boogeyman is a 2005 new zealand-american supernatural horror film , directed by stephen t. kay and starring barry watson , emily deschanel , skye mccole bartusiak , and lucy lawless .

the film is a take on the classic " boogeyman " , or monster in the closet , who is the main antagonist of the film .

the plot concerns a young man , tim jensen , who must confront the childhood terror that has affected his life .

the film was generally panned by critics , often citing a generic and unoriginal plot as the main criticism .

despite receiving negative reviews from critics , the film was a financial success , and was followed by two direct-to-video sequels , boogeyman 2 ( 2007 ) and boogeyman 3 ( 2008 ) .

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the boogeyman is a 1980 horror film directed by ulli lommel . it was followed by boogeyman 2 , and return of the boogeyman . it is not to be confused with the 2005 film boogeyman .
this article is about the 2007 horror film . for the unrelated 1983 film , see boogeyman ii .
return of the boogeyman ( also known as boogeyman iii ) is a 1994 horror film by american director deland nurse . it was released in the us by sony pictures .
boogeyman 2 is a 2007 american supernatural horror film directed by jeff betancourt and starring danielle savre . it is the sequel to the 2005 film boogeyman . despite being a direct - to - dvd release , the film received a very rare theatrical run in some countries including russia , italy , mexico and venezuela . the film was followed by a sequel , boogeyman 3 ( 2008 ) .
the film is in color and is not rated , but contains scenes of graphic violence . the film is also mostly made up of stock footage from the boogeyman .
filmed on the budget of $ 4 , 500 , 000 , the film has made $ 2 , 333 , 673 in domestic dvd revenue and $ 562 , 064 in other states since release . despite a financial deficit , the film had been able to make a third installment to the boogeyman film series .
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boogeyman is one of those horror films that every critic hated and you end up realizing it ' s not as bad as what everyone has said it was . this is an average film with a pretty good story , and shouldn ' t be viewed as the worst horror film . the film is flawed , but there are far worst flicks in the genre than this one . yes , the film is weak at times , but for the most part , it succeeds at being a mindless horror film , which is what it is . boogeyman is not to be taken so seriously . there ' s a decent cast of actors that grace this film but the film does suffer from a somewhat lacking script and relies too much on special effects , which if toned down slightly would have a better scar factor on the viewer . there is tension found within this film , but it never really is truly scary . on a production design standpoint , the film looks excellent and has incredible sets , especially the main characters house . overall boogeyman is a pleasant time waster not to be taken seriously , if you do that you may just have a mindless fun viewing experience . boogeyman is lots of fun from start to finish , and is the perfect film for you to simply shut your brain and have a mindless film night . i really don ' t see the hatred towards this film , sure it ' s not the best , but it definitely is better than a lot of films that are currently being put out nowadays . never truly scary , boogeyman has plenty of tense moments to keep you interested . a much underrated film , one that should not be quickly dismissed .
the film has a solid grasp on the mutable , but ever - present pain of loss .
sequel to boogeyman , this is a poor attempt at delivering a good , horrifying and fun experience . this is a horrible film , and considering that the first was a good , underrated flick , you ' d understand why this one might be bad . i felt that whatever made the first film watchable was absent , and the filmmakers simply took elements of the first film to make this film . unfortunately there ' s nothing good at work here , nothing new to thrill or entertain the viewer neither . boogeyman 2 is a pointless and quite frankly unnecessary sequel to a good little horror film . this film is just not what the first film was , and that ' s a mindless , entertaining monster flick . i think that there was a lot of potential in delivering a watchable sequel , but with this film , it misses the mark , and ends up being a film with nothing good about it . this is a poorly conceived sequel , and considering this , boogeyman should never have had a follow - up . the acting here is pretty poor and the script is bland and like i stated , relies on ideas explored upon in the first film , thus a sequel was not needed . the studio just wanted more money with a sequel , and it ' s the case with this film . no creative effort was put into this film , and the end product is a film that is poorly done , lazy and uninspired with a poor cast to act out stuff we ' ve seen in the first flick . if you ' ve seen the first film , and haven ' t seen the sequels , don ' t , you ' ll be glad you did , and you ' re not missing out on much .
makes a good argument as a slasher film that ' s worth spending your time on . . .
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the film revolves around a young woman named annie who has horrible nightmares every time she goes to sleep . she soon realizes that her dreams are predictions of the oncoming slaughter of the boogeyman . she and her friends then set off to stop him .
no matter how you cut it , a supernatural threat named “boogeyman” as the impetus behind the plot poses a cinematic problem . it only sounds frightening on paper . steven king’s the boogeyman is probably one of his most haunting short stories , precisely because of the way it works on our imaginations . when we see grown adults discussing their fear of the boogeyman on screen , though , it sets off our disbelief sensors .
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the film ends with one last mirror shard , missed by lacey and her husband , glowing red on the ground .
an excruciatingly silent chase scene between laura and the boogeyman , the descent into boogeyman - inspired madness on the part of the hospital’s other therapist dr . ryan ( renee o’connor ) , and a laundry - list of red herrings and revelations finish out the film like a tension - addled classic . appropriately nihilistic in its message , the film leaves us believing that we can face our fears , but that may still leave us completely screwed ( which is , in cinematic terms , really more of a european ending ) .
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a prime example of how j - horror’s idiosyncrasies can go horrifically wrong in translation , the film aspires to be like so many japanese films in which a bad vibe experienced by a character long ago inexplicably induces a haunting . boogeyman , though , leaves you asking , “why the hell is the boogeyman bugging this guy in particular ? ” it makes you feel like jumping on the j - horror bandwagon wasn’t just an excuse to release a lazy film with no real explanations and plot holes the size of a pitch - black , walk - in closet .
the other de niro hit film ( in fact , a monster hit ) , meet the fockers is still enjoying a great run . at the seventh position on the chart , the film is heading for a solid $ 275 million gross in north america .
for a good , healthy pg - 13 scare , boogeyman is fun for the whole family - - just don ' t bring kids who are too young .
it was against this unpromising backdrop that screenwriter brian sieve and director jeff betancourt were given the task of making a follow - up boogeyman film . the two first - timers have managed to craft a surprisingly engaging and scary direct - to - dvd sequel that deserves a theatrical release far more than its hackneyed progenitor .
that ghost house pictures was planning to release a sequel to boogeyman was more shocking than any of the cgi shenanigans the original 2005 version had to offer . boogeyman wasn’t the first movie with that title ( a quadrilogy of shlocky , early - ‘80s slasher films bore the same name ) , and by far not the first movie of its kind . amid a sea of j - horror knockoffs and remakes , boogeyman was ( for all its genre - appropriate jump - cut driven startles ) unremarkable , unmemorable , and boring .
henry was beginning to doubt the boogeyman ' s existence , until the boogeyman himself appeared in the closet and entered into him . whist possessing henry , the boogeyman decided to take revenge on those who didn ' t believe in him , and this way he would make himself known to the world . henry then chases laura . she hides in a room , but henry finds her and she decapitates him with garden shears . the police arrive and discover that under the boogeyman mask was dr . ryan . between killing dr . allen and laura running and hiding , henry put a delusional dr . ryan in the boogeyman mask and laura decapitated dr . ryan . laura knows that henry is running free as she is about to be arrested after blood is found on her hands . laura then has a breakdown , which prompts a paramedic to send in back up and she is dragged away by the police .
a deftly inventive and psychologically charged horror story that trades on the ways in which the prospect of maternal failure can be just as fearsome a boogeyman as any monster under the bed .
the newly minted hit easily ate into last week ' s champ hide and seek ' s box - office , pushing the robert de niro and dakota fanning film to fourth position on the chart . no marquee names and yet the $ 7 million boogeyman with its $ 19 . 5 million gross would be profitable in less than 10 days .
in 2014 , two young girls in waukesha , wisconsin committed an atrocious act compelled by the calling of a fictional internet character . brodsky’s film , the product 18 months of digging , explores the backstory leading up to the event , how the internet created boogeyman come to be , and more importantly , how much do we hold our children …
the scribe who with scream reinvented the slasher film for the nineties also created with dawson ' s creek teens who are more eloquently ironic than some . . .
like many of the best comedies and tragedies , this weimar - era silent film understands how each mode is often a hair ' s breadth from the other .
reached by phone , sean hughes said he had not seen the film and did not want to make a statement but made reference to a “blair witch” - style sensationalism he thought the film was trying to generate . it’s a perception abetted by horror fans online , who have found in “cropsey” a documentary all their own .
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laura porter ( danielle savre ) and her brother henry ( matt cohen ) have lifelong fears of the boogeyman . why ? because at a young age they witnessed the boogeyman disembowel their parents . fair enough . henry meets up with laura on his way out of the psych ward . laura has a nightmare and her brother suggests that she check herself in to deal with her fear .
revolving around a young man ' s attempt to solve the mystery of a childhood incident that has given him countless nightmares , boogeyman stood at the top spot on the us box - office .
austin might look like the scariest boogeyman , but he ' s actually the funniest . over the years , he has sharpened his hilarious routines and gags . all he needs is an audience .
t he hunger for horror films seems to be so huge that it doesn ' t worry the audiences if a film has no stars or a big name director .
laura goes to the basement when she hears nicky scream and finds her on a table . nicky has hoses attached to her , filling her with bile until she explodes . laura runs away in shock , and the boogeyman attacks her . he chases her through the hospital , where she finds gloria dead and dr . ryan barely alive and mumbling , in some sort of trance . laura begins a cat and mouse game with the boogeyman , who chases her through the underground storage area , finally running into dr . allen , who thinks laura committed the killings . he tries to sedate her , but the boogeyman stabs dr . allen and shoves two needles in his eyes . the boogeyman is revealed to be henry , laura ' s brother . dr . allen abused henry , locking him in a closet .
irene taylor brodsky’s diverse films have earned her numerous awards , including an oscar nomination for best documentary short for the final inch ( 2009 ) and a peabody award for hear and now ( 2007 ) . her latest film , one last hug , is an unflinching documentary short film set at camp erin—a sleepover summer camp where grieving children of …
you’d be hard - pressed to find an adult employing that kind of juvenile lingo . someone might cop to a fear of the dark , a fear of the unknown that lurks therein , or even the fear of some creepy supernatural fellow living in said closet , but the term ‘boogeyman’ sounds almost onomatopoetically goofy . sieve and betancourt revamp the film’s titular antagonist into something almost plausible . they have characters make fun of the cringeworthy idea of boogeyman - o - phobia , while introducing a killer who slashes his way through teenage mental patients like an inventive michael meyers ( or a conspicuously silent freddy krueger . )
that the director and screenwriter of boogeyman 2 were able to spruce up a concept that fell flat on its face in 2005 into an above average horror movie speaks volumes about their talent and their love of the genre . a film that bucks the stigma of direct - to - dvd sequels , this unyieldingly dark and bloody feature will surprise you , especially if you were unfortunate enough to catch the first one . this flick’s ‘80s - slasher - pic - on - gornographic - steroids - appeal is something horror fans will be surprised to find themselves talking about and praising . “ boogeyman ? seriously ? ”
helming the asylum is hospital supervisor dr . mitchell allen , who doles out therapeutic advice and demands that patients face down their fears . allen is played by tobin bell of saw , and his being cast for the role is no accident . as the body count starts to rise , it becomes clear that this film not only eschews all things j - horror , it skews closer to the 00s’ other horror trend , gore - no . boogeyman 2 is home to plenty of splattery flourishes , like a latter - day friday the 13th film with saw¬¬ - style special effects .
it is then that henry realized that by becoming the boogeyman , he would no longer be afraid , because the boogeyman isn ' t afraid of anything . henry manages to kill everyone in the asylum , except laura and chrissy who is just mumbling to herself in terror . as he is sneaking up behind her , laura catches a glimpse of him in a toaster and thrusts some hedge clippers through his neck , ultimately decapitating him .
a young woman with a long - term phobia of the boogeyman voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fear . however , much to her . . . see full summary »
families can talk about the legend of the boogeyman , who appears in many cultures as a warning to misbehaving children . the psychologist discusses how children might turn to supernatural explanations as a coping mechanism for feelings of loss or powerlessness . how do modern stories use scary characters or the supernatural to guide behavior now ? urban legends often have an element of the supernatural , how might they derive from older tales , like those of the boogeyman ?
calling wedding date ' a witless , stale and half - hearted rehash of clichés , ' lou lumenick of the new york post wondered what kind of appeal the film would ever have .
part of the problem with boogeyman was that its plot had already been executed much more successfully a little over two decades earlier in a nightmare on elm street . nancy’s standoff off with freddy krueger is a canonical image of a protagonist facing her fear , and in doing so , causing it to dissipate . boogeyman flaccidly attempts to re - explore this theme ( and this scene ) without the fleshed - out krueger myth there to make any sense of it .
the police come soon after and start the body count , except they can ' t find nicky ( played by chrissy griffith ) . they unmask the boogeyman and . . . . . it ' s nicky ! ! ! !
a film that bucks the stigma of direct - to - dvd sequels , this unyieldingly dark and bloody feature will surprise you , especially if you were unfortunate enough to catch the first one .
dropped sharply , by 59 percent , surprising industry observers . though horror and sci - fi movies drop by about 50 percent in the second week , box - office analysts had thought the presence of de niro might produce a smaller decline . the film psyched $ 8 . 9 million over the weekend and its gross reached $ 35 . 8 million . for a $ 30 million film ,
mr . zeman and ms . brancaccio , a deputy commissioner of the new york city human resources administration , have found supporters of their film . “i think it’s done very well , and i think it tells the truth , ” said donna cutugno , a staten islander who founded the volunteer search group friends of jennifer for missing children during the schweiger case . “we still have those other missing children . the boogeyman wasn’t a myth . ”
for the lowly protagonist , david mann , spielberg hand - picked character actor dennis weaver because he loved his performance as the jittery and feeble hotel night manager in orson welles’s 1958 film touch of evil .
did not have to worry about critical reaction . the reviews started coming out only on saturday as there were no screenings for film critics . the movie was made by ghost house pictures , which also made
‘it is one of the very , very few horror movies that does jump off of racial fears’ … jordan peele on his new film get out , which stars daniel kaluuya , above . photograph : youtube
jordan peele doesn’t want to make things easy for his audience . like the greatest sketches from his co - authored comedy central show key & peele , his new film get out is designed to lift the facade of post - racial america and showcase the ugliness that lies beneath . what’s quite astounding is not only how sharply he manages this but that he does so while also crafting a terrifying horror film .
director alexander payne needed a star of jack nicholson ' s stature to guide his previous film about schmidt to a hit status . the acclaimed film cost about $ 30 million and grossed $ 65 million in north america in 2003 . but sideways , which cost about $ 15 million and has no stars , could be a bigger success , not just by way of the gross but also the number of admissions .
believe it or not , the wizard of oz was a box office bomb when it was released in 1939 . at the time , it was metro - goldwyn - mayer ' s most expensive film ever with giant sets and state - of - the - art special effects . mgm had high expectations for the film , however , audiences weren ' t keen on making the journey to the wonderful land of oz .
most big starrers have to wait for at least a month to break even because of their higher production and marketing costs . even if boogeyman were to suffer a big fall the next week , it could still end its run with $ 50 million .
many people are afraid of the boogeyman , but tim takes his fear to the extreme . during a traumatic childhood event , tim learned he had to protect himself against creatures such as the boogeyman in order to survive . the boogeyman had taken someone he cared about , and he never forgot about the incident or healed the wounds that came from it . in fact , he spent his childhood in a mental health facility from the damages of losing someone he loved . despite all his precautions to stay safe from his childhood nemesis , he runs into someone else who must make efforts to escape the creature of the night . two people need tim’s help , and he struggles with whether to fight this creature , or give in to the idea that it may not be real .
despite very positive critical response and academy award recognition in 1994 , the shawshank redemption failed to find an audience in theaters . the general public started to notice the shawshank redemption when warner bros . released it on vhs the following year , and it quickly became one of the top video rentals across the country . in 1997 , the cable network tnt bought the rights to air it , and this helped the film find a larger audience with frequent and repeated airings . the shawshank redemption is currently on the american film institute ' s best 100 movies of the past 100 years and is the # 1 film on urltoken ' s top 250 list .
due to its critical success , mgm re - released the wizard of oz in 1949 for its 10th anniversary and it eventually became a profitable film for the studio , and it added $ 1 . 5 million to its box office . throughout the years , mgm ( and later warner bros , who now own the film rights ) re - released the wizard of oz in theaters and home video , and it became an iconic piece of cinema and pop culture .
as the truck rams the car over the cliff and falls off in the final film , there is a low roar sound effect that the filmmaker included to emphasize the death of the truck . spielberg , who wanted the truck to seem
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the final sequence ' s sheer terror makes up for a couple of flaws throughout . the babadook is a suspenseful , clever horror film that is driven by its ominous mysterious & shrouded figure which is inventive and modern for today ' s genre . 4 / 5
like boogeyman , wedding date was also made on a low budget ( $ 15 million ) . the movie , starring debra messing - - the emmy - winning star of will & grace - - is about a woman who gets attached to a male escort ( dermot mulroney ) she had hired to impress her family .
still having a hearty laugh , the ice cube hit are we there yet ? grossed $ 10 . 4 million , its three week ' s earnings reaching $ 51 . 1 million . this is another film that flew past the modest expectations of box - office analysts .
dr . ryan goes to the basement to check on gloria and is electrocuted when the boogeyman throws an electrical cord into a puddle of water she is standing in . laura finds a file on her brother and ones on other patients with bogyphobia ( what laura has ) . she finds out that all bogyphobia patients including tim jensen ( the protagonist from the first film ) have committed suicide after being treated by dr . allen . darren and nicky have sexual intercourse in the locker room as laura finds alison . she gets darren and nicky to where alison was , but the blood and the maggots have been cleaned up . darren and nicky think she ' s crazy . darren and nicky go to darren ' s room , where they have an argument . darren thinks they shouldn ' t have a relationship . darren forces nicky out of the room and is killed when the boogeyman painfully cuts him open and takes out his heart .
it is always a wonderful surprise to see an intelligent horror film with such profound psychological and emotional scope , making use of a rich symbolism to tell the story of a woman who succumbs to her own inner shadow and is forced to confront it as it takes over her sanity .
eagle - eyed viewers will catch the word “flammable” scrawled across the back of the truck , yet when it careens off the cliff at the end of the movie it doesn’t go boom . the studio wanted a big explosion , but the director wanted a slower demise for his film’s villain .
as a result , that “cropsey” is being shown at the college of staten island on june 5 , as part of the staten island film festival has taken on a perhaps inflated significance : the college is on the grounds of the old willowbrook state school . ( the film will also be shown on video on demand july 2 ; opens theatrically june 4 at the ifc center in manhattan ; and will be broadcast on investigation discovery aug . 13 . ) add all the unresolved aspects of the case , and what might have been a straight crime story is now something more volatile .
the snakerama gas station seen in the film also appears in spielberg ' s 1979 world war ii comedy , 1941 , with actress lucille benson again appearing as the proprietor . the two elderly people weaver tries to flag down in a car also appear as helpless motorists in close encounters of the third kind .
loose sequel to the mind numbingly drab original . it also seems like a remake of nightmare on elm street 3 . bunch of headcases in a hospital start to get killed off . this film eliminates the supernatural elements and goes for a slasher approach . this does allow them to save money and get rid of that horrible cgi thing from the first film . it isn ' t enough though . bell is a nice addition but plays it pretty much as he does in the saw movies . the twist may have though it was being brave and dangerous , but this tactic has been used in other slasher series .
eight - year - old tim jenson is scarred for his life before boogeyman ' s title sequence rolls . he went to bed one night jumping at shadows in his rural , gothic home and watched in horror as his closet violently swallowed his father . fast - forward 15 years and tim ( barry watson ) , now a twitchy lygophobic with a tendency to stand staring at dark closets , returns home for a funeral . he alone sees that all dark places - - under the bed , in the closet , behind the pantry door - - are potential lurking spots for the boogeyman . at the off - hand recommendation of his psychologist and to further the plot , he must face his childhood fears , including that of his supernatural closet .
terry gilliam earned plenty of good faith from general audiences and movie studios after the success of the monty python films . however , after he finished brazil in 1985 , universal pictures refused to release the film because of its anti - corporate undertones and strange narrative . terry gilliam screened brazil privately without universal ' s approval and took a full - page ad in variety to address studio chairman sid sheinberg that simply read , “when are you going to release my film , ‘brazil’ ? after universal re - edited brazil and tacked on a happy ending , it came out to little fanfare and only grossed about $ 10 million .
“cropsey , ” named for the mythic boogeyman of hudson valley campfire stories , is the cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief . two parts true crime and one part folklore , the documentary examines a string of child disappearances on staten island during the ’70s and ’80s , including two for which the onetime willowbrook worker andre rand is serving time .
the quirky comedy sideways grossed $ 4 . 8 million and with a $ 47 million total gross , it has firmly set its eyes on a $ 60 million prize . for a film that cost about $ 16 million , sideways is on its way to become one of the most profitable films of the past year .
nearly 50 years after a vaccine for polio was developed in the united states , the polio virus still finds refuge in some of the world’s most vulnerable places . in india and afghanistan’s impoverished neighborhoods , the final inch follows the massive—and yet highly personalized—mission to eradicate polio from the planet . the film challenges our most basic …
every character , one for one , is dispensed with a satisfyingly revolting reflection of his or her deepest fear , with no small helping of smirking literalism . the boogeyman , meanwhile , clad in a black robe and metal cast death’s head mask of unknown origin , is re - invented as a real - live killer , and a concept you could actually see carrying a horror franchise .
while it ' s a wonderful life is a staple of the holiday season , it received little attention from general audiences at the time of its release in 1946 . this was mainly due to its dark narrative and subject matter . rko pictures lost $ 525 , 000 on the film , despite its five academy award nominations .
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hell no ! no way . it was only a $ 6 million film , but it was made in a studio . they would never do this . they ' re not in that business anymore . it would be hard to get it made indie . it would be hard to raise the money and do it .
a young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility , only to realize too little too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear . editor - turned - director jeff betancourt takes the helm for this ghost house pictures shocker scripted by brian sieve and starring tobin bell , danielle savre , david gallagher , michael graziadei , and mae whitman .
the shift in focus shown in the trailer for get out and the exploration of racial identity suggests that the horror genre might finally be ready to push a new boundary . there’s so much to unpack in the 150 - second preview , giving us a mere glimpse of themes we’re not used to seeing in horror . the timing of the film also mirrors romero’s efforts in the 60s to reflect america’s struggle with race , a nation still plagued by ongoing , institutional injustice . while get out will act as entertainment predominantly ( it’s from blumhouse , the production company behind insidious and the purge ) , with daily reports of black men killed for the color of their skin , it’s also a vital reminder that racism remains a more terrifying force than any supernatural boogeyman .
the film focuses on laura porter ( danielle savre ) , who as a child witnessed both her parents being brutally murdered by a hooded man , along with her brother henry ( matt cohen ) . henry , who was in the same therapy group , seems to be doing fine and is seemingly cured . henry goes off to a job interview . laura gets comfortable with the group which consists of scotophobic mark ( david gallagher ) , germaphobic paul ( johnny simmons ) , masochistic alison ( mae whitman ) , agoraphobic darren ( michael graziadei ) who is scared of commitment and relationships , and nicky ( chrissy griffith ) , a bulimic girl who fears extreme weight gain . laura struggles in facing her fear of the boogeyman , the entity that laura believes killed her parents .
get out is a provocative , button - pushing shocker that buries itself under your skin and lingers , its genre trappings serving as devious delivery for a scathing takedown of liberal white suburbia . it’s rare for a studio horror film to feel this fresh and daring and it’s arrived at a frighteningly topical moment for a country where racism is scarier than ever .
it’s a fair statement , but it won’t be the first time that racial fears have been encoded within the genre . in george a romero’s seminal night of the living dead in 1968 , the african american lead ben , played by duane jones , and his grim fate ( 40 - year - old spoiler : he gets killed at the end after a posse mistakes him for a zombie ) eerily coincided with the assassination of martin luther king . it was a landmark film even for having a black lead , but its bleak climax made a depressing statement on american sociopolitical progress . there are moments throughout the film that imply hostility towards ben’s race and his power but issues surrounding his racial identity aren’t overtly explored .
the modestly budgeted film ( about $ 15 million ) has another extraordinary performance by sophie okonedo as the conscience - keeper wife of the hotel manager . though it has performed respectably so far , it has a long way to go before it breaks even . it has to earn about $ 40 million in ticket and video sales before it makes a profit .
touches of humor , some genuinely spooky moments , and the occasional flash of decent acting keep this movie a notch above straight - to - video caliber . watching tim at the child counseling center offers a hint that this movie could be richer , more interesting fare , but then the next scene - - a possible boogeyman lurking behind a ceiling tile - - tugs us back to the over - the - top forcedness of it all .
something i ' ve noticed lately is that horror movies make for great previews . when i saw the trailer for boogeyman i was thinking ,
this film is gonna rock !
wrong ! this is another terrible hollywood scare flick that couldn ' t scare a 12 year old . i jumped more at the preview than the movie . the worst part is the story is so heavy handed that it steals any fun out of this convoluted mess . let ' s remember what were making here , guys , it ain ' t no oscar contender . too bad the movie wasn ' t just a shade worse so it could enter that so - bad - it ' s good realm . this one is just bad . there are a lot of great horror movies out there these days so skip this one !
the prop recreators at chronicle collectibles have collaborated with universal studios to make the canisters as faithful to the original as possible . just like the prop used in the film , the vessel resembles an unassuming can of shaving cream from the outside . but screw off the bottom and you ' ll find a secret compartment filled with vials the perfect size for storing prehistoric genetic material .
jurassic park ( 1993 ) is known for having some incredible props . the fake shaving cream can dennis nedry uses to smuggle dinosaur dna out of the cold storage unit may not be as iconic as the life - sized t . rex , but it still plays a colossal role in the film . now , io9 reports that an official replica of the prop can soon be yours .
ust in time for halloween and after a notably devastating year for race relations in the us , the first trailer for jordan peele’s directorial debut get out has hit , causing an understandable stir . given peele’s emmy - winning comedy central show key & peele , it’s perhaps no surprise that his first film as director would involve racial commentary ( one of his most famous skits revolves around the
the thriller flick
boogeyman
took the # 1 spot on the box - office top 10 this weekend with $ 19 . 5 million , according to early estimates . the sam raimi (
spider - man
) project finds a young man ( barry watson ) facing his childhood fear that there was a monster hiding in his closet by spending a night in the home where he grew up ( see
barry watson ' s boogey nights
) .
before alfonso cuarón dazzled audiences with gravity in 2013 , his dystopian science fiction film children of men didn ' t make much of an impact on general audiences in the united states in 2006 . although it received positive reviews and an academy award nomination for best adapted screenplay , children of men didn ' t find financial success at the domestic box office , only taking in $ 35 . 5 million .
that story goes back to the 1890s when daniel robatille , a black , wealthy socialite is commissioned to paint a portrait of a white landowner’s daughter . but when the two fall in love and their relationship is discovered by her father and his peers , daniel is lynched and his tortured soul is doomed to wreak havoc on anyone saying the name candyman five times in a mirror . the film delivers a powerful commentary of the brutal manifestation of racism and its lingering effect on a community , but it focuses its sympathetic eye on a contemporary white female protagonist , played by virginia madsen . her personal and professional turning points became focal and the film leaves little to no room for investigating the horrors of racism from the point of view of the black characters . candyman is not the center , she is .
today , fight club is considered a modern - day classic and one of david fincher ' s best movies . however , when it was released in october 1999 , twentieth century fox didn ' t know how to sell a movie about consumerism and misguided masculinity to general audiences . fight club ' s early reviews didn ' t help pack theaters either , as it garnered a mixed response from film critics .
spielberg got his start directing for tv at the age of 21 , helming episodes of such shows as night gallery and marcus welby , m . d . but the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film . it was spielberg ' s secretary , nona tyson , who found matheson’s story in playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie .
audiences re - discovered blade runner on vhs and later dvd throughout the ' 80s and ' 90s , as warner bros . re - released it with a director ' s cut and later a final cut , which ridley scott currently stands by as the definitive version . in 1993 , the library of congress picked it for the united states national film registry for being
culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant .
but peele isn’t interested in purely making a point , he’s also determined to make a genuinely scary horror film and doesn’t disappoint . there’s a refreshing lack of tired jump scares with peele instead utilizing a queasy atmosphere of dread and a terrifically choreographed escalation of suspense and crowd - pleasing thrills . it’s an artfully framed and remarkably accomplished debut film , and peele has carefully cast an ensemble of skilled actors who effortlessly conjure up a believably fraught dynamic . there’s a successful piece of stunt casting with williams , a star of hbo’s girls , but her white privilege isn’t over - egged and instead , her character seems even more shocked at what unfolds around them . it’s in smart opposition to the british actor kaluuya , who , in a star - making role , calmly and glumly accepts the insidious racism around him before letting rage take over .
ulli lommel directed this rancid little horror film about a couple of kids who kill their neglectful mother ' s abusive boyfriend . years later the now grown kids , the boy now a mute man , the girl now a somewhat hot woman , return to their childhood house to find that the bedroom mirror has become possessed by the evil that it witnessed all those years ago . poor poor ulli , he ' s to horror films as uwe boll is to video game adaptations and while this film is miles above the utter drivel he ' d later churn out , that ' s a sad testament to how awful he ' s gotten at writing rather than a praise of this one . as apart from one bizarre yet amusing death sequence , this movie is simply unwatchable . my grade : d - where i saw it : fearnet on demand
there were some genuinely good ideas that they touched on in boogeyman , but they just didn’t get fleshed out enough to do the story justice ; maybe i can convince syfy to let me write the novelization for boogeyman to do the story justice . but there were some things that were just perfect . cain’s face is usually a mask , a brown , desiccated face that looks like a mummy’s . however , cain’s head periodically turns cgi so that he can contort his face to growl . i don’t know why they thought cain needed to emote since his mummy - face should be stiff and his only lines are howls , but what are you going to do ? this wasn’t the only piece of unnecessary cgi . inexplicably , there are shots of houses from the outside that look completely unreal . it was hard to put my finger on it , but the houses looked computer - generated and the skies didn’t like they gelled with the house in terms of lighting . i don’t know why sci fi pictures can’t afford to film the outside of real houses for throwaway shots that establish setting , but i’m willing to lend them footage of my house if they want some . and any worthwhile horror movie has to have teens and characters introduced for the sole purpose of killing them . an obnoxious blonde woman living next to the skinner house is introduced and then dies at the hands of cain . a group of teens in the woods sits around a campfire drinking beers and passing around a joint . of course , this spells their doom . the only survivor is an extremely inebriated young man who thought a lesbian was making eyes at him and not the cute young girl sitting next o him ; sadly , the lesbian makeout session was ended abruptly by an evil several millennia old . i think that’s one more theme this film could have further explored . oh well .
a flashback shows that henry went to nicky and convinced her ( not hard with how nuts she was at this point ) to simply put on the boogeyman mask , hold a knife , and walk around . laura , thinking it was her brother , attacked him while he was calmly walking out of the hospital . the end is laura screaming that the real killer was still there , but the police were taking her away , either thinking she was crazy , or thinking she was actually responsible for the killings .
in this syfy saturday premiere , a group of young boys are doing things that young boys aren’t supposed to do but yet do anyway ( of course ) and one decides to throw our young hero boy’s cell phone through the top window of the local “spooooooky old house” to , of course , make him prove his worthiness by sending him in to get it . he goes in , and on his way up to the top floor to retrieve his phone , he accidentally sets loose the boogeyman of the movie’s title .
well i always check under my bed . there are far worst creatures than boogeyman . this was scary indeed . there were some moments that made me jumped literally . though i would say my scare level wasn ' t high enough as i could go to sleep peacefully after watching this at mid night . i would say this was decent . mysterious . confusing . frightening . everything i could think of ( except humor ) . can ' t wait to see the second part . hope that will be better than this .
soon , the therapy group begins to get murdered , one by one . all of their deaths relate to their fears . mark falls down the elevator shaft , trying to escape from the darkness when the lights go out , and is torn in half . the next is paul , who accidentally eats a cockroach after finding them in his bag of chips . the killer , a mysterious man wearing a boogeyman mask and cloak , then hands him a bottle of cleaning solution , which paul drinks and burns a hole in his throat . laura begins to suspect these were not accidents . the lights go out at the hospital and all that ' s left is laura , alison , darren , nicky , dr . ryan and gloria , the receptionist . gloria ( lesli margherita ) goes to the basement to check the lights . alison is killed when the boogeyman ties her to the bed and places maggots on her arms , which crawl into alison ' s skin using the cuts , forcing her to cut them out , killing herself in the process .
the latest in a series of horror movies with the exact same plot but different titles ,
boogeyman
tells the story of a troubled young man who witnessed his dad die at the hands of an evil ghost when he was little and now has returned to face his demons - only to realize that the ghost really exists . if this doesn ' t sound like
darkness falls
and a dozen others i don ' t where you ' ve been , but the results are about the same . full movie review »


tough is a 1974 blaxploitation film about a young teenager who rebels against authority .

it was also known as johnny tough .

the film is a homage to the 400 blows ( 1959 ) .

tough ( film )

my 2016 graduation film from kingston university london . original score by k . preston merkley
influential korean american actress margaret cho , who appeared in the film face / off with john travolta as well as television shows including sex and the city , accused the film of ‘yellowface’ , which she describes as ‘when white people portray asian people . and unfortunately it’s happening in this film . ’
a cop goes undercover in thailand to avenge his brother ' s death in this martial arts film .
sure , warner bros . broke the sound barrier with “the jazz singer , ” but in the early years of talkies it carved out its true turf as the home of gangster films . film forum’s “tough guys , tough dames … tough pictures” series , starting friday , sept . 22 , includes 27 movies from the 1930s and ’40s ; david thomson , author of a new history of the studio , introduces several screenings .
the film it chooses to bestow the best picture award on could very well show just how far the oscars have come .
some things can only be understood with maturity . new light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a chinese mother and her british - born daughter speak as adults for the first time . official selection sundance film festival 2017 - international documentary short film selection urltoken
celebrities including kate moss , emma bunton and jerry hall have been queuing up to perform cameos in the film version of absolutely fabulous .
my 2016 kingston university graduation film exploring ideas of identity , diaspora , culture and race . direction , design and animation by jennifer zheng original score by k . preston merkley i did a pretty in - depth interview about making this film on skwigly which you can read here .
“semi‐tough , ” dan jenkins ' s best‐selling comic novel about bigleague professional football , has been slimmed down , beefed up and reworked to make a funny film that is as much satire as parody , as much about our time as it is about some of our more bizarre culture heroes .
it ' s oscar weekend in hollywood and ' la la land ' is the favourite to win the most awards but still faces some tough competition .
for more gifs showing the process behind making the film look at my website here : urltoken with an original score by k . preston merkley urltoken
if the film ' s various sketchpieces were not so funny , “semitough” would not have any story at all . as it is , we go along with it for the three leading players , who are good company , and for the wit that , though random , is consistent . for a film about football , “semi‐tough” spends comparatively little time on the field and makes no serious attempt to trap our interest in questions about winning or losing .
watching
tough guys ,
you begin to meditate . you look at kirk douglas and burt lancaster , and you remember years and years of moviegoing .
last month , tough filmed scenes alongside lumley in london while clad in over - sized cat’s eye sunglasses , a short black wig and a red coat .
pretty tough is a tv series starring dalila ali rajah , adelaide kane , and crystal young . set in the privileged and picturesque world of malibu , california , pretty tough centers on charlie and krista brown , two sisters at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum , who must learn . . . see full summary »
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
tough has done very well on the festival circuit from sundance , sxsw to being bafta nominated . impressive achievement for a student film . jennifer zheng is now a junior animator at the previously short of the week featured moth collective ( matter fisher , my mother’s coat & a kiss , deferred ) . we are all awaiting her next project .
new york - it ' s oscar weekend in hollywood and the movie la la land is the favourite to win the most awards , but it still faces some tough competition .
but there is one well - known face that is proving somewhat controversial : scottish comedienne janette tough , best known for playing naughty schoolboy wee jimmy krankie in eighties tv shows .
tough is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex . the cause for the disconnect was the father inability to deal with his sons lifestyle . this film confronts issues of identity , self awareness , fatherhood , and family . the title itself is a play on masculinity within the american society and within the african american community and asks the question ' what does it really mean to be tough and also accepted for who you really are ? '
growing up in northern ireland as a first generation brit , jennifer always felt “white” , with her cultural heritage only showing “on her face” . as she matured , she realized that her chinese parents grew up during the cultural revolution and this revelation prompted the animator to explore her origins in her kingston university london grad film . in the conversation she has with her mother in her film , zheng not only learns where she comes from , but also gets a better understanding of her mother’s ‘tough’ approach and discovers strength in her parenting decisions .
last year’s oscars ‘so white’ debate , prompted the academy to invite over 600 new members to vote and film critics are questioning if that impact will be felt at sunday’s ceremony .
integral 933 adhesive film has a low melting , high flow adhesive layer that is useful for bonding to substrates such as polyurethane or polyethylene foam , or to non - woven textiles .
some pundits say , if the nostalgia - driven la la land scoops best picture over the more challenging film moonlight , it will indicate the academy has not fully received the message .
“semi‐tough” pokes fun in rambling fashion , but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they ' re not .
during the last act of the film elmo ' s facial hair variates , almost shot - to - shot , from full beard to five o ' clock shadow to even cleanly shaved .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london . . . 21 years after the first film hit screens
an aspiring country / western singer , whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities , enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills . amazingly enough , he wins it , and is picked to go onto the national finals . he ' s torn between his first love , music , and the glitz , glamor and money of the
tough man
world .
tough is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex . the cause for the disconnect was the . . . see full summary »
an aspiring country / western singer , whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities , enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills . . . . see full summary »
semi‐tough , directed by michael ritchie ; screenplay by walter bernstein , based on the novel by dan jenkins ; produced by david merrick ; director of photography , charles rosner jr . ; editor , richard a . harris ; music , jerry fielding ; distributed by united artsts . runnng time : 103 minutes . at the crierion theater , broadway at 45th street , and baronet theacr , third avenue at 59th street . this film has been rated r .
winning or losing is not the concern of the film , which knows that there are always new seasons to improve old records . the film isn ' t even too concerned about whether barbara jane marries billy joe or shake tiller . its interest is in the overall scene—in the shambles of her wedding ceremonies , a very nice sequence that begins as we overhear the minister and friedrich bismark , the mental‐health tycoon , standing at the altar solemnly discussing tax shelters .
set in the privileged and picturesque world of malibu , california , pretty tough centers on charlie and krista brown , two sisters at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum , who must learn to play together on the sports field and in life .
actors samuli edelman , teemu lehtilä , juha veijonen and the producer , markus selin , promised to stop smoking if the film was seen by 200 , 000 viewers in finland . that number was reached on february 15th , 1999 .
with this film mr . ritchie ( “the bad news bears , ” “smile , ” “downhill racer” ) reinforces his reputation as one of those rare directors who is able to look at middle america critically without being especially outraged or even surprised .
a tough , honorable former navy seal gets more than he bargained for , but more than he can handle , when he accepts a job captaining a ship for a mysterious , sexy woman who turns out to be the wife of a ruthless drug kingpin .
the tough detective vares , get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl . his job is to find the real killer , but people aren ' t talking . before he can get traction another homicide takes place - and things move toward a dire conclusion .
in previous years , the awards have overlooked films of a more political nature or social relevance , like the martin luther king drama selma and carol with cate blanchett , in favour of the artist , argo and birdman movies that speak specifically about the film industry .
‘i can’t believe it’s taken me nearly to the age of 70 to land my first film role , ’ she has said of the part . ‘but it’ll be no problem appearing on screen as a man , as i’ve spent a whole lifetime playing a schoolboy . ’
full and genuine access to a documentary subject almost always provides better material for the filmmaker . in the case of tough , the mother / daughter relationship means zheng gets her interviewee to bare all , with no restraint , making for a nuanced narrative that more people can relate to .
barbara _ lee _ olson and a1969cowboy heres the songs #
i was born a dreamer
performed by mickey gilley #
tough enough
performed by t . g . sheppard #
rainbows never touch the ground
performed by dennis quaid #
don ' t they know who i ' m gonna be ?
performed by dennis quaid #
motor city
( instrumental ) performed by blue skies band #
tough man theme
( instrumental ) performed by blue skies band #
cowtown rag
performed by blue skies band #
i was born a dreamer
( instrumental ) performed by blue skies band #
more nights
performed by lane brody #
you ' ve got the touch
performed by johnny tillotson an aspiring country / western singer , whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities , enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills . amazingly enough , he wins it , and is picked to go onto the national finals . he ' s torn between his first love , music , and the glitz , glamor and money of the
tough man
world
it is something that was discussed but it doesn’t mean we talked like that all the time - - absolutely not ,
roessner recalled .
and indeed , they don’t talk like that in the film the entire time , but my journal is filled with little bits of dialogue of things that people would say to me . they weren’t intending to be philosophical at times . but i got the wisdom . it never left me , obviously , because it made it to the film a decade later . you’d be surprised at how intelligent people get when the bullet starts flying .
cheech and chong work briefly as car wash attendants and musicians before being hired to drive a car from chicago to las vegas . unbeknownst to them , their employers ( themselves in double roles ) have concealed five million dollars of dirty money in the upholstery . a series of adventures ensues , including the making of a porn film featuring ' the guys ' and their real - life squeezes .
' pitbull : tough women ' sees two police departments in warsaw forced to work together against the most powerful criminal organisation in poland . the members of the mokotowska group are responsible for a string of kidnappings and murders throughout poland , and have the police force in their sights . mayan , the new chief of police and a veteran of undercover work , joins forces with the heroes of the original ' pitbull ' to fight back .
one of the very few things that make me appreciate being older , and slightly wiser , is having honest conversations with my parents . in tough , jennifer zheng sits down with her mother and finally has a grown - up talk about her origins . shedding light on cultural identity and raising a child as an emigrant , zheng’s animated documentary tackles its subject in the most heartfelt and touching way : a mother / daughter one on one .
other “characters” who move in and out of the film are big ed bookman ( robert preston ) , barbara jane ' s father , a hot‐tempered tycoon with a fondness for patriotic songs ( gene autry records ) ; friedrich bismark ( bert convy ) , the hustling head of a terrifically successful “energy training” course called beat , and clara pelf ( lotte lenya ) , a ferocious chiropractor who calls what she does “pelfing . ”
when you were a kid , they were the embodiment of heroism and charm and strength . and then comes this movie where they play guys 67 and 72 years old . and who , for that matter , is that middle - age guy in the audience sitting in your seat ?
tough guys
is the story of the last two train robbers in america , who stuck up a train in 1956 and were put away for 30 years .
some things can only be understood with maturity . new light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a chinese mother and her british born daughter speak as adults for the first time . subscribe : urltoken about sxsw : started in 1987 , south by southwest ( sxsw ) is a set of film , interactive , and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid - march in austin , texas . sxsw’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers , to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas . that continues to be the goal today whether it is music , film or interactive technologies . connect with sxsw online : visit the sxsw website : urltoken like sxsw on facebook : urltoken follow sxsw on twitter : urltoken urltoken
tough guys
might have seemed like a good idea for a movie . it certainly reminds us of what giants lancaster and douglas were - and are . but precisely because they have paid so many dues and bring so many of our memories to all the roles they play , they deserve something better than this . the movie makes the same mistake as some of the characters in it : it treats these two guys like lovable old characters instead of listening to what they really have to say .
“semi‐tough” is not a movie that forces a lot of plot on you . it ' s under way for some time before you begin to grasp what is meant to be the story—the thing that is supposed to pull you along . this is about the rivalry that suddenly springs un between the selfassured biiry clyde , a role that effectively uses mr . reynolds ' s television talk show personality , and shake tiller , a fellow who is a pared‐down , very hesitant version of mr . kristofferson ' s identity as a musician‐singer . at the center of the quarrel is barbara jane .
tough guys
might have been better if douglas and lancaster had played characters who were a little more fallible , humble and realistic . for example , we don ' t need the scene where they beat up a gang of muggers in an alley . we don ' t need their utter cool and total confidence in the face of all dangers . maybe if they were scared , uncertain or filled with self - doubt , we might like them more . since they waltz through everything , there ' s no suspense . since their victories seem inevitable , they generate no joy .
the movie , which opened yesterday at the criterion and baronet theaters , takes us on a sort of “through the looking glass” journey into the sunday afternoon television screen and beyond , into the lives of billy clyde puckett ( burt reynolds ) and shake tiller ( kris kristofferson ) , prostars whose names are part of the film ' s comic method , and barbara jane bookman ( jill clayburgh ) , the pretty but failure‐prone daughter of the owner of their ball club . barbara jane shares a platonic friendship with the two players as well as their miami beach penthouse apartment , a gaudy nest that looks as if it had been decorated by the people who did our ziegfeld theater .
the first weekend features a fourpack of warner stars : edward g . robinson in “little caesar” ( his character , rico bandello , may well have inspired the antimob law’s acronym , rico ) ; paul muni in “i am a fugitive from a chain gang” ; humphrey bogart in “high sierra” ; and james cagney gone fully psychotic in “white heat . ” next week boasts a rare screening of “black legion” ( 1937 ) , a bogart film that , the new york times review noted , was a fictional account “of the hooded organization that terrorized the midwest in 1935 - 36 cloaking its cowardice , bigotry , selfishness , stupidity and brutality under the mantle of ‘100 percent americanism . ’” ( filmforum . org )
well folks if you liked up in smoke , next movie and nice dreams then you should give things are tough all over a try even though they didn ' t smoke pot in this movie but there is a little drug humor in this movie . this movie is about the duo working at a car wash in a very cold freezing weather in chicago and they got fired and they decide to drive a limousine all the way from chicago to las vegas and there are two guys ( cheech and chong in a double role ) who are after them and what c & c didn ' t know was that the limousine was filled with money . this movie was a different approach to cheech and chong cause it didn ' t take place in l . a . and there was alot less drug humor than the previous movies and while it may seem a somewhat forgettable movie , it ' s a pure classic compared the still smokin ' and the corsician brothers and i think that all c & c fans should watch this movie . 6 / 10
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. . . but a poor one . every single narrative solution is already seen and the plot gives no surprise . not at all . unfourtanely this gives a constant sensation of ' premonition ' . sport scenes appear fake ( more than usual sport movies already are ) , and most of the second part takes place in a ' sunset effect ' light , that has the result to make even more difficult to ' feel ' the story . if you like soccer and love stories about girls trying to make their dreams true , maybe you could find something nicer , or at least more original . average rate is ( at the moment ) really high , so maybe there is something in the movie i cannot see and makes it special . not in my opinion .
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walter bernstein , who wrote the screenplay , and michael ritchie , the director , haven ' t been successful in giving dramatic structure to the episodic novel , but they do succeed in restraining a terrible tendency toward cuteness , not an easy thing to do in a comedy in which all men are recognized as just overgrown boys .
mostly he is amused , not as someone who sets himself apart from the scene , but as a man who recognizes his own place in it . he may wish it were other than it is , but he doesn ' t rage that it isn ' t . he ' s a humanist fascinated by the manners and mores of a society in which everything , from food to mental health , has been merchandized for the take‐out trade .
miss clayburgh , who ' s been asked to play zany heroines in “gable and lombard” and “the silver streak” by people who failed to provide her with material , has much better luck this time . she ' s charming .
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elmo freech is a private investigator and was contracted by john portland , a cia agent who suffers amnesia , in oder to reveale a dubious case of drug smuggling in which are involved big . . . see full summary »
the sister of a former u . s . green beret , is involved in a love affair with a mobster , endangering seriously her life . his brother will make his best efforts to save her from her boyfriend . . . see full summary »
roddy piper portrays a police lt . working undercover in the so - called jungleground . his sting operation goes bad and as a result he is caught . young odin , his captor and would be drug lord . . . see full summary »
after a nuclear war , the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society .
somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come . many people had died . the rich were able to build the underworld , the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive . . . . see full summary »
andrew dice clay takes over a hotel during a beauty pageant taking several pageant contestants hostage since one of them is a rich senator ' s daughter .
ken has just moved from kansas with his mother . he talks to a girl named julie , not knowing that her boyfriend tom is very possessive of her . tom is learning karate from lee , a sensei whose . . . see full summary »
a local cop tries to save his father and several others who have been taken hostage by terrorists at hoover dam .
a crusty and recluse superintendent is thrown into the ultimate fight against evil when a couple of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mysical city of r ' lyeh , awakening slumbering god .
frank , an auto mechanic , witnesses the love of his life ' s demise at the hands of a drunk driver . frank lets loose his rage , and kills the man . he then goes to prison , where he is framed for . . . see full summary »
elmo freech is a private investigator and was contracted by john portland , a cia agent who suffers amnesia , in oder to reveale a dubious case of drug smuggling in which are involved big fishes of the cia and from washington .
roddy piper stated that by the time he made this he was no longer having fun acting . he said his best times were hell goes to frog town and they live , after those he had been through to many acting classes that the fun was gone .
i caught this movie on cable today and was fairly impressed . not with the action or special effects , but how well piper and banks played off of each other . piper was more believable in his character than banks , but banks held his own . the action was ok , but nothing to get excited about . this actually turned out to be a really good buddy movie with a good mix of action , drama and a fair mix of humor . this is one that is worth watching just for the heck of it . remember . . . it ' s not an a movie . . . it ' s a b movie at best .
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in new mexico , a confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a union soldier , his yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him .
a disparate group of travelers is eating in an isolated restaurant when a man drops dead of a heart attack . before he dies , they discover that he is wanted for stealing several million . . . see full summary »
richard butler is the director of a montreal advertising agency . when he meets dyanne , a young beautiful model , he falls in love .
a world war ii vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood .
of ardore , ltd . , the originators of the actual toughman contests
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during the final fight , blood is spattered across the front of tony fallon ' s suit but when shown shortly afterward , the blood has disappeared .
: i know one thing : he ' s some kind of goddamned foreigner , and there ain ' t but one way to whip ' em .
: kick him right square in the nuts , and then tell him his mother ' s whore .
: thanks a lot , dad . will you just shut up , please ?
: i ' m just tryin ' to help you , son . you ' re the one that ' s gotta go in there and fight this big dumb sonofabitch . look at him . probably some kind of a goddamned . . . communist . . .
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explore popular sci - fi movies and tv shows available to stream with prime video .
two female police officers fight to survive a police force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal criminal mafia .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you director boots riley discuss the stress of filming sex scenes .
policemen from two precincts join forces to fight a criminal band called the
mokotowska group
.
five troubled lawmen ( marcin dorocinski , janusz gajos , andrzej grabowski ) pursue a brutal criminal .
botoks
is intended to be a record of the authentic history of strong , determined and expressive physicians who struggle with life ' s decisions and problems : discrimination , maternity . . . see full summary »
after many controversies poland ' s biggest military intelligence and counter - intelligence agency ( commonly known as wsi ) is liquidated , but its place is immediately taken by a new , secret . . . see full summary »
a policeman gets killed and the short - staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime . meanwhile , a conflict between local gangster groups escalates .
a murder of a convict held in custody seems to be connected with dark and mysterious events from two years back .
despite being in love with a ukrainian boy from the same village , polish girl named zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower . soon world war ii begins and ethnic tensions arise . amidst the war chaos zosia tries to survive .
comic and tragic scenes from the lives of police officers in the warsaw traffic department .
the story of a well - known artistic family : legendary painter zdzislaw beksinski , his wife zofia and their son tomasz , a highly - praised music critic and translator . their lives were far from being usual .
an innocent cab driver jurek kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned . soon , he is sprung by a mob boss who needs
killer
for a few more jobs .
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cheech and chong are hired to drive a limo from chicago to las vegas by two shady arabs - mr . slyman ( cheech ) and prince habib ( chong ) . unbeknownst to them , five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throughout the car .
lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you crew reveal their most soul - crushing jobs in our freewheeling interview .
cheech & chong are invited to a celebrity party / festival in amsterdam . when they get there , however , it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money , and the . . . see full summary »
disguised as ice cream vendors , cheech and chong make - - and subsequently lose - - millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect .
the two stoners and their friends go through another series of crazy , drug - influenced misadventures .
two brothers who can feel each others ' pain and pleasure mess up the french revolution .
two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from mexico to l . a . , with incompetent sgt . stedenko on their trail .
a mock documentary filmed mostly in and around la with interviews of cheech and chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album . songs include : get outta my room and . . . see full summary »
when a native - born american citizen of mexican descent is mistakenly deported to mexico , he has to risk everything to get back home .
an aging hippie sets out on a trip across america to find his family .
a documentary based on cheech and chong ' s
light up america
reunion tour .
yellowbeard , a pirate ' s pirate , is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure . he finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son , 20 , and shame . . . see full summary »
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with jurassic world : fallen kingdom now in cinemas , we take a look at how imdb users rated the films of the franchise . plus , browse exclusive lego® jurassic world playsets , presented by lego .
häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society . antti and jussi are released from jail . while they were doing time for bank robbery , the third . . . see full summary »
the story bases on four finnish brothers , nicknamed ' the eura daltons ' who received nation - wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash . the cast is an impressive one : . . . see full summary »
juhani , 14 years old and tormented by a childhood trauma , has changed several foster parents from the age of eight . he is taken to an island , where there is a boys ' home , run by a strict . . . see full summary »
on the trail of a woman , vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions .
an escaped mental patient , two losers and a gay nurse go onto a roadtrip in order to find a secret gold treasure .
a ski jumper descends from winning 4 olympic gold medals , to serving two years for stabbing a relative . careers as a stripper and singer , plus five marriages , replete with allegations of . . . see full summary »
when their bootlegging father ends up in jail , four twenty - something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks . next , their 9 - year - old half - sister is dumped on their doorstep by . . . see full summary »
a woman dulled with praise , nelli is well on her way to med - school thanks to her parents , but dreams of a career as a singer .
the war between luxembourg and finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team , gay couple ' s fishing trip , two hoodlums ' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others .
a comedy about janne , a man from lapland in northern finland , a man who has made a career out of living on welfare . inari , his girlfriend , is tired of janne ' s incapability of getting a grip . . . see full summary »
funny comedy movie , where three guys likes to play poker with their landlord . soon pera will find a way how to earn big amount of money . then he and his two other friends wanna join his . . . see full summary »
häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society . antti and jussi are released from jail . while they were doing time for bank robbery , the third man involved in the robbery , the one who was not convicted , has become a policeman . he tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in pohjanmaa , but the boys start a black market liquor business instead . the road seems to lead back to the jail .
three young men rob a bank . only two of them are caught . what will happen when they return to their home town ?
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basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
roger ebert ' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th , 1994 , being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter , a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
now they ' re back on the street again , two old ex - cons trying to go straight and preserve a certain level of self - respect . these guys are not just any old cons , however , and that ' s the basic flaw in this movie : they ' re both living legends , and they know it .
the opening shots of the movie establish the tone . in the prison cell , douglas is pumping iron . he has his shirt off and , good lord , he ' s got muscles like sylvester stallone . ( douglas may be the first male movie star in history willing to be photographed bare - chested in his late 60s . ) he and lancaster put on their carefully preserved , tailor - made suits , position their fedoras on their heads and walk out the prison gates . then , for the next hour , we see them in a series of scenes designed to demonstrate that they ' ve still got the stuff .
they try to cash their prison checks in a bank and single - handedly stop a bank robbery . douglas is picked up by a perky young aerobics instructor , who gives private classes in her bedroom . lancaster miserably checks into an old - people ' s home and meets an old flame there : she ' s an aerobics instructor , too . douglas gets a job as a bus boy , but can ' t take the insults from the customers . lancaster resents being treated like a senior citizen .
finally , they do the inevitable : they return to crime . they stick up an armored car , and that leads to a momentus decision : they ' ll take the flyer again , the same train they robbed 30 years ago . it ' s scheduled for its farewell run , and so are they . but they take far too long to arrive at this decision , and the movie suffers because of the long buildup . it would have been better as a caper movie right from the start . instead , it plays like a series of cute situations in search of a plot . and by the time we arrive at the truly sensational climax , it ' s too late .
the movie is further muddled by the introduction of two unnecessary supporting characters . charles durning plays the cop who arrested them 30 years ago , and eli wallach , in an utterly thankless role , plays a nearsighted old hit man . wallach ' s scenes are awkward , would - be physical comedy , and there are such long time gaps between his appearances .
an interview with terry gilliam , director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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when iraq war veteran and pat tillman military scholar chris roessner sat down to write his debut screenplay
sand castle ,
he wanted it to be personal and to reflect the just over 12 months he spent in iraq .
most movies about war are mission oriented , about taking a hill , or a village , or capturing enemy troops . roessner ' s movie is also mission oriented , but it’s a different kind of mission .
i wanted to talk about what it feels like to be a young man or woman at war and what it feels like to need the local population [ to work with you ] to be successful ,
he told fox news .
set in the early days of the second gulf war ,
sand castle
is the story of inexperienced private matt ocre ( nicholas hoult ) , whose unit is ordered to the outskirts of baqubah to repair a water pumping station damaged by u . s . bombs . but as ocre quickly discovers , winning over the locals is a job fraught with danger and extreme frustration .
ocre ' s war experience , very much like roessner ' s , is dependent upon his ability to work with the iraqi people , and he soon finds out that if the locals were willing to help , they paid a high price for that .
not by us , but by insurgents ,
roessner explained .
they were killed for helping us and they were well aware of that . that’s not something that we realized right away . we learned it quickly , but the price that people paid for helping us was very , very high .
even though
sand castle
filmed in jordan , not iraq , it was still emotionally battering for roessner to revisit certain aspects of his time in the war zone , especially scenes where they were filming the deaths of men who had been his friends .
i was surprised to find that , even though i’d lived with the script for seven years , watching it happen , i really wanted to change it ,
roessner said .
i really wanted to make it happen differently , and that feeling was surprising and overwhelming . but ultimately , if i changed it , i think i would do a disservice to the folks that i’ve served alongside . it was much too important for me that i stay true to those moments , but it was very , very hard .
another way roessner , who knew he wanted to be a filmmaker before he joined the military but couldn ' t afford the tuition , stayed true to his experience was by referencing a journal he kept during his tour in iraq .
i came back from iraq when i was 20 and i said , ' what’s fascinating about war is that if you’re a 19 - year - old kid from arkansas with a ged , war will turn you into a philosopher , ' and that is absolutely true .
an example of a scene reconstructed from his journal is a conversation in which one of the men in his unit tells ocre that
there ' s a bullet out there for everyone .
sand castle ,
also starring henry cavill , glen powell , logan marshall - green , neil brown jr . , and beau knapp , premieres on netflix on april 21 .
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number of refugees accepted into the u . s . falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time since 1980
the big - screen adaptation will see joanna lumley and jennifer saunders reprise their cigarette - smoking , champagne - swigging characters patsy and edina .
the 68 - year - old plays a male japanese fashion designer called huki muki in the forthcoming ab fab movie , set for release next summer , which has caused a number of fans to call the casting choice ‘racist’ .
‘i am f * * * * * * sick of yellowface . have some respect . hire asian actors for asian roles , ’ cho fumes online . ‘i’m disgusted . yellowface is racism . sorry . it’s unacceptable . not now . i was thrilled about [ the ] ab fab movie , but now i just can’t be . i’m very disappointed . ’
she added : ‘when roles written for us are played by white actors — it’s an outrage . we’ve tried to shame racism out of existence but i guess some people really don’t care . they’re shameless but not blameless . ’
many of cho’s 400 , 000 - strong twitter following chime in with their disapproval , with one replying : ‘massively disappointed about this too , ’ while another commented ‘not ab fab ? ! that’s disappointing . ’
yesterday , executive producers jennifer saunders and dawn french declined to comment , as did bbc films , which is producing the movie .
michael dugher , shadow culture secretary , is a self - taught banjo and ukulele strummer . so who better to pass judgment on adele’s musical abilities ?
‘her voice is better than the songs , to be honest , ’ dugher says . no doubt , he can rustle up some better tunes than the ones he feels multi - million selling adele is so signally lacking .
porcelain - skinned model sophie dahl posts a picture of herself on social media next to harry potter’s pet snowy owl hedwig . ‘separated at birth , ’ she hoots . it’s certainly an uncanny resemblance .
and i hear wise old bird sophie likes to keep her hubby , pint - sized pianist jamie cullum , firmly in her clutches .