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What the Hell ?
This supernatural action-adventure is based on a dark creature in Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series Hellboy . Hellboy ( Ron Perlman ) is a red colored demon in the form of a man with a giant armored gloved hand and two circles ( where ram-like horns are shaved down ) on his head . Complete with a tail , superp...
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Provocative . Innovative . Warped sense of power .
Director and writer Orson Welles brings raw , but calculated realism to the screen with great photographic technique's that brings back memories of the classic CITIZEN KANE . What lacks in dialog in this somewhat confusing story is made up in the superb acting throughout the versatile cast . Background music is very im...
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A Colorful family movie .
A real wholesome movie , especially from the perspective of the American-Indian . If not mistaken , back when this was released it was meant to be a Sal Mineo vehicle . Mineo plays White Bull , a young boy coming to grips with becoming a man . Others of note in this scenic drama are Joy Page , Rafael Campos , Slim Pick...
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A hidden menace becomes a lethal threat .
A stressed out doctor ( Thomas Calabro ) changes scenery by buying a house on a small island off the coast of Maine . Upon arrival he becomes embroiled in an entomalogical epidemic of over sized cockroaches infesting the area . Pretty creepy . Not scary . . . just creepy . Especially watching roaches enter the human bo...
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Motel of horror .
VACANCY 2 is not exactly a continuance , but a prequel to the original slasher shocker . When the shoddy and dingy remote Meadow View Inn was finally closed down ; 200 videotaped murders were discovered . This story is of the first victims of sadistic proprietor Mr . Smith ( Scott G . Anderson ) . A newlywed Asian coup...
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Not all things are what they appear to be . Spying is a great risk !
This is a lengthy romantic spy drama . A love story of a master spy ( Michael Douglas ) and his baby-voiced secretary ( Melanie Griffith ) . A spy story having the unskilled in spying secretary going into 1940s Germany to retrieve some valuable information about a German " flying bomb " . A very dramatic intrigue fille...
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Smiling faces sometimes change .
Written by Stephen King , but this treatment is not as solid as most of his stories on film . A mother and son move into a small Indiana town with a secret . They are Sleepwalkers , feline type creatures that feed on young virgins . This little story has its share of gore and special effects ; plus hints of incest . Al...
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The singing cowboy makes the ranchers happy .
Gene Autry stars in this 1938 vintage musical western . Things get shady when crooked real estate developers ' hoodwink ' poor honest cattle ranchers . Worthless mining stock is sold for the asking in a desert mining town . Gene and his sidekick Frog Millhouse ( Smiley Burnette ) put the kibosh on the white-wash , when...
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Trust in fate . . . it will take you where it wants to .
Not exactly a new story line , but this romantic comedy makes the concept work . A young man ( John Cusack ) and a drop dead gorgeous woman ( Kate Beckinsale ) keep meeting by chance and wonder if they are meant for each other . Although both are promised to others . . . oddly enough they still feel that their soul mat...
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Think . . . deep freeze !
If not mistaken I think this is a Sci-Fi Network original . A story kind of silly , but provoking . Reality is doubtful . The earth becomes a deep freeze in a modern Ice Age after the sun develops numerous sunspots . Sunny California within two days looks more like the South Pole with frigid temps well below zero . LAP...
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Guess who's back ? Not invited , but somehow expected .
It has been ten years since the bloody killings in Haddonfield . Michael Myers ( George P . Wilbur ) awakens from a coma and escapes the institution with intent of a small family reunion . Well , his main task is to kill his seven-year-old niece Jamie ( Danielle Harris ) . Donald Pleasence returns as Dr . Loomis . The ...
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The river crossing does not come cheap .
A motley crew of bandits led by Jake Remy ( Warren Oates ) have finished plundering a defenseless town and their get away and escape from capture hits a snag . The gathering of thugs need to cross a river and the only way across is by a barge controlled by the Barquero ( Lee Van Cleef ) . The struggle over the access o...
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The Earth on the verge of being destroyed .
MELTDOWN is pretty interesting SCI-FI . No major budget , very few special effects ; but decent acting and a storyline of global doom is enough to sustain viewing . An asteroid grazes the atmosphere and thrust the Earth into an orbit closer to the sun . Global warming rapidly becomes unbearable . A determined LAPD cop ...
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A giant city crumbles .
This disaster drama created for TV is based on a novel by a popular New York TV anchorman-turned-author Chuck Scarborough . A massive earthquake shakes ' The Big Apple ' and the city is all but held hostage by the devastation . New York City Mayor Bruce Lincoln ( Charles S . Dutton ) and his political foe Fire Chief Th...
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Survival in the wilderness .
Low budget jungle adventure . A brief 62 minute escape and quite predictable . Leif Erickson and his transport co-pilot buddy Frank Jenks crash land in the jungle in hopes of surveying a diamond mine . While working for the mine owner Douglass Dumbrille , the two fliers encounter a savage jungle tribe . To their astoni...
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And the beat goes on .
A nice cast to look at and some good tunes spin ; but don't expect more . Anthony LaPaglia is the manager of Empire Records an independent music store that is about to be taken over by a bigger music chain . He and his odd squad of employees must come up with the money to buy their collective personal haven . Teetering...
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Mad scientist misuses the Atom .
Just possibly the best from Ed Wood Jr . Wood directs and co-writes with Alex Gordon ; BRIDE OF THE MONSTER is really fun to watch and is the last starring role for horror icon Bela Lugosi . Dr . Eric Varnoff ( Lugosi ) is a Russian scientist , who has the help of his man-beast servant Lobo ( Tor Johnson ) , experiment...
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What we do for love .
Total curiosity will have you watching . After 25 years of marriage a rural Illinois man ( Tom Wilkinson ) shocks his family , friends and coworkers by announcing he wants a sex change . His loving wife ( Jessica Lange ) with mixed emotions accepts his decision and allows him to remain living with her . Also in the cas...
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She's got the moves .
She be kickin ' it ! After her mother's death , a white suburban ballet student ( Julia Stiles ) moves to Chicago , where she becomes immersed in the hip-hop culture at her inner-city high school . I really like Stiles , but this romantic drama needs more than the manic scenes at the dance club . Drive-by shootings are...
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Five Americans make a flight to Mars .
Early 1950s Sci-Fi directed by Lesley Selander . Special effects of course are very primitive , but pretty good in comparison to what else was out there then . Drive-in Movie double feature fare ; still interesting enough to watch . Two leading men , Arthur Franz the brilliant young scientist Dr . Jim Barker and straig...
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A weird mortician tries to improve business .
Campy . Macabre humor and very low-budget . An enterprising undertaker ( Ray Dannis ) teams with the owners of a greasy spoon diner to carry out a plan to improve his business and expand the menu at the eatery . One of the deceased was named Susie Lamb . . . so the next day the special of the day was leg of lamb . The ...
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Double trouble . Garfield is living high .
Definitely better than the original . . . funnier anyway . Garfield ( Bill Murray's voice ) follows his owner Jon ( Breckin Meyer ) to England , where Jon's girlfriend Liz ( Jennifer Love Hewitt ) is there on business . Jon wishes to propose marriage ; but there is a major problem . Garfield is mistaken for a look-alik...
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Rumors persist of the ' haunted house ' .
Directorial debut for Victor Garcia . Some real good special effects for a dismal movie . Sarah Wolf ( Stilyana Mitkova ) dies under suspicious circumstances after an excursion to the House on Haunted Hill . Her sister Ariel ( Amanda Righetti ) plans to return to the foreboding mansion to solve the mystery knowing suic...
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Elvis documentary that makes you end up asking . . . why ?
This 1994 documentary is one of those jump on the bandwagon projects . Dealing with why Elvis Presley became one the biggest musical icons in the world . Not only a legacy of music , but his movies and then there are the multitudes of books written about him . Why ? What was it that made people of all races , creeds an...
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The truth is in the serum .
Very interesting Sci-Fi thriller directed by John Dahl . A forensic expert ( Ray Liotta ) accused of murdering his wife injects himself with an experimental serum that may help identify her killer . Use of flashbacks provides the " meatier " part of the movie . Some scenes are not only vivid , but stomach turning . Lio...
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The plantation is in danger . Will love finally rule ?
It takes time for love to rule . A cold hearted plantation owner ( Charlton Heston ) in South America buys a mail order bride ( Eleanore Parker ) . Love does not bloom rapidly . The ego manic plantation owner is not happy with his new wife's past . The uncomfortable couple grow closer when the plantation is in danger o...
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How easily the web is woven . Twisted and murderous .
This crime tale is weird , suspenseful and filtered with off beat humor . Situational drama does little to help this well acted , but trying story line . The hardest part of watching is seeing Ann-Margret as an enabling granny that tells one lie on top of another . Marg Helgenberger is the movies brightest spot . Nicho...
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Not a lonely Christmas this year .
Drew Latham ( Ben Affleck ) is determined not to be lonely this Christmas . Not only is Drew a millionaire ; but also obnoxious and guilty of being very grandiose . Drew goes back to the home he grew up in and offers the family living there , the Valco's , $250 , 000 to be his " family " through the Christmas season . ...
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It's not what a man says ; it is what he does .
An average war action film about Navy pilots on a U . S . aircraft carrier during the Korean War . A very good cast that barely gains full throttle . The players include : Van Johnson , Walter Pidgeon , Frank Lovejoy , Keenan Wynn , Robert Horton , and Louis Calhern . And a cameo by six year old Jerry Mathers . A coupl...
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Skin-crawling chiller .
Sci-Fi not at its best . Ted Gage ( Daniel Cosgrove ) is a disgraced serviceman who returns home and teams up with a spunky female detective Gina O'Bannon ( Tamara Davies ) to find out who killed his computer geek brother . The computer whiz was earning his way through college by " cooking " and dealing drugs . And his...
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Light-weight comedy .
The lovely Eva Longoria Parker plays Kate , who dies after an ice angel crushes her before the " I do's " with fiancé Henry ( Paul Rudd ) . After two years Henry has yet to move on and his sister Chloe ( Lindsay Sloane ) is very concerned . Chloe arranges for Henry to talk with an attractive psychic Ashley ( Lake Bell ...
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Help me ! Help me ! Not again .
This does not compare with the original . Appears to be a hurry up production . A scientist conducts the same transmission of matter experiments that did not bode well for his father fifteen years earlier . Science gone hay wire . More interesting the first time around . Vincent Price does nothing above or beyond ; but...
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Bloody murder with no mercy .
Based on real life events , but liberal in skirting the facts . Richard F . Speck was born in Illinois , but moved to Texas around the age of six . Growing up in more trouble than not . The acne-pocked high-school dropout was a lifelong criminal and was pleased with himself for living his life the way he wanted . In Ju...
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One by one , they won't be a bother again .
This fanciful horror flick has Vincent Price playing a mad magician that realizes his vocational talents have been sold to another . He devise ways of avenging all those that have wronged him . His master scheme seems to back fire on him . Price is a little below par compared to his masterpieces , but is still the only...
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A crucial choice . . . dead or dirty !
Rough-edged drama set in a violent crime ravaged city , where a former gang-banger , Armando Sancho ( Clifton Collins Jr ) , brings his street smarts to an anti-gang unit . His partner is veteran Salim Adel ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) , who himself is drugging and dealing while working undercover for the LAPD . Sancho and Adel...
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Never ending song love .
This is the final movie directed by the renowned Robert Altman , released just five months before his death . A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION is based on Garrison Keillor's radio program broadcast on public radio stations . This comedy is a fictional take on Keillor's radio variety show coming to an end after 32 years on the ...
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Terror is unleashed aboard a cruise ship .
If you have no idea what a Chupacabra is . . . don't feel bad . In Latin American mythology , it is a winged creature that likes to eat cows , goats and even people in the dead of night . This low budget Sci-Fi TV presentation has Dr . Pena ( Giancarlo Esposito ) trapping one these creatures on a remote Caribbean Islan...
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Can the UN actually be blamed for dirty doings ?
Get ready for a meandering story and a lot of martial arts . The latter is what makes this movie interesting and even exciting . The wisdom of mastermind Sun Tsu's " Art of War " is manipulated into enhancing politics and business . Wesley Snipes is an operative for the United Nations and is excellent in doing covert t...
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One for the money ; two for the show ; 48 more boosts to go .
Very shallow script ; lame story line ; wasted star studded cast ; but enough action to keep your eyes on the screen . Lovers of fine cars will be in Heaven . Memphis Raines ( Nicolas Cage ) is a recently retired genius car thief that must come to the rescue of his little brother ( Giovanni Ribisi ) . Raines must gathe...
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Emotions are a human condition .
Another of those " Eight Films to Die For " from After Dark . Not bad at all . Flashbacks cause the story line to go semi-limp . Six childhood friends are brought together at the funeral of one of their friends . The estate needs to be settled and an almost forgotten time capsule is discovered . At the request of their...
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Window undressing .
This is no RISKY BUSINESS , but worth a watch . Matthew Kidman ( Emile Hirsch ) is an eighteen-year-old sheltered , straight edged , book smart young man about to turn his life upside down and inside out . Everyone's perfect and model student happens to look out his window and view his new next door neighbor . Lord hav...
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Mass confusion laced with terror .
I'm not so sure this is not all smoke and mirrors . Anyway we have a hackneyed story similar to the already overworked " House on Haunted Hill " concept . An egomaniacal rich collector has been collecting the unusual . Upon his accidental death he wills his fortune and new glass home to his nephew and his family . Afte...
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A costume musical aboard a riverboat .
Elvis plays Johnny , a riverboat entertainer that has a big gambling problem . Donna Douglas , better known as Elly Mae Clampett , is Johnny's girl , Frankie . A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck . Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins . Costumes range from classy to...
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There's always someone to hire a young boy .
This movie implies some grisly violence following homosexual activities . And to many a dismay , there is no scenes of rape or even an execution finale . Nevertheless , GACY is worth a gander . The telling of one of America's most prolific serial killers , John Wayne Gacy . The monster kept his secret by being a model ...
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Tragedy and guilt .
Sadness and guilt dominate this film based on John Burnham Schwartz's novel . RESERVATION ROAD is the drama of two Connecticut families following a tragic hit and run accident . Ethan Lerner ( Joaquin Phoenix ) and his wife ( Jennifer Connelly ) are on the way home from their son's cello recital . Stopping for gas , th...
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High School students vs maniacal murderer
Bloody , gory and well photographed slasher flick . Acting is atrocious , but cast features a score of knockout beauties . There will be a few empty chairs at graduation . Kim Taggart plays detective Vega , who is lead detective on a very puzzling case . A serial killer causes citizens of a small town fearful of openin...
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Murder at a house party .
Frank R . Strayer directs this well acted 1931 who-done-it . What people won't do to have fun at a party . Accidental murder probably is a party pooper every time . . . but you can't say it isn't interesting . Way back when . . . a good party starter was a tame little game of charades . One particular night a staged mu...
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Nightmare in the desert . . . or just a dream .
The lives of Megan ( Jackie Kresler ) and Dylan ( Shane Elliott ) change in the Nevada desert between Reno and Las Vegas . They stop to eat at a small greasy spoon where they reluctantly learn about the infamous Area 51 by the café proprietor ( Jonathan Breck ) . After getting back on the road in their forty year old L...
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The museum of wax is not just for your enjoyment .
If you don't expect much you'll be satisfied with what little you get . This is a far cry from the beloved original HOUSE of WAX ( 1953 ) starring Vincent Price . Similarities all but nil . . . interesting though . This teen-slasher flick has a group of young people traveling to Baton Rouge to watch a college football ...
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They crawl . They pulverize their victim's bones .
Kind of cheesy , but still creepy . A small island is terrorized by a shell-like creature with tentacles that pulverize and suck the bones out of their victims . This is one of those sci-fi flicks that seems to end up funnier than it is frightening . Still worth a watch . Special visual and sound effects are obviously ...
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Tourists beware of paradise .
Brazil with its white sand beaches , beautiful women and thick jungles . . . and even more to offer tourists . A group of backpackers get stranded in a remote Brazilian beach village after their tour bus runs off a winding mountain road . The adventure and exotic pleasures they expected is short lived . They are seduce...
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Army Rules & Regulations : " Doodley Squat " .
Members of the Pentagon brass takes a direct hit in this witty Richard Benjamin satire about the efforts of a whistle-blower ( Cary Elwes ) to test a defective Bradley troop transport / combat vehicle . Kelsey Grammer plays Major General Partridge a wordy , self serving horse's ass . Mocking humor . Supporting cast inc...
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Don't expect a get well card .
A kind of creepy , slasher flick from Canada . Colt Hawker ( Michael Ironside ) is a psychopathic killer that seems to get off on killing women and keep photographs of their last dying gasps . This crazed hacker slasher rapes and brutalizes the opinionated journalist Deborah Ballin ( Lee Grant ) . Just like her opinion...
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Sometimes you have to help your dreams come true .
Sally Fields directs this light dramatic comedy about beauty pageants . There is all the back biting , lying and dirty dealing your way to the coveted crown . Mona ( Minnie Driver ) at an early age has decided to dedicate her life to winning a beauty pageant . Nothing is too large to stand in her way ; even forsaking a...
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A kiss is on his bloody lips , but what is on his mind ? !
A hackneyed story line with a slight twist . Some clever camera work and interesting sets and scenery are all captured in luxurious Hammer color . You know where the blood is blood red and fangs almost outnumber cleavage . The only thing from making this a genuine classic is the lack of more familiar stars . A couple (...
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The rubber melts on the road . Live life a quarter of a mile at a time !
Story does not totally lack substance , but primary purpose is to show of some fast and pretty souped up cars . Vin Diesel fans will rejoice . Otherwise don't expect much to redeem pit grease . An undercover cop ( Paul Walker ) infiltrates a gang of L . A . street racers in hopes of solving moonlight highway robberies ...
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Horrid acts of homicide .
The gimmick of being filmed in " Hypnovision " seems very little help in making this a memorable film . Gruesome and brutal methods of murder do give you something to talk about , especially the binocular scene . Michael Gough is a writer that uses hypnotism to commission chilling murders . Also appearing are June Cunn...
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A retired teacher's job is never done .
Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier reprises his role of Mark Thackeray . After retiring from thirty years of teaching in London , he returns to Chicago only to come out of retirement to take on the new challenge of teaching another classroom of misfits . This sequel does not pack the punch of the original , but is int...
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Truth can be stranger than fiction .
I was intrigued with the trailers for almost a month . I chose this movie over two others I intend to see . The less than fresh popcorn along with my Cherry Coke were more satisfying than the movie . A top reporter for The Washington Post ( Richard Gere ) is lured to Point Pleasant , West Virginia , where strange and b...
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Fight fire with fire .
Rob Bowman directs this fantasy tale of postapocalyptic 2020 London where a survivalist ( Christian Bale ) reluctantly teams up with a military man ( Matthew McConaughey ) to slay fire-breathing dragons . Special effects make up for the story that drags . The fire-breathing dragons are cool . And the final showdown is ...
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Cheap and quick does not make good sci-fi .
This is a rip off of the old Frankenstein premise . An acclaimed scientist is killed in a freakish accident and his father , a noted brain surgeon saves the brain . It is then put into a robotic body of his own design . His brother , an electrical genius , gives the ' colossus ' impetus to transfer thoughts into motion...
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Fantasy fare for the little ones .
Just perfect for rugrats and pre-schoolers . Several Hans Christian Anderson tales told by way of live action and stop motion puppetry . A diverse cast donated time and talent to this somewhat dated film . The cast features Ed Wynn , Ray Bolger , Patty Duke , Boris Karloff , Burl Ives , Margaret Hamilton , Tallulah Ban...
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Uncover the cover up . Good mystery / drama .
A beautiful young woman ( Leslie Stefanson ) is found raped and murdered . Not only is she an Army Captain , she is the daughter of a very popular General , played by James Cromwell . The general wants a hurried and hush-hush investigation that won't interfere with his political future . John Travolta plays Warrant Off...
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Hard to agree to disagree .
Believing the hype sets you up for a let down . An unlikely couple meet at a Cubs game , with a hot dog breaking the ice . Brooke ( Jennifer Aniston ) works at an art gallery ; Gary ( Vince Vaughn ) is a host on a Chicago tour bus . When the new wears off of the relationship ; argument after argument leads to Brooke's ...
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Beware of that nasty ' wacky weed ' .
Intended to show the results of smoking marijuana , this movie is interesting in the fact it is fun to watch the ' over acting ' or lack thereof . A young punk ( Scott Marlowe ) fresh from reform school enrolls into a Kansas City high school with the intent to push marijuana . It is comical watching the results of just...
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A dangerous hunt for longer life .
A team of scientist go on an expedition to Borneo in search for a flower known as the Blood Orchid , from which a medicine is believed to be developed . . . a pharmaceutical equivalent of a fountain of youth . Of course the jungle river is full of anacondas , which happen to be in the middle of their mating season . No...
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You'll be scared out of your skull !
This horror tale takes place in the Namib Desert of Africa . A Canadian systems analyst , Zach Straker ( Scott Bairstow ) is sent on an assignment for a diamond mining company . Although he hates field work , he finds himself in a truck with a rescue unit in the open desert fighting sand flies and whipping , blowing sa...
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You can not just walk away from lust in love .
It is the 1880s and Cuba is a hotbed of commerce and personal manipulations . A wealthy businessman ( Antonio Banderas ) is thrust into a dizzy world of danger and mystery after marrying a sensationally beautiful woman ( Angelina Jolie ) . Her past governs her future and her newlywed husband is obsessed with giving her...
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Religious procedure goes wrong .
Based on a true story . Not very scary , but haunting . An average young college student Emily Rose ( Jennifer Carpenter ) begins seeing strange visions , speaking in unrecognizable tongues , succumbing to horrid body contortions and mutilations of her body . She was thought to be a victim of epilepsy or psychosis . He...
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Hunger for human carnage .
A young forest ranger Danielle ( Cerina Vincent ) uses her lonely outpost to grieve the death of her best friend . In a cave in the forest , a Native American legend comes to life from years of slumber . The creature has already slaughtered campers and hikers and attacks the ranger outpost . The creature slowly stalks ...
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Silent as you go . Mediocre submarine flick .
Very predictable , but entertaining . Dr . Van Tasset ( Barry Livingston ) is an American expert on chemical weapons , who is kidnapped following a military coup in Iran . An elite squad of the Navy Seals called the " Steel Sharks " are assigned to rescue him . The " Sharks " are led by Lt . Zambroski ( David Roberson ...
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Hardly worth it .
This Jerry Lewis project does not ring with the sound of success . This film is way below the high standards that the legendary star / director has set for comedy flicks . The plot is quite simple and most of the sight gags are over done . A bumbling idiot has trouble keeping a job . He has tried being a circus clown ,...
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What are friends for ?
A wacky , manic movie about a California stoner-turned-scholar ( Colin Hanks ) being turned down by Stanford University . He is desperate enough to enlist the help of his girlfriend ( Schuyler Fisk ) and his totally stoned brother ( Jack Black ) for alternate ways to be accepted after the usual process failed him . Int...
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Not much to miss .
Based on personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson and directed by the famed Barry Levinson WHAT JUST HAPPENED is a fictional flick about showbiz . Ben ( Robert De Niro ) is a struggling producer desperately trying to save two marriages and salvage two movies . His movie " Fiercely " is in a downward spiral aft...
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They're dead things !
Produced , written and directed by S . William Hinzman . Trashy , cheesy and fun to watch . A group of college friends are planning to knock back some beers and " fool around " a bit on an overnight hayride . A nearby farmer clearing a stump manages to unleash a Fleasheater ( Hinzman ) from his coffin and that jump sta...
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Crude visitor films documentary .
All the hype is just that . Either you will be shocked , insulted and repulsed or dumb-struck by hilarity . . . maybe just cheaply entertained by tasteless humor . Borat Sagdiyev ( Sacha Baron Cohen ) is a TV personality that is dispatched from his country Kazakhstan to visit and film a documentary on the US of A . Thi...
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A honeymoon to wild to forget .
William Nigh directs this early 40's madcap comedy . Morey Amsterdam's screenplay is cleverly funny and somewhat witty . The 56 minute film is fast paced with hardly a scene wasted . Newlyweds Webster ( James Dunn ) and ' Jackie ' ( Florence Rice ) spend their honeymoon in an old country home . Along with a nervous cha...
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Prim is not always proper .
Get ready ; get set ; go psycho ! Patrick Bateman ( Christian Bale ) is a sharp dressed man ; a player on Wall Street no less . He has a strong opinion of the music he likes and doesn't like . He treats people about the same way . His avocation is dating women only to chop them in pieces ; or hang them in his closet to...
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Half of nothing is nothing .
Amy Holden Jones writes and directs this tense drama about a beautiful woman ( Halle Berry ) who feels her wealthy husband ( Christopher McDonald ) is not spending enough time with her . She makes a mistake telling her marital woes to a stranger who decides to help her out by killing her husband . She of course becomes...
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Dueling magicians . Secret obsessions .
I personally don't agree that THE PRESTIGE will be one of the best films you have the chance to see . Visuals are stunning and you can tell that the director Christopher Nolan put a lot of labor into this project . Set at the turn-of-the-century London , magicians are celebrities and idols of the day . Two magicians , ...
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Count Dracula his house haunting . . . uh , hunting .
Produced , written and directed by Werner Herzog . A moody tale that drags at a lumbering pace . Haunting music is noteworthy and scenery is placid . I have never before seen Count Dracula spending his nights in an almost all white abode . What happened to a dark and dank castle ? Jonathan Harker ( Bruno Ganz ) must ta...
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Leaping horny toad !
Talk about your wild life . Barely a B-movie , but what the hay . . . corny Sci-Fi and lesbian sex . From the mind of writer and director Cody Jarrett , a cheesy slice of fun . A chemical company is dumping waste that is causing mutants in a fish farm . The hot Kristi Russell stars as Dr . Barbara Michaels , an EPA age...
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Once again aliens war among themselves .
Sporadically funny retread of the original . Once again J ( Will Smith ) and K ( Tommy Lee Jones ) special agents of a secret society of protectors of Earth aka Men in Black must shield the world's population from aliens at odds with themselves . The diverse cast can't save this film from itself . Smith is sometimes fu...
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The alpha male attracts chaos .
Nick Cassavetes directs this glorification of the true life story of one of the youngest people ever wanted by the FBI . Emile Hirsch plays drug dealer Johnny Truelove . He comes from a very well off family , owns his own home , several cars and numerous sycophants . Actually Johnny is idolized by his suburbanite posse...
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Look before you leap .
Kip Allen aka The Durango Kid ( Charles Starrett ) uncovers the smuggling of stolen U . S . minted gold . A ring of greedy cowpokes use an old prospector named Grubstake ( Emmett Lynn ) as the front for the transport of stolen gold supposedly from his " lost mine " . He goes along with the plot in order to impress his ...
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Memories are not always stone cold .
Director Roger Corman again adapts Edgar A . Poe in a slow moving and often confusing tale of terror . Set in a wonderful old ruin like homestead ; mysterious black cat ; moody thunderstorms and eerie music are positive elements of this nerve wrecker . Vincent Price is masterful as a nobleman under the spell of his dea...
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Not entirely flaccid . Gore with humor .
Not to take seriously . Sit back and have fun . A thirty foot alligator is raising havoc in a lake in Maine . Bill Pullman is a park ranger and Bridget Fonda is a museum curator , who try to help the local sheriff contain or kill the gator . Seeing a man bit in half is nothing compared to seeing a grizzly bear and a co...
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The King of Rock ' n ' Roll pursues and captures an innocent heart .
In 1972 , after his wife left to go her own way , Elvis Presley began dating Linda Thompson . Miss Thompson , a good-humored , long haired , lovely , statuesque beauty queen , is charted to fill a void in Elvis ' life . When Elvis ' divorce became final , Linda was already in place as the legendary performer's live-in ...
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Green Berets vs Bikers .
A biker gang led by William Smith has one bad cog ( Michael Haynes ) , who runs two girls off the road . Both are killed , one being the girlfriend of a Seargent ( Tony Young ) in the Green Berets . The Sgt . and few of his buddies , including singer Marvin Gaye , set out to do what the local authorities are having tro...
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Has Nanny been with the family too long ?
This story evokes fear and is sustained by suspicion . Bette Davis is the Nanny , who seems to have been with a strange and dysfunctional family forever . There is the almost helpless wife , self centered husband absorbed with his work and a bratty little boy that insists the Nanny drowned his little sister in the bath...
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End of the world classic .
Scientists have calculated the end of the world . Then comes the usual race against time to prepare for transplanting mankind to the " new world " . Compared to today's standards ; the acting is cardboard and the special effects are wimpy . But remember back in the early ' 50s , plenty of little eye balls popped watchi...
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Science and medicine go astray in the swamps of Louisiana .
A honeymoon is cut short when a maimed war hero ( Richard Crane ) seeks healing . The newlywed bride ( Beverly Garland ) tracks her husband down in a Louisiana bayou getting injections of a serum from alligator glands . A mad scientist tries to heal cripples with his bizarre experiments . After awhile the injected muta...
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Do you like to watch ? Death via computer !
This piece of gore is better than the bad rap it has been given . Some scenes could be deemed repulsive . Not advised for weak stomachs . A NYPD detective ( Stephen Dorff ) gets the case of his life when mysterious deaths are linked to a website where a demented doctor ( Stephen Rea ) tortures victims to death . Forty-...
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The population stays the same .
A traveling census-taker ( Jerry Sisto ) is assigned to visit the tiny town of Rockwell Falls . Mysteriously the population has stayed at 436 for the past 100 years . After two flat tires , the census-taker is given a ride by a Deputy Sheriff ( Fred Durst ) , who tells him not to worry about some traditions in Rockwell...
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Provocative western .
Spreading the gap between the white man and the American Native is TELL THEM WILLY BOY IS HERE . This is director Abraham Polonsky's first film in 21 years since his ' banishment ' . Willy Boy , a Piute Indian ( Robert Blake ) kills a man in self-defense and becomes the subject of a manhunt in 1909 California . With hi...
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The human condition is challenged . Exhilarating story .
A Werner Herzog film based on a true story with some liberties taken . RESCUE DAWN is an intense tale of camaraderie and bravery in the face of despair . In 1965 , U . S . Navy pilot Dieter Dengler ( Christian Bale ) was on a top-secret bombing mission over Laos when he is shot down , captured and taken to a hellish pr...
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Its hard to find the apartment that is just right .
Yet another attempt by Hollywood to remake a Japanese horror film . An apt cast of stars in a thriller that is more suspense than scare ; and more boredom than suspense . Very slow and dark . Set in rainy Seattle and NYC . DARK WATER keeps you waiting from the get go . Dahlia ( Jennifer Connelly ) is recently separated...
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If the taxpayer only knew the truth .
This is a terse drama with its moments of comedy . Keifer Sutherland is a young doctor signing on at a Veteran's Hospital where Ray Liotta leads a renegade group of doctors going against hospital rules and lack of funds to provide help to ailing veterans . You won't get what you want . . . and what you do get ain't wor...
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The suicide of a bullied student is not to be forgotten .
Not a teen slasher flick . . . but teens do go down , one by one . Bullies and jocks at Rogers High School die shouting the name of a former student Abel Frye ( George Humphreys ) , who hung himself in a wing of the school still under construction . David Keith plays a special investigator , who along with his wife ( M...
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Cujo has nothing on this breed .
Wes Craven presents a thriller that satisfies . Two brothers , Matt ( Eric Lively ) and John ( Oliver Hudson ) fly to a deserted island for a week long party . Joining them are Matt's girlfriend Niki ( Michelle Rodriguez ) , John's girlfriend Sara ( Taryn Manning ) and a good friend of the group , Noah ( Hill Harper ) ...