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tt0092842 | Dead of Winter | On a snowy night, a woman enters a train station on New Year's Eve to retrieve a satchel full of cash, from a coin-operated storage locker. Later that night, she drives into an empty parking lot, and exits the car to place a call. As she anxiously smokes, she makes a phone call, and tells the other party she'll wait on... | insanity, suspenseful, gothic, murder | train | wikipedia | The plot centers on a naive actress, played well by Mary Steenburgen, who accepts a job on a rather hush-hush production.
Mary does everything Rubes and his assistant, Roddy McDowell, ask of her because she views this as her big break.But things aren't what they seem in the mansion.
Mary makes a few shocking discoverie... |
tt1708453 | Aakrosh | Allegedly based on a true incident reported on page 7 of a local newspaper, the film was a scathing satire on the corruption in the judicial system and the victimization of the underprivileged by the able and the powerful.
Aakrosh forms a part of the series of works, based around explorations in violence, written by no... | violence, revenge, murder, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Besides the usual disclaimer that precedes a film that all incidents, characters and similarities portrayed within are coincidental at best, Priyadarshan's Aakrish takes one extra step to reinforce this point, as it wants to tackle the real world issue of "honour killing" on film, cobbling together a series of faux pas... |
tt0041178 | The Big Steal | U.S. Army lieutenant Duke Halliday (Robert Mitchum) is robbed of a $300,000 payroll by Jim Fiske (Patric Knowles). When Halliday's superior, Captain Vincent Blake (William Bendix), suspects him of having taken part in the theft, Halliday has no choice but to pursue Fiske into Mexico. Along the way, he runs into Joan Gr... | cult, humor | train | wikipedia | Mitchum is tough but has a good humour about him that sets up the rest of the film; he has judged it well and his easy charm gives him chemistry with Greer.
Bendix is tough and flustered in a good way while Knowles makes for quite a nice relaxed thief that sits well with the playing that the script requires him and the... |
tt0108238 | Striking Distance | Thomas Hardy, a Pittsburgh Police homicide detective, has broken the ranks by informing on his partner and cousin, Jimmy Detillo, for using excessive force. En route to the Policemen's Ball with his father, Vince Hardy, the ball is postponed after a call indicating a serial killer nicknamed the Polish Hill Strangler ha... | murder | train | wikipedia | Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker were excellent together and the supporting cast was also outstanding.Director Rowdy Herrington also brought us the awful A Murder of Crows (1999), but he didn't ruin this one, even if it did get a little far-fetched in places.
An interesting plot line, and Willis is believable in h... |
tt0064312 | The Fall | Los Angeles, 1915: stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is hospitalized, as he is bedridden and possibly paralyzed after a jump he took in his first film. He meets Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), a young Romanian-born patient in the hospital who is recovering from a broken arm, and begins to tell her a story about her namesake.... | anti war, violence, cult, philosophical | train | wikipedia | Anybody with an opinion of Iraq War should watch this. The Fall is a difficult movie to assess; I watched it yesterday and thought it a masterpiece. However, the main reason why I thought that is the scenes in which various people tell what they think about the Vietnam war. The director shows both people who are suppor... |
tt0118996 | Dobermann | The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop C... | cult, violence | train | wikipedia | If you like your heroes dirty, your characters about 3 times larger than life, your camera restless, your dialogue cynical and vicious and your violence explosive...
Starting off with a slow scene at the baptism of Dobermann, whos real name is Yann, it then takes you on a action-trip to hell - and never back!The first ... |
tt0060230 | Charlie Brown's All Stars! | After Charlie Brown's team loses their first game of the season (123-0), his team throw down their caps in disgust and quit. Frustrated and depressed, Charlie Brown wanders around aimlessly until Linus meets him with good news: Mr. Hennessey, operator of a local hardware store, is offering to sponsor Charlie Brown's te... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | A gem buried under The Easter Beagle.
If you're a fan of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," "Charlie Brown's All-Stars" will not disappoint.
It has the heart and warmth of the other two, a sweet story and the feel of Charles Shultz's comic strip, a quality that seemed to diminish a... |
tt0315824 | The Big Bounce | Jack Ryan, a surfer and occasional thief, attacks the menacing Lou Harris with a baseball bat. Harris is a foreman on a Hawaii construction site run by corrupt millionaire Ray Ritchie. When Jack is released from jail, both the police and Ritchie's right-hand man, Bob Rogers, Jr., tell Jack to leave the island. However,... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0199950 | The New Adventures of Pinocchio | In July 1890, Pinocchio and his friend Lampwick skip school to go to a carnival. While there, they watch a presentation by the carnival's leader, Madame Flambeau. She gives a man with one shorter leg some of her Elixir, and his leg grows to the length of the other one. The carnival's dwarf then leads Pinocchio and Lamp... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | Under the magic spell, Pinochio becomes a boy and Jephetto a wooden puppet..
The previous writers comments were not based on The New Adventures of Pinochio.
In this version Martin Landau (Jeppeto) becomes a puppet when he accidentally drinks a magic potion.
An English boy plays his son in the title role and gives a mar... |
tt0120317 | That Darn Cat | "Darn Cat" or "DC" is a wily, adventurous Siamese tomcat who lives with young, suburbanite sisters Ingrid "Inkie" (Dorothy Provine) and Patricia "Patti" Randall (Hayley Mills), whose parents are traveling abroad at the time of the story.
One night, while making his rounds around town, teasing Blitzy the Bulldog as usua... | absurd, revenge, comedy, gothic, romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0206154 | Morgane et ses nymphes | Two young women travel by car through the Auvergne. Having run out of gas near an odd village, they spend the night in a barn where they make love. The next morning, Anna is gone and a dwarf in medieval garb guides Françoise through a forest (later identified as Brocéliande) to a lake, where a magic canoe carries her t... | pornographic, psychedelic, cruelty | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0021505 | The Unholy Three | Three performers leave a sideshow after Tweedledee (Harry Earles), the midget, assaults a young heckler and sparks a melee. The three join together in an "unholy" plan to become wealthy. Prof. Echo, the ventriloquist, assumes the role of Mrs. O'Grady, a kindly old grandmother, who runs a pet shop, while Tweedledee play... | murder | train | wikipedia | The scene where Harry Earles tries to get an early bonus with the necklace is very good and the whole relationship between the midget and the strongman is better defined, IMHO, in this version.
The rest of the cast is good with Elliot Nugent as the patsy Hector contributing a nice turn and Harry Earles again reprising ... |
tt0205177 | Kevin & Perry Go Large | The film begins at the beheading of Anne Boleyn, which turns out to be an erotic daydream, introducing protagonist Kevin, who is having sexual fantasies when he's supposed to be doing his homework about Boleyn.
Kevin has tried to lose his Virginity for three years. He and his best friend, Perry go to a newsagent's to b... | cult, adult comedy | train | wikipedia | I'd argue that it doesn't as I feel that Enfield's character rather pokes fun at the naivety of youth, and whilst I've been partial to my own dalliances in nutty behaviour, I can sense a critical undertone in the Kevin character.The film is funny, and the plot is definitely good enough to keep you watching.
As a pre-pu... |
tt0043676 | Inside Straight | In San Francisco in 1870, Ada Stritch owns a bank, but there's a run on it. She needs $3 million to keep it open. In desperation, she turns to a wealthy man she despises, Rip MacCool.
Also in need of Rip's help are newspaperman Johnny Sanderson and an old acquaintance, Flutey, each of whom, like Ada, has issues with Ri... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Success breeds unhappiness.
Rip McCool (David Brian) has 19th century San Francisco at his mercy since he has all the money and they have none.
Angry villagers are lining up outside the bank before it opens in the morning so that they can clean out what little there is or kick some banker (Mercedes McCambridge) butt.
F... |
tt0231956 | The Last Man | === Introduction ===
Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl's cave near Naples, a collection of prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl. She has edited these writings into the current narrative, the first-person narrative of a man living at the end of the 21s... | absurd | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059418 | Major Dundee | During the American Civil War, Union cavalry officer Major Amos Dundee (Charlton Heston) has been relieved of his command for an unspecified tactical error at the Battle of Gettysburg (it is implied that he showed too much initiative) and sent to head a prisoner-of-war camp in the New Mexico Territory. After a family o... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | A textbook example of how a penny-pinching producer can ruin a potentially great movie by basically sandbagging its (admittedly truculent) director, MAJOR DUNDEE nevertheless works as an answer of thoughts to the glorious Cavalry westerns of John Ford.
Sam Peckinpah, on his third film overall and first one with a large... |
tt0864835 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Mr. Peabody is a gifted anthropomorphic dog who has an adopted 7-year-old human son, Sherman. He tutors Sherman travelling throughout history using the WABAC, a time machine. They visit Marie Antoinette in Versailles during the French Revolution in 1789. Getting caught in the Reign of Terror, Peabody is nearly sent to ... | historical | train | wikipedia | It's hard to imagine somebody trying to pitch the story for Mr. Peabody & Sherman - "Let's make a movie about a genius dog who goes travelling in time and space with his adopted human son!" Well, actually, someone did make that pitch...
But those of us who are less familiar with these characters needn't fret: this new ... |
tt0123119 | Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? | This special begins, when Linus calls the Brown house, and Sally picks up. She gets very excited that her Sweet Babboo is on the other line. He denies that he is that, and tries to ask if Charlie Brown is home, but while he is doing so, she asks if he called to ask her to a movie. He gets furious, and yells at her, say... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0028776 | Death in the Air | Inspector Gallagher (Willard Kent) of the United States Department of Commerce views a number of crashes and disappearances of Goering-Gage Aviation Corporation aircraft as suspicious. With United States Army Reserve test pilot Jerry Blackwood (John Carroll), Gallagher visits the Goering-Gage company. Jerry test flies ... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0260447 | The Turn of the Screw | An unnamed narrator listens to Douglas, a friend, read a manuscript written by a former governess whom Douglas claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents... | gothic, haunting | train | wikipedia | The better of Petr Weigl's filmed versions of Britten's operas.... The other was 1996's Let's Make An Opera, which I did love overall, but found this even more impressive. Of the four or so Weigl opera films seen so far, 1982's The Turn of the Screw is the second best for me, the best being 1988's Eugene Onegin. 1994's... |
tt0337611 | Dilwale | The movie begins in Goa, where Raj leaves his auto repair shop to confront Mani for stealing a man’s cell phone. Mani tells Raj that he is stealing it for his younger brother, whom he must care for after both of their parents died. While out driving, Veer sees a woman, Ishita, hitchhiking but his friend refuses to pick... | flashback | train | wikipedia | Wonderful, entertaining classical movie of the 1990's.
Dilwale (1994) is a romantic, action-packed entertainer of the 1990's decade.
Ajay Devgan for the first time in his acting career, then, did a mentally retarded person's role and his change of image really worked wonders.
Not only was Devgan appreciated widely by b... |
tt2056771 | A Bigger Splash | In an isolated villa on the little Italian island of Pantelleria, world-famous rock singer Marianne is on holiday with her filmmaker lover Paul. She is recovering from surgery and has lost her voice, communicating only by signs and occasional whispers. He is in recovery from alcohol addiction and a failed suicide attem... | murder | train | wikipedia | Tilda Swinton is superb as the voiceless singer, Dakota Johnson gave me, for the first time, a glimpse into what she could be, Matthias Schoenaerts hits all the right notes even the most unexpected ones but Ralph Fiennes gives a performance that it hast to be seen to be believed mostly because this is the same actor in... |
tt0039840 | Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman | In a hospital, Angie Evans (Susan Hayward), her face bandaged, recounts the events that brought her here.
A nightclub singer, Angie becomes involved with another singer, Ken Conway (Lee Bowman), whose career has yet to take off. Her agent Mike Dawson (Charles D. Brown) helps get Ken and piano accompanist Steve Anderson... | melodrama, romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | Allegedly, Susan Hayward got this breakthrough role because every other Hollywood actress turned it down, due to the fact that it is the story of Bing Crosby's wife, Dixie Lee. Whatever, it got Susan an Oscar nomination and put her on the road to meatier parts.As other comments have pointed out, this was probably consi... |
tt0092086 | ¡Three Amigos! | In 1916, the bandit El Guapo and his gang are collecting protection money from the Mexican village of Santo Poco. Carmen, daughter of the village leader, searches for someone who can come to the rescue of her townspeople. While visiting a village church, she sees a silent film featuring "The Three Amigos" and, believin... | comedy, cult, psychedelic, humor, satire, comic | train | wikipedia | I looked up this movie on IMDb fully expecting to find a lot of comments that reflected my opinion, that this is a great little film.
Carnage ensues, the German sharp shooters finish off the rest of the patrons in a bloody gun fight, the confused looks on the bandit's faces throughout this whole routine is hilarious.Th... |
tt0397742 | Yeh Vaada Raha | Vikram Rai Bahadur is the only son of Mrs. Sharda, and sole heir to a vast business and estate. While vacationing with his artiste friend, Raja in Kashmir he meets a beautiful girl named Sunita and falls head over heels in love with her. Sunita was a great singer and had also got a contract to sing on Radio, she tells ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1719068 | The Grief Tourist | Jim Tahna, a quiet and solitary man, explains in voice-over narration his hatred of society and his employers, though he enjoys his work as security guard, as it allows him long periods of solitude. On his vacation time, he engages in dark tourism, the visitation of murder sites. His current subject is Carl Marznap, a ... | violence, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | Dark Tourist...a must see..
This review was written by Amanda Baverstock, a UK resident who saw the film in London during Fright Fest.
A spot on review!
With her permission, I am posting here."Dark Tourist is a dark slice of cinema.
No doubt about it.
It makes for truly uncomfortable watching but please, do not let tha... |
tt0330802 | Raid | Indonesian special tactics officer Rama prays, practices Silat, and bids goodbye to his father and wife, who is pregnant with his child. He cryptically promises his father he'll "bring him home." Rama joins a heavily armed 20-man elite police squad, including officers Bowo and Dagu, Sergeant Jaka, and Lieutenant Wahyu,... | violence, murder | train | wikipedia | Finland's own action hero.
Raid (the superb Kai Lehtinen) returns to Finland to find his ex-girlfriend Tarja (Mari Rantasila) only to hear that she has been killed in an arson made on the public voice press headquarters.
Grieving, Raid begins his own investigation of what happened.
Meanwhile Captain Jansson (Oiva Lohta... |
tt0120828 | Six Days Seven Nights | Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) is a New York journalist who works for Dazzle, a fashion magazine. She is invited by her boyfriend Frank (David Schwimmer) to spend a week holidaying with him on the island paradise of Makatea, in the South Pacific. The final leg of their journey to Makatea is in a dilapidated de Havilland Can... | comedy, boring, murder, romantic | train | wikipedia | It's a very, very good romantic comedy with a funny script, witty direction, great tropical locales, and an eclectic but engaging supporting cast..
The grand old DeHavilland Beaver upstages everyone and so if you like airplanes, you will like this one.Harrison Ford + Airplanes = Great Movie every time..
One scene moves... |
tt0297120 | Firestarter 2: Rekindled | Vincent Sforza (Danny Nucci) works for a large, influential research firm, and he has been put in charge of locating several people who were part of an old experiment from the 1970s—an experiment in which a group of college students were given a dose of a chemical called LOT-6. Apparently, the victims of the experiment... | paranormal, revenge, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | That is the only thing that i kept asking myself through out the long duration of this horrible thing.I must admit that i have never read the book, but i am a fan of the original film.
Firestarter 1 was good, it stuck with the book's plot, it changed a few minor details and cut a few scenes as expected but much of the ... |
tt0082779 | Murder Is Easy | Luke Fitzwilliam happens to share a London-bound train carriage with Lavinia Pinkerton, an elderly lady who informs Luke that she is travelling to Scotland Yard to report a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of three people i.e. Amy Gibbs, Tommy Pierce and Harry Carter, and that another man, Dr John Humbleby, wi... | revenge, mystery, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0093200 | Hollywood Shuffle | Bobby Taylor (Robert Townsend) is a middle class black male aspiring to become an actor. He practices his lines in the bathroom, with his younger brother Stevie (Craigus R. Johnson) watching as he plays a stereotypical “jive” character for the audition for "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge", a movie about street gangs. Bobby's... | satire | train | wikipedia | Interesting and impressive, Hollywood Shuffle allows the characters to make the point that Townsend is making, without being too harsh or lecture-like.
The film incorporates some great parody scenes such as the Siskel and Ebert inspired "Speed and Tyrone" where the reviewers sneak into movies.
A couple haven't been tha... |
tt0120765 | My Giant | A huckster named Sammy (Billy Crystal) travels to Romania on business after splitting up with his wife. After a disappointment with his client, he crashes his car and is rescued while unconscious by an enormous Romanian man named Max (Gheorghe Mureșan) who is close to 8 feet tall.
Sammy thinks the rescuer is God, as he... | romantic | train | wikipedia | A Good Movie.
I'm surprised the ratings for this movie are so low.
Billy Crystal plays a talent agent who gets fired by his client then almost drowns.
Luckily two giant hands save him from the water, and they are of course attached to the "giant", George Muresan (spelling?) who he immediately tries to sign on as a clie... |
tt0064256 | O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro | After the World War II, in the Brazilian sertão. A group of impoverished peasant mystics (beatos) gathered around Dona Santa (Rosa Maria Penna), a female spiritual figure, join in veneration of Saint George with an obscure figure named Coirana (Lorival Pariz). Coirana claims to have restarted the cangaço and seeks to t... | allegory, revenge, psychedelic, magical realism | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059712 | Ship of Fools | The characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, so... | romantic, suspenseful, storytelling | train | wikipedia | Jose Ferrer's German bore, George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley and even the wonderful Michael Dunn will make you sea sick at times but I will recommend it nonetheless just to admire and enjoy Vivien Leigh's Charleston or Simone Signoret looking at Oskar Werner with a mixture of love, lust, compassion and need.
"Ship of F... |
tt5311514 | Kimi no na wa | Mitsuha, a high school girl living in Japan's mountainous Hida region, is bored of country life and wishes she were a handsome Tokyo boy. With her grandmother and younger sister, she makes kuchikamizake sake.
Mitsuha begins switching bodies intermittently with Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo. Their memories of ... | romantic | train | wikipedia | In a world dominated by stupid sequels, prequels and remakes it is film/anime like this that restores hope in today's entertainment.Not only it is emotional and feels real, it delivers a relevant message.
I love the imagination and palette but also appreciate that it aims to remind us of social issues that we should be... |
tt1103273 | Peep World | At a dinner celebrating the 70th birthday of their father Henry Meyerwitz (Ron Rifkin), tensions among the four Meyerwitz siblings explode thanks to the success of the youngest son, Nathan (Ben Schwartz), whose new novel Peep World is a thinly veiled portrait of the family. The best-selling expose reveals the oldest, "... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0277738 | The House of the Dead 2 | A few months after the events of the first film, Professor Roy Curien at the fictional Cuesta Verde University (CVU), has managed to subdue and contain a "Hyper sapiens" specimen, who is revealed to be his son, Rudy Curien, (a survivor of the Isla Del Monte incident from the first film). Curien experiments on another s... | violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt1716777 | People Like Us | Sam Harper (Chris Pine), a struggling corporate trader in New York City, is in trouble after one of his deals violates federal law and the Federal Trade Commission threatens him with an investigation. Sam's boss (Jon Favreau) urges him to bribe federal officials, at Sam's own expense. Returning home, Sam learns from hi... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | It proves that in life a family always have life altering choices to make.The story which was inspired by true events has Sam(Chris Pine)a grown salesman who one day with his love Hannah(Olivia Wilde)gets a call in New York and the news is bad his record producer dad who he hasn't seen in years has just passed away on ... |
tt0065780 | Gimme Shelter | Agnes "Apple" Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens) has never had an easy life. She's been in and out of foster care for years, and her mother June (Rosario Dawson) is an abusive addict who only wants her for the welfare money she provides. She decides to run away and go in search of her absent father Tom Fitzpatrick (Brendan Frase... | tragedy, violence, murder | train | wikipedia | The Stones were possibly the biggest band in the world at the time, so by today's standards it seems unbelievable they'd put on a free concert where the venue was changed at the last minute, the set was still being constructed as the 300,000 very fried looking hippies turned up, and there was no security for their sata... |
tt0043545 | Flight to Mars | The first expedition to Mars, led by physicist Dr. Lane (John Litel), includes Professor Jackson (Richard Gaines), engineer Jim Barker (Arthur Franz), and his assistant Carol Stadwick (Virginia Huston). Journalist Steve Abbott (Cameron Mitchell) is also aboard to cover the historic mission. A final interview with his c... | romantic, intrigue | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0095496 | Last Rites | Father Michael is a New York priest with close ties to the Mafia crime syndicate — his father is a don. The priest's brother-in-law Gino, a mafia boss, is murdered while having sex with Angela, a mistress. She narrowly escapes by hiding in a bathroom and locking the door.
Pursued by hitmen, the mistress comes to the pr... | romantic, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | +MAJOR SPOILERS+ At the start of the movie "Last Rites" Geno, Roberto Corbo, is gunned down in his hotel room by his wife Zena, Anne Twomey, as his lover Angela, Daphne Zuniga, runs for her life and locks herself in the bathroom.
Zena blasting the locked door with a shower of bullets feels that Angela is also dead and ... |
tt1145446 | Fatso | Luca Lucchesi is a single man who lives in his late grandmother's house. He keeps himself busy by translating instruction manuals from German into his native Norwegian. He occasionally phones his German clients to tell them "Ya gotta Eat", but apart from that his social contacts are reduced to a friendship with a show-... | pornographic, cult | train | wikipedia | A fat man fights against himself to attain his right to be horny and happy.
I finally saw this film a couple of days ago, having put it off due to middling reviews and a general lack of buzz.
I was shocked to discover that not only did it work, it worked better than any Norwegian film I can remember seeing in the last ... |
tt0119248 | Hamam | Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) and Marta (Francesca d'Aloja) are an uptight Italian couple running a small design firm. Their marriage, once the most important thing to both, has lost all meaning. Francesco loses interest in Marta, prompting her to start an affair with their business partner.
Francesco's aunt Anita, th... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | After repeat viewing you will notice the beauty of the story, characters and the city of Istanbul!
Being single, after a life of love and tragedy, she was living the last years of her life with a Turkish family in an old original part of Istanbul.
Francesco, an architect/interior designer, living in Italy, in a wealthy... |
tt0035770 | Cry 'Havoc' | The film tells the story of a mixed group of Army nurses stationed in Bataan during World War II. At the beginning of the film, the head nurse, Lt. Mary Smith (Margaret Sullavan) begs her superior, Capt. Alice Marsh (Fay Bainter), for more nurses to help deal with the excessive workload, but instead of professional nur... | romantic | train | wikipedia | As a patriotic exercise in morale rising this film does a good job even though it is downbeat but as an opportunity to see an amazing group of actresses gathered together it can't be beat.With its almost totally female cast, a very young Robert Mitchum just starting out is in and out of the picture in about a minute, t... |
tt0037090 | Mouse Trouble | A mailman delivers a box in the mailbox. Tom opens the box and finds a book on how to catch mice and for the rest of the cartoon, he takes its advice to attempt to catch the mouse (Jerry).
The first thing the book suggests is to locate the mouse. Tom "locates" the mouse, but when he tries to grab Jerry, the mouse steps... | psychedelic, comic | train | wikipedia | Excellent tom and jerry short.
One of Tom and Jerry's best shorts involves Tom ordering a book on how to catch mice.
As Tom finds out, the advice is hardly fool proof and leads to some of the most memorable gags in the history of the cat and mouse duo.
the toupee, the robotic female mouse, the pretending to read someth... |
tt0042824 | Outrage | Three disparate travelers, a disillusioned preacher (William Shatner), an unsuccessful prospector (Howard Da Silva), and a larcenous, cynical con man (Edward G. Robinson), meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the memorable rape and murder trial of... | romantic | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0378906 | Travellers and Magicians | A young government official named Dondup (played by Tshewang Dendup) who is smitten with United States (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. embassy with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu,... | storytelling | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0117615 | Shall we dansu? | The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear", from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballro... | romantic | train | wikipedia | Watched this last night and was bowled over by the heartfelt story line, the excellent character development, and the good karmic vibe emanating from the acting and movie as a whole.Without giving away too much of the plot, it begins with an ordinary joe who commutes to his office job every day who becomes inspired to ... |
tt0087436 | Hundra | Hundra belongs to a tribe of Amazons. She is the only tribe member of her age who has never been with a man. She declares she would keep it like that. One day when she goes hunting, her tribe is outnumbered and slaughtered by barbarians. As the only survivor she travels to an old wise woman and asks her for advice. To ... | revenge, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | US/Spanish co-production with bloody scenes , spectacular fights , enjoyable score and being filmed in Almeria.
Thrilling and stirring movie full of imagination and fantasy that introduces us a brave heroine , female counterpart to Conan , she leads a valiant tribe of women who dares to be free .
This is a delightful a... |
tt0105226 | Red Rock West | Michael Williams (Nicolas Cage) is a drifter living out of his car after being discharged from the Marine Corps. A job on an oilfield falls through due to his unwillingness to conceal a war injury on his job application, so Michael wanders into rural Red Rock, Wyoming, looking for other work.
A local bar owner named Wa... | comedy, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0070122 | Gojira tai Megaro | In the year 1973, the most recent underground nuclear test, set off near the Aleutians, sends shockwaves as far south as Monster Island, disturbing the monsters, causing Anguirus to fall into a fault opened up by the consequential earthquakes and Rodan to fly off, while Godzilla decides to stay put.
For years, Seatopia... | cult | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0055972 | Experiment in Terror | A psychotic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite his threat to kill her or her teenaged sister Toby if she goes to the police, Sherwood contacts the San Francisco office of the FBI, where agent John Ripl... | murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Although it's two hours long and there is nothing much resembling today's blood and guts-action-a-minute thrillers, this 1960s crime story still entertains, thanks to an interesting cast.Sure, they could have chopped off 15 minutes of this to make it a bit tighter but watching Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers an... |
tt0120696 | Hard Rain | During the worst recorded rainstorm in the history of the Midwestern United States, armored truck drivers Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) are collecting the money from the local banks affected by the rising flood waters. In the small town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been evacuated, To... | violence, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0246628 | Focus | Seasoned con-man Nicky Spurgeon (Will Smith) goes to an upscale restaurant, where an inexperienced grifter, Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie), seduces him, and then pretends they've been caught by her jealous husband. When the deception fails, Nicky advises them never to lose focus when faced with unexpected situations. Jes... | suspenseful | train | wikipedia | Paymer's even handed portrayal keeps Finklestein from becoming a stereotype or someone whose sole purpose is to engender sympathy, making his one of the strongest performances in the film.The tight editing and close-cropped cinematography make for a clean picture with few distractions, and mixes an air of claustrophobi... |
tt1341341 | Ceremony | The film begins with Masuo Sakurada receiving a telegram from his cousin Terumichi. He is traveling with his cousin Ritsuko to check out his cabin and see if the telegram is true. Masuo has a flashback to the ceremony on the first anniversary of his father's death, after he and his mother repatriated to Japan from Manc... | romantic | train | wikipedia | The romantic desperation of flawed characters with humour, love and understanding.
Sam (Michael Angarano) is going to take his friend Marshall (Reece Thompson) on an adventure.
The girl is Zoe (Uma Thurman) and she's about to marry Whit because he's rich and handsome.
Sam, although just as immature, is likely a bit mor... |
tt0165929 | Romeo Must Die | Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is waiting for someone in a club in a predominantly African American neighborhood when a group of angry patrons try to start a fight with him. His father's right-hand man Kai (Russell Wong) and his Asian henchmen pull Po out of the club after a brief fight with the bouncers before the meeting can ... | comedy, boring, murder, violence, flashback, revenge | train | wikipedia | Not usually a fan of this type of all-out Action movie, "Romeo Must Die" knocked me off balance when I found it to be one of the best films I have ever enjoyed.
I decided to watch Romeo Must Die with Jet Li in her memory as it has a lot of her music(Come Back in One Piece", "I Don't Wanna", "Try Again" and "Are You Fee... |
tt0036295 | Red Hot Riding Hood | The story begins with the standard version of Little Red Riding Hood (with the wolf from Dumb-Hounded, the cartoon which saw the debut of Avery's Droopy). The characters rebel at this stale and derivative staging of the story and demand a fresh approach. The annoyed narrator accedes to their demands and starts the stor... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The king of cartoons sends the 1943 censors a message..when the armed forces actually bypassed the Hays office to get an uncensored version of this one off to our troops overseas, they preserved one of the greatest works of art ever committed to celluloid..and allowed resonances to echo into such disparate results as J... |
tt0030321 | Kidnapped | The central character and narrator is 17-year-old David Balfour. (Balfour is Stevenson's mother's maiden name.) His parents have recently died, and he is out to make his way in the world. He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's unc... | action, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0042379 | Dark City | John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland), who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him. During the phone talk, Murdoch discovers the corpse of a brutalized, ritualistically murdered ... | revenge, murder | train | wikipedia | If not for that it would rate as a passably good noir thriller.In fact Dark City did not even lead to Heston getting his real screen break in his second film.
Later on DeMille learned about Dark City and had it run for him and was convinced even more.For a man who played such noble characters later on screen, Dark City... |
tt0025939 | Rocky Mountain Mystery | Mining engineer Larry Sutton (Randolph Scott) arrives at the Ballard radium mine to take over as chief engineer from his missing brother-in-law Jack Parson, who is a suspect in the murder of ranch caretaker Adolph Borg. Sutton teams up with deputy sheriff Tex Murdock (Chic Sale) who is investigating the murder. Staying... | mystery | train | wikipedia | Randolph Scott at this point in his career when he wasn't doing other films was learning the western genre in a series of films that Paramount's B unit was doing from Zane Grey novels.
In this particular one, Rocky Mountain Mystery, Grey tried his hand at a detective story and skilfully combined the genres.Randy's a mi... |
tt0156136 | Tik Tik Tik | Sherley (Sarika) is a model who returns to Chennai after a modeling stint abroad. She is received by the modeling agency and is soon drugged and operated upon. Her dead body is soon found.
Dileep (Kamal Haasan) is a photographer working for a newspaper run by Lakshmi Narayanan (Thengai Srinivasan). He is a photographer... | murder | train | wikipedia | Enjoyable. A thriller that was ahead of its time, it rides on K Bhagyaraj's screeplay writing skills. A tale of one lensman, three models, one villain and a few diamonds. Some memorable songs from Ilayaraja. Worth a watch.. Tik Tik Tik. Really nice movie.. Amazing Thriller with good Glamour. One of the best movies of D... |
tt0053434 | Warlock | The Warlock (Julian Sands) is taken captive in Boston, Massachusetts in 1691 by the witch-hunter Giles Redferne (Richard E. Grant). He is sentenced to death for his activities, including the bewitching of Redferne's bride-to-be; but, before the execution, Satan appears and propels the Warlock forward in time to 20th ce... | revenge | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0033908 | The Midnight Snack | The cartoon takes place in a kitchen at midnight. Jerry pokes his head out of the refrigerator door and steals some cheese, unaware that Tom is watching him. Tom weighs the mouse down enough such that he can no longer see in front of him. After Jerry falls off from a rolling pin, Tom emerges from his hiding place with ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | When Tom was Playful.
If I'm not mistaken this is the third Tom and Jerry short and there is something about animated shorts that the very early appearances of the characters are usually not like their familiar presence.
In a way early shorts are like the first draft of a script!
While Jerry here is still the same Jerr... |
tt3431758 | No Game, No Life | Sora and Shiro are two hikikomori step-siblings who are known in the online gaming world as Blank, an undefeated group of gamers. One day, they are challenged to a game of chess by Tet, a god from another reality. The two are victorious and are offered to live in a world that centers around games. They accept, believin... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | 8 episodes in, but I am thoroughly impressed..
I was really surprised by this anime.
I wasn't expecting much from it, but its funny and surprisingly smart.
With five episodes left, unless they just completely drop the ball, this is easily is one of my favorites of this season.So, whats it about?
The anime is about a br... |
tt0390393 | Puppet Master: The Legacy | The film begins with a rogue agent, Maclain (Kate Orsini), in one of the rooms in the Bodega Bay Inn, reading Toulon's diary, hoping to find some secret to the formula. The diary bursts into flames. As Maclain enters the basement, she finds a man named Eric Weiss (Jacob Witkin) talking to the last Toulon puppets: Blade... | flashback | train | wikipedia | A cheap, sloppy mess, "Puppet Master: The Legacy" is the second-worst entry in the series, and a fundamentally flawed, "clip-show" of a film with no originality....
I'm thrown for a loop trying to think of how to write a review for Charles Band's 2003 film "Puppet Master: The Legacy." I actually, honestly cannot think ... |
tt0366848 | Onegai Teacher | Please Teacher! is a story mainly revolving around a tight-knit group of friends in high school and how they cope with several life-changing events that are never too far off from intimate relationships. The main character is a boy named Kei Kusanagi who suffers from a very rare disease which causes a comatose state re... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | I don't quite know how but while I was surfing the net I came across a random advert for "Please Teacher" first thoughts it was an episode of Pokemon.
The series was well spaced out over 12 episodes and an extra one which just gives you a nice little extra.Anyway focusing on the series, its a story revolving around a t... |
tt0040611 | Mouse Cleaning | The cartoon opens with Mammy Two Shoes mopping the kitchen floor. After she finishes, she is happy to have cleaned the entire house and hopes that it will remain clean; unfortunately, it doesn't, as the camera cuts to Tom chasing Jerry outside, rounding a corner too wide and through a mud puddle, and then continuing th... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Mouse Cleaning is one of the most hilarious Tom and Jerry cartoons ever!.
Just rewatched this classic Tom and Jerry cartoon on YouTube.
It's the one where Mammy Two-Shoes (voice of Lillian Randolph who I knew from my favorite movie It's a Wonderful Life as well as from the radio show "The Great Gildersleeve") threatens... |
tt0058323 | Man in the Middle | Friction develops between American and British troops stationed in India during World War II and culminates in physical outbreaks between the troops when, in 1944, American 2nd Lieutenant Winston (Keenan Wynn) shoots unarmed British Staff Sergeant Quinn (Bill Mitchell) multiple times seemingly without provocation befor... | murder | train | wikipedia | "Man In The Middle" (1964) is arguably Mitchum's best performance (certainly his most nuanced) and one of those situations where you can't imagine anyone else in the role.
Although the focus is a "military" court martial in India during the last months of WWII, it is basically a standard courtroom drama with Mitchum's ... |
tt0066740 | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | Dr. Anton Phibes was an expert in theology and music who was supposedly killed in a car crash in 1921, shortly after the death of his beloved wife, Victoria, during an operation. However, he survived the crash, horribly scarred by the accident and left unable to speak, forcing him to remake his face with prosthetics an... | comedy, murder, cult, horror, atmospheric, revenge | train | wikipedia | Joseph Cotton in one of his best post-60's roles, here perfectly in character as a god-like doctor (particularly in the final operation sequence).There's also the Art Deco set design which many have oohed and ahhed over in here and elsewhere.The British cops are a bit too humorous, and there's not really a lot of backg... |
tt0253798 | Out Cold | Rick Rambis, best friend Luke, and other friends Anthony, "Pig Pen", Jenny, Lance and Stumpy, all live and work at a ski resort on Bull Mountain in Alaska. The mountain and resort were founded by Herbert "Papa" Muntz who loved to drink and ski at the same time until he died doing so. His son, Ted, took over the mountai... | prank | train | wikipedia | The movie is so funny in so many little ways, and if you open your mind and are willing to accept it for what it is, I think you'll love it as well.
Jason London is great as Rick Rambis, Zach Galifinakis is hilarious as Luke and whoever plays Pigpen does a great job of acting dumber then you would think anyone could ac... |
tt0103242 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | In 1917, "Baby Jane" Hudson is an adored yet ill-tempered vaudevillian child star while her older sister Blanche lives in her shadow. By 1935, their fortunes have reversed: Blanche is a successful film actress and Jane lives in obscurity, her films having failed. One night, Jane mocks Blanche at a party, prompting Blan... | insanity, revenge, murder, sadist | train | wikipedia | Excellent!!!.
An excellent remake of the 1962 classic, with real life sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave in the old Bette Davis and Joan Crawford roles.I am a big fan of the original film, and was pleasantly pleased when I watched the remake and it was a lot better than I thought it would be.Although based on the same s... |
tt0143808 | Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | In London, John Smith is ambushed by a group of soldiers with a warrant for his arrest and presumed dead in the ensuing confrontation; Governor Ratcliffe has lied to King James (being a personal friend of the King) and framed Smith as the traitor from the first film in a plot to declare war against the Powhatan Nation ... | romantic, action | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0017367 | The Set-Up | Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is a 35-year-old has-been boxer about to take on an opponent at the fictional Paradise City Arena. His wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), fears that this fight may be his last and wants him to forfeit the match. Tiny (George Tobias), Stoker's manager, is sure he will continue to lose figh... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0096071 | The Serpent and the Rainbow | In 1978, a Haitian man named Christophe (Conrad Roberts) mysteriously dies in a French missionary clinic, while outside a voodoo parade marches past his window with a burning coffin. The next morning, Christophe is buried in a traditional Catholic funeral, at which his sister cries over his body and prays for his soul.... | good versus evil, cult, psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The film is set in Haiti during the last days of the dictatorship of "Baby Doc" Duvalier.Based - very loosely one surmises - on a true story, the plot follows Dr. Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) as he investigates a powder that is said to turn people into zombies.
The best thing about "The Serpent and the Rainbow" is probab... |
tt1560985 | The Devil Inside | On October 30, 1989, Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) committed a triple murder during an exorcism performed on her. The Catholic Church became involved, and she has since been in a Catholic psychiatric hospital in Rome. A news story and police investigation show the three members of the clergy whom she murdered. Her daught... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt3069212 | Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist | In the Southeast Asian nation of Shadaloo City, civil war has erupted between the forces of crazed military dictator General M. Bison (Raul Julia) and the Allied Nations, a multinational military force, led by their regional commander, Colonel William F. Guile (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Bison has recently captured severa... | dramatic | train | wikipedia | It sticks to the authenticity of the game series and does a great job of portraying the street fighter characters that you loved as a child.
The story is very well scripted and is true to the video games.The origin story of Ryu and Ken is very authentic and the focus on the details makes it satisfying to watch.
As a ha... |
tt0109417 | China Moon | The story opens with detectives Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) and Lamar Dickey (Benicio del Toro) investigating a murder scene. Bodine tutors Dickey in the ways of homicide investigations, stressing that all murderers make stupid mistakes, which is how they get caught.
At a local bar, Bodine hits on Rachel Munro (Madeleine S... | tragedy, romantic, neo noir, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0059807 | Time Piece | The fast-paced scenes in Time Piece are edited together in a rhythmic pentameter, with an underlying use of sounds and repetitive beats. The film begins with a young man (who provides only four brief words of dialogue who just quotes "help") sitting patiently in a hospital bed. An unidentified doctor enters the room an... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | it can now be found on some sites on-line; well worth seeking out as one of the best of the 60s.
Jim Henson as a filmmaker sometimes doesn't get as much credit as for his main innovations with the Muppets and establishing them throughout the years as the head producer of the Henson company.
But behind the genius puppet... |
tt0406432 | La linea | Veteran assassin Mark Shields (Ray Liotta) is hired to track down the head of an elusive drug cartel centered in Tijuana, Mexico. Shields takes the assignment in a weary daze, as he is fresh off a case that claimed the life of a woman he continues to see in his mind.
Meanwhile, Javier Salazar (Andy García), the head of... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Animation in its simplest and its best. Fine Art of Simplicity. It might be exaggerated comparing it to invention of wheel or wedge, but it is easily yet another example of achieving greatness through simplicity.Each of the less than 3 minutes long shorts is initiated and terminated one-dimensionally, restricted to a s... |
tt0470125 | Grandia III | === Characters ===
The characters of Grandia III were designed by You Yoshinari and feature an assortment of playable and non-playable individuals. The game centers on Yuki, a 16-year-old boy who dreams of becoming an ace pilot like his idol, the legendary Sky Captain Schmidt. Together with his friend Rotts, he builds ... | tragedy | train | wikipedia | This Grandia is a bit of a tease. The first Grandia game had me from the get go and is still the Grandia game I consider the best. Part two is not all that far behind, as it is the Grandia that seems to get better the more I play through it. Then there is part three (never played Extreme). This game starts out in spect... |
tt0106833 | Ethan Frome | The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield, a fictional town in New England, while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage.... | romantic, flashback | train | wikipedia | A satisfactorily uncomfortable adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel..
Ethan Frome is one of those stories that is meant to be uncomfortable and unattractive, so if you were put off by either the novel or the movie, it just shows that they succeeded in what they set out to do.
Before I go on, however, I would like to poi... |
tt0093993 | Sleeping Beauty | After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess, and at the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of Stefan's friend King Hubert, so... | fantasy | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0054756 | Il colosso di Rodi | A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia, which would be hostile to Greece.
Dar... | intrigue | train | wikipedia | In "Airplane," when Captain Oveur asks young Joey, "Do you like gladiator movies?" he is slyly and salaciously referring to films like "The Colossus of Rhodes." While technically not a gladiator movie, Sergio Leone's directorial debut is rife with scantily clad men whose rippling muscles and impeccable abs are fully ex... |
tt0106165 | The Untouchables | During Prohibition in 1930, Al Capone has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies illegal liquor. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness is assigned to stop Capone, but his first attempt at a liquor raid fails due to corrupt policemen tipping Capone off. He has a chance meeting with Irish-Americ... | murder | train | wikipedia | One of the great shows of the '90s.
"The Untouchables" had many great elements: 1.
An excellent cast, including several familiar faces from TV and films: Tom Amandes ("Everwood"), William Forsythe ("John Doe," "UC: Undercover," "Out for Justice"), John Rhys-Davies ("The Lord of the Rings," "Raiders of the Lost Ark"), a... |
tt0032007 | Tarzan Finds a Son! | A plane flying to Cape Town, carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle. Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued by Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee. Tarzan and Jane adopt the child and name him "Boy". Five years later, a search party comes looking for Boy, because he is the heir to... | murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0104534 | It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown | It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is composed of several Christmas-themed story lines, all taken directly from the Peanuts comic strip:
Charlie Brown tries to sell wreaths door-to-door.
Peppermint Patty worries about her Christmas book report.
Peppermint Patty and Marcie attend a performance of Handel's Messiah. ... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | The only thing this short has going over its predecessor is the animation has improved.
However, considering that the animation of the original Charlie Brown Christmas isn't really something to get worked up over, it leaves little room for this short to be as relevant.The characters are still as sweet, but the first on... |
tt0276868 | Cold Heart | Dangerous psychopath Sean Clark tries to kill a woman and gets into a prison psychiatric hospital. Thanks to the efforts of a talented psychiatrist Philip Davis, Clark is released prematurely. Davis explains that he acts on behalf of Sean's father but mentions that his father does not want to meet or communicate with S... | murder | train | wikipedia | Nastassja's 3rd movie with the same plot.
Nastassja Kinski seems to be making a career out of playing the bored wife who has an affair with a younger man...who then tries to kill her.
Seriously, "Cold Heart" follows the plotline of her other film "Say Nothing" very closely.
And then there is "Blind Terror," which is th... |
tt3424690 | Havenhurst | Jackie is a recovering alcoholic that is moving into Havenhurst, an apartment complex in New York City run by Eleanor Mudgett and her son Ezra, who also serves as the building's maintenance man. She is given the warning that she must remain sober while living in Havenhurst or she will be swiftly evicted. While living t... | murder | train | wikipedia | The ending was so botched, I can't help thinking the crew itself got "evicted" half way through the filming (read, ran out of money or fell apart).
Despite the weird behavior of several characters, the story had a good potential till it suddenly, stupidly, untimely took a twist that is so used and abused, it doesn't ev... |
tt0044954 | The Narrow Margin | Detective Sergeant Walter Brown (Charles McGraw) of the Los Angeles Police Department and his partner are assigned to protect a mob boss's widow, Mrs. Frankie Neall (Marie Windsor), as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She is also carrying a payoff list that belonged to her m... | cult, suspenseful, murder | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0044829 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is dining with a fellow Briton in a posh restaurant in Rio de Janeiro where he is well known. He relates a story explaining his presence in Rio. It seems he was a seemingly unambitious London bank clerk in charge of gold bullion deliveries for over 20 years. He had a reputation for fussing... | comedy | train | wikipedia | When Holloway realises they can pull it off, his face is hidden in the shadows as he slowly tells Guinness, 'Thank God Holland, we are both honest men' - a line which I think summarises the entire movie.The reason this movie is so amusing even today is that it is very tightly scripted (Tibby Clark won an Oscar for his ... |
tt0214641 | Dragonheart: A New Beginning | One year before his death, Sir Bowen visits the cave-home of his long-dead friend Draco, and there discovers a dragon egg. He takes the egg to a monastery where his friend Brother Gilbert, a monk, lives. The friars at the monastery pledge to hide the dragon away, with Friar Peter (John Woodnutt) protecting him and teac... | good versus evil, violence | train | wikipedia | , and concerns about an orphaned young boy named Geoff (Chris Masterson) living in a stable , he spontaneously meets a dragon named Drake (voice by Robby Benson, while in the first version by Sean Connery) , the world's last living specie .
Drake is the only film dragon that can breath ice .
The young boy dreams becomi... |
tt0104427 | Hoffa | Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner on July 30, 1975. Others are late for a meeting. Asked if he wants to leave, Hoffa gives Ciaro a scornful glance.
In 1935, a young Hoffa approaches a parked truck, inside of which driver Ciaro is taking a nap. Hoffa pitches the ... | neo noir, depressing, murder, flashback | train | wikipedia | null |
tt2134101 | Metro: Last Light | Metro: Last Light takes place one year after the events of Metro 2033, following the ending of the original novel in which Artyom's missile strike against the Dark Ones — mysterious beings that seemingly threatened the survivors of a nuclear war living in the Moscow Metro — occurred. The Rangers, a neutral peacekeeping... | paranormal | train | wikipedia | A great game - 3D Vision ready.
For a start as the only 3D game reviewer here - this game is absolutely perfect in 3D as a matter of fact it is nVision ready.
If you are a seasoned FPS gamer when choosing a difficulty don't bother with medium just go straight to hardened, the Russians don't know what hard gameplay is!
... |
tt0118276 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | High school senior Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) is introduced as a stereotypical, shallow cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. She is a carefree popular girl whose main concerns are shopping and spending time with her rich, snooty friends and her boyfriend, Jeffrey. While at school one day, she is approa... | comedy, violence, cult, alternate reality, good versus evil, romantic | train | wikipedia | Some good examples are S3--The Wish, Helpless, Doppelgangland, S4--Something Blue, Hush and Restless, S5--Fool for Love, Triangle, Weight of the World, The Gift (I'd also say The Body but that one gives too much away) S6--Bargaining, Tabula Rasa, Older and Far Away, S7--Beneath You, Selfless, Conversations With Dead Pe... |
tt1181849 | Sharpe's Peril | The story continues from where Sharpe's Challenge left off. On their way home to England, Richard Sharpe (Sean Bean) and Patrick Harper (Daragh O'Malley) reluctantly agree to escort Marie-Angelique Bonnet (Beatrice Rosen) to the hill fort of Kalimgong, where her fiancé, Major Joubert (Pascal Langdale), is stationed. Th... | violence, action | train | wikipedia | Just watch any Sharpe you see on the box..
They criticized this episode because Daragh O'Malley had got a bit fatter.
And maybe Sean Bean had a few more lines on his face - well, how many wives has be tried to please - apparently without success!.But it's wonderful.
Heroism, humanity, and fellow feeling are all there j... |
tt0034547 | The Bowling Alley-Cat | At a bowling alley, a cheerful Jerry pops out of a bowling ball and slides and skates down an alley, but Tom peeks out from behind two bowling balls and appears behind Jerry. After tripping over Tom's tail, Jerry moves his tail and goes to run down the alley again, but almost runs into Tom's mouth. Tom chases Jerry ont... | psychedelic | train | wikipedia | Begins To Set The Pins, Er Stage.
For at least one reason, this was better than the rest of these 1942 Tom and Jerry cartoons: they got out of their house.
With new surroundings - in this case, a bowling alley, - it allowed for different and better gags than the normal house scenes.This starts off slowly, however, and ... |
tt0072831 | Criminally Insane | The morbidly obese Ethel Janowski (institutionalized due to her bouts of paranoia, depression, and violence) is released into the care of her grandmother, despite Doctor Gerard's unease regarding Ethel's discharge. Upon moving into her grandmother's San Francisco home, Ethel begins consuming massive amounts of food, an... | good versus evil, insanity, cult, murder, violence | train | wikipedia | null |
tt0435687 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | One night, Jeremy Dyson calls the other members of The League of Gentlemen to talk about a new series idea he's had, in which everyone in Royston Vasey would wake up with a tail, but the other writers no longer wish to write the series and are keen to move on to new projects. Suddenly he is confronted by three characte... | good versus evil, comedy, humor, murder | train | wikipedia | Few shows have survived transition from radio to TV to stage show to film but The League of Gentlemen have achieved it with suitable aplomb.The talented writer/performers had initially envisioned a Monty Python style medieval adventure, but as soon as writing began they soon realised that the characters they have lived... |
tt0114327 | Sailor Moon | In Minato, Tokyo, a middle-school student named Usagi Tsukino befriends Luna, a talking black cat that gives her a magical brooch enabling her to become Sailor Moon: a soldier destined to save Earth from the forces of evil. Luna and Usagi assemble a team of fellow Sailor Soldiers to find their princess and the Silver C... | psychedelic, romantic | train | wikipedia | And those are the very main characters.What I also love about Sailor Moon is how unique it is, and how it doesn't exactly follow a specific formula like a lot of other shows do.
Sailor Moon IS an AMAZING show, so before all you Sailor Moon haters who've only ever seen the dub version of Sailor Moon give this show a rat... |
tt1003034 | Perrier's Bounty | Michael McCrea (Cillian Murphy), a perpetual waster, has passed out during the afternoon. He awakes to find two thugs, Ivan (Michael McElhatton) and Orlando (Don Wycherley), staring at him. They remind him that he owes money to Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson), a local crime boss. The debt must be paid that night, or I... | murder, revenge, suicidal, violence | train | wikipedia | Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) has a bounty for the head of Michael (Cillian Murphy).
Poor lad, he owes money to some local thugs.With the help of his beautiful, slightly crazy and suicidal neighbour Brenda (Jodie Whittaker), they accidentally kill a thug, and then with the encouragement of his might-be-dying father (Jim Br... |
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