist Dr. Margaret Adams initiates the Armada Program, which consists of giant robots designed for deep sea rescue. The three robots—piloted by Red, Tracy and Jim—dive nearly 800 fathoms to the sea bed, w... | violence | train | wikipedia | Though the movie was just suffering from being a cheap knock off of "Pacific Rim".The storyline in this movie requires no brain activity, just switch into auto-pilot and watch the movie as the three good guys in their mecha armor suits beat up some colossus aquatic monster that came from God knows where.As for the dial... |
tt0050613 | Kumonosu-jô | Generals Miki and Washizu are Samurai commanders under a local lord, Lord Tsuzuki, who reigns in the castle of the Spider's Web Forest. After defeating the lord's enemies in battle, they return to Tsuzuki's castle. On their way through the thick forest surrounding the castle, they meet a spirit, who foretells their fut... | murder, paranormal, allegory, violence, bleak, atmospheric, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0884732 | The Wedding Ringer | Jimmy Callahan (Kevin Hart) provides best man services for guys who don't have the friends necessary for a wedding. As Doug Harris (Josh Gad), a successful tax attorney, and his fiancee Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) are planning for their wedding day, Doug becomes frantic searching for a best man. He faints an... | flashback | train | imdb | Kevin Hart's best performance and sporadic laugh-out-loud moments, but it ultimately clutches onto the same tropes and beats as other movies of its ilk..
Not financially of course; the guy has been starring in more than a few comedies the past couple years, but critically, none of them (Ride Along, Get Hard, About Last... |
tt2005151 | War Dogs | January 2008, AlbaniaTwo masked men pull David Packouz (Miles Teller) out of a trunk and start beating him. One of the men holds a gun to David's face. We hear David's voice saying what kind of gun it is, and he adds that he is an international arms dealer.We see clips of American soldiers posing with the gear and weap... | flashback | train | imdb | I gave it a 7/10 for slow pacing and lack of humor, which is the opposite of what I expected.I'd still recommend it, just don't expect to be blown away.After watching it for a second time I decided to change my original rating from 7/10 to 8/10, mainly because the acting is just great and I respect the fact that the mo... |
tt1474276 | Samâ uôzu | Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a young student at Kuonji High School with a gift for mathematics and a part-time moderator in the massive computer-simulated virtual reality world OZ along with his friend Takashi Sakuma (Takahiro Yokokawa).
One day, Kenji is invited by fellow Kuonji student Natsuki Shinohara (Nanami ... | satire | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3316960 | Still Alice | Its Alice's (Julianne Moore) 50th birthday party at a fancy restaurant. She is there with her husband (Alec Baldwin) and children. Her daughter Lydia is unable to come due to an audition.Alice is waiting to be introduced at UCLA as a guest speaker in a Linguistics class. She is world renowned in her field. She starts h... | thought-provoking | train | imdb | And while both Baldwin and Stewart have taken the occasional misstep in their respective pasts, both of them once again showed without a doubt their acting abilities and scope, a word linguistics professor Dr. Alice Howland used, albeit with great difficulties, to describe her daughter Lydia (played by Stewart) in one ... |
tt0113161 | Get Shorty | Chilli Palmer (John Travolta) is a loan shark living in Miami, Florida. When his New York based boss dies of a heart attack, Palmer finds himself working for Ray 'Bones' Barboni (Dennis Farina) an old rival who hates, Palmer. Bones is upset with Palmer for not collecting a loan from dry cleaner Leo Devoe (David Paymer)... | comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, satire, revenge, entertaining | train | imdb | null |
tt2719848 | Everest | The opening text reads that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two people to successfully climb Mount Everest. Since then, only hundreds of professionals have attempted to do the same, with one in four dying.Set in the year 1996, Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) gathered his team, Adventure Consultants, to go ahea... | tragedy, suspenseful | train | imdb | The film makers have been intelligent enough to realise that climbing Everest does not need any exaggeration, the characters involved were three dimensional people, and the story was interesting enough not to need embellishment.I expected an action film but left pleasantly surprised by a biopic with a light touch.The o... |
tt0077416 | The Deer Hunter | === Act I ===
In Clairton, a small working class town in western Pennsylvania, in late 1967, Russian-American steel workers Michael "Mike" Vronsky (Robert De Niro), Steven Pushkov (John Savage), and Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Christopher Walken), with the support of their friends and co-workers Stan (John Cazale) an... | boring, murder, realism, cult, violence, atmospheric, psychedelic, suspenseful | train | wikipedia | This is one of the very few post-war Hollywood films that shows a sincere reverence for the lives of small town Americans.After seeing it in a very high quality theater on its initial release, I walked out thinking it was easily one of the best movies I had ever seen - and that I never wanted to see it again.
I don't w... |
tt0248126 | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
"It's All About Loving Your Parents."Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is a lavish movie that deals with the issues of class distinction and the roles of women and men in marriage. It opens with a grown Rohan (Hrithik Roshan) finishing his boarding school education and returning to visit his grandmother... | melodrama, romantic, flashback | train | imdb | The catchy song and dance number he performs with the lovely Kareena Kapoor at their 'prom,' "You Are My Soniya," has gotten regular replays in this household for weeks (even by my 79-year old mother, who will say, "I need a Soniya fix" - it really cheers her up!).
What you get is a very good Bollywood movie that has e... |
tt0043456 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | When a flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., the Army quickly surrounds it. A humanoid (Michael Rennie) emerges, announcing that he has come in peace. When he unexpectedly opens a small device, he is shot by a nervous soldier. A tall robot emerges from the saucer and quickly disintegrates the soldiers' weapons. The ... | anti war | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0144120 | Bride of Chucky | Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly), a former lover and accomplice of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), acquires Chucky's remains after bribing and later murdering a police officer who removed the dismembered children's doll parts from an evidence locker. Believing Ray's soul to be inhabiting the doll, Tiffany crudely ... | comedy, dark, gothic, murder, cult, violence, horror | train | imdb | Together they fall in love and kidnap a nice couple (Nick Stabile, Katherine Heigl) to take them to Chuck's coffin to get an amulet to make Chucky and Tiffany real people again...A lot better than it sounds.
John Ritter has a nice cameo too as a sheriff.The acting is good--Stabile is young, VERY handsome and likable; H... |
tt0944840 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Six months after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Samus is having a nasty dream: Dark Samus, her most recent nemesis, thought to be dead, breaks out of a pod on an unidentified ship. Samus awakes with a shock aboard her new Hunter-class ship built by the Federation for long distances. A transmission summons her t... | sci-fi | train | imdb | null |
tt0102685 | Point Break | Bank robbers who are surfers? The F.B.I. force can hardly believe that Agent Angelo Pappas is actually considering such a thing. But what do they care? He's probably gone loopy, he's old and washed up, unable to adapt to the new system of the F.B.I. So they ignore his theory, letting the notorious bank robbers "The Ex ... | entertaining, cult, neo noir, murder, violence | train | imdb | For so many films the denouement is a gross failure but Bigelow controls the films peaks and troughs expertly and the ending is genuinely well handled, something that appears to be a real struggle for Hollywood today.In what will go down as Patrick Swayze's finest moment on film, he plays the adrenalin guru Bodhi with ... |
tt0147800 | 10 Things I Hate About You | Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the new kid at Padua High School, is given a tour of the school by Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz), who is an audio-visual geek and former leader of a clique of future MBAs. Michael provides Cameron with information on the schools various cliques. During the tour, Cameron spots th... | comedy, gothic, adult comedy, clever, romantic, entertaining | train | imdb | Cameron seeks the services of school bad boy Pat who he arranges to be paid to date Kat and thus allow him to go out with Bianca - but things never go smoothly when it comes to love.I'm not a big fan of teen comedies.
It may not surprise you in terms of who gets which girl and it's fairly predictable in a romantic come... |
tt0093777 | Prince of Darkness | The movie opens with a dying priest clutching a metal box. The priest was protecting the box and soon it is found out why. The box contains a key that opens an area beneath a derelit church. The area contains a room that holds a terrifying secret.A Vicar (Donald Pleasence) begs for help from a professor called Howard B... | comedy, murder, paranormal, cult, good versus evil, psychedelic, philosophical, claustrophobic, romantic, suspenseful | train | imdb | In the same way that I see Prince of Darkness as Carpenter's best film, the haunting music throughout makes for his best work as a composer.
I love this film to death alongside with The Thing (1982) is the second installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy", which began with The Thing (1982).It is one o... |
tt0038499 | Duel in the Sun | Pearl Chaves (Jennifer Jones) can't prevent her father, Scott Chaves, (Herbert Marshall) to get wind of her mother (Tilly Losch)'s unfaithfulness with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Scott gets so angry that he shoots both the mother and the lover. He's sentenced to death in court. After the sentence has been carried out, P... | murder, violence, melodrama, tragedy, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | null |
tt1949720 | Great Expectations | On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older... | romantic | train | imdb | The last BBC Dickens' dramatisation broke "Bleak House" down into half-hour soap-opera size elements for easy digestion and to sort of tie-in with the original publication of the story in instalments, but here the format reverted to the more traditional one-hour episodes shown over three consecutive nights.You pays you... |
tt0414731 | Dante's Cove | As the season begins, Kevin Archer leaves an abusive home to follow his boyfriend, Toby, to Dantes Cove, a remote tropical island populated by beautiful young residents, gay and straight. Unknown to Kevin, Dantes Cove has a dark and dangerous history, and he is unwittingly being drawn into a web of supernatural intrigu... | haunting | train | imdb | Make no mistake: Dante's Cove is targeted primarily for the gay male audience.
While their acting doesn't quite hit the mark, the main characters, Kevin and Toby, do well, and I suspect may improve further in the remaining segments.
Sure, the great bodies and handsome faces are wonderful, but we all want love, and this... |
tt0048254 | Killer's Kiss | In the main hall at New York's Pennsylvania Station, Davy Gordon (Jamie Smith), a young boxer, sits waiting for his train as he recalls the last few days...Living alone in a small apartment, he becomes attracted to a young woman, named Gloria Price (Irene Kane), who leads a no less solitary existence across the courtya... | cult, murder, flashback | train | imdb | shorts and a feature which were so little known that they were never even shown in England, made a suspense thriller
From the fact that he co-produced it, wrote it, directed it and did the photography and editing himself you may deduce that he had more talent than backing
The movie was called "Killer's Kiss," and the... |
tt2377322 | Deliver Us from Evil | The movie opens in Iraq in 2010. A small group of soldiers are running through a war zone in the desert when they encounter a man-made underground cave. The group leader, Lt. Griggs, sends two soldiers (Jimmy Tratner and Mike Santino) to investigate. Jimmy is recording. Underground, the camera light starts to flicker a... | neo noir, gothic, murder, paranormal, horror, flashback, suspenseful | train | imdb | I've always liked movies involving evil and demonology since the plot, effects, action and suspense are always entertaining to watchThe story is like a combination of Se7en and Exorcist where cop is on a case to solve murder cases supernatural style.
There is also a side story on the main character in the film which ex... |
tt1492030 | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce (Kate Winslet) is a housewife in Glendale, California in 1931. She and husband Bert (Brian F. OByrne) have two young daughters, Veda (Morgan Turner) and Moire, or "Ray" (Quinn McColgan). Bert had been a fairly successful home developer, but is now unemployed due to the Great Depression. Mildred makes ext... | depressing | train | imdb | I was already a Kate Winslet fan, but this performance has put her on a very short list of those who I have ever been so moved, so filled with respect and admiration.From the moment we first meet her skillfully making pies (old school like grandma) we see a woman who inspires respect.
We watch as Mildred works hard to ... |
tt0117731 | Star Trek: First Contact | Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier (previously shown in the television episode "The Best of Both Worlds"). He is contacted by Admiral Hayes, who informs him of a new Borg attack against Earth. Picard's orders are for his ship, t... | good versus evil, revenge, cult, alternate history, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0104237 | Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), a British cabinet minister, lives a pleasant life with his wife Ingrid (Miranda Richardson) and young daughter Sally (Gemma Clarke). His older son, Martyn (Rupert Graves), is a rising journalist. At a party, Stephen meets a young half-French woman named Anna Barton (Juliette Binoche)... | violence | train | imdb | null |
tt0096787 | All Dogs Go to Heaven | The film opens with con-dog Charlie B Barker and his pal Itchy, attempting to break out of the local pound.Charlie and Itchy return to the casino that Charlie ran with his old partner, Carface. Unknown to Charlie, Carface was responsible for Charlie going to 'the pound,' with Carface intending to take over the whole ga... | good versus evil, revenge, cult, murder | train | imdb | "All Dogs Go to Heaven" is a brillaint and cute animated film from the great director Don Bluth who directed the brillaint film "The Secret of Nimh".
The movie follows a dog named Charlie who had escaped from the pound, is killed by his old friend, goes to heaven, but ends up coming back to earth.
The performances from... |
tt0067656 | Reazione a catena | At a remote mansion overlooking a vast, empty bay lake, Countess Federica (Isa Miranda), wheels herself through her dark, empty house. She sorrowfully looks out her window at the rain when Filippo Donati (Giovanni Nuvoletti), her husband, appears and murders her by wrapping a noose around her neck and kicks her out of ... | dark, cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, storytelling, flashback, insanity, revenge, sadist | train | imdb | Many films on the Video Nasty list are horror cinema's answer to well-respected classics; The Last House on the Left offers a new spin on Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, Island of Death is a more brutal telling of the story of Bonnie and Clyde and, indeed, this Mario Bava film owes its plot to the French classic, L... |
tt0240684 | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | A year has passed since the events of the first film. In that time, Ariel has given birth to a daughter, named Melody. Ariel and Eric set sail for deeper ocean waters, to have Melody meet her extended family, as well as the residents of Atlantica. King Triton greets his granddaughter with a large smile, and a special l... | good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic | train | imdb | It just reminded me of all the annoying characters on the Disney channel-everyone is hyperactive and the story jumps from action to embarrassing scenes without any really connection.The most disappointing part was the horrible songs-not catchy, not amazing.
I loved The Little Mermaid, it's one of my all time favorite D... |
tt1410063 | Jin ling shi san chai | An American mortician, John Miller (Bale), arrives in Nanjing in order to bury the foreign head priest of a convent for Catholic girls, just after the city was bombed and invaded by the Japanese forces. A short time after his arrival at the convent, a group of flamboyant prostitutes from the local red-light district fi... | melodrama, violence, murder, haunting, flashback | train | imdb | Good movie is like a mirror, some people might get upset watching it, while others see love for others, respect for life, and the human spirit of fighting for peace out of tragedy.
Almost everything in this movie is based on real history, including how Japanese tortured Chinese war victims, how prostitutes stood up to ... |
tt0087056 | A Christmas Carol | Dickens divided the book into five chapters, which he labelled "staves".
=== Stave one ===
The story begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London, seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an old miser, hates Christmas and refuses an invitation to Christmas dinner ... | horror | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0098382 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | On a desert planet, Nimbus III (the "Planet of Galactic Peace"), a humanoid man has dug a grouping of holes. While he digs another, he sees a dark horse and rider approaching. Panicking, he loads a crude rifle with ordinary stones and takes aim. The rider stops close by and approaches the man, telling him that he harbo... | cult, flashback | train | imdb | Yes, there are a few peaks in there, which I will discuss later, but overall, the idea of a "God Like Being" in the center of our galaxy, it just so illogical.The movie has a lot of embarrassing and just plan bad moments.
And by the time we see where the movie is going, we just feel very disappointed and underwhelmed.T... |
tt0092890 | Dirty Dancing | During the opening credits, the Ronettes sing 'Be My Baby' with images of couples dancing in the background. Toward the end of the credits, Cousin Brucie, a radio DJ, is heard announcing the next song, 'Big Girls Don't Cry' by the Four Seasons. As the film begins, the Four Seasons song continues.Frances "Baby" Houseman... | cult, cute, romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt2317225 | The Machine | In the future, at an underground subterranean base, the United Kingdom only has a couple of weeks before the city of Taipei, Taiwan falls to the Chinese. The British needs soldiers fluent in both Chinese dialect as well as ruthless killers. Scientists employed by Britain's Ministry of Defence produce a cybernetic impla... | comedy, suspenseful, psychological, murder, dark, violence, flashback, psychedelic, revenge, sci-fi | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0435679 | Keith | The film begins with Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) lying in the back of a yellow ute, which is about to roll off a cliff. When the ute is just about to fall off the edge, Natalie wakes up from a dream. The next scene is of Keith (Jesse McCartney) speaking to Al (Tim Halligan), in an informal manner.The film progresses wi... | romantic | train | imdb | null |
tt0054331 | Spartacus | In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic has slid into corruption, its menial work done by armies of slaves. One of these, a proud and gifted man named Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), is so uncooperative in his servitude that he is sentenced to fight as a gladiator. He is trained at a school run by the unctuous Roman busine... | tragedy, romantic, historical, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | One of my favorite movie lines of all time is delivered by him addressing the Roman Senate where he says he'll "take a little republican corruption for a little republican freedom." Another sly rogue in the film is Peter Ustinov who won the first of his two Oscars as Batiatus the owner of the gladiatorial school.
Altho... |
tt2278871 | La vie d'Adèle | Chapter 1.In the opening shot, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young teenager living in Lille, France, is seen leaving her house in the morning to grab a bus and the subway to get to school.In class, they are reading 'The Life of Marianne'. The teacher speaks about chance encounters and how love at first sight can affec... | dramatic, romantic, queer | train | imdb | The film's nearly three hour running time is devoted to showing the growth of her character and it is absolutely amazing to watch it unfold right in front of your eyes.The intimate scene's between Adele and Emma are nothing short of miraculous in their depth and their honesty.
I congratulate the director, Abdellatif Ke... |
tt0133952 | The Siege | A U.S. military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is bombed by terrorists. It is determined to be the work of Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal, a known extremist. A Black Ops team works to capture the Sheikh. Posing as shepherds herding goats, they stop the Sheikh's car, kill his drivers, and extract him, blowing up the car to ... | suspenseful, murder, violence | train | imdb | Roger Deacons adds his wonderful cinematography, and Bruce Willis turns in a fine performance as an over-zealous army general.The film delivers a cautionary tale about extreme reactions to terror and the loss of freedoms that can result from acting in anger, rather than with reason and law.
Movies that make people thin... |
tt0363163 | Der Untergang | The film starts out with a short clip from a documentary where the real life Traudl Junge speaks about how even though she feels like she should be angry with her younger self for becoming Hitlers secretary, it is very hard to forgive herself.The narrative begins in November of 1942. Traudl Junge and four other young w... | boring, murder, bleak, dramatic, violence, flashback, insanity, historical | train | imdb | The movie balances well between large-scale effects of bombs exploding in ruined streets and depictions of different persons going though the experience from Hitler and his staff in the well-protected bunkers to the principal military commanders torn between reason and loyalty and German civilians trapped in an infer... |
tt0299117 | Roger Dodger | At lunch with several marketing professionals Roger (Campbell Scott) expounds on the primal difference between men and women. His argument is that men have a place and that is to hunt and have women, and women are naturally designed to stay at home. Later that evening as he lets himself into the apartment of Joyce (Isa... | psychedelic, philosophical | train | imdb | When Nick, his naïve, inexperienced 16-year old nephew comes to town, Roger decides to train the boy in the fine art of manipulation and seduction, taking him out for a night on the town that the youngster will not soon forget.As conceived by first time writer/director Dylan Kidd, `Roger Dodger' is less a full-fledged ... |
tt0126886 | Election | Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a much-admired high school history teacher living in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, who is actively involved in many after-school activities, one of which is overseeing the student government election process.Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is an overachieving junior with an insuf... | comedy, dark, cruelty, flashback, humor, satire | train | imdb | null |
tt1071875 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) was a former stunt rider who often teamed up with his father on various stunts. When he discovered that his father's death is impending, he makes a deal with a man named Roarke (Ciarán Hinds) who claims to be the Devil in exchange for his soul and a curse to be set upon him. Johnny now hosts... | murder, violence, flashback, good versus evil, psychedelic, action | train | imdb | At first glance, 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' seems like an unnecessary sequel, another example of Hollywood mining old ideas and slapping the 3D label on it for a higher ticket price.When viewed in right 'spirit', GR:SOV is a bit of harmless fun, a mindless superhero/action film where you can turn your brain off... |
tt1298650 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | After a failed attempt to rescue his first mate, Joshamee Gibbs in London, Captain Jack Sparrow is brought before King George II. The king wants Jack to guide an expedition to the Fountain of Youth before King Ferdinand and the Spanish Navy can locate it. Jack's old nemesis, Captain Hector Barbossa, now a privateer in ... | boring, fantasy, murder, action, revenge, entertaining | train | wikipedia | Johnny Depp, the goofy pirate that we have grown to love, returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise.The plot is when Jack crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz), he's not sure if it's love—or if she's a ruthless con artist who's us... |
tt0349683 | King Arthur | Synopsis of King Arthur (2004)Some historians believe that the classical 15th century take on King Arthur was based on a real hero named Artorius Castus who lived a thousand years earlier during the Roman occupation. At the beginning of the film, Lancelot takes up this story in a voiceover, saying by 300 AD the Roman E... | violence, boring, historical, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0079501 | Mad Max | The film is set in the near future of a bleak, dystopian and impoverished Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages. (This is not explained in this film but in the sequel, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.) Central to the plot is a poorly-funded national police unit called... | suspenseful, murder, cult, violence, good versus evil, action, tragedy, revenge | train | imdb | null |
tt0426883 | Alpha Dog | Alpha Dog is based on events that took place in 2000 and characters are given fictional names. The film is set in November 1999. It tells the story of Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch), a young drug dealer in Claremont, California and his circle of friends, which includes Frankie Ballenbacher (Justin Timberlake), Tiko "TK... | tragedy, revenge, murder, violence, home movie | train | imdb | The characters, for the most part, aren't likable, but very realistic and well-played.The premise, of course, is based on a true story, but in my opinion was very well put-together so that it wasn't dull in any way, shape, or form.
To me, it felt like a better-quality, more entertaining version of films like "Bully" an... |
tt1504320 | The King's Speech | Prince Albert, Duke of York, the second son of King George V, stammers through his speech closing the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium. The Duke has given up hope of a cure, but his wife Elizabeth persuades him to see Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist living in London. During their first private ... | depressing, dramatic, feel-good, inspiring, historical, storytelling, sentimental | train | wikipedia | It occurred to me that some of them may have been alive when George VI gave the actual speech to the British Nation which had just declared war with Hitler.The King's Speech is a feel good movie, but a very adult one, and while it tells a good story, well scripted, absorbing and believable (except for an odd line or tw... |
tt1188990 | Fritt vilt II | Jannicke (Berdal), the only survivor from the massacre depicted in the previous movie, is picked up in Jotunheimen and brought to a hospital in Otta. At the hospital, she receives good care, but seems distant from her caretakers.
While she stays in the hospital, she meets a boy named Daniel and the two have a pleasant ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Then I popped "Cold Prey 2" in and I was speech less.There are 3 things that every slasher movie needs to be enjoyable1.
A Good Pace - This is what a lot of slasher movies get wrong and this was one of the main problems I had with the first film.
I thought it was more violent and action packed this time around but not ... |
tt1139282 | Stolen Lives | Tom Adkins Sr. (Jon Hamm) is a police officer. He's married to Barbara (Rhona Mitra) and they have a son who disappears. While trying to find their own son, they also meddle with the past. The body of an unidentified child appears at a construction site buried within a suitcase. Some years ago, three children seemed to... | flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0834102 | Senki | A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov (Boris Nacev) has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far... | pornographic, psychedelic | train | imdb | null |
tt0082449 | Ghost Story | In a small New England town, four elderly men form what they call the "Chowder Society," regaling themselves with the telling of scary "ghost stories." Membership in the club, in fact, requires that one present such a story. The four old friends consist of Ricky Hawthorne (Fred Astaire), a lawyer, and his partner Sears... | horror, gothic, murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0118829 | Cats Don't Dance | In 1939, Danny, an optimistic cat, dreams of Hollywood stardom, so he travels from Kokomo, Indiana to Hollywood in hopes of starting a career there. After meeting a new friend Pudge, Danny is selected by agent Farley Wink to feature in a film called the Li'l Ark Angel that is in production alongside a white cat named S... | psychedelic, alternate reality | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0770829 | La ragazza del lago | Inspector Giovanni Sanzio, a Keenan Wynn look-alike, is on the case in this Italian version of Norwegian author Karin Fossum's mystery novel "Don't Look Back" (oddly translated into Italian/Friuli as "Lo squadro di uno soonosciuto").A beautiful girl is found dead on the lakeshore of a small Italian Alpine village, and ... | horror, flashback | train | imdb | In this Italian setting, a young girl named Anna is found dead on the shore of a rural mountain lake, lying nude on her side with her clothes neatly arranged by her.
Intitial suspects are the girl's boyfriend and a mentally slow man who lives nearby with his wheelchair bound elderly father and who first discovered the ... |
tt1675434 | Intouchables | The film begins at night in Paris. Driss (Sy) is driving Philippe's (Cluzet) Maserati Quattroporte at high speed. They are soon chased by the police: when they are caught, Driss, unfazed, doubles his bet with Philippe, convinced they can get an escort. In order to get away with his speeding, Driss claims the quadripleg... | humor, feel-good, entertaining, sentimental | train | imdb | null |
tt1797530 | Tomb Raider | The game begins with Lara setting out on her first expedition aboard the ship Endurance, with the intention of finding the lost kingdom of Yamatai. By her suggestion and against Whitman's advice, the expedition ventures into the Dragon's Triangle, east of Japan. The ship is struck by a violent storm and shipwrecked, le... | paranormal, violence, cult | train | imdb | null |
tt0076723 | Slap Shot | The Charlestown Chiefs, a minor league hockey team, need to drum up attendance for their upcoming game with a team from Hyannisport. Television host Jim Carr (Andrew Duncan) interviews Denis Lemieux (Yvon Barrette) on his show "Sports Talk" about the "finer points of hockey." English is the French Canadian player's sec... | cult, satire, violence | train | imdb | Mostly hated by critics on its release, as much for its cynical viewpoint as its relentless profanity, "Slap Shot" has since become something of a cult classic.Set in the low-rent world of minor-league hockey, the movie follows the efforts of player-coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) to turn around the Charlestown Chief... |
tt0078966 | The China Syndrome | TV news reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) and her freelance cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) visit the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles as part of a series of news reports on energy production. Kimberly is an ambitious reporter who wants to become a "hard news" reporter, however, her superior... | tragedy, dramatic, murder | train | imdb | That little gnawing sensation that the director would hope you feel while watching his thriller.Jack Lemmon's performance is a fine one, and Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas follow.
The movie occasionally gets too technical (especially in the second-half) and could use more human interplay, however the performances by Ja... |
tt0058155 | The Gorgon | In a small European town, an old castle was once inhabited by three sisters. No, there was nothing normal about them, for they were The Gorgons. The most infamous was Medusa until her head of snake laden hair was cut off. Fear has swallowed the town because they believe that either Euryale or Medera,
still live there. ... | gothic | train | imdb | Typically, the DivX edition I watched was plagued by artifacts and a few jump-cuts (not to mention being in the odious pan-and-scan format); however, I was very glad to have finally caught up with it – especially in view of the DD Home Video company’s recent folding (this had been mentioned as one of a possible number ... |
tt0067491 | Night of Dark Shadows | Handsome young artist Quentin Collins arrives at his newly inherited estate of Collinwood with his beautiful wife Tracy. They meet the housekeeper Carlotta Drake and the caretaker Gerard Stiles. Quentin happens upon a 19th-century portrait of a blonde woman with captivating green eyes that seem to mesmerize him. Carlot... | paranormal, gothic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0387514 | Prime | New York City. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) comes to see her therapist, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), and tells her she has signed her divorce papers. She is distressed because she has suddenly started to think she wants to have children. Lisa tells her she should try to live in the now, for now.Dave Bloomberg (Bryan Green... | entertaining, flashback | train | imdb | Everything about that scene bespoke an upper-middle-class 20-something living with his grandparents and lacking direction.Not to mention that the intimacy between Rafi and David felt so natural that I felt convinced that Uma and Bryan had something off-screen during filming.
No monologues that sound like they were crib... |
tt0093300 | Jaws: The Revenge | On Amity Island, Chief of Police Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), the hero of two previous shark attacks, has died from a heart attack. His wife, Ellen (Lorraine Gary), attributes it to the fear of sharks. She now lives with Brody's younger son Sean (Mitchell Anderson) and his fiancée Tiffany (Mary Smith). Sean works as a ... | revenge, flashback | train | wikipedia | Lance Guest and Mario Van Peebles frequently appear to be wishing to have better things to do, while Lorraine Gary frequently looks stoned in moments when she is supposed to look frightening.Clearly, the budget spent on this film didn't go into the research, script, or mechanical shark.
The true Ed Wood moment of the f... |
tt0072443 | Zerkalo | This film does not have a storyline, but proceeds in a non-narrative, stream-of-consciousness form. To add to the confusion, several of the characters are played by the same actors. Margarita Terekhova plays the roles of Maria (the mother, also called "Masha" or "Marousia" in some of the pre-war scenes), and of Natalya... | mystery, psychedelic, avant garde, flashback | train | imdb | I've seen it at different times of my life - first, as a college student many years ago in Moscow; I keep returning to it all my life.When Tarkovsky's Zerkalo (The Mirror) was first released, it divided the audience completely.
He suggested that she thought about the times Zerkalo was showing, he tried to explain to he... |
tt0161081 | What Lies Beneath | Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) lives in Vermont with her husband Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), an accomplished scientist. After dropping her daughter Caitlin (Katharine Towne) off at college, Claire begins to notice the activities of the couple who have moved into the house next door, the Feurs.
Overhearing M... | suspenseful, gothic, murder, paranormal, horror, haunting, revenge | train | wikipedia | A good old-fashioned scary movie, avoiding irony and self-referentialism at every turn, this film relies on a nice premise and some well-executed creepy atmosphere for its impact.
For my wife and I, it gave a bit away about how the movie was likely to end.Michelle Pfeiffer was really good, I'd guess she was in almost e... |
tt1454468 | Gravity | In 2014/2015, bio-medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a Mission Specialist on her first space shuttle mission, STS-157. She is on a spacewalk repairing a panel on the Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), who is commanding his final expedition. Mission ... | suspenseful, realism, atmospheric, flashback | train | imdb | Whilst 'Gravity' falls short against films like '2001: A Space Odyssey', it is a tense and visually stunning thriller from Alfonso Cuarón.
The critics stated that you would be gripping to the edge of your seats, this is true in every aspect, the film is full of intense and thriller situations with amazing performances ... |
tt1742044 | Jersey Boys | Belleville, New Jersey, 1961.Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) walks in to tell the audience that he's the one to go to for the real story. He claims that if it wasn't for him, he and his friends would have wound up in someone's trunk with a bullet in their heads. He goes over to the barbershop to meet with his friend Fran... | neo noir, historical, flashback | train | imdb | I've never seen the musical, but I gotta tell you, if you love 60's, 70's & 80's Frankie Valli songs, your eyes too will adore this movie...
Clint Eastwood is one of my favorite directors and I thought "Jersey Boys" would be one of my favorite films of this year, but I was disappointed by Eastwood's adaptation of the h... |
tt0080079 | Vampire | A neglected site in San Francisco is about to get new life as the
Bryant Park Development Project unfolds. In attendance at the dedication
ceremony are the designing architects, John [Jason Miller] and Leslie [Kathryn Harrold] Rawlins, who bow
their heads proudly but reverently as Father Hanley [Scott Paulin] blesses t... | paranormal, gothic, murder | train | imdb | A Movie That Left Me Wanting More Of Richard Lynch.
Good, gothic-feeling movie.
Richard Lynch, with his searing eyes, gaunt, handsome face, flowing blonde hair and sexy voice was a natural to play the vampire, Anton Voytek.
Seeing him come up out of the earth, roaring in pain and anguish of being sealed up in his tomb ... |
tt0001915 | A Tale of Two Cities | === Book the First: Recalled to Life ===
Dickens's famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted within:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Highlights.
While it is impossible to do justice to Dickens' sprawling novel in 20 minutes, Vitagraph makes a stab at it with this series of scenes in little more than tableaux format.
Good costumes, good backgrounds and excellent actors do their best, but stick with the 1935 version directed by Jack Conway.While this ... |
tt0084719 | Lo squartatore di New York | An old man is walking his dog in New York City when the dog retrieves a decomposed human hand. It is identified by the police as belonging to Ann-Lynne, a local prostitute. Lieutenant Fred Williams (Jack Hedley), the burned-out police detective investigating the murder, interviews the young woman's nosy and obnoxious l... | dark, grindhouse film, cruelty, murder, cult, horror, violence, suspenseful, sadist | train | wikipedia | Simply put, The New York Ripper is the story of a mad killer with a penchant for slashing young woman and harassing the police with his duck-like voice.
Second, Gialli often ask the viewer to suspend reality to accept various plot points, but the final scenes in The New York Ripper cross the line into ridiculousness an... |
tt0084234 | The Last American Virgin | The plot closely follows the original Israeli film Eskimo Limon (Lemon Popsicle), and revolves around protagonist Gary (Lawrence Monoson), a typical high school student in early 1980s Los Angeles, and his friends Rick (Steve Antin), the slick ladies' man, and David (Joe Rubbo).
Most of the plot involves their numerous ... | tragedy, cult, adult comedy, romantic | train | wikipedia | I think after a minute of watching the credits roll he just sort of whimpered "Oh dude....." It goes from dumb 80's teen sex comedy to nihilistic realism so quickly that it catches you off guard.
At that time filmgoers were deluged with nothing but mad slasher films and teen sex comedies.
Today, after almost two years ... |
tt0837565 | The Witches of Eastwick | This unsold TV series pilot opens with three young women, named Alex, Jane, and Sukie, playing in a little league game when they hear the coach make a sexist remark. All of a sudden, it starts to storm! We then see them laughing and running home in the rain as Alex screams: "Ok, who conjured it?". "We all did!" yells J... | paranormal | train | imdb | null |
tt0098350 | Slipstream | A barren Earth, with rocky dry hills and a slow narrow stream of water. A female narrator voice-over says that pollution has destroyed the surface of the planet, and that the huge wind stream now rule it: the most dangerous situation is called Slipstream- it's like a river of wind. In that scenery, an airplane with a s... | satire, murder | train | imdb | Murray Abraham and the great Ben Kingsley make appearances in this unlikely post-apocalyptic action film.
Like the original Star Wars Trilogy (before George tinkered with it again, and again, and again), this film is best enjoyed with all it's flaws.
Ben Kingsley, Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton I think his name is were all g... |
tt0411906 | Spider-Man 2 | The video game picks up two years after it's predecessor with an opening narration by Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) and a pan through the large city of New York. After touching bases with the Narrator/Tour Guide (Bruce Campbell) and learning the basics of crawling and charged jumps through the tutorial, Spide... | good versus evil, revenge, psychedelic, violence | train | imdb | One of the best games of the year..
An infinite number of times better than the first game.
There is so much to do that even if you beat the game without doing anything else, you won't scratch the 50% bar.
There's so much to do that doesn't have anything to with the storyline you can spend a month just swinging around ... |
tt0078437 | Ultimo mondo cannibale | A light aircraft is flying over spectacular jungle terrain. On board is oil prospector Robert Harper (Massimo Foschi), his business partner Ralph (Ivan Rossimov), the pilot Charlie (Sheik Razak Shikur), and a young lady named Swan (Judy Rosly). There is much talk about inhospitable and harsh the jungle is which is appa... | violence, horror, cruelty, murder | train | imdb | He finally manages to escape and kidnaps a young, beautiful female member of the tribe to use as a guide.The movie has a gritty realism to it that makes it play almost like a documentary.
It captures the gradual transformation of the character from a "civilized" man to a grunting "savage" extremely well, although a sce... |
tt0101393 | Backdraft | At a Chicago city firehouse in 1971, a young boy and his even younger brother are trying on a fireman's coat. The older boy, Steven McCaffrey, lectures his brother, Brian, on how to properly buckle the front so it won't open in a hazardous situation. Just then, the alarm goes off in the firehouse and their father rushe... | cult, melodrama | train | imdb | null |
tt0377471 | Be Cool | In this sequel to the 1995 film, 'Get Shorty' former loan shark-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer (John Travolta), after years of filmmaking in Hollywood, enters the music industry after witnessing the execution, by the head of the Russian mob, of his friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), owner of a record company. Chili... | murder, flashback | train | imdb | null |
tt0109439 | City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold | A year after the events of the first film, Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) is a much happier and livelier man, having moved out of the city and become station manager at the radio station where he works, where he has employed his best friend, Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern). However, he is being plagued with nightmares abou... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0097428 | Ghostbusters II | After saving New York City from the demi-god Gozer, the Ghostbusters—Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Peter Venkman, and Winston Zeddemore—are sued for the property damage they caused, and barred from investigating the supernatural, forcing them out of business. Ray owns an occult bookstore and works as an unpopular children... | comedy, fantasy, paranormal, allegory, cult, humor, action | train | wikipedia | The first one was so original, so enormously popular than any sequel was bound to fail as far as matching it.This second Ghostbusters was just fine, very entertaining and it was nice to see all the main characters back.
It had a little nicer feel to it and was more family-friendly language-wise, so it even had some thi... |
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