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Its kind of fascinating to me that so many reviewers consider this a masterpiece I am not a dullard as far as quality films go and I will agree that from a technical filming standpoint as well as for several of the characters portrayed the film is in an awardworthy class But there is no sense for me of this film actually going anywhere I mean taking the viewer anywhere It is a series of mood scenes perhaps remarkable as such but I want more from a film I look for story and movement and a fulfillment of arrival none of which did I find in this film Yes it might be considered poetry on film but there is much poetry that I cannot live with for the same reason that it paints pictures without going anywherebr br One thing further to be said is that it documents a midcentury English childhood which is necessarily limited in its universality I was personally appalled at what a young British boy had to live through in that time and place Having grown up in America just a decade earlier I can authoritatively say that the contrast is immense I cannot help wondering if this contrast has had some effect on those reviewing the film so favorably In other words could there be a tendency to judge the film entirely on its filmic magic which I acknowledge is there and completely ignore its lack of relevance to the nature of ones actual recalled experience

I found this to be a soso romancedrama that has a nice ending and a generally nice feel to it Its not a Hallmark Hall Of Fametype family film with sleepingbeforemarriage considered normal behavior but considering it stars Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro I would have expected a lot rougher movie at least languagewise br br The most memorable part of the film is the portrayal of how difficult it must be to learn how to read and write when you are already an adult Thats the big theme of the movie and it involves some touching scenes but to be honest the film isnt that memorablebr br Its still a fairly mild nice tale that I would be happy to recommend

this movie is such a good movie shah ruck khan does a great job as the crazy mad villain who is totally obsessed withbr br the girl the story is fantastic the acting by allbr br characters like the girl and shah ruck and Sunny are all fabulous and i really love the first song especially how it comes back at the end oh and its so emotional if your a true shah ruck khan fan you have gotta watch this movie because its the best shah ruck khan movie ever he plays an excellent role and i wish he done more crazy man roles but u have to watch this what so ever this is a really good movie this is a really good movie you have to watch it it is truly amazing you have to watch it it is fabulous i can go on and on about this movie because it is a fun funny scary cool and totally fantastic movie in the world

This is a brilliant scifi movie that is very strange in how men and women both view the same film I have talked to many people about the film and almost every guy loved it and said it was brilliantwhile most women thought it was just disgusting and stupid This is the only movie I know of that has such polarized views based on gender Perhaps many women just have a lower tolerance for disgusting or depressing plotsbut whatever the cause I have always found this difference fascinatingbr br The film begins with a murder and a subsequent investigation headed by Charlton Heston This is set in the near future and the head of the huge international Soylent Corporation has been assassinated As the film unfolds you quickly realize this is a terrible and highly inequitable future American society The rich live in gorgeous apartments with security and all the pleasures money can buyincluding furniturea euphemism for paid mistresses that come along with the apartment At the same time the masses are dirt poor unemployed and in many cases living in abandoned cars or apartment hallways Overpopulation and smog have taken a severe toll and the future looks awful indeed br br Why the rich man died and the awful truth he could not live with I really should NOT discussit could ruin the film for you However the film has a great plot and acting and is superexciting to watch Plus it features Edward G Robinson in his final screen performance as the crusty sidekick to Heston Though not for the easily depressed or squeamish this is a great scifi film that is allegorical and profound

Diana Guzman is an angry young woman Surviving an unrelenting series of disappointments and traumas she takes her anger out on the closest targetsbr br When she sees violence transformed and focused by discipline in a rundown boxing club she knows shes found her home br br The film progresses from there as Diana learns the usual comingofage lessons alongside the skills needed for successful boxing Michelle Rodriguez is very good in the role particularly when conveying the focused rage of a young woman hemmed in on all sides and fighting against not just personal circumstances but entrenched sexismbr br The picture could use some finesse in its direction of all the young actors who pale in comparison to the older more experienced cast There are too many pauses in the script which detracts from the dramatic tension The overall quietness of the film drains it of intensity br br This is a good picture to see once if only to see the power of a fully realized young woman whose femininity is complex enough to include her power Its limitations prevent it from being placed in the see it again and again category

Like many Americans I was first introduced to the works of Hayao Miyazaki when I saw Spirited Away I fell in love with the film and have seen it many times Now I am on a search to see every film by Miyazaki One of his earlier works is Castle in the Sky Although its still enjoyable its not as good as Spirited Away though comparing this or any film to his 2002 masterpiece is perhaps unfairbr br A young boy named Pazu James Van Der Beek is working in a mine late one night when he sees a girl fall slowly from the sky When she wakes up the next morning she introduces herself as Sheeta Anna Paquin But Sheeta has a secret and before he knows it Pazu is pulled into an adventure that will lead him into danger with pirates the army and a lost floating citybr br Going into a film by Hayao Miyazaki means you can expect one thing a sense of wonder and magic Many filmmakers have tried but no one can create a sense of magic and awe like Miyazaki Watching a film by Miyazaki is like experiencing a fantastic dream from your childhoodbr br Because the film is animated dubbing the film does not pose much of a problem because it is next to impossible to determine whether or not the lip movements match up to the words It also helps that the translated dialogue is wellwritten and voiced by talented actors The voice acting is varied James Van Der Beek fares best He brings an irresistible enthusiasm and excitement to the role of Pazu that is perfect for the character Anna Paquin is nearly as good as Sheeta Shes frightened by the events going on around her but she knows what she has to do Mark Hamill is unrecognizable as the evil Muska Hes dangerous and wants something from Sheeta and will do anything to get it The other voices are bad Cloris Leachman is awful as Dola Leachman may have won an Oscar for The Last Picture Show but shes annoying as the pirate leader Leachman gives the character an obnoxious squawk thats nearly always monotonous Its so bad it nearly ruins the film Jim Cummings is an effective voiceover actor but hes miscast as the generalbr br I would definitely recommend seeing Castle in the Sky Ill probably end up buying it myself But even though its not as good as Spirited Away its still pretty good

What this movie does well is combine action and horror with comedy and drama in a unique way that teases more emotion form the audience than a typical horror movie Unfortunately with disjointed storytelling frustrating plotholes and contradictory scenes this movie mainly caused me frustration and is hardly the greatest monster movie ever br br Lets start with the good stuff comedy acting and special effects From the getgo this movie starts off fast paced and cheeky The opening scene the monsters origin is campy and quick paying homage the the classic environmental disasters that have given birth to so many other monsters The pacing is fast which was a welcome break from the long and often pointlessly dramatic opening scene from other monster flicks and allows the movie to jump right into the action With in the course of 10 minutes you get the why where and how of the beast and are ready for action In this the movie deliversbr br After another short and well shot sequence the characters are introduced the lazy son and his precocious little girl kind grandfather and talented sister aunt and of course the monster The characters are introduced in context to each other and their conflicts are instantly apparent allowing the audience to feel for them when the monster shows up suddenly to wreak havoc in the river area where they live and work br br The monster its self looks great alien yet familiar kinda like a dog and fish pooped out by a squid The effects of the creature are second to none and although it looks strange it is believable and at no point in the movie could you see its strings Even the movement of the monster was horribly familiar like a growing and excited rottweiler on linoleum the monster barrels through the crowd slipping on surfaces crushing and eating those in its path When the monsters path intersects with the family and tragedy ensues it truly is a painful moment and you can feel the need for revenge but from there on out the movies appeal begins to unravelbr br Following the dynamite beginning the movie quickly loses focus and continuity Plotlines are introduced then abandoned characters change their position for no apparent reason and comedy is interlaced into dramatic scenes confusing intent while obstacles appear and disappear seemingly at random br br As for the comedy let me say this Im willing to accept that a lot of the humor is probably cultural I am not familiar with Korean humor so maybe things were lost in translation However as an Asian studies major in college and as someone who has been living in Japan for the last 5 years still here Id like to think I have a better grasp on Asian humor than the average whiteguy That being said there were many parts of the movie that I understood were supposed to be funny but to me werent br br SPOILER For example after the initial attack where the young daughter is lost the family is at the funeral everyone is mourning A new character is introduced a brother and tension is raised even higher as it becomes obvious that the two brothers are at odds with one another They both begin to grieve for their loss and wind up competing with each other over who is grieving harder This competition is at its core funny two brothers who dislike eachother so much they even compete at a funeral it shows the prickly nature of familial love common in Asian comedy This subtle slapstick comedy poking fun at family and ritualized mourning is supposed to be funny but seemed really out of place in the context of a lost little girl END SPOILER br br Then come the plot holes there are so many points brought up in this movie that are never explained or worse are explained and fretted over only to be proved impotent and pointless in the end Finding out an obstacle isnt an obstacle can be a good thing for a character but youd expect some comment to that nature Instead the audience is barraged by moments of anticlimax when problems just arent there anymore and no one gives an indication that it was ever a problem to start So I ask you why even bring it up in the first place br br This was prevalent through out the film as problems gave rise to new problems and suddenly the world of the movie is filled with opposing forces that never resolved each other Of course introducing new and greater problems is a timetested story telling tradition but if the introduction of a new arc leads the the forced shortening of another you would expect at least that the new arc gets full explanation Not in this movie Instead it was as if you get several stories each only explained 20 of the way and in the end the parts never converge to complete the wholebr br Again Im willing to accept that a lot of this might be cultural Maybe its in Korean story telling tradition to put comedy inside a tragedy Maybe its normal for stories to go all over like a child who colors outside the lines on everypage but never finishes one Maybe its OK to present a problem in order to develop the plot but then remove that problem randomly without any apparent solution or catharsis Or maybe these are all hallmarks of sloppy work and bad storytelling rampant in a movie that seems to have a much better reputation than it deserves

A brash selfcentered Army cadet arrives at WEST POINT with a dangerous wise guy attitude towards the Corpsbr br In a role obviously tailormade for him William Haines shines in this highly enjoyable tale of honor friendship A gradeA scene stealer Haines during the first half of the film is up to his usual Silly Billy behavior which under normal circumstances should have gotten him confined to the guardhouse The last half however becomes very serious leading up to Haines moral redemption and giving him a fine opportunity to exhibit his acting talents If WEST POINT does not quite reach the caliber of Haines previous TELL IT TO THE MARINES 1926 this is doubtless due to the absence here of a costar of the charisma quality of Lon Chaney for Haines to interact with However this tribute to the Army is very effective entertainment and should be appreciated on its own meritbr br Joan Crawford appears as Haines love interest playing the virginal daughter of the local innkeeper Joan is pert pretty and especially shines in her first scenes when she meets Haines on a Hudson River ferry and is subjected to his usual immature antics Haines Crawford made five silent feature films together and were tremendous friends for life He was the much bigger celebrity at this period and gave her many hints for getting ahead in Hollywood A superstar herself by the early 1930s she reciprocated after his ouster from MGM in 1932 by encouraging his career change to interior decorationbr br Little William Bakewell is effectively cast as a Plebe who idolizes Haines their relationship is actually given more of a sentimental treatment than that of Haines Crawfordbr br The film was made with the full cooperation of the War Department Extensive location filming at the Academy helps tremendously with the productions ambiance which was given splendid production values by MGMbr br WEST POINT has been recently restored and given a rousing new score by David Davidson

Minor spoilersbr br First I must say how rare and charming it is to find a movie with such basic messages in it nuclear war will inevitably destroy all of civilization and women are for making babies It is absolutely incredible how well formulated the plot is to hit in these two points as with a golden hammer Essentially everything about this movie annoyed me The casual sexism the character whose sole trait was coming from Texas the mysterious choice of dying Mars orange and of course the flawed science of it all Then the martian woman screaming as if she had just noticed that she was blind What was that However I will give it credit The fifties did spit out some sillier things But not much

The Western can be divided into many subgenres One of the broadest divisions is that between Town Westerns and Plains Westerns Most Westerns are a mix of both but at one end of the spectrum you have pictures like High Noon and Rio Bravo that take place almost entirely in a settlement seldom venturing out into the real outdoors At the other end you have ones like Wagon Master where there is barely a homestead on view amid the wildernessbr br Director John Ford normally thrived on the bit of both Westerns shooting the interiors with an emphasis on their being small and confined and then contrasting this with the wide open exteriors which appeared both exciting and dangerous Wagon Master has a typical Frank Nugent script with some interplay between seasoned oldsters and green youngsters but still it presents Ford with some fresh challenges In this picture the dangers do not come from the harshness of the landscape they come from within the group in the form of the Cleggses Whats more the absence of real interior scenes means the outdoors could lose its impact over timebr br However Ford was a real maestro when it came to manipulating space He shoots scenes of the camp or the wagons so the frame is surrounded and we get that same sense of enclosure as we would in a genuine interior Also compared to his other Westerns he does not in fact open out the space too much having the wagon trail wend its way through canyons and passes rather than cross the stark and empty plains One of the few moments where he does throw the landscape wide open is when the Indians are spotted and there is the possibility of a threat from outsidebr br Wagon Master features some surprisingly effective moments of comic relief and some great contributions from the quirky cast Harry Carey Jr was shaping up into a fine actor like his pa and this is one of his better early roles Joanne Dru was disappointing in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon but she appears more at ease as a character with a bit of sass and is actually fairly good here Jane Darwell who won an Oscar in the John Forddirected Grapes of Wrath a decade earlier appears here with sole function of performing a running gag in which she sounds a feeble old horn Still with her great timing and movement she makes the piece work Francis Ford in one of the many mute drunkard roles he played in his little brothers pictures is at his cheeky bestbr br And now we come to lead man Ben Johnson Although he was by no means a bad actor he was never going to become a big star like John Wayne And yet with his effortless horsemanship and easygoing drawl he was one of the most authentically West players around And this brings me onto my final point This was apparently one of Fords personal favourites despite it seeming fairly unassuming Wagon Master has no grand theme or dramatic intensity it is simply the genre playing itself out I think this is what Ford loved about it Its a picture for the Ben Johnsons and the Harry Carey Jrs not the John Waynes or the Henry Fondas Small in scope but worthy in its class

I watched this film in a very strange way I had put it on my Netflix list and couldnt remember why other than that I knew Philip Seymour Hoffman was in it Since the film has no opening credits I couldnt even remember who had directed itbr br As my wife and I watched it I turned to her about 45 minutes in and said You know I keep wanting to decide that I hate this film but something about it just wont let me stop watching it Then theres a stretch of about half a dozen scenes in the middle of the movie that are truly electrifying in the actors performancesbr br It was only as the end credits rolled that I realized it was a Sidney Lumet film And I thought wow Im surprised that Lumet took on what was really a dirty petty little story about really mean broken people But its a testament to his talent that I was so taken in when I didnt even realize it was himbr br Philip Seymour Hoffman is really really good in this movie Like scary good Put this up against Capote and I would argue the Oscar should have been for this film insteadbr br I also highly recommend the narrative special feature with Lumet Hawke and Hoffman talking about making the movie its entertaining and educational with Hawke playing the student eager to learn at the masters feet Lumet definitely teaches you the first rule of working with actors kiss their asses constantlybr br There are a lot of violent melodramatic movies out there that are empty ciphers when all is said and done And there is an element of that in this film that the actors fill the air with sulphurous blasts of emotion and when the smoke clears theres nothing left Nothing resonates on a deeper levelbr br But Lumet has given us Network and Twelve Angry Men films that each in their own ways have been elevated into the highest echelons of cinemabr br This movie isnt at that level But theres something about it that lingers And maybe thats enoughbr br My final comment is about the comments if you look at the number of comments about this little movie here on IMDb and the depth and intelligence of the comments pro and con its a pretty good indication that something special is going on with this film

Dig I would say to anyone even if you dont like Metallica to see some kind of monster it is a spinal tap type documentary about one of the biggest bands in the world acting like mental kids during a breakdown of sorts Its fun and fascinating Along the same lines comes dig A film about the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown massacre two Portland bands who start off a kind of music scene in there home town only for one of the bands to become huge and one to fall by the wayside into the musical history books Right from the start the two bands pull in opposite directions just on their ability to make decisions whether good or bad Filmed over seven years and at times painful to watch we see the dandys meteoric rise to fame thanks to that vodaphone ad and the Jonestown seminal fall from scene instigators to bickering wannabes As the bands become more disjointed the friendships are stretched tension tight and at several points snap into arguments and even on stage fights All of this is half funny and half tragic and believe it or not is perversely watch able Like I said at the beginning you can watch the Metallica film even if you have no interest in the band Dig on the other hand is slightly different and is more enjoyable and a whole lot easier to watch if you have a passing interest in either band Still a good film and more a testament to not be in a band than encouraging that as a career path Dig Is a mad ride on rock and rolls coat tails and a fine example of the pitfalls and pleasures of being or wanting to be famous

I went to see this movie at the theater and paid money thinking it would be at least mildly entertaining The only thing I enjoyed about it was when Robin Williams crashes into the car at the bottom of the hill and the end when he seems to get killed Glenn Close was obnoxious and she obviously did not seem old enough to be Garps mother A mother like Garps would have had her kids taken away by the Department of Children and Families br br Robin Williams and his glazed donut look of benign goodness is just too sweet and smarmy for me He has two roles he can play Funny person or sad tragic goodhearted victim See the Fisher King Good Morning Vietnam and all of his socalled dramatic roles It is always the same performance Put them all together into one long miniseries Glenn Close is always a cold fish Remember Fatal Attraction Would you have an affair with her even on your worst day and if you were single Did you feel any sparks between her and Michael Douglas Have you ever seen Glenn Close warm up any screen John Lithgow had the only interesting role This was back in the day when he used to play serial killers and bad guys so seeing him as a transsexual was at least funny Garp is made for all those people who love to see movies about sick abnormal dysfunctional people and then claim it is beautiful and profound

A very hypedup slick edgy reinterpretationbr br Theyve fallen into the because its modern it has to be hypedup slick etc trapbr br Romeo and Juliet carried this idea off much more successfully but I really think its time we move beyond the two extremes here period piece vs edgy filmbr br Just because this is a modern retelling doesnt mean the movie has to look like a magazine ad or have anything to do with drugs or gunsbr br If the trappings were as subtle as the honeyed words Macbeth would be a far more powerful film As it is read your Shakespeare Read it out loud Ask your Oxford dictionary some questions Skip the film Or dont but youve been warnedbr br Sorry for the superlong review IMDb made me do it

Possable spoiler but probably not br br The game is called donkey kong but donkey kong is not even in itbr br anymore Diddy is gone aswellbr br The 1st Donkey Kong Country was one of my two all time favoritebr br Super Nintendo games The other being Super Mario Worldbr br The 2nd Donkey Kong at least had diddy kong and good levelsbr br although it felt more like a game based on pirates at timesbr br However this one is the worst of the lot It does not have the feel ofbr br the original or 2nd The enemys look stupid and the levels arebr br even worse It does not look realistic anymore I did not enjoy his game unlike the last two the first had greatbr br background music and the 2nd was not bad but the music in thisbr br game is horriblebr br It happens a lot these days that movies shows and sometimesbr br video games that start out fantastic end up with it being ruined bybr br a stupid sequel I am sad to say I feel that donkey kong as a saga is not as goodbr br now that it has Donkey Kong 3br br They should have left it at the original or MAYBE the 2nd one

I had some time to kill before watching football so I saw this movie being offered on the scifi channel and it literally after watching it I thought I had encountered my version of mentally walking the Bataan death march as my conscious was beaten into submission by the awful movie which ripped off the Mummy series and Jurassic Park It was so bad that I thought the opening credits were the highlight of the movie and then it went into such a abysmal descent that it made the recent drop in the stock market seem like a hiccup The acting was so bad that I was hoping that one and all would be buried at the end The lead by Casper Van Dien made me long for the high caliber acting of Steven Seagal in On Deadly Ground as his line reading was so wooden that Woody Woodpecker was thinking of making a cameo to sit on his shoulder I also noticed that his emotional range is so limited that I was under the impression my kitten was more expressive when asking for popcorn to eat The direction was so abysmal I looked back yearning to my nephews grade 3 play recital which had more pace and better vision and the fact that this movie seems to be have spliced together from afterthoughts of the aforementioned movie franchise it can not even be thought of as a homage The FX of the movie was so bad that I thought the director and producers were enviormentally friendly by recycling cheap special effects from grade Z horror flicks from yesteryear What Robert Wagner Tom Bosley and Geoffrey Lewis were doing in this movies is beyond me and they should look at litigation against their agents for misrepresentation for getting them involved with such a dreck of a movie My warning to one and all is watch this movie at your peril as this movie may cause your IQ to diminish with prolonged viewing On a side note I noticed at IMDb that sometimes salaries for movies are published I was wondering if their is a way that actors that should give the salaries back for their poor performances in such movies Beware and be safe avoid at all costs

Rock star John Norman Howard Kris Kristofferson turns lounge singer Esther Hoffman Barbra Streisand into an overnight singing star Esthers star rises while Johns goes into decline thanks to drugs and alcohol After about two hours John does the selfdestructiveredconverible160MPHcrackuponadeserthighway thing The best thing about this movie is the music especially the song Evergreen Barbra Streisand sings well but you cant take her seriously as an upandcoming star when she is already a star The very first time she appears singing in a back alley bar she looks like an established singing star who is slumming for the night not like a struggling unknown who is trying to launch her singing career She is too confident too professional Her apartment looks like a page out of Apartment Living not some holeinthewall apartment where a real struggling singer would livebr br Kris Kristofferson handles the selfcentered outofcontrol rock star role likewell like a singer who is trying to be an actor but doesnt have much acting talent The direction is tepid the story is slow and dullbr br But the worst thing about this movie is not the acting or the lame direction or the slow story Its the hair After staring at Kristoffersons and Streisands awful 70s hairdos for 2 hours your eyes hurt

A story of amazing disinterest kills The Psychic over and over again The characters and plot are completely uninteresting as is Fulcis mad camera work which is usually a redeeming factor in his films and any grasp of suspense is nowhere to be found Its padded out to an insufferable degreeby the end you wont be clamoring with excitement but stricken with boredom and like me maybe an uncontrollable urge to fall asleep Jennifer ONeills performance deserves occupancy in a better movie Fulci gorehounds bewaretheres just not much going on in The Psychicbr br 310

Kings and Queen is a bloated French drama that rambles on for an interminable two hours and thirtytwo minutes to no discernible point or purposebr br The film features two stories that seem unrelated at first but which eventually connect with one another about halfway through the movie The first centers around Nora and her struggles with various men in her life including an elderly father who discovers he has only a few days left to live The other story involves a young man named Ismael a violinist who finds himself placed unfairly he believes in a mental institution through the machinations of an unknown third party After traveling along on separate tracks for awhile these two narrative strands eventually come together when we learn that Ismael is a former lover of Noras and the man she has chosen to adopt her son from an earlier tragic relationshipbr br With a bit more focus and a considerable amount of streamlining Kings and Queen might have been a potent engrossing drama about modern day relationships It certainly has moments of tremendous insight and emotional power and the performances are for the most part complex and touching But taken as a whole the film meanders and maunders to such an extent that quite frankly it begins to wreak havoc on our patience and to wear out its welcome early on Even more distressing is the fact that even though we spend what seems like a mild eternity in the company of these people we really dont know quite what to make of any of them when the show is finally over For instance Noras father on his deathbed writes a withering diatribe against his daughters character that simply doesnt gibe with the woman weve been looking at for well over two hours Nora is admittedly no Mother Theresa then again who is but she certainly doesnt deserve the invective thrown at her by her very own father Nora could be accused of being confused indecisive a bit selfabsorbed at times but evil enough to have her father wishing he could give her his cancer and make her die in his place I dont think sobr br Perhaps this film is simply operating at a level of depth that I was unable to fathom But my suspicion is that even writer Roger Bohbot and cowriterdirector Arnaud Desplechin would have trouble fully explaining their purpose here This is a well acted pretentious bore of a film that takes the viewer on a long rambling voyage through a sea of personal crises a journey that leaves him no wiser or more enlightened at the end than he was at the beginning

Physical Evidence is one of those films that you want to like but really should be a lot better than it actually is Developed as a sequel to Jagged Edge for Glenn Close and Robert Loggia it gives the impression that all involved only made it while they were waiting for something better to come along The premise is perfectly serviceable its mostly technically efficient if horribly uninspired with even Henry Mancinis musacky score surprisingly pleasant but you cant help feeling that things would have turned out better if one of the leads had turned out to be the killer as is rumoured was originally the case As the opening scene of his littleseen personally disastrous Heat 1986 showed Reynolds has all the makings of a great screen villain As is there are few surprises and a feeling of halfhearted filming by numbers as it builds up a head of intertia as it ambles disinterestedly towards a less than grand willthisdo finalebr br Reynolds is fine sailing through on charisma in what is clearly a star vehicle Unfortunately the same cannot be said of Theresa Russell An impressive and fearless actress in husband Nic Roegs films which allow her to delve into the darker side of human nature shes trapped in a part that requires star quality rather than depth and she aint got it in spades She doesnt fluff her lines or bump into the other actors but thats about all that can be said in favour of her astonishingly stilted and often amateurish performance that lets the film down badly Aside from Ned Beattys prosecutor the supporting cast add only a slightly surreal presence in a Boston where everyone seems to have a badly disguised Canadian accent and the streets bear a startling resemblance to Toronto and Montrealbr br Likewise director Michael Crichton who in Westworld Coma and The First Great Train Robbery showed that he knew how to lean an audience to the edge of their seats seems to handle the action in a purely perfunctory fashion indeed in one brief chase the shots dont even match and seem thrown together almost arbitrarily The climax itself has no flair and is completely bereft of threat or danger and many scenes are played for far less than they are worth Its no great surprise that aside from uncredited reshoots on The 13th Warrior Crichton hasnt directed sincebr br Its watchable enough in an 80s TV movie sort of way even if it never lives up to the promise of its opening Whether thats enough of a reason to see it is down to individual taste

Amazing amazing amazing What more can be said Jacobi is the best Hamlet ever to grace the stage and captures every inch of the character Every nuance and element of Hamlet is depicted and depicted well Some people have complained about his age but you honestly cannot tell when watching the film If anything he looks drastically younger than 40 I only wish a more worthy Ophelia could have been found Her acting is passable but she just doesnt look the part The only real exceptional performances come from Jacobi and Stewart who is a great Claudius The rest of the cast is good but Jacobi is what truly elevates this teleplay

br br Giorgino is a strange dark obsessive object the casting is impressive the plot is powerful reminded me of Edgar Poes tales Probably not a masterpiece but it does leave us with the remembrance of strong images fine music fear sadness confusion and a sentence that says it all the wolves are coming GIORGINO is quite forgotten now and when it was released nobody seemed to appreciate it Thats a shame If you ever have a chance to see this well give it a try

Mulva is put in a sugercoma by Teen Ape When she awakens shes considerably hotter the parts played by Debbie Rochon in this sequel and out for revenge on those that did her wrong As the subtitle and box art implies this is indeed a take off on the Kill Bill films but this being a Chris Seavers film its a wildly incompetent satire and I use that last term extremely loosely Id love to say this is better than the first film but truth be told I was so impossibly drunk off my ass when I saw the previous film that I cant even hope to compare the two at this point in time But I must have enjoyed it since I bought the sequel see when Im drunk I like for lack of a better word complete and total crappy movies There are a few laugh out loud moments very few but I do remember Bonejack being funnier though Well at least at slightly over an hour it IS over mighty quickly for what its worthbr br My Grade D br br DVD Extras Audio commentary by Director Chris Seaver actress Debbie Rochon and the Lbp gang Second commentary by Seaver 31 minute Making of featurette Lloyd Kaufmans 6 minute tribute to low budget pictures Fake 2 minute syrup commercial stills gallery Promo trailer and trailers for Mulva Quest for the Egg Salad Fiilthy McNasty1 2 3 the Feral Man the Bonesetter Midnight Skater Demon Summer Splatter Rampage Wrestling

I dont know about the English version of this movie but the Norwegian translation is the funniest movie Ive seen in many years The characters say so many funny things and make so many weird references to current events that Im amazed they kept having more options like the architect who can never say the name of the wizard Miraculix correctly It becomes things like MalcomiX and utenriks which is Norwegian for foreign affairsbr br Like the word utenriks many of the translations does not give any meaning in English and probably not in French either so the translators must have made up their own jokes and done so very well Of course they have a very good base to build on with a film thats simply comical from beginning to endbr br Recommended in all languages with a good translation

Lucio Fulci was famous for his Italian splatter movies mostly his undead films like Zombie or The Beyond Here he directed a black comedy of sorts but theres just one problem its nauseating I say this knowing that I like City of the Walking Dead which is also gross but not like this A compulsive gambler gets money for his habit by romancing ugly and deformed rich women then murdering them and stealing their cash The film makes this plan look that easy I guess the women were too ugly to go to a bank so they always had their cash on person After the upteenth murder I began to suspect what Ive always heard about Fulci he hated women He must have At any rate this film stinks its not funny and Fulci should have stayed with giallo and supernatural zombie movies Avoid this film at all costs

This is one of those movies where you have to put to one side some of its obvious shortcomings a result of the date and location of its productionand accentuate the positive In many ways this is a truly superb filmbr br Forgive the parody in the one line summary but the most serious shortcoming for an English speaker like me was the ghastly subtitles The print I saw had 1982 Soviet Film Export subtitles which consistently used inverted grammar presumably to give the impression of 13th century speech The actual impact of this nonsense is to make it harder to follow the subtitles which means you spend less time looking at the images Given that the cinematographic imagery is this films great strength this is a real issuebr br Other IMDBniks have written plenty about the Stalinist propaganda elements of this film just in case the viewer doesnt notice them for himherself They have also written plenty about the battle on the ice scene which is superb in my view br br The love interest almost totally lacks subtlety and yet strangely almost totally lacks charm also But it is good to cringe every now and thenbr br I was familiar with the Prokofiev music to this film long before seeing the film The images and the music complement each other marvelously And it is the images that will stick in the mind for a long time Bergman clearly learned a lot from these images the imagery of his medieval pieces eg The Seventh Seal The Virgin Spring building upon and enhancing Eisensteins ideas This film was made in 1938 in the USSR In that context it is a masterpiece albeit a flawed one br br For the modern viewer I suggest that you go with the flow and enjoy the many treats on show

I am writing this review simply because I am a huge fan of the book Prozac Nation and was appalled by the filmbr br I think that if you hadnt read the book you would have been lost watching the film as it provided no real back story to Wurtzels depression There was no real mention of her childhood her relationship with her father her experiences at summer camp her first therapists in fact the film gives the impression that she has never been in therapy until Dr Sterling That said if you had read the book you would have been confused by the amount of editing that had taken placebr br I found the book to be a vivid portrayal of depression highlighting Wurtzels low points and the experiences she had along the way The film however began at Harvard and literally threw the audience straight in with no real explanation of what was going onbr br Events that in the book were important such as Wurtzels miscarriage her summer working in Dallas her suicide attempt whilst on Prozac were omitted from the filmbr br Also this is pedantic but Wurtzel did not lose her virginity to Noah The suicide attempt that was shown in Sterlings office was completely different to the book For a start she actually overdosed on Mellaril as opposed to the parasuicidal gesture shown in the filmbr br All in all I would say that if you have read the book and enjoyed itidentified with it then dont watch the film Read More Now Again by the same author instead Or watch Girl Interruptedbr br The only redeeming feature was the performance by Anne Heche who I believe portrayed Dr Sterling very well Christina Ricci was also good though her performance seemed a little stilted Jessica Lange made for enjoyable viewing but looked the opposite of how Wurtzels mother is described in the bookbr br Conclusion Dont bother

i watched it because my friend said we could try it when my father asked if wed watch it i didnt want to because it was such an old film how could that be good i finally did watch with that friend and my father my friend and i loved the film the songs are great the actors were cool and we were crazy about it i guess this shows even though its from dads time that doesnt mean it cant be a good film i bought the film not so long after seeing it on TV i put it on a lot and sang along with the songs i even watched it with my classmates on my birthday party its a nice good and sometimes funny filmbr br if you dont try you cant say its bad even if you think no im not going to watch a film from dads time try the first part of the film you can always stop watching if you dont like it i really recommend it its great

I enjoy all the versions of this story but this one is my all time favorite George CScott gives a depth to the Scrooge character that the others do not give The movie shows more about why he becomes so bitter The changes in Scrooge appear gradually as he encounters the different ghosts and the incidents that they show him br br This movie has the best Tiny Tim by far He is the right age rather than being played by someone who is almost a teenager as in the other films Anthony Walters still has all or most of his baby teeth br br David Warner is wonderful as Bob Cratchit He is such a versatile actor He portrays a man who clearly loves his family He plays the role with dignity neither as a wimpy man cowering under Scroogesthumb but as a man who gracefully puts up with it because he has a family to provide for Susannah York and the other actors do a fine job of bringing the characters to life Edward Woodward is the best Ghost of Christmas Present Ive ever seen Most often he is played as a jolly Santa type character In this he shows anger at Scrooges attitudes and really makes Scrooge reconsider br br The costumes and the sets really bring the London of Dickens time to life A wonderful movie

This was a great movie with a good cast all of them hitting on all cylinders And when Dianne Keaton is at her best well it just doesnt get any better than that But Tom Everett Scott always underrated was even better He should be a star br br My only complaint is with one aspect of the screenplay None of the characters ever acknowledged that the dead daughter wasnt always a good person And neither was her mother played by Keaton At one point she breaks a promise she made to one character not to reveal that he had been sleeping around br br One of the other commentators said the movie had a political agenda That is a baffling thing to say There was no politics at all in this movie

This is not an entirely bad movie The plot new house built next door seems to be haunted is not bad the mood is creepy enough and the acting is okay The big problem I had is that being familiar with Lara Flynn Boyle from Twin Peaks and other shows I couldnt get over how different she looks with her apparently new big lips I kept staring at them They look so out of place on her face They make her look completely different and not betterbr br MarkPaul Gosselaar the actor who plays Kim the architect who designs and pours his heart and soul into the house does a fine job And Lara as Col is also quite good but those lips as the owner of the house next door Her husband Walker Colin Ferguson is appropriately wooden The various characters who live in the house were also fine I particularly liked Pie Charlotte Sullivan and her husband Buddy Stephen Amell the first people to move into the house The attempt to involve us in the overall neighborhood vibe fails unfortunately as the other neighbors are not particularly likablebr br For some reason the director was unable to make the haunted house particularly ominous Other movies such as Amityville Horror The Legend of Hell House manage to achieve that spooky feel but it just doesnt happen here The closest is when Col paints a depiction of the housebr br Another thing that didnt work for me is the plot twist that occurs with Kim the architect Initially he appears to be a victim of the house like the others it has sucked him dry of inspiration but later he seems to have joined forces with it in evilbr br Overall not a bad movie for horror fans if you can take your eyes off those big lips

SPOILERS This movie called EATEN ALIVE here in the UK is quite possibly the worst film ever made and is brilliant just for that A sexy rich girl teams up with a rugged action man to search for her sister in the New Guinea jungle What follows is an unspeakably crap mixture of cannibalism insane cults and religious maniacs that has to be seen to be believed The cannibalism scenes are quite horrific but are so badly staged and acted that they prove quite amusing The cast are awful except for Janet Agren as the female lead who is excellent Look out for the scene where she is stripped naked and covered with gold paint My rating 1 out of 10

Karen Sarah Michelle Gellar an exchange student in Japan who is just beginning to do some social work is sent to aid an elderly semicatatonic woman Emma Grace Zabriskie after her previous caretaker Yoko Yoko Maki disappears Karen soon learns that something is not right in Emmas home and she attempts to see how deep the rabbit hole goesbr br Maybe its a delayed influence from the success of M Night Shyamalans films but slowerpaced understated horror films are a recent trend In some cases such as Hide and Seek 2005 the approach works remarkably well and in others such as White Noise 2005 the pacing tends to kill the film I didnt like The Grudge quite as much as Hide and Seek but this is still a very good filmit earns a 9 out of 10 from mebr br The Grudge has a couple significant differences from other recent examples of that trend however One it is well known that this is a remake based on the Japanese film series that began with JuOn 2000 in particular its extremely close to the first half of JuOn The Grudge aka JuOn 3 from 2003 Two as with many Japanese horror films the slower pacing here isnt so much in the realm of realist drama as with surrealism As is also the case with a large percentage of European horror The Grudge should be looked at more as a filmed nightmarebr br Director Takashi Shimizu also the director of the five Japanese entries in the JuOn series to date the fifth is currently in production and writer Stephen Susco have largely dispensed with linearity and are not overly concerned with logic or plot holes when it comes to the horror behind the story The idea instead is to present a dreamlike sequence of scenes with dream logic where the focus is atmosphere creepiness the uncanny and for many viewersscares How well the film works for you will largely depend on how well you can adapt yourself to or are used to this different approach to filmmaking although admittedly some of the seeming gaps are filled in by previous entries in the JuOn series Traditionally American audiences consider as flaws leaving plot threads hanging and abandoning rules for the monster A more poetic metaphorical surreal approach to film isnt yet accepted by the mainstream in the USbr br However even if youre not used to it its worth trying to suspend your normal preconceptions about films and give The Grudge a shot This is a well written well directed well acted film filled with unusual properties such as the story interweaving a large number of main characters which is done better here than the more episodic JuOn 3 good cinematography subtle production design touches check out Gellars clothes which match the color and texture of the exterior of Emmas house when Gellar first approaches and beautifully effective horror materialbr br Even though it is more slowly paced that your average horror film of the past the pacing usually enhances the eeriness and there is no shortage of bizarre events to keep horror fans entertained The supernatural premise of the film is absorbing and based on interviews on the DVD with Shimizu have prodded me to pay more attention to Japanese beliefs and folklore Although the most interesting subtexts would probably arise with a more intimate knowledge of Japanese culture its interesting to ponder why so many Japanese horror films feature scary children and adults who look like scary childrenbr br I subtracted one point for the film slightly veering into clichd mysterythriller territory with a heres what really happened flashback but even that was fairly well done and otherwise this would have been a 10 out of 10br br Now that Ive said all of the above let me finish with a minirant Its not that Im antiremake but it is ridiculous that US distributors and studios feel that we need remakes of foreign films to make them appropriate for consumption The original versions of these films should just be playing in US theaters in wide release There is no need to present an almost identical film but just substituting white American actors for nonwhite or foreign actors Yes The Grudge is a fine film but ultimately Id rather see something original using this talent and be treated to the latest foreign horror filmsnot just Japanese but also Indian Spanish Chinese etcat my multiplex In the hope that someone with some pull at the studios reads this it is also more costeffective to do this as 1 you can completely avoid production costs and simply make domestic distribution deals from which you receive profit and 2 you can make money off of fans like myself who otherwise pick up the foreign film DVDs in foreign manufactured or even bootleg versions

In Brooklyn a century ago the rivalry between Chuck Connors and Steve Brodie and their competing volunteer fire brigades leads to Brodies famous bet that he can jump off the Brooklyn Bridge This is a story which will be familiar to a lot of people through a Bugs Bunny spoof Bowery Bugs from 1949br br This generally very enjoyable film would probably be more widely available if it were not for the notorious and unsettling scene involving some Chinese tenement dwellers a time capsule of antediluvian racial attitudes giving the film a great deal of historical interest in my view

This is one the few movies I can watch over and over If youve never seen it give it a shot Richard Dreyfus and Raoul Julia are wonderful together and although the movie amuses me greatly it reminds me of Julias untimely demise It is a good opportunity to sit back and laugh at the international intrigue that is too much with us in these time of terror and fear

First of all this is an art film and a good one at that I loved the presentation and way it was shot Very cool Certain scenes were some of the more graphic horror sequences Ive ever seen This film did scare me not because of suspense or shock but because I was deathly afraid that Id soon see something REALLY appalling That did happen in a few places but mostly at the beginning This film also dragged and the 74 minutes seemed long However if youre into film you have to see this To date Ive seen nothing like it 810

I was dragged to this movie about four years ago by a French actress friend of minebr br For the first half hour I was sitting in my uncomfortable seat at the New Beverly theater in Hollywood hating this film hating myself and even hating the French actress And thenbr br I dont know what happened but I was pulled into the film in a way that I hadnt been in years And this was despite the fact that one of the projectors broke and they had to do each changeover by hand I was in the theater for close to four hours but it was worth it br br I believe that great movies pull you inside a world make you a part of it and then drop you off to talk about with your friends over coffee or a drink This film did that It was one of the best filmgoing experiences I have ever hadbr br br br

I enjoyed watching Cliffhanger at the beginning when that woman Sarah was full of terror when she was slipping i thought that was a terrifying scene as i would think that when you see that see your nerves in your body get to you because it makes you get full of fright and your heart beats faster I did like watching Cliffhanger i think Silvestar Stallone is a great actor and i think hell be known as playing Rambo and Rocky

I saw this film after watching Capote and Infamous It is just incredible how the homosexual relationships between author and protagonists are sublimated in the movie The reporter is straight the protagonists are more beatniks than gaybr br The film starts slowly but on reviewing it a second time we get all sorts of interesting information from similes that the writerdirector Brooks createsbr br Notice the incredible cutting at the beginning where killers and tobekilled are linked Cutter on the phone is matchedcut to Perry on the phone Cutter washing his face is matchedcut to Perry washing his face Only Perrys looking in the mirror and seeing his eroticized male body sets off a fantasy of his playing a guitar in Las Vegas to empty chairs This failurefantasy matches the failurefantasy that Perry tells us about his father who built a beautiful motel in Alaska only to find it perpetually emptybr br Dick talks about shooting pheasants and the fact that the pheasants dont know that that theyre going to die we cut to the Cluttersbr br Perry talks his dream about a yellow bird Taller than Jesus who attacks the Nuns who have persecuted them The Nuns begged for mercy he tells us But the bird slaughtered them anyway The bird lifted Perry to paradise Strangely Perry says that he has an aversion to Nuns God and Religion This echoes later in his last words when he wants to apologize but does not know to whombr br The director puts in all sorts of whatifs and onlyifsbr br Nancy Cutter gets an offer to sleep at a friends house She is holding a horse Perry will comment on a picture of her and the house later on Nancy cant sleep over at her friends house because her boyfriend is coming over for dinner The decision seals her fatebr br Perry talks of Bogart in Treasure of Sierra Madre But it is another Bogart picture Beat the Devil which Truman Capote cowrote where a fictional treasure hunt is the McGuffin But Dick knows that the protagonists of that film ended up with nothing Dick wants the hard cash the 10000 he thinks is in the Clutters safe which ironically turns out to be as much as a fantasy as Perrys Mexican Treasurebr br Cut to Herb Clutter signing a 40000 life insurance policy Hes thinking about mortality at the moment Ironically his mortality is about to end in a few hours The insurance agent on behalf of the company wishes him a long life again ironic when we know what will happen in a few hoursbr br Dick has said that they wanted no witnesses so nobody would remember them Later in fact it is because they eliminated all the witnesses that they were rememberedbr br There was one witness the detective keeps telling Dick later But was that witness the jailhouse friend Dick Perry Truman Capote or God The viewer becomes the witness after watching the moviebr br Fascinating film

watch a team of bomb disposal experts in Iraq count down their time before they can go homebr br That in itself sounds boring Every time that little caption came up telling us how long they had left it just caused this film with no plot to drag on and on hurry up and finish your time there so we can all go homebr br I must be missing something Im a great fan of war films if they are done well This had jarhead syndrome A film that at times was beautifully shot but cinematography doesnt stop it from being totally dull and pointlessbr br And get over the slow mo cartridges coming out of the gun shot already they could have saved money and just got stock footage from any other film with a gun in itbr br I didnt have any empathy for the main guy in it i was constantly hoping that his recklessness would cause him to die In fact the film would have worked much better if he hadbr br I read some reviews and seemed to get the feeling that those who had been in the armed forces disliked it and everyone else loved it I have never been in the forces and Im with them Its pretentious drivel the 3 stars are for the cinematography

This was a very enjoyable film A humorous but poignant look at family and the obligations that come with it The story of a man who comes home from his life in the city to his fathers bath house in a small Chinese village There he learns to appreciate even cherish the very things he left home to get away from The film is as visually beautiful as it is emotionally beautiful

Robin Hood Men in Tights has received no respect whatsoever It was hilarious Cary Elwes was excellent as the Prince of Thieves and David Chappelle Amy Yasbeck Patrick Stewart Richard Lewis and Mark Blankfield as Blinkin all did fine jobs I will never understand the hostility toward Robin Hood Men in Tights but I do know a great comedy when I see onebr br Robin Hood Men in Tights receives out of

The play Bell Book and Candle was a favorite of mature actresses to do in summer stock and take on the road One famous story told by director Harold J Kennedy has Ginger Rogers insisting that her then husband William Marshall who was not an actor costar with her Marshall wore a toupee and when he walked through a doorway his toupee caught on a nail and stayed behind dangling in the doorway as he walked on stagebr br The play was adapted successfully into a beautiful color film starring Kim Novak James Stewart Jack Lemmon Elsa Lanchester Hermoine Gingold Ernie Kovacs and Janice Rule Its light entertainment about a normalappearing family of witches Novak Lemmon and Lanchester and the publisher Stewart who lives in their building The most expert of them is the sultry softvoiced Gillian who would love to be normal One night with Stewart in her apartment she puts a spell on him using her Siamese cat Pyewacket and he falls in love with herbr br Bell Book and Candle was filmed on a charming set that replicates New York The movie is loads of fun Jack Lemmon is very funny in a supporting role as Gillians brother a musician in the witch and warlockladen Zodiac Club He uses his powers to turn streetlights on and off and to turn on the occasional woman Janice Rule is perfect as the snobby excollege rival of Gillian now dating Stewart and Ernie Kovacs has a great turn as an eccentric who is writing the definitive book on witches Lanchester and Gingold of course are always wonderful Lanchester Gillians daft aunt and Gingold as a sort of queen of witchcraftbr br Kim Novak is a good fit for Gillian giving the character a detachment befitting a witch showing emotion when it becomes appropriate and with that voice fabulous face and magnificent wardrobe she certainly is magical Stewart in his last foray as a romantic lead costars with Novak as he did in Vertigo and they make an effective team He supplies the warmth she supplies the coolness and somehow together they spark In this of course hes much more elegant than in Vertigo A charming film good for a Sunday afternoon good around Christmas as part of it takes place at Christmastime and great if you feel like smiling

First of all in defense of JOAN FONTAINE it must be said that Ginger Rogers would have been terribly miscast as Alyce the young British lady who has the title role Fontaine makes a fetching picture as the heroine here but her acting inexperience shows badly and her dancing is better left unmentioned Fortunately she went on to better thingsbr br But here its FRED ASTAIRE GEORGE BURNS and GRACIE ALLEN who get the top billingand they are excellent Fans of Burns Allen will be surprised at how easily they fit into Astaires dance routines Especially interesting is the big fun house routine that won choreographer Hermes Pans an Oscar They join Astaire in what has to be the films most inventive highlightbr br Unfortunately not much can be said for the slow pacing of the storynor some of the stale situations which call for a lot of patience from the viewer It must be said that some of the humor falls flat and the usual romantic misunderstandings that occur in any Fred Astaire film of this period are given conventional treatment Only the musical interludes give the story the lift it needsbr br Some pleasant Gershwin tunes pop up once in awhile but not all of them get the treatment they deserve The nice supporting cast includes Reginald Gardiner at his best in a polished comic performance as a conniving servant Constance Collier and Montagu Love as Joans father mistaken as a gardener by Astairebr br Its a lighthearted romp whenever Burns Allen are around to remind us how funny they were in their radio and television days Both of them are surprisingly adept in keeping up with Astaires footworkbr br Director George Stevens makes sure that Joan Fontaines hillside dance number with Fred is filmed at a discreet distance but clever camerawork cannot disguise the fact that she is out of her element as Astaires dance partner something she seems painfully aware of

A very bad film an amalgam of clichs and historical inaccuracies A few examples in an early scene Soviet infantry are attacked by the Germans instead of staying in their trenches to shoot at them they advance into open ground to fight themcontrary to all infantry tactics Kate one of the central characters is supposedly the daughter of a White Russian and obsessed with her Russianness yet she does not speak Russian a guiltstricken German airman attacks an antiaircraft gun the gun however does not fire shrapnel shells but scores a direct hit on his plane which doesnt look much like a German plane of WWII In fairness when they could escape the preposterous plot and the consequent absurdities there are some genuinely powerful moments the depiction of people slowly starving to death is convincingly done and moving but these only show up the rest of it even more A film to be avoided

I admit that for the first 20 minutes or so of this film I wasnt entirely sure I was going to sit through the whole thing Like many other people I found it pretty boring and I wasnt entirely looking forward to an hour and a half of watching this guy bite icicles and stick them together However if you sit through the creation of his first work long enough to see the finished product you get an idea of how impressive the rest of the film is I really think its sad that so many people found this impossibly boring or a retread of ideas done by other artists br br Rivers and Tides is a quiet study of some of the artwork and methods of Andy Goldsworthy who makes his art entirely out of things in nature generally resulting in pieces that will be consumed by nature through the normal process of entropy It is slow moving and unglamorous but I think that a lot of the point of the movie is to show that Goldsworthys art does not need any accompaniment in order for it to be appreciated Ive even heard people complain about how he is always talking throughout the movie rather than just letting nature and his artwork speak for themselves which I just think is madnessbr br On the other hand lots of people complain about CDs coming with the lyrics written out inside them A lot of musicians as well think their music should mean whatever the listener wants it to mean without the musician showing the exact lyrics I guess Im just the kind of person that believes that Id like to know what the artist was trying to accomplish with his or her artwork I can still take it how I want to even if I know what it was meant to do I can understand not wanting to hear him talk through the movie He does after all lose his train of thought and find himself unable to explain some of his work at more than one occasion but if you dont want Goldsworthy talk about his art while youre watching the film feel free to turn the sound off Thats like not reading the lyrics if you dont want to know what a musician is singing and would rather interpret the words yourselfbr br I think that Andy Goldsworthys work which I had no idea existed before I watched this movie is incredibly impressive and Im glad that this film was made in order to showcase it Indeed since his work is generally not the kind that can be transported into a studio photography is the only medium other than film that can express it and I really appreciated being able to see the work that goes into his art and the way that only things from nature are used Whether or not you appreciate certain aspects of how this film is presented Goldsworthys work is moving enough to overlook that because the film is not the star Goldsworthys art is And given the lack of any music or even the smallest special effects and the slowmoving nature of the film it seems to me that director Thomas Riedelsheimer knows that

I have never posted a review before but I had to do it for this film This film is SO bad I found myself trying to justify how bad it is by trying to think of it as kitsch or parody But it ISNT It is truly unselfconsciously BAD This is a serious attempt that flops gloriously Other reviewers have pointed out the films many flaws so Ill try not to repeat these but I do urge you to see this film Throughout it I was either speechless literally gasping with disbelief or rolling on the floor in hysterics I havent had so much fun watching a film in years In fact Im going to try to get all my friends to see it because its the kind of movie that needs to be sharedbr br My favorite parts When Arthur auditions to be a gogo boy his dancing is unbelievable The gratuitous nudity the directorleading actor just had to get a nude shot in The preachers office with its cardboard and crayon rendition of Christ Of course the famous wedding scene with the palm trees and the forgotten rings what narrative function does this play The exwifes wrestling match with Ben to get possession of her gun The detailed sequence wherein Arthur kills the preacher he apparently burns him up with this incredibly measly match Yes the gay religiousfanatic brother with his bleached hair and WeHo fashions And my favorite the use of Joplins The Entertainer as the opening soundtrack and Pachebels Canon in D Major as the closing soundtrack the list goes on and on a MUST SEE

This is a sad movie about this woman who thought her ex who she loved so much was probably dead but really his scientist dad had just put a spell on him to turn him into this really cute sharkguy Kind of like in Beauty and the Beast It could probably use a ballroom dance scene and maybe some singing candlesticks but there are some pretty gross plants instead They make this one girl really itchy so she lets herself get eaten by the sharkguy instead of scratching through the whole movie The scientist guy is a good dad who tries to reunite his fishy shark son with the woman he was engaged to he even arranges for them to have private time for sex but the woman in this is a really shallow snob and thinks the sharkguy is an ugly icky monster and wants nothing to do with him She gave up on love Just because he was a shark I thought it was pretty sad how all she had to do was kiss him and hed turn back to normal and theyd live happily ever after but its not that kind of movie

There have been many film and TV productions of Jane Eyre each with aspects to recommend them but I suspect this is the one that people will still be discovering and falling in love with decades from now Its just a classic and offers much more of the story than others do Timothy Dalton is utterly in his element as Rochester rarely missing the mark his performance is astonishingly nimble and manycolored while never straying too far from the dark complexities of the character Zelah Clarkes Jane is more cerebral than otherworldly but she makes a perfect foil for Dalton who appropriately towers over her The nuances of her performance come through better on a second viewing once youve absorbed the shock of Daltons charisma There are some technical faults and a couple of moments where the production values could have been better though this pretty much was a topoftheline production by the BBCs standards of that time But its the performances that are the real pleasure Dont miss this one

This is indeed the film that popularized kung fu in the 1970s However if it ever had any kind of excitement or even halfway interesting plot it doesnt seem to have aged very wellbr br Long story short extremely drawn out slowmoving confusing plot with runofthemill choreography typically annoying and exaggerated whiplash sounds with every punch and kick and constant plot twists that never come to an end By the time the film reaches its emotional climax I had long had all the wind knocked out of me to actually carebr br Watch it for its historical value as a milestone of Chinese kung fu cinema just leave your expectations at the door or youll be bitterly disappointedbr br For hardcore fans only

I have only seen this movie once when I was about 14 years old but I was thrilled that they made a movie about the 45th Division Being from Oklahoma and especially now that both of my sons are members of the 45th I would like to see it released on a DVD I may sound a little bias but the 45th Division sometimes does not get the recognition it deserves today The History channel always talks about the other infantry divisions when it talks about WW2 and Korea but you rarely hear it mention the 45th One of the scene that really stood out for me was when the had the Indian Code Talkers at work and the puzzled look on the German soldiers faces when they could not understand this language I am glad that all of the Native American Code Talkers are getting the recognition they deserve

Hellraiser Bloodline is only a soso film I believe its the fourth installment in the Hellraiser seriesbr br I missed the beginning and all I remember from there was some topless women and a boxshape thing on a computer screen But using my wit and intelligence and the Info Button I soon found out that the villain Pinhead was released from Pandoras Box which I believe is a gateway straight to Hellbr br So anyways Pinhead somehow comes out of the box and terrorizes the Toymakers family And thats about it Oh and not to mention the random tortures of various people that cross his path Yawnbr br What mainly happens in this film is that Pinhead captures the kid and then unleashes the dog on his wife and then kills a random person Then he husband comes along blah blah blah Who cares Why it fails is because Hellraiser Bloodline is too corny to be scary Look at Pinheads minion of creatures a cheesy dog that looks like its been turned inside out two men whose heads and bodies are connected together Siamese twins in a horror film and some person who is supposed to be a princess of some sort I havent seen the previous films Now look at the main villain His name is Pinhead Isnt that the name you call somebody when theyre stupid He has pins in his head and hooks coming out of his fingers and he has blue skin I suppose he would make a decent villain if he didnt have such a corny name and a corny speech Somewhere in the film two cops approach him and say Dont make us put some pain on you Pinhead replies Pain How dare you use that word I AM pain… blah blah blah blah blah It sounds a bit clich if you ask mebr br Dont forget the final half of the movie The characters and audience get to experience more torture when Pinhead attacks some futuristic asylum Some person who we dont recognize Maybe he was in the previous films I dont remember him in the beginning of the movie This scene is basically one thing played over and over again br br A guard goes to inspect a mysterious noisebr br Some other guard Oh no Hes down I will go check on him…by myselfbr br After he dies the same thing happens againbr br SPOILERS Heres the thing I didnt get In the film Pinhead is supposedly sent to Oblivion at the end So how does he come back for another four films Are they prequels Why hasnt he died in the previous ones Geez The makers need to come up with an idea for a different series END OF SPOILERS Hellraiser Bloodline is gory and full of torture scenes but has little thrill or scare value Just forget it Bad special effects with bad…everything else make this more of a snoozefest than a good horrorbr br Good Well…some people may enjoy the topless women in the beginning Plus Pinheads voice is pretty cool I suppose if you like ultraviolence you might like this toobr br Bad None of the reasons above make this a very good film The corniness and repetitiveness are pretty bad And who names their villain Pinheadbr br Feel free to send me a Private Message regarding this comment

Starring Kelsey Grammar Rob Schneider Lauren Holly Rip Torn This movie is a classic family favorite At least for most members of my family that is One of us rolls our eyes at the mention of this movie and thinks What a stupid movie Im not that person though I still find this movie highly amusing I just watched it again last night with someone who had never seen it and I laughed just as hard as the first time I watched it Its still very funny to mebr br Naval Captain Tom Dodge Grammar is a bit of a black sheep in the navy Hes the kind of guy who will play golf while on a sub cracking a ball onto a golf course while they sail past it Hes the kind of guy who will get drunk pass out and wake up with a hangover and a tattoo on his dongle Hes not the kind of guy that everybody wants to be commanding a subbr br But Dodge is at the end of the line Hes put in applications to get command of his own sub several times and if he doesnt get a sub this time hes headed for a desk job meaning thats it for naval life The Admiralty decide to give him his own boat but they dont give him a new nuclear sub They give him a diesel sub an ancient relic from World War II His mission is to clean her up and take her out on the Atlantic for a war gamebr br Dodge is obviously a little bit frustrated to have such a crappy boat given to him when hes worked so hard to get to the point that hes at so he goes and talks to Admiral Winslow Torn about it Winslow explains the purpose of the war game Diesel subs are still being sold out there in the real world to countries like Iran Iraq and Libya to name a few Winslow wants to know what would happen if some renegade captain in a diesel sub came to the States and tried to smuggle a nuclear warhead into one of the bases Would they make it Dodge and most of the Admiralty dont think so but Winslow wants to know for sure hence why he has devised this war game Dodges mission is to take the Stingray out to sea then try to evade the US nuclear navy and blow up the American naval bases In simulated battle of coursebr br So thats about as deep as the plot gets This is not a plot driven movie Its a stupid movie that is just a big gag It makes fun of itself and you are not expected to take it seriously If youre looking for good dumb laughs on a Friday night Id urge you to check it outbr br Bottom Line 3 out of 4 worth a look

Tumbling Doll of Flesh aka Niku daruma and Psycho The Snuff Reels This was on my want list for quite a while and then I finally scored a copy on Ebay a while back Its never been on DVD and what I got from Ebay was a very good quality DVDR which Im quite satisfied with The movie is I believe the most extreme example of torture porn with an emphasis on porn A woman responds to an ad for a porn movie and goes with the producer to a place where it is filmed The porn is definitely real with the annoying Japanese pixelation to try and hide the hardcore shots without much success most of the time After the porn movie is shot and the actress is ready to leave she gets clubbed over the head with a baseball bat and taken back to the room and savagely dismembered in slow shots and in one of the most disgusting scenes the male porn guy screws her in an open wound in her chest This is after both legs have been severed her arm and a few other niceities This movie outdoes the Guinea Pig series by a long shot in fact they are not even close to the realism although cheap gore effects shown in this movie This is indeed one of the best fake snuff films I have ever seen if not the best Now I must warn you that if you are not into this stuff you should stay far far away This movie is very strong and with the real sex it is in a very sick way erotic to an extent And I mean in a very sick way But wherever you come down on this subject material this movie brings the goods home and I would definitely recommend you seek it out After reading about the movie I was expecting something very strong but it exceeded that by a bunch

I must first mention that as a group of mates we often find entertainment in wacthing films which are known to be terrible for comedy value hence our rental of Camp Bloodbr br Camp Blood was the first film which wed rented that had been shot on what looks to be a camcorder and was so rubbish it wanst even funnybr br The DVD was returned and a refund was demanded with the added suggestion some sort of quality control is implemented to prevent such utter rubbish being stockedbr br Dont do what I did and let the curiosity get the better of you its so bad its not even funny

Bad script Check Awful effects Check Horrible actors Check Lame direction Checkbr br After seeing the DVD box at blockbuster video and being a fan of the horror genre I placed my 428 on the line and rented this film My girlfriend was out of town and I was bored so on a late Tuesday night I decided this would be a perfect time for me to watch what appeared to be based on the box cover art a horror movie What I got instead was the worst film ever made Up until that point I had always declared Slumber Party Massacre 3 the worst film ever madebr br If you are the type that wants to see a movie because you heard how bad it is this is for you If you dont want to lose 400 and 80 irreplaceable minutes of your life steer clear of this garbagebr br An added note I noticed a few of the actors come on here and post comments on the bulletin board How can you brag about being in this film You were all horrible I mean really bad If there was an American Idol for actors you all would be laughed at in the first few episodesbr br Peacebr br Sutter Cain

Ive seen this movie more than once and its worth it For those of you who like martial arts and overcoming internal conflict this is a worthy choice After seeing this movie I wanted to be a more productive member of society because I could relate to the inner turmoil of a girl looking for acceptance and needing a path to follow Of course Mr Miyagi always provides his sage advice 2 thumbs up

Recycled and predictable plot The characters are as memorable as the story line We came in few minutes late and only saw the end of the opening scene which turned out to be a good thing since it was too intense for a 3 and a 4 year old Overall a disappointment

Many of the lead characters in Hideo Goshas 1969 film Hitokiri manslayer aka Tenchu heavens punishment were actual historical figures in western nameorder format Ryoma Sakamoto Hampeita Takechi Shimbei Tanaka Izo Okada ____ Anenokoji The name Hitokiri a historical term refers to a group of four superswordsmen who carried out numerous assassinations of key figures in the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate in the mid1800s under the orders of Takechi the leader of the Loyalist ie ultranationalist proEmperor faction of the Tosa clan What was this struggle about Sad to say you wont find out in this film Brilliant History Lesson indeedbr br No Gosha is much more interested in showing you the usual bloody slicing and dicing and at absurd length the inner torment of the notverybright killer Izo Okada than in revealing actual history Sakamoto for example was someone of historical significance considered to be the father of the Imperial Japanese Navy The closest Gosha comes to providing a history lesson is the scene in which Sakamoto whom Takechi considers a traitor to the Loyalist cause comes to Takechis mansion to try to sway him ideologically He begins by talking about the international political situation with foreign warships in Japans ports and a Japan that is too weak militarily to defend against them Want to know more Sorry Gosha cuts off this potentially fascinating lecture in mid sentence So much for informing his audience about a turning point in Japanese historybr br The film left me in utter confusion about the aims of the two sides in this struggle For the two and a half centuries that the Shogunate held central power in Japan it was an institution dedicated to preventing social change to preserving the feudal relations of society It was fearful of outside contamination both ideological and technological In keeping with this spirit it outlawed firearms those instruments of leveling in Europe and the Americas with which a peasant could have stood up to a samurai Throughout this period the Emperor was nothing more than a spiritual figureheadbr br But in the towns which stood in neutral zones between the feudal fiefdoms a new class of merchants landlords and craftsmen was developing the class known in Europe by its French name the bourgeoisie Inevitably as this new class gained strength it chafed against the many confines of feudal society As in Europe the king Emperor became the central figure in the bourgeoisies struggle for power against the feudal aristocracy But a political leadership does not always fully understand the interests of the class it serves When the outside world arrived with a bang in 1853 in the form of US Admiral Perrys Black Ships the ruling elite of Japan was thrown into a crisis Their military was no match for these foreigners Also they had heard about the havoc the British and French imperialists were wreaking in China What should Japan do to save itself from the fate of its weak neighbor Surprisingly some elements within the usually isolationist Shogunate were inclined to open trade with the foreigners in order to obtain some of their advanced technology This is the point of view represented just barely in the film by Sakamoto On the other hand the Emperorloyal ultranationalists represented by Takechi believed they could keep out the foreigners by force if only they could prevent the other faction from selling out the country Sound familiar Thus the assassination of key Shogunate figures is in order and away we gobr br Takechis motivations were for me the films biggest puzzle Gosha suggests that he is fighting mainly for his personal advancement rather than for the Loyalist cause Can we take this to represent the tenor of the Loyalists as a whole Do you carebr br Several reviewers have compared this film favorably with Goyokin which Gosha made in the same year But where Goyokin is a crackling suspenseful adventure yarn with a hero worthy of sympathy Hitokiri is plodding nowhere near as compelling and lacks such a hero Sakamoto could have been this films hero but we are not allowed to know him nor what he stands for well enough for him to achieve that statusbr br In view of his wonderful scores for five previous Kurosawa films Masaru Satos score here was very disappointing sounding like something rejected from a Bonanza episodebr br Barry Freed

First of all let me make it clear This movie is a real piece of garbage but although it is a real piece of garbage it is an better piece of garbage than it could have been It could have sucked bigtime but it doesntbr br What this movie didnt have was for example scary moments good acting and a good script It wasnt very entertaining either But the movie had cool music fancy locations and hot girls It also works great as a Dracula spoof hope it was meant that way although I really dont think sobr br The story focuses on three girls in Transylvania awaking an ancient vampire which then terrorizes and kills the girls one by one Sounds familiar Yes so it doesbr br After reading through this you may think that I should have given it a better vote The reason I dont is because I almost felt asleep at some points

This movie had so much potential Anyone who followed the story of Jeffrey knows that there are so many details overlooked in this movie its ridiculous Too much time and effort was spent in the movie on Dahmers homosexual tendencies and his alcohol consumption Where was the character development The origins of any villain are always interesting and Dahmer was no exception Where in the movie does it address his adolescence when he began killing and mutilating small animals Instead we are giving a dizzying array of flashbacks that seek to explain the origin of the killer but fail to address the major point in Dahmers development Also the reason why the country became so intrigued with this story was the details how he stored the bodies in his apartment and the lengths and measures he went to to accomplish this his cannibalism and his desire for flesh etc I could go on but to sum up too many lagging points in the film focused on his sexuality and not enough of the gore the good stuff you would expect to see when the title of the movie is Dahmer

From director Billy Wilder Double Indemnity The Seven Year Itch Some Like It Hot I can see that this is a bit of an undershown and underrated film one to be seen This is the biographical story of Charles Augustus Slim Lindbergh James Stewart who in 1927 wanted to be the first man to cross travel solo flight from New York crossing the Atlantic ocean to reach Paris in a small cockpit The first half hour or whatever is seeing Lindbergh getting permission to do it and the construction of the plane named The Spirit of St Louis and making all necessary preparations Then of course the rest sees his perilous journey crossing the journey overcoming tiredness near fuel loss and moments of losing sense of direction but he was successful Also starring Murray Hamilton as Bud Gurney Patricia Smith as Mirror Girl Bartlett Robinson as Benjamin Frank Mahoney Robert Cornthwaite as Harry Knight Sheila Bond as ModelDancer Marc Connelly as Father Hussman Arthur Space as Donald Hall Harlan Warde as Boedecker and Dabbs Greer as Goldsborough Apparently Lindbergh was a bit younger so Stewart was a shade too old to play him but then again you cant think of anyone else that could do better It is a witty and emotional drama with Stewart as always being fantastic great music score by Frank Waxman and good direction from Wilder a good little known gem It was nominated the Oscar for Best Special Effects the only award it was ever nominated James Stewart was number 12 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars he was number 3 on 100 Years 100 Stars Men and he was number 13 on The Worlds Greatest Actor Very good

This version of Bleak House is the best adaptation of a classic novel known to me The representation of the court of Chancery as a character in the drama is magnificent The acting is marvellous from the sinister Tulkinghorn to the Dedlocks Smallweed Crooke Miss Flyte and the two young lovers But it is the spiders web of chancery that holds the whole thing together and the cinematography is superb What mistake did the BBC make about copyright that meant that this version could not be seen in the UK on either video or DVD for many years I tried to find out from them but faced a stone wall In the end I got a DVD copy from Canada

Another small piece of the vast picture puzzle of the Holocaust is turned face up in this docudrama about the Rosenstrasse Protest in Berlin an event I had not known of that began in late February 1943 The details are given in an addendum that follows this reviewbr br The film narrative sets the story of this protest within another contemporary story that begins in New York City in the present Here a well off nonobservant Jewish woman whose husband has just died shocks her children and others by insisting on an extremely orthodox mourning ritual She goes even further demanding that her daughters nonJewish fianc leave the housebr br The distressed daughter Hannah Maria Schrader then learns for the first time from an older cousin that during WWII in Berlin her mother then 8 years old had been taken in and protected by an Aryan woman Hannah drops everything goes to Berlin and finds this woman Lena Fischer now 90 Hannah easily persuades the woman to tell her story It all seems rather too patbr br The film thereafter improves focusing through long flashbacks primarily on the events of 1943 that surrounded the protest in which the fictitious central character is the same Mrs Fischer at 33 played magnificently by Katja Riemann a Baroness and accomplished pianist who is married to Fabian Martin Feifel a Jewish concert violinist one of the men detained at the Rosenstrasse sitebr br The narrative does briefly weave back to the present from time to time and also ends in New York City once again While scenes in the present are color saturated the 1943 scenes are washed out strong on bluegray tonesbr br The quality of acting is generally quite good what we might expect given the deep reservoir of talent in Germany and the direction of Margarethe von Trotta New German Cinemas most prominent female filmmaker herself a former actressbr br The story of the protest is told simply Only one feature is lacking that would have helped stilltext notes at the end indicating the eventual outcome for those people taken into custody at Rosenstrasse an outcome that was as the addendum below makes clear incredibly positivebr br Rosenstrasse has not fared well in the opinions of most film critics Overly long needlessly layered purveyor of gender stereotypes manipulative with music so go the usual raps It is too long But I found in this film an austere powerful spontaneous and entirely convincing voice of protest from the women who kept the vigil outside the place on Rosenstrasse where their Jewish relatives and others were detained I found nothing flashy contemporary or manipulative in this depictionbr br The very absence of extreme violence no one is shot or otherwise physically brutalized intensified my tension which increased incrementally as the film progressed You keep waiting for some vicious attack to begin any minute The somberness of the film stayed with me afterward I awoke often later in the night I saw the film my mind filled with bleak melancholic chaotic images and feelings conjured by the film For me that happens rarely In German and English My rating 810 B Seen on 053105 If youd like to read more of my reviews send me a message for directions to my websitesbr br Add The Rosenstrasse Protest Swept up from their forced labor jobs in what was meant to be the Final Roundup in the national capital 1700 to 2000 Jews mostly men married to nonJewish women were herded into Rosenstrasse 24 a welfare office for the Jewish community in central Berlinbr br Because these Jews had German relatives many of them highly connected Adolf Eichmann hoped that segregating them from other prisoners would convince family members that their loved ones were being sent to labor camps rather than to more ominous destinations in occupied Polandbr br Normally those arrested remained in custody for only two days before being loaded onto trains bound for the East But before deportation of prisoners could occur in this case wives and other relatives got wind of what was happening and appeared at the Rosenstrasse address first in ones and twos and then in evergrowing numbersbr br Perhaps as many as six thousand participated in the protest although not all at the same time Women demanded back their husbands day after day for a week Unarmed unorganized and leaderless they faced down the most brutal forces at the disposal of the Third Reichbr br Joseph Goebbels the Gauleiter governor or district leader of Berlin anxious to have that city racially cleansed was also in charge of the nations public morale On both counts he was worried about the possible repercussions of the womens actions Rather than inviting more open dissent by shooting the women down in the streets and fearful of jeopardizing the secrecy of the Final Solution Goebbels with Hitlers concurrence released the Rosenstrasse prisoners and even ordered the return of twentyfive of them who already had been sent to Auschwitz br br To both Hitler and Goebbels the decision was a mere postponement of the inevitable But they were mistaken Almost all of those released from Rosenstrasse survived the war The women won an astonishing victory over the forces of destruction Adapted from an article posted at the University of South Florida website A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust

Danny Glover and Carey Elwes obviously forgot how to act when they made this movie the acting is absolutely atrocious The payoff is even worse I feel sorry for Danny Glover I hope he got paid well for this because it makes him look completely foolish the same goes for Mr ElwesAn absolute slap in the face to any horror movie fan Despicable This is probably the worst display of acting by veteran actors I have ever seen I wonder if they bothered to look at the script or if they did it must have said forget everything you know about acting because this makes the two of them look ridiculous For two seasoned veterans to act this way is appalling I hope the pay check was very large I thought at first it was a spoof If you can find satisfaction in this movie then more power to you

The concept of having Laurel Hardy this time in the role of chimney sweepers works out surprisingly hilarious It guarantees some funny situations and silly antics from especially Stan Laurel of course as usualbr br The movie also has a subplot with a nutty professor who is working on a rejuvenation formula It doesnt really sound like a logical mix of story lines and incoherent but both plot lines blend in perfectly toward the memorable ending Its still a bit weird but its funny nevertheless so it works for the moviebr br The supporting cast of the movie is surprising good Sam Adams is great as the stereotypical butler and Lucien Littlefield goes deliciously overthetop as the nutty professorbr br The movie is filled with some excellent timed and hilarious constructed sequences which are all quite predictable but become hilarious to watch nevertheless thanks to the way they are all executed It all helps to make Dirty Work to be one of the better Laurel Hardy shortsbr br 810

When I first saw the cover of this movie a giant bug chasing a few nurses And the name Blue Monkey I knew I wasnt in for any big Hollywood movie I was pleasantly surprised to see Steve Railsback in this cheeseball flick who always does a good job in whatever role he tackles The FX are pretty corny there isnt too much of a plot and Im still not sure why this movie is called Blue Monkey because there is nothing in this movie to do with monkey But come on people what did you expect Its not really as bad as it seems If you enjoy the old 50s style black and white bug attack movies this one is basically an updated version without the updates special FX

I really like this movie Bozz is an ultracool not to be intimidated soldier who does not want to go to war His persona is similar in a way to Yossarian in Catch22 Joseph Hellers classic novel about men and war This film however is not set in a war zone but in a prewar combat prep training This wonderful film is all about the sickening realization that the Vietnam war was a mistake and those men who were pegged to be sacrificed for a losing causebr br Colin Farrell is brilliant as Bozz a soldier who showed as much genuine love and compassion for his fellow soldier as he did disdain and irreverence for the establishment that was trying to kill him Bozz is totally cool and nonplussed testing and tweaking his military superiors getting their goat at every opportunity He is a Jesus Christ figure with a psychology degree saving his fellow soldiers and showing the ones in genuine need the way out of this mans armybr br The acting and action is crisp and believable and as a Sleeper Tigerland goes down with Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket as one of the top three Vietnam films in my opinionbr br FIVE STARS a top pick

First of all I think the casting and acting were excellent The problem is the story There is basically no story here worth telling and thus basically no movie here Larry McMurtry has done Lonesome Dove and I cant fault the original though it probably didnt need sequels He did Hud with Paul Newman which is one of my favorite movies Mellencamp is supposed to be a country singer but the only song I hear him sing is an old Buck Owens song The movie makes a big deal out of chicken farming Mellencamps character has a good wife and its utterly stupid of him to stray from her The incident with riding in the sliding cage is utterly stupid Maybe people do that for fun in some parts of the country but I never heard of it

Loved this movie Great acting by Carla Gugino Interesting story about a kidnapping that goes horribly wrong dont they all Some surprising twists and turns in the film and the plot was easy to follow without being so convoluted as to be totally incomprehensible It was a totally unexpected delight More Quentinish than most films try to be

MY LEFT FOOT in my opinion is a great biopic about one of the worlds most talented authors and painters The performances were smashing the soundtrack was great and the casting was perfect I thought that Christy Daniel DayLewis was a very talented man although I couldnt understand what he was saying most of the time In addition when he threw a tantrum I got a little scared Also its just so sad that he suffered from cerebral palsy In conclusion if you are a diehard fan of Daniel DayLewis or like biopics I highly recommend this great biopic about one of the worlds most talented authors and painters Youre in for a real treat and a good time so dont miss this one

This film has got several key flaws The first and most significant of which is the clear lack of a good plot This sadly makes the film not only difficult to watch but also sends the watcher certain feelings of hopelessness as if he or she is wasting valuable time of their short life This means that the film cannot captivate its audience instead it encourages the viewing public to grow contempt for the film and everything associated with it In short it really is very very very very very very very BAD Do yourself a favour and chew on a large rubber shoe youll find it far more interesting and enjoyable than watching Terminator Woman

I too found Oppenheimer to be a brilliant series and one of the finest offerings ever on American PBS David Suchet was particularly effective as Edward Teller as I recall and the overall conception was spectacularly good The only reason that the series doesnt rate a full 1010 is for the lowbudget production values in some areas Actual content is absolutely firstrate in my recollectionbr br The Oppenheimer miniseries will be released in the UK on July 31st It will be a Region 2PAL set but it would seem that a Region 1NTSC set should be soon in the offingbr br If you have a universal player in the US you can order the series right now from Amazon UKbr br httptinyurlcomznyyqbr br Huzzah

I thought this is an unbelievable boring movie i heard the director cant speak french and so he left his actors tell what they wanted Well Valeria BruniTedeschi is great as usual but I cant say the same of other actors They have nothing to say especially Bruno Todeschinibr br They all seem very tired this being one of the movie plot tired of being together of living abroad of their live in general so they spend half the movie sleeping in a hotel room After a while i felt sleepy myselfbr br I gave 4 because of some very beautiful scenes including the last one

Nobody said movies had to be realistic did they I really liked this movie because I remember when I first saw it in junior high For all the kids who remember the PMRC and albums before there were warning stickers its a cool story for all those kids who were part of the mid to late 80s headbanger crowd

The next Karate Kid is an outstanding movie full of adventure and new surprises It has a wonderful plot and moral that tells a wonderful story Hilary Swank does an incredible job of achieving the role of Julie I have seen the actor who plays Mr Miagee and this is one of his best performances in my opinion The movie is funny and charming and I cannot stress enough about how interesting the movie is I definantly gove this movie a 10 out of 10 I suggest the movie to anyone who likes a good movie

Today You Die starts as honourable criminal Harlan banks producer Steven Seagal is hired by sinister businessman Max Stevens Kevin Tighe to drive a security vehicle with 20000000 of cash in the back from point A a Las Vegas casino to point B him sounds simple right Well what Max forgot to tell Harlan that the money is stolen that he has just become the getaway driver in an armed robbery Bummer Things get even worse for Harlan when the local cops catch him chuck him in prison for a long time however Harlan managed to hide the money before he was caught with a nice 20000000 at stake unaccounted for Harlan has to watch his back as the crooks want it as do Government agents Harlan teams up with Ice Kool Anthony Teach Criss in prison they both manage to escape at which point Harlan goes looking for some revengebr br Photographed directed by Don E FauntLeRoy one has to say that the shot in Eastern Europe straighttovideo action films that Steven Seagal specialises in these days arent getting any better Today You Die is a good case in point This is a terrible film simple as that really The script by producer Danny Lerner Kevin Moore Les Weldon gives Seagal a new sort of character to get his none existent acting skills around that of a criminal rather than some Government agentcopsoldierone man army clich he usually plays In fact if you were being charitable you could say Today You Die is a ripoff of Mel Gibsons excellent thriller Payback 1998 where he too played a really nasty piece of work to such good effect While Payback was a superb uncompromising hard edged film noir type action thriller Today You Die isnt pales into insignificance by comparison Unfortunately here Seagal is terrible he has no on screen presence or menace either the audience is never quite sure whether he is meant to be a bad guy that we hate or not For instance initially his characters is set up like a modern day Robin Hood as he steals from the rich drug dealers scumbags to give to the poor as well as keeping a tidy profit for himself which is just ludicrous in itself but then it has Seagal turn around murder a lot of people which contradicts the likable criminal with morals that the film went to such lengths to set up in the first place The story is full of holes for instance Agent Knowles is contacted by the on the run Harlan is then reprimanded by her bent superior for meeting him it turns out that he found out by tapped her phone In that case why didnt her boss use the information he had to catch Harlan The story is the usual dull predictable bland fight over lots of money with surprise surprise the investigating Government agent is actually a bad guy Wow I didnt see that coming I must saybr br Director FauntLeRoy slows everything down to a snails pace Today You Die feels like it goes on forever the action scenes setpieces are also severely lacking in entertainment value The infrequent fight scenes arent great most are either shot in shadow very quickly cut edited or with the camera played behind Seagals character to try disguise the fact that most of the stunt work done here is by a double Again Seagal looks fat out of shape uses long baggy overcoats to try hide it it doesnt Theres a pretty cool car chase through the streets of Las Vegas in this at the start I thought that Today You Die might be alright but it seems the whole sequence was stolen from another action film called Top of the World 1997 which is about a Las Vegas casino robbery as well as using footage from that film Today You Die also edits scenes from the Charlie Sheen action film No Code of Conduct 1998 the JeanClaude Van Damme action film The Order 2001 the Wesley Snipes prison based action film Undisputed 2002 so quite how much of Today You Die is original footage is anyones guessbr br Technically the film is alright considering its edited together from four separate films as well as its own footage its just about competent consistent enough All the footage of the US locations are obviously lifted from the films already mentioned with all the original footage shot on the cheap in Bulgaria The rap style music that litter Today You Die is awful by the way The acting is poor Seagal just mumbles his way through his lines as usualbr br Today You Die is a really bad film made up from other bad action films Seagal looks old fat the action scenes are average at best most of the story is fairly random it doesnt come together at the end that well at all One to avoid unless your a die hard Seagal fan if such an animal even exists

At first sight this movie doesnt look like a particular great one After all a Bette Davis movies with only 166 votes on IMDb and a rating of 65 must be a rather bad one But the movie turned out to be a delightful and original surprisebr br You would at first expect that this is a normal average typical 30s movie with a formulaic lovestory but the movie is surprisingly well constructed and has an unusual and original story which also helps to make this movie a very pleasant one to watchbr br The story is carried by its two main characters played by Bette Davis and George Brent Their helped by a cast of mostly amusing characters but the movie mainly involves just around them two Their character are involved in a most unusual and clever written lovestory that work humorous as well It makes this movie a delightful little comedy to watch that is perfectly entertainingbr br The movie is quite short just over an hour long which means that the story doesnt waste any time on needless plot lines development and characters It makes the movie also rather fast paced which helps to make this movie a perfectly watchable one by todays standards as well It does perhaps makes the movie a bit of a simple one at times but this never goes at the expense of its entertainment or funbr br A delightful pleasant simple romanticcomedy that deserves to be seen by morebr br 810

First of all let me start by saying that I have been a devoted follower of C Thomas Howells career ever since The Outsiders and The Hitcher He was an up and coming star in the 1980s with hits such as Soul Man also The future was bright for this young actor and he had the potential to go on from there and really assert himself in Hollywood Put it this way Tom Cruise had a bit part in The Outsiders while Howell had the lead Look at Cruise today But picking material like this drivel will only denigrate Howells career even more if that was possible Why does he pick stuff like this A small part in a major movie would be of more benefit to him than this rubbishbr br Essentially the story here takes place in a postapocalyptic world where everybody lives underground where chaos reigns Howell is a Shepherd protecting the flock of various religious leaders by killing off any undesirables Hes a hitman in other wordsbr br The sets are so bad they wouldnt look out of place on a Thunderbirds episode The use of slowmotion needlessly repeats itself throughout the movie but is well backed up by bad acting and bad is a kind word here no continuity scenes that are thrown in for no reason whatsoever vehicles that looked like they were made from a Corn Flakes box and a directorial style that bordered on stupidity Oh yeah and the storyline was pathetic toobr br I hate writing bad reviews about films especially those in which I really like the star but this film is so bad I dont believe for one second that anyone could have been proud of it I am not a filmmaker nor am I a director but I would hide my head in the sand if Id spent whatever amount of money and time on this moviebr br In short this was a monumental waste of time and energy and I would not recommend anyone to EVER see this film It came free with a DVD player I bought but I still turned the thing off halfway through because I was embarrassed for Howell Come on C give yourself some credit and wrestle yourself away from these nonhit wonders and try to knuckle down and get a good part however smallbr br 110 and only because there is no setting for 010

Richard Gere and Diane Lane star in a chick flick romance with the sort of ending I get really angry aboutlets just say its not my cup of tea just like the dime store romances are not my cup of teabr br The plot has a doctor stopping at an inn and meeting a woman that he has a deep but brief affair with He goes off to meet his estranged son and she goes back to her lifebr br Well acted and well made the filmmakers forgot to get a real plot line This is the stuff of dime store romances that makes the women swoon and the men shake their head in disbelief I wouldnt be so adverse to the film as a mindless romance except that the film takes a turn in the final reel that is so out of left field as to be completely unbelievable Why must certain types of movies do stupid things like this It really ruined it for mebr br If you like romance give it a shot though wait for cable

First off just let me say that I live in South Africa where rugby is our biggest sport by far and our national side the Springboks have won the Rugby World Cup twice so its quite a big deal over here Ive played all my life and Im shocked at the poor attention to detail in this movie At first I thought it had the potential to be a great movie considering the cast of Neal McDonough Nick Ferris Gary Cole and Sean Astin for goodness sake but it turned out to be a mockery of the sport They basically mashed it together with your normal everyday American Football moviebr br My first problem is that this movie supposedly captures the values of rugby but the discipline or should I say the total lack thereof during the games are contradictory to this In the final it looks more like an NFL game with Penning being tackled of the ball numerous times in front of the refereethat wouldve immediately led to a couple of red cards because foul play like that would never go unpunished in by a referee of that I can assure you Youd also not be able to find a coach in world rugby who would have so little control over his team Any coach would take a dump on a players head if he intentionally stiff arms an opposing player or double teams him like they did in the finalred card and certain suspension full stopbr br Secondly its absurd that a coach would take a brand new player who has played wing all of his life I gather move him to hooker which is a highly specialized position and say that its for the good of the TEAM What Hooker is a highly specialized position in the front row where you have to be able to scrum extremely well and preferably be able to throw the ball in at lineout time which Penning NEVER does for some or other reason By moving a wing to hooker without any extensive long term training it would firstly lead to your teams demise at scrum time secondly the poor kid would probably break his neck How is that good for the team I ask you Finally the overall high emotional pitch of the movie is way too much because even though rugby is a great sport and it builds great friendships team spirit it rarely gets that out of hand corny Ive seen truelife football dramas with less emotion than this movie it turned out great but in this one Seans Penning acting skills is dragged way too far and the movie attempts too force an emotional response out of the audience which ends up being boring and hard to watch at timesbr br Hollywood have made some great sports movies over the years but next time they venture into a sport which has just recently picked up in the states they should try and do their homework maybe get some experts into the fraybr br DO IT RIGHT OR DONT DO IT AT ALL

The scenery is pretty and the dog is cute Other than that this film has absolutely nothing to recommend it Jack Warden is pleasantly genial as usual but the script is so awful that even he comes off badly The plot makes no sense the dialogue is dumb and there are numerous smaller faults But the dog is cute

So much for JUDGE AND JURY which lives up to its nonsense title What good is there The lighting is terribly foggy Another horror movie you ask Well thats perfectly explainable David Keith actually does pretty good at disguising clowns chefs and other shenanigans while being the killer who escaped death row But overall despite some new twists its reasonably stupid Unapix has been putting out some ludicrous productions recently and this one only means so much We the jury find this film guilty for its indecent exposure to many of us sitting around believing its a total waste of our time

Some Spoilers Early 1930s educational movie about the horrors of contracting a social disease and the consequences that come along with it blindness madness loss of ones abilities to function as well as infecting other people with it even ones unborn children and finally death Damaged Lives is far ahead of its times in educating its viewers about the dangers Venereal Deasise viewed now over 70 years after its release back in 1933 is as good if not better then the many films about that subject made back in the 1940s 1950s and even 1960sbr br Donald Bradley Lyman Williams is a top executive of a major shipping company whos been going study with his girlfriend Joan Diane Sinclair for some time both are finally planing to get married and raise a family Out at a party one evening Donald meets Elsie Cooper Charlotte Merriam and together they have one drink too many and before you know it end up spending the night together in Elsies home br br Thinking nothing of his one night stand with Elsie Donald later marries his long time love Joan and they both plan to have a child or so they thought At the office Donald get a panicked call from Elsie telling him to come over to her place right away about something very important Rushing over Donald finds out to his horror that Elsie has a sexual infection that she got from her boyfriend Nat Harry Myers and that she may have given it to Donald and he in turn may have infected his wife Joan Telling Elsie that shes wrong about him being infected and that she should seek medical attention Elsie shoots herself as Donald is just about to leave br br Getting over Elsies tragic death Donald gets another surprise later when his doctor Dr Bill Hill Jason Robards Sr comes over to his office telling him to immediately come with him to the hospital to talk to Infectious Disease Specialist Dr Vincent Leonard Murray Kinnell about his wife Joan whos just been admitted there The terrible truth about Donald and his wife Joan hits him like a bolt out of the blue and leaves him speechless just like it did Joan earlier Both have been infected and the infection is the dreaded and unspeakableback in the 1930s infection called Venereal Disease br br Told by Dr Leonard that it would take some two years of treatment for both Donald and Joan to be completely cured it leaves Joan in a state of dangerous suicidal thoughts Later in the film Joan feeling that she has nothing to live for closes all the windows in her and Donalds apartment and turns on the gas stove full blast in order to kill herself and Donald who was asleep at the time br br Honest film about the ravages of Venereal Disease and the damage that it does to those who are infected by it both psychically as well as mentally and how it could be cured if given immediate medical care instead of hiding it from ones doctor and keeping it hidden for fear of shame and embarrassment until its too late

This film is Engaging and Complex while maintaining simple beauty Our two characters come together sharing the base of curiosity and loneliness but it is a springboard for learning these people they re life styles and pasts which support thisbr br The two lead actors Bohl Brundruge were in the moment as any two actors I have ever seen 100 believable they transport the audience seemingly effortlessly into their world The actors seamless acting teamed with Bechards Beautiful realistic dialog and his truthful direction drives the story forward into a striking and moving finaleThis film is visual treat soft increasing the intensity of The story The soundtrack serenades the viewer soothing yet drawing out the emotional content of the film I find this project to be nothing short of a masterpiece intriguingintense

I havent laughed this hard since granny got caught in the wringer says one of the potheads in this hilarious quasispoof of all those Val Lewton and George A Romero walkingdead movies we have come to love or loath depending on your personal taste through the years br br In this story a young actor pair play a ghoulish prank on the rest of their troupe after one spooky night they visit a cemetery island Their artistic director Alan pretends to bring the dead back to life by conducting a highly stylized ritualbr br Way too much screen time is misspent the amateur dialog includes lame witticisms melodrama and other kinds of unnecessary filler commentaries And cant Alan stop that irritating laughter way too much Once the action kicks in which comes close to the end of this film its worth the wait br br I saw this one on a latenight local station television program that ran films very much like this one only this one scared me at the age of 13 but then again you might laugh your way through it until the bitter end which is probably the reason nowadays why very few people still wear striped hiphuggers

An interesting concept vampirism having something to do with a virusbut done several times by now Overall the movie is too long and drags a bit The editing could have been tighter I am sorry to hear about the problem with the credits Maybe the movie was rushed to market The lighting was too dark in places But the worst technical problem is the audio The level was good enough to hear the dialog but many of the interiors have a echo sound to them which is very distracting Either they were not careful in the recording or the sound mixing could have been better Also too much background noise got through The should have gotten someone to do sound effects for the martial arts scenes The tinny clank of swords hitting together was not the sound of an epic battle Especially in the combat scenes the editing needed to be tighterbr br Also the acting was a bit flat I am sorry but when I see that the same person writes and stars in a movie in my experience it is a red flagbr br But it was a good effort so I gave it a 4

and this movie has crossed it I have never seen such a terrible movie in my life I mean a kids head getting cut off from the force of an empty sled A snowman with a costume that has the seams clearly visible This was a pitiful excuse for a movie

You can only describe this with one word and that would be WOW Wow I really did not think piece of crap like this could ever be released If you watch a movie titled ninja then you expect to see at least some cool martial artists right However none of these guys know any martial arts whatsoever and it seems like they went to china and picked the first people they saw on the street and trained them for a day in martial arts thats the level of their martial arts skills The actors are way overacting the special effects are ridiculous and there is not any plot that makes any sense This is the worst martial arts movie Ive ever seen and I have seen plenty

Chase has created a true phenomenon with The Sopranos Unfaltering performances rocksolid writing and some great music make up what has become quite possibly the best show everbr br All of the cast are strong but Falco and Gandolfini earned every inch of those Emmys Anyone who doubts this need only sample a few episodes particularly from the first few seasons James Gandolfini is absolutely fierce absolutely terrifying and you still find yourself loving him mesmerized by himbr br Many people that Ive spoken to about The Sopranos who havent seen it yet will say Im just not a fan of mafia moviesshows Whatever Run dont walk and get it Those same people usually love ER but I bet they dont much care for hospitals Its not about the context

Syriana swept the critics upon release and everything seemed to be raving about it I suppose its one of those films that is intensely intelligentso intelligent that I think you need to be well versed in the oil industry and a politically brilliant mind I dont consider myself unintelligent Ive been studying politics since my early teens and I enjoy an intelligent film but for the most part unless its a documentary films are meant to be primarily entertaining as well as have a message Syriana tried to be strictly intelligent and it does turn some people away I would even go so far as to say that those who rave about it and insist its a 1010 are lying because they think they look better This film was the most confusing senseless mindless dribble I have seen in awhileEspecially considering the critical acclaim the Oscar nods and the cast Screenplay writer Stephen Gaghan has disappointed me yet again His horribly written Havoc preceded this film and I think hes just trying way too hard I cant believe he was offered the opportunity to write the Da Vinci Code screenplay On top of that Gaghan directed the film which made it an absolute mess I had no idea who anyone was why things were happening who was who and what was what It was a disasterbr br Because I dont really know who anyone was I can only mention the actors and what I thought of their performances because despite the horrendously complicated script the actors did alright George Clooney plays CIA field agent and assassin I think Bob Barnes Clooney has never been a favorite of mine but lately hes managed to churn out some decent performances and this seemed to be a pretty good performance on his part Barnes was a complex character with a sordid history and if I knew what was going on with him I would have really enjoyed his character Matt Damon plays Bryan Woodman and he is rather bland and always looks like a deer in the headlights which I can understand his confusion after reading this script and then trying to perform it Amanda Peet plays his wife and she does well in the few scenes she is given Christopher Plummer makes a cameo appearance as someone doing something I like Plummer and love seeing him show up even if he doesnt get top billing anymorebr br The cast is intense if only the story made sense Id like to exact quote the description of plot on IMDb A missile disappears in Iran but the CIA has other problems the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract The Department of Justice suspects bribery and the oil companys law firm finds a scapegoat The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emirapparent fails Agent Bob Barnes the fall guy sorts out the double cross An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group All roads start and end in the oil fields WHAT Say who now Syriana might be the thinking mans movie but it bored me to tears and no matter how hard I tried to stay with it I eventually surrendered and turned it off after an hour and a half and you couldnt have bribed me enough to get me to finish it I suppose if you want to form an opinion than by all means watch it but I promise you someone looking for entertainment or an enjoyable film will be asleep in the first half hour 110

Cyber zone as this DVD was sold in Oz is about the worst BGrade junk I have seen Apart from a restrained deadpan act from Singer indicating he knew how bad the movie was going to be the other actors sway about genuine attempts at line delivery Swanson and Quarry or absurd imitations of classic movies scenes Mathius Hues makes the most hamfisted portrayal of dying since Jim Carreys Mask All of this with no real thread to suggest an attempt at a spoof by genre period or any common vein is plain annoying Dont even try to join the dots with the plot It is Blade Runner thinly disguised with no content actors or scenery due to a very limited budget You gets what you pay for is never more apparent There is repeatedly annoying reuse of limited sets with no attention to set dressing and a spew of special effects that would have hit the cutting room floor for Dr Who in 1976 The Helicopter explosion is worth a rewind to demonstrate my point Of course there are masochists that will lap up this tripe but if you are watching this movie for a bet make sure you get more than your pay rate At 2 this DVD will make a cheap and interesting beer coaster

Thats pretty much all I can say about this flat and uninspired remake of the 1979 Carol Kane vehicle Camilla Belle isnt much of an actress and she brings no energy and vitality to the role of Jill Johnson the babysitter harassed by an anonymous phone callerbr br But if youre looking for some great home architecture and interior design ideas this movie provides more inspiration than anything youll see on TLC or HGTV Jill spends nearly 90 minutes wandering through the house of the rich doctor and wife for whom shes providing her sitting services searching for the origins of strange sounds and things that keep going bump in the night As she lurks around corners and peers down hallways we get to see a beautiful master bathroom with his and hers sinks that look like Roman tubs a huge kitchen with incredible back lit glass shelving and the piece de resistance a selfcontained aviary and coy pond that feature a selfwatering systembr br Because the movie isnt compelling enough to draw us into Jills fear were distracted by the grandeur of the house which isnt something you should be doing when youre watching a thriller Even as Jill is pursued by the faceless maniac we cringe because shes breaking valuables and messing up the coy pond not because shes about to get murderedbr br The movie plods along as predictably as most teen slasher movies and the ending is anything but original By the time it was over I just wanted to find out where the heck that house was and if it was real Never mind Jill and the kids she was babysittingbr br 2 stars both for the house

After watching this film I experienced a new sensation I had watched a film in which the lead actor had put in a performance that almost rivaled the legend Chevy Chase in Fletch This isnt to say that the performances are comparable but both give practically flawless delivery of their lines That actor is Marc Singer Singer is Jack Ford the Droid Gunner of the title grinding out a living collecting the bounty on androidsThere are some mutants topless pleasure droids a Scandinavian smuggler and possibly a halfhearted attempt to make a statement on class or maybe even globalization or well it doesnt really matter What matters about this film is the dry manner in which Singer delivers his lines resulting in sidesplitting humour What matters about this film is that director Fred Olen Ray seems to realize that serious scifi very rarely works and when your budget is skimpy it is best not to take yourself to seriously Olen Ray has said that everyone involved in this film had great fun and this transfers onto the filmI dare you to criticize a film that allows itself to portray futuristic Earth as eternally dark and neonlit and then ends in a pipes and valves warehouse Self parody is a very redeeming quality To summarise Fred Olen Ray is an ambassador for independent film making and Marc Singer the perfect Bmovie leadIf only Olen Ray could draft in Tim Thomerson to the equation then wed have a film on our hands

SPOILERS Highly charge police drama about a serial killer loose in and around the small town of Riverside Wisconsin Whos being tracked down by the local police using policewoman Gina Pulasky Helen Huntas an undercover decoy to catch him br br Nothing new in this made for TV movie that you havent seen before but the depth of the acting and screenplay is unusually good and brings out a lot about not only the killer but the policewomans as well as her fellow policeman lover state of mindbr br Having been put under psychiatric care after shooting an armed and unstable assailant who attacked her partner with a rifle Officer Palusky is given the task to go undercover to get close to murder suspect Kayle Timler Steven Webber After he was positively identified by the little girl Sahsa Kim Kluznickwho saw him not far from where little Timmy Curtis was found stabbed 18 times to death the next daybr br Getting a job at the Mr C Diner where Tim works Gina gets to become very friendly with him and later tells him in order to get Tim to open up about him possibly being the serial murderer that she once killed in a hitandrun accident a 79 year old woman br br Tim who is said to have a genius IQ doesnt seem to pick up on Ginas attempt to trap him even when he later sees her at a bowling alley with her fellow cops spending a night out Playing some weird cat and mouse game with her Tim at one point gets Gina at knife point to admit that shes wired But Gina tells him that she was forced to do it by the police to get a break and an early release from prison Besides Tims instability and criminal actions we find out that Gina isnt all there as wellShe seems to be suffering from her being rejected by her father who left her with a drunk and abusing mother as a young girl thats effecting her work as an undercover policewoman br br Theres also the fact that Ginas lover policeman Will McCaid Jeff Fahey whos estranged from his wife and two kids whos also on the serial murder case is too overprotective of her That causes Gina to almost blow her cover and that has her later being taken off her assignment br br Put back on undercover duty by her boss Capt Cheney Dan Conway over the objections of Officer McCaid after another young boy 12 yearold Davy Marishwas found murdered Gina finally gets herself together and gets Tim to admit that hes the person whos responsible for the string of murders in the area Gina does it by having a hidden tape recorder that she replaced the one that she gave to him to show how honest she is hidden on herbr br The movie In the Company of Darkness wasnt really that exceptional but the acting by Helen Hunt Jeff Fahey and especially Steven Webber was It was these high caliber performances that lifted the film well above the average made for TV movie were used to seeing

with two old friendsbr br Ive always enjoyed both Lemmons and Mathaeus films and of course their team efforts are always worth watching and often hilariousbr br Although I didnt personally regard this film as in the hilarious category it is certainly a competent and entertaining vehicle for fans of the two principle actors and of 60s style romantic comedy plotsbr br Brent Spiner may actually steal the show in terms of laughs as the arrogant and tyrannical Cruise Directorbr br Gloria DeHaven proves that senior ladies can remain enormously attractive

This movie is not as horrible as most SciFi Channel movies I am used to seeing the gray CGI blobs and the amateurish special effects such as closeups of fake blood that make it very obvious that the blood is strawberry syrup or some other syrup variation However I had thought that I had seen all the possible lows that the SciFi Channel could hit Then I saw this moviebr br Imagine a hand inside a rubberized sock that is glazed with syrup Those are the main Alien Vampires in this movie You can clearly see the fingers inside the rubbery sock puppets A talking hand comes out of the guts of victims and the Vampire who is on the Vampire Hunters team can talk to these Rubber Sock puppets in Transylvanian How did Alien Vampires learn Transylvanian And isnt Transylvania in Romania So shouldnt they be talking Romanian Why would some little town have their own language If you can suspend your gag reflex and get past the talking rubber socks with the fingers clearly moving inside the Aliens heads then you have to deal with the other alien vampires There are the Leatherfaces who like to wear the faces of their victims Then there are the just plain ugly ones that all seem to have a lot of facial scars Then there are the annoying Valley Girls and their boyfriends who are human traitors and sneak into space colonies so that they can sabotage the Defense Systems so that these Space Vampires can attackbr br Finally if you think all of the above is funny and worth a laugh you have to deal with the third rate cast of Network TV rejects that make up this team of stereotypical angry heroes which are constantly fighting among themselves Why does almost every SciFi Channel movie have to use lead characters that are annoying abrasive crude or just totally unsympathetic I found myself hoping the talking rubber socks would win

We expected something great when we went to see this bomb It is basically a Broadway play put on film The music is plain terrible There isnt one memorable song in the movie heard any hits from this movie You wont because there arent any Some of the musical numbers go on so long that I got up to go to the restroom and get some pop corn and it was still going when I got back If they were good songs well but they suck The pace is slow terrible character development The lead was praised for her singing but sounded like she screamed every song it was almost impossible to stand This movie has NOTHING to offer anyone but diehard Broadway enthusiasts This is without a doubt the most over rated movie Ive seen in my entire life A complete waist of time and money There is nothing memorable about this movie except Danny Glover who wasnt on screen enough and whose character wasnt developed enough Rent the video and youll agree this movie was an expensive over produced polished dog do

Trying to compare or represent this swill as anything Hitchcockian is an outnout attempt to mislead Hitchcock fans to waste 7 on this movie Weak acting Weak story Weak script br br No real suspense no thrills You wait all through the weakness of this movie for the big payoff or even any payoffYoure left thinking what the heck was that all aboutbr br And please enough with the movement to make alternative lifestyles HIP and politically correctI cant recommend this to anyoneDid I mention how weak the acting is Williams did a better job as Peter Pan and Mork But those were MUCH more innocent times

One of the greatest film I have seen this yearLast maybe before sun rise which is also seen late at night alone in the lab I like the idea of the filmwhich suggest free will of man and our weakness against fateWith time past by James and Kathryn are destined to fail and an indescribable sorrow comes I do like the end but a big question also comes The virus shall not be released again should itbr br In the last scene in the airport Jose is sent back to meet James again by future scientists When he tell him that scientists had already got his message and know someone else would spread the virus And they two together meet Kathryn when Kathryn tell James the true man is DR Goines assistant So it is clearly Jose also get the true information about the virusJames keep an eye on him at the time remember and he has teeth So why everything is still happen Why future scientists dont do anything after the truth is revealed My biggest question after the film