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A Polish western . A bit strange .
This is said to be the first Polish western and is written and directed by Piotr Uklanski . Known in the U . S . as DEAD MAN'S BOUNTY , this film uses some strange visuals to tell a story that is short on dialog . Val Kilmer plays a corpse and some scenes are through his dead eyes . Some awkward visual situations are a...
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The living dead rise from the lake .
This films suffers lack of budget and talent . Still GHOST LAKE is worth watching . . . especially on a rainy night . After the death of her parents , Rebecca ( Tatum Adair ) tries to escape her misery by taking off to the hopeful solace of their old lake house . Instead , she stumbles upon a curse that puts her own sa...
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Skeletons in the closet and a strange bloodline .
Daniel Haller directs this adaption of a H . P . Lovecraft story . A young warlock ( Dean Stockwell ) steals a one-of-a-kind book of spells and is determined to conjure up a way to bring back a society of witches and warlocks to earth . A strange and sometimes boring story to follow . The background score by Les Baxter...
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Campus of the dead .
So lame it isn't even funny . A zombie infection overtakes a small college campus and a government squad of secret operatives back up a couple of scientists sent to find the origin of the outbreak . Collecting zombie DNA damn sure is not easy . Once bitten you're one of " them " . The entire university has been complet...
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Sex . . . enjoyed , sold and borrowed .
YO PUTA aka WHORE is fusion of fact and fiction in a semi-documentary style as a young woman ( Daryl Hannah ) schedules interviews in completing her book exploring the secrets of the oldest profession in the world . . . sex . European ' escorts ' , pimps and johns discuss the pros and cons of prostitution ; some with p...
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Stupidity rides the river . I
Its more like up a s^t creek without a paddle . Dumb , dumb , dumb . After the funeral of a friend , three " city boys " decide to honor a childhood promise and take a trip on river in Oregon . This little camping expedition will enable them to search for the lost D . B . Cooper loot . The will some how survive outrage...
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Even a law abiding family can spawn a criminal .
The subject of much folk lore and legend in the beginnings of Oklahoma statehood . Al Jennings brings shame and disappointment to his family by becoming an angry bank robber . After serving his sentence , he tries to walk the straight and narrow ; and by studying the law , gains respect and becomes a footnote in the hi...
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It's like watching the same train wreck again .
At times you forget this is a low-budget film ; the acting is forgettable and story line is monotonous . A young heart-throb Ian Stone ( Mike Vogel ) finds himself encountering an unearthly creature that forces him into the path of a speeding train . Thoughts of certain death is obvious ; Ian finds himself reborn into ...
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Pretense is not acceptable .
If for only one reason to watch ; Francis Ford Coppola writes and directs under the watchful eye of producer Roger Corman . Louis Haloran ( Luana Anders ) watches her husband's fatal heart attack and begins to cover up his death in hopes of getting his share of an inheritance . This leads to a gathering of a very stran...
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A creepy find on the beach .
A spacecraft explodes and the doomed astronaut's dismembered hand and forearm are discovered on the beach by an ambitious science student . The body part is put in a food closet by the fruit jars ; it does not stay there for long . The ' crawling hand ' instigates randem stranglings . Cheesy Sci-Fi , but fun . Over act...
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Bullets blaze and sirens howl .
Ed Wood Jr . tries Film-Noir with this little crime drama . Lyle Talbot plays Inspector Johns and Steve Reeves as Lt . Bob Lawrence close in on a young man ( Clancy Malone ) , the son of a prominent plastic surgeon ( Herbert Rawlinson ) , who after hanging with a small time criminal ( Timothy Farrell ) is wanted for mu...
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A big lizard in a tiny town .
This is one of my childhood favorites watched in tandem with THE KILLER SHREWS ( 1959 ) both being products of the Ray Kellogg / Ken Curtis team . A tiny Texas town is terrorized by a giant mutant Gila Monster . After a couple of teens disappear from lover's lane along with reports of farm animals missing , the local s...
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Low budget sci-fi , but still interesting .
Rivalry between brothers leads to main story line . Navy Commander Chuck Prescott ( Marshall Thompson ) has developed the Y12 aircraft to test how far man can go up in the atmosphere . His brother , Lt . Dan Prescott ( Bill Edwards ) , seems to be the best test pilot around and is chosen to go up in the Y12 . Dan of co...
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Is the perfect family just a dream ?
Don't expect much from this depressing look a teenage girl ( Hilary Swank ) that terrorizes and tears apart her disjunctive family by inflicting physical and emotional injury . Directed and written by Gregory Goodell , this made-for-TV drama is hard to hold interest in . Joanna Kerns plays the alcoholic mother and Dan ...
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From the darkest depths . . . danger !
A team of researchers led by Captain Jack Griffin ( Billy Warlock ) and Professor Anna Davis ( Catherine Lough Haggquist ) answer a distress call from a top-secret oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico . The team is perplexed to find the remote drilling platform is much like a ghost ship . Searching for answers , crew members ...
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Terrified backpackers in Australia .
One of the great horror film heavies of the last 25 years . says Quentin Tarantino . Hey , Quentin , sir . . . what in the hell would make you say that ? WOLF CREEK does have its moments , but doesn't have what it takes to be great . Three Australian friends take off on a drive to go hiking in the remote Wolf Creek N...
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Be alert ! They not only hurt . . . they kill . Killer bees !
An Irwin Allen disaster yarn about African killer bees swarming into Texas with a bee-line on Houston . Over acting , bad acting and wasted acting . Fear factor is mild . Ensemble cast includes : Michael Caine , Katherine Ross , Fred MacMurray , Lee Grant , Richard Widmark , Henry Fonda and Olivia de Haviland . Pretty ...
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Scottsville has a little secret .
Here we go again . Pretty predictable and no matter how cheesy this movie gets . . . something keeps you hanging in there for the finale . Is it the blood thirsty bats ? An unlikely detective ( Tracy Nelson ) teams with an animal control officer ( Whip Hubley ) to uncover the mystery behind a small town being terrorize...
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Better tomatoes for a new invasion .
A slightly larger budget allows for tomatoes to be turned into people . Professor Gangreen ( John Astin ) has finally developed the formula to make the once feared red vegetable to look human . And once again it is San Diego that will see the beginnings of a second invasion . A young pizza maker falls in love with a go...
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It doesn't pay to mess with Mother Nature .
Emily Rasmussen ( Jena Malone ) is a young woman that cuts her college education short due to expecting an illegitimate child . She returns to her stepfather's ( Don Harvey ) sheep ranch . Almost immediately Emily realizes that the sheep are acting out of character . . . attacking each other and some dying after cuttin...
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How deep into the future will mankind go ?
Are you ready for this ? This is one of a string of little or no budget remakes by filmmaker Larry Buchanan for AIP . IN THE YEAR 2889 is a remake of Roger Corman's THE END OF THE WORLD ( 1956 ) . A stick in the mud retired Navy Captain John Ramsey ( Neil Fletcher ) and his daughter Joanna ( Charla Doherty ) survive a ...
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Nazi zombies ! Beware ! Bad !
A war movie of a strange ilk . As if war itself isn't enough to fear . With Hitler in desperation , and an obsession with science and the paranormal . . . a secret weapon is needed . The maniacal leader orders a lab to create impervious super-soldiers to fight the Allied troops . The prototype zombie-like Nazi warrior ...
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Small town America . . . victim of experimentation .
This Tyler Tharpe Sci-Fi flick flat-lines rapidly in accordance with the story not making much sense and dragging on and on . RETURN IN RED is a little-known military test classification for serious and fatal experiment results . Gloom and doom hangs over a small rural town that has no stop lights , shopping mall , cab...
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Little creatures want their world back .
Once upon a time the world was divided by humans and trolls . This bizarre fantasy faire has an evil troll , Torok ( Phil Fondacaro ) , selecting a San Francisco apartment house to become the center of a new troll order . Two youngsters , Harry ( Noah Hathaway ) and Wendy ( Jenny Beck ) Potter , are used as pawns by To...
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If she did it . . . why did she do it ?
Alfred Hitchcock presents a suspenseful courtroom tale about a lawyer ( Gregory Peck ) defending an alluring woman ( Alida Valli ) accused of poisoning her blind husband . Predictably the attorney falls in love with his client . A little less talk and a little more action would be nice . This is below par compared to H...
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Not the war epic I was expecting .
The names Stanley Kramer and Anthony Quinn sucked me into this one . This is more or less a story about a small hillside village and when its buffoon Italo Bombolini ( Quinn ) hears about the death of Mussolini and his hanging on a meat-hook for all to view , he goes to the town's water tower to paint over a pro-Mussol...
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A serious ax to grind .
Written and directed by Al Randall , DARK FIELDS is a predictable slasher flick . At times irritating , but does have its elements of suspense and fright . Five teens were on their way to a killer concert ; but run out of gas . Zach ( Brian Austin ) and jock Josh ( Eric Phillion ) are irritating as hell with their degr...
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A news team flirts with death .
Inspired by a true story of a 25-foot man-eating crocodile . A news team travels deep within the heart of African jungle land with the assignment to not just do a story , but capture the voracious crocodile the natives call Gustave . The hungry croc also is on the hunt . . . for human flesh . The team is made up of rep...
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A life fragile as glass .
THE BROKEN is part of the After Dark Horrorfest III . Not a slasher or filled with gore . Plenty of broken glass and mirrors in this edgy thriller from France and writer / director Sean Ellis . A successful radiologist Gina McVay ( Lena Headly ) inters a strange world as her life seems to spiral out of control . While ...
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Wisconsin urban legend .
How many times have you heard " based on true events " ? Clichéd , a few scares , attractive young women , blood and a bit of gore . . . and yes a creature on a killing spree . In a wooded area in Wisconsin people are missing , getting ripped in half and some having their guts devoured . A local sheriff finds himself l...
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A love to transgress time .
ADULT MOVIE . A disgraced ancient Egyptian sorceress ( Ava Niche ) is brought back to life in modern day Los Angeles to reclaim an old love in the spirit of a college student ( Sasha Peralto ) . Naked lovin ' , touchin ' and squeezin ' . Flimsy , hackneyed story line ; but at least one is attempted . Also in the cast a...
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Radiation the blame for a monster thriving on sunlight .
Robert Clarke writes , directs and stars as Dr . Gilbert McKenna , a research physicist who is accidentally exposed to radiation . While being treated for the burn , it comes to light that enough sunlight will temporarily turn him into a lizard-like creature . The more sunlight the worse the condition . At night he win...
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Let the corpse speak for herself .
This is a strange , lukewarm chiller that arguably for the first time in the movies has a corpse telling the story of her mysterious death by way of flashbacks from a lab in cold storage . This is also the only movie that Bela Lugosi played in that was released in color . The mysterious green mask that keeps appearing ...
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Little boy vs Santa .
This film isn't even worth the flimsiest of wrapping paper . Young Justin Carver ( Cole & Dylan Sprouse ) happens to see his beautiful mother ( Connie Sellecca ) kissing Santa Claus ; not knowing it is really his father . Justin has heard so many stories about divorce from his friends , that he fears his mother is havi...
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Just try to stop the hands of time .
Questionable talent . Questionable effort . More than enough explosions ; but that does not make a movie . A vengeful vice cop ( Tom Sizemore ) and a bomb-squad leader ( Steven Seagal ) search for a mad bomber ( Dennis Hopper ) that is setting time bombs all over San Francisco . The script is horrid . The cast also inc...
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As far as the eye can see .
An ex-cavalry officer ( Rex Allen ) tries to persuade defiant ranchers to allow the Army to run tank maneuvers on their land . Just like Saturday afternoon at the movies . This cowboy drama also features : Slim Pickens , John Crawford , Roy Barcroft and the debut of Elaine Edwards . Wholesome entertainment with typical...
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Crime doesn't stand a chance .
This comedy / western features Judy Canova as a spunky and a bit ditzy storekeeper who wants to rid the crime element from Kirk County . She tries to sing her way into the heart of the new Sheriff Dan Fraser ( John Russell ) who chases the bad guys in his new Ford sedan . Bull McCready ( Grant Withers ) runs the gambli...
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Relaxing vacation . . . are you kidding ?
They're back . The Baker family , headed by Tom ( Steve Martin ) and Kate ( Bonnie Hunt ) , decides to gather a multi interest family together for a vacation . . . a memorable vacation . The Baker's decide to revisit Lake Winnetka Resort and find it is practically all owned by Tom's long-time rival , Jimmy Murtaugh ( E...
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Godzilla up against a very strange foe .
This movie is so weird , it is almost comical . Better known as Godzilla vs The Smog Monster , this flick tries to take on a different format that resembles a poor man's James Bond movie . Seems to be put together kind of haphazardly , but really pretty interesting . Godzilla battles Hedrah or Hedora , a creature spawn...
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Sex more than pays .
ADULT . Softcore . A beautiful woman ( Nikki Fritz ) spends a week with her old corrupt boyfriend " working off " her husband's gambling debt . No need to get involved with a real story line when there is a ton of simulated sex scenes scorching the screen . It is hard not to notice Fritz . . . she appears to be naked e...
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Retirement allows you to get crazier .
This is a grim and somewhat dark comedy about a recently retired widower ( Jack Nicholson ) who travels across country from Nebraska to Colorado in an RV to try and stop his only daughter's ( Hope Davis ) wedding . Kathy Bates has a brief nude scene . . . heaven forbid . Not one of Jack's better movies , but definitely...
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Love and war in Korea .
This wartime drama falls a little flat in spite of a very talented cast . The rugged Robert Mitchum is in charge of evacuating American civilians in Korea , but ends up bombing refugees . War action is paced with heavy romance between Mitchum and Ann Blyth . This couple all but ignites the screen . Pretty hot for the e...
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Another giant insect to chill and drill you .
This movie borders being terrible . It is so close to being lame it is funny . Slimy , gory , and crude . Dialogue is about as bad as the acting . A spacecraft crashes in a swamp in a National Park and the area is invaded by mosquitoes as big as a Great Dane . Special effects vary in degrees of believability . But then...
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The big finish is in sight .
Probably one of the better Spenser Tracy / Katherine Hepburn movies . Hepburn is an all around female athlete and Tracy is determined to be her agent . Tennis and golf are the highlighted sports . Hepburn has trouble making the big finish because she " chokes " when her boyfriend is around . Casual and funny banter ; e...
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A Frankenstein is a Frankenstein .
Low budget , but still creepy enough to hold your interest in another take off on the familiar Frankenstein story . This movie is also known as LADY FRANKENSTEIN . The alluring Tania Frankenstein ( Sara Bay ) fresh from medical school arrives at her father's estate to find that he is still up to his old tricks . Baron ...
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At large and in charge . . . NOT !
After her mass notoriety working undercover as a contestant in MISS CONGENIALITY , Special Agent Gracie Hart ( Sandra Bullock ) becomes the new celebrity face of the new FBI . When Miss United States ( Heather Burns ) and pageant emcee Stan Fields ( William Shatner ) are kidnapped in Las Vegas ; Gracie and her new and ...
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Why can't we just all get along ?
Try to fit in or decide to do the right thing ? Ambition is one of the things that stands in the way of J . J . Johnson ( Michael Boatman ) . . . the other is that he is a rookie state trooper with the LA Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at his first assigned station . Who is he teamed with ? The statio...
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Predictable " haunting " movie .
Pretty miserable , but watchable . . . just don't expect a lot . Predictable " haunting " flick . Brutal violence and unnerving inner fears with nail biting anxiety . Molly Hartley ( Haley Bennett ) is looking forward to a fresh start with her mother locked away in a mental ward . Trying to forget a violent past ; mayb...
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Keep the machine fed .
It's not oil that keeps a laundry folding machine running . . . its blood . Director Tobe Hooper adapts a Stephen King short story in this mediocre tale of horror at the Blue Ribbon Laundry . Accidents keep happening at the laundry plant and detective John Hunton ( Ted Levine ) investigates . It seems the folding machi...
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Gigantic Komodo dragons must find nourishment .
Once again genetic experimentation has gone awry . A group of casino robbers crash land on a tropical island where scientists are already living in fear . The Army has been experimenting for years developing new weaponry . . . things have gotten a bit out of hand . Genetic tampering has transformed Komodo dragons into ...
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Col . Mustard with the candlestick in the library .
Is this Robert Altman at his best or worst ? GOSFORD PARK is a slow moving all-star murder mystery . A beastly owner of a 1930's British estate is killed during a weekend shooting party and upper crust get together . The movie is very wordy and mostly with bad accents . The murder event is not as important as the attit...
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Beware of the guards of the sunken treasure .
Not your typical zombie flick . This time the walking dead can also swim . A group of treasure hunters are searching for a sunken ship that went down off the coast of Africa . The sunken cargo of diamonds have lured many seekers ; but all have been turned back by a crew of zombies . This little movie is better than you...
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Every move you make . . . every breath you take !
Ron Howard directs this quirky comedy about a San Francisco video-store clerk ( Matthew McConaughey ) allowing a desperate TV station televise his daily life around-the-clock . It causes problems for those around him , especially his brother ( Woody Harrelson ) and a new relationship with his brother's former girlfrien...
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Weird ! Creepy family values .
Veteran make-up pro Gabriel Bartolas writes , produces and directs this horrid freak show . You really have to be in the right mood and or three sheets to the wind at 3 a . m . to survive this one . The curiously sick side of me enjoyed this brutal horror flick . The Rockwell family is on vacation when a flat tire leav...
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Double trouble on the bayou .
From the writer / director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT Daniel Myrick , who spins a tale influenced by a Scandinavian thriller MIDSUMMER . SOLSTICE is a haunting yarn about a group of high school friends getting together for one last blow out before heading to college . Less than a year after losing her twin sister to su...
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When you find her . . . don't let her get away .
Jennifer Chambers Lynch directs this darkly absurd love story . Dr . Nick Cavanaugh ( Julian Sands ) is a surgeon who becomes dangerously obsessed with a tramp of a vamp Helena ( Sherilyn Fenn ) that has ended a brief affair and desires to move on . The " love sick " doc lures Helena back to his home for one last chanc...
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Nerves of steel and a score to settle .
An ex-hitman ( Eric Roberts ) has a few felons , software thieves and hired killers to blow away and at the same time juggle his emotions . Very predictable storyline . Gunfire galore . Bullets do fly and not even one scratches our bad guy turned good . The budget was spent on the ammunition ; don't expect much in dial...
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Dysfunctional is the norm with this family .
Wes Anderson directs this quirky comedy about an estranged patriarch ( Gene Hackman ) of a slightly neurotic family trying to finagle his way back into their lives by announcing he is suffering a terminal illness . This family of eccentrics prove to be a motley brood . Whimsical , incestuous and drug induced antics evo...
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Who's conning who ?
George Armitage directs this version of THE BIG BOUNCE that meanders to the point of distraction . This movie seems to not have any motivation and an obvious convoluted storyline . Owen Wilson plays Jack Ryan , who if he has any luck . . . its bad luck . Wanting to stay out of jail he takes a construction job working f...
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Trying to live after an H-bomb .
A group of seven people fear they are the only survivors of a near world ending H-bomb blast . Not only do they fear the radiation , but also mutants in the surrounding hillside . One of the group is already contaminated , but strangely poses no real threat to the others . Just surviving the friction of assorted person...
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The truth can be adjusted .
Billed as a different style of thriller . I must have been brain dead through this one . I just thought this film dragged on and on and on . I was wanting to be thrilled and maybe excited . . . neither happened for me . Sorry George , sometimes a movie just goes flat . George Clooney stars as a mega attorney known as t...
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Beware : SCARY MOVIE returns .
This SCARY MOVIE sequel is a take or leave it offering . No horror and not too much more to laugh at . Outrageous , yes . The strong sexual humor and graphic language brings a questionable amount of viewers back for more . Spoofing movies like STIGMATA and THE EXORCIST , a conniving college professor ( Tim Curry ) , lu...
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One last heist ! Bring back the gun called " The Mexican " .
Stars with exceptional credentials can sometimes be wasted in an over ambitious project . This is a prime example . An inept criminal ( Brad Pitt ) promises his girlfriend ( Julia Roberts ) that he will change his ways after one last job . While he goes to Mexico to retrieve an ancient pistol , " The Mexican " , his de...
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Darkness awaits to rule the world .
Set in the late 1930s , Lee Falk's comic-strip superhero The Phantom ( Billy Zane ) musters his mortal efforts to stop a madman ( Treat Williams ) who wants to rule the world . Sets and photography are very interesting ; but of course the story is too predictable even for a fantasy world . Also in the cast are Kristy S...
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Unfortunate events follow three orphaned children .
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS is based on a series of popular books by Lemony Snicket , Daniel Handler . Unfortunately I feel this film sucks . The visuals are impressive , but in to to not being pubescent I found this to be a mess . After their parents were killed in a fire the three Baudelaire orphans , Violet ( Emi...
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Sci-Fi drama . Unfullfilling .
Disjointed . Suspense that proves to be wasted . Maybe with a bigger budget . . . but then again probably not . The citizens of Santa Monica , California are fearful of the dark of night . A series of decapitation murders has Detective Dave Mooney ( Richard Jaeckel ) baffled and under watchful eyes . Roy Warner ( Willi...
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Sometimes you just can't control a woman .
Sam Pillsbury directs this drama about three escaped convicts that seek shelter in the home of a lonely southern woman ( Kelly McGillis ) . She will give in to an extent , but she keeps her values and seems unconcerned about the unwanted guests on her farm . Billy Zane is very impressive . The other two convicts are pl...
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Harbinger of a deep dark past .
Sheldon Wilson's stark supernatural low budget horror film is too contrived , hard to follow and before it is over it becomes a head-scratcher . . . why does anyone watch this all the way through . Some pretty gory scenes , but that is about it . Out of the woods stumbles a naked teenage boy covered in blood , carrying...
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Honestly Doc . . . no two look alike ?
This sounds like a pretty interesting movie , but it is a little too busy and manic . The budget on scenery went to good looking women . A very popular Dallas gynecologist ( Richard Gere ) is coming unwound trying to balance the demands of his family , patients and employees . His wife ( Farrah Fawcett ) has mental pro...
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No longer contented down on the farm .
The humanity of it all . . . I jest . Ranks among the worst ever . The shoestring budget is the real horror . I have always thought that bad horror is fun to watch . The jury is still out on this yarn of an alien space ship landing in the desert causing nearby farm animals to run amok . The cast features : Paul Birch ,...
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The pretty gals just arrived on the stage .
Typical Saturday afternoon at the movies western . Mediocre at best in spite of being directed by Charles Marquis Warren . This B movie is obvious low budget . Four fancy saloon gals ( Colleen Gray , Angie Dickinson , Adele Mara and Dorothy Schuyler ) are put on a stage and ran out of town . Destination , who knows whe...
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Beware of that ultimate collectible .
By far not a Hammer film , but it does have that dynamic duo of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee . The skull of the one and only Marquis de Sade is robbed from the grave and a shady dealer ( Patrick Wymark ) offers it to a collector of the occult Christopher Maitland ( Cushing ) . Maitland is proud of his new possessi...
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Animated with not enough fun .
If you like Jerry Seinfeld you'll like BEE MOVIE ; if you don't . . . you won't . I'm in the latter camp , but watched to see what the hype was about . Barry B . Benson ( Seinfeld ) is a new graduate and must decide his future . Instead of being a worker bee with the same job everyday forever is not that appealing . He...
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A city couple moves to the country .
Chevy Chase plays Andy Farmer , a frustrated writer , who moves with his wife , Elizabeth , to a farm in Vermont . Nothing seems to go the way the couple expected . The Farmer's bribe the township into creating a Norman Rockwell persona in order to sell the farm and return to New York . This movie is more stupid than f...
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Will the real Boston Strangler stand up .
Michael Feifer writes and directs this " untold " story revolving around the terrifying serial killings of thirteen women in Boston in the early sixties . Police thought they had once and for all captured the infamous Boston Strangler in Albert DeSalvo ( David Faustino ) . The women were sexually assaulted and left dis...
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Hungry giant spiders attack a ski resort .
OK , another giant spiders flick ; but wait . . . this one is not totally bad . The CGI is really pretty smooth and the spiders do look cool . A young ski team is training for the Olympics and arrive at a nice ski resort in Logan County Utah run by Stephen J . Cannell . The young squad is thrilled to meet a ski instruc...
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Are you sure he is heaven sent ?
A cynical reporter , greedy tabloid owner and a fake paranormal expert check out the wild tip that an archangel is living with a little old lady , that might be as unstable as her story sounds . It turns out that an angel really is visiting earth . John Travolta plays archangel Michael ; although charming , he is also ...
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A mammoth stinker !
A meteor slams into a museum in a small town in Louisiana and unleashes a partially frozen , 40 , 000 year-old woolly mammoth . Paleontologist Dr . Frank Abernathy ( Vincent Ventresca ) , who has made this mammoth on display his life's work , is called on to help Special Government Agents Powers ( Leila Arcieri ) and W...
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Give it enough thought and it will get done , by your monkey !
From George A . Romero , the man who gave us NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ( 1969 ) , comes a dose of gruesome revenge . Jason Beghe plays a bitter man left quadriplegic from an accident . He has no kind thoughts of mankind . Things begin to change when he is presented with a specially trained monkey ( Ella ) that takes car...
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Not quite up to snuff . . . but its Gene Autry .
Gene Autry , on the side of good and the law , is always eager to come to the aid of his fellow man . A bad guy on his last leg asks Gene for one last favor ; to be guardian of his three boys . Little did Gene know these orphans are actually Chicago street toughs that want little to do with their inheritance of a ranch...
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Mysterious planet is home to gruesome monsters .
This sci-fi adventure is not the best and by no means the worst . I agree with the statement that bad sci-fi is comical . Bizarre pink tinting and unusual special effects make this a favorite for the late , late , late show viewers . Space explorers on the planet Mars fight off strange giant amoeba-like monsters and ot...
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Not just big . . . a mega sized menace in the Amazon .
A weak story . Even weaker script . Dialogue disjointed . With all big expectations put aside . . . an interesting cast jumps , dodges , slides , climbs and swims through a believe it or not fun to watch thriller . The special effects are impressive enough to have you flinching . A film crew featuring Jennifer Lopez , ...
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Two brothers race for the finish line .
Not much to rave about unless you happen to be a Brad Pitt fan or a follower of Rick Schroder . The two play high school brothers that find some success on the track field . Pitt is trying to walk the straight and narrow ; while Schroder is a reform school refugee . Otherwise this movie does good to hold interest again...
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A ghoulish tale . Evil just has trouble staying dead .
This is a sequel that has no connection to Stephen King . The only thing carried over from the original is the same location . Parts of this film are gory while violence over shadows the horror . This movie has been struck with a mean streak . A young widower ( Anthony Edwards ) moves with his young son ( Edward Furlon...
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Staying awake is staying alive . Cabbies beware of your fare .
This is a somewhat cold and dark look at the trials and tribulations of NYC streets after dark . Cab drivers keep working despite the fact a serial killer is on the loose and is targeting cabbies . Story line and script a bit rough , but it gives you the feel of reality . This movie gradually grabs your interest and ho...
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Inside the cold-war .
I'm sorry that I missed the thrills that others have proclaimed about this movie . I found it interesting ; but easy to confuse the whole agenda ; lacking action and a half an hour too long . Just my opinion . A highly ranked Soviet official , who claims knowledge of Russian missiles in Cuba , defects to shelter in Ame...
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The shagadelic man is on the move again .
This is the third of the Austin Powers installments . The shagadelic superspy must do some time traveling to rescue his father ( Michael Caine ) who has been kidnapped by minions of Dr . Evil . Powers enlists the help of Foxy Cleopatra ( Beyonce ) to back up to the swingin ' seventies to find his father . I don't think...
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Not from human seed .
A young doctor and his wife are suddenly expecting a child . Both are disturbed about a two hour memory lapse on the night of conception . Interesting twist on an hackneyed story . Very good F / X and interesting editing . Jillian McWhirter is outstanding in a cast that features Arnold Vosloo , Wilford Brimley and Brad...
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A fall from grace .
This is a tidy crime drama about a " retired " attorney ( Spenser Tracy ) dealing with his own unethical behavior . Well written and photographed . An apt group of players support the flawless Tracy : Pat O'Brien , John Hodiak , Regis Toomey , Diana Lynn and James Arness . Worth your attention .
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Mummy on the move .
A resurrected wrapped monster goes on a murdering binge . A lunatic is seeking revenge against living members of a previous expedition . Universal seems to be running out of wrapping as well as new ideas . Most of the budget was probably spent on Lon Chaney Jr . to star as Kharis , the Mummy . Other players are George ...
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The Captain is a . . . lady ?
Director Renny Harlin always seems to give you something to talk about . CUTTHROAT ISLAND is loud and dumb , and in spite of ridiculous dialogue there is almost non-stop action for over two hours . Morgan Adams ( Geena Davis ) is the pronounced captain of a pirate ship sailing the Caribbean in the mid 1660s . Adams and...
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You make your own destiny .
Get your mind off the real world and delve into action packed fantasy . Dwayne ( The Rock ) Johnson is a warrior chosen assassin exhausting his efforts to trounce an evil conqueror ( Steven Brand ) . The intense action takes your mind off of the hackneyed plot . Choose up sides and let the slaughter begin . Also in the...
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Country music showcase .
For fans of " old " country and western music this will assimilate a long journey to Mecca . An assembly line of the then-current and up and coming stars of the genre . A bumbling agent , Colonel Beeddebaum ( Doodles Weaver ) goes to Nashville to sign up acts for a movie about country and western music . The cast featu...
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Pumpkinhead is called on for revenge .
Its been twenty years since Pumpkinhead has seen the light of day or dark of night . When a small town discovers that the bodies of their friends and loved ones have been dumped into the local swamp , citizens are outraged . When they find out that their body parts were sold by the mortician . . . there is hell to pay ...
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A friendly grizzly just wants to find home .
An interesting and funny animated comedy that really doesn't measure up to a slew of the most recent movies of this same type . A 900-pound domesticated grizzly named Boog ( Martin Lawrence ) ( voice ) is taken and let go high in the woods by his caretaker Beth ( Debra Messing ) ( voice ) . It happens to be three days ...
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Giant sea creature attacks London .
Lacking a budget makes for a sub-par 50s creature feature . Radiation again is the blame for A giant creature attacking mankind . Massive amounts of dead fish wash ashore and a man dies of burns from the radioactive beams projected from what will be called The Behemoth , from the Book of Job . The creature is a giant b...
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Coil . Lunge . And show those fangs . Horror . . . No . Stupid . . . yes !
This movie is more Sci-Fi than horror . And then it is more silly than Sci-Fi . The enjoyment comes from making fun of this one . The story line sounds like it could really be good ; but then you realize the project goes limp . Some of the special effects are decent , but not enough to carry a movie . Strother Martin p...
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A European doctor is more than he seems .
Professor Paul Kriston ( Ralph Morgan ) is a well liked and respected doctor in his tiny village . The beautiful Marguerite ( Maxine Doyle ) is willing to be his bride in spite of being in love with another man , David ( Russell Gleason ) . The doctor has a hunchbacked servant ( Mischa Auer ) ; this is the clue that th...
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Beware of what dwells in the cellar .
A chilling and gory tale of a couple inheriting a 150 room Italian castle while still grieving the loss of their young son . The couples marriage seems to be on the rocks due to the car accident that took the life of their son and left their daughter blind . Upon taking inventory of the castle for a future sale a hideo...
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What a woman wants . . . a woman gets .
Typical modest budget black and white film from director Edgar G . Ulmer . A tedious but interesting tale of a beautiful woman ( Hedy Lamar ) stalking man after man in the lumber country of Bangor , Maine circa 1820 . Love ' em and leave ' em . The ravishing Lamar dominates her scenes . She is drop dead gorgeous and he...