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Ive seen all kinds of Hamlets br br Kenneth Branaghs was most ambitious Mel Gibsons was quick and to the point Laurence Oliviers was the best hands down But now we come to Maximilian Schells take on the Bardbr br For one this is a dubbed version of a German TV production of William Shakespeares venerable chestnut But if theres a slower more plodding more lethargic and worsestaged version out there somewhere it must have been acted at grade schoollevel br br Having seen it on MST3K helps with Mike and the robots taking jolly good jabs at the old boy puncturing the profundity of black and white TV Shakespeare and the wisdom of Germans acting out an English play and making it look like an Ingmar Bergman rejectbr br Of course the best parts are the MST riffs Best lines Im gonna unleash the Great Dane I dont think so breather Meet the Beatles Hey Dad will you help me with my science project and my personal favorite during a party Garrison Keillors leaving Germany YAAAYbr br But then theres Schell playing Shakespeares greatest character much like a department store mannequin would only not as expressive No doubt hes a great actor but here he comes off about as well as Paul Newman in The Silver Chalice Ever see that one You GOTTA watch these two on a doublebillbr br In the end this is one instance where its true that youre much better off to just read the book At least the book isnt dubbed by Ricardo Montalbanbr br One star only for this Hamlet ten stars naturally for the MST3K versionbr br Goodnight notsosweet prince

I get teased all the time by family and friends for my tears over movies and they were not disappointed when I watched this one I cried numerous times but believe me it was not over sappiness I ached for the family and I ached for this man as he tried to redeem himself the only way he knew how Denzel was fabulous as always and so was Chris Walkin Mickey Rourke I did not even recognized though the years have not been kind to him My husband is not one to rewatch movies unless they are historically accurate war moviessnore He has watched this movie 5 times now and I am going to have to get the DVD to watch it again because he has worn out the tape and it jumped the whole time I was watching

I am continuously amazed at the US networks What is the matter with them Yet another very very promising series axed after just 15 episodes and we are left not knowing what the hell happens to everyone I really thoroughly enjoyed this show and am so annoyed that we will never find out what happens to the characters and the monsters from the deep This show had everything Humour suspense action What more could you want Why oh why did the pull the plug on this It just doesnt make sense Buffy went on for 7 series as did Charmed and enjoyable as they were Surface Invasion and Dead Like Me were even better Just because a show does not get terribly high ratings doesnt mean its rubbish and if they gave it a bit longer probably more people would catch on to it and they would end up with a big hit on their hands One season just does not give it enough time to catch on and the networks are far to eager to pull the plug They should learn that like fine wines and cheeses they take time to maturebr br Bring Surface and Invasion back P L E A S E

I love everything about family guybr br My favourite characters in family are Brian and Stewie and I like the episodes when it mainly features them such as Road to Rhode Island Season 2 as they interact very well The comments they make just have me in stitches Peters behaviour is also very funny as some of the things he does are just so brilliant theyre retarded The voice acting is excellent especially Seth MacFarlane as he provides the voices for half of the Griffin family as well as their perverted neighbour Glenn Quagmire and how he manages this range particularly with singing I just dont know He deserves his two Emmys for providing the voice of evil baby genius Stewie Adam West also steals the show with his funny and completely insane regular character the mayor of Quahog What I like about Chris voiced by Seth Green is the things he says show that he takes after his father when it comes to intelligence and common sensebr br The only thing I have found annoying is that in the UK Fox has decided to change the seasons to increase DVD sales which in no way reflect the programme itself but rather the marketingbr br If you enjoy Family Guy then I would thoroughly recommend Seth MacFarlanes other project American Dad which uses a different style of humour but is still extremely hilarious

Along with Patrick McGoohan and Robert Culp Jack Cassidy was an iconic Columbo villain The very first proper episode of Columbo following two standalone pilots Murder By The Book is not far off classic statusbr br Jack Cassidy plays Ken Franklin one half of a murder mystery writing partnership His partner Jim is the talented one whereas Ken has no talent other than the gift of the gab and a skill for promoting the books As soon as Jim has decided he no longer requires Kens marketing skills Ken hatches a plot to kill Jim Except its not a new plot its actually the implementation in real life of a murder storyline originally intended for one of their booksbr br It doesnt take Columbo long to work out that Ken is the murderer although unfortunately another murder has to take place Ken romances and then kills a key witness before Columbo has enough evidence to secure a convictionbr br Nothing whatsoever wrong with Murder By The Book but its not quite topnotch I would just give Publish Or Perish the edge over this both episodes feature Jack Cassidy and the world of publishing but Publish Or Perish is a fraction more tense and unpredictable But this is still a great episode

Weve all been there sitting with some friends watching a bad movie laughing at how terribly it was made and how poor the acting was eventually the credits roll and everyone looks around and says how is it possible such a movie was made who paid money to have this script made into a feature film Well Jigsaw is not that kind of film instead of asking how this garbage was budgeted you wonder why the makers were shot out of a cannon into the sun Yes Jigsaw is quite possibly the worst movie ever made or conceived this coming from a guy who has seen Campfire Stories and Fever Lake The film starts out in some kind of college class what kind of class I am unsure but it is imagined to be an art class Now these dorks have been given a final project by their idiot teacher five of them are given pieces of a mannequin and told to design it in any way they see fit and since there are only five pieces the other students in the class receive and automatic A oddly enough there are only six students in this entire class so the one goth chic gets a free A good for her A week passes and the five students plus teacher plus one hillbilly husband meet in a bar to discuss their and complete their project they put the pieces together head arms legs and inform the others why they chose their specifics designs now these creative geniuses used the week to their full advantage one puts a saw blade in the left hand the other gets a sawed off shotgun the right leg gets a bunch of broken ceramic glued to it and the left some magazine clippings the head is the worst getting a camera in the eye ala Hellraiser 3 with some bottle rockets for a stylish mohawk After they have all spilled their guts about their specifics designs the now drunk teacher says they are to burn the mannequin now aptly named Jigsaw Now up to this point it has been standard horrible movie fair bad acting dialog and everything else but has still been pretty plausible yet after Jigsaw catches fire things take a turn for the worstJigsaw comes alive How you ask I have no idea he just does because the writers couldnt think of a realistic way for two pounds worth of molded plastic to become alive Come on guys a bolt of lighting a traveling voodoo priest anything could have worked So once Jigsaw comes to life he uses his new abilities of walking very slow and stilted with the use of his molded fingers to wreak havoc First he kills the cool guy with some barb wire this guy who was about to get it on with a hot chic decides drinking ground beer off in the distance is more important than what is in front of him With him gone Jigsaw shoots the sexy girl in the face and then gives an old man a heart attack with a slight twist of his head he then saws up a nasty looking southern woman and then her hillbilly husband Jigsaw then kills the nerdy guy with some headless deception Did I mention Jigsaw was taking body parts off his victims to make a human version of himself No Well its not important they dont even show his macabre creation they dont even show him steal away a torso from his poor creators Maybe he was trying to create the head detective from In Living Color So after these five have been killed the teacher and the nerdy girl are all who is left the teacher figures out that Jigsaw only needs a head to finish his masterpiece since he is still uninterested in that torso thing So being the coward he is the teacher ties up the girl as a sacrifice to Jigsaw who comes in only to go for the teacher with his electric buzz saw which isnt even plugged in That is where the freaking movie ends we dont even get to see the teacher get killed or what happens to the girl let alone an explanation why Jigsaw came to life or how he cleaned himself off after being burned This movie is so shameful it has too be seen it is only 71 minutes so it is a small part of your day For the memories of a lifetime Jigsaw Jigsaw Jigsaw Thank you Total Recall The Judge has ruled watch Jigsaw only if your plans of severing off your genitals seems played out

When I first heard about the title I thought of The Simpsons just like so many other reviewers but when I saw the cast I was completely stunned that so many great characteractors would actually be in this First of all we have Christopher Walken Deer Hunter Pulp Fiction who plays the title character McBain He is rescued from a Vietnam POWcamp by some of his buddies one of which is Santos Chick Vennera Yanks who splits a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL with McBain Vietnam soldiers are loaded with cash apparently and tells him that he can redo the favor to him if he ever gets into troublebr br Then 18 years later Santos and his sister Christina Maria Conchita Alonso The Running Man Predator 2 join the rebels in Colombia trying to get rid of their evil dictator El Presidente Victor Argo Taxi Driver King of New York and when Santos fails the mission Christina goes to McBain for helpbr br McBain then asks his good ol Vietnam buddies to help him First theres the token tough black guy Eastland played by American Ninjas Steve James who was also in director James Glickenhaus previous movie The Exterminator where the exterminators real name also was Eastland coincidence I think not There is also a lot of other references to The Exterminator among other things the most notable one being that McBain himself wears a weldersmask when Christina sees him for the first time when he is working on a weldingjob on top of a bridge br br The other guys in the Vietnampack are The rich guy who can afford all sorts of equipment for the team Frank Bruce Michael Ironside Total Recall Starship Troopers and then theres the doc Dalton played by Jay Patterson who doesnt look like the guy the IMDb is linking to and I havent seen him in other movies so who knows and last but not least theres the cop Gill who has had enough of his unsatisfying job hes played by Thomas G Waites who some of us might remember from The Warriors and The Thingbr br And in other big roles we find Luis Guzmn Boogie Nights Carlitos Way as a smalltime drugdealer who cant get a decent job Also there is Dick Boccelli as the drugdealing kingpin who gets hung up in a crane on top of a roof by the McBaingang almost Exactly in the same way he got hung up over a meatgrinder by John Eastland in the EXTERMINATORmovie Now I havent seen Glickenhaus ShakedownBlue Jean Cop yet but Im almost ready to bet half a hundreddollar bill that Boccelli gets hung up in that movie too br br Well back to the plot of this movie they go off to Colombia and saves the day yay But who cares about the plot anyway the cast is great and the actionscenes are very well done and youre never bored while watching this movie Highly recommended to all actionlovers

Another Channel 4 great canned long before its time Compelling acting from Phil Davis and the rest of the cast Sexy intelligent and funny I remember watching it at the time and even then asking around noone had really heard of it But trying to find someone now who can recall it is even harder Perhaps Channel 4 dont do their job well enough in drumming up the enthusiasm needed Either that or the general public is too interested in the TV vomit that is Big Brother I suspect the latter Downloading of Garth Merengies Dark Place prompted Channel 4 to release a DVD of that series Lets hope the same can happen with North Square

After reading some very good reviews about this film I thought I would give it a watch and after being very disappointed with the film I thought I would give it my own review This is my first ever so bare with mebr br First of all I would scratch horror from the genre as in no way is it horrific or scary in the slightest with the exception of a few feeble attempts to make you jump unfortunately one of which worked on me I would say that calling this film a thriller is pushing it as I wasnt particularly thrilled either The film is about a spoiled mischievous girl who faints a few times During these times she visits a house which she has been drawing after each visit she decides to add something else to the house to make it a bit more lively one of the features being a sad little boy who is also ill in reality As she befriends the boy she realises that her imaginary world that she created is actually better than the real world that she is in Until she adds her constantly away father to the house due to a misdrawing her dad turns out to be evil and her and the boy must escape from his clutchesbr br Think its an attempt to be a slightly more mellow version of A Nightmare On Elm Street but is more like a trip to the beachbr br In conclusion my generous 310 will hopefully stop at least one of you from watching this drab

Michael Kehoe has accomplished quite a feat especially considering it is only his second start as writer producer AND director Generally first timers lack vision and direction when helming a major production but Dominion proves Mr Kehoe is going places in Hollywood Set with beautiful scenery Dominion boasts experienced cast members especially Thomerson James who communicate Kehoes vast vision with exceptional clarity Few films can mix the slasherhorror genre with a genuine actionadventure feel but Dominion accomplished this completely This film certainly qualifies as one of the topnotch films in both of these categories If you are looking for fastpaced action with more than a modicum of suspense look no further I look forward to Kehoes future projects with great enthusiasm Well done

Theres something about a movie that features female bodybuilders that gets me in front of the screen every time br br Ive seen Pumping Iron II Aces Iron Eagle III Raven Hawk and even the TV movie Getting Physical which featured some big names in the sport They were tolerable in their own ways mostly because they featured Rachel McLish ROWWRbr br Then I went and watched Nemesis III Prey Harder on the sole basis that it featured such luminaries as Sue Price Debbie Muggli Sharon Bruneau and Ursula Sarcev Love the ladies always will but after this Im kinda glad I missed the first two Nemesis flicksbr br Well the first one anyway Most of the footage here is lifted bodily and kicking and screaming I would guess from Nemesis II Actually that one looked marginally entertaining from the evidence supplied herebr br But even though Price and company flex and pose they dont get much of a chance to do anything else like say ACT In fact this whole film is an exercise Get it Haha in oblique storytelling ambiguous characters and openended moviemaking in terms of filming as well as the storyline br br Nothing makes much sense but even if it did there would still be issues such as making such small parts for such largerthanlife women as these What a crimebr br Of course it was written and directed by Albert Pyun so what did you expect cohesionbr br One star only in consideration for all the hard work that Price Muggli Bruneau and Sarcev obviously put into their bodies NOT the craft work done within the movie itselfbr br Thanks ladies

This movie has been a classic in my part of the country because it was filmed in my own small town I now have many friends who are guards at Dixon Correctional and I myself worked for 3 yrs at the SuperAmerica store next to the Krogers store the old lady was at However this is still the dumbest movie ever made destined to be introduced by Gilbert Godfreid or Rhonda Shearer if it hasnt been already A bit of trivia Illinois doesnt even have parole hearings and Dixon Prison is a medium security facility housing burglars and vending machine vandals The classic cluckingseduction scene is perhaps the most amusing piece of writing Ive ever seen especially with the suspenseful buildup

A year after her triumphant first special My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand regrouped with her production team to produce this followup CBSTV special in thenrevolutionary color First broadcast in March 1966 Color Me Barbra follows a similar format to its predecessor three segments the first two with unique concepts The first takes place in the afterhours halls of the Philadelphia Museum of Art where dressed as a period maid she roams the galleries and becomes part of the artwork through song In various guises Streisand expresses a variety of moods from the comedy schtick of the Minute Waltz to the melodrama of Non Cest Rien in a Modigliani painting to the beatnikstyle frenzy of Gotta Move set to abstract art My favorite moment in the special is when she transforms into a dead ringer of Queen Nefertiti while singing a haunting rendition of Rogers and Harts Where or Whenbr br Opening with another comic monologue full of silly nonsequiturs this time in French the second segment is back in the studio for a brightlycolored circus medley where she interacts with animals including her beloved poodle Sadie She finds an appropriate context for Sam You Made the Pants Too Long with a bevy of penguins and comically compares her profile to an anteaters with We Have So Much in Common As with the first special the program ends with a riveting solo concert in which she sings some chestnuts Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home Where Am I Going and Starting Here Starting Now among them Also included is the brief introduction she filmed in 1986 ironically dressed in allwhite when the special was first released on VHS The juxtaposition of locale and song is even more effective than in her first special and a 23year old Streisand is in peak form

Ive watched this movie twice and I plan to see it again It is the movie that puts you in the directors place regarding his romantic relations and the political situation in Israel It also makes me cry because of remembering the wonderful time it was and the horrible murder described there It is really worth watching

Dont listen to the prissy critics who are probably bitter gamers still sore from the roasting Silverman infamously gave them at Spike TV Video Game Awards a couple of months ago The Sarah Silverman is wonderfully bizarre surreal immature ridiculous and would fit rather nicely in a Adult Swim lineup If Silverman tones down the juvenile doody jokes and emphasizes the darker meaner undercurrent the show is so far just hinting at we could have one of the greatest cult comedies since the cancelled Strangers With Candy But just from watching the pilot its just solid not outstanding offbeat dark comedymusical but with huge potential br br Silverman has created a hilarious childwoman of a character a prettier younger Jewish American Princess version of the late great Jerri Blank and the show features one of the most unconventional nonstereotypical portrayals of a gay couple I have ever seen on television Early reviews are suggesting the next couple of episodes surpass the pilot so I cant wait to see how this show unfolds

Heart of Darkness Movie Review Could a book that is well known for its eloquent wording and complicated concepts ever be made into a movie good enough to portray the deep meaning in the book So far that goal hasnt been achieved The Heart of Darkness was attempted to be made into a movie in 1993 but it was a failure in comparison to the bookbr br It is hard enough to make any book into a movie There always is the worry that it wont be as descriptive or have the same meaning So why the novel The Heart of Darkness is made into a movie I am clueless There is so much description and hidden meaning throughout the entire book When just reading the words plainly I think that a person would think it is pretty boring and wouldnt get the symbolism I think that is what happened in the movie the movie just skimmed the story at the surfacebr br The movie didnt even follow the full storyline of the book major changes were made that I thought made the movie worse For example the manager did not go along on the boat with Marlow and the rest of the crew the spy did instead I think that took out some major plots and took out the great deception of the manager in relation to Kurtz Also Kurtz wasnt even on the steamboat when he died which especially made the entire journey even more futile which just got annoying after a while And when Marlow was telling Kurtzs fiance about his final moments and words it was no where near as descriptive or important the fiance didnt even get that upsetbr br As far as the acting went none of the actors did a very good job except for the actor that played Mfumu In my opinion Kurtz was not very evil and that was kind of an important thing in the book Also other characters such as Marlow the manager and the fianc didnt do the characters justice that they deserved from the book Their acting wasnt very exciting or memorable at all Over all I dont think that this book should have even been attempted to be made into a movie I think it is fine to use some of the themes in a different story line like in Apocalypse Now But as for following the same exact story line of the book it just does it shame

Directed by the duo Yudai Yamaguchi Battlefield Baseball and Junichi Yamamoto Meatball Machine is apparently a remake of Yamamotos 1999 movie with the same name I doubt Ill ever get a chance to see the original so Ill just stick commenting on this one First of what is Meatball Machine A simple in noway pretentious low budget industrial splatter flick packed with great make up effects and gore Its not something youll end up writing books about but its nevertheless entertaining if you dig this type of cinemabr br Meatball Machine follows the well known plot Boy loves girl but is too afraid to ask her on a date Boy finally meets girl Girl gets infected by a parasitic alien creature that turns her into a homicidal cyborg Boy in turn does also transform into said thing and goes on a quest to save his love Will he succeed Who gives a damn as long as there is carnage and death Im satisfiedbr br The plot is simple relatively clichd but it does its job well enough setting the movies course straight forward into a bloody confrontation between the two leading characters There is a subplot focusing on how the parasite that infected the girl came into to their lives And yes it too luckily shows more violence Im happy Acting is what you would expect from a no budget splatter film Its not exactly painful for the ears but its not exactly good eitherbr br The movies main attraction besides the violence and gore like I havent mentioned that enough already are the cyborg designs Done by Keita Amemiya whos work in creating outlandish creatures and costumes for both movies and videogames is well known The necroborgs as they are called in Meatball Machine look stunningly detailed Without the usage of CGI Amemiyas designs are a breathtaking fusion of flesh and metal painfully awesome in their appearance Able to transforms various parts of the body into cool weaponry such as saws rocket launchers bloodfiring shotguns and so on and so on Though you can easily recognize the cheapness of the film necroborgs are Amovie classbr br Meatball Machine is Tetsuo The Iron Man mixed up with Alien all done in low budget and extra ketchup mode Its an immensely entertaining film that disregards modern special effects and proves that the splatter genre is still alive and kicking

the government that he fought to establish to recognize his loyalty with a promised and much needed pension Ripsteins lyrical work is a sweet ode to all those who like the Colonel suffer under the abuses of a cynical and hardened society that strengthens itself by denying its citizens the means to live with dignity and purpose Unlike the absurdity of WAITING FOR GODOT the Colonels wait for the arrival of his pension gives hope and significance to his otherwise miserable life Two things in the film drive the Colonel who is masterfully played by Fernando Lujan the hope that his military pension will one day arrive and the knowledge that his son Agustin died for a noble cause a reason other than a drunken fracas at a rigged cockfight Unable to realize the former and forced to prove to the world the latter the Colonel does the only thing he can do set about training his sons fighting cock The cock is now the warrior who can bring fortune and justice to the Colonel and his asthmatic wife but his fighting ring is that of the killer of his former owner Agustin In a tense scene of confrontation between the Colonel and Nogales his sons killer the Colonel is offered by Nogales a paid government agent money enough to equal the Colonels full pension But this is blood money hush money designed to hide the fact that those in power have turned their backs on one who fought for their political ideals and to conceal to the world that the warrior colonels son was assassinated because he wrote for an underground paper that favored the rights of labor unions and the common man With maximum dignity the Colonel rejects Nogales offer picks up his fighting rooster and walks away as nobly as his old legs can carry him Once he is at home Dona Lola his scolding wife wants to know why the Colonel refused the money when both of them are starving In response to her continued question What are we going to eat until November when the cockfighting season begins the Colonel responds Shit Excrement is what the poor and disenfranchised have been eating all of their lives and excrement is a meal that the Colonel willingly chooses to eat with dignity knowing that he could never sell his soul to those who oppress him The Colonel waits as the only man of honor and valor in a world without principles

Eagles Wing is a pleasant surprise of a movie keeps the viewer interested I didnt know anything about it being made by the British until I read the other viewer comments I can understand why it won an award for cinematography for it was brilliantly presented must have looked magnificent on a vast theatre screenbr br It seemed to be a lot more realistic than most westerns in portraying how the West was more truly won As well as the complexities of the characters it presents The IndianSam Waterson character is particularly intriguing He seems to be brutal in the savage environment he is conditioned to but displays remarkable respect for the frailties he witnesses in the white men women he encounters He is not friendly or sensitive to these intruders in his lands but he has a limit to his sense of vengeance even a compassion when he is in a position of power observing the wilting white man bent on revenge as well as the girl he kidnaps after capturing a stagecoach As such his character seems complex but congruous to the harsh lands he lived in which were threatened by these intruders he is not heartless in his dealings withbr br The magnificent horse he rides is a critical link it is interesting to note how this Indian handles it compared with the Martin Sheencharacter who has it in his possession power for a time Eagles Wing is an unusual Western a genre I am not drawn to but I really appreciated this excellent offering which I would rate second only to A Man Called Horse

I decided to watch this on FearNet on demand for free because I figured well nothing else looks enjoyable And it turned out to be quite a good little horror surprise The film serves as an anthology of four urban legends told from the point of view of four teenagers whose car breaks down in the middle of nowhere After they decide to build a campfire in the woods they begin to tell their spooky stories and the movie transitions to the events in the storiesbr br The Honeymoon a newlywed couple traveling cross country in an RV to Las Vegas is terrorized when they park in a wooded area by evil beings that hunt by the full moon I wont spoil that for you The Hook Amy Smart and James Marsden probably the most famous people in the movie besides beautiful Christine Taylor play the young couple who come face to face with the maniac that has a hook for a hand in this most recognizable shortbr br People can Lick Too this is probably the scariest and most dark of the stories A young girl chats with another girl on the internet but it turns out that its actually a man who is obsessed with her and he proceeds to break into the house when shes alone This was really chillingbr br The Locket This is also a great story with Glen Quinn and Jacinda Barrett who play a motorcyclist and a beautiful mute girl who are terrorized by ghosts from a previous century in a mysterious farm house This was good but it was the weakest of the entriesbr br The group around the campfire slowly develop their own terrifying experience in their segments between stories and the end of this movie is surprising and really awesome Overall this is not bonechillingly scary but its certainly a great little guilty pleasure that horror fans alike would definitely find worthwhile

This film is exceptional in that Marlene Raymond present outstanding performances The acting in this film is the greatest strength of the production but the script direction and editing deserve applause There is an extraordinary chemistry that exsists between the two stars If you like Marlene and you like Raymond youll love this film Its a classic that compares with Casablancabr br

DER TODESKING is not one of my favorite Jorg Buttgereit film but still is an interesting film dealing with suicide and its reasons and ramifications Those looking for a gorefest or exploitation in the style of the NEKROMANTIK films or SCHRAMM will probably be disappointed DER TODESKING is definitely an arthouse style film so those that need linear explainable narratives need not applybr br The basic concept of DER TODESKING is that there is an episode for each day of the week that revolves around a strange chain letter that apparently causes people to commit suicide interspersed with scenes of a slowly decomposing corpsebr br There are some very well done and thought provoking scenes including the man talking about the problems with his wife and the concert massacre which unfortunately lost some of its power on me because I was too busy laughing at the SCORPIONS lookalike band on stage But seriously this is a sometimes beautiful the scene that shows different angles of that huge bridge is particularly effective especially if you understand the significance of the scene and that the names shown are of people that actually committed suicide from jumping from the bridge sometimes confusing sometimes silly the SHE WOLF OF THE SS ripoff is pretty amusing sometimes harrowing I found the scene of the guy talking to the girl in the park about his wife particularly effective film that is more of an experience then just entertainment as many of these art films are meant to be Still I didnt find DER TODESKING to be as strong as NEKROMANTIK or SCHRAMM and would probably put it on relatively even footing with NEKROMANTIK 2 in terms of my personally enjoyment level Definitely worth a look to any Buttgereit or art film fan If you dig this type of film check out SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY in my opinion the BEST arthousehorror film that Ive seen 710 for DER TODESKING

Spielberg loves the smell of sentiment in the morning But sentiment at the expense of narrative honesty Nobody should love that Lucius Shepardbr br The Color Purple takes place in the Deep South during the early 1900s and tells the story of Celie and Nettie two African American sisters The film opens with the girls playing in a field of purple flowers an idyllic haven which is promptly shattered by the appearance of their stepfather This motif innocence interrupted by men permeates the entire filmbr br The film then launches into a series of short sequences Celie is revealed to have been twice impregnated by her stepfather gives birth in a dirty barn has her newborn child taken away and is forced to marry a local widow named Albert Johnson a violent oaf who rapes her repeatedly forcing her to cook clean and look after his childrenbr br All these horrific scenes are given little screen time and are instead surrounded by moments of pixiedust cinematography a meddlesome symphonic score incongruous comedy and overly exuberant camera work The cumulative effect is like the merging of a Disney cartoon and a rape movie a jarring aesthetic which caused Stanley Kubrick to remark that The Color Purple made him so nauseated that he had to turn it off after ten minutes Ten minutes He lasted a long timebr br The film is often said to deal which racism sexism and black culture but this is not true Alice Walker the author of the novel upon which the film is based claims to be a bisexual but is actually a closet lesbian Her book is a lesbian fantasy a story of female liberation and selfdiscovery which paints men as violent brutes who stymie women For Walker the only way out of this maze is for women to bond together in a kind of lesbian utopia black sisterhood and female independence celebratedbr br Spielbergs film however reframes Walkers story through the lens of comforting American mythologies This is a film in which the salvific power of Christianity overcomes the natural cruelty of men A film in which Albert finds himself in various ridiculous situations moments of misplaced comedy inserted to make him look like a bumbling fool A film in which all the characters are derived from racist minstrel shows the cast comprised of lecherous men always beaming with devilish smiles and toothy grins stereotypical fat mammies jazz bands and gospel choirs br br This is a film in which black people are naturally childlike readily and happily accepting their social conditions A film in which black people are oversexed carnal sensualists dominated by violent passions A film in which poverty and class issues are entirely invisible Albert lives in a huge house and black men are completely inept This is not the Old South this is the Old South as derived from Gone With The Wind MGM Muscals Song of the South Warner Cartoons Halleluha and banned Disney movies In other words its the South as seen by a child raised on 50s TV Its all so cartoonish so racist in the way it reduces these human beings to one dimensional ethnic stereotypes that black novelist Ishmael Reed famously likened it to a Nazi conspiracybr br Of course in typical Spielberg fashion the film ends with family bonds being healed This reconciliation was in Walkers novel but Spielberg goes further by having every character in the story reconcile with their kinbr br Beyond Walkers hate letter to black men and Spielbergs bizarre caricaturing of black life we are shown nothing of the black community We have only the vaguest ideas as to how any of these characters make a living and no insight into how they interact with others in their community Instead Spielbergs camera jumps about desperately fighting for our attention one of Celies kitchen contraptions seems like it belongs in a Home Alone movie every emotion over played the director never stopping to just observe something or to allow a little bit of life to simply pass by Couple this with Quincy Jones ridiculously white music and you have one of the strangest films in cinema history an angry feminist tract filmed by a white Jew in the style of Disney and Griffith scored by a black man trying to emulate John Williamsbr br Problematic too is the lack of white characters Consider this the men in this film arent portrayed as being rough to each other nor do they dominate women because they are brutalised by a racist society which reduces their manhood No they are cruel by nature And the women whether quietly suffering like Celie or rebellious and tough like her sister persevere and survive only because the men are too stupid to destroy them A better film would not have focused solely on the oppression of women as it occurs among the oppressed rather it would have shown that it is societal abuse which has led to spousal abuse that enslaved black women are forced to perform the very same tasks as their male counterparts whilst still fulfilling traditional female roles and that African American domestic violence occurs largely because of economic factors women unable to support themselves and their children alonebr br And so theres a hidden ideology at work here Late in the film one character tells another that since he didnt respect his wife she wound up getting severely beaten and imprisoned by whites The implication is that blacks need to return to their African roots to restore their own dignity and that it is their fault that whites unjustly crush them ie Respect one another in your poor minority community and you wont run afoul of the dominant white culture br br 310 A failure to confront sex and lesbianism inappropriate musical numbers countless sequence loaded with extraneous visual pizazz incongruous comic business emphatic music cues and wildly hyped emotionality all contribute to rendering The Color Purple worthless

at last a movie that handles the probability of alien visits with the appropriate depth and loving warmth just in case were not alone i do believe that these visitors are just too touristc to care for us or give that wayward bunch of anthropocentric goofs a stable proof of their existence we wouldnt interfere in the battle rites of some agitated desert tribe either unless were out for messing with our travel insurance huhbr br anyway the movie depicts the transitional cathexis of a weary mind and body by a superior entity that happens quite unspectacular and rather unrecognized but were dealing with a movie here right so prots hospitalization is just a trigger to the plotbr br jeff bridges acts great as usual but spacey is hilarious the role seems tailored downright to him convincing and lovingly mad eating unpeeled bananas sitting in a tree giving his doctor a hard time with quickness wisdom and most of all stunning quotes they made me think and philosophize for hours alreadybr br its an encouraging film to say the least and the soundtrack by edward shearmur is simply beautiful just go and get a copy catch a beam of light now

A plane carrying a rich scientists daughter goes down in thick wilderness He assembles a group to go and find her and the others but the rescue party soon suspects that something is stalking them Then ulterior motives for the expedition are revealed and that only adds to the already existing tensionbr br The movie is a decent idea and a take on the popular Sasquatch legend was bound to wind up on film sooner or later However the films direction breaks a fundamental rule of horrorthriller directing and that is showing too much too soon Of course the audience knows there is something stalking the characters just read the title But showing what should have been the films kicker that early just ruins most of the suspense and as a direct result much of the fun The film also lacks a good atmosphere and there are almost no landscape shots that show the expanse of the wilderness but there are plenty monster pointofview shots that add nothing to anything They actually knock off Predator quite shamelessly The lowbudget horror film Wendigo did what this film tries to do much betterbr br Some of the character tensions and a nonclich ending manage to make up for this rise above the crap pile but it is still poor and given the premise and potential very disappointing 410br br Rated R for some violence and profanity but its pretty tame compared to most Rrated horror

Not only is this film entertaining with excellent comedic acting but also interesting politically It was made at the end of the Soviet Union but makes fun of the soviet mentality through and through The story is set during the early days of the soviet union and it questions the rationale behind the revolution both in cultural and practical terms Of course by the late 80s and early 90s the bizarre strictures of soviet society are already relaxed but the ideology and mentality is still alive and well and ready for some welldeserved deconstruction Happily all this deep philosophical commentary is wrapped in a funny and entertaining packagebr br Jur

I have not yet seen anyone slate this film and i think i may be the firstbr br It was awful I actually didnt watch the end of it It was like watching a boring soap or a really good one all soaps are crap The actors were poor and storyline was bad The person who rated it 1010 has no idea what he is on about The script was awful 2 People was in an angry conversation together involving threats and you expect the good guy to say some thing really good and beat the crap out of him but no He says If you do that I will hurt you Hahahahaha If comedy is your thing watch away Please do not watch this film because Its CRAP br br Summary Poor acting bad fights bad scriptbr br Dont watch Of course this is in my opinion

This 2003 made for TV movie was shown on a womens channel naturally As a man why do I even attempt to watch this I dont know but I should have my head examined And director and writer Simon Gornick should be ashamed of himself to give men an injustice as he does He takes away any strength and conviction a man could have by having several boring women do him in Number one bore is Joyce Hyser as the wife I couldnt wait for him to drop her Her revenge was silly and stupid and very confusing through most of the movie The other femme fatale was Nichole Hiltz about the coldest person youd ever want to meet Her looks didnt warrant our leading man to go that ape over her and her acting was so obvious only a fool could miss Definitely a loser Tembi Locke was pretty good but slow on the uptake as to the slut seducing her own husband again played as a guy who is a loser by David DeLuise Rounding out our cast of losers is Anthony Denison as a boss who has little to do but scowl at our hero Stephen Jenkins as our hero or should I say victim was not that good At first I thought he just a bad actor but later I believed it He never got the part off the ground and was repetitive throughout Although as a man I became enraged when the two women got away with it Men beware of this channel that puts men down and women get away even with murder LMN is the channel Beware Note Having watched this a second time by mistake I am convinced on my initial thoughts Especially on the writerdirector Simon Gornick I still believe he has disgraced the male species and should be horse whipped Only saving grace in this film is Tembi Locke who doesnt have a chance to show her talents with the awful acting of Jenkins Hyser Hiltz and DeLuise around her Plus the stupid plot that only makes it worse Down with Gornicks movie and his vacant stars in it Please LMN dont show this trite again

I viewed the original Outer Limits in real time when first broadcast and have since viewed the entire original series again and again in reruns and complete on DVD I find the New Outer Limits WELL MORE than just a remake of old retread episodes as some of the more adolescent commentators have suggestedbr br With seven 7 years of programs versus just the two 2 years of the original series the producers and writers have certainly added considerable new original stories and philosophical lines to a much longer running and very well produced cable TV series Plots are intelligent scientifically accurate projections of the unknown possibilities of the sometimes frightening and imminent futurebr br While most producers and directors in Hollywood ignorantly view SciFi as indistinguishable from Horror and Fantasy this series returns to the origins of Science Fiction in the logical moral and philosophical projections of current new technologies into their possibly fearful near term realizations This series does this very well and remains unique in its avoidance of the shootemup video game monster mentally of much of the current generation It has brains history a message and good entertainment It is an adult series without unbearable teenage knowitall fantasies Hurraybr br Now if we can only get MGM to release the entire New Outer Limits series on DVD instead of just the six poor teaser discs and the 1st season now only available

I recently saw Episodes 14 and now I cant wait for 5 6 to be available Ive heard they are coming soon Commanders Log seems destined to become a cult hit among the university crowd and all others with a taste for quirky comedy Its obvious that the budget was small but the care taken in crafting the script is quite evident In fact the simplicity of the show allowed me appreciate the writing and the acting more Bowlsby is a master of the putdown I just wish I could remember all the best ones for later use on unsuspecting coworkers Lets just say that if you dont like Commanders Log Ill personally see to it that your undies get extra starch

TO all of yall who think 1This was a boring telecast 2Halle berry and denzel Washington did not deserve their Oscarsbr br SHUT THE Fk UP This was one of the best Academy awards show because 1It was a moment in history to have a black yes Black actress win an academy award for Best actress so many of our black sisters have been ignored by the academy for many yearsTo be honest I had stop watching the academy awards because of a lack of diversity in either the winners or nomineesTo me it was nothing but a bunch of white people patting each other in the backthe academy had many chances to vote black actresses that were brilliant in movies eg Alfre WoodardWhoopi GoldbergDiana RossMary jean Babtise but it did not 2Halle berry deserved that Oscar no competition the academy was under pressure to vote for her so long have deserving actresses been ignored by the academy the majority of which is comprised of white voters yeah yeah Nicole kidman sang very prettily in muling rougebut it was time black people were accommodated in these awards showsAs for Mr Washington the academy owed him big time after that unfair loss for MalcomXTo all of you who think race is not an issueprobably white peoplein the movie industrywell it is many of the most talented black actresses around have either been reduced to stereo typical made by white people roles of what they think is a black women or are not existenceAngela basset I do not expect many of the white people to understand any of this because they never had to deal with any of itCome to think of it they are the one who been inflicting it

My personal feeling is that you cannot divorce this movie from its politicalhistorical underpinnings like so many American reviewers tend to do This is not about growing up on Main Street USA It is about growing up in Yugoslavia at a time when it was torn between the East and the West Just like the guys are torn between Esther and everybody else and Esther is torn between the Tovarish Joe and the guys There is shame in certain situations that is lost on an audience that has never lived under Tito I feel the movie is underrated and it is too bad we have lost the director Movies like this make freedom feel more important It is not just another Eastern European coming of age filmit is a sensitive portrayal of teenagers walking a fine line that might eventually lead them to real freedom

As a poker enthusiast I was looking forward to seeing this movie Especially as it had Scotty Nyugen in itbr br Basically Scotty Nyugens short spots in this film are all it has going for itbr br The characters are unlikeable and annoying the soundtrack is awful and the plot well there isnt onebr br I honestly got a headache and found myself reading the barcode number on the DVD box after twenty minutes I was THAT bored Its actually ashame that Nyugen was in this movie as otherwise I wouldnt have wasted 16 buying it off Ebaybr br Take it from me AVOID like 7 2 offsuit Dire

Intriguing Exciting Dramatic Explosive Complex Epic Words that only touch the tip of the iceberg in terms of the grand story that is LOST being toldbr br From the acting down to the rare visual effects LOST is the essential show on television for fans of sciencefiction fantasy action adventure and lots and lots of mysterybr br Each cast member is so well chosen and so good in their roles that you either love them or hate them or downright wish them deadbr br The visual effects when used which is rare are actually quite well done considering the usual production of shows Be it the smoke monster to the polar bears LOST is believable in terms of eyecandybr br As far as story goes nothing can compare to the vast complexity this show has made viewers like me endure Beginning to End continuity is virtually perfect characters are developed and the everevolving story slowly gives the answers to its questions so many cravebr br Overall there is practically no flaw in LOST It does for dramaticscifi television what Arrested Development did for comedy it has set the barbr br I highly recommend LOST to those that are patient intellectual and love every moment of the ride no matter how long it takes to reach the endbr br See this show

Talkshow with Spike Feresten is one of those shows that will definitely polarize audiences Either you like it or you dont Personally I find most of the bits hilarious but it does have some huh moments br br Staples like Idiot Paparazzi are always good for a laugh but my alltime favorite bit has to be the oneoff Hollywood Douchebag Comedy for Stoners is the only regular bit that generally leaves me confused which is part of the point Spike and his team of writers manage to churn out loads of fresh comedy time after time so the show never feels stale Ferestens brand of humor may not be for everyone but its definitely worth tryingbr br The masses have spoken We like this show and want more Please note I am not a friend of or affiliated in any way with Spike Feresten Talkshow with Spike Feresten staff or Fox network and affiliates Its just plain funny

Parts The Clonus Horror is not that bad of a movie I have the MST3K version of it on tape and it is hilarious but its still not the worst film the have ever done I would go so far as to say that it was better than 80 of the movies they have made fun of The concept could have worked if they had a better script more money and decent actors It could have become a classic if it was not so boring and had a bit more excitement Sadly it was botched in production and ended up on MST3K

An interesting movie based on three of Jules Vernes novels Considering the special effects and computer enhanced animation of today this movie stands as an historic marker of cinematic resourcefulness and imagination Karel Zeman has brought to life the lithographic images of the original Jules Verne texts this is a must see for classic science fiction and history buffsbr br I give this movie 9 out of 10 Enjoy

Jerk hazer MikeDavid Zelina playing this college frat man as one major bastard you want to see die right awayand his college cronies leave hypoglycemic diabetic SamCaleb Roehrighanging on a wooden cross along with this scarecrow which is a legendary ghost story They get POd at Sam who essentially goes into shock and aims a swinging punch at Mike that lands across his girlfriend PattyKristina Sheldoninstead so leaving the poor guy hanging is his punishment Somehow Sams soul emerges with the inanimate scarecrow who comes from the cross to destroy everyone who left the poor guy there to rot Mike and the gang send the uninitiated dorks back to bring Sam down but they are the first to receive a swinging blade across their throats Mike and his posse head for the beach to gulp booze play volleyball bicker until the scarecrow arrives to end their little soire Sams substitute brother JackMatthew Linhardtis supposed to look out for him but decides to sleep with new loveinterest BethSamantha Aislinginstead So when he receives a cellphone message from Mike concerning how they left Sam hanging on the cross while they were off at the beach taking in the sun and sand Jack is frenzied with fear Beths estranged father is a doctor and he agrees to see after Sams condition after they cut the nearly dead young man down taking him to emergency hospital Returning to the beach to confront Mike because of his negligencenot to mention Jacks promise to coach Ramsey played by UFC fighter Ken Shamrock regarding no hazing Jack and Beth will face the same strawstuffed assassin that is bumping off the others Coach Ramsey who was part of a past hazing incident that went awry causing killerscarecrowmischief has to confront some demons himself as he informs the survivors of the group about what they are up againstbr br Babes boobs and bloodthis flick follows the basic slasher guidelines Yet this flick also carries the typical slasher traits of corny characters acting dialogue and overall plot The flick shows signs of its low budget particularly in the violence as most of the real action takes place offscreen instead of showing it happening up close personal What appears on screen is mostly the aftermath of the killers vengeanceone fellow holding his guts another with a stakeholding up the groups volleyball net plunged through his chest blood spatter after a woman gets hit over the head presumably with a large rock one chick laying dead after the scarecrow hit her with the SUV etc There is also some dubbing problems where its clear the sounds of their voices often dont match the movements of their lipsparticularly the unintentionally hilarious sequence where EdTravis Parker wannabe rock star is singing to his buddies a horrible song they all seem quite impressed with

1st watched 8262001 3 out of 10DirTobe Hooper Scary yet sadisticwhich makes sense portrayal of a relative of the Marquis De Sade carrying out the same sadistic acts and enjoying it that supposedly his predecessor did This Tobe Hooper film really doesnt do a whole lot different than his similar in style Freddy Krueger movies with the same star Freddy himself Robert Englund playing a dual rolethe Marquis De Sade and his relative It is also seems like it wants to really poke at Christianity but then loses that in the end much to my chagrin but leaving an inconsistent feel to the movie Could have been much worse if excesses were taken in sex and violence but they try to keep this at a minimal despite some disgusting scenes My final thought is why would Hooper want to make this movie It obviously took awhile to actually get distributed then it has to be advertised gruesomely and with Hoopers name in the title to hopefully make some money on his name and his gore Its obvious this didnt work

October Sky is a film that will steal your heart fill your mind with vivid imagery and lift your spirit The tale of Homer Hickham and his dream of creating a rocket seem so simple at first especially when the film is set in a mining town where the future is as clear cut as the lumps of coal in the mine But Homer cannot follow in his fathers footsteps With the encouragement of Miss Rileya friendly teacher members of his fathers staff and his friends Homer attempts to make his dream a realitybr br Yet as in any true to life story there are many stops along the way Director Joe Johnston lowers us into the coal mines where we witness the chilling plight of miners stooped beneath a ceiling of rock With lit helmets and bent posture they resembled alien insectoids more than humans in the darkness The hacking coughs of the miners and the blackened faces were a constant reminder of the danger the miners faced in their workbr br Contrasting the mine shafts lugubrious load are the images of Homer and his friends rocket launches Underneath the blue bowl of sky rockets are placed upon a pad and launched into the stratosphereAnd nothing can match the scene when Homer sees Sputnik for the first timebr br Yet what makes the film so endearing is the relationship between the characters Homers father is a classic hardened manbut he has a soft side as well We see that he does love his son despite their many arguments The love and support of Miss Riley is evident as well Best of all the film is uncomfortable It doesnt tie everything up in a nice bow It tears at you lifts you up It keeps an air of reality which is important in a film like thisbr br This film can be considered a complete work At first I was disappointed that the film did not continue with Homers life I didnt want it to end Then I realizedthats what a good film does to a person If it has done its job you wont want it to end And October Sky accomplishes just that

This is one of Chaplins First National films from the period between his glorious Mutual shorts and the more mature United Artists features More opulent than the Mutual films it continues Chaplins quest for perfecting his comic expression Most people forget that the film is actually a dream that Charlie has while awaiting being sent off to the frontbr br There is plenty of slapstick via the Limburger cheese being used to gas the enemy and Chaplins foray into enemy territory dressed as a treebr br By this stage in this career the great man had become so immersed in filmic expression that his films give the impression of making themselves Doubtless this was not the case but still it gives as convincingly realistic view of life at the front as I can remember albeit from an ironically humorous perspectivebr br As far as I am concerned familiarity with the entirety of Chaplins work should be a prerequisite for all cinephiles do not delay

generally speaking I dont make negative comments on here But since this is a festival piece I dont want you to waste your time when you could see something else that might not be playing againbr br I thought the actors were pretty bad For instance they totally didnt play off each other rather they waited to RECITE their lines which were pretty poor to begin with The dialogue sounded really forced Norman or whatever his name tried or so it would appear to be witty and biting in the lines he chose but just fell really shortbr br After words he asked if anyone saw the ending coming and some people were all yea and he all but called them liars Look there were so many clues the biggest being a briefcase full of cash for a 500 an hour whore I mean the john gave her at least 20gs tell tale sign Now no you couldnt see exactly what was going to happen but by the time the twist actually occurred I for one didnt even care I was just glad to get out of there I asked him which draft he shot and he said 81 maybe next time he will wait to shoot til 153 cause this needed a lot of workbr br But he seemed like a fairly nice guy he is making his own films hell probably get better and I hope he does not in a snotty way either I mean it I wish him luck Just remember this is just my opinion

First of all there is Gujarati Theatre then there is Bollywood Both have their strengths and fan following Director Vipul Shah should look elsewhere instead of Gujarati Theatre when making a Bollywood production First he made Aankhen adapted from a Gujarati play which had a unique plot but could not hold as a Hindi film Now hes adapted another Gujarati play and named it Waqt a race against time In sum the emotions are alien The plot development is not for Hindi films For example the role play between father and son is best left to Gujarati Theatre dont bring it in a Hindi film Even the comedy track is best left for the Gujarati stage All performances are average nothing to shout about barring Shefali Chhaya Shah who is fantastic

I honestly cant believe that this film isnt more highly rated Claude Chabrol could be described as something like a French Alfred Hitchcock and while this film is only the second one of his that Ive seen the first being Le Boucher I can already see that this guy is something special just on the strength of these two films The film is a French and Canadian coproduction and takes place in Canada The cast is made up of British and Canadian stars and the high quality performances bode well with the rest of the film most of which is high quality also The film is a murder mystery and begins when a young girl covered in blood is brought into a police station After being questioned by Inspector Carella it emerges that the young girl Patricia and her sister Muriel were attacked by a man who killed the sister and only just allowed Patricia to flee However as the investigation goes on Patricia goes back to the station to give new evidence which reveals a far more shocking identity to the murdererbr br The performances in this film are excellent Donald Sutherland is subdued as usual but he suits the role hes given here very well and I wouldnt hesitate to name his performance in Blood Relatives as one of his very best The film also features supporting turns from British stars Donald Pleasance and David Hemmings who both give good turns Pleasance in particular who shows just how great an actor he can be and highlights what a shame it is that he went on to waste himself in Halloween films The unknown Aude Landry also gives a great performance in her role as Patricia The movie is very mysterious for the first hour and really keeps the audience hooked When Inspector Carella discovers Muriels diary the film turns into more of a drama in which the girls last actions are shown and while this section of the film is not as good as what went before it its still interesting and leads into a great twist at the end Overall Blood Relatives is a great film that really deserves to be better seen Le Boucher is a better known effort from Chabrol but for my money this is at least as good Highly recommended viewing

While not as bad as it has been made to be I have seen MUCH worse this is still a very lame movie Basically a rehash of Siegels Coogans Bluff with the main difference being that Clint Eastwoods hat has more charisma than the whole of Joe Don Baker an unappealing actor if there was onebr br However Venantino Venantini is great and great fun as the bad guy sort of a budget Vittorio Gassman He is the main reason to sit through this steampile as the rest of the cast deliver mostly terrible acting specially the girl Poor old Rossano Brazzi hard to believe he was once a romantic lead watch Mondo Cane to see him running away from women Looking here like a secondtier Ben Gazzara hes given next to nothing to do Its all Joe Dons show unfortunately And all of it scored to generic 80s action movie music that couldnt be more boringbr br Greydon Clark can make good BMovies Without Warning but here he trips falls breaks his nose and loses three teeth Well at least the Malta locations were nice and theres Venantini to try to save the day 310

I watched this on HBO because it won the Oscar a week earlier It compares favorably with fictional courtroom dramasbr br The story is of a 15yearold black kid placed on trial for the Jacksonville FL murder of an elderly white woman based almost solely on the identification by the victims husband and on a confession that the defense contends was coercedbr br About half the footage is of the trial its supplemented with footage of the defense lawyers two public defenders explaining their case interviewing witnesses and visiting key locations This is edited with a minimum of needless repetition and placed in logical order The camera work is pretty solid And theres a mildly surprising epilogue

OK so the following review is more of a synopsis more so than really containing any spoilers but better safe than sorry so as to avoid being blacklisted right Right Consider yourselves officially warned and read onbr br In this parodytribute to the greatest time in horror movie history the 1980s a group of stupid teens are getting together to host a seance in the house of the notorious Murder McGee who butchered his entire family a few years back and buried them in the back yard As Im sure you can guess things go from bad to worse faster than you can say Wheres the beef and in typical 80s horror movie fashion the deaths are bloody the dialogue is cheesy and beautiful women are taking off their clothes every chance they get Good timesbr br No clique or 80s horror movie clichd characterizations are left unrepresented here In fact no stone was left unturned at all we have the cool hero his innocent girlfriend the Goth chick the tough thug think John Bender the hot blonde who keeps losing her shirt the shy dork in love with the hot blonde that keeps losing her shirt a couple of gorgeous halfnaked lesbians and two big geeksbr br As you can plainly see the cast is pretty big Usually larger casts are where things can fall apart quickly with one or two sour apples buggering up the whole barrel Not in this case though Not a single cast member left me disappointed The acting was very well done Everyone from the cool hero in his Thriller jacket played by Jovan Meredith to the grooovy Goth chick played by Renee Dorian to Geeks One Two played by Cory Assink Jonathan Brett they all played it straight brought their Agame and knocked it out of the park If youre a fan of Gary Wyatt in Weird Science youll immediately fall in love with the geeksbr br Directorcowriter Jeff C Smith is a guy to watch for in the future trust me on this If this is what he can do with a low budget there are nothing but good things ahead for him when he gets more money for future projects The characters were dead on the atmosphere was perfect the laughs were huge the blood flowed and squirted and sprayed beautifully it was just like watching a horror movie from the 1980s Call this one THE BREAKFAST CLUB meets NIGHT OF THE DEMONS The tag line says it all and says it honestly EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE GRATUITOUS NUDITY ZERO BUDGET no false advertising here folks As fans of this genre we have to look to the indies and support these hardworking folks who are busting their humps out there bringing us original tales lest we forever get stuck in a world filled with big studio watereddown PG13 horror or pointless remakes like The Hitcher No thank you no more of that for mebr br In closing I honestly have to say that STUPID TEENAGERS MUST DIE is by far one of the best indie flicks Ive gotten the pleasure of watching this year Its a bloody good time and holds up on repeat viewings From the dialogue to the characters to the wardrobeeven the closing love theme over the end credits which if that doesnt bring back fits of laughter recalling mid80s power ballads by REO Speedwagon overpronounced Rs on every word starting with the letter R then Ill eat my DVD right nowbottom line is if youre a fan of 80s horror or horror in general no more hesitation this flick deserves to be in your collection

This film is not even worth walking to the movie theatre No jokes but stupid and boring laughing on repeated disgusting stuff The music and the girls are great unfortunately you have to watch the whole movie to enjoy them It was weak very very weak

Ive often wondered just how much CASPER was meant for childrenwith all the issues revolving around his identity in this film we are lead to believe that he is the spirit of a dead child as his home is a cemetery plot as well as the disturbing message brought by this particular film Maybe Casper was meant more as a morality play or Famous Studios felt like breaking new ground in reality cartoonsbr br THERES GOOD BOOS TONIGHT is a wellanimated projectno doubt there But the plot development involving the fox who becomes Caspers friend but meets a tragic end is a concernbr br Give Famous Studios creditthey tackle death with respectbut the stark image of Caspers mourning is rather graphic and disturbing for children though the denouement does offer a happy ending but I wont give away the ending and the violence is rather steep even for 1940s standardsbr br This might be a good cartoon for parents to use in helping explain death to childrenbut I wouldnt pop it into the VCR for a perky cartoon break

Series 2 has got off to a great start I dont think you need to have watched series 1 to get a grasp of whats happening but like any series its nice to feel some sense of the characters and to care about what happens to them And this show makes you think like that These 4 30something women seem to lead glamorous and exciting lives yet the premise is believable and realistic So the twists and turns that arrive thanks to their love and sex lives are exciting to watch but you also know that these are problems that happen to real women too Its about the decisions we make as women and how sometimes we are led down certain paths in our lives rather than consciously making those choices

This film follows the life of a great guitar player who wants to make it big but acts irresponsibly almost to the point of self destructionbr br I was expecting the usual Woody Allen witty dialogs sarcasm and humour but Sweet and Lowdown failed to provide any The main character Emmet Ray is an egocentric rude irresponsible and hurtful man He is so unlikeable that I do not want to now about him or care about him I wonder why a film about him has to be made The pacing of the story is slow making the film a terrible bore Even Sean Penns great acting fails to revive the film to a watchable levelbr br I like Woody Allens films a lot but Sweet and Lowdown is a major disappointment

Family is about two families who are after each others bloodbr br Viren Sahay Amitabh Bachchan is an underworld don operates from Bangkok He has a family in India Once by mistake he kills Shekhar Akshay Kumar Like Viren Sahay he also has a family a brother wife and parents Aryan Aryaman Shekhars brother is out to take revenge of his brothers death He kidnaps Viren Sahays family for the same reasonbr br The film has got one turning point Amitabh Bachchan Second half of the movie belongs to him completely where instead of his dialogs expression matters more Akshays minuscule role has also put him at par with Amitabh I didnt understand what Bhumika Chawala was doing in this moviebr br There were a few loose points in the script like Amitabh has been shown as the most wanted criminal of the city still he walks scotfree in the city Kidnapping of his family is also seemed vague How can the family of such a big don doesnt have any security cover

Mixing small town sheriffs highschool students fake rock music and some weirdo who kills for well no reason in particular this film is essentially a remake of The Giant Gila Monster except without the gila monster of coursebr br Now anyone who has actually seen Giant Gila Monster knows that it is one of the worst made films of all time frequently so slow its not even funny And I cant believe that by 1967 Giant Gila Monster had earned such a reputation that young directors were just dying to get to work on a sequel let alone a remake So will someone please explain to me why this film was made The dance sequence by the way is historically interesting although about three years out of date but even thats spoiled since it goes on and on and on

Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock is a real disappointment The story starts off ok Her husband cheats on her and she finds out on national television So she has to rebuild her life Here it could have gotten interesting or built up in a story line but you become so bored with it She moves back with her parents and Harry Connick Jr who plays Justin begins hitting on her The two have no real chemistry at all yet your supposed to get the impression that Justin is in love with her The movie ends the way you figure it will but you wish it hadnt ended like every other kind like it They had a good start with this movie and could have turned it into something watchable but instead its a movie that you definitely want to miss

This movie rocked saw it at a screener a coupla weeks ago Kinda a strange story where James Franco plays this jerk who marries Sienna Miller just to get out of the country and they go to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon Dont wanna give it away cuz the movie isnt released yet but its totally cool and you would never expect the stuff that happens I kinda thought I would hate it cuz its a romance but its also kinda twisted and stuff which I like a lot The acting is really good and Sienna Miller is totally smokin and plays this really sweet girl I think she should do more roles like this James plays a jerk but you end up liking him and the end of the movie is really good David Carradine plays a cowboy and he is good I gave this movie a 10 because I came out of the movie really liking it and wanting to see it again which I didnt expect and my girlfriend really liked it and cried good date flick

The cast of this film contain some of New Zealanders better actors many of who I have seen in fabulous roles this film however fills me with a deep shame just to be from the same country as them The fake American accents are the first clue that things are about to go spectacularly wrong As another review rather astutely noted the luxury cruise ship is in fact an old car ferry decorated with a few of the multi colour flags stolen from a used car lot Most of the cast appear to be from the great long running New Zealand soap Shortland Street Its as if this movie was dreamt up at a Shortland Street cast Christmas party the result of too many gins and possibly a bit of salmonella Imagine Under Siege meets The Love Boat staged by your local primary school and directed by an autistic and you get the ideabr br If you are an actor I recommend you see this film as a study on how to destroy your carer

This is a tedious movie The real villains are the clunky adaptation its embarrassingly easy to tell that the source material was a novel and witless screenplaybr br On the credit side considering the budget was tight due to wartime austerity the look of the film isnt at all bad And the performances are by and large OK except for Phyllis Calvert who is terrific a miracle considering the potential for winsomeness a pit into which she most definitely does not fall Ms Calvert with a lot less to go on is as accomplished as Olivia de Havilland in Gone With The Windbr br The one absolutely unbearable aspect of The Man in Grey is the dreadfully conceived depiction of a black serving boy No matter that hes meant to be a sympathetic character Played badly by a white boy in blackface makeup it is impossible to bypass this example of condescending racismbr br Grim

I think this is a lovely family movie There are plenty of hilarious scenes and heartwarming moments to be had throughout the movie The actors are great and the effects well executed throughout Danny Glover plays George Knox who manages the terrible baseball team The Angels and is great throughout the film Also fantastic are the young actors Joseph GordonLevitt and Milton Davis Jr Christopher Lloyd is good as Al The Angel and the effects are great in this top notch Disney movie A touching and heartwarming movie which everyone should enjoy

The film begins with a bunch of kids in reform school and focuses on a kid named Gabe who has apparently worked hard to earn his parole Gabe and his sister move to a new neighborhood to make a fresh start and soon Gabe meets up with the Dead End Kids The Kids in this film are little punks but they are much less antisocial than theyd been in other previous films and down deep they are wellmeaning punks However in this neighborhood there are also some criminals who are perpetrating insurance fraud through arson and see Gabe as a convenient scapegoatafter all hed been to reform school and no one would believe he was innocent once he was framed So when Gabe is about ready to be sent back to The Big House its up to the rest of the gang to save him and expose the real crooksbr br The Dead End Kids appeared in several Warner Brothers films in the late 1930s and the films were generally very good particularly ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES However after the boys contracts expired they went on to Monogram Studios and the films to put it charitably were very weak and formulaicwith Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey being pretty much the whole show and the group being renamed The Bowery Boys Because ANGELS WASH THEIR FACES had the excellent writing and production values AND Hall and Gorcey were not constantly mugging for the camera its a pretty good filmand almost earns a score of 7 its REAL close In fact while this isnt a great film aesthetically its sure a lot of fun to watch so I will give it a 7 Sure it was a tad hokeyparticularly towards the end when the kids take the law into their own hands and Reagan ignores the Bill of Rightsbut it was also quite entertaining The Dead End Kids are doing their best performances and Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan provided excellent support Sure this part of the film was illogical and impossible but somehow it was still funny and rather charmingso if you can suspend disbelief it works well

If this film won the Lumiere Award for Best FrenchLanguage Film then what kind of garbage is coming out of France these daysbr br The subject matter is an important one how the African economies are kept as economic hostages by the international organizations that are supposed to be helping them namely the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank About 40 of the governmental budgets of several African nations go to payment of Western debt while their people suffer from disease dehydration and illiteracybr br but the subject matter was treated in the most dry manner that could be conceived by man dryer than the Sahara that surrounds the country of Mali in which this film takes place More monotone and actionlacking than any documentary Ive ever seen and Im a fan of the genre one witness after another comes forward in this trial that is captured on film that condemns the World Bank IMF Some critics may site the colorful visual asides within the film but they were out of place and had no complementary soundtrack when they were on the screen They belonged better in a coffee table book than in this filmbr br Even the characters in the film say something like This trial is boring and When will it be over Everyone in the theater laughed Were those people on the screen reading our mindsbr br Danny Glover had a brief appearance in this film It is a televised movie within Bamako and it was set within Morocco or Mali It was also more ridiculous than any spaghettiWestern Ive ever tried to avoid The only redeeming part of these five wasted minutes was where a Caucasian bad guy accidentally shoots an African woman carrying a baby and shows no remorse whatsoever Perhaps it was to symbolize the insensitivity of the World Bank and how it is unintentionally killing Africansbr br And one last technical parting shot the subtitles were difficult to read with so much light colors on the screen and not enough black outline to the subtitles themselvesbr br Ive already summarized the movie for you Dont be fooled by the hype No need to see this film Youll never get these two hours back in your life

Watching Tom Hanks as a hit man for the Irish mob is a little like seeing Jimmy Stewart as a serial rapist it just doesnt work I had a really hard time accepting thisNot that I dont think Tom cant act he can Ive been following his career since Mazes and Monsters but for some reason this fell flat for me Maybe because Im such a fan of the graphic novel and at the risk of sounding like a fanboythe only form of life lower than a fanboy is a cockroachThe movie as a whole fails for meThe additions Jude Law and the subtractions everything else left me feeling cold and more than a little disappointed I was expecting a great crime movie more in the vein of Bonnie and Clyde Mendes took all the heart out of the story and left us with nothing but the bare bones There are things to like in this flick however the cinematography is breathtaking filling the screen with beautiful images Paul Newman is as usual excellent and I really did enjoy the score But Tom as the angel of death Sullivan was completely flat

i thought this movie was really really great Helena did an amazing job in it I thought she played her character very well shes an AWESOME actress br br the movie was also really funny too The jokes were great i couldnt stop laughing br br i think everyone should see it br br

Wow You guys are way too niceCornyCornyCorny That is how I feel about that filmIt started well with a good idea A guy Edward Asner escape from Jail dressed as Santaa bunch of kids find him and believes his the real Santa so the Fake Santa enlist the children to help him find a bag of stolen moneythe film is like a Christmas version of Whistle down the wind The movie start well but gradually it becomes Cheesier and Cheesier to the point that at the end it becomes ridiculous and you just cant take this film seriously For example you get the Scrooge type character called Sumner Rene Auberjonois whos a total Douchebag who treat his young son like a pile a rubbish he treat his son so bad that he dont even buy him decent clothesthe poor kid wears Jeans with Holes in it but a 45 second scene with Fake Santa visiting Sumner and by the end of the film you get the guy all happy singing Christmas Carol and giving his neglected son a hugyep that is how Corny it is Im all for feel good movie especially during Christmas and I am a big fan of seasonal TV movie but this one is way too over the top for meit is a shame because it started well but the second half of the movie is trowing a supernatural element to the film that just dont match with the rest of it Its not totally badthere are some solid acting especially from the children but there are plenty of better Christmas film around

George Barrys Death Bed The Bed That Eats is at root a dark fairy tale told via a horrormovie framework It is in my opinion one of the best films of the 1970s and its downright criminal that the picture was basically stolen and distributed without Barrys knowledge those responsible for this theft should be fed to the bed ASAP If youre looking for overt gore or rabid action Death Bed The Bed That Eats isnt the flick for you Death Bed is a gentler weirder drivein picture it plays like an utterly strange dream halfremembered Id recommend reading Stephen Throwers summation of Death Bed in Throwers FAB Press book Nightmare USA he describes the movies vibe perfectly Whether intentional or not Ive noticed shades of Death Bed in everything from the Phantasm films to Michele Soavis Cemetery Man to the magicrealismslipstream fiction of authors such as Kelly Link Barry is an original and in a fair world Im sure he wouldve followed Death Bed with a number of fantastically bizarre films

I had a great time watching Femina Ridens a couple of mornings back somewhat hungover For most of the film its pretty much a two hander showing the games and weird relationship of crazy doctor Philipe Leroy and stunning Dagmar Lassander Id seen her before in a couple of Fulci films dying gruesome deaths but here she is young hip and beautiful The film is pretty predictable and certainly mild on the exploitation front but entertaining throughout owing too its marvellous colourful kitsch feel The set design music lighting and cinematography are all classic late sixties Italian style a surreal feast for the eyes and ears and though the general thread of the plot is not too difficult to foresee there are more than enough unusual events and memorably bizarre sights and sounds to keep things interesting throughout Both leads are pretty good and it bears repeating that Dagmar Lassander is really really fine The music by Stelvo Cipriani is gnarly too perfectly suited to the images Director Pierro Schivazappa has come up with quite a cracker here but its not perfect Though very alluring theres little substance here and the exploitation elements are about as mild as can be I guess this gives it a sort of charm and innocence but I cant help thinking that the subject matter could have done with more sleaze more threat that sorta thing especially since its pretty simple to figure whats going to happen This is I suspect a bit pointless for stronger exploitation fans and certainly not for people wanting sex or much nudity Its more of a light fun pop art affair lovable but insubstantial like bubble bath Recommended mainly for those fond of the 60s Dagmar Lassander or sweet set designs

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen Robin Williams fit into the part like a rhino would fit into a tutu even so his performance was still pitiful Kurt Russell was more believable but still was awful The plot left much to be desired and the rest of the acting was also terrible The only thing this movie had going for it was the trailer which suckered me in to wasting 90 minutes of my life which could have been better spent trying to lick the back of my headbr br Do yourself a favor and burn this movie if you have it If not just be happy you dont

Sorry after watching the credits I thought this would at least be a decent homage to retiring SF actorsbr br Boy was I wrongbr br The direction and story telling in this POS are terrible I have never been so insulted by a productionbr br I have great respect and love for many of the actors in this film but have to say they were connedbr br If you havent seen this debacle yet do yourself a favor and stay away These are not only two hours you wont get back but they will also ruin your respect for some actors you may once have enjoyed

I have to admit I laughed a few times during this trivial 2004 holiday movie but its already moving out of my shortterm memory In a career that is sliding rather swiftly toward tabloid obscurity Ben Affleck once a promising comic character actor who became enmeshed in the Hollywood publicity machine to recreate himself into a romantic leading man Judging from this film the transformation doesnt seem to be taking as he continues to lack the gravitas that would make him credible in such parts While his buddy Matt Damon takes on smart roles in films like Syriana Affleck appears in this type of commercial pap At least the superficial character of successful but lonely advertising executive Drew Latham suits Affleck better than most of the other roles he has triedbr br Directed by Mike Mitchell whose most famous film is 1999s Deuce Bigelow Male Gigolo and scripted by no less than four screenwriters always a bad sign the flimsy plot revolves around his characters need to rent a family living in his childhood home in order to live out his fantasy of having the oldfashioned Christmas he never had The concept is actually intriguing because there is something to be said about the cathartic release of sentimentality we are all directed to feel amid the frenzied commercialism around the holidays The real problem however is that the movie feels like an extended sketch lacking any logic or authentic emotional resonance Affleck seems to be on overdrive attempting desperately to be lovable but the net result is an exhausting turn by an actor who has an increasingly annoying habit of playing stupid people in illconceived films Fortunately he has the likes of James Gandofini and Catherine OHara playing the Valcos the couple who decide to accept Drews monetary offer to pretend to be his parentsbr br Gandolfini plays Tom like a gruff nonviolent relative of Tony Soprano but he does what he can in the role From her classic SCTV Days to Christopher Guests mockumentaries OHara is always a comic gem no matter the vehicle and unsurprisingly she earns the best laughs as Toms wife Christine whether dryly delivering a oneliner or posing in an inch of makeup for a dominatrix photo shoot In what is becoming her standard screen role Christina Applegate plays their mistrusting daughter Alicia who of course becomes Drews love interest Despite some good moments where she is enjoying the deceit of playing Drews sister in front of his girlfriends family her character seems to change in lightningflash strokes making it hard to see what Drew would see in her The story spins completely out of control by the last third with one contrived situation piled on top of another until plot strands are tied together in short order Its rumored that much of the movie was improvised since there was no finished shooting script It shows but I also have to admit I stuck with it to the bitter end

SNL is pretty funny but people who say this is like watching a Short skit on SNL is a little dumb minded Its NOTHING like SNL its just a stupid piece of crapbr br Andy Samberg tries to act like Jon Heder but fails Although Jon Heder is only funny in Napoleon Dynamite Andy tries his hardest and people think hes funnybr br Only funny people in the movie were Danny McBride and Bill Hader The only part that was decently funny with Andy was the pool partbr br They could have made the Quiet place a lot better if they didnt make the falling scene 3 freaking minutesbr br The part where hes pronouncing his Hs more is retarded They try going with it too long and half the time it looks like Andy is laughing while he actshes a horrible actor and doesnt deserve to be in a moviebr br This movie is a joke and is for the simple minded people with the brain of a 10 year old level of comedy Which is about half the United States

a compact crime drama with a good amount of action The unique NYC location shots adds to this tough little filmTechnically well done with good direction and acting Needless to saythe wild car chase that seems to begin in downtown extends through the upper west side Washington Heights across the George Washington Bridge and into NJ has to be one of the best ever on filmAll around a fine flick that for me gets better with time8 out of 10easy

There is nothing not to like about Moonstruck Im from a New York Italian family and I actually get a little homesick when I watch it The actors actresses the plot the subplots the humor they were all fantastic It starts a little slow but a lot happens in that two days I fell in love with LaBoheme because of this movie On my list of favorite movies Moonstruck is number 3 Its a feel good movie where you leave the theatre humming thats amore or repeating some of your favorite lines old man if you give those dogs another piece of my food Ill kick you till youre dead Chrissy bring me the big knife whos dead do you love him Loretta good because when you do they drive you crazy because they know they can I always put Moonstruck on when theres nothing good to watch because it makes me happy

I watched this movie when I was a young lad full of raging hormones and it was about as sexy a movie as I had ever seenor ever was to see It may not have been a great movie My guess is it wasnt I dont really remember much about it to tell you the truth I only remember the sexual chemistry between Crosby and Biehn No woman in ANY movie has ever done it for me as the unbelievably sexy Cathy did in this movie I havent seen it since that first time I caught it on TV in the 70s and I dont think Id want to see it again since Im sure it would be a disappointmentmy hormones arent as raging and Ive become more jaded over the years Still when I think back on the shower scene I can still remember how great it felt way back whenbr br Added later After watching the movie again I discovered that its dangerous to go home again What was once erotic is now pretty tame The older womanyounger man thing still works for me just not as much as it once did probably because Im no longer a 12yearold That older woman is now younger than I am Also the amateurishness of the whole thing wasnt perceived by my twelveyearold mind br br Moral Sometimes its better not to revisit the past

I really looked forward to seeing Nana after seeing Renoir amazing debut work Whirlpool of Fate I had read that Nana was generally considered his best silent film so I had high hopes Sadly this felt like a huge step backwardsbr br Catherine Hessling is the main problem with this film Her acting is over the top even for a silent film Her acting is more like what one would expect in a film from the early teens not the late 20s She usually has the same face which reminds me sorry to say of someone with constipation pains It was also very difficult to believe that any man would fall for this femme fatale There was nothing charming about her at allbr br The film was also quite long drawn the camera work was uninteresting aside from a shot of a horse race and the editing was dull The story reminded me of Pabsts Pandoras Box It is interesting to compare the two because there are only 3 years between these films Pandoras Box simply scores on every level where Nana failsbr br This film is only for Renoir completists or very serious silent films buffs

Well heres another terrific example of awkward 70s filmmaking The rudimentary premise of Whats the matter with Helen is quite shocking and disturbing but its presented in such a stylish and sophisticated fashion In the hands of any other movie crew this certainly would have become a nasty and gritty exploitation tale but with director Curtis Harrington Whoever Slew Auntie Roo and scriptwriter Henry Farrell Hush…Hush…Sweet Charlotte in charge it became a beautiful and almost enchanting mixture of themes and genres The basic plot of the film is definitely horrific but theres a lot more to experience like love stories a swinging 1930s atmosphere and a whole lot of singing and tapdancing The setting is unquestionably what makes this movie so unique Were literally catapulted back to the 1930s with a sublime depiction of that eras music religion theatrical business and wardrobes Following the long and exhausting trial that sentenced their sons to lifeimprisonment for murder Adelle Debbie Reynolds and Helen Shelley Winters flee to California and attempt to start a new life running a dance school for young talented girls Particularly Adelle adapts herself perfectly to the new environment as she falls in love with a local millionaire but poor old Helen continues to sink in a downwards spiral of insanity and paranoia She only listens to the ramblings of a radioevangelist fears that she will be punished for the crimes her son committed and slowly develops violent tendencies The script although not entirely without flaws is well written and the film is adequately paced Theres never a dull moment in Whats the matter with Helen although the singing tapdancing and tango sequences are quite extended and much unrelated to the actual plot But the atmosphere is continuously ominous and the film definitely benefices from the terrific acting performance of Shelley Winters Shes downright scary as the unpredictable and introvert lady whos about to snap any second and especially during the last ten minutes or so she looks more petrifying than all the Freddy Kruegers Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers combined There are several terrific supportive characters who are sadly a little underdeveloped and robbed from their potential like Michal MacLiammir as the cocky elocution teacher Agnes Moorehead as the creepy priestess and Timothy Carey as the obtrusive visitor to the ladies house There are a couple of surprisingly gruesome scenes and moments of genuine shock to enjoy for the Grand Guignol fanatics among us but particularly the set pieces and costume designs even nominated for an Oscar are breathtaking

A vg Brit romcom one to watch if you can get your hands on a copy Quirky and often surprising this is not the best of Bradys films Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is by far the funniest though it does have a unique charm Well written the story veers off into a few dead ends but mostly surfaces with a new plot high You know from the start how its going to end but when it comes it is honest and very open ended a realistic and credible ending the end seemed like a beginning enjoyable and left me wanting more

I watch this movie without big expectations I think everyone should do Its a great Tvserie and of course we couldnt compare it with Gone With the wind but its still nice to watch Its also weird to see a different Scarlett Joanne Whalley dont play Scarlett with passion and fire like Vivien Leigh but I believe that Scarlett is changed when she became older Dont expect to much of this just watch but dont watch like I think this would be horrible

WARNING MISERABLE MOVIE WARNING The day before Christmas eve some nut case decided hed entertain us by sending this movie as entertainement on TV What in Gods name was he thinkingbr br This movie is filled with awful humor despicable acting lousy jokes and a disaster of a plot line Randy Quaid plays the idiotic role as Cousin Eddie Johnson Eddie is a brain dead person whos incapable of even the simplest tasks He was fired because he was dumb as a brick but the company he worked for was sorry for it so they sent him and his family on a vacation But being as stupid as he is he managed to make the vacation into a disasterbr br Allinall its the worst movie Ive seen and I have nightmares still over the miserable acting and the even more miserable jokes in this movie Its so sad you ALMOST have to see it But dont The nightmares I have are far worse than any other nightmares you will ever have Trust me I hate this movie so bad because of its acting the humor the jokes and the story The only good thing was the nice scenery br br Well Its my opinion and I surely hope everyone agrees with me

The Animatrix A Detective Story is very well planned and has a great storyline to go with it CarrieAnne Moss plays Trinity in this animated cartoon I really like the Private Detective ideas created by the Director

I absolutely positively loved the movie I just saw it and cant wait for it to come out on DVD It is a beautifully welldrawn masterpiece I am always amazed with the intricately drawn work of Ghibli studios br br Others have commented on Sosuke calling Risa by her first name He never calls his Father by his first name unless he is speaking about him to someone else I didnt get the impression that Risa was his mother It was never even mentioned or implied by anyone It is quite obvious that she is his stepmother That is why he makes her promise to come home and why he gets so upset when he finds her empty car His mother must have died when he was an infant because he mentions being nursed by Risa This coupled with his father being out to sea a lot is why he has abandonment issues Everyone also talks about how mature he is This usually occurs when a child loses a parent

I love this show My girlfriend was gonna get an abortion until we both watched Wonder Showzen one night Luckily she killed herself before the baby was born Though technically I think it was considered a murdersuicidebr br My first thoughts upon seeing Wonder Showzen Now I know what God watches when He jerks off all the timebr br Wonder Showzen is to television what a toaster in the bathtub is to my selfesteembr br You know how George W Bush makes speaking gaffes all the time Tyler wouldnt Tylers good Tyler cuts his nails Hes Tyler Hes good Tyyyllerrr

Its just that Chucky 1 was good Chucky 2 was better Chucky 3 sucked Now the 4th in the series which is in my opinion the best out of the series Jennifer Tilly was just great in this movie For dolls they were better than a few actors that come to mind Freddie Prince Jr for one and funnier than many comedies Ive seen in the pastbr br The plot wasnt great but I really didnt care about it Just to see Chucky and Tiffany bicker and fight each other And the ending leaves it wide open for a 5th sequel which I hear is in the works Idle Hands premiers next week and looks to be another horrorcomedy but I doubt itll top this one

So totally unique and entertaining Another great Canadian invention A regular JoeDan and a bunch of misfit delinquents aka Puppets all share residence at a halfway house Its Dans job to keep an eye on four menaces to society and help them to rehabilitate Bill the homicidal dummy Rocko the cigarette smoking dog Buttons the nympho teddy bear and Cuddles the comfort doll The five of them find themselves in all sorts of odd predicaments Despite their homicidal and often overtly perverse sexual tendencies its hard not to find them lovablebr br I give this show a 1010 simply because it provides good entertainment without needing a huge budget and exudes a Canadian flair that makes me proud

Is this a good movie Its hard to say but in 1953 for many people it was a remarkably effective movie suspenseful scary and then amazingly actually touching when the old gentleman meets his unhappy death at the end of the moviebr br Yes what lurks in the Maze turns out to be something of a surprise and for a lot of people a hilarious one But the basic idea ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny was a very real one at the time the book was written and does have some basis in fact Not that it would ever result in what we see in the movie of coursebr br But working on what must have been a very low budget one of the greatest production designers and the person for whom the term production designer was invented creates a very eerie mood that was strangely compelling At times of course the movie is very silly but it has its moments

Triumph of Love is proof that not every ComdieFranaise author who uses crossdressing disguised courtship like Shakespeare is worth seeing br br Or maybe something was lost in the translation of this adaptation of Marivaux a Commedia Dell Arteinspired playwright of whom Brittannica says His nuanced feeling and clever wordplay became known as marivaudage br br While Mira Sorvino has fun dangling three mixedup romances her pants role wasnt even up to Cherubino in Marriage of Figarobr br The herkyjerky editing is annoying and just seems to indicate that a lot of takes were needed for each long speechbr br Best was Fiona Shaw as the fooled spinster as well as the costumesbr br The glimpses of audience we see and the closing curtain call to wink that this is all artifice doesnt really helpbr br originally written 5292002

Oh boy where do I go with this one Herendous acting weak plot stupid deaths pointless nuditybr br This isnt entertainmentthis is hellbr br Hellbr br Dont waste your money time or life on this pit of evilbr br Its justgod damn is this movie awful Tom Savini WHY Why would you waste your life on this crap This movie not worth it Id rather snort crack and smash my head up against a wall than watch THISthis sinful act againbr br Please take my advice and stay the fk away from this elephant turd of a film No you know what I shouldnt even have to call this thing a film Just stay AWAY

The only reason I rented this movie was that Val Kilmer rarely stars in a bad movie There is of course a first time for everything In many ways this movie proves that oaters arent as easy to make as we think especially by foreign directors The only one who got by with it was probably Sergio Leone but even his movies lacked that something indefinably innate to our American psyche and panache American actors in Clint Eastwood and Henry Fonda did help I can see now why they changed the original title from Summer Love to Dead Mans Bounty That itself tells me the producers and director didnt have any core understanding about a western other than those standard shootem up scenes and violent themes I suppose we can say the same about American directors attempting to make a Polish movie while failing miserably in the process

To think this film was made the year I was born To think people are still having their constitutional rights taken away now in the name of homeland security To think this movie was intentionally banned from the American public PUNISHMENT PARK addresses the political divide in the United States better than any movie Ive ever seen Had it been more widely seen would it have changed anything A movie like this is so polarizing it has the potential to cause riots It shakes you up and forces you to take sides It makes you face the issue are you for the peoples right of dissent in a time of war or for the constitution being compromised in the name of national security The protagonists are forced by the government to race to the American flag in a game that undermines the very ideals the flag stands for The acting is totally convincing So much so I cant see any acting going on here at all If this is a scripted documentary its more convincing than any reality show on television today PUNISHMENT PARK is possibly the most important film ever made It really makes you think

The Cellar is an intolerably dull and overly childfriendly 80s cheese parade directed by Kevin Tenney creator of the much better films Witchboard and Night of the Demons and starring the incredibly untalented Patrick Kilpatrick supposedly depicting a guy with feelings The pacing is really slow the plot feels far too familiar the monstereffects are all but petrifying and the film opens and ends with tedious narrative ranting that somehow feels unrelated to the actual subject matter of the film The voiceover keeps on nagging about wind and creatures riding on wind but what the hell theres no wind in the plot Like so many 80s horror movies The Cellar handles about cursed Indian landscapes and alltooreal mythical monsters hidden in basements and quagmires Mance Cashen and his family move into a house build on what once was the home of Native Americans but then white people came and turned the land into oil fields Half of the script is wasted on explaining the origin of the monster but I can easily summarize it for you an ancient Indian witchdoctor summoned the creature which looks like an oversized papermch rat to annihilate the white people overflowing his land but he buried it again because and I quote the SOB kills Indians as well Mances hugely irritating son accidentally awakens the beast and naturally cant convince his parents about the big hungry rat in the cellar The allegedly emotional family situation daddy constantly wants his son to love him is very pathetic and redundant and the film badly needed more bloodshed kids movie or not The youthful hero Chris Miller is quite annoying but weve definitely seen worse kid actors in the 80s The Cellar is very much not recommended unless of course youre a fan of cheesy and typically 80s monster designs The big dodgy ratthing is a real hoot to see

I had the funny chance of seeing this on Mystery Science Theater 3000 four years ago I must admit it wasnt as badly done as some other science fictionhorror movies of the time The plot revolved around an astronaut that came back to earth with alien embryos inside of him Now the plot is quite weird well if you can even call that a plot Seeing a space program run out of one building and an old pickup truck is dropdead funny Ill admit it was horrible by todays standards and 20 years agobut I can see myself 43 years ago watching and being charmed by this movie Its not even close to the badness of Invasion of the Neptune Men Manos Hands of Fate or Future Warbr br

You Are Alone is a beautiful almost delicate film smart directed crisply written with two complex and riveting performances and a twist of an ending that no one will see coming but will make you want to see the film a second time to go back and catch up on all the clues you misreadbr br The story about a highschool girl who drowns her depression and awkwardness by working a few hours a week as a 500 an hour schoolgirl escort and the depressed nextdoor neighbor who discovers her secret and hires her for an afternoon call in a downtown New Haven hotel features breathtaking performances from both Jessica Bohl as the girl and Richard Brundage as her neighborbr br Bohl as Daphne gives a breakthrough performance on par with Maggie Gyllenhaal in Secretary She so captures a teenagers angst of growing into her own skin and when she talks about always being in control you start to realize shes not in control at all but in danger of going over the deep end which I guess in a way she doesbr br Brundage as Buddy is depressed angry heartbroken a shell of a man But it isnt until the films startling conclusion that you grasp a full comprehension of his painbr br After a very brief opening segment which will hook most independent film lovers and have the religious right running towards the exits we are brought into the hotel room At first youre not sure about these people or the filmmaking style Shaky annoyinglike the characters Until you realize their back story told in short flashbacks Theyre confrontational at first for a reason and so is the camera But as they open up as the story settles down likewise so does the camera And I dont know 20 minutes in give or take you find yourself unable to take your eyes away from the screenbr br Having just seen the world premiere screening at the Brooklyn Film Fest where the director asked the audience if anyone expected the ending and not one person answered yes I almost wish the film were already on video so I could watch it again Because thinking back now on some of the conversations in the film particularly a very candid dialog regarding fantasy and climax I really thought things were going in a very different direction But I realize now so much of their conversation meant something completely different than what I imagined I need to see it again But as dark and sexual as much of the talk is blunt to say the least I found myself laughing more than I might have expected at some of its candor which definitely falls into the things we think but lack the nerve to say out loud category Its very blunt especially when you realize so much of it has a completely different meaning Some of it will make you uncomfortable especially if youre watching You Are Alone with a partner Youll definitely have something to talk about perhaps argue about afterwards Perhaps it should come with a warning You SHOULD be alone when watching The music is amazing I would have come home and purchased the soundtrack at my favorite online music store if I could have The film looks as good as anything shot on film After the screening director Gorman Bechard was asked what sort of process he used to get the digital footage to look so good His answer none They couldnt afford itbr br I have to give Bechard credit I am a big fan of his two shorts The Pretty Girl and Objects in the Mirror but even they could not have prepared me for the complexities and surprises of this filmbr br To everyone involved bravo

Contains spoilers br br The British director J Lee Thompson made some excellent films notably Ice Cold in Alex and Cape Fear but Country Dance is one of his more curious offerings The story is set among the upper classes of rural Scotland and details the strange triangular relationship between Sir Charles Ferguson an eccentric aristocratic landowner his sister Hilary and Hilarys estranged husband Douglas who is hoping for a reconciliation with her We learn that during his career as an Army officer Charles was regarded as having low moral fibre This appears to have been an accurate diagnosis of his condition throughout the film he displays an attitude of gloomy disillusionment with the world and his main sources of emotional support seem to be Hilary and his whisky bottle The film ends with his committal to an upperclass lunatic asylum br br Peter OToole was when he was at his best as in Lawrence of Arabia one of Britains leading actors but the quality of his work was very uneven and Country Dance is not one of his better films He overacts frantically making Charles into a caricature of the useless inbred aristocrat as though he were auditioning for a part in the Monty Python UpperClass Twit of the Year sketch Susannah York as Hilary and Michael Craig as Douglas are rather better but there is no really outstanding acting performance in the film There is also little in the way of coherent plot beyond the tale of Charless inexorable downward slidebr br The main problem with the film however is neither the acting nor the plot but rather that of the Theme That Dare Not Speak Its Name There are halfhearted hints of an incestuous relationship between Charles and Hilary or at least of an incestuous attraction towards her on his part and that his dislike of Douglas is motivated by sexual jealousy Unfortunately even in the swinging sixties and early seventies the date of the film is variously given as either 1969 or 1970 there was a limit to what the British Board of Film Censors was willing to allow and a film with an explicitly incestuous theme was definitely offlimits The American title for the film was Brotherly Love but this was not used in Britain was it too suggestive for the liking of the BBFC These hints are therefore never developed and we never get to see what motivates Charles or what has caused his moral collapse resulting in a hollow film with a hole at its centre 410

Well I am SO glad I watched this on HBO instead of paying for it in the theaters or video store The movie has some points but if you want to make it a worthwhile movie I suggest that you become what the main characters are calledstonersbr br 210

The first time I watched this show it was OK There were some funny moments and I laughed a couple of times but this show is getting worse and worse Carly and Sams web show is NOT the least bit funny They play a stupid video from the internet scream at the camera and make some very bad jokes And then the laugh track goes off One problem with the show is that none of the main characters are funny Carly is not funny Miranda Cosgroves acting is lackluster at best Her acting in this show is nothing like her acting from Drake And Josh Her friend Sam is very rude and crude and the show is written in a way that makes her look like some kind of hillbilly I mean they make jokes about her mom driving a rusty old truck her mom smashing an old TV with a bat and then theres the jokes about Sam failing in school getting detention all the time and running from cops None of that is funny at all Then theres Freddy who is a computer geek He isnt too funny unless his Mom is treating him like a baby The shows only somewhat funny full time character is Carlys brother Spencer He makes some funny jokes and does some pretty funny things like pretending to drive a space ship while making spaceship noises knocking over a girl scouts cookie table for revenge as they did the same thing to him His material is the only thing worth laughing at Aside from the characters other things make the show bad too Like the fact that a couple of kids doing a local web show from a Seattle apartment is a worldwide hit and got them a free trip to Tokyo Another thing is that how can a 26 year old single guy with no real job can pay for a 2 level apartment in downtown Seattle and raise his 13 year old sister and pay for a room full of camera and sound equipment including a remote controlled projector and a green screen and an HD camera This sounds like it was written by a 10 year old The worst thing is that the show contains some pretty questionable content There are a couple of times when Carlyremember a 13 year old girl appears on her internet web show in a bikini top WTF Then I saw an episode where Freddy tells Carly and Sam that he slept in JUST his socks the night before I mean WTF Then theres an episode where Carlys rival Nevel blackmails her by taking her website rights and agrees to give her the website back in exchange for a kiss Creepy And I just saw an episode where Carly meets a boy who just moved into their apartment building and he has some kind of back injury and he takes off his shirt and Carly stands there drooling over him I cant believe Nick even lets them show that kind off stuff and I cant believe that this was created by the same guy responsible for Drake and Josh This show is not appropriate for kids under the age of 12 and thats even questionable iCarly is just another addition to the long list of awful Nick programming

Im 14 so you probably would think I have never heard of George Burns or Walter Matthau or anyone like that Boy are you wrong I had heard that George Burns was in this movie and that he won an Academy Award for it I have been a fan of George Burns since I was ten I saw the movie Oh God recently and loved it This one was also very awesome George Burns did a great job So did Walter Matthauthis is the first time Ive ever seen him perform And even though they had really small roles Phyllis Diller and Steve Allen did a good job That special they were filming would have been awesome if it was really done Let me say this if you are a fan of George Burns or Walter Matthau you should see this movie right away

Under the assured direction of F Gary Gray Italian Job never loses its grip on being cool and fun Although the material is rehashed and average the film itself is masterfully executed and is satisfyingly good The tone could easily have been much heavier considering the murderrevenge plotline but F Gary Gray keeps the tone light by good humor snappy dialogs and pulsating music It is a pleasure to see these wouldbebad guys form a great bond and stick to eachother through deceit and murder while never forgetting to have fun This one is 710

This movie was of the 67 of 71 best pictures I have seen by far the worst First of all I found the plot line somewhat absurd the absent husband for 25 years still in love not even a letter Give me a break And why was the guy who was absent for so long coincidentally working on an oil rig next door to the congresswomans party This film also exhibited some of the worst stereotyping of AfricanAmericans that I have ever seen It makes Gone With the Wind see Prissy look downright progressive I have scarcely seen a movie that I disliked this much UGH

This is a movie that has a lot of things that only Japanese people can understand Even well translated there are some things that are obviously private jokes or regional symbolism My guess is that it tried to send a message of some sort but that just got wasted on mebr br What I felt that is basically this is a mediocre movie with nice special effects Some kid becomes The one and in the end has almost no relevance to a yokai war that makes no sense whatsoever anyway It would have been nice to understand what the hell they were talking about but between the Azumi bean washing yokai and the one that looks like a big tongued umbrella Rihanna eat your heart out I couldnt really discern the plotbr br Bottom line nice visuals the kid screams a lot the river princess is terrible cute and the rest is crap

I think i watched this movie but dont quote me as i may have fallen asleep during watching it as it didnt exactly grip my excitement and imagination At least i know i watched enough of it to know i wont be watching it again soon Or everbr br Jeez talk about lame Really lame Totally lame It wouldnt even appeal to a six year old It basically had NO worthwhile dramatic impact Zilch Nada Just shlock turned into dreck Comedy That was supposed to be comedy Ya coulda fooled meeeeebr br Now if the aliens had been insatiably carnivorous like in the movie Critters we could have had the human characters do something a little more profound than be overly smugly cutesy like yelling and screaming and running for their lives so they wouldnt be eaten so the story could be something more exciting than watching paint drybr br Dont bother watching this Its not worth the effort You can find something more interesting to do Like watching paint dry Or falling asleep

This movie was so bad outdated and stupid that I had rough times to watch it to the end I had seen this Rodney guy in Natural Born Killers and I thought he was funny as hell in it but this movie was crap The jokes werent funny actors werent funny anything about it wasnt even remotely funny Dont waste your time for this Only positive things about this were the beautiful wives and Molly Shannon who Im sure tried her best but the script was just too awful Thats why I rated it 2 instead of 1 but its definitely one of the worst films Ive ever seen

In my opinion this movie is not good I hardly find a good thing to say about it but still I would like to explain before I conclude it is just another bad moviebr br I decided to watch it because Costas Mandylor is starring in it and that was the main reason I watched it till the end I like action movies and I understand that such movies are built on the action rather than the story I know they dont go into details when it comes to the credibility of the story and the events but even that does not explain why some scenes just because they lack the sense of reality look ridiculousbr br At the beginning the movie looks quite promising a tough good looking specialist and his not so tough but smart and funny partner must do a job which turns out a bit different than they expected The story takes place on a cruise ship A disaster happens the ship is turned over and only a few are left alive During their struggle to survive they have to escape a shark a professional killer and the rising waterbr br Furthermore the movie is quite violent The main weapon beside the disaster which already took out most of the passengers is the gun which is successfully used in many cases I personally missed a good man to man or woman to woman if you prefer fight Family fun I dont think sobr br All in all I think this movie was shot in a hurry without a real vision what it is trying to say Made of the usual action movie tricks with a bit of something called love and without a real meaning it just results in a bad movie