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Of the many problems with this film the worst is continuity and reediting it on VHS for a college cable channel many years ago I tried to figure out what exactly went wrong What seems to have happened is that they actually constructed a much longer film and then chopped it down for standard theatrical viewing How much longer to fill in all the holes in the plot as we have it would require about three more hours of narrative and character development especially given the fact that the film we do have is just so slow and takes itself just so seriouslybr br Thats staggering what could the Halperins have possibly been trying to accomplish here Their previous film White Zombie was a successful low budget attempt to duplicate the early Universal Studios monster films The Mummy Dracula etc and as such stuck pretty close to the zombie mythology that those in North America would know from popular magazinesbr br Revolt of the Zombies to the contrary appears to have been intended as some allegory for the politics of modern war This would not only explain the opening and the change of Dean Jaggers character into a megalomaniac but it also explains why the zombies dont actually do much in the film besides stand around look frightening and wait for orders theyre just allegorical soldiers not the undead cannibals weve all come to love and loathe in zombie filmsbr br I am the equal to any in my dislike for modern war and its politics but I think a film ought to be entertaining first and only later maybe educational And definitely a film about zombies ought to be about zombiesbr br Truly one of the most bizarre films in Hollywood history but not one I can recommend even for historic value

First off Mexican Werewolf in Texas title is misleading as many others have pointed out It is actually about El Chupacabra which is a similar creature to a werewolf but by no means the samebr br The production and editing just plain suck When it was over I probably wouldnt be able to give a very accurate description of what exactly the Chupacabra looked like for whenever it was in a scenedespite one or two exceptions the camera turned all shaky and you could only see the monsters face clearly The special effects were laughably bad but that has to be expected from a low budget horror moviebr br Along with the terrible production comes the bad actors Now a couple give fairly plausible performancesErika Fay and Martine Hughes but then there were the bad actorseverybody else who seemed to have no emotions whatsoever when people died Then theres the absolutely terrible actorSara Erikson who gives one of the 2 worst performances Ive ever seen in a movie I mean my god she was indescribably badbr br The plot was very simple Basically a Chupacabra is in a small Texan town killing off local residents and a group of teens look to stop it However even with the plot being this simple a few plot holes managed to leak throughbr br Anyways horrible movie However if you are looking for a movie to make fun of and laugh at with your friends one night this would be a pretty good one My friends and I had a good time watching this Probably the 2nd worst movie Ive ever seen 110 Awful

BottomoftheFreddy barrel This is the worst film in the series beating Freddys Revenge for that title A cheaplooking with mediocre special effects incoherent mess with Freddy turned into a punster He has one or two cool lines but that doesnt save this illogical and sloppy sequel

If youre the kind of moviegoer who enjoys original content and intelligent suspensethen look elsewhere kids cause Sleepwalkers really sucks Usually Im more eloquent than that butwowthis was bad I especially love it when Charles offers Tanya a ride home she declines and then he is seen WALKING HOME Wheres his car Anyway just dont see it folks I really want to be more specific but words escape me Cats jumping on people A guy getting stabbed by corn Cheesey lines up the proverbial wazoo Just dont see it Wait I take that back See it for writer Stephen Kings cameo as the guy who owns the graveyard Hes actually pretty good Even with guest appearances by Mark Hamill and Ron Perlman King gives the best performance of the film But other than thatwowBAD

Kusturika made it again Another masterpiece A coral comedy full of his own landmarks with a frenetic rhythm and many glorious moments we laughed and laughed what a party The music is everywhere and also the shooting the animals the crazy bastards sex and amazing gadgets and inventions everything colorfully visual to entertain only Pure cinema in essence A wonderful experience to watch And one is specially grateful since good comedies are so rare and so wonderful Well this is one and if you enjoyed Kusturicas previous films youll love this although as in all comedies it is about a chemical reaction and you have to be in the mood for it

My brother plays Moose in this film Although most of his scenes were left on the cutting room floor The funniest line is the movie is nothing wong with stat So anyway this is filmed in Portland OR where we grew up The dance club iswas called Up Front FX What I loved about this movie is that the main character who is not named on the box because Bolo brings more clout is supposed to be a police detectivea great opportunity to drive around in a red convertible Porsche I need to get a copy of this preferably the directors cut so I can see all the scenes my brother is in The only scene he is in is the beginning when they are in the dance club He got the spot because he was dating this cheerleader from a semipro football team called The Oregon Thunderbolts It is interesting because his name comes up as the first entry in IMDb Fame has him fortune not so much

This crap is like watching paint dry Im so disappointed because I was so eager to see itbr br There simply is no meaning to this film If it were never made no one would notice or care Its hyped up because of all the big names in it but if nobodys were in nobody would give this film any lovebr br Seriously I was at the point where halfway through the film I would look at Vanessa Redgrave and think Hurry up and die already This is like the Joy Luck Club without any of the friggin joy Its the Oceans 13 nothing but a bignamed cast of motherdaughter movies and completely anticlimaticoh until its finally overbr br Im sure theyll all be nominated for Oscarsbr br 4 stars for cinematography and the ability to convince great actresses to commit to this junk

With a story and screenplay that seems to have been written by a high schooler The Art of Seduction fails to deliver the romantic sophisticated experience it tries to bill itself as The two main characters have the potential to be interesting both male and female lead are swinging singles or in the female leads case engaged but The Art of Seduction doesnt even try Shirking from a frank examination of these two characters personalities The Art of Seduction eschews anything of substance for a basis of thin lean stereotype br br The Art of Seduction is insulting insulting to its characters insulting to men and women and insulting to its audiences expectations It takes the awful beautiful people we all know and plays out their painful interactions while expecting us to idolize them Jiwan is an immature spoiled manipulative bitch The viewer is expected to like and forgive her flaws because shes pretty Minjun well hes exactly the same Neither are nice people The humour in this film primarily revolve around Jiwan and Minjuns outlandish attempts at outdoing each other in the honourable art of lying and manipulation No character development occurs and we never learn why Jiwan and Minjun are like this We are simply expected to take them as they are and not ask questions theyre cute and thats all that matters The copious references to the celebrity of the main actors in azn cinema scenesters reviews may tip you off to Art of Seductions shallowness br br If youre still in high school you liked Grease or you are a yellow fever victim you may like this moviebr br Despite its Romance tag this is not a very good date movie

Unfortunately many consumers who write reviews for IMDb equate low budget with not good Whatever else this movie might need more budget really isnt part of it Big sets and lots of special effects would have turned it into another Lara Croft movie What we have here is a step or two better than thatbr br The nearly unknown Alexandra Staden is captivating as the enigmatic Modesty and this is crucial for this movie to work Her wise little smiles and knowing looks are formidable and you find yourself wishing that the camera wont leaver her face It makes it workable that the bad guy Nikolai played by also little known in the US at least Nikolaj CoasterWaldau might take an unusually cerebral interest in her something Modesty can exploit She is able to divert his raping her with just a shove and spitting out stop wasting my time then storming off between his heavily armed yet suddenly diffident henchmen Making a scene like that plausible doesnt happen by accidentbr br Probably the biggest problem I have with the railthin Staden playing Modesty is it just isnt very believable for her to go hand to hand with an athletic and muscled looking guy like CoasterWaldau and beat him She just aint a Peta Wilson or a pumpedup Hilary Swank type actress who can throw a convincing punch CoasterWaldau letting himself be overpowered by Staden looks like hes just roughhousing with his little sisterbr br Since this is not really an action film this isnt a big flaw I just hope they do better on that if and when they make sequels

I am a great fan of Martin Amis on whose book this film is based Unfortunately the director has been unable to translate the book to the screen The novel is thoroughly post modern and highly artificial in its wildly overblown characters and the disintegration of traditional plot line and character development It is an hilarious examination of human greed excess and emptiness by one of the most moral of contemporary British writers The director of the film has completely missed the point of the novel In his hands the film screams along at breakneck speed indulging in every known trick shot and odd camera angle possible It is like Ken Russel on acid and suffers from that older directors self indulgence cranked up to a hundred Not even the brief glimpse of gorgeous actor Christian Solimenos penis was enough to save this wretched film for me Abysmal

It may be although there are still two or three Ive missed This film constructs an interesting nocturnal cityscape reminiscent of so many foggy scenes from Sherlock Holmes movies and populates it with sinister Kafkaesque characters Into their midst the movie drops Mia Farrow who sounds like shes still playing Hannah and Woody Allen who seems to be reprising his nebbish role from Play It Again Sam Are we supposed to laugh at his stammering and handwringing I suppose I would if the rest of the movie were clearly a comedy but its not At least I dont think it is

It wasnt notable enough to be truly horrible it was just incredibly lame The story was not half bad but the execution was just horrendousbr br To start with it moved too fast for us to emotionally get involved with what was going on It was just paced badly The dialog was so utterly unsparkling just flat and boringbr br And the characters cripes almightly they made Deadpool boring How the hell do you make Deadpool boring He wasnt even funny He wasnt crazy He was just an annoying guy with a couple of swords he did not even know how to use properlybr br Gambit was boring And since when did he have telekenisis to make the cards just float and fly around or super strength to leap hundreds of feet into the air And what the heck was up with all the stupid helicopter moves I mean we know they are mutants but they still exist within the realm of physics A round bo staff is not a helicopter blade you cannot fly by twirling superduper fast Which Gambit wouldnt be able to do anyway Nor Deadpool especially when using it as a replacement for real fight choreographybr br And this film stands as proof that wire work should only be used by fight coordinators who know WTH they are doing and know better than to use it in every single shot as a replacement for real fight choreographybr br Three of the most physical fighters in Marvel comics Logan Creed and Wilson and some of the worst fight choreography I have ever seen in recent film memory It was as if the stunt coordinator just shrugged his shoulders and left it all up to the special effects guysbr br And then you had the break out with all these mutants who did nothing Even mutants who had been shown in their cells to have powers nice to see a Quicksilver nod did fall when they got out Only EmmareallylameforthisfilmFrost and Cyclops did somethingbr br And since when was Logan so pretty And the stupid The bullet will take his memory away Dont you think Xavier and the XMen would have noticed the big freaking bullet holes in his adamantium skull when they Xrayed him in X1 I felt sorry for Liev Schrieber man he actually brought in a good Sabretooth considering the script He made one of Marvels more simple super villains feel real But he could not save the film from its own epic lamenessbr br Seriously this was Daredevil level of suck Decent story good actors absolutely horrible execution

Following which the touted update goes and shoots itself through the head Rather apt considering the sorry state of this movie a sequel to a film which patently didnt need onebr br What really irritates about Robocop 2 is that the makers obviously didnt understand why the original was so good in the first place Robocop 7 was a witty vibrant satire of bad action movies Robocop 2 is just a bad action moviebr br Thin on dialogue particularly towards the tedious shootout finale it attracts little interest and possesses none of the energy or spirit of the original The spoof ads now a little tasteless Warning continued use will cause skin cancer seem merely there as an afterthought And calling a new designer drug Nuke is nowhere near as subtle or as funny as the originals family board game Nuke embr br The stopmotion animation the weakest element of the original is used more extensively while this humourless sequel fails to include a credits sequence which makes it look even more cheap and hurried Ah humourless You might say But what about the funny mayor or the way Robo is reprogrammed to spout platitudes Yes these are attempts at light relief as is Robo tightening himself up with a screwdriver were only human for the films punchline but none are likely to induce laughter Like the rest of the film theyre staid and moronic attempts at entertainmentbr br The third and final film in the series imaginatively titled Robocop 3 5 saw Peter Weller leave to be replaced by Robert John Burke who does well in a undemanding role With toneddown language and violence it was an obvious plea to the kiddie market a Robo action figure much plugged throughout With its social conscience too overstated and Robocops newfound arm attachments and jetpack getting too silly the final film was never destined to be a masterpiece Yet fluid direction by Fred Dekker and a flowing pace make this one enjoyably throwaway viewingbr br Robocop then is the film proper Robocop 3 is the sequel which you could watch if there was nothing better on Which leaves the second movie hanging in the middle an unwatchable dirge of a picture A franchise vehicle that has nothing to say save for the pound signs that rung up Irvin Kershner is no Paul Verhoven just as comic artist Frank Miller and partner Walon Green arent the writers that Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner were A tragic waste of a good if limited concept 410

I think this cartoon is one of the worst cartoons I have ever watched I would recommend this cartoon to people who are under 5 I did used to like this show when I was 4 and 5 I still only watched it when there was nothing on Now I am other 5 and I would rather do my homework than watch it The cartoon used to be a bit funny but they were not enough to make me burst out laughing Now I am older I am interested in show witch are not rated Us I have started to watch Doctor Who 12A Torchwood 15 and Sarah Jane Adventures PG I am interested in things to do with Doctor Who so I am not interested in 5 year old cartoons This cartoon didnt last very long it only had 6 seasons it got cancelled because of it was low on viewers but some people say it was because the writers ran out of ideas but for most other shows they have at least 8 seasons

This movie isnt terrible really Somebody commented that Mo is the type of American Europeans snicker at But there are those and not necessarily AngloSaxon yahoos who do not care for Frenchmen and the Xavier character isnt going to sway thembr br Lets consider his stereotypical Frenchman attributesbr br 1 Cynical very cynical Checkbr br 2 Reedy underfed appearance check despitebr br 3 A great appreciation of cuisine Checkbr br 4 Lukewarm work ethic Check Forget the fact he is supposedly a rich stockbroker from watching him in the film he seems to put in ten hour workweeks br br 5 Beautiful wife check Despite thatbr br 6 Loose interpretation of the marriage vows Checkbr br 7 Big sexual ego which says an American girl owes you sex if you buy her dinner Checkbr br Whether Mo is a hick or not theres no reason for her to fall for this smug European twit other than the script dictates sobr br On the other hand as other male reviewers have I did enjoy seeing Karen Allens cute petite body Ill give the movie four stars two of them are for that

This movie has Richard Pryor Rosey Grier and others Its a curious WW2 movie and serves as a statement about racism It is worth watching to understand the fact that Movies reflect how we feel about the issues when they are produced and not about the period of time they portray Meaning this is a 70s movie not a 40s movie WW2 Still there is some good action scenes of 7 seven black men led by a white captain trying to capture a Dam The story centers on the Captain learning that these men are soldiers and not just a service company There is a scene that could be from a Civil War movie and not a WW2 movie that reflects what the movie is all about The Black Lt gives a German women a innocent peck on the cheek and the white Capt becomes upset I enjoyed the movie from a curiosity stand point since the stars and the Genre were interesting to me

I know that movies arent necessarily supposed to mirror reality but this one got on my nerves It perpetuates ignorant stereotypes about psychological trauma and mental illness The psycho mom thing has been done too many times before and usually done better and much of the rest of the plot is farfetched as well The acting was not horrible but nothing to rave aboutbr br One highlight I am a longtime fan of General Hospital and it was a trip to see one of the roles played by former GH regular Jon Lindstrombr br Anyway if you can overlook the bogus psychoanalytical part of it in the same way a person must suspend reality judgment when watching a lot of movies then this movie might be tolerable If you have nothing better to do and fairly low standardsbr br Im sorry I spent my time watching it

A really wonderful cast and very talented technical crew wasted their valuable career time and our equally valuable leisure time by bothering to support this utterly predictable and plainly formulaic piece of commercial junk The movie is based upon a really good and very topical idea but both the producers and the director simply applied the standard Hollywood disaster movie formula and thereby ruined any potential value from the productionbr br An unusually high tide and very strong gale conditions combine to produce a record high storm surge that overwhelms London and floods most of the Thames Valley The plot centers around a heroic scientist Tom Courtenay who alerts the authorities of the danger and ultimately saves the day a glamorous female police chief who runs the entire show and an embattled Deputy Prime Minister David Suchet who tries to look importantbr br But its all so unreal that one feels like an extended tea break after just 30 minutes The young glamorous female Police Commissioner demands complete authority over the army during a declared State of Emergency and gets it as if The experienced General is just pushed aside like a complete moron who has to lick her boots because of her obviously superior capacity The trouble is that our female supremo whilst now responsible for millions of lives spends most of her time worrying over the fate of her two daughters who have taken a trip to South West London and havent telephoned to say they were alright So our mighty woman sets her staff to look for them and decides that the sole priority for all the army and the rescue services must be South West London and not any other quarter of the city Of course the Minister the Army and the entire entourage accept her prioritization without question One can only assume they all had property there When her children are eventually found after endless reports and efforts by her staff she is told by our male hero Thank God theyre safe thats the main thing Never mind about the millions of others or all the other responsibilities she was supposed to control as long as her own kids were safe everything was alright br br This film is just another excuse to push the same old female chauvinist sexist clap trap that women are the clever mindful caring and clearly able leaders whilst men are good for nothing except physical bravery mindless strength and very specialist knowledge And yet the one simple instruction that she could have given the populace namely to go to the nearest tall building and calmly go up to the 4th floor or above and await instructions when the waters recede was never given by this female super hero or indeed anyone else The whole problem was so simple to solve and yet millions of people apparently didnt think of simply going upstairs Pathetic rubbish

Yes Shakespeare would indeed have been proud Laurence Fishburne was not at his best but certainly not bad Kenneth Brannagh on the other hand was brilliant His scheming was wonderful as was his toying with the audience Very nice workbr br There were at times too little drama where more would have been expected Cassios slaying for instance was a bit clouded by too much happening to far apart causing the spectator to twist his head to grasp it allbr br Did I mention Michael Maloney His madness striken Roderigo was unusual annoying evenbr br If you havent seen Othello before see this If you havent read Othello see this If you havent heard Othello see this You do on the other hand do yourself a favour by reading it seeing it acted onstage and hearing it sung too

Lets face itbr br This movie is incredibly clich as Korean romance dramas and movies go First of all theres a pair of longlost siblings one of which falls in love with the other Second theres a notsopopular girl and two gorgeous popular guys who fall for and fight over her Third one of the characters suffers from a tragic disease which eventually takes his lifebr br Still I like this moviebr br Without the right actors this movie would probably have disappointed fans of the novel But because the actors fit the roles perfectly the movie is engrossingI honestly couldnt stop watching Kang Dong Won despite his pretty face gives an awesome heartrending performance not to mention Lee Chung Ah and Jo Han Sun plus all the supporting actorsbr br Id definitely recommend this movie to everyone

This film is a Pia Zadora special When viewing it I was reminded of the classic cartoon showing a Hollywood starlet in urgent need of another role but afraid of becoming typecast for B movie or soft porn roles who says at her casting session Well of course I do not normally do roles requiring nudity but if it is artistically necessary for the film This recollection brought up a very naughty image of a similar cartoon showing Pia at such a session saying Well of course I do not normally take any roles requiring actual acting but if it will really give me sufficient exposure to enhance my status as a sex symbol This is probably grossly unfair the rather sordid tale is the fault of Harold Robbins book considering the nature of the story Pias exposures certainly do not receive undue attention and perhaps Pia who once won an acting award in Butterfly is deliberately satirising her part rather than attempting to act in an almost unplayable role Critics usually point first to the actors as the problem whenever a film proves disappointing but this is grossly unfair the scriptwriters and director are far more often the guilty parties The real problem with The Lonely Lady is that the screenplay like the original book looks for sensation rather than substance and nothing can help with this br br The screenplay for this film is abysmal but whether the story could have been filmed more successfully with a better script tauter directing and really competent acting must remain a matter of personal judgement As it was released my viewers rating for it would depend upon whether I am assessing my personal opinion or assessing to what extent the film succeeds in providing what it aims at doing My personal rating for it would be two out of ten but to some extent this film probably provides exactly what its sponsors intended and judged on this basis a quality rating of four out of ten would be reasonable Being in a charitable mood and wanting to make it clear that I am not blaming Pia for my disappointment I will give an IMDb rating of four

If you find yourself in need of an escape something that will hold your attention for two hours and allow you to be lost in another world Domino will satisfy that need This is entertainment after all The plot keeps your brain in motion one of those movies like Usual Suspects where you want to see it a second time to figure it all out I wondered about Domino Harvey herself how her life became of interest to Hollywood As for the acting lots of celebrity appearances not shown in the trailers And any actor that makes me forget who they are has done their job well Not once did I think of Kiera in a soccer uniform or pirate costume And granted Mickey Rourke plays Mickey Rourke well and often but here despite the violence he shows signs of being capable of caring for other people

The highlight of this movie for me was without doubt Tom Hanks As Mike Sullivan he was definitely cast against type and showed that he can handle an untraditional for him role Hanks is usually the good guy in a movie the one you like admire and root for Sullivan was definitely not a good guy Its true that in the context of this movie he came across as somewhat noble his purpose being to avenge the murders of his wife and youngest son Even so he was already a gangster and murderer before those killings So Hanks took a role I wouldnt have expected him in and he pulled it off wellbr br Hanks good performance aside though I certainly couldnt call this an enjoyable movie After an opening that I would best describe as enigmatic it wasnt entirely clear to me for a while where this was going it turns into a very sombre movie about the complicated relationships Sullivan has developed as a gangster largely raised by Rooney Paul Newman whos a sort of mob boss and trying to raise his own two sons and to keep them clean so to speak isolated from his business After the older son witnesses a murder the gang tries to kill him to keep him quiet gets the wrong son and the mother and leaves Sullivan and his older son Mike Jr on the run It becomes a weird sort of fatherson bonding moviebr br Although it ends on a somewhat hopeful note at least in the overall context of the story its really very dark throughout that mood being reinforced with many of the scenes being shot in darkness and torrential rainfall I have to confess that while I appreciated Hanks performance the movie as a whole just didnt pull me in 410

I saw this movie way back when it premieredbr br It was based on the notion that autistic children could communicate with typedout messages with someone else merely aiding them and guiding their handsbr br Then suddenly these children many of whom werent even observing the keyboard or the screen when the messages were being typed out they could be looking up at the ceiling in some instances but their moderators were eyes glued on the keyboard began typing messages of abuse from their parents and other persons sending parents and child welfare agencies in a proberbial tizzy left and rightbr br This whole thing was proved a fallacy when a third person presented a folder opened it to the child and said type the picture you see then as the presenter turned the folder to the moderator a fold would fall down revealing another different picturebr br So while the child may have seen a dog the moderator saw something like a boatbr br Every time every bloomin time the name of the picture typed was what the moderator had observed never what the child was shownbr br So who was doing the typing Never the childbr br This movie further took a disastrous turn with as the Australia poster stated the person who molested the child in the movie was IN the situation trying to help the childbr br Had Melissa Gilbert never put her son IN that place he wouldnt have been molested is what the movie says He was better off under her supervisionbr br If I turn my kid over to your organization for aid and he gets molested instead do you think Im going to be keen to listen to anything you have to say after that Not likely I think it is a safe bet that all of these accusatory messages that these kids were typing out that this movie was based on they never accused someone within their operation as took place herebr br Unfortunately I do recall that the movie gave a very good performance from Gilbert as the mother of an autistic but other than that the movie really didnt do muchbr br The worst by far was the child typing at the end to Patty Duke and we hear the mechanical voice read back what he typed we won This child was molested If you cut my leg off and I take you to court and you are found guilty of damaging me assault whatever then that is legal justice but it doesnt bring my leg backbr br At best in my condition I will view it as a hollow victorybr br Whatever chance this child had at what is perceived as normalcy with the autism alone is further damaged by the molestationbr br A normal child has enough to contend with from such an experiencebr br Its utterly superficial to think that you must look upon any situation and go we won if that person is found guilty in courtbr br Just a bad handling of a situation and circumstances all the way around here

This owes a great deal to the plot of CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS Although he is quite grown up it is partly the story of a wealthy lad who is shanghaied as a crew member aboard a cargo vessel and becomes a man in the process Moran of the title is a boyish young woman also brought up on a vessel owned by her father When the cargo burns she and crew members are evacuated to our lads ship However the captain has smuggling on his mind and his intentions are not honorable where Moran is concerned The inevitable ensues our lad falls for the mannish Moran and she for him In the end evil is subdued and the lovers are united Some interesting dialogue points out that Moran belongs to no man and no woman A nod to Sappho here Dorothy Dalton is appropriately sexless as Moran and not too attractive either Valentino does well in a romantic action role His sexy build and physique are shown off to advantage and the role is quite a masculine one He is very appealing This is no great film but it passes the time What it really showcases is Valentinos beauty and sexiness

I was in physical pain watching the eyes of the cast as they participated in this sham Bad dialogue worse worst acting lifeless all the way and the cast knew it The two preceding movies which this attempted to copy had life sparkle and were captivating

not many people outside poland have had an opportunity to become familiar with andrzej sapkowskis brilliant writings hes very popular in poland for his fantasy short stories i believe none of them has ever been translated intrto english alas to make a long story short wiedzmin the main character of sapkowskis books is a traveling monster slayer a man of extraordinary strenght and skill hes pretty much your favourite tolkienstyle cool guy unfortunately no one would figure this out after watching the film wiedzmin the movie is nothing but a collection of random scenes featuring wiedzmin and other characters from sapkowskis writings but not eben remotely resembling the plot and dramatic pace of the original event the fact that some of the shots in the film show attractive naked women does not add any quality to it the movie gets worse and worse with every minute and does not even meet the requirements of so bad its actually good category if you really are into fantasdy and want to learn something about wiedzmin read the books instead

In this offering one only has to view the current Westminster Kennel Clubs annual offering to see the parallels Outrageously funny and captures the true essence of the competition One can only imagine the wit of the producers and the amazing ability of the performers I too would have nominated this movie for a Globe Award and feel it is one of the funniest I have ever seen

Noni Hazlehursts tourdeforce performance which won her an AFI award is at least on par with her effort in FRAN three years later Colin Friels is also good and for those who are interested Alice Garner appears as Nonis child and Michael Caton best known for THE CASTLE is a bearded painter Also interestingly Hazlehurst is currently the host of lifestyle program BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS and Caton is the host of propertytype programs including HOT PROPERTY HOT AUCTION etc This film reaffirms the popularlyheld belief that Noni was arguably Australias top female actor during the earlytomid 1980s Rating 79100

Maybe Im biased because the F16 is my favorite fighter aircraft although the F14 is probably second or third but I liked this movie The sequels Iron Eagle II and III dont measure up acting and plot wise but the first one along with Top Gun have excellent flying and music along with reasonable plots and acting II and III clearly have much less of a flight budget but their main drawback is plot and acting I suspect the relative fame and popularity of Iron Eagle compared to Top Gun is almost entirely a reflection of the fame and popularity of Jason Gedrick compared to Tom Cruise Another plus for me is an all too brief appearance by Shawnee Smith 710

Perhaps the wildest outlier in Alfred Hitchcocks career is this straightout comedy vehicle by the director pairing Carole Lombard with Robert Montgomery as a couple who discover a mistake has invalidated their marriage Where do they really stand with each otherbr br Contrary to what others say there IS an element of suspense here The idea that these two miserable people might escape each other free to inflict their awfulness on some other undeserving matebr br Its funny reading comments here about how miserable Lombards Ann Smith plays out in this film because Montgomerys role is as much of a heel He manhandles Ann snaps at witnesses shortshrifts clients just the kind of lawyer who gives his profession a bad name Ann is overbearing too of course the kind of wife who holds her husband hostage from work for six days over a petty squabble bringing up things like what he did in Paris when he was 20 and hadnt even met her yet I forgave you that she says as if it was big of herbr br For David a revoked marriage is an opportunity to have a little illicit pleasure with his mistress before tying the knot for good For Ann its an attempt at premarital sex that must be repelled with a bottle of champagne to the head followed by expulsion from their apartment and her lifebr br The acorn doesnt seem to fall far from the tree as Anns mother is scandalized into apoplexy when she learns what David tried to pull Oh my poor baby Thank Heaven your father is deadbr br Thats a rare good line in this laughless unlikeable comedybr br You can call this an example of the remarriage comedy in which the bonds of matrimony are challenged in order to be reaffirmed You can also call this an example of what Roger Ebert calls the idiot plot in which the storyline depends on the main characters acting like idiots Hitchcock seems to have a laugh at uptight American morality but cant really do much more with it than a jokeless scene where an older couple is scandalized by the sound of loud plumbingbr br Lombard died within a year of this films release it was the last film of hers she lived to see What a shame it couldnt have been something better She was overbearing in My Man Godfrey too but in such a likable way you didnt just have to go with her you wanted to Here she plays for laughs that arent there while sadistically breaking Davids chops again and again Montgomery rolls his eyes a lot like Groucho a study in smugitudebr br The only really decent thing in this movie that lasts more than a few seconds is Gene Raymond as Davids law partner Jeff Custer who makes a play for Ann and acts with honor and decency Raymond underplays his many reaction shots and even a drunk scene all to good effectbr br SPOILERSo decent a guy is Jeff that Ann ends up rejecting him for not fighting David after she goads him into a confrontation calling Custer a lump of jelly Jeff exits the scene leaving Ann and David together for their future murdersuicide Heres one Custer that managed to escape a massacreSPOILER END

This was my first Gaspar Noe movie Ive watched and I have to say I was shocked I dont mind gore in generally but this isnt even gore its real butchering For some of you a couple of scenes may be impossible to see and I mean really disgusting Leaving aside these aspects the main ideas revealed here and the dialog are quite brilliant When you are given a strong argument against bringing a new life into the world and the manner in which it is given you cant stop and take a minute to think about it The actors did their job well representing general masks of a handpick few people found at the bottom of a diseased society The movie is full of metaphors but Ill let you figure them out Dont watch it if you want to have a lite relaxing time I recommend this movie to all those of you who want something to think about or simply watch something different of what you find in your average cinema

Anna lives with her family in a new housing estate just outside the city She has been with her husband Sebastiaan for years and they dont talk so much anymore While on a working visit abroad a female colleague commits suicide Anna is deeply impressed by her death even though she hardly knew her Nobody seems to know why she took her own life For the first time Anna realizes that one can be an unknown among your most dearest Anna doesnt mention the incident back home and starts observing her husband and child Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly starts looking at her own life And she wonders how she got so drifted apart from the people closest to herbr br This is my translation of the DVD cover text synopsis I hope you find it useful as this movie doesnt have an IMDb Plot Summary yet at this date

I dont understand the positive comments made about this film It is cheap and nasty on all levels and I cannot understand how it ever got madebr br Cartoon characters abound Sues foulmouthed alcoholic layabout Irish father being a prime example None of the characters are remotely sympathetic except briefly for Sues Asian boyfriend but even he then turns out to be capable of domestic violence As desperately unattractive as they both are Ive no idea why either Rita andor Sue would throw themselves at a consummate creep like Bob but given that they do why should I be expected to care what happens to them So many reviews keep carping on about how realistic it is If that is true it is a sad reflection on society but no reason to put it on filmbr br I didnt like the film at all

If B movies tired and corny scripts and golf carts dressed up as some sort of futuristic mode of transport are your sort of entertainment youll probably enjoy this Otherwise forget it The topless newsreader though completely irrelevant did give a few seconds of amusement

OK enough already this is a terrible piece of television the camera work is appalling do i have to remind you of the crunchy gravel so loud you can hardly hear the actors speak lady bertram has the most annoying voice in the entire world anna massey is acting in such an unbelievable fashion and the lack of chemistry between fanny and edmund is beyond beyond also the bertram girls arent pretty enough and the guy playing henry crawford is awful to say the camera work is dodgy is an understatement i watched this adaptation over Christmas and i think under any other circumstances i would not have been able to endure this and certainly would have not been able to justify the wasted timebr br i am a fan of faithful to jane adaptations so i could not bear the film adaptation or the recent pride and prejudice movie but see any other adaptation instead even emma is better than this

Yes he is No not because of Pintilie likes to undress his actors and show publicly their privies Pintilie IS THE naked emperor so to speakbr br Its big time for someone to state the truth This impostor is a voyeur a brat locked in an old mans body His abundance of nude scenes have no artistic legitimacy whatsoever It is 100 visual perversion he gets his kicks by making the actors strip in the buff and look at their willies And if he does this in front of the audience he might eve get a hardon Did you know that on the set of Niki Ardelean he used to embarrass poor Coca Bloss by telling her Oh Coca how I wanna f you She is a great lady very decent and sensitive and she became unspeakably ashamed to his petty satisfaction And as a worrying alarm signal about the degree of vulgarity and lack of education in Romanian audiences so many people are still so foolish to declare these visual obscenities works of art Will anyone have ever the decency to expose the truth of it all

I bought this DVD for 1 and now i realise why The acting was the worst Ive seen in a long time The lighting and sound are shoddy at best The plot makes little sense even when sober WARNING I dont advise watching this film when sober This film feels like youre watching the home movie of someone who doesnt get out much It really is a shame that all the very little money spent on this project went to such a waste I look forward to seeing if any of those envoled still have a career other than eva longoria who is the only star of this film that was apparently not hit with the bad acting stick Im sorry that none of this criticism seems constructive but I will say one thing to James Cahill dont try it again In the words of squirlyem Its severely lacking in the good department

Pavarotti and the entire cast are superb in this beautifully filmed opera by Giuseppe Verdi the worlds finest composer of operas The coloratura soprano is particularly spectacular with her perfect pitch The title role is wellenacted and wellsung The entire production is as perfect as one could expectbr br A masterpiece of cinematographybr br

I am shocked and amazed to find reviews short of miserable for this horrible film I rented this movie or feces whatever you wish to call it with several friends and after thirty minutes we had to stop watching Just listening to the dialog left a horrible taste of sour milk in my mouth This film was about as intelligent as an ass pimpleI hope I never see that braless raggedy Anne look alike Julianne Nicholson againIt was like watching the most putrid pilot for a sitcom that will never make it to television but instead of being a quick but painful 30 minutes all I could barethis was an excruciating 90 minutes

There is a DVD published in the UK in 2002 Code HRGD002 on the cover no ASIN VFC 19796 on the disk no IFPI code in the inner rimbr br Probably a straight transfer from VHS br br There is no much point is commenting an adult film But this one contains a minimal plot and the characters are believable It was shown in the United States in normal cinemasbr br Ive seen it In Pensylvannia way back in 1975br br As such it deserves a place in an Encyclopedia of Movies The DVD has no special features and no subtitles and was probably made using a VHS tape as source

This is a low budget film with a cast of unknowns and a minimum of on location shoots The Philippines substitute for Thailand and nobody actually goes to Hong Kong The stock shot of a Cathay Pacific jumbo jet landing at the old airport makes the transition perfectly This film proves that you need neither mega budgets nor a headliner star to produce an excellent movie It contains neither the gaffes nor the excesses that young filmakers often stumble into Solid workmanship from people who know all the aspects of movie making and who understand the compromises between art and box office An excellent piece of work

Will and Teds Bodacious journey is an existential trip through themes of mortality religion time Heaven and Hell mans quest for fame and his fears of the body being overcome by a soulless machine It is the most intelligent work of fiction since Paradise Lost and references many great past works of art Dante Iron Maiden Virgil Shakespeare This time the dudes are a famous rock band having travelled through time collecting icons from the past Napolean Joan Of Ark Noahs wife Oscar Wilde and Charles Darwin They took the skills they learned from each of these people abducted a couple of Princesses and finally learned to play their guitars and write hit songs These songs teach the world to love again and war hunger evil are vanquished for eternity We fast forward into the distant future where an evil dictator who despises good music called Simon CowAl wants to rule the world He eats Rooshus the cool guy from the first film who helps Bill Playboy Esquire and Ted Theodore Alvin and gains the power to send two cyborgs back in time The cyborgs are living tissue over metal exoskeleton and coated in mimetic poly alloy allowing them the survive the turmoil of time travel and they can imitate anything they sample by physical contact It is their job to Kill the good Biff and Fred and take over their lives by making terrible music that noone could like By doing this they will change the world forever Gryll and Jeds music will never be made leaving a world of war famine and hatred and more annoyingly bland boygirl group pop music There is a startling twist as the good guys actually are killed and they have to work out a way to save the world themselves and their wives from the evil Dopplebangers inhabiting their bodiesbr br Penelope Spheerhead shows her knowledge of both youth culture and real culture by mixing modern day music and phrases with post modern sets and artistic references and seeks to teach us all something by delving into our very psyche to show us ourselves She presents the nightmares which faced the late 80s teen in a society which had abandoned them and beckons us to dissect the post structuralist jingoism self love and malaise of the time Charging us with a belief that we can indeed change the world it is an inspiring message but in order to achieve such dreams we must traverse and indeed face our nightmares To overcome is to succeed to defeat Death is the first step in truly living and not merely surviving In the words of Kenneth Reeves Wow Best Scene For a fun game see how many songs bands and albums cover references you can spot throughout the film There are at least 6

The story idea behind THE LOST MISSILE isnt bad at all but unfortunately the story does get a bit dull towards the middle and the overuse of stock footage as well as poor special effects sink this film to the subpar levelbr br The film begins with a missile heading towards the Earth In a panic because its about to strike the Earth the Soviets manage to deflect the object This isnt necessarily good however as this seemingly unmanned craft has a vapor trail that destroys everything in its path AND the ship is now in a low orbit over the planet In other words with each pass it makes a swath of death followsone that could potentially kill us all So its up to the good scientists of the US led by a very young and hardly recognizable Robert Loggia to formulate and plan to save usand especially save New York that is in its immediate flight path Unfortunately they arent able to save Ottawa Ive never been there so I cant say whether or not this is a big loss but thanks to good old American knowhow they are able to eventually destroy this harbinger of destruction br br So as you can see the story idea isnt bad and rather original But so many old clips of fighter planes and guys manning radar scopes gets a bit old and it seemed like padding Overall a decent but hardly inspired film that extreme fans of the genre may likeall others see it at your own risk

This film is one of the more risqu black and white films of this time in the early 1930s before the Hoyts Code was enforced Its the story of a young beautiful woman moving to New York and making her way to the top of the business by using her body as a tool to get therebr br Barbara Stanwyck plays the young and beautiful Lily Powers who indeed does a fairly well job with her performance Lily moves to New York and makes her way up the business place by sleeping with all the men Stanwyck does an outstanding performance as being a strong woman who uses men as one time deals hardly any emotion towards them playing them as if they were pawns Lily Powers is a woman who doesnt have love on her mind just power and moneybr br I thought this movie to be a little bit different then other films I have seen because there is hardly any background music heard I believe it is only because this is when people were first introduced to live sound and dialogue between the people of the film The few times the music is heard is during the beginning as we are shown how she makes her way up the chain The filming and different scenes were something fantastic The director of this film did all the right angles and all the right tricks making this film full of realismbr br This film was all together an alright movieThe ending to this movie wasnt as good as it should have been but it didnt entirely ruin it Baby Face had its slow moving scenes throughout the movie and perhaps a few predictable parts such as who she will sleep with next But this is a lovable movie that can be watched more then once and suggested to some people and friends

So the other night I decided to watch Tales from the Hollywood Hills Natica Jackson Or Power Passion Murder as it is called in Holland When I bought the film I noticed that Michelle Pfeiffer was starring in it and I thought that had to say something about the quality Unfortunately it didntbr br 1 The plot of the film is really confusing There are two story lines running simultaneously during the film Only they have nothing in common Throughout the entire movie I was waiting for the moment these two story lines would come together so the plot would be clear to me But it still hasntbr br 2 The title of the film says the film will be about Natica Jackson Well it is sometimes Like said the film covers two different stories and the part about Natica Jackson is the shortest So another title for this movie would not be a wrong choicebr br To conclude my story I really recommend that you leave this movie where it belongs on the shelf in the store on a place nobody can see it By doing this you wont waste 90 minutes of your life as I did

Ever since the cinemaloving universe made acquaintance with a guy named George A Romero the word zombie automatically gets associated with bloodsoaked horror images and nonstop acting sequences Its safe to say that his Night of the Living Dead formed the zombie movie as we know it now Yet in the earliest years of cinema the premise of reanimated corpses was merely used in slow nearly actionless psychological thrillers Jacques Tourneurs I walked with a Zombie is a perfect example and so is White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi This Revolt of the Zombies could have been another example but unfortunately its a failure over the entire line and easily one of the most tedious movies I ever saw Dreadful acting a very poorly written screenplay and a complete lack of atmosphere and tension The film only lasts 65 minutes and yet the first half hour is entirely wasted on stupid lovestory intrigues and unexciting monologues The setting in the legendary Cambodian city of Angkor surely could have resulted in a more compelling story but all we ever see are interior shots The lead actress Dorothy Stone textbook blonde with curly hair and an ugly nose irritated me enormously and I kept hoping a ravenous undead would suddenly appear out of nowhere to devour her Unlucky again… If you manage to struggle yourself through 60 soporific minutes youll be rewarded with a fairly decent finale Still this is far too little to give this film a positive rating let alone a recommendation Avoid This is the type of movie you should only see in case you already saw everything else

I think Trash really sucks I watched it a couple of weeks ago and I havent seen that kind of cp at the cinema since Female Trouble by John Waters and that was even worse The dialogues the acting it really stank it was so bad it made me want to leave the cinema and ask for my money back But actually I am glad I saw it because then I could tell my honest opinion on it One should see this film even though it stinks

This is a big step down after the surprisingly enjoyable original This sequel isnt nearly as fun as part one and it instead spends too much time on plot development Tim Thomerson is still the best thing about this series but his wisecracking is toned down in this entry The performances are all adequate but this time the script lets us down The action is merely routine and the plot is only mildly interesting so I need lots of silly laughs in order to stay entertained during a Trancers movie Unfortunately the laughs are few and far between and so this film is watchable at best

Damn I thought Id seen some bad westerns Cant top this one though Hell I think Id rather have my eyes stapled open for a Trinity Triple Feature for cryin out loud I dont think Ill be able to watch Ben Hur again without laughing my ass off Just really badbr br But hey if you like stupid westerns with acknowledged stars in the thing take a peek at Shoot Out with Gregory Peck Its just as bad but much funnier 110

OK the director remakes LOVE ACTUALLY The director Nikhil Advani after debuting with KHNH does his second half and waitbr br He makes a 330 hours film which loses on patience timeetc The viewer seems like a 3 hrs sleep watching this filmbr br OK they had 6 stories so it was necessary but why 6 storiesbr br We have the Anil Juhi story convincing but boring dont TV serials show such storiesbr br We have Govinda Shannon story which is funny and works well br br We have AkshayeAyesha story again believable but gets boring soon and the focus is on comedy more and that too slapstick boring comedybr br We have Salman Priyanka story which is the worst not just acting terms it makes no sense at allbr br We have Sohail Isha story to make you laugh and the trick works at times thanks to the boredom set by most of other storiesbr br We have John Vidya story a good story in all respectsbr br But then by the time all stories come in bits n pieces the viewer gets bored and sleepy The climax isnt appealing though especially The climax of Salman Priyanka story Nikhil Advanis handling is alright at places some stories are well handled but weak at places MusicSELis good but too many songs Cinematography is nice every story is given a different look texture and it worksbr br Actors Govinda rocks after a dismissal comeback with BB he actually makes you laugh and love him in this film despite his age and weight Anil Kapoor acts his part well though he looks out of shape and tired John excels in his part Akshaye Khanna overacts for a changebr br Sohail Khan is too over the top and Isha has nothing to do Anjana Suknani is dismissalbr br Priyanka and Salman deserve an award for this film you are shockedbr br Salman Khan doesnt act only just talks like he is in his sleep and that fake accent oh god Priyanka overacts to such a standard you feel like throwing something on her she does get better towards the end Vidya Balan is good Juhi Chawla is okay Shannon is okay

The late 80s saw an inexplicable rash of supernatural horror films set in gloomy penitentiary settings Renny Harlins superbly gritty and moody Prison got the whole haunted hoosegow ball rolling it was immediately followed by the markedly inferior The Chair John Saxons enjoyably trashy Death House the passable psycho picture Destroyer and this hideously limpnlethargic exercise in hopelessly comatose tedium br br Your usual annoying collection of horribly unsympathetic college student chowderheads lead by insufferably spineless tormented twerp Alex the hugely unappealing Nicholas Celozzi go to Alcatraz Island to investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding the sudden gruesome death of upandcoming rock star Sammy Mitchell blandly played by Toni Basil of Hey Micky fame Alexs brother becomes possessed by the evil demonic spirit of a vicious cannibalistic US Civil War cavalry commandant and goes on the expected killing spree thus forcing wimpy Alex to overcome his passivity and make a stand against this ghoulish specterbr br Although slickly photographed by Nicholas Von Sternberg with a few decent gore set pieces and a fair amount of spooky atmosphere the film was shot on location in the dismal rusty rundown ruins of Alcatraz Island Slaughterhouse rock nonetheless just doesnt cut it as a solid effective fright feature This is largely due to the uniformly obnoxious and unlikeable collegiate smartaleck characters a tiresomely smirky bunch whose inane comic antics prove to be grating rather than amusing The flat acting from a noticeably disinterested cast hurts matters all the more with onetime Playboy playmate and undeniable blonde cutie pie hottie supreme Hope Marie Carlton doing an especially irritating Linnea Quigley impersonation as the token oversexed nympho bimbo Dimitri Logothetis direction displays a modicum of flashy visual style but the tone is unevenly pitched between grim seriousness and goofy horrendously sophomoric silliness and most damagingly Ted Landons sloppy inconsistent overly complicated and finally quite confusing script miserably fails to develop the necessary internal logic to make the farfetched story even remotely plausible In other words this stinker sadly succeeds in making a scant 90 minutes seem like an excruciatingly drawnout cinematic jail sentence

Other than the great cinematography by the marvelous James Wong Howe in the battle scenes this film is a true stinkerbr br This is the second film that Ive seen in recent days directed by Alexander Korda The first was Charles Laughtons Rembrandt It was so lousy that I shut it off This one Im afraid is not very much betterbr br Flora Robson is as ugly as ever as Queen Elizabeth Perhaps her performance as the virgin Queen was good for 1937 standards but when you compare it to that of a Helen Mirren it is absolutely no match In robotic fashion Robson states her lines Her battle message to the English troops is so lackluster in spiritbr br Even a dashing Laurence Olivier cant save this utter piece of boredombr br Future wife Vivien Leigh is in a supporting role here and she doesnt really convey anything here To think that Scarlett was 2 years laterbr br Its a shame that history with the Spanish Armada is made out to be so boring in this film

This movie was really funny even though it wasnt meant to be The acting was stupid and so were the voices Pretty much all it was was some guy walking around a corn maze for an hour and a half They threw in this stupid super natural thing that made it even dumber It wasnt even like a normal movie this weird creepy music was playing almost the whole way through the movie What is it with corn maze horror films Children of the corn was really scary I thought and I thought this would be something like it but really it was just stupid The main character guy just walked around aimlessly yelling for these two little girls And then at the end he like kills someone or something Its worth seeing if youre with your friends because its really funny how bad it is but if youre looking for a horror movie then dont waste your time

I was lucky enough to catch this movie while volunteering at the Maryland Film Festival Ive always been a fan of classic horror films and especially the gimmicks of William Castle so this was definitely a mustsee for mebr br This is about the life and work of William Castle who in my opinion was an underrated director True he made some cheap budget schlocky horror films but he added something to these films real live theater gimmicks that you dont see anymore For example he had nurses in case someone had a heart attack at his movies and put vibrators at the bottoms of chairs in THE TINGLERbr br This is truly a wellmade documentary and brings this rather shadowed director into the light and celebrated his contributions to horror cinema It also paints Castle as a larger than life character who was very wellliked and had a smile on his facebr br Unlike most film documentaries that mostly show testaments from film historians SPINE TINGLER shows interviews mostly from his family members and directors who were influenced by his work such as John Waters John Landis and Joe Dante A must see for classic horror and scifi fans

Some movies are offbeat but enjoyable but many movies are just mindnumbingly weird Motorama fits notsonicely in the latter category Many seem to like it because of endless guest appearances and a total lack of sense but those two things can only take a movie so far and Motorama simply doesnt have any other merits to its creditbr br Motorama delights itself on plot improbabilities Its main character Gus is a cussing 10year old on a roadtrip across an imaginary country trying to collect game pieces to win 500 million When interacting with adult figures none of them seem to notice or be concerned with the fact that hes 10 years old At first its incredibly funny but it quickly becomes just too unbelievable especially considering the people he runs into and the fact that he seems so unfazed by a lot of the disturbing to someone that age imagery going on around him Gus has no depth and as an antihero who has no problem causing misery for others to get his game pieces its hard to feel sorry for him when he encounters troublebr br That trouble is provided by a slew of guest appearances each mistreating Gus in more and more strange ways Besides making the already wornout plot even more unbelievable and less enjoyable the characters share Gus lack of depth and are equally unmemorable The characters actions can get a little interesting but the actors themselves dont add anything to them thus negating the whole point of getting big names they couldve been played by anyone and the character wouldve been the same These guest appearances seem to have been signed more for marquee value than anything elsebr br Motorama should be interesting its a unique idea but theres too little semblance of sense in the script for it to work Incidents that should have a lasting effect on the antihero and the viewer dont as the movie quickly moves from incident to incident in the hope that something will eventually make the audience feel sorry or understanding for Gus That never happens as by doing so nothing is allowed to connect it just jerks back and forth as if on a conveyor belt one incident after another With a story so nonsensical it ceases to be enjoyable and a main character who never evolves to care for himself or anyone else on a higher level Motorama has little to offer except a brat sneaking around and trying to get rich Why should we care about that

Im proud to say Im a student at UWMilwaukee where parts of the film were shot Yep I recognize Mitchell Hall where I took a film class possibly the same course as fellow student Smithbr br Thats where I learned about American Movie Our professor told us about it shortly before its release To be sure I was intrigued but for some reason I put off seeing it for several monthsit mustve done pretty well if it was still playing at least in Milwaukeebr br When I finally got around to seeing it I thought it was an entertaining documentary Its not a masterpieceit goes on a bit too longbut I find Marks passion and commitment inspiring I hope this film signals the beginnings of bigger and better things him Maybe his forthcoming Northwestern will propel him to fortune Who knowsbr br Rating out of br br 108 minReleased by Sony Pictures Classics

Cliff Robertson as a scheming husband married to a rich wife delivers a razzieworthy performance here if there ever was one its as if director Michael Anderson kept yelling dial it down think zombie only less lively through his little bullhorn as he coached Robertsons effort The rest of the cast is barely better Jennifer Agutter of LOGANS RUN fame is hardly seen in what should have been fleshed out as a pivotal role If the quality of the acting was three times better if some of the more gaping plot holes were filled and if the pacing were given a shot of adrenaline then this yawner might be brought up to a standard acceptable to the Hallmark\Lifetime TV channel crowd As is its rating is so inexplicably high one cant help thinking chronic insomniacs are using DOMINIQUE to catch a little snoozing time Perhaps the latenight TV telemarketers are missing a major opportunity in not shilling it as such

This is a film that on the surface would seem to be all about JEdgar Hoover giving himself a a big pat on the back for fighting Klansmengoing after Indian killers hunting the famous gangsters of the 1930s fighting Nazis in the US and South America during world war 2 and Commies in New York during the early 1950s Of course in 1959 we did not know about Mr Hoovers obsession for keeping secret files on honest Americans bugging people like the Rev Martin Luther King Jr but worst of allhis secret love affair with his deputy directorClyde Tolson If you want to know more about that subject I suggest seeing the film Citizen Cohn Hoover aside This story of a life in the FBI as told by Jimmy Stewart makes for a decent but dated film Vera Miles as his devoted wife is also good But Jimmy is the movie As much as Hoover controlled production and always made sure the FBI was seen without fault Jimmy Stewart gave the film a human sidequite an achievement considering Hoover was always looking over his shoulder The background score is also pleasant I have read recent online articles suggesting that this is a forgotten film Jimmy Stewart was one of the greatest film stars of all time and none of his films should be forgotten TCM was the last network to show it a long time ago and I hope they show it again

I should say right away that I checked the spoilers box only because Im giving this comment the amount of thought proportional to what this mess of a movie deserves and dont want to be held responsible for some plot point incidentally slipping outbr br This comment will take the form of a tirade for the simple reason that I am still under the influence of this movie having just watched it and the unique effect this has renders one incapable of the sort of forethought and paragraph structure required for coherent reasoned criticism That is not a compliment It isnt the narcotic effect of a truly hypnotic or thought provoking movie The feelings it stirs up combine like some uncomfortable emotional Voltron composed of a confusing mix of some form of rage the vague desire to take a shower the rudderless sinking feeling of true betrayal one gets when they realize they have given 109 minutes of their lives into the hands of someone who would not only squander it but do so in such a pompous artless way And I probably wouldnt have done anything super productive with that 109 minutes anyway But even if Id spent it on something trivial like a power block of masturbation and online poker I would have felt more fulfilled when all was said and donebr br The problems with this movie are myriad and in better times Id articulate exactly what they were in a semiadult fashion But in keeping with what this movie deserves I think Ill most likely stick to the realm of masturbation jokes and cartoon referencesbr br The most irritating and terminal flaw is that while watching this movie one is keenly aware that the makers and participants think they are making a much smarter movie than they are Demonstrating the depth of knowledge one could pick up in a one semester survey of Western art history at a community college or trade school the artjargon is piled on thick and from all directions with much of it supplied by talk between our hero the tortured detective Stan Willem Dafoe who I will forgive for this movie due to him being Willem Dafoe and his accented antique dealer buddy Blair Peter Stormare taking a break from playing a sociopath for whom murder comes easy by playing a 2dimensional plot device in a movie about a sociopath for whom murder comes easy And talk they do In fact we are dropped into this story at a crime scene that may indicate the reemergence of a serial killer Stan thinks he killed years earlier so all the back story is established partially through unclear flashback but primarily through stilted conversations between Stan and his dealer or Stan and his colleague the unforgivably irritating Carl Scott Speedman And although I differentiate the character Carl Scott Speedman from the actor who plays him by using parentheses I must admit that very early on in the film I despised this character so much that I actually found myself sincerely wishing harm on the actor portraying him Scott Speedman Not anything too fancy Not death or paralysis necessarily But maybe herpes Or maybe a stage light could fall on him and crush his arm This is a dangerous digression but Im not editing it out because I want to leave anyone reading this whos thinking about paying to see this train wreck of a movie with a clear impression of the horrible wishes and feelings it stirs in even the most peaceful manbr br Well Im sort of running out of steam here over the course of writing this the sick feelings this movie brought up in a me have subsided my head has cleared a bit Realizing now that Im still investing time in something related to this piece of sht is startlingly similar to waking up after a night of suicidally heavy drinking next to the heaving form of a still slumbering 200 pound college girl Your first urge is a desperate desire to flee This is natural

A Kafkaesque thriller of alienation and paranoia Extremely well done and Polanski performs well as the diffident introvert trying hard to adapt to his dingy Paris lodgings and his fellow lodgers Horrifying early on because of the seeming mean and self obsessed fellow tenants and horrifying later on as he develops his defences which will ultimately be his undoing Personally I could have done without the cross dressing element but I accept the nod to Psycho and the fact that it had some logic bearing in mind the storyline Nevertheless it could have worked without and would have removed the slightly theatrical element but then maybe that was intended because the courtyard certainly seems to take on the look of a theatre at the end I cant help feel that there are more than a few of the directors own feelings of not being a real Frenchman and Jewish to boot Still there is plenty to enjoy here including a fine performance from a gorgeous looking Isabelle Adjani and good old Shelly Winters is as reliable as ever

This movie is really funny The General is Keatons finest work but there are many of his works that are more hilarious in this one are multiple sight gags and creative humor We watch it over and over and it only seems to get funnier

I give this film its props that it is very well made and reasonably well acted BUt I couldnt get past the implausibility of the whole thingbr br First and foremost a game built around the notion of Russian Roulette that has to fill on hour the big problem is that if you are doing a live show you run the possibility that your first contestant will be the one unlucky enough to draw the real bullet Then what do you do You have 50 minutes of show to fill and nothing to show The corollary is that Okay you get to the end and the first five contestants survive which means number six has the bullet and cant possibly get the payout He isnt going to shoot himself at that point so its kind of anticlimatic br br second problem almost as big Human nature People are going to flinch panic soil their underwear and do things that would otherwise not make very good television Too much randomness Thats why real Reality television is actually tightly scripted and even more tightly editedbr br The only random thing is the performance artists rant about female sacrifices which were actually rare historically Even that was predictable since she went through with shooting herself to no effect br br We are led to believe the shows ratings would increase while it was going on at 1 AM in the morning unlikely with the token Asian girl announcing each boost in ratingsbr br A point on race and sex Big surprise the movies two minority one gay and two female contestants are the ones who survive So we are left with the two white males and of course the slightly less likable of them is the one who buys it The purpose of such a show would be its randomness but the guy you like the least is the guy who diesbr br the Climax is that after spending two hours fighting for televised suicide the Eva Mendes character Mendes produced and starred in this thing so she has no one to blame but herself actually grows a conscience when someone dies What did she THINK was going to happen She is promptly shot by a bystander angry about the whole thing motives never explained and the show went on to be a big hit Really br br the problem with media satire is that it has to either have some grounding in reality or it has to be so over the top to be ludicrous like Network This is neither

I have just watched this latest version of Macbeth and was pleasantly surprised with the solid acting and obvious effort that had to turn a low budget historical piece into a fully fledged watchable moviebr br One note however the music was very lame and added nothing to the intensity of the film and sounded like someone with a keyboard and a bunch of samplers as opposed to a full orchestral score I think Paul Farrer needs to get his act together

Can a mentally challenged black youth be a catalyst to unite people in a South Carolina town The answer appears to be that in spite of his handicap James Kennedy understood much more than what he was given credit for and went to become a fixture in the sports scene Also the film is saying how many of us overlook people with problems that can be helped if only we have the patience Coach Jones showed to the young man because of his own guilt in his heartbr br Radio directed by Michael Tolllin is a formula film inspired on a true story Yet the movie is not a complete failure because of the inspired performances the director was able to get from his wonderful castbr br Coach Jones is instrumental in getting the young man who is called Radio because his passion for collecting them involved in sports a passion he discovers in this retarded man who has had only hard knocks in his young life Coming from a poor background Radio lives with his mother who is protective of him and questions the coachs intentions Radio is seen by the school kids as a mascot at first then his sunny disposition wins him the acceptance of everyone because he is a good person without an ounce of malice in his bodybr br The film owes a lot to Ed Harris and Cuba Gooding Jr who make a great pair as the coach and Radio Mr Harris one of the best actors of our times is never boring in anything he graces with his presence He gets the essence of the principled coach who sees the possibility to make amends for something that bothers him from his past Cuba Gooding Jr is also at his best portraying the mentally challenged young manbr br The supporting cast is excellent S Ephata Merkerson one of the best actresses of her generation does interesting work as the mother of Radio Alfre Woodard another good actress plays the high school principle with style Debra Winger only has a few scenes in the filmbr br Radio while being sentimental will warm anyones heart because it shows how we tend to see some people are in our society that we know nothing about and how quick we are to judge them Michael Tollin puts a lot of ideas in the proper perspective for us

Back in 2004 I saw True Tom Tykwers contribution to Paris Je Taime When I saw it I loved it and became thrilled It became my favorite short film and made me appreciate the format so much Of course I wanted to watch the whole film and I would even check who was attached etcbr br Yesterday I finally saw it courtesy of the internetbr br First of all I must say that it looks AWESOME The photography is BEAUTIFUL in every short and shot at the worst being nothing special but still brilliant and clear Later I read the trivia here and maybe its how scanning in 6K gives more justice to all the DPs work My special favorites are the Quais de Seine first scene that sunlight the Sin Cityesquire but better for me Quartier de la Madeleine and 14th Arrondisement but you know what the hell I like them all True or Faubourg SaintDenis still makes me nervous with those brilliant colours my eyes they tremble and Quartier Latin is gold imprisoned on silver Beautifulbr br Yes these are some BEAUTIFUL short filmsbr br Now lets get onto the content I very much and I mean VERY MUCH like the eclecticism that is so successfully felt You never have have the same themes or treatment between two shorts and I think the formula is restrictive enough to let all these artists explore beautiful and deepening things inside the shorts I loved coming from a simple love story into a crazyChinesemusicalinPariswithBarbetSchroeder into a social commentary into a terror comedy into a humble monologue I love surprises And this film has them Its great they took a chance to let all these directors flesh out things that are not usual in mainstream cinema which I have come to heavily despise Its not heavily experimental but I can breath the breathing space these people hadbr br I like the small time and I love the acting I love the simplicity and I love the love I like the simple feelings and the beauty and the eclecticism and in general its a film that is very very very nice to see alone or with someone To simply feel It left me feeling very goodbr br There is something about the earnestness in it its so frankbr br What I didnt like Well for me there are two shorts that arent exactly the best Quais de Seine which is good natured sure and maybe even necessary but feels too much like a commercial and PreLachaise that even though I love the acting I felt its themes were forced But that of course is just me Tour Eiffel I also didnt love but I think is probably because of my very different sensibility from that of Sylvain Chomet I dont know if this film has a special interest for people who already know the actors and directors and so they can delight in their interaction in the surprises look out for Alexander Payne in a funny role and basically in what will this director do with this great question I enjoyed it very much in that waybr br I repeat now Most shorts I loved and all of them together form a beautiful and energetic mix I definitely recommend it Definitely So watch it if you like Eclectic Beautiful Love

Years have gone by since Don Wilson used his martial arts expertise to take down a robot who was programmed to destroy him hes also married to the blonde reporter Stacie Foster who led the rebellion in the first film now a new conspiracy is in the works one that involves lookalike droids who frame our two heroes and a corporation looking to rule the world There is no plot to back any of this up and Cyber Tracker 2 becomes a virtual replay of the first movie I admit that I have bought DVDs from the bargain bin that were made by PM PM was a company that specialized in cheapjack action flicks like this which had tons of explosions little story and overall nothing but mean edged action Some of these titles have been mildly enjoyable Last Man Standing and The Sweeper however Cyber Tracker 2 is stuck with the casting of the charismaless Don Wilson When comparing the protagonists of similar PM efforts both Jeff Wincott and C Thomas Howell are Oscar nominees when compared to Don Wilson Another telling sign is that this was directed by Richard Pepin who has none of the flair Joseph Merhi seems to have in crafting action sequences that feel much more expensive than their budgets Then again though both C Thomas and Wincott are probably more expensive to obtain Cyber Tracker 2 is a rip off with a capitol R there are so many steals from better movies Robocop Terminator Universal Soldier to even Halloween III that its almost as if Richard Pepin is trying to infuse a sense of identity to the pedestrian material yet without the intelligent ideas or at least the mindless zip of great action Cyber Tracker 2 falls flat There is literally no good idea that isnt borrowed from a better movie and the supporting cast overact The only exception comes from Tony Burton who is miles better than the material Also Stacie Foster looks like she could be better with far better material However Cyber Tracker 2 comes off mainly as noisy bland and lackluster as its leading man however with no real martial arts sequences to fall back on all there is is lots of cars tipping over and that alone is no substitute for the bankruptcy of ambition expressed herebr br 12 out of 4Poor

Im a big fan of Pacino movies Hes one of if not the best actors of this genre However this movie couldve been a whole lot better even though it had a poor cast All they had to do was tell the story of Carlito Brigante up until he went to jail Instead it seemed like this was just one of many stories that could be told of Carlito All or even some of the questions about his past that we wondered about in the original couldve been answered As far as Im concerned thats the only way you can make this movie Instead we get this prequel that has almost NONE of the original characters in it a character that plays a different part from the original horrible move and a totally different love interest for Carlito Dont even get me started with Puffy No way can I take that cat seriously as a gangsta after watching him dance in all his artists videos Evertytime that dude opened his mouth I was waiting for him to start dancing He made me laugh if anything Mario Van Peeples surprised me with his role I thought he was gonna give a lackluster performance due to his recent history He did rather well He was probably the most believable out of the entire cast in my opinion Jay Hernandez did his best but doesnt have the skills right now in his career to take on this role I appreciated his energy and his efforts though Hard to follow up Pacino The only way you could even have a clue about what kind of person Carlito was is to watch the original Otherwise Carlito looks like a cold blooded killer in one scene then a spineless wimp in another He was one of the baddest gangstas of his time but you would only see flashes of that in this movie Maybe this is a pitiful way for Hollywood to try and make a 2nd prequel to cash in on this failure Wouldnt surprise mebr br Overall in my opinion this movie fell well short or what it couldve been The only reason I gave it a 3 was because I laughed a lot and Mario Van Peeples earned some respect back with me A serious director shouldve taken this movie and actually put time into the story and turned it into an actual prequel Im extremely disappointed that this movie wasnt taken seriously They wouldve been better off making this into a miniseries on HBO and actually telling the story like the original suggests At the end of the movie they had the nerve to suggest that Carlito would have to come back to the city HEEELLLLOthats the part everyone wants to see Then again this is all just my opinion I cant tell you how to waste your money

To quote Flik that was my reaction exactly Wowyoure perfect This is the best movie I think I can even say its become my favorite movie ever even Wow I tell you what wow

Mockumentaries are proliferating lately so much that the approach therefore needs an injection of fresh and creative material each time its used to maintain its vitality This film does not deliver anything but worn out retreads of similar stories an aimless script weak adlibs uninspired acting and unfunny selfgratifying humor br br The premise would seem promising enough the legend of the Loch Ness monster is made to order for one of these goofy mockumentary misadventures with a vast array of history and legend waiting to be tapped for outrageous satire The film makers totally waste this enormous potential however We get some fool inserting a fake Nessie into the water Gee thats original Another scene has one obnoxious idiot threatening another obnoxious idiot with a gun Sidesplitting Some gratuitous shots of a pretty girl in a bikini Annette did that 40 years ago and far better by the way Throughout the movie somebody always seems to be yelling I suppose this is designed to wake up the audience who have nodded off by this pointbr br Worst of all though is the relentless salvo of those reality show type interview comments made by the characters Not only do they nuke you with this tired joke every five seconds but apparently the actors also improvised thats the only explanation for how humorless the jokes are If lines like Ive never seen anyone write a book about nonevidence were actually scripted then the writer should be shot on sight and fed to Nessiebr br No wonder Nessie got violent it obviously saw this movie

The first time I saw this film it was with this cute girl I was attracted to we had a lot of fun laughing at it and generally making fun So my impression was that it was terrible but watchable for cheeseyness value Then as part of our anniversary we watched it together again on video As it turns out the movie is just terrible and unwatchable Its amazing how cute girls can change the way the world looks

Ms Stowe is sensational in this power drama about a secret policeman who interrogates a childrens author because he believes she is trying to plant ideas in her writings that are contrary to the states This is an incredibly powerful film Both performances are worthy of more recognition as is the message of this movie Put this on your must see list if you can locate it

Really Is this necessary How can somebody make such a film Disgusting Seteven Seagal with funny hair and fat like an elephant Stunts all the time cars persecutions with an annoying soundtrack Not to mention the Ending Completely nonsense with the presence of the little girlbr br Steven Seagal wants to be Robin Hood Well at the beginning a fortune teller answers something nobody has asked Seagals wife has nightmares and she can see the future They must be kidding Steven Segal passes out after a car persecution and I know he cant act It was terrible Nothing can save that filmbr br I lost 90 minutes of my life See you

This lowbudget erotic thriller that has some good points but a lot more bad one The plot revolves around a female lawyer trying to clear her lover who is accused of murdering his wife Being a softcore film that entails her going undercover at a strip club and having sex with possible suspects As plots go for this type of genre not to bad The script is okay and the story makes enough sense for someone up at 2 AM watching this not to notice too many plot holes But everything else in the film seems cheap The lead actors arent that bad but pretty much all the supporting ones are unbelievably bad one girl seems like she is drunk andor high The cinematography is badly lit with everything looking grainy and ugly The sound is so terrible that you can barely hear what people are saying The worst thing in this movie is the reason youre watching itthe sex The reason people watch these things is for hot sex scenes featuring really hot girls in Red Shoe Diary situations The sex scenes arent hot theyre sleazy shot in that porno style where everything is just a master shot of two people going at it The woman also look like they are refuges from a porn shoot Im not trying to be rude or mean here but they all have that breast implants and a burned outweathered look Even the title Deviant Obsession sounds like a Hardcore flick Not that I dont have anything against porn in fact I love it But I want my softcore and my hardcore separate What ever happened to actresses like Shannon Tweed Jacqueline Lovell Shannon Whirry and Kim Dawson Women that could act and who would totally arouse you And what happened to B erotic thrillers like Body Chemistry Nighteyes and even Stripped to Kill Sure none of these where masterpieces but at least they felt like movies Plus they were pushing the envelope going beyond Hollywoods relatively prude stance on sex sexual obsessions and perversions Now they just make hardcore films without the hardcore sex

John Huston was seriously ill when he made his final achievementand its thoroughly his testamentuncompromisingdifficult a thousand miles away from crazes and fashionsit will stand as the best last film you can ever dream ofA very austere screenplayno actionno real herobut a group of people coping with the vanity of lifethe fleeting years and deathThe party doesnt delude people for longAdmittedlywarmth and affection emanate from the songs and the mealcomplete with turkey and puddingBut the passage of time has partly ruined Julias voicefirst crack in the mirrorThen the camera leaves the room where the guests are gathered and searches the old ladys bedroomFor surehers seems to have been a happy lifebut its a life inexorably coming to an endA shot shows towards the end of the movie Julia on her future deathbedMaybe an unfulfilled lifebecause she remained a spinsterwith no children to carry on Only some poor thingsyellowish photographsbibelots and trinklets But are a human beings hopes and dreams all fulfilledLook at GrettaShe s a married woman about thirtyfiveshes still beautiful and healthy but she knows something is brokenWhat Julia is todayshe will be tomorrowthats whyin her stream of consciousnessshe goes back to her pastonly to find out how harrowing her memories are a young man committed suicide for hera symbol of her youth now waningThe final monologueif we listen closely to itinvolves us all in this eternal tragedythe doomed to failure human conditionJohn Hustons masterly lesson

This existential thriller in Portuguese with English subtitles is a modern version of the American filmes noires of the 40s complete with a surprise twist at the end It is riveting from beginning to end My only criticism is its poor production values The film looks cheaply made and it probably was so the black and white cinematography is vastly inferior to that of Godard in Vivre Sa Vie to cite another film noir of more than 30 years earlier Most maddening of all the subtitles are often hard to read When will filmmakers learn and provide yellow subtitles so that they can be read against a white background Id give this an 8 overall although with better production values it could have been higher

Who else other than Troma can take the classic tragedy and change it around to todays standards No onein my opinion the Leonardo DiCaprio one sucked Tromeon juliet is a definite stretch from the original Shakesperan tragedy but it holds up well Its sick demented twisted but yet insanely funny and fulfilling For the most part it follows the true Romeo and Juliet story but many Troma elements are added Will Keenan gives a great performance as Tromeo The acting is solid and the story is great Many people look past these movies not only the Kaufman Troma movies but all the ones they distribute Sure Troma movies are an acquired taste but you need to see some of these It is renegade filmmaking at its best

This movie is good Its not the best of the great CG kung fu flicks but its pretty good First thing first the story is actually good The whole idea of gods vs fallen gods type deal with super powers is pretty cool My problem is theres too many characters It got very confusing when they switched scenes The special effects were INCREDIBLE The fighting scenes were very fast paced and complex This movie practically all computer generated The acting is superb as always expected from such high profile players Ekin Cheng makes an excellent protagonist loner character Zhang Ziyi did nothing for me in this movie I thought she would have a bigger part but she did one fight scene and a whole lot of yapping The bad guy the whole skull army and the whole blood cloud thing is very frightening The music is also excellent To me this story deserve at least a miniseries and not just ONE movie Theres too much story to cram in 2 hours Maybe if there was a book or something I would be able to keep up with all the characters and the details This movie sacrifices story integrity for action I reccomend Storm Riders over this any day

One of Starewiczs longest and strangest short films follows a toy dog in search of an orange after becoming animated by the tear of the mother of a girl who longs for an orange The dog comes upon an orange after falling out of the back of a car on his way to be sold but at night must protect the orange when he comes enters a devilish nightclub featuring many bizarre and scary characters With the help of a stuffed cat the dog gets the orange back to the little girl and she is saved from a terrible scurvy death The Mascot features new techniques I have not yet seen in Starewiczs films The addition of sync sound and a mixture of live action with the stopmotion animation makes for a new twist on Starewiczs old style of puppetry Live scenes of moving cars and peoples feet walking by as a puppet sits on the concrete sidewalk is impressive and fresh The honking of cars and cries of street vendors is noteworthy due to the fact that small studio shifts to sound were costly and Starewiczs utilization of the new technology seems like old hat New puppet characters in this film are frightening contributions to the devils club scene Twigss and newspaper shreds come to life Skeletons of dead birds lay eggs which hatch skeleton chicks Characters come flying in from all over on pats and pans and rocking horses A new editing technique uses quick zooms which are accomplished through editing to speed up the pace of what before might have been a slow scene Overall Starewicz is able to update his style of filmmaking to meet the demands of a new audience making this film one of the best examples of his work

POTENTIAL SPOILERSbr br Man this movie was awful A Catholicsuperstitioussuspense thriller it goes over already well tread ground from previous moviesbr br The doubting priest Sex and the priesthood Politics and religion Church hypocrisy Conspiracy involving the church The dawn of a new evil age All kinds of dark magic voodoo battles between good and evilbr br Pretty stupid and lame with a weak storyline to suffice The story revolves around two concepts Absolution better known as the Sacrament of Anointing the Sick the last rights a person can ask for to cleanse ones sins while on the brink of death And Excommunication the act of cutting a person off from the Church Basically an Excommunicated person cant receive Absolution Thus comes in the Sin Eater and Ill leave it at that Throw in all the dopy things I already listed and you have The Orderbr br I found the sex scene with the priest interlaced with shots of a picture of the Virgin Mary rather insulting to Catholics It also ends with Heath Ledger saying I paraphrase I am the redeemer and damner of sins I live on without love blah blah blah cue him walking in dark alley with long trench coat alla The Matrixbr br I gave this movie a 1 for not only being crappy and unoriginal but also because it managed to insult an entire faith in the process If you want to see something better I suggest The Prophecy with Christopher Walken

A trio of buddies sergeants all in the British Army carouse brawl their way across Imperial India Intensely loyal to each other they meet their greatest most deadly challenge when they encounter the resurgence of a hideous cult its demented implacable guru Now they must rely on the lowliest servant of the regiment the water carrier GUNGA DIN to save scores of the Queens soldiers from certain massacrebr br Based more on The Three Musketeers than Kiplings classic poem this is a wonderful adventure epic a worthy entry in Hollywoods Golden Year of 1939 Filled with suspense humor while keeping the romantic interludes to the barest minimum it grips the interest of the viewer and holds it right up to the sentimental conclusionbr br It is practically fruitless to discuss the performance nuances of the three stars Cary Grant Victor McLaglen Douglas Fairbanks Jr as they are really all thirds of a single organism inseparable and to all intents purposes indistinguishable However this diminishes nothing of the great fun in simply watching them have a glorious timebr br Its interesting to note parenthetically that McLaglen boasted of a distinguished World War One military career Fairbanks would have a sterling record in World War Two mostly in clandestine affairs earning himself no fewer than 4 honorary knighthoods after the conflict while Grant reportedly worked undercover for British Intelligence keeping an eye on Hollywood Nazi sympathizersbr br The real acting laurels here should go to Sam Jaffe heartbreaking in the title role He infuses the humble man with radiant dignity enormous courage making the last line of Kiplings poem ring true He is unforgettablebr br Montague Love is properly stalwart as the regimental major whilst Eduardo Ciannelli is Evil Incarnate as the Thuggee guru The rest of the cast Joan Fontaine Robert Coote Lumsden Hare are effective but have little to do Movie mavens will recognize Cecil Kellaway in the tiny role of Miss Fontaines fatherbr br The film picks its villains well The demonic Thuggee cult worshipers of the hideous bloodsoaked Kali Hindu goddess of destruction was the bane of Indian life for 6 centuries ritualistically strangling up to 30000 victims a year In 1840 the British military in cooperation with a number of princely states succeeded in ultimately suppressing the religion Henceforth it would remain the stuff of novels nightmares

I first played this around 98 or 99 when I was with my friendsI thought the game was really greatand loved itbr br The game is simpleOn one player modeyou go around as James Bond and complete missions in different places like an Arctic wasteland or a cityMy favorite was one with a tankOn two player modeyou and a friend choose from any character you wish and go all out with a fightThrough out the area you are inyou will find ammo and weapons to helpFrom hand guns to rifles to lasers and even your fists workbr br Again with player two modethere are lots of places to goand some to unlockI find this game really funbut also very suspensefulBecauseyou never really know where your opponent isand its surprising to see them behind a door where you are goingbr br This game gets 12 stars or of Very goodGo play it sometime

Fun mix of vampires and martial arts is a bit of a mess plotwise and the acting of those who dubbed the voices is almost universally bad but the premise is engaging the fight scenes are fast and flashy and the movie is often quite amusing Its a shame the story is such a wreck There are a couple of places where I had no idea what just happened it was almost as though five minutes had just been cut out and you were suddenly at the next scene without knowing how youd got there The movie is poor at explaining things and some things dont make a lot of sense but the movie moves along breezily so its flaws barely register Not a great movie by any means but definitely a fun one

Footlight Parade is fascinating on so many levels There is no way the supposedly staged theater prologues could have been produced in any theater on earth of course Think of the huge pools and threestory tall fountains for By A Waterfall for instance Berkeley directed John Garfield in They Made Me a Criminal six years later and had the Dead End Kids singing By a Waterfall as they took their showers br br Shanghai Lil is the best production number in the picture Its a catalog of 30s Warner Bros sensibilities Note the African guys mixed into the scene with white and Asian prostitutes You would never see blacks integrated into a social scene in other films of the period unless they were porters on a train or maids in a big house Here the black guys are sitting at the bar and singing with the others I also get a thrill when the military dancers do a card section presentation of Roosevelts image Theres also the NRA eaglethe logo of the controversial National Recovery Administration of the New Deal FDR was the new president and hopes were so high that hed pull the nation out of the Depression Youd never see something so working class oriented coming out of MGM of course Warner Bros wholeheartedly supported the uplift dictated by the FDR administration br br Dear little Miss Ruby Keeler was never better than she is playing the Chinese hooker Lil She hardly even watches her feet as she dances which was one of her signature flaws br br The PreCode stuff is fun The By a Waterfall number is wonderful in that regard The girls change into their bathing suits on the crowded bus speeding through Times Square with all its lights on The spreadeagle girls swimming over the camera provide the kind of crotch shots that would not be seen for 35 years In a few months the Production Code would eliminate such naughty pleasures

Simply put I was amazingly disappointed Im a huge fan of Asian Horror and I can watch unoriginality I myself enjoyed The Red Shoes and Phone but this was just poorbr br The movie has a lot of elements that are very highquality the photography is eyecatching the visuals are cool the directing is inspired the acting is pretty good the music is easy on the ears and the CGI is incredible But since this is a horror film we are expected to be scared which just wont happen with this film As with most South Korean horrors this is unoriginal almost from beginning to end theres the trademark longhaired vengeful female ghost ominous clumps of thick black hair and puddles of water and near the end a twist that almost but not quite makes sense out of the whole thing the twist is easily one of the best qualities And to the viewers irritation when the film isnt recycling at times so exact that it could easily be dubbed plagiarized imagery from other movies its making you jump A lot And by jumps I dont mean things jumping out or anything just VERY loud noises and screeches in the soundtrack used to make the audience jump six feet in the air theres even a few madeyoujump moments that are simply infuriating And when it is not rippingoff other movies its boring and hard to sit throughbr br And its a shame because Ryeong could have easily been really good and it has everything to make it good but its the annoying overuse of completely predictable loud noises and jump scares that eventually ruin the movie A perfect example of how good it could have been theres a moment when one of out characters is looking at a corpse and without a sound the corpse looks back Its wholly predictable but the use of silence in that scene is brilliant And unfortunately thats as scary as the movie got for mebr br Admittedly Ryeong has a few good features and even a couple jumps that arent as predictable and do work Theres a very good and sad backstory used to explain the events and the twist is pretty unpredictable Those are the only things that separate the film from any other Asian ghosthorror film But the problem with these is even though they do work they have been used before JHorror fans will easily realize the big reveal was inspired by A Tale of Two Sisters and it takes the backstory a good fifty minutes to get goingbr br So in the end Ryong really seems like a truly wasted opportunity Taekyeong Kim hoped that the plot twist and other good features act as diversions so the audience wont notice the huge flaws But he failed and well We noticed everythingbr br My rating 410

This movie was extremely boring It should least not more than 15 minutes The images of child and animal being killed were little bit disturbingbr br Usually I dont write comments but this one was so bad having so many good and excellent comments I think in this case we are one step closer to honest assessment of this titlebr br What more can I say I fall asleep during this movie 3 times It was about 4 hours after I had woken up from 8 hours long sleeping period I think it is the point itselfbr br There is no dialog between characters except maybe 2 sentences at the very endbr br When you fall asleep once watching it do not try to rewind and catch up because you will fall asleep again

Reba is a very dumb show You can predict pretty much anything thats about to happen Barbra Jean is just too stupid Its like shes not even a character A show like this should at least have SOMEONE who resembles a reallife person I guess Barbra Jean represents a retarded person Keira or whatever her name is Reba Brock theyre all stupid Keira is like the smartest person on the show and shes still stupid EVERYONE IS STUPID Thats my opinion on Reba Since I have said all I can say about this show Ill just take up the next few lines of text by saying what I am currently saying right now and do it until theres 10 lines There Reba gets 210

After dipping his toes in the giallo pool with the masterful film The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh 1971 director Sergio Martino followed up that same year with what turns out to be another twisty suspense thriller The Case of the Scorpions Tail Like his earlier effort this one stars handsome macho dude George Hilton who would go on to star in Martinos Satanicgiallo hybrid All the Colors of the Dark the following year Scorpions Tail also features the actors Luigi Pistilli and Anita Strindberg who would go on to portray an unhappy couple to put it mildly in Martinos Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key 1972 I just love that title I suppose Edwige Fenech was busy the month they shot this Anyway this film boasts the stylish direction that Martino fans would expect as well as a twisty plot some finely done murder set pieces and beautiful Athenian location shooting The story this time concerns an insurance investigator Hilton and a journalist Strindberg here looking like Farrah Fawcetts prettier smarter sister who become embroiled in a series of grisly murders following a plane crash and the inheritance of 1 million by a beautiful widow I really thought I had this picture figured out halfway through but I was dead wrong Although the plot does make perfect sense in this giallo I may have to watch the film again to fully appreciate all its subtleties Highlights of the picture for me were Anitas catandmouse struggle with the killer at the end a particularly suspenseful house breakin and a nifty fight atop a tiled roof lots of good action bursts in this movie The fine folks at No Shame are to be thanked for still another greatlooking DVD with nice subtitling and interesting extras Whotta great outfit its turned out to be in its ongoing quest to bring these lost Italian gems back from oblivion

This is a wonderfully gritty drama detailing the various sides of the international heroin drugtradeFrom the hills of northern Pakistan where the tacitly allowed cultivation of opiumpoppies occurs on a vast scale to the jetsetting EuroTrash in Germany and England who arrange the importation of processed heroin in multikilo smuggled shipments to the endusers caught up in the web of addiction and the crime needed to support their growing habit and finally all the levels of international government corruption and hypocrisy surrounding police efforts at controlling the drug problemthis drama is sketched out with a wide array of indepth wellrounded characters fully evolved plot and excellent character acting and location shootingbr br This puts Hollywood epics like The French Connection in their placebr br Traffik is a deeply thoughtprovoking and suspenseful tale of modern drugrelated espionage and the international efforts of many people to try to eliminate itbr br Unlike many crime dramas revolving around drugs Traffik focusses strongly on uncovering the societal reasons that people slide into drug addiction As one of the characters puts it until we as a society construct a world that people want to participate in instead of wanting to escape from we will not be able to stop people from taking drugsbr br This is a fascinating and fully engrossing drama I highly recommend it

White man progress industrialization BAD First nations nature animals GOOD Simple formula Actually in past days the same kind of propaganda was used to defend the status quo now it is used to attack it However that being said I think the movie does succeed in overcoming hackneyed politicization because it plays to the themes of freedom and original nature in a way that appeals to everyone You may not be onside with the movies rubbishy revisionism of how the West was won er lost But anyone can feel a sense of longing for the days when horses could run free on the Western plains The movie also conveniently sidesteps the fact that there were no horses in America before the evil white man brought them there Anyway I liked it The quality of the animation especially the opening shot is incredible

Home Room was a great movie if youve ever had drama in your life It keeps you wanting to see more Wondering what the secret Alicia is hiding I think I watched that movie 6 times in a row and never lost interest Plus I usually dont cry over movies but this one made me cry each time I wish I could find more movies like that one All in All I thought it was a great movie The more you watch of it the more you become part of it The very end is the part that really got me when she cried when getting her diploma because it had her daughters name on it My heart felt as if it had shattered just then And how her new friend came to comfort her when she hadnt gotten hers yet I loved it so much

Any movie that portrays the hardworking responsible husband as the person who has to change because of bored cheating wife is an obvious result of 8 years of the Clinton erabr br Its little wonder that this movie was written by a woman

Catherine Brreillat is a French director who loves to provoke her audience She takes us along to witness how a film is done on location The movie in production seems to be based on herself since the person at the center of the story is Jeanne a woman director much like Ms Breillat Jeanne acts as the alter ego of the real directorbr br Jeanne reaches an impasse at the start of filming Not only has she picked the wrong time to photograph this movie during a cold spell as it involves beach locations that are obviously too cold for the actors and extras Jeanne has problems with the two principal actors especially the male lead who has problems accepting the way the director has decided to show him in the movie the lead actress is no angel eitherbr br Movie making Ms Breillat tells us is a process like no other in a creative work of art First there is the writing period in which in this case Jeanne has written a screen play that when it goes into production reveals problems the writerdirector didnt think about There is the problem of how she wants to photograph a love scene in which the young woman of the story has her first sex contact What appeared clever in the written page doesnt necessarily translate into an easy time in front of the camera The actor is made to wear a false penis and has a lot of problems accepting the fact that a make up has to touch him in ways he never thought he would ever be touched by another manbr br The luminous Anne Parillaud is marvelous as Jeanne the director She makes observations about the production the actors and the crew that fit well into the story being told Gregoire Colin and Roxane Mesquide play the lead actors with all the insecurity that some actors bring to a movie set Jeanne has to massage their egos in order to get what she wants in the end Ashley Waninnger plays Leo Jeannes assistantbr br Sex Is Comedy allows Ms Breillet to give us her own take on films in general This is a great look at the way movies are done in a typical Breillat style

The film did what it set out to do show how a young girl copes with poverty and grows into her maturity However for most of us this subject has been explored adequately and in most instances with more sophistication than done here The movie fixated on breasts which soon became boring and I lost interest If this was on TV I wouldve switched to the latest news on the Starr Report Thats how boring I found this movie

The movie is an adaptation of a Japanese story by the respected author Yukio Mishima It simply doesnt make the transition into a credible story about Brits and Americansbr br The story moves sluggishly especially the part where Miles and Kristofferson are separated and the director fills in with the cliched shots of a ships prow cutting through the waves and the little route line filling in on the maps while their letters are heard in overvoice The film moves so languidly that I even fastforwarded through the sex and masturbation scenes which although long are not really either passionate or erotic The film did achieve a measure of notoriety when Kristoffersons thenwife divorced him for extracurricular activities with Miss Miles during the filming I guess they enjoyed the sex scenes but it isnt quite the same for a viewerbr br There are no characters to hang on to The sexually frustrated widow is unlikeable the little kid is detestable Kristofferson is amiable enough but he just doesnt have the acting skills to bring much to the role although perhaps we dont really want get too involved with him considering his ultimate fatebr br As for the little kid well he kinda falls in with a bad crowd after his dad dies and they help him plot some evil against the man who enters his mums life Now this is a really bad crowd They dont just shoplift and smoke dope nosireebib They slip a mickey to a cat and vivisect it This is shown in gory detail But of course this is only practice so they can do the same thing to Kristoffersonbr br So the movie mostly moves slowly with no characters to relate to and when something does happen it is unrelentingly morbidbr br The ending is about as unsatisfying as any movie youll ever seebr br This all might have made some sense if the Japanese locale and cultural context had been retained As it stands it is just abysmalbr br

This was on the Saturday before Halloween this year today at the time of this writing and it has to be the best horror anthology out there I am normally not a fan of horror movies largely due to the volume of crap thats been recently released However the director of Campfire Tales has the Hitchcockesquire gift of suspense unlike other contemporary films it doesnt take every opportunity to scare you silly instead using foreshadowing and nearmisses incidents that seem like the instant that the climax will occur in the instant before but turn out not to bebr br I didnt catch The Hook or the first main segment but from what I have read here they were the two you could afford to missbr br People Can Lick Too was full of suspense this short keeps you on the edge of your seat waiting for something to happen to the little girl as she wanders about her yard and house looking for her soccer ball and later her dog She encounters so many nearmisses that the suspense reaches heartstopping proportions before the climax of the short when the girl gives up and goes to bed thinking her dog is underneath it She reaches her hand down to let him lick it and she feels the touch of a tongue on her handbefore noticing that on her mirror written in blood is People can lick too Ill leave the last few seconds for you to find out my reader for at this point the short could have taken any number of turnsbr br The Locket however was the unarguable masterpiece of this film It begins with a man on a motorcycle simply drivingtowards what he does not know but he can feel himself getting closer As hes driving along a storm breaks out and hes forced to find shelter in the house of a mute girl The two quickly cozy up to each other but before they can do anything besides kiss the girl reveals through writing that ghosts inhabit her house They quickly begin packing up to leave but they are caught in the middle of a reenactment of a scene decades past a father coming home to his daughter and her boyfriend preparing to elope murders the both of them and then commits suicide Ill have to leave you to discover the ending here as well I couldnt hope to do the story justice in any case and what Ive said so far is just a brief summary of the story I couldnt hope to convey the nuances and sensory details that add to itbr br The Campfire being the connecting thread between all of the stories is a fairly interesting rehash of the car accident theme and the girls are very much attractive in fact most of the girls in this film are goodlooking Anyway despite the fact that its chopped up the story is given justice and the ending is difficult to predict if youre preoccupied with the other stories However if you pay enough attention to the segments of The Campfire spread through the film its certainly possible to predict the ending especially if youve seen movies based on the same premise MST3k fans remember Soultaker Same premise but without the god awful writing of Vivian Schilling and the bulk of the movie If youve seen the first 30 minutes of that you should be able to predict the ending All in all the best horror movie Ive seen in a LONG time and the only horror anthology worthy of a buy

Drew LathamBen Affleckis determined not to be lonely this Christmas Not only is Drew a millionaire but also obnoxious and guilty of being very grandiose Drew goes back to the home he grew up in and offers the family living there the Valcos 250000 to be his family through the Christmas season Tom ValcoJames Gandolfiniis reluctant but is greedy enough to take Drews offer Christine ValcoCatherine OHarahas little to say in the matter but learns to like having Drew aroundnot exactly the same sentiment with daughter AliciaChristina Applegate but that too has room for change Drews girlfriend MissyJennifer Morrisontracks down Drew and wants her folks to meet his family Genuine fun is in store as a happy Noel becomes a hilarious dysfunctional nightmare Other members of the cast Josh Zuckerman Bill Macy David Selby and Stephanie Faracy Affleck is comedic albeit strange

Go Fish garnered Rose Troche rightly or wrongly the reputation of a film maker with much promisebr br Its then hard to understand how she could turn out a movie made up of stereotypes that one associates with inferior sitcoms The entire film rings hollow I cringed the whole way throughbr br Its supposed to be a look into nineties human sexuality Well not much more here to be learned than from In and Out By now most of us actually do know that there are men who are sexually attracted to women and there men who are sexually attracted to men and there are even men sexually attracted to both sexes br br Seldom has this revelation been portrayed on the screen with so little wit and stylebr br Pathetic

Reign Over Me titled after the who song is a movie that is sure to bring a tear to almost everyones eye It was a moving story of a guy sandler that lost his family in the 911 world trade center attacks Years later he runs into an old college roommate cheadle that he doesnt even recognize due to the postdramatic stress ensued by the loss of his family The two rekindle their old friendship and Cheadles character Johnson realizes that he must get Sandlers character Fineman some help before its too latebr br This was the first movie that has made me cry in a long time Its completely worth watching and after seeing it Im positive the viewer will appreciate his or her family much more

It helps that the characters this show is based on are among the best Disney has ever come up with The writing is what really makes this show Its a total classic Given you need to appreciate the type of humor to enjoy it and this is hard to explain The humor is akin to the old school scenarios of 40s and 50s Disney with modern spins It never degrades into fart jokes or anything of that type Its not adam sandler humor either though I have enjoyed that It is the exact same humor of the movie only expanded upon for the length of time a TV show permits So if you didnt like it in the movie you wont like it here but IMO The emperors new groove was the best thing to come out of Disney since Gargoylesbr br A