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as a habit i always like to read through the hated it reviews of any given movie especially one that id want to comment on and its not so much a pointcounterpoint sorta deal i just like to see what people say on the flipsidebr br however i do want to address one thing many people that hated it called it to paraphrase beautiful but shallow some even going so far as to say that norms desire yet inability to help his brother was a mundane plot at bestbr br id like to disagreebr br as a brother of a sibling who has a similar dysfunction i can relate daily you see them abuse themselves knowing only that their current path will inevitably lead them to selfdestruction and its not about the specifics of what they did when how or why paul decided to take up gambling and associating with questionable folks its really more how they are wired on one hand they are veritable geniuses and on the other painfully selfdestructive its a lot like people like howard hughes the same forces which drive them are the same forces which tear them apart and all the while you see this you know this and whats worse you realize you cant do a damn thing about itbr br for norman maclean a river runs through it was probably a way to find an answer to why the tragedy had to occur and who was to blame in the end no one is and often there is no why but it takes a great deal of personal anguish to truly come to this realization sometimes it takes a lifetime and sometimes it never comes at all

This 1939 film from director John Ford and writer Lamar Trotti tells a fictional tale of young lawyer Abraham Lincoln his trials literally and his tribulations Its a sentimental film reasonably well made but hardly breathtaking The casting of Henry Fonda as Lincoln seems a mistake for while the actor had the right doleful qualities for the part even with several inches of makeup and a false nose hes way too handsome for Honest Abe who was famously homely Its a good try from Fonda whos nothing if not sincere but his miscasting throws the entire film off The supporting cast is excellent though and includes Alice Brady Ward Bond and Donald Meek But Ford is too reverential in his treatment of Lincoln who is presented as just shy of a saint and in the final scene the movie goes way over the top

An old man is riding his bike down a village road when a car comes out of nowhere strikes him down dead and keeps driving The rest of the film is spent discovering who hit him why he was hit and what consequences this murder will have on the rest of the village Separate Lies is a very British movie indeed Im not saying that hitandrun car accidents are a particularly British phenomenon but the way everyone reacts to this tragedy is very British Tom Wilkinson plays James Manning a hardworking respectable citizen with a stiffupperlip attitude towards tragedy His wife Anne Emily Watson who is twenty years younger than her husband is more emotional more impulsive and more prone to dramabr br The man who really spices up life in this sleepy village is playboy millionaire William Bule played by a deliciously devilish Rupert Everett most American audiences will eternally remember him as Julia Roberts gay friend who completely stole every scene in My Best Friends Wedding In Separate Lies Everett is cruel cold and selfish but hes an absolute blast on screen No its not that exciting of a movie title Separate Lies how did they end up with that lame and forgettable title Did they just not have a marketing team Did they just now care about getting people to see this film but beyond the title is a heartbreaking drama about the power of forgiveness

For me personally this film goes down in my top four of all time No exceptions James Cameron has proved himself time and time again that he is a master storyteller Through films such as Aliens The Abyss and both Terminators it is clear that he was a brilliant and confidant director as far as action and sciencefiction goes He sees a story and adds a strange quality to the film But Titanic is so much different to his other strokes of brilliance The film is exceptionally moving and allows room for surprises plot development and interesting character developments in a story that everyone knows The story of the famed voyager sinking on her maiden voyage is legend so the challenge was for Cameron to make a truthful interesting and entertaining film about it The acting is wonderful as Leonardo DiCaprio who plays Jack and Kate Winslet who plays Rose became superstars overnight with the release of this film and in most films I get annoyed when the supporting characters arent given a lot to do but in this film it is more purposeful because as an elderly Rose Gloria Stuart tells her story it is quickly apparent that it is Roses and Jacks story alone no one else Emotionally it is entirely satisfying and can leave no dry eye in a theater or home The music has become iconic and legendary It is composer James Horners finest soundtrack ever and evokes so much from the film and the audience The song after so long has become annoying but I still appreciate it for the phenomenon it is and this film is Only one problem the usual James Cameron problem is the dialogue which is memorable but in a bad way as in how cheesy it is at points but all that aside James Cameron has delivered a masterpiece and a romantic epic that sweeps you away on a journey of a lifetime My heart wont go on from this one

I saw this back in 94 when it was finally released Apparently because Orion pictures was in bankruptcy I think the movie had not been released a couple of years earlierbr br I have problem remembering details partly because I havent seen it in a long time but I do remember it as a very dull movie I kept debating whether to walk out of it The store was not at all interesting or engaging Was a 3rd rate America Graffiti imitation br br None of the performances make it worth watching either One of the biggest disappointments since a local newspaper reviewer gave it a high rating

Ive seen a great many films but In Cold Blood stands alone in a class by itself It excels in every department The fact that it contained few big stars helps push it over the top as you pay closer attention to the characters and their story rather than the name on the marquee Blake and Wilson turn in stellar performances of the killer duo The fact that much of the films is filmed in the actual locations where the crime took place even inside the very house add additional chills The blackwhite photography darkens the mood and the photography is magnificent There are many outstanding cinematic works out there but if I could only vote for one to top the list it would most probably be In Cold Blood

Out of boredom and vast curiosity I decided to check this show out today since my four year old niece loves it I should have known that it was a show that only a four year old could like The show was pretty badbr br First of all the show just wasnt funny The laugh track went off at the most inappropriate times which was very annoying especially since none of the jokes were funny The laugh track went off at some point when the one kid whos the cameraman said Im going to go polish my lense How the hell is that funny The parts in it like meat drumming that were supposed to be funny was just stupid to anyone whos over the age of elevenbr br Now I have a feeling that four year olds are not the target audience However since I have a four year old niece who watches it this sort of thing concerned me while I was watching it It doesnt show very good behavior In the episode I was watching it shows Sam stealing Carlys sandwich and pushing her down to the ground just so Carly can stand up and do the same thing back to her I would not want to see my niece acting that rude I also dont like the idea of two young girls having a web show where they give out personal information If this was real there would be freaks all over herbr br This show would probably be good and funny to someone whos eleven or younger but anyone older than that just stay away from it Ill give this two stars since I guess I can see how it can be funny to a kid

For the sake of propaganda during World War II Sherlock Holmes was moved into the thenpresent One of the results is Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon starring a top Holmes Basil Rathbone along with Nigel Bruce Lionel Atwill Dennis Hoey and Kaaren Verne It is Holmes assignment to deliver a scientist Dr Franz Tobel William Post Jr and his weapon design to the British government before the Germans can get him Once the man reaches England however his troubles are just beginning Can Holmes decode the message Dr Tobel left before falling into the hands of the vicious Moriarity save the weapon and possibly the scientist too This is an effective Holmes story set in the atmosphere of Switzerland and blackout England The series worked just fine in the present day It was not without its problems but those problems had nothing to do with the time period Whose idea was it to make Watson an idiot Nigel Bruces characterization aided and abetted by the scripts has always been the false note I much prefer the characterization of Edward Hardwicke in the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series there hes attractive intelligent and a believable companion for Holmes In the Rathbone series Holmes is often condescending and treats Watson like the bumbling fool that he is However in this particular film Watson has a chance to be quite helpful in several partsbr br I admit to being a complete sap for Rathbones recitation from Richard II this blessed plot this earth this England I cant imagine how much it meant to the Brits watching the film in 1942 Sherlock Holmes really served his purpose

William Lustigs followup to Maniac proves conclusively that without Tom Savinis spectacular effects and Spinells convincing performance Maniac would never have become the cult hit that it did Vigilante is badly directed with a simpleminded script that spells everything out for you and is predictable at every turn and also mediocre performances by all the actors Judging from the sense of deja vu this film gave me Lustig had watched Death Wish several times too many before making this 12

Mexican classic was the third entry in the Aztec Mummy series As you will soon find out this movie is anything but a classic instead its more like a movie that deliberately tries to bore youbr br Some scientist wants to steal Aztec treasure from a tomb but guarding that tomb is that walking toilet paper commercial The Aztec Mummy Knowing he cant beat the Mummy he then builds a robot and a very bad one at that We only get to see MrRobot in the last reel as he clunks around and does battle with the Aztec Mummybr br I have seen a lot of lousy SciFi films hell most SciFi films I see are lousy but this one for its entire duration of 64 Minuites is the worst movie Ive seen with Fubar coming in a close secondbr br In conclusion Dont waste your time

As with most viewers of this film Im an avid reader of the books The first 2 films have Buck Ray and Chloe as the main characters but in this the second sequel they play secondfiddle to Louis Gossett JRs Presidential effort World at War is based on the meeting he has with Buck in the book seriesbr br The problem is this film is as awful as the first two Amanda appears just from nowhere and suddenly has a significant part to play I wont reveal it in case anyone hasnt read the series Other illogical parts feature I really really want Cloud 10 to make a good Left Behind film but sadly this is similar in all the bad ways to the first 2

The Governess was by far a very pitiful film I do not use this word loosely as it honestly was a poor excuse for a movie I finished watching this feature with only one word on my mind … why Honestly you could use this question at the end of every scene of this film and it would seem like it fit There were so many inconsistencies that lead to a lack of development both in the story and in the characters which ultimately lead to a very confusing film with actors walking through the motions instead of giving any explanation Scenes would occur with no foreshadowing understanding or drive to a complete ending It was as if I was watching several different ideas thrown together without really any resolution Actors were setting events in motion that did not seem to fit their character or really were resolved This was my biggest issue with this film The complete and utter lack of structure to this film brought all specks of foundation crumbling down with a genuine rippleeffect being felt throughout the rest of the film as a resultbr br Let me explain myself further on this lack of consistency throughout the film I would liken this film to a bowl of lumpy oatmeal that had a zebra in it It made no sense nor was there any logic behind it all Minnie Driver was the worst culprit of this deed Her characters lines were drawn very fuzzy and nearly transparent She would do things like talk about sex all the time with her sister but yet she seemed very open to sexual experiences all the time She has her first moment of passion in this film and there is no pain or excitement It nonchalantly happens and this just didnt seem to fit the original conversation that we had at the beginning of the film with Rosina and her sister She is a very intelligent woman that accidentally finds a solution to Wilkinsons problem and suddenly wants full rights to his invention That was confusing and completely random Is it not obvious to anyone else that her teaching methods were nonexistent Anyone in their right mind could see that she wasnt teaching Cavendishs daughter anything The sudden and awkward relationship that randomly forms between Driver and Jonathan RhysMeyers nearly had me laughing out loud I thought maybe I had discovered some magic in this film as RhysMeyers literally poofed into the scene and suddenly caused some unneeded drama It felt that the director or writer was thinking that the original story was going nowhere fast so by adding this random character we may be able to advance the plot a bit or confuse the lesser film enthusiasts Well it didnt fool me I saw that he was nearly a cutandpaste character used to strengthen an already weakened story Dont get me started on the ending which had no consistency to the rest of the story Again using the cutandpaste method the writer of this film needed a way to just end the story and this was the only solution they could arrive to It is sad when actors are forced to do things out of character … but I guess that is the name of the game in Hollywood Fix until completely broken or at least salvageablebr br The remainder of the story was unexciting dribble There were maybe a handful of neat cinematography moments where you could see that there was one sliver of creativity trying to peak through coupled with some bars of decent period piece music but nothing to write to Grandma about More family structure with some stronger introductions could have strengthened this film a bit more but as I stated before by leaving openended scenes just lying around the entire film you will experience a crack in your foundation What may seem like a sturdy story will eventually wear down over time and by the end of this film I felt that the house was crumbling down on top of me Wilkinson plays his normal self in this film while Driver apparently did not want to get naked but everyone else had too I will have to see a doctor after those images were burned into my eyes … eeewwww Also she wore the same dress everyday That was disgusting and I could smell her through the television Sex and dirty laundry Now there is a great film for you There just seemed to be some potential floating around here but instead it was just rubbish Nothing was answered questions seemed to fall like snow in Alaska and mediocrity seemed to reign supremebr br Overall this could have been a decent film that combined the powerful themes of science and love together but instead it was just pitiful I cannot stress enough the disturbing fact that characters were going through motions without any sort of preexplanation I dont need cinematic moments handed to me like a child but something should have been done to build a foundation Just remember the oatmeal with a zebra analogy that I used If you were as confused about that as I was then you will completely understand the film The Governess while if you prefer zebras in your oatmeal … then maybe this film is for youbr br Grade out of

Im a rather pedestrian person with somewhat lowbrow tastes However I occasionally try to raise the bar on my cultural awareness This movie was one of my attempts I was in awe throughout the entire movie I liked it so much that I got my own tape so I could see it again This is a very thoughtful and emotionally striking movie I saw it as a huge question to the viewer What is the depth of sacrifice to duty one can accept can be asked to accept should accept As a military member this is of course an important question to me This question weighs heavily on the viewer of this moviebr br Recommended

It was just a terrible movie No one should waste their time Go see something else This movie is without a doubt one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life If you want to see a good movie dont see Made Men

I really didnt expect much from this movie but it wasnt bad actually it was quite good This movie contained a couple of the funniest bits of writing I have ever seen from a motion picture Now am not saying this is one of the funniest movies of all time but I laughed pretty hard at some parts The police ruled my fathers death a suicide They said he fell down an elevator shaft Onto some bullets Now this movie is not for everybody its mostly stupid humor like Zoolander or Dodgeball so if you hated these movies I would probably recommend you to steer clear Overall it was an enjoyable movie about a group of superhero wannabes who end up becoming real heroes in the end Its a vastly overrated comedy that many people probably havent seen yet because like me before viewing it expected it to be utter garbage After viewing this film I finally understand why this movie was able to assemble such a superstar cast which includes Ben Stiller William H Macy Hank Azaria and even that kid from Good Burger Its because Mystery Man is full of excellent comedic writing period 7 out of 10 A very big surprise

Cruddy innocentno smoking drinking or bikers but Jeremy Slate good actor and Jocelyn Lane good actress make this moronically feasible for a bad biker flick postbiker exploit time They knew it we knew itAdam Roarke and Slate are wastedbut they lived onbr br A 3 out of 10 Best performance Jocelyn Lane Lane is the ONLY really to catch the final exploit biker film after RUN ANGEL RUN which also has good actors like Don Stroud etc It was over They knew it They were trying to make a living But Jocelyn Lane from two Elvis bad flicks TICKLE ME and something bad one in yellow and leather is the modern hot chick with J Slate fighting for honor Its worth seeing but it sucks But check it out Well worth nonbiker nonsmoker nonboozing biker types with hot chicks

I think the movie was pretty good will add it to my clasic collection after all this time I believe I saw other posters who reminded some of the pickier people that it is still just a movie Maybe some of the more esoteric points defy logic but a great many religious matters accepted on faith fail to pass the smell test If youre going to accept whatever faith you subscribe to you can certainly accept a movie Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the AjaYee Dagger is the same possessed knife Lamonte Cranston had so much trouble gaining control of in The Shadow No mention of it in the trivia section for either movie here IMDB but I would bet a dollar to a donut its the same prop

This remake is a complete disgrace so mediocre cheap and prosaic it wouldnt deserve more than a couple of spiteful linesbr br Its also a cheat with a laughable script served by such contrived and amateurish acting youre always aware theres a set a camera a fake no direction no suspended reality whatsoever to allow you delve into the storybr br The claustrophobic stifling tension of the small spaces and rooms in the original Japanese masterpieces JuOn 1 2 is all but lost here in overblown sets and spacesbr br But worst of all the moral enormity and unbearable suffering which both imparted a ruthless logic to the original mother and child victims turned into relentlessly vindictive ghouls is completely ruined by utter nonsense and hollow boogieman style scaresbr br If American audiences arent willing to read subtitles and rise above the lowest common denominator preferring to swallow this kind of patronizing hogwash instead they fully deserve this pathetic curse the movie itself

All the hype All the adds I was bummed that I missed this on the big screen Where this film worked was in the little details In EVERYTHING else it failed Arnold has done so many better performances in the past few years I thought the days of Commando and Last Action Hero were gone from our lives Sadly this film panders to the lowest common denominator and reduces Arnold to a bellowing grunting face contorting muscle that just knows how to shoot guns and blow things up In a cliche last moment and at one other time that was predictable from the start we see a glimmer of the actor that has proven he is more than what he got paid for early in his career I was unimpressed with the film as it never broke new ground or went anywhere but where you expected it to

I wouldnt be so sure to accept the DNA tests as irrefutable evidence against Anna Anderson First read Peter Kurths book on which this film is based Anna Anderson knew things that only the real Grand Duchess Anastasia could possibly have known forensic evidence in Annas favor aside Second compare the pictures of Anastasia and Anna Anderson Anyone can see that they are oneandthesame person Third visit Peter Kurths website url below where you can read detailed information about the DNA tests as well as why Franziska Schanzkowska and Anna Anderson are not the same person scroll down to the link ANNAANASTASIA NOTES ON FRANZISKA SCHANZKOWSKA Even Schanzkowskas relatives believed that their sister and Anna Anderson were not the same personbr br I for one will always believe that HIH Anastasia Nicolevna Romanova and Anna Anderson were indeed the same person I will never be swayed to the contrary br br wwwpeterkurthcom

Honestly this is easily in the top 5 of the worst movies I have ever seen Partly because it takes itself so seriously as opposed to regular light hearted trash this movies wants you to be emotionally involved to feel for the characters and to care about the alleged conspiracy None of this ever even comes close to happeningbr br MILD SPOILERSbr br There are 3 main reasons why this movie is so terrible 1 Incoherent and totally nonsensical plot 2 Annoying styleoversubstance MTV camerawork 3 Moronic characters and plot holesbr br Allow me to elaboratebr br 1 Apparently when this movies was being made they couldnt decide whether to make a movie about church conspiracies the stigmata or possession So guess what They combined them An aetheist gets possessed by a dead person who then makes her exhibit the stigmata so as to expose a church conspiracy How a regular person is able to transcend death and possess another human being through his rosary is never explained nor even talked about Now instead of just saying what he wants to say he gives her the Stigmata WHY Why not just spit it out Instead we get treated to scenes of screaming things in harsh voices carving cryptic messages on cars and writing messages on walls Apparently this priest was also a violent guy because the possessed young lady also wigs out on one o f the characters while talking in that cliched harsh possessed voice that we all have heard countless times This also starts to tie into my second complaint because whenever the young lady gets the stigmata she also defies the laws of gravity by floating into the air and tossing everything and everybody around her as if they were in an earthquake Why does this happen Who knows My guess is that the director thought it looked coolbr br 2 This movies contains dozens of shots in slow motion of course of birds showing up out of nowhere and flying off and most annoyingly of water dripping This womans apartment is constantly dripping water CONSTANTLY Logically the place would probably fall apart with this many holes To sum up this complaint towards the end and for absolutely no reason the camera cuts to shots of water dripping in slow motion in reverse WHY I have no idea It has no relevance to anything and once again Im betting its because the director thought it looked coolbr br 3 One of the main characters says he became a priest to explain away holes in science This doesnt make sense to me I would think that going to church would be enough but no he has to go through the entire rigamarole of becoming a priest I just dont buy it Secondly there are lots of plot holes a few of which I will elaborate on below For starters when she first gets the stigmata the scene ends with her laying unconscious bleeding Next shes in the hospital Who called the ambulance Another one is towards the end when the previously mentioned scientific priest character is talking to the spirit who is possessing the girl He says Take me as your messenger Not a word for word quote but you get the idea His response You have no faith only doubt So because of this he possesses an aetheist An aetheist has no faith far less then any scientific priest And then theres the fact that the object of this movies conspiracy this Lost Gospel of St Thomas I believe is available at local bookstores The characters are willing to kill to supress this document but you could walk down to a bookstore and buy it Maybe this is supposed to take place in an alternate history where it isnt wide known but the movie never tries to tell us this or to even hint that this is an alternate happening of that documents uncoveringbr br In closing this movie is terrible to a spectacular degree It is my archnemesis which I feel the need to insult every chance I get I loathe it Final Grade F

Boasting an allstar cast so impressive that it almost seems like the Mad Mad Mad Mad World of horror pictures The Sentinel 1977 is nevertheless an effectively creepy film centering on the relatively unknown actress Cristina Raines In this one she plays a fashion model Alison Parker who moves into a Brooklyn Heights brownstone that is and I dont think Im giving away too much at this late date very close to the gateway of Hell And as a tenant in this building she suffers far worse conditions than leaky plumbing and the occasional water bug to put it mildly Indeed the scene in which Alison encounters her noisy upstairs neighbor is truly terrifying and should certainly send the ice water coursing down the spines of most viewers Despite many critics complaints regarding Raines acting ability I thought she was just fine more than ably holding her own in scenes with Ava Gardner Burgess Meredith Arthur Kennedy Chris Sarandon and Eli Wallach The picture builds to an effectively eerie conclusion and although some plot points go unexplained I was left feeling more than satisfied As the book DVD Delirium puts it any movie with Beverly DAngelo and Sylvia Miles as topless cannibal lesbians in leotards cant be all bad On a side note yesterday I walked over to 10 Montague Terrace in Brooklyn Heights to take a look at the Sentinel House Yes its still there and although shorn of its heavy coat of ivy and lacking a blind priestnun at the topfloor window looks much the same as it did in this picture If this house really does sit atop the entrance to Hell I take it that Hell isthe Brooklyn Queens Expressway But we New Yorkers have known THAT for some time

Im not particularly fond of remakes or to steal the modern jargon retellings but this film truly peeved me off The original Prom Night while not in my humble estimation a masterpiece still realized what it was horror There are some simple things to remember when making a horror film Suspense is crucial to maintaining the interest of the audience Sorry folks but a white knuckle film this was not The scares were cheap and foreshadowed terribly A good example of scare which has been done to clichd excess now is the cat jumping out of the closet followed soon there after but a now unexpected appearance by the villain of the film This film couldnt successfully pull that off so how could I expect it to fulfill any of the other conventions of horror film There needs to be a likable hero or heroine This film doesnt have one The person I most identified with was the head detective His calm demeanor but level headed approach to the escape of a killer was what more films of this ilk should have Common sense approach to events that occur If youre running from an Axe wielding psycho you turn and sprint in the opposite direction Not jog whilst looking back ever three seconds gaging the killers progress only to trip over every branch and inanimate object in your path If you friend disappears you dont go looking for them alone And if you suspect foul play you tell someone not investigate yourself These clichs are tired and well overplayed In the horror genre in general and in this film in particular

Using footage pillaged from Planet of Dinosaurs this shot on video except for the stolen footage concerns a bunch of people shot into space who land on a dinosaur planet that isdont wait for it is really earth Its a five minute sketch stretched to 90 minutes Slightly better than Chickboxer another in the Bad Movie Police serieshaving a nostalgic home movie feel coupled with good stolen effects this movie is still an impossible slog to get through Im left to ponder the question are we becoming so uncreative that were now pillaging old movies not only for plot but also for mismatched footage Clearly low budget producers are getting so desperate they really will give us anything to take our money

I reflect back to the days when I held my boyfriends hat to smell him into existence in my time alone when I was 16 The little moments of this film are so accurate and right on pace with what is going on in the minds and hearts of young girls during those coming of age teenage years Now at my age I want to preach to them about their decisions and how life during those times are not as important as it all seems in those moments That if they can be patient in their youth and wait to experience the hardships of life both external and internal that life would be so much sweeter But then again young people today are faced with some variables that I never had to deal with a youth br br The three main characters well played by all three actors Kerry Wahington Lanisha Anna Simpson Joycelyn and Melissa Martinez Maria give us the very believable depiction of a piece of reality for young girls living in impoverished situations They have impoverished family lives all being raised by single mothers with expectation of Lanisha whose father is present but not actively supporting her day to day The have impoverished educational systems and lack direct contact with achieving role models These situations powerfully affect them and is their reality but all this is of no great depressive concern to these young women in their day to day They except their plight and focus on the same things young girls all over the world are concerned with Finding true love in a male having good friends that you can depend on gaining some respectlove and responsibility from parents and enjoying life This is were this film cross the race age and gender gap imposed upon it by its characters and the setting in which it is stamped br br The Director and writer McKay explains on the DVD how each of scenes got into his head by just observing young people of that age that lived in those types of neighborhoods Plus you add three up and coming actresses who are not so far removed from that time in their own lives that you get a real good synergy of reality and acting at its best The one thing I know about African Americans and Hispanics is that there is always a spiritual family member or neighbor that is in the foreground or near ground believing in a better day and better life and future in spite of the present situation and is role modeling that to some extent This was never touched in the movie in order not to preach and I understand that but it also narrows the culture to having no hope in anything other than themselves br br The HOPE FACTOR I now think about my future and where I have come from and say as Lanisha did ` Today is a good day Yes poverty still exists racism sexism and any other ism that we can added Yes some of each of these young girls actions perpetuate the isms and are selfdestructive everything around them is impoverished but NONE of those actions past or neither present nor their environment leaves them without hope for a bright future I was left with saddened hope of each of the characters and a deeper desire to be a role model in the life of some young girl on the edge of making a destructive decision I suppose that is the value of film it should not only entertain but cause each of us to think reflect and then act in some positive way to make this world a better placebr br

Wow what a snoozer Definately one of bacons worst films The bad acting coupled with a formulatic if not incredulous script make me yearn for time I wasted on viewing this on cable television back Not really much I can say about it a basketball scout gets too attached to the person hes recruiting who happens to belong to a tribe that happens to be on the verge of war which happens to be decided by spoiler a basketball game Grade F

As a young lass beautiful Joan Woodbury as Rita Adams was orphaned after her stool pigeon father was shot to death As a young woman Ms Woodbury finds herself struggling to keep a job as her murdered fathers exconvict status makes Woodbury a bad business risk Woodbury rooms with understanding songstress Linda Ware as Donna Andrews who advises Woodbury to get in touch with old orphanage friends John Archer as Bob Elliott and Jack La Rue as Mickey Roman But none of her friends can help when Woodbury is the victim of a scam which lands her in prison Upon release Woodbury decides to give the male mobsters a run for their money… br br Retitled Gangs Inc this is an obviously weak cheap mobster melodrama Still its a lot of fun to watch Woodbury work wonders with inferior material She plays the innocent growing more sophisticated Rita quite convincingly and she tosses in a great bit as a blonde hooker Woodbury must be added to the list of unfortunately underutilized Hollywood actresses of the past Paper Bullets also features an early Alan Ladd as Jimmy Kelly aka Bill Dugan Ms Ware who sang the hit An Apple for the Teacher with Bing Crosby sings a couple of fair 40s numbers nicely But mainly its Woodburys showbr br Paper Bullets 1941 Phil Rosen Joan Woodbury Linda Ware Alan Ladd

Jessica Albas Max and Valerie Rae Millers Original Cindy shines in this actionpacked and atmospheric serial Wonderfully politically incorrect Quality varies greatly from episode to episode but generally the standard is high and when it is not Jessica is always worth looking at Valeries urban jivetalking afroamerican is occationally almost dragging Dark Angel into sitcom territory

Cleopatra 2525 is a very funny entertaining show You shouldnt take all the show seriously but if you wanna have fun thats your TV show Being made by the producers of Xena is a quality guarantee and Cleopatra 2525 isnt that different from Xena The female warriors formula is brought to the future where they dont have to fight warriors or gods but dangerous robots which dwell in the surface and the humans are forced to live underground Along the two seasons of Cleopatra they develop an interesting and funny underground world and we get to know the three main characters Cleopatra Jennifer Sky Hel Gina Torres and Sarge Victoria Pratt They all are different but as a team they work really well The three main actresses appeared previously in Xena like most of the regularguest cast there are some known faces from Hercules too or from both shows I specially liked the character played by Danielle Cormack Ephiny in Xena which is very different from any of her roles I previously knew So if you liked Xena and Hercules youll love Cleopatra 2525 If you dont know them try it Im sure youll enjoy it

I dont understand how people could not like this movie You have Gossit Jr the kid who played the main character in Stand By Me Sean Astin and many other great actors Lots of action and fun that you dont see in todays movies anymore Its really a shame br br This is an underrated movie that is among other great movies like Lets Get Harry The 80s and early 90s created such great movies that will never again be topped by todays standards br br They tried to somehow recreate this movie in Masterminds but came up short with some really bad acting The only thing that movie had going was Patrick Stewart but obviously that wasnt enough

The movie never claims to be something spectacular like many films do The films props itself as a fun and entertaining time And thats exactly what it was It is the Korean version of a male Bring It Onbr br From the get go you can feel for the rest of the film and how it will end but the enjoyment is not in the surprise twists nor is it the way the film is a carbon copy of another Instead the enjoyment is held in the journey of how the 2 remaining thugs came to be men in their own right Therefore the film is fun and entertainingbr br The camera work specially the dolly moves were very well executed The script being a tad weak was overly enjoyable in the fact that the characters were not 2 dimensional but they were full of life and desire This film will not win any Oscars nor any DVD blockbuster sales but a fun watch and a fun experience

Having had more than a few mates suggest i check Rise of the Footsoldier out i eventually got round to it last night Undoubtedly the story Colton Leach has to tell and did so in his autobiography is a compelling tale of one mans ascent from Terrace boot boy to connected underworld villain This film sadly compromised in quality by miscasts appalling accents and woeful actingRicci Harnett in the lead role of Leach does a reasonable job of conveying the transition from thuggery to serious criminal but his accent is all over the place As his voice provides the stories narration it is something that after ten minutes was driving me nuts Terry Stone as Tony Tucker provided the unintentional comedy with an ill fitting wig or the worst Barnett goingdialogue that was so expletive riddled it bordered on juvenile and an over the top vehemence in line delivery reducing Tucker to parodyWhat troubled me most about this film was that the events leading up to the shooting in Rettenden Essex and the formative years of Leach are of genuine interest to crime fans and fans of football hooliganism so to have this story sabotaged by a lack of credible accents and acting left me feeling an opportunity had been missed Roland Manookian and Frank Harper provide the films only source of authenticity On the positive side some of the films pacing and construct flowed well and kept the attention The violence was well choreographed and aside from an over reliance on projectile red syrup for blood spatterings was on the whole realistic If you enjoyed the film then it is worth checking out Essex Boys telling a similar tale from fictionalised viewpoint and also featuring Billy Murray

I had some expectation for the movie since it had a nice star cast and it is the return of the duo of Akshay and Saif Well I was hesitant to watch the movie because this was done by the same man who wrote the story for Dhoom franchise because I hated Dhoom 2 but if Dhoom 2 is compared to Tashan I would say Dhoom 2 is very realistic br br When I saw the credits at the beginning I felt nice because it was put up in a nice way Well the very first scene itself pised me off Then the major drawback of the movie is the action sequences Me and my friends were laughing our guts off watching this crappy fights It was like Akshay against some 30 thugs and all and the thugs even got machine guns Phewyou got to see this to understand how bad the action sequences arebr br The other thing about the movie is the far too predictable story It reminded me of some of the early 80s moviesbr br Well the only thing the movie is worth is of sexy Kareena who looked really hot in this oneAnd for that I give a rating of 2 out of 10br br Guys pleasepleasedont see this one thinking that it is a real gangster movie Well you can watch this to have some laughs at the terrible fight scenesbr br Thats all

OK normally I am fascinated by Z movies Some of the actors directors writers etc in those movies have a shred of talent They want to get that talent out so unfortunately for them they have to associate with crappy people to make their films But some Z films do have at least one thing that may be noteworthy about thembr br Not herebr br As soon as I saw it I thoughtWow a Blade knockoff Believe me if this movie could have lived up to that label that would have made it a better moviebr br Instead I was subjected to some of the most horrible acting I have ever seen in my life Master Kao was bad so bad that I believe some of my neurons in my brain exploded trying to comprehend his acting I am still trying to make sense of his enunciation and why he would raise his voice in speaking certain wordsto add dramatic effect Im surebut it was for no apparent reason Simply mind bogglingbr br Oh and then there is the black guy in the purple cape near the end of the movie Purple cape guy fights the hero for about 30 seconds but he is so bad that it actually looked like he was scared of fightingbr br The main hero and the main villain did decent jobs The main hero Derek Washington seemed like he actually knew martial arts

I had looked forward to viewing this movie it seemed anyone who had seen it loved it I was completely disappointed The acting was so overdone The script seemed like the writer had gathered 25 different scripts from various movies and randomly chose dialogue and pieced them together to form one plagarized scriptbr br Spoilers Was any cliche omitted in this movie There was a mobstyle hit homosexuality prostitution a serial killer a fire numerous godfather wannabees the main character in love with the prostitute cross dressing torture by the police Hannibal Lechter style mutilations I could go on and onbr br Lines like the godfather wannabe to the prostitutebr br Ben senin arik calismani istemiyorum I dont want u to work anymorebr br Ben calismasam kirayi kim odeyecek Who would pay the rent if I didnt workbr br Unrealistic scenes We never saw a single policeman during the serial killer scenes yet when the main character disappeared his father was taken in by the police and tortured for weeksbr br The only way I can make sense out of this whole movie is if the version I had scene was severely edited from the original I definitely do not recommend it and would greatly enjoy discussing it further with anyone who would care to do sobr br

I was blubbing like an idiot during the last ten minutes of this exceptional piece of television I have to say that the idea of sitting down to view 90 minutes of what was bound to be pretty depressing material on a Sunday was not a welcome one The thought of yet another over worthy BAFTA winning possibility did not enthuse meHowever the end result knocked me for 6 This is some of the best television I have seen in ages For years I was under the impression that all originality had left the BBCs drama department Our Friends in the North was the last production that truly blew me away and that was 10 years ago However faith is restored and honour is satisfied David Tenant was incredible So many actors I can think of would have really gone to town on a part like this but never once did I see Mr Tenant as an actor or as the Doctor all I saw was Alan Hamilton I havent had my heart wrenched this much since Daniel Craigs performance as Geordie Peacock all those years ago Sarah Parish was also incredible and I really hope this role brings her better roles in the future All of the cast were great but special mention must go to the director who really placed us inside Alans head The toaster scene in particular made me feel quite queasy

1st watched 4292007 4 out of 10DirMick Garris Campy vampirelike Stephen King movie has so many strange and goofy elements that you start laughing over the extreme weirdness about 34 the way into the movie and you wonder if this movie might have a cult following for King fans Its the story of a mother and son who are sleepwalkersa shapeshifting felinelike flesh eating life needing near extinct breed of humanoid who move from town to town searching for virgins to feed on to keep themselves alive They come across as pretty normal upperclass folk except they are secret lovers and cats hang around the outside of their home day and night Cats are deadly to them so they set traps in their yard to try and keep the population down We get to see them break a couple of their necks when they attackwhich is also a first in my moviegoing experience hopefully no real cats were harmed in the making of the film The boy is after a sweet girl that he has a crush on until he turns into a sleepwalker and then he just wants her body There is so much campy uniqueness to this movie that it might have been better if it was an allout satirical comedy on suburban life but the director instead tries to scare you every couple minutes until you wish hed just get over it and bring out the gore Eventually that happens and the movie winds down to its typical Stephen King downbeat ending The movie is interesting because Kings humor comes thru more than usual but his weirdness is also very present and what you have is a movie that his fans will probably like and should have in their collection but as a worthwhile movie experience it really doesnt cut it

For the people who have compared this TRASH to the brilliance of David Lynch etc please listen to your carer when they say DONT USE OTHER PEOPLES PC WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION br br This is complete and UTTER POO There is NO art here This is some person trying to make a name for himself with a cluster of gross out ideas which he was not clever enough to enforce into ONE main idea so instead he went for the easy option br br Any one with half a brain could sit at home and conjure up some controversial images to shock viewers but it takes a person with true imagination to be able to make it into a movie people WANT to watchbr br I am a LOVER of shock cinema I have seen OR OWN pretty much all you can get And I can strongly advise to anyone who LOVES the world of movies to steer WELL CLEAR of this garbagebr br This one is ONLY for people who like to over analyze what they are watching OR for the 17 year old first time drinkers who dont know any betterbr br 010br br

Being a big fan of the romantic comedy genre and therefore having seen a large number of these films it is rare that one strikes me as totally unique For that matter it is equally rare that I am gasping for breath through the laughter during several scenes The love story is a little thin on the ground but Id say thats probably for the best as this romantic comedy has the emphasis firmly on comedy and in any case it stretches the bounds of credibility just a little more than I like most rom coms to do The four scientists provided some of the funniest moments not just in this film but in any film Ive seen in a long while I hesitated for the briefest of moments before finally choosing a 10 over a 9 as a rating as I believe that far too many people use it indiscriminately and therefore the maximum rating loses some of its impact Im also a big Meg Ryan fan which helps but this is one of the few films Ive seen in which Id say she is comprehensively overshadowed She and Tim Robbins are cast as the leads but for me play second fiddle to the antics of the bumbling intellectuals A genuine laughoutloud type film

Of all the seasons and episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE after seeing all the great mind boggling thought provoking stories this one stands on top Thats right This story this one entitled THE HUNT tops the large number of the finest scripts in Television Historybr br True there are no interplanetary space flights no inexplicable cracks in time There is no living nightmare no sudden changes of setting There is seemingly nothing out of the ordinary for our protagonist to deal withbr br The main character played by veteran character actor Arthur Hunnicut sets out from his cabin in the hills accompanied by his faithful hound to hunt raccoon Because the raccoon is a predominantly nocturnal animal hunt is by moonlightbr br The man and dog soon encounter a large raccoon who hops on the dogs back and attempts to drown the hound in a pond The man jumps in to help his dog There is a sort of almost blackout after which the pair are seen on the shore in a lying almost sleep like positionbr br Calling his dog by name Rip I think the old man sets off to return home When he arrives he finds the wife weeping and unresponsive to his conversation He also observes visitors coming and going to his house paying respects and giving words to console his wifebr br Still seeming puzzled at the strange reception and goings on around the Home Cabin the Man and Rip take off on a long walk down the road where He remarks out loud that he did not remember such a long fence in these parts He eventually comes upon a rather large fellow dressed in garb similar to hisoveralls hat work shirt They are at a gate which leads to an area where a lot of smoke is freely rising up The Gate Keeper is overly eager in his persuasive pitch in trying to get the man to enter Rip sounds displeasure The Gate Man tells the Old Man that he may enter but the dog would have to remain outside offering to watch the animal for him The man will have none of it and the two continue on their way down the pathbr br After a little more hiking they come upon a second gated entrance where the Gate Keeper recognizes the man and welcomes him When the Old Man reports what has happened down the road telling him of how the guy at the other gate tried to separate the Man and dog and added With no dogs allowed that must be a Hell of a place The 2nd Gate Keeper stated that he was right Thats exactly what it is br br Our family had lost our 1st Dog Ladya mixed Lab in October of 1981 About 6 months later as good fortune would have it the WifeDeanna and myself along with our 2 daughters Jennifer 9 and Michelle 6 viewed this episode on TV WGN TV Channel 9 Chicago Well it all made perfect sense to us at that timebr br Were certain that anyone who has had that relationship with a family dog would agree The episode still brings a condition of watery eyes to this now 60 year old writer

At first it seems the topical romance movie where a girl meets a boy and fall in love but the point is that this movie has a feeling others dont haveThe first time i saw it i couldnt see it complete because i had to leaveBut while i was walking along i thought i must see it again but i didnt have any opportunity by thenOne year went by until i saw this movie in a notfree channel and i saw it and i recorded it tooI saw it oncetwiceuntil 200 times and not kiddingI did know all the dialogues by hart and i dont know why but i saw it everyday and never got boredAnd i have to say that Im not used to see a movie more than twiceThe act is very goodGerard Depardieu is a talented actor and katherine heigl tooI would like her to be in a good movie because i think she can do itOn balanceits a movie i cant take out of my mind

They had such potential for this movie and they completely fall flat In the first Cruel Intentions we are left wondering what motivated the lead characters to become the way they are and act the way they do There is almost NO character development whatsoever in this prequel Its actually a very sad story but this film did nothing for me It was as if they left out good writing in place of unneeded fwords And the end makes absolutely no sense and doesnt explain anything The writing was just terrible Another thing that bothered me was that they used at lease 3 of the EXACT SAME lines that were in the original Such as down boy or the kissing scene and a few others I cant remember I was not impressed at all by Robins acting but Amy did a great job Thats about the only thing that reconciled this movie

The greatest movie everbr br Hows that for a contention However if we look at it through purely cinematic terms it is clear that Three Colours Red is a masterpiece It is not enough to merely say this Three Colours Red is the masterpiece of world cinema If you accept that Citizen Kane is not human enough if you accept that Star Wars is not actually very good if you accept that Ozu and Mizoguchi both have to take a step back then Three Colours Red is the foremost masterpiece of all time As a discussion into human morality Three Colours Red works on an intensely metaphysical level with a depth that none can match Blue went almost as far into the human psyche but stopped as it was going to pull the rabbit out of the hat White forced us to reflect on the humanity of equality this in retrospect was better still but still not quite there Red however is the real thing What he expresses in this movie is an expression of what it is to be human In fact what he expresses is _how_ it is to feel human It forces us to examine up to the minutest detail the very nature of our souls of our ethical selves In Red one may find meaning on one of its several levels On the first level Red achieves a high level of verisimilitude we could have no trouble in calling Red an exceptionally entertaining story However the coincidences inherent in the film and its conceits force us to examine the movie as a movie It is as if Kieslowski is saying Ceci nest pas la ralit In effect in pursuing a humanistic goal Kieslowski can also challenge reality It is a trick that Kieslowski has been attempting since Le Double Vie de Vronique but not until this his final film did he finally manage to reach this divine intertwining of fate philosophy and circumstance The actors and actresses too appear to be at the mercy of a greater power Valentine Irne Jacob is aptly name for she seems to represent an almost pure love Meanwhile the idea of first impressions is challenged by JeanLouis Tritignants Judge Kern a cantankerous man who by the end becomes an almost allknowing observer of events a character who symbolically seems to possess the power to bring characters together a power to make people happy a power which he could only achieve through Valentinebr br We have a capability to see films as more than just a series of pictures In fact films have the potential to possess more meaning than literature It wont happen of course but at least we have the power to view this film knowing that it gives us the power to achieve the something that we cant define but all possess A synopsis of this film read A film about a woman who runs over a dog Well it isbr br Isnt itbr br Simon Huxtablebr br

I was forced to watch this film for my World Reigonal Geography class This film is what is wrong with America today instead of figuring out the best way out of hard times or situations we would rather complain about how it is someone elses fault This film goes through the downfall of Flint Michigan and blames it 100 on General Motors In the process of doing so Moore goes to great lengths to make the executives of General Motors out to be villains just because they are doing their job in a capitalist society Moore films several evictions throughout the film and does not ever even ask once if the person is being evicted because of a GM layoff Additionally he never interviews the landlords of the tenants filmed Moore goes to great lengths to twist historical events to fit his political agenda in this film of pure propaganda

remember back when this movie was made by robert downey senior a very good entertaining black awareness feature which was an underground hit in californialos angeles and new york at the time a hippy loved classic where changes which occur in the business world are striking refreshing and interesting comedynon compliant not like basic society at the time of 1969 now watched is still very goodbut todays life in america totally diferent from 69 good for the baby boomers

Imagine that you are asked by your date what movie you wanted to see and you remember seeing a rather intriguing trailer about The Grudge So in good faith you recommend seeing that movie It is the Halloween season after all And it did boffo box office this past weekend so it must be pretty goodso you gobr br And youre actually in a state of shock when the movie ends the way it does and you hear yourself audibly saying that cant be the end of the movie But alas it is br br And imagine coming out of the movie theater being embarrassed and ashamed for recommending such a dog of a movie You think that your date thinks youre a bonehead for suggesting such an atrocity and your suggestion will certainly end a promising relationship Actually it was so bad that both of us cracked up laughing at how bad it was I see no future for Miss Gellar in the movies and suggest that she sticks to television in the future Actually it wont be long before she is consigned to fleamarket conventions selling Buffy memorabilia and it cant happen soon enough if you ask me Horrible horrible horrible The plot didnt make sense continuity was terrible Its apparent that the whole ending was contrived to have a Grudge IIThe Return of CatBoy

Watching CBSs Surrender Dorothy I kept wondering why Diane Keaton would want to be in it not because its a television moviewith the dearth of enticing roles for slightly older actresses it isnt any wonder why Academy Award winning performers such as Keaton turn to TVbut because it offers no opportunities for Keaton to shine A single mother grieving the sudden death of her twentysomething daughter imposes uponand gradually becomes friends withthe group of young people her daughter was close to at the time of her accident Adapted from the novel this teleplay gives us a group of selfabsorbed characters one would cross the street to avoid Aside from being coarse and dim these phony people are incredibly unconvincing as is the tidy scenario and the bungalow near the beach where the kids reside one young man who wears muscle shirts to tell us hes gay hears Diane Keaton say Surrender Dorothy and actually asks Thats from The Wizard of Oz rightno genius its from Citizen Kane Keaton may have wanted to do this material based on the subject matter of confronting death She tries turning this distinctly unlikable woman into a shadow of her own personage lots of kooky outfits but it doesnt sit well with the viewer since Keaton has always been warmly likable and flexible in a flaky way Here shes a crazed harpy who doesnt learn many lessons on her journey of selfdiscovery the movie quickly forgets its about a dead young woman and becomes an odyssey for the nervous wreck of a mom who appears to be an overage hippie who has never lost anyone close to her This is the kind of film actors promote on talk shows with the caveat It should help a lot of grieving mothers out there I cant imagine it helping anyone since it is intrinsically a downer muddled and baffling Its deranged

At first look of the plot tagline I figured it could have been a decent film Could I have ever been more wrong The beginning of the film makes it look like a bunch of freaks got together and decided to make a low budget film For the first 10 minutes you dont notice the cheesy acting horrible sound and godawful special effects but then it gets worse Just about 20 minutes into it I was asking myself What was the plot again I could only ask that question when I wasnt busted out laughing from the sheer lameness of this film The main actor has one setting for emotions and he sticks to it throughout the entire film even though he was supposed to go through love and hate and everything inbetween The flashback scene almost made me vomit because it made me relive one extra minute of footage from earlier in the movie Now we hit the middle of the film where they are obviously trying to rip off Morpheus from The Matrix although he is doing just a horrible job The actors talking about Star Wars and fortune cookie phrases is almost unbearable Now at the end of the movie you dont realize that its the end of the movie because you actually think the plot is finally developing The Morpheus character dies the ONLY good thing about the movie He utters a couple words and the credits roll What is this No plot bad acting cheesy everything it couldnt get any worse Please if you value human decency DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE

More and more french cinema demonstrates thats the only one able to confront Hollywoods and to spend high amounts on money in their movies If Bon Voyage had been made in the USA no one would be surprised Perfectly set in France in the 40s when the Nazi invasion technically irreproachable and with some of the most international french actors Depardieu Adjani Ledoyen Bon Voyage centerers on two parallel stories an scientific and his disciple Ledoyen who tries to hide one of his discoveries a kind of water that may work as an atomic bomb from the Nazis and a poor guy in love with a well known actress Adjani which ends up in prison accused of a crime hes not committed in order to protect her br br Bon Voyage seems to have been made in the old style without unnecessary camera movements and effects Without big turns in the plot As I said before regarding to the production itself theyve made a great job But the main problem with this movie is about the script Is it a spymovie A romantic comedy A spy comedy A comedy of intrigue Its not clear That makes Bon Voyage a little unbalanced When you think youre watching a comedy suddenly changes to another storyline a more dramatic one more slow I think they shouldve focused in one of the lines of argument the one about the spy plot and left the romantic parts in the backgroundbr br My rate 6510

I have nothing but praise for this movie and cast especially Ann Margaret But more importantly I have praise for my inlaws who were are the adoptive parents of Warren and Frank in real life I met most of the children at Warrens wedding in 1989 This is an amazing story and is even more incredible to me knowing the family and what everyone went through It is also enjoyable for me to see how my inlaws were portrayed in the movie It was pretty accurate My wife even enjoys seeing some little details such as a toaster that she remembered from her childhood Yes it is a hard movie to watch but so amazing and heartfeltbr br The beauty of this story for me is how many of the children passed through my inlaws lives and as a result of marrying their daughterand having Warren as a brotherinlaw how many I have met in mine For the past 20 years this story has been a part of my life because of what my motherinlaw has shared with me That and knowing Warren For what it is worth Warren lives in California with his family He married his high school sweetheart who he reconnected with at his 20 year high school reunionbr br There was a show in the 1980s called Thats Incredible They had a reunion of the family who also got to meet the cast of the showbr br For anyones interest the DVD is available in Great Britain and Australia It is a tough video to come by here in the United States and I have not been able to find a DVD here yet

May contain spoilersbr br I had very high expectations for this film based on the trailer I knew a bit about the real Ed Gein so I figured this was a mediumbudget Hollywood version of the real events Man was I wrongbr br First the writing apparently came from an eightgrader who barely knew anything about Eds history and cranked out the script in about 20 minutes The movie completely passes over the most interesting facets of Ed and his relationship with his mother not to mention what the real police found in his house and decides to focus primarily on the young deputy who looks like he just wandered onto the set Likewise all of the male characters seem to be adlibbing their dialog throughout the entire movie Im not exaggeratingbr br Dont even get me started with the historical goofs in this movie Seriously who the hell directed this This movie is supposed to take place around 1957 but the cops are carrying modern sidehandled batons some of the stuff in the hardware store look like they came from Lowes and when the cop gets to a payphone he dials 911 didnt exist back then Also Ed was a small guy scary like Anthony Perkins character in Psycho who was supposedly based on reallife Ed not this burly dude who ended up looking way too much like the bad guy in Men In Blackbr br Another thing that really bugged me was the appearance that the makers of this film shot the whole thing in an abandoned 3 building set Because of the clever camera angles you never see any actual town and the interior of the sets looked like old longabandoned shacks Pop a cash register on a sawhorse and baminstant hardware storebr br Im usually pretty forgiving of lowbudget horror films but this one just begs for it All you had to do was include most of the real events even embellish them pay five good actors instead of 15 crappy ones and for Petes sake take 5 minutes and think about the time period once in a while My advice Google Ed Gein youll be far more entertained

I cant help but laugh at the people who praise this show as heartwarming and tearjerking For one its entirely unrealistic that these people will have perfect lives after their new homesbr br How can these families afford to maintain these new megahouses And what about their poor neighbors Property taxes must surely increase after this happens Plus the noise would annoy mebr br Second how excessive can a reality television show become Its practically the same repetitive junk week after week Were introduced to a suffering family they renovate the home then surprise the family and everyone breaks out the Kleenex boxesbr br Not to mention how boring the renovation part is The only interesting part of the show is to see what the house looks like but even that segment is destroyed by the phony confessionals and constant sobbingbr br Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a show pretending to be heartfelt but it falls flat Skip this one If you like reality television Survivor is far superior and moving

With their no holds bar cruel offensive humor sure enough to offended anyone you would sure think this would be a laugh riot wrong Worest movie since Open water Dont be to surprised if you completely miss this movie upon release date as Im sure it wont do very good at all at the box office This movie had a lot of Potential but fell to little to short No enough character development awkward actors and The upside of this movie was nudity Boobs Amazing If I had to see this movie again I myself would go POSTAl

Pretty lousy madeforTV sequel to the Roman Polanski classic Rosemarys son Adrian has grown up and is embodied by creepy Stephen McHattie After eliminating Rosemary here played by Patty Duke a coven of witches again led by Minnie Roman Castevets preps Satans son for world domination Its not really scary and light years less macabre than its predecessor Instead writer Anthony Wilson and director Sam OSteen opt for a Satanworshiping thriller full of a lot of chanting plenty of candles and Ruth Gordon trying to act daffy and nasty at the same time Gordons the sole holdover from the original George Maharis replaces John Cassavetes as Guy and a very hammy Ray Milland plays Roman Castevets subbing for the late Sidney Blackmer Newcomer McHattie is the films only real saving grace Hes very offkilter and looks really sinister without even doing anything The music by Charles Bernstein is suitably creepy but so overused its ends up being intrusive rather than effective OSteen who edited the earlier Polanski masterpiece shows no flair or subtlety whatsoever

Nice doco Stuie br br Even though it didnt work out how you wanted with the original film you have a fantastic piece of work and great viewingbr br It is self evident how much you put into itbr br That goes for everyone else too Its great to see the warts and all account of the process without being too nicebr br Loved it Well worth a viewbr br Que pena the writer of the original film couldnt appreciate what you have achievedbr br Love the attitude too Great piece Looking forward to seeing the next workbr br Keep going bro Paully

Quite a heartwarming little film and not just for the kids John Thaw is brilliant as always without any hint of Inspector Morse about him The boy playing William did a good job as well though I didnt find him convincing in every scene I loved the whole feel of the small village and the slower pace of life in those times I also felt the scenes in London where historically accurate as far as I could tellbr br It strongly reminded me of a Scandinavian film I saw a couple of years ago called Mother of Mine That film featured a boy being evacuated from Finland to Sweden during WW II The wife of the family taking him in asked for a girl because as it turns outshe lost her daughter Getting a boy instead she completely ignores him The fact that the boy speaks Finnish complicates matters even further I highly recommend that film to anyone who enjoyed Goodnight Mr Tom it has the same feel to it

I picked up this movie because it caught my eye as movie with a Jewish comedy focus something I had not seen before br br I approached this film with an open mind and was interested in the way it began The opening is well put together and the first half of the film gave me many reasons to laugh and this is goodbr br However the humor soon became repetitive the plot became confused and strained and I realized I was no longer enjoying the film I have tried to avoid saying this but the movie became rather cheap not a bad thing for a comedy if the humor holds up but it didnt I confess that I may have missed some of the humour not being Jewish myself and having little experience with Jewish culture However considering how heavily telegraphed the bulk of the humour was in this film its unlikely I missed muchbr br The idea is a good one and perhaps if a little more thought was put into it the film would have been watchable all the way through I wish I could give the movie a higher rating but strictly speaking it would have been better as a TV series or as a series of skits There was just not enough worthwhile fresh material for a fulllength moviebr br One thing to say about the casting the lead role looked as if it had been designed with Ben Stiller in mind but I dont think the movie would have been any more worthwhile if he had been in it

I kind of liked The Lonely Lady Give Pia a break She looks great and she has really nice eyes Whats not to like The scene where she gets raped by Ray Liotta with a garden hose was kind of gross and cruel Actually a LOT of stuff that happens in this movie is gross and cruel But its a trashy movie A lot of movies that are trashy are not all bad I liked this better than Valley of the Dolls which was not only trashy but boring as well At least this wasnt boringbr br Pia gets naked a lot and seems miscast as a writer Watching her talk about Pushkin and Byron with a guy three times her age is flat unbelievable Im sure Pias a nice person in real life she just doesnt project the writer vibe She looked much happier when she was working as a hostess for that guy from Saturday Night Fever and wearing a glittery disco dressbr br A couple of the scenes are funny The one where she tells the twotiming actor that shes pregnant and he rolls his eyes and snaps at her to stop hanging around all the while hes practically fawning over every bimbo who flounces bybr br Pias nervous breakdown scene is good It was probably a mistake to go so supernova on it the vortex of floating faces and freezeframe scream whoa and her subsequent catatonic stupor is kind of overdonebr br The acceptance speech is a hoot though I want to see someone do that speech in a drama classbr br But again this is trash were talking about You could find worse on any movie of the week back in the eighties

The EMPERORS NEW GROOVE cast returns for Disney Pictures follow up but this time the spotlight is on Kronkvoiced by Patrick Warburton who is no longer YzmasEartha Kitthenchman Kronk has started a new life and is very happy with his role as chef of his own restaurant Things go merrily along until Kronk gets word that his PapiJohn Mahoneyis coming for a visit Kronk is worried because he knows that his life wont impress his Papi One thing that he has always wanted and never received is a thumbs up from his dad A flurry of blunders and a gigantic cheese explosion in the restaurant leaves our likable hero very deep in trouble and anxiety To save the day a little help from his friendsbr br Other voices Tracey Ullman David Spade John Goodman Wendie Malick April Winchell and Gatlin Green

Well I notice IMDB has not offered any plot infothats because its not possible to do that without sounding vile and disgustingbecause thats what this movie isVILE AND DISGUSTING I watched it because I am a humongous Fan of Chris Noth whom I have met in person and he is a great guybut if I ever meet him again I will have no qualms about asking him whatever posessed him to star in something so awful He plays a former child prodigy who is now a brilliant doctor who spends his spare time running over small children with his car with the intent of maiming and crippling themthis is not a spoiler because all this is made very clear from the beginingsickening enough Oh it gets betterhe is manipulated into doing this by his incestuous sister who threatens to withhold sexual favors from him if their latest victim fails to dieeven Clive Barker couldnt write anything so hideous Please if you want to see Chris Noth in something worthy of his talent rent Teddy Roosevelt and The Roughriders

Greta Garbo stars in Anna Christie a very early 1930 MGM talkie the first time Garbo Talks Anna Christie is a powerful movie but not for everyone The movie is filmed like a stage play short on sets and cinematography long on dialogue and dramatic characterizations Eugene ONeil who wrote the play Anna Christie is known for his dark work and Garbos character Anna Christie is a bleak figure with a tortured pastbr br The sound quality on the DVD was mediocre Not helping matters is that George F Marion who plays Annas estranged dad Chris Christofferson is verbally hard to understand Marion gives a good performance as the old drunken seamen whos teetering on insanity with his fixation of the evil devil sea But his dialogue is written with a very heavy Swedish accent this is true to ONeils original play Marie Dresslers dialogue as Marthy Owens is equally hard to understand Dressler believably portrays a broken down old drunken women a wharf rat Her dialogue also is true to ONeils original play as is Charles Bickford as the Irish seamen Matt Burke who pursues Anna in a troubled relationship Garbo is actually the easiest to understandbr br The films strong point is Greta Garbo She delivers a gut wrenching performance as the victim of neglect and abuse leading to a life of prostitution Garbo was a huge star at the time and considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood Here her look isnt glamorous its tortured Her body posture nearly doubles over in agony She scrunches her face to become a pathetic creature on the screen Garbo conveys these angstridden feelings to the viewer to convince us of her miserybr br This is dark subject matter and Garbo brings it to life Its not light fare not fun not for everyone Anna Christie is strong emotions dredged up from the depths for examination this is one helluva ride

SPOILERSbr br I gave this film 2 out of 10 for 2 scenes that I will never forgetby the way my husband rented this surprising nonblow em up almost chick looking flickbut I guessed why when I saw the covergirls in school uniformsduhlolah well men if ya cant beat em join embr br Bijou Philips one of my favorites on the indie screentoo cutenot only gets into bestiality her toy dog is the best lesbian in town according to her bubbly outrageous characterthat would be the first worthwhile scenebr br Then she enters a restroom in a lovely gown goes into a stallafter a bit she gets up goes out to the party she the pathetically sad Cat character are at hands a shiny silver ice bucket to the host of the partythe host looks in her precious silver ice bucket and says oh my god its poobr br I love Bijou Phillips myself for her creativity and unusual movie choices this would definitely be one of themand um I would rent it for the poo scene if I were youI am not a big poo jokes fan but it definitely puts the party people in their place they didnt look like they were having a good time anywaylolYou will never forget these two sceneshmm but is that what we want in our databanksMaybe you shouldnt follow my advice at alllolbr br Dominique Swain is kind of squirrelly sad in her confusing nonsensical role in Tart I dont know I cant decide if I like her because she is so into indie films Indie films are awesome all but couldnt she pick a few good ones I am going to check out a few more of her movies and reserve judgment but this one was pardon the reference to beasts a dog

You know that feeling of hilarity you get when you watch a film thats trying so hard to be a serious thought provoking piece of cinema and fails miserably When you cant help but bust out laughing at the sheer terrible nature of the trash littering your screen House of the Dead struggles to achieve even this low graded level of cinemabr br From start to end House of the Dead manages to recreate the feeling like youve just woken up to find out that the cat has laid its curled business neatly on your forehead while you slept It is clear from the start that the female actors have been cast for their cleavage size which they exploit shamelessly whereas the males for their hardcore kickass attitude I honestly did not care any of the characters for any moment of the film and found myself actually wishing their demise so as to spare me a good hour of this torture Uwe Boll should have considered screening two hours of footage from the actual game as a movie At least then well get better acting… However not all blame can be placed on the actors as it is certainly a challenge to produce a convincing film when faced with the script of this film It is arguably the worst section of the film and actually contains such lines as These are zombies pure and simple and No capn we must not go there Its evilbr br We all know that Zombie movies are never going to be particularly thought provoking or full of meaning at best they are a harmless two hours of action blood and closet terror Trash yes but entertaining trash Not the kind of trash which bursts out of your bin bag as you haul it across the room and smothers your shoes in sour milk cartons and decaying banana skins According to IMDb House of the Dead received such bad reviews that no Danish cinemas bought the movie If only we could have had the same privilegebr br Final Score 110

A powerful realtv movie Very subversive and therefore remaining almost unbroadcasted almostthanx 2 arte in France After youve watched this manhunt all movies filmed with the same concept a documentary team following the events as they arrived seem so weakbr br DAVID

Wow So much fun Probably a bit much for normal American kids and really its a stretch to call this a kids film this movie reminded me a quite a bit of Time Bandits very Terry Gilliam all the way through While the overall narrative is pretty much straight forward Miike still throws in A LOT of surreal and Bunuelesquire moments The whole first act violently juxtaposes from scene to scene the normal family life of the main kidhero with the spirit world and the evil than is ensuing therein And while the ending does have a bit of an ambiguous aspect that are common of Miikes work the layers of meaning and metaphor particularly the antiwar antirevenge message of human folly is pretty damn poignant As manic and imaginatively fun as other great Miike films only instead of over the top torture and gore he gives us an endless amount of monsters and yokai from Japanese folklore creatively conceived via CG and puppetry wrapped into an imaginative multifaceted adventure Fn rad and one of Miikes best

One of director Miike Takashis very best Its so good its difficult to put into words At nearly fifteen years older than the target audience it thrilled me from beginning to endbr br It recalls similar childrens films from the 1980s in the sense that unlike today those films werent afraid to scare theres a lot of nasty detail here that I initially found jarring but soon realised its nothing different to what I grew up on The film is a compilation of 80s kids films conventions You name it its there a young boy hero thrust from his own unhappydysfunctional world into another inhabited by mythical and mystical goblins a quest to save both worlds from an evil force a beautiful heroine he has a crush on a sadistic henchwoman GoGo Yubari from Kill Bill Vol 1 a lead villain who draws his evil power from something everyone in the world can relate to But all these genre conventions are given a fresh spin and added depthbr br One of the IMDb reviews begins Where was this film when I was a kid and its a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly Even while watching it I lamented the fact that I hadnt grown up on it that it wasnt a part of my childhood like Labyrinth Masters Of The Universe and to a much lesser extent The Neverending Story Those films and others like The Goonies are recalled but never copied Miike relentlessly offering us a new take on thingsbr br Poor CGI is a staple of many of his films sometimes due to budgetary limitations but just as frequently an artistic choice a desire to present things in an outlandish way Here the CGI is mostly average solely due to budgetary limitations but nevertheless he does a fantastic job of putting on a spectacle The CG effects combine with traditional puppets animatronics and truly extraordinary makeup to create a world filled with rich characters and characterisation that frequently borders on the visionarybr br This ranks as one of the greatest childrens films ever made Not for younger or more sensitive kids thoughbr br Just jawdroppingly wonderful See it for yourselves and if you think your kids can handleappreciate it then show it to them Let them grow up on The Great Yokai War as some small compensation for the fact you couldnt

In Sudan the Arabs rule and are constantly at war with the Christians and Animists who inhabit the southern portion of this East African country This film follows a group of of Dinka boys a tribe of cattle herders whom were left orphaned after their village was destroyed and their families killed in a brutal attack carried out by the Arab forces Most of these boys are now teenagers and have been dubbed The Lost Boysbr br The filmmaker follows a group of the Lost Boys on their journey as they have been accepted as refugees in the US where they will land in Houston Those whove been accepted as refugees gain celebrity status as they feel from what theyve heard that America is amazing Making a trip from Sudan to America is like making a trip to heaven says the one young man A huge party is thrown for their departure and they are told to do Sudan well and once they have been educated to return to Sudan so that they can contribute to Dinka society They are also warned not to be like those with the baggy pants whom are responsible for the negative stereotype of Black men and also no matter what happens not to forget the Dinka culturebr br You watch as the boys come from a third world country into America and how they attempt to integrate into American society as they have gone from a place with practically nothing to this plentiful world where everything is massively overproduced and overconsumed They are taught about cleanliness and how to use all the utilities that we take for granted on a daily basis It is humorous at times humbling at othersbr br Listening to the comments they make about Black Americans and American societyculture are quite interesting As the film progresses you see how American culture begins to corrupt their previously humble ways of thinkingbr br One of the boys Peter is not content with working and making just enough to survive so he up and moves from Houston to Kansas City so that he can pursue an education When the other boys visit him they talk about how they cannot get into any schools The main reason they came to America was to get an education and the media is saying that the boys have been brought from Sudan for an education This is occurring because the boys were given arbitrary ages making them older than they actually are preventing them from being able to enroll in high schoolbr br The film juxtaposes images from Houston to Kansas We watch as Peter enrolls in school where he befriends a group of Christian conservative kids and as Santiago attempts driving schooleven though he drives without his license anyways and works at Walmart We see Peter struggle with high school life as he strives to make his schools basketball team and as Santiago has trouble keeping up with work the rent appeasing tensions back home in Sudan and most of all coping with lonelinessbr br It comes to the point where the boys want to return to Sudan and tell them that everything they are taught about America there is lies You must make it alone here do everything alone one of the boys says A damning message to a Liberal Capitalist lifestyle showing how it causes people to become radical individualists a trend which led to the creation of both the neoconservative and radical islamist movements Their biggest beef with America though is that there is no time time is money and we dont waste a second br br Despite all this the boys never lose their sense of Dinka culture They celebrate Southern Sudan Liberation Day which marks the day which the SPLA began to fight in Sudan a fight which continues today They also meet with other Lost Boys on the anniversary of their arrival in America where they discuss their experience in America as compared to back in Sudan When asked one boy says that if he were able to make a living he would much prefer to live in Sudan It is much too lonely in America he adds They never lose their sense of community which has been conditioned into them as part of their culturebr br This film makes us question the way we live makes us question the artificial happiness that materialism and the nature of our societies has created within us It will also change the way I look at refugees I will never again take for granted how hard they must work and what immigrants mean for a country such as my own Canada This is a wonderful film I laughed I crieda very emotional journey and a very well made documentary 10 out of 10

Why do people bitch about this movie and not about awful movies like The Godfather Titanic is the greatest movie of the 21st CenturyWith great actingdirectingeffectsmusic and generally everything This movie is always dumped by all because one day some one said they didnt like it any more so most of the world decided to agree There is nothing wrong with this movie All I can say is that this movie not only being the most heavily Oscar Awarded movie of all time the most money ever made ever and sadly one of the most underrated movies Ive ever seen Apart from that it is truly the best movie of all time The only movies that come close to being like all the Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings trilogy or anything by the masters Hitchcock or Spielberg or Tim Burton These are all good movies and directors but none match up to James Camerons Masterpiece TITANIC

Ruby in Paradise is a beautiful comingofage story about a young woman Ruby Lee Gissing escaping her stifling roots to become herself Although the title character is played artfully by the gorgeous Ashley Judd in likely her first movie role albeit one to be quite proud of the emphasis is not upon becoming somebody a la the next Madonna whether Jesus mother or the lurid attentionhungry singerbr br It instead emphasizes following ones instincts and being somewhat introspective about them to grow into ones ideal adult self NOTE This isnt an action movie It uses an occasional voiceover narration by Ms Judd while writing in her journal and oh I see Ive just lost the male half of the readers out there But be patient with this beautiful movie where we learn that ones bliss can be discovered in oh I dunno carrying water and chopping woodbr br Actordirectorwriter Todd Field who played Nick Nightingale in Eyes Wide Shut costars as Ruby Lees noble love interest one who helps her heal her idea of relationships implanted from youthbr br But not even his character is the answer for Ruby Lee Theres no external hero imposed upon her The ultimate message is that we are responsible for ourselves Writerdirector Victor Nunez who also wrotedirected Ulees Gold did an amazing job showing a young woman growing into herself confronting ageold challenges of good v evil along the waybr br The supporting cast is also stellar and the music used particularly the cuts by chanteuse Sam Phillips whom I hear is the wife of T Bone Burnett is right on most especially Trying to Hold on to the Earth Now when I hear the first few chords of that song tears spring to my eyes Pavlovian and unbidden not sure if its the music or the indelible connection to the movies quiet charming message of empowermentbr br This movie is highly recommended for any young person trying to find hisher way For any woman of any age it is a must see The downside It is NOT on DVD except in Spanish We learned however that it is legal to make one copy of a VHS version which can be readily found online My beloved husband found someone with a VHS copy and got a DVD copy made for me Although this treasure of a movie occasionally pops up onair on an indie channel usually you cant count on that when you might need it most as a tonic to soothe the pressures of the world So buy a copy for yourselfbr br This movie should have a major rerelease and it would if I were Queen of Hollywoodbr br Figgy Jones

Maybe it is unfair for me to review this movie because I walked out well before the end Thats odd because I usually like Shakespeare on the screen and I enjoyed Midsummers Nights Dream once many years ago when I saw it on the stagebr br I think that two things did me in that squeaky twerp with the Shakespearian name Calista Flockhart and Michelle Feiffer sitting in a giant clamshell Well I suppose you could say it supposed to be a comedy but when the scenery is funny and the actors arent Id say we have a bad movie on our hands

Id never heard of zero budget auteur Neil Johnson before seeing Battlespace on DVD at Hollywood Video A few minutes into the movie I realize this isnt a bad thing Like many straight to video SciFi movies this is a film dominated largely by overused bad special effects and a constant parade of pretentious scifi concepts that fail to create a storybr br Viewers are tortured with a religious sounding text introduction then a spoken introduction followed by a narration by the main characters daughter To me this seemed like a smoke screen to mask a film with militantly ugly visuals and zero character emphasis Some people on here seem all too ready to take this film seriously and swallowed its seemingly new age messages hook line and sinker These favorable reviews must come from the same kind of people who can delude themselves into thinking that things like Battlefield Earth was a brilliant movie or that Shasta is just as good as Cokebr br Those who were lured in by the cheesy cover art can look forward to lousy acting in small doses spaced with long blocks of people not talking rotten computer animated effects in extra large doses and irritating talking computers What you wont get is excitement emotional stimulation memorable dialogue or a good storybr br Battlespace is impenetrable bull and the constant irritant of the narration proves it Real science fiction hell real filmmaking is about characters and their dialogue not special effects and dull predictions This is right down there with similar direct to video scifi like ClOne and Recon 2022 If the boredom of Strange Horizons and Alien Visitor is something you seek out by all means watch the crap out of this If you enjoy good storytelling and hate fake lens flares youre better off with a real movie

This movie isnt even good enough for the 1 bin at the grocery storebr br I only purchased it because Terrence Howard was in it Guess he couldnt be too choosy about his roles during this time br br The movie in itself was hard to sit through It seemed they were grasping at straws with a storyline The guys night out had to be the most boring Ive ever seen One minute they are talking and the next reciting poetry Even the arguments were hard to follow Most of the acting lacked any depthbr br I have no idea what they were going for with this one but they certainly missed the mark

The core message is strong the cast has given it their best shot the packaging is excellent but the screenplay is seriously overdramatized and every cliche in the book on womens suffering in India has been overused to the max

I found this movie to be exciting right from the startlike a Spielberg movie isand found the plot to be intriguing as I tried to figure out what the actual situation wasbr br Right from the startbefore the opening credits the action starts bringing with it immediate suspensebr br The two main characters are very likable I have trouble liking any of the Baldwins due to Alecs extracurricular political activities but William was not too bad in this moviebr br There were several highly unexpected twists which contributed to the enjoymentbr br There were unfortunately many places where there was an annoying high pitch sound in the soundtracksomething like 19K Hz I suspect the microphone was picking up video monitors on the set

This was on SciFi this past weekend and I had to check it out After all it was science fiction with vampires and Erika Eleniak What could go wrong with this Bmoviebr br A lotbr br To start with It cant even be classified as a Bmovie because that would put it in the same league as Roger Corman and this movie doesnt even meet his expectations The most money they spent was on the contact lenses for the vampiresbr br Secondly The casting was horrible Yes casting Udo Kier as the captain of the Demeter was a smart move but the director clearly couldnt even get Kier to memorize his lines Casting Eleniak in a vampire movie is also a smart move because it means a bunch of horny guys are going to buyrentrecord this flick to watch her get seduced by a vampire But the director writer and producer screwed that one too Granted they got some money out of the poor unfortuate souls who enjoy watching vampire movies with hot women in them but no one is going to remember this movie in another two or three yearsbr br Thirdly Little things that just emphasize the laziness in this movie For example Van Helsing calls a cross a crucifix and when Mina is staked in the coffin the viewer can clearly see the fact that her chest is nothing more than pillowsbr br Oh and one other thing Why did they go for the George Hamiltiontype Dracula instead of something that would look decently scary Does George Hamilton have an overwhelming hold on our future Why didnt everyone who saw Dracula just laugh at him for his getupbr br A waste of time Even with a TiVo remote in your hand

Director Tay Garnett Ford Beebe Cast Mike Mazurki Vic Christy Fritz Ford Tay Garnettbr br Based on the number of comments I see on IMDb this seems to be a forgotten movie This seems rather ironic to me because it is actually one of the first movies that I remember My mom took me and my little brother to see this film at The Garland theater in Spokane when it first came out in the mid 1970s and I still remember itbr br I am going by memory here but I believe this move is about a trapper who was accused of a crime which he did not commit and the law goes after him I believe it to be set in 1800s Alaska A narrator tells the story of the trapper played by Mike Mazurki Really this is a very good film with a great setting It could be compared to the 1981 film Death Hunt with Charles Bronson The two films have a very similar story line The main difference between the two is Death Hunt is an adult orientated film whereas Challenge is a family friendly film br br Mike Mazurki and Tay Garnett were both rather old when this movie was made which I find rather impressive when one considers that this movie was filmed on location in the wilds of Alaska This was the last film made by Tay Garnett before he died which was just a few years later They both had been around since the silent era

br br What is left of Planet Earth is populated by a few poor and starving ragtag survivors They must eat bugs and insects or whatever after a poison war or something has nearly wiped out all human civilization In these dark times one of the few people on Earth still able to live in comfort we will call him the All Knowing Big Boss has a great quest to prevent some secret spore seeds from being released into the air It seems that the All Knowing Big Boss is the last person on Earth that knows that these spores even exist The spores are located far away from any living soul and they are highly protected by many layers of deadly defense systems br br The All Knowing Big Boss wants the secret spores to remain in their secret protected containers So he makes a plan to send in a macho action team to remove the spore containers from all of the protective systems and secret location Sending people to the location of secret spores makes them no longer a secret Sending people to disable all of the protective systems makes it possible for the spores to be easily released into the air How about letting sleeping dogs lie br br The one pleasant feature of ENCRYPT is the radiant and elegant Vivian Wu As the unremarkable macho action team members drop off with mechanically paced predictable timing engaging Vivian Wus charm makes acceptable the plot idea of her old employer wanting her so much She is an object of love an object of desire a very believable conceptbr br Fans of Vivian Wu may want to check out an outstanding Bmovie she is in from a couple years back called DINNER RUSH DINNER RUSH is highly recommended ENCRYPT is not

Human Traffic is a view into an average weekend for a group of friends it is a flyonthewall view into their lives and minds which will show you how this group of friends relate to each other There are many moments in that every one can relate to Like being out of you skull at parties and talking complete rubbish to strangers The characters are all people that you can relate to and they are believable in the roles that they play in the movie The situations that they are in are all situations that we all have found ourselves in and that is where this film succeeds The topics of sex and drugs are handled superbly as to no get in the way of the characters relationships with each other The story to the film is not all that but that is not a criticism This is a film about people This is a well written film with a sound track to die for DJs Pete Tong has put together an superb selection of tracks for this file which all goes to make this one of the best films that I have seen in 1999 After watching this film I felt like I had been out partying all weekend Fantastic Movie Jo Brand as the voice of reality Need I say morebr br

One way or the other you cant get away from the basic message The strong survive Those who are psychically or emotionally sensitive leave They leave a hole behind in the lives of those who love them A hole that is seen in its finality as selfish Thats what Phoebe realizes in the end Just prior to helping Wolf heal from his selfblame She can accept closure to the missing of her sister Beautiful European scenery A lot of truth in it about idealism and addiction to the next big moment For a moment I thought of the BaaderMeinhoff gang who was around in the early 70s I liked this movie as it reflected a time when I came of age myself

The Elegant Universe brings to light many ideas of the universe and existence After watching this documentary one cant help but take a step back and rethink their view on the existence of everything There is a large cast of scientists mathematicians and others on both sides of String Theory It is continually brought into question as untested untestable and possibly dead wrong The closest to proselytizing that anyone does is to explain that Quantum Physics the set of mathematical ideas that give extremely good approximations of what happens to subatomic particles has never made an incorrect prediction Not so with String Theory no one is willing to say oncamera that String Theory is the truth and in so doing the piece retains a certain respectful distance from the subject

Asia Argento has never done a film so far as I know and this includes ones directed by her own father Dario where she fails to show all of her anatomy at some point Sure enough in the most boring opening dialogue scene ever poor Madsen has her coming into his office and right there reminding us that even though her hair is up she can still stick her fingers in her crotch at any given second which she does but in such a random what am I really seeing that kind of way The DVD box packaging makes this look like a femme fatale film so you keep waiting to see her turn into a sleek and minimalist killer no such luck Shes verbose hung up on some aging has been and even worse has no credible skills in physical agility other than surprise taking off ALL the clothes when any scene allows it Her accented English would be cool if only she didnt try to make it sound so affected and try to talk like a 12 year old How about this plot Weakminded but simultaneously nymphomaniacal woman is suddenly driven to kill while she already has another affair on the go and is running some cheap drug deal huh what does anyone have motivation in this movie to do anything other than buy a hamster The screenplay seems to be oriented by letting everyone talk a lot about the same things over and over I was expecting to see the worst acting on this appear as a producer who dumped money in it just to have some screen time there is nothing going on sub the obvious flaws of Asias character that at any point in the movie delivers what the DVD cover promises Shes weak but she knows how to kill she flails A LOT She flails naked she flails half dressed she even flails in a dead womans clothing she is very floppy and unmotivated In fact Floppy would have been a great name for this movie and a shot of Asia passed out looking angry on the cover would have been a better representation there are actually shots of her eating airplane food Whats that about br br THe ending makes 0 sense everyone is just annoyingly wishy washy in their intent and their execution of all objectives The wife of Lester doesnt deliver any REAL vengeance taking someone to bad karoeke IS life threatening but not really valid and Lester just floats around without really making much proclaimation of anything Totally misleading key art yeah we know Asia lost the baby fat of her first born but really a whole movie trying to pretend like thats interesting enough to drive a film about a passiveaggressive chick is not worth your while See Point of No Return instead

I loved this film Independent filmmaking at its best The cinematography pacing rhythm and acting were perfectly in sync Fred Carpenters best work to date The movie is well written with lots of plot twists that take you to a great ending It moves well and keeps you involved Being a photographer I was most impressed with the cinematography the lighting creates mood and a beauty that is usually found in a much bigger budget film This gave the actors a great canvas to start from to work their magic And that is just what they did Great performances from all the actors and each one was well cast in their roles As I said in the beginning the is a wonderful film and one of Fred Carpenters best movies You will love it

Dont get me wrong Dan Jansen was a great speed skater If there was one guy who deserved his gold medal at the Olympics it was Danbr br But how can it be possible that Bill Corcoran has made such a bad movie about the incredible Dan Jansen story because the real Dan Jansen story is truly incredible Especially when you look at this movie through the eyes of a sportsman everything is wrong the way Matt Keeslar and the other actors skate their technique the dimensions of the speedskating oval it is all wrongbr br Shame on you Bill Corcoran Dan Jansen deserves better a lot betterbr br 1 out of 10

Hilarious film I saw this film at the 2002 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Film Festival and laughed from start to finish The acting was subtle but very funny Im not entirely certain about The Real World influence we dont get that here but the film holds up without the understanding of that show Heather B steals every scene she appears in most notably when acting with her seldom talkative red costar Highly recommended Id love to see this released on VideoDVD some time in the future

This movie was good I cant say it was one of the best but it still was good The only reason that I watched it was because of Ryan Phillippe He is soo hot Dont get mad Reese But I think that it was sort of funny not a laugh your head out kinda thing but still OK

Warning this post may contain spoilers br br I only got a Gamecube in September 2005 and the first two games I bought were James Bond games the decent Agent Under Fire and the dull Goldeneye Rogue Agent The next game I planned to get was Everything or Nothing because my friend told me that it was better than the two games I already had I have to say he was right br br I bought this for a tenner in HMV and when I got home I slammed it in to my Cube and played it for hours on end It was much better than my other two games and there was a much better and more interesting storyline Graphics were some of the best I have seen but now that the XBOX 360 has come out Farcry Instincts Predator has some of the best graphics known to man The storyline was clever mad man Willem Dafoe named as Nikolai Diavolo and beautiful henchwoman Heidi Klum named as Katya Nadanova try to destroy the world with tiny nanobots which at the start of the game you James Bond have to destroy on a train The bad thing is that one of them is hidden in Katyas boobs You then have to thwart their plans and save the worldbr br The great thing about this game is that it actually has actors voicing the characters such as Cleese voicing Q There are 27 levels some of them short and some of them pretty long and trickybr br Gameplay 1010 Graphics 910 Sound 910 Replay value 710 Multiplayer 810br br I give this game a grand total of 90

I purchased a DVD of this film for a dollar at the big dept store Thats probably the best and kindest comment I have to offer on it At least it didnt cheat me out of the cost of lunchbr br The problem with Chiller is Cravens problem as a director The man has his apologists who claim his traveling papers prove hes a really smart guy and allaround sharp conceptualist But its no secret that as a director he has never possessed one iota of the visual and storytelling sense of a Hitchcock As vigorously attested by Chiller hes much closer to that legendary flatfoot Hershel Gordon Lewis What Craven lacks as a director is the main ingredient that would lift him from director for hire to a higher plane of film makingbr br Lets be specific The transitional moments of this film are sleek The establishing shots give it the feel of a quality production The film looks professionally put together in the way a film shot by a TV commercial director would A thought The films only visual distinction these transitions that at least look professionally handled may very well be the work of some second unit directors Its the parts between the bridges and smooth transitions the drama that fall flat br br The core of the proceedings are invariably perfunctorily handled The critical shots after say the departing car drives into the wellpositioned camera then we cut to the night exterior of a hospital then to the waiting area and hallway then to the phone booth in the corner that will figure in the next bit of action are quickly dispensed so we can hurry up and get to the next part Craven never comes anywhere close to exploding the dramatic or visual possibilities of any moment The net result of all this misplaced attention to the least important parts and the fumbling rush to keep things moving is a film that feels like the work of the fledgling art student who sharpens all his pencils fussily adjusts his easel and lighting setup grinds all his pigments stretches and primes his canvas and then has nothing to say Craven like the art student never gets to the meat of the exercisebr br For Craven apologists who will point out that this film was made for TV I will point to Spielbergs Duel and say no more

br br The movie starts out as an ordinary comicheromovie Its about the boy who is picked on has no parents and is madly in love with the schools 1 girl Nothing surprises in the movie there is nothing that you cant guess coming in the movie Toby Mcguire shows us that either he is no good actor or that no actor in the world can save a script like this one Maybe kids around the age of ten can enjoy the film but it is a bit violent for the youngest You cant get away from thinking of movies like Xmen Batman and Spawn All of those titles are better I almost walked out the last 20 minutes One thing that could have been good though was the computeranimation BUT not even that is anything to put in the christmastree So my recomendation Dont see this film even if you get paid for it

Poor secondstring feature from Universal Pictures about a mamas boy movie actor doing criminal investigation work for the military fending off the advances of the brash young woman hes been assigned to romance Robert Montgomery directed and stars in this adaptation of the short story Come Be My Love and his acting performances of this era are unrelievedly lazy The plot is sappy predictable stuff and writer Robert Carson has given all the really funny lines as usual for films of this period to the feisty black maid Its always nice to see Ann Blyth and Jane Cowl in support but they cant do much with this hokey material from

I love low budget independent films and had high hopes for this one But this film is static Never mind the production value which is very noble for its budget but the pacing is deadly Admittedly these folks achieve much with little but the film fails on the most fundamental level Its boring The editing is glacial and the pacing stalls It should have been 65 minutes The best thing about the Dr Jekyll is Mr Hyde who isnt seen nearly enough He had the most dramatic potential Instead we have to suffer through dithering BaltimoreanBrits stammer through endless and tiresome exposition It feels like a backwater stage play committed to videobr br Noble efforts by everyone in the production but a story this tired needed a kick in the pants and funky new low budget technology should have given it a fresh voice Instead its just a lame retread

Perhaps the best Isabel Allendes book House of the Spirits describes an alternative chilean history this one full of magic a mystic veil plus some kind of omnipresent sadness This movie gathers a great cast plus a great art direction with a script that cannot contain all this books quality Its unusual for a nearly unknown country like Chile to get so well represented as it is by this movie whose perhaps only sin is to aim too high and because of that left the illiterate public a little upset mostly because they understood very little

So it might not be entirely historically accurate And there is little or no real character development But for Jake son of Ridley Scotts first attempt its well worth the ticket pricebr br Captain James MaCleane Jonny Lee Miller looking as good as ever may be a gentleman but he hasnt got the money or the clothes to prove it Plunkett Robert Carlyle with all his clothes on is an apothecaryturnedoutlaw The circumstances of their strange meeting involve a dead body a ruby and eventually a partnership as the Gentlemen Highwaymen As the tag line says they rob the rich and thats it There isnt really much background or even indepth development but the object seems to be to relieve the aristocracy of enough money and jewels to pay for the two Highwaymens passage to America One small problem MaCleane falls in love With the Chief Justices ward Rebecca Liv Tyler Who happens to also have caught the eye of the Thief Taker Generalbr br The plot is original enough the casting is excellent especially Alan Cumming as the dragqueenish Lord Rochester Carlyle and Milleralso together in Trainspotting they havent lost their dynamic the costuming is fantastic the makeup is outrageous and the music is hardedged techno with a strangely classical undertone Jake Scott has an eye for light and shadow a good sense of balance between spectacle and plot and he isnt squeamish about showing the more unpleasant side of 17th century London And lucky for us he likes closeups of faces especially eyes Jonny Lee Millers eyes And Liv Tylers too but hey who is this movie about Rebecca No Plunkett and MaCleane But theres more to this movie than just pretty faces At the risk of sounding cliche its a fast furious and sometimes frustrating ride with the most noble highwaymen since Robin Hood Decadent sleazy and violent Scotts debut film makes for an entertaining evening at the moviesbr br As MaCleane says I was terrific and it was a bloody good laugh

Lights of New York was the first alltalking feature film There had been of course The Jazz Singer released in Oct 1927 as the first feature film incorporating synchronized dialog However this film released in July 1928 is virtually unremembered for its place in film history It had started out as a short but gradually more was tacked on until clocking in at 58 minutes it accidentally became the first alltalking feature film It opened to a grind house run and to Warner Bros surprise made over a million dollars That was good money back in 1928br br The plot is quite simple Two country barbers naively buy into a barber shop on Broadway that fronts as a speakeasy for The Hawk a gangster When they learn the truth they cant afford to get out because the younger barber Eddie has all of his mothers money tied up in the place Kitty is the younger barbers girlfriend and gangster Hawk Wheeler Oakman has an eye for turning in his older girlfriend Gladys Brockwell for a newer model chorus girl KittyHelene Costello A cop is killed while trying to stop the Hawks men from unloading a shipment of bootleg liquor and the Hawk sees it as an opportunity to frame Eddie thus getting Kitty for himselfbr br This early talkie is loads of fun for the enthusiast of these pioneering works Sure the plot is elementary and the dialog stilted but there is something you dont see much of in early talkies background musical scoring Vitaphone had originally been used for this very purpose and here they are still using it for musical accompaniment along with the dialog And there are singing and dancing numbers The scenes in Hawks nightclub are used as an opportunity to show off what films could never do before musical numbers There is even a wildeyed emcee with some heavy makeup left over from the silent era that is a hoot to watchbr br Vitaphone could not go outdoors at this point due to the static camera booths so the scene in the park between the two lovers Eddie and Kitty is simulated and cheaply The greenery looks like something out of an Ed Wood movie or perhaps a high school production of Our Town br br Gladys Brockwell as the Hawks castoff girlfriend delivers her lines with punch Shes a real trooper considering what lines she has to deliver To the Hawk So you think you can have any chicken you want and throw me back in the deck Huh mixed metaphors anyone And then there are her final lines Ive lived and Ive loved and Ive lost Did someone get paid to write this dialog Brockwell was making a good success of her talkie career after scoring some triumphs in silent films the evil sister in Seventh Heaven when a fatal car accident cut her career shortbr br Then there is Eugene Palette the older of the two barbers in our story His frog voice natural delivery of lines and cuddly appearance gave him a long career as a character actor usually appearing as a putupon family manbusinessman with a gruff exterior and heart of gold In fact Mr Palette is the only member of this cast who still has a notable career in films just three years after this movie is releasedbr br Finally there is the question of where is that microphone hidden Microphones were still stationary at this point and its fun to figure out where theyve hidden it There is one famous scene though where everybody can pretty much figure it out Hawk is in his office talking to his two henchman who seem to comprehend as slowly as they talk about taking Eddie for a ride If you watch this scene youd swear the phone on the desk is a character in this film Its front and center during the whole conversation The microphone is likely planted in the phonebr br There is something heroic about these pioneers flying blind in the face of the new technology of sound You have silent actors who are accustomed to using pantomime for expression vaudevillians who know how to play to a live audience but dont know how to make the same impression on a Vitaphone camera booth and you have dialog writers either trying to write conversation as compactly as they did title cards or filling up films with endless chatter br br Check this one out It is not boring moves fast and is loads of fun if you know what to look for And no I dont expect this one to ever be out on BluRay but I hope that the folks at Warner Brothers add it to the Warner Archive soon so everyone can see it

This film is terrible I was really looking forward to it as I thought Lantana was greatbr br The following review may contain spoilersbr br br br First the good things it looks great some of the performances are OK The bad things are everything else about it br br The story as you possibly know is about some blokes who go fishing and discover a body with the twist that they find it on Friday but continue fishing and finally report it on Sunday when they get back into mobile cell phone range However the film takes its time boy does it take its time getting to this central eventbr br Of the ensemble of characters about a dozen not one seems to like another one which is I suppose consistent because they are all unlikable I was extremely frustrated by the failure to adequately explain how the characters are related and it was not until near the end of the movie that I could vaguely construct the family tree br br Its hard to think of a film us unrelentingly grim which is a failure in the structure of the story as the characters lives seem just as bad before the fishing trip as after Once youve set the bar so high its hard to upit short of everyone committing suicidebr br There are silly lapses in logic The killer dumps the body in the lake and then it somehow drifts miles upstream into the mountains The fishermen walk out Sunday morning but for some reason Byrne gets home late at night after his wife has gone to bed Then first thing the next morning the cops bang on the door to get him to come down to the station Um they havent heard of the telephone Down at the station the media know the whole story less than 24 hours after they reported the bodybr br Totally missing from the story is the debate the blokes surely had after they find the body This is a mystery everyone asks them how could you do that and the audience is asking the same question The debate about what to do with the body is the key scene in Deliverance I know exactly what Id do in their situation Someone needs to walk out to the car drive to mobile range call the cops wait and them guide them back to the location If the others wait at camp and fish who caresbr br A lot of all this just seems false The only thing that rung true was that as the girl was black the local aboriginals seized on the fishermens actions as racist wouldnt have done it if it was a white girl br br Throughout there is a curious indifference to who might have killed the girl I think the subject is mentioned once and there is no mystery as the audience sees the killer in the opening scenebr br So Im sitting there simultaneously bored and confused when theres a twist not in the plot but the theme Suddenly it becomes about the quiet dignity of the bereaved aboriginals leading to a ludicrous ending with some incoherent stuff about blackwhite reconciliation Huhbr br This is Australian film at its finest according to The Age

Its 1978 and yes obviously there are too many black players on the teams as well Fans will be upset and certainly the 75000 seats will be full only less happy there are so many black players on the field This made for TV Super Bowl movie is watchable Its not much more but its really surprising the cast of talented actors that make an appearance for the time probably most notably Tom Selleck Unfortunately any goodness Selleck brings to the screen is quickly trumped by actors like Dick Butkusbr br Its a silly story about super bowl betting PJ Jackson is charged by New York read mafia for ensuring the game ends for their favor in this case a 10000000 bet PJ is innocent enough and seems to have a loose grasp by buying off a few people here and there But things seem to fall apart for him Another person the unsuspected Lainie takes charge For a while the mystery of murders isnt known for certain but is revealed rather plainly at the final murder that Lainie is the new antagonistbr br Its a bad movie but is watchable The acting is decent and the filming is OK At least there werent any silly typical 70s car chases they have their place just not here Just keep an open mind about past stereotyping and the cocaine era and youll survivebr br 210 maybe a 25

Eddie Murphy really made me laugh my ass off on this HBO stand up comedy showI love his impressions of Mr TEd Norton and Ralph Cramden of The HoneymoonersElvis Presleyand Michael Jackson tooThe Ice Cream ManGoony Goo Goois also funnyI saw this for the first time when it came out in 1984I laughed so hardI almost fell off my chairI still think this is very funnybr br Eddie Murphywhen he was on Saturday Night Livemade me laugh so hardhe is one of the best people to come out ofSaturday Night LiveEddie Murphy Deliriousis his best stand up performance next to Eddie Murphy Rawbr br I give Eddie Murphy Delirious 2 thumbs up and 1010 stars

A typical old bw film The dialogues are sometimes good but too often especially in the second half they get naive sometimes awfully naive occasionally close to the point where they are unintentionally comical The first third with its background information on Ladds Gatsby shown with a series of interesting flashbacks is the best part of the movie But once Gatsby moves into his new villa and makes his moves on Betty Field the film gets overly melodramatic The ending is yet another copout ending I dont know whether the novel itself contains this dumb clichd ending or whether the movies producer made some changes to it but Ive always considered caraccidents to be a poor way to add drama to the conclusion of a story Ive seen this plotdevice a million times or if its not a car then its a fall from a horse the writer doesnt know how to end the story but he knows that he wants it to be dramatic so he adds in a caraccident Lame And to make things worse the accident is outrageously coincidental and preposterous both plotwise and timewise plotwise because Fields husbands mistress Winters gets killed by Field and the fact that Winters sort of rushes out from the gasstation into the street as though shed never noticed in the years that she had lived in it that there was a dangerous road right across her house and of course at the very moment that she comes out she sees Ladds car and mistakes it for Fields husbands car and then shouts Over here Im here Run me over and make the ending tragic that way timewise because Ladd and Field get involved in an accident at the very day when they are preparing to tell Fields husband about their affair Basically there is just too much forced and artificial irony in this accident It also doesnt exactly help this movie how Winterss husband Da Silva goes on a revenge mission to kill the guy who ran over his wife he basically does this by walking around like a zombie going from car to car looking for scratches and acting very badly indeed Both Da Silvas acting and his characters behaviour throughout the film are awful and confusing respectivelybr br Scott Fitzgerald was upset on a couple of occasions how his novels were adapted for the screen by Hollywoods screenwriters and although he was dead long before this movie was done he might have been right to complain judging by this films naive script Or maybe his novels are even sillier and more naive than this film and were actually improved upon by the screen adaptations Or the films are pretty much like the novels I could of course read this particular novel to find out but I just cant be bothered Fitzgeralds name doesnt exactly inspire me to read any of his books and I dont mean the way his name sounds He was certainly no Heller Clavell or Twain More like Hemingway a lot of noise about nothing

Remember Ralph Bakshi The guy that was an animator on Terrytoons then on Paramount Cartoon Studios after that he was a director on Fritz the Cat 1 2 and Heavy Traffic Well this is Coonskin And its actually pretty good Racist but good The movie takes place in Harlem Nights No duh it was a working title but with a twist that becomes a lampoon of a Disney movie Song of the Southbr br Its about Sampson Barry White and the Preacherman Charles Gordone rush to help their friend Randy Philip Michael Thomas escape from prison but are stopped by a roadblock and wind up in a shootout with the police While waiting for them Randy unwillingly listens to fellow escapee Pappy Scatman Crothers as he begins to tell Randy a story about three guys I used to know just like you and your friends Pappys story is told in animation set against liveaction background photos and footagebr br Brother Rabbit voice of Thomas Brother Bear voice of White and Preacher Fox voice of Gordone decide to pack up and leave their Southern settings after the bank mortgages their home and sells it to a man who turns it into a brothel Arriving in Harlem Rabbit Bear and Fox find that it isnt all that its made out to be They encounter a con man named Simple Savior a phony revolutionary leader who purports to be the cousin of Black Jesus and that he gives his followers the strength to kill whites In a flashy stage performance in his church Savior acts out being brutalized by symbols of black oppressionrepresented by images of John Wayne Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon before asking his parishioners for donationsbr br Rabbit first goes up against Madigan a virulently racist and homophobic white police officer and the bag man for the Mafia who demonstrates his contempt for African Americans in various ways including a refusal to bathe before an anticipated encounter with them he believes theyre not worth it When Madigan finds out that Rabbit has been taking his payoffs he and his cohorts Ruby and Bobby are led to a nightclub called The Cottontailbr br A black stripper distracts him while an LSD sugar cube is dropped into his drink Madigan while under the influence of his spiked drink is then maneuvered into a sexual liaison with a stereotypically effeminate gay man and then shoved into clothes that women were representative of the racist archetype adorned in something racist and finally shoved out the back of the club where he discovers that Ruby and Bobby are deadbr br Then while recovering from his delirium of being drugged shoots his gun around randomly and is shot to death by the police after shooting one of thembr br Rabbit Bear Fox and the opponent boxer rush out of the boxing arena as it blows up The liveaction story ends with Randy and Pappy escaping while being shot at by various white cops but managing to make it out alivebr br This movie was controversial at that time of release and was reedited by the director several times under the title Street Fight which is obvious since Street Fight is a 2005 documentary about racism in the streets In fact this movie has the same subject as the documentarybr br That caused Bryanston Pictures the distributor of this film and the original Tobe Hopper classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre to go out of business Because Paramount wanted to produce and distribute this film but due to racism Bryanston took over Bakshis productionbr br Despite the controversy it was worth the entertainment The animation was awesome at that time the plot makes sense and its actually funny toobr br FINAL VERDICT 910

I saw the film and am very pleased to see a film so different in character and story to the stupidmainstream American major productions Its a film with a background interesting for young as much as all age groups Contrary to certain reviews the audience seems to split my evaluation as the film is very successful wherever yet exploited worldwide For example in Netherlands is was ranked number 3 Negative statements must be respected but one should expect such to be guided on a fact basis If you have the chance view the film and enjoy it

In need of work straight man Bud Abbott as Jack and comic partner Lou Costello as Dinkel get the latter a job babysitting selfdescribed problem child David Stollery as Donald Young Stollery winds up reading Mr Costellos favorite novel see if you can guess the title which puts Costello to sleep dreaming he and Mr Abbott are reliving the story of Jack and the Beanstalk you guessed itbr br The sepiatone switches to color for the bulk of the production Apparently this was an attempt at something different for the duo a colorful childrens fantasy It fails but this is where you get to see Abbott Costello in color silent film superstar William Farnum as the King make his last performance a bit part boxer Max Baers brother Buddy and Stollery before Disneys Spin and Martybr br Jack and the Beanstalk 4452 Jean Yarbrough Lou Costello Bud Abbott Buddy Baer William Farnum