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384,132 | 449,021 | 39,678 | 6 | Roy Rogers is in search of " The Gypsy " . | William Witney directs Roy Rogers as he and Trigger join a traveling carnival in hopes of paying off a $10 , 000 note he co-signed for the Sons of the Pioneers . There is another source of funds . . . capture the mysterious desperado known as " The Gypsy " ( Tito Guizar ) . Plenty of action and song . Roy , being the ' Singing Cowboy ' , of course sings ; as well as Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers . There is limited comic relief from Constable Bullfincher ( Andy Devine ) . Also in the cast : Jane Frazee , Estelita Rodriguez and Fred Graham . This is one of my favorite Roy Rogers flicks . I can't really pinpoint why . . . just the atmosphere I guess . Running 75 minutes , ON the Old Spanish TRAIL is worth your time . |
383,135 | 449,021 | 313,285 | 6 | A road trip may be the last for three friends . | Three young friends from Connecticut ( Shane Johnson , Josh Hammond and Jason Dohring ) use their fake IDs to get into a Wisconsin roadhouse . The night of partying becomes a horrifying fight for survival as the trio are chased through the back woods of snow covered Wisconsin by a mysterious black ' 57 Cadillac . Revenge or retribution . The scared young men pick up a stranded peace officer ( Randy Quaid ) , but that doesn't exactly mean the bumping and chasing with the Caddie will end soon . This low budget road trip is tense and predictable . I was most impressed with Hammond . Quaid seems to be ad libbing throughout as a cop not on the up and up . Also in the cast : Kierstan Warren and Karl Johnson . The stunt driving may be even better than the acting . |
384,239 | 449,021 | 435,705 | 6 | Precognition and explosive thrills . | Not just another Nick Cage flick . NEXT builds up steam and the tension does not sputter . Cage plays Chris Johnson , who has a magic act in Las Vegas . As Frank Cadillac , he has fifty dollar tricks mixed with his personal ability to see a few minutes into the future . . . his future . An FBI agent , Callie Ferris ( Julianne Moore ) , is certain Chris ' special ability is authentic and she is desperate in recruiting him to help stop a terrorist group from setting loose a nuclear bomb in the middle of Los Angeles . Not only is the Government hot on his trail ; the terrorist want him out of the picture as much as the Feds want him in . Chris follows through with a love-at-first-sight reaction to a beautiful girl in a diner . . . Liz ( Jessica Biel ) . Chris hitches a ride with Liz , who at first doesn't know he is a man on the run . Chris becomes a reluctant hero in a race against the clock and it is so important that he can keep seeing at least two minutes in his future . This is a Sci-Fi action thriller you need to check out . Some fine background music from The Green Car Motels , Cream and Elvis . Also in the cast : Thomas Kretschmann , Tory Kittles , Michael Trucco and Peter Falk . No doubt about it , Biel is HOT ! |
382,640 | 449,021 | 871,426 | 6 | That biological clock is ticking . | Former Saturday Night Live gal-pals Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-star in this hilarious celebration of motherhood . Kate ( Fey ) is a single , successful businesswoman , who finally hears that biological clock ticking . . . loudly . She's going to balance her career with hopes of having a baby . She finds that she is infertile , but that doesn't stop her from finding a South Philly working-class gal Angie ( Poehler ) to be her surrogate . Opposite as night and day , Kate and Angie almost succumb to their different lifestyles and thoughts on rearing a child . This by-the-book businesswoman almost has the free spirited surrogate transformed into the ideal expectant mother until a deal breaking truth needs to be told . MAMA BABY does have its share of touching moments ; but it is the hilarious tag team comedy of Fey and Poehler that has you on the verge of peeing your pants . There is a very strong supporting cast that includes : Greg Kinnear , Sigourney Weaver , Steve Martin , Holland Taylor and Dax Shepard . |
384,224 | 449,021 | 290,002 | 6 | When families meet . . . caste caution to the wind . | Be ready to bust a rib and laugh your ass off . In MEET THE PARENTS ( 2000 ) Greg Focker ( Ben Stiller ) was under the scrutiny of his true love's parents . Wacky event endured . Now Pam ( Teri Polo ) and her parents ( Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner ) get to meet the Fockers ( Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand ) . Retired FBI meets sex therapist and sun and fun lover . Crude and sexual humor abound . Polo and Danner have hardly anything do . . . but De Niro , Hoffman and Streisand are hilarious . Stiller remains to be the odd duck so-to-speak . This funny movie may just be better than the first . Hoffman and Streisand definitely bring a new dimension to the mix . My favorite scene is Streisand trying to get a kink out of De Niro's back . Situations are knee slapping . This one is worth seeing again . |
382,697 | 449,021 | 396,857 | 6 | A heart-pounding thriller . Love means more than a bullet . | This is an emotion driven . full-throttle thriller . Rose ( Helen Mirren ) , is an assassin working with her stepson , who is also her lover , Mikey ( Cuba Gooding , Jr . ) . This is part of the underworld is as harsh as their relationship is complex . When a ruthless and brutal crime boss , Clayton ( Stephen Dorff ) , wants his wife Vickie ( Vanessa Ferlito ) dead ; Rose has a change of heart and begs Mikey not to carry out this hit ; because the mark is pregnant . Mikey has to accept that Rose is turning soft since finding out she is terminally ill . The two assassins make amends to their violent way of life and Rose has her last chance at redemption by protecting Vickie and her new-born son . Daring and a bit exotic . Also in the cast : Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Macy Gray and Monique . |
382,875 | 449,021 | 381,971 | 6 | Delightful adventure . Curiosity has its moments . | In a word . . . cute . Even if you're older than seven , you can find a giggle or two and have some fun . Ted ( Will Ferrell ) - The Man in the Yellow Hat-must travel to Africa in hopes of bringing back a rare idol in order to save his job and Mr . Bloomsberry's ( Dick Van Dyke ) museum . Before coming home , Ted with a little help adopts an inquisitive and spunky chimp given the name George . Ted has an admirer in Maggie ( Drew Barrymore ) ; but he has his hands full sharing ( mis - ) adventures with his new little friend . Predicament after predicament , Curious George accidentally discovers a way to save the museum . The animation is juvenile , but delightful . More than a handful of songs garnish this picture , the best being " People Watching " by Jack Johnson . Other characters are voiced by : Eugene Levy , Joan Plowright , David Cross and Clint Howard . It really feels good to listen to a theater full of pre-schoolers chuckle and giggle in unison . |
384,199 | 449,021 | 236,640 | 6 | Going up ; going down ! Will it go in circles ? | PROZAC NATION is like a monkey on your back that won't laugh . A heaping depressing dose of life . Yet there is a flicker of light . Based on a book by Elizabeth Wurtzel . In print it would not be hard to put the book down . But on film it is like looking at a train wreck . . . how can you turn your back on it ! Lizzie ( Christina Ricci ) is a prize-winning student on her way to Harvard no less . This young journalist would love to have a career as a rock music critic ; but she goes in cycles with her friends , her emotions and life . She holds marathon writing sessions fueled by drugs and sleep deprivation . Jessica Lange plays the bitterly neurotic mother . Anne Heche is the therapist that has no way in hell to get her point across . Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is the guy she threw away . Roommate Ruby ( Michelle Williams ) has the best chance at being Lizzie's soul-mate ; but with reason gives up . And Jason Biggs is the guy who understands her the most and catches her wrath . Lizzie is a mess and hasn't got the clue to change . Ricci puts her abilities to the test and scores . . . with or without her clothes . I for one am glad that she is now a big little girl . Worth refilling your meds . |
383,254 | 449,021 | 57,083 | 6 | Latin rhythms and temperamental romance south of the border . | Richard Thorpe directed a previous Elvis movie , " Jailhouse Rock " . Elvis plays Mike Windgren , who is running away from a family trapeze act accident . He is hired as a life guard and singer . Elsa Cardenas , a lady bullfighter , wants Mike's attention . The beautiful Ursula Andress plays hard to get . Mike gets over his fear of heights by diving off one of the local landmark cliffs . The eleven song soundtrack of Latin-beat ditties includes " You Can't Say No In Acapulco " and the million plus selling " Bossa Nova Baby " . Better than average travelog . |
384,151 | 449,021 | 160,127 | 6 | Ravishing and lethal detectives rescue stolen software . | This is a clever big-screen adaption of the popular ' 70s TV series . A trio of martial arts trained detectives with drop dead gorgeous looks work exclusively for an unseen boss ' Charlie ' Townsend ( John Forsythe ) . The angels are played by Cameron Diaz , Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu . With the sometimes inept help of Charlie's assistant Bosley ( Bill Murray ) , the striking detectives investigate a kidnapping and retrieve some highly technical software that could lead to the death of their boss . Also in the cast of this fun , run and gun romp are : Tim Curry , Matt LeBlanc , Kelly Lynch and a very impressive villain played by Crispin Glover . If you have yet to fall in love with Miss Diaz , you deserve no mercy . She proves again to be charming , sexy and very talented . Miss Barrymore also has that way of being funny while not losing an ounce of sex appeal . Although contrived and a bit silly this movie is an action filled escape . There is no doubt that this explosive trio of crime-fighters will be back to use their skills and complete their mission . Thank you , Angels ! |
382,902 | 449,021 | 294,357 | 6 | Aren't we all refugees ? | Passionate , gritty and a real hard look at reality . Sarah Jordan ( Angelina Jolie ) is a well-to-do American socialite , who marries into prestige in London . When she meets renegade doctor Nick Callahan ( Clive Owen ) , she puts her marriage on hold and follows the doctor to war-torn nations helping in his humanitarian efforts . Even discovering gun-running in hopes of providing funds for medicine , does not deter Sarah's star-crossed romance and longing for Callahan . Sarah risks life and limb to sustain the commitment to help the down-trodden souls of impoverished nations and her raging desire for Doctor Nick . The finale is non-less explosive . Owen proves to be a man among men and Miss Jolie is as usual mesmerizing . . . able to put on a lip-lock with the best of them . She could suck a pineapple through a bamboo shoot . Also of note is Teri Polo , who plays Sarah's TV reporter sister . And real impressive is Noah Emmerich as humanitarian Elliot Hauser . War-related violence and visions of the unfortunate malnourished is a stark wake-up call . |
383,093 | 449,021 | 492,956 | 6 | NFL quarterback learns he's a daddy . | Maybe not heartwarming , but yet heartfelt . A comedy for the whole family . Gridiron star Joe Kingman ( Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ) is ready to take his Boston team all the way to the Super Bowl . Known as " The King " and coincidently a huge admirer of Elvis Presley , Kingman no doubt has the largest ego in the NFL . The superstar on the threshold of reaching icon status is in for a big surprise when his 8-year-old daughter named Peyton ( Madison Pettis ) arrives at the door of his bachelor pad . She intends to stay a week and Kingman needs all the help he can get from his agent Stella ( Krya Sedwick ) to run " damage control " . Somewhere inside this self-centered not-so-family-friendly superstar is a big teddy bear . Situational comedy and pretty predictable . Also in the cast : Morris Chestnut , Brian J . White and Paige Turco . Impressed with the use of Elvis music . |
384,066 | 449,021 | 496,806 | 6 | Danny Ocean knows how to break a bank . | Danny Ocean ( George Clooney ) and his crew come to the aid of one of their own , Reuben ( Elliott Gould ) , who has been double-crossed out of a share of a new casino , The Bank , by the ruthless Willy Bank ( Al Pacino ) . And what is the best way to get back at someone who seems to have everything ? Hit him where it hurts . . . smack dab in the big fat wallet . It will take a very quick attack on the casino . Rigging slots , dice , cards and wheels to allow the betters to win . . . win big . The elaborate plan is bold , bit dangerous and very close to impossible . The Bank has been broken . Brisk colorful storyline with glitzy scenery ; after all it is Las Vegas . Also in this high dollar cast : Brad Pitt , Matt Damon , Don Cheadle , Ellen Barkin , Bernie Mac and Carl Reiner . |
382,207 | 449,021 | 435,653 | 6 | Unrest for the weary . No peace for the wicked . | Mike Mendez directs this bone chiller . Outstanding horror flick with old fashioned terror . Acting varies from strong to miserable ; but good story and even better effects . After the funeral for a close friend , a group of class mates get together for drinks . These three friends end up at the cemetery ; and after more all night drinking the drunken friends end up dancing on graves and really upsetting the dirt nap of three wicked spirits . These friends regain sobriety , but now are haunted by three hell raising ghosts seeking revenge . Kira ( Josie Maran ) already has a head start on freaking out . Sid ( Marcus Thomas ) is positive his life is in danger ; while Harris ( Dominic Purcell ) wants more hard evidence that the group's days are numbered . Some stark disturbing images with strong violence makes THE GRAVEDANCERS a film you don't want to miss . For real horror fans the unrest will be enjoyable . Others in the cast : Claire Kramer , Tcheky Karyo and Megahn Perry . |
383,812 | 449,021 | 477,392 | 6 | Big screen debut of singer Toby Keith . | Fair to maudlin is country singer Toby Keith's first film . Former high school sweethearts , Bo Price ( Keith ) , a fading country music singer , and Angela Denton ( Kelly Preston ) , a television reporter , return to their small hometown after the deaths of their younger brothers in a military training exercise . Bo and Angela have to deal with the past and the future . The out-of-the-spotlight Price meets his 16-year old daughter Dixie ( Lindsey Haun ) , who is a musician herself . . . a rock musician . Angela has to deal with her father ( Burt Reynolds ) , who has been out of sorts with her since she left home pregnant . Her mother ( Tess Harper ) tries to mediate a truce before having a minor stroke . Bo calls on his friends Willie Nelson and BeBe Winans to sing at the memorial service for the five hometown lost soldiers . Dixie is also asked to sing her own song " Broken " and it melts hearts . The future no longer seems so bleak . Also in the movie are : Katie Finneran , Anna Maria , Josh Henderson and Steve Coulter . |
383,698 | 449,021 | 113,161 | 6 | Ever thought of changing professions ? | Hilarlious and quirky . Chili Palmer ( John Travolta ) is the man to go to . Not slight on ego , Palmer is a Miami loan shark enforcer sent to Los Angeles to collect on a gambling debt from movie producer Harry Zimm ( Gene Hackman ) . After a little personality posturing , Chili discovers that loansharking is not all that different from making movies . Maybe in Hollywood you need to be more cutthroat . . . hell , Palmer can do that . This cute comic crime caper has an impressive list of co-stars : Danny DeVito , Rene Russo , James Gandolfini and Dennis Farina . DeVito has the talent of being wickedly funny . . . just change the character's name and Danny is ready to do his thing . Russo is strong when she needs to be . Farina IS Ray ' Bones ' Barboni . GET SHORTY seems a quick change of pace . |
383,393 | 449,021 | 82,966 | 6 | Italian horror that is actually scary . | Director / screenwriter Lucio Fulci provides splattering gore when a young couple move into a spacious house in New England that happens to be next to a cemetery and has a reputation the citizens refuse to talk about . Dr . Norman Boyle ( Paolo Malco ) relocates with his wife Lucy ( Catriona MacColl ) and young son Bob ( Giovanni Fezza ) in order to take up studies his former friend Dr . Jacob Freudstein ( Giovanni De Nava ) left behind before committing suicide . Young Bob talks to a strange little girl that warns of impending danger . That warning is ignored setting up some scary situations . The former home owner conducted some hellish human experiments made obvious by a bloody trail leading to the spooky house's basement . And by damn , there is something or someone living down there in the dark . |
383,497 | 449,021 | 378,194 | 6 | Raging rampage of revenge . | Sequel to KILL BILL Vol 1 : directed and written by Quentin Tarantino with input from Uma Thurman . Compared to its predecessor , this movie is more wordy and the action seems less urgent . . . but still violent . The explosive atmosphere is just not here this time . The Bride ( Thurman ) continues the dispensing of her former colleagues and her quest for justice is just a few swings of the Samari sword away . Bloodshed and maiming continues . Two remaining foes - - Budd ( Michael Madsen ) and Elle Driver ( Daryl Hannah ) are on her ' to do'list ; before reaching her goal . . . kill Bill ( David Carradine ) . The cast also features : Samuel L . Jackson , Chia Hui Liu and Perla Haney-Jardine . The action is glued together with another eclectic soundtrack featuring : Ennio Morricone , Charlie Feathers , Shivaree , Johnny Cash and Meiko Kaji . One thing for sure : watching both KILL BILL flicks back to back will leave your ass worn out . Beware of Uma Thurman taking over your dreams . |
384,289 | 449,021 | 39,545 | 6 | Ten dollars a day and expenses . | Striking camera work letting the viewer see through the eyes of hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe ( Robert Montgomery ) . This is an intriguing Raymond Chandler tale that has the " private dick " solving a murder while seeking a missing socialite . Montgomery directs himself and is primarily only seen in a scene looking in a mirror . Novelty of the camera work is clever and makes YOU part of the movie . Its pretty cool finding the clues . Very apt cast featuring Audrey Totter , Lloyd Nolan , Leon Ames and Jane Meadows . Fun to watch . |
381,976 | 449,021 | 113,189 | 6 | You can always count on Agent 007 ! | Not to be taken lightly , Pierce Brosnan in his debut as the British Agent with the license to kill . Bond has his work cut out for him this time as he tries stopping Russian rebels from destroying London's financial economy . More great sets , stunts , beautiful women and death defying situations . More than ample support from Famke Janssen , Sean Bean , Izabella Scorupco and Joe Don Baker . |
381,997 | 449,021 | 113,187 | 6 | Is this really the end of Godzilla ? | a . k . a . Godzilla vs The Destroyer brings the long running series to a close . Godzilla is on the verge of suffering a radioactive melt down as the monster's nuclear energy system begins failing . At this most vulnerable time Godzilla must face a ' morphing ' foe that delivers the fatal blow . It is sad to watch , but I am glad that in the end Godzilla's body just burns out in a radioactive glow instead of being ripped apart and slain by an evil creature . Special effects are some of the best ever in this finale and best of the series . |
382,920 | 449,021 | 276,816 | 6 | Something is just not right on this submarine . | Sci-Fi escape drama that will have you on the edge of your seat and cracking your knuckles . When a WWII submarine picks up three survivors of an incident in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 1943 , the crew suddenly experiences mysterious doings in the confined space . It appears this boat is doomed from the start . Typical problems for a submarine movie . Pretty good acting from a diverse cast that includes : Bruce Greenwood , Matt Davis , Olivia Williams , Scott Foley and Holt McCallany . Decent enough F / X and sometimes scary story line holds your interest . |
382,345 | 449,021 | 91,724 | 6 | Don't mess with a clever Vietnam vet . | You might say this is a passionate action movie . Probably did not cost much to make , but is somewhat interesting . Tommy Lee Jones plays a veteran from the Vietnamese conflict and he wants to raise awareness to how veterans , the elderly and underprivileged are overlooked . He decides to take Central Park hostage . Then he is forced to defend his position with gunfire . Who said all is fair in love and war ? Also in the cast are Helen Shaver and Yaphet Kotto . Not too far fetched ; and this movie does grab your attention . |
383,896 | 449,021 | 355,987 | 6 | Can you ever go home again ? | Stephen King's novel gets adapted again for TV by play writer Peter Filardi . Same story line of course , but most of the original characters in the 1979 version have taken on different personalities . Ben Mears ( Rob Lowe ) is a troubled man hounded by his memories . Mears is a Pulitzer Prize winner that comes back home to Jerusalem's Lot to garner fodder for another novel . His main interest is buying the old house on the hill that spawned horrid happenings causing his childhood nightmares . The house has been sold to a mysterious antique dealer ( Donald Sutherland ) who is believed to be using the haunting house as a vampire haven for his partner Kurt Barlow ( Rutger Hauer ) . The top notch cast assembled includes : Andre Braugher , James Cromwell , Samantha Mathis and Robert Grubb . If King was not too fond of the earlier version starring David Soul ; I wonder how he feels about this one ? After all is said and done . . . the novel is a hell of a lot better than both TV adaptations . |
382,805 | 449,021 | 96,118 | 6 | Unhappy campers don't last very long . | A decent sequel to a very popular cult movie SLEEPAWAY CAMP . This installment of the franchise takes place 6 years after the horrifying murders in the original . Angela Johnson / Baker ( Pamela Springsteen ) , after years of therapy , electro-shock and a successful sex change operation , becomes a camp counselor and is not bashful when it comes to dealing discipline to unhappy campers . It does not pay to be naughty or go against Angela's wishes . Writer Fritz Gordon is some what daring and a bit imaginative with sometime swift and other times tedious death scenes . Plus there is the hilarious spoof aspect of this sequel . Springsteen plays this psychotic role extremely well . She's a hoot to watch , even without knowing she is the little sister of Bruce Springsteen . An unhappy camper with staying power is Molly played by Renee Estevez , little sister of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . Kudos to director Michael A . Simpson . Also in the cast : Brian Patrick Clarke , Valerie Hartman , Tony Higgins , Jill Murphy , Susan Marie Snyder and Walter Gotell . |
383,213 | 449,021 | 408,790 | 6 | Fasten your seat belts and hold on to your nuts . | Intense thriller . Kyle Pratt ( Jodie Foster ) already distraught from the recent loss of her husband , wakes up on a flight to the States from Berlin on the Aalto Air E-474 double-decker plane she helped design ; and her haunting nightmare begins . Flying at 40 , 000 feet in the state-of-the-art aircraft , she discovers her young daughter is missing . The captain of the plane ( Sean Bean ) and even the Air Marshall on board ( Peter Sarsgaard ) doubts the child ever boarded the plane . Too be exact the whole crew and staff do not recall seeing the little girl board with her mother . Bereaved and disheveled Kyle must depend on her own wits and determination to find her daughter . This suspense-filled thriller demands your attention and the intrigue builds to an explosive climax . Supporting cast includes Kate Beahan and Michael Irby . I was most impressed with the alluring Erika Christensen who plays the timid stewardess . Miss Foster with all her various emotions is still at the top of her game . |
384,334 | 449,021 | 481,369 | 6 | Have you ever had a book you couldn't put down ? | Joel Schumacher directs ; that's a big plus . Jim Carrey plays such a different character for him ; that's another big plus . Walter Sparrow ( Carrey ) is an exertion challenged dog catcher that falls deeply into a mysterious novel , The Number 21 . The writer is an unknown , but Walter feels a connection with what he is reading ; its like reading his life thus far . His uneventful life soon turns into a psychological whirlwind that is sustained by torment and mental torture . He is obsessed by the numerous similarities with the book's character and himself ; he finds himself forced to plunge into secrets of his past and face the fears of his future . Dark and twisted . The story line may have you spinning and wondering how true the truth is . Some very good support from Virginia Madsen and Lynn Collins . Others in the cast : Danny Huston , Rhona Mitra and Mark Pellegrino . |
384,288 | 449,021 | 282,418 | 6 | A crawling nightmare . | Not for the weak hearted . Legions of vermin infest a Manhattan department store and causes concern for the city as they escape their underground world . Some very good computer generated effects : watching rats fill up an empty swimming pool will make you squirm . An above average made-for-TV movie and worth watching . . . if you can stand watching violent rats in rage . The cast includes : Madchen Amick , Vincent Spano , Shawn Michael Howard and Daveigh Chase . Creepy . |
382,285 | 449,021 | 100,514 | 6 | A rookie cop learns to cross the line . | Not just another Clint Eastwood movie . Of course , Clint directs and stars as Nick Pulovski , a veteran cop assigned to the auto theft division . But his own agenda is to find the criminal that killed his partner . To his dismay , Pulovski is given a new partner . . . rookie cop David Ackerman ( Charlie Sheen ) . The former homicide cop is still marching to his own drummer and is perturbed that his young charge is reluctant to stray from the rules . When Pulovski is held hostage by a master criminal named Strom ( Raul Julia ) , who is demanding a ton of money . . . but would just be happy enough to torture and kill him ; Ackerman goes into super-cop mode and begins kicking some mean ass in his search for his partner . Strom and his right-hand woman Liesl ( Sconia Braga ) let bullets fly ( definitely an understatement ) before each meets that clichéd bullet between the eyes . Tom Skerritt plays Ackerman's estranged father , who on second thought provides ransom money that actually ends up whirling on the ground at the San Jose airport . Also in the cast are : Lara Flynn Boyle , Marco Rodrigues , Pepe Serna and Donna Mitchell . Most impressive is Sheen busting up the bar before setting it on fire . |
384,525 | 449,021 | 179,626 | 6 | Only in America . Name your price for fame . | Slick and sick . Rough and rowdy . The fetish is fame . This action packed crime / thriller from John Herzfeld starts a little slow and then becomes an inferno . A young Arson Investigator ( Edward Burns ) teams up with a savvy NY Detective ( Robert De Niro ) trying to catch a pair of Eastern European killers that are filming their outrageous crimes in order to make a fortune on selling their tape to the news media . The ruthless and somewhat dim-witted killers are played by Karel Roden and Oleg Taktarov . Kelsey Grammer is steadfast and egotistical in his role as a tabloid TV anchor . Melina Kanakaredes is De Niro's TV reporter girlfriend . David Alan Grier is a hapless mugger . Violence is heavier than the language and sexual content . De Niro fans will be more than satisfied . Although dark , this is a stunning movie . |
383,779 | 449,021 | 206,634 | 6 | Slow death of humanity . De-population . | This gripping thriller is based on a novel by British mystery writer P . D . James . In the year 2027 , the world seems bleak and the future of the human race is in question . It has been 18 years since the last baby entered the world , as complete global human infertility is now the norm . The populus slips into a chaotic state when that youngest person in the world dies . In Great Britian , a former activist named Theo ( Clive Owen ) reluctantly becomes champion of the human race when his former lover , rebel leader Julian ( Julianne Moore ) , persuades the disillusioned civil servant to obtain transit papers for Kee , a young black woman ( Clare-Hope Ashitey ) , who is with child and wants sanctuary with a secretive organization . Also in the cast : Michael Caine , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Oana Pella and Charlie Hunnam . A diverse soundtrack is featured with music by the likes of : Radiohead , King Crimson , Franco Battiato and John Lennon . This futuristic flick is directed by Alfonso Cuaron . |
382,011 | 449,021 | 26,029 | 6 | Thought provoking mystery . A Hitchcock classic . | The classic mistaken man caught up in the middle of high drama and intrigue . A man ( Robert Donat ) comes to the aid of a young woman ( Madeleine Carroll ) only to get involved in a cloak and dagger chase through London and Scotland . The mysterious spy activities culminates in a novel climax . Donat and Carroll are flawless . Their banter will influence movie dialog for decades to come . This mystery is not that easily unwound . A perfect example of the genius of Hitchcock's pre-war British period . Also in the movie are Godfrey Tearle and Frank Cellier . A small , but major role in the plot is played by Wylie Watson as Mr . Memory . |
383,037 | 449,021 | 47,577 | 6 | Not appreciated much . Not totally bad . | Ridiculed a bit and lampooned a lot ; THIS ISLAND EARTH from Universal Pictures International has undiscovered logic and more intelligence than most early 50's Sci-Fi . The sets were not exactly high dollar , but at least were interesting . Rex Reason plays Dr . Carl Meacham , a well noted scientist , who receives an unusual substitution for electronic condensers he ordered . He then receives a catalog's worth of materials to build a complex device for communications . He receives a strange message from a huge-domed scientist named Exeter ( Jeff Morrow ) , who invites him to a mysterious location to work further on future peace keeping devices . There he meets an old flame , Dr . Ruth Adams ( Faith Domergue ) , and finds this journey is just a ruse . Others in the cast : Lance Fuller , Karl Ludwig , Robert Nichols , Les Sparks and Richard Deacon . |
384,234 | 449,021 | 43,150 | 6 | Did someone call a cab ? | Funny man supreme Red Skelton plays ' Red ' Pirdy , a cab driver that also invents safety devices . When he invents elastic glass for unbreakable safety glasses criminals big and small come after him to force or trick him out of the formula . ' Red ' is very gullible and easily influenced . Some of his inventions are pretty wacky . The cab driver's relationship with the attractive Ellen ( Gloria DeHaven ) is odd at best . A rip roaring climax involves a chase through a futuristic revolving home show exposition . Skelton , one of the funniest ever on TV , seems to always be better than his movies . Silly movie with a strong cast featuring : Walter Slezak , Edward Arnold and James Gleason . |
384,461 | 449,021 | 104,926 | 6 | A slugger can hit anywhere . | Even if you are not a baseball fan , you will enjoy MR . BASEBALL . An aging Major League home run slugger Jack Elliot ( Tom Selleck ) is traded to the Dragons , a favorite ball team in Japan . American ballplayers are treated like rock ' n ' roll stars in Japan and Jack is no exception . The American slugger has trouble fitting into the eastern society and thanks to his interpreter ( Kosuke Toyohara ) he doesn't completely alienate himself . Another American player " Hammer " Dubois ( Dennis Haysbert ) tries to help big Jack fit in , but of course the Dragon's new home run hitter is pretty hard headed . Elliot finds himself in his coach's ( Ken Takakura ) doghouse more often than not . The team finds him easy to dislike . Unknowingly he finds romance with the coach's daughter ( Aya Takanashi ) and that is just part of the humor found in this likable and short of heartwarming movie . Most of the humor comes from Jack's interpreter . Selleck fits the role pretty well . Ted Danson would have been another good choice for the role , but Selleck provides enough arrogance to carry it off . Not a total waste of time , but there is doubts about a double header . Twice is enough for me . |
383,902 | 449,021 | 260,866 | 6 | The clock is running . . . but she's not talking . | A top notch nail bitter . Thieves kidnap the daughter of a psychiatrist ( Michael Douglas ) to make him jog the memory of a mentally disturbed teen ( Brittany Murphy ) who holds the key to finding a multi-million dollar stolen jewel . Oliver Platt is another doctor that has trouble reaching the girl . Famke Janssen plays Douglas ' wife who is somewhat limited with her leg in a cast . ( And what a shame . . . would've liked to see more of her . ) And talk about a looker . . . Jennifer Esposito plays a detective with the tightest pants in law enforcement . She has acting skills as well . Rounding out the cast are Sean Bean , Guy Torry and Paul Shulze . Tension builds in spite of being predictable . It is safe to say that a movie starring Michael Douglas is always worth watching . |
382,288 | 449,021 | 360,486 | 6 | Have faith in your demon slayer . | This is a gritty and graphic horror-action picture loosely based on the pulp fiction novel " HELLBLAZER " . John Constatine ( Keanu Reeves ) is a doubtful and sometimes reluctant demon slayer that comes to the rescue of a beautiful young woman ( Rachel Weisz ) in her investigation of her twin sister's suicide . The chain-smoking anti-hero seems to find himself once again in the middle of a battle between good and evil . The artistic visuals bring about a dark and moody atmosphere . And smoking a cigarette in the pouring rain is just another luxury compared to a bad ass rumble in the bowels of Hell . For Weisz , I would also tippy-toe around the devil in red hot coals . Other cast members : Djimon Hounsou , Shia LaBeouf and Max Baker . |
384,192 | 449,021 | 320,691 | 6 | Vampires ! Werewolves ! Vicious and ravenous . | For centuries vampires and werewolves have engaged in nocturnal battles . Each generation of the races grow stronger and more determined to annihilate the other . Emotions and the will to live are tested when a beautiful female vampire named Selene ( Kate Beckinsale ) , who is famous and revered for her hunting prowess , falls in love with a peace-loving werewolf , Michael ( Scott Speedman ) . This underworld pair would love to see an abrupt end to the fighting-to-the-death battles . The special visual effects are stupendous . The whole mood is dark and dank . More than enough gore and violence to restrict younger viewers . Beckinsale is super fine as the vampire warrior . I wish she would have been this aggressive in VAN HELSING ( 2004 ) . Also in the cast are : Michael Sheen , Bill Nighy and Shane Brolly . My favorite scene is in the finale when a head is sliced off diagonally . This should be rated G for Gothic gore . A must see for vampire and werewolf fans . |
383,676 | 449,021 | 416,496 | 6 | Bank robbery made beautiful . | Action / comedy with eye candy . BANDIDAS is a fun to watch romp about a rough around-the-edges , but winsome , peasant Maria ( Penelope Cruz ) teaming up with a beautiful and sophisticated heiress Sara ( Salma Hayek ) , whose father has just been murdered by the vile , ruthless Tyler Jackson ( Dwight Yoakam ) . Jackson has swindled control of land and money with further plans to rob one bank after another to build his empire . The two beauties decide to seek revenge against the villainous baron Jackson , by robbing banks before he can get to them . The two lovelies prepare themselves with pointers from the expert bank robber Bill Buck ( Sam Shepard ) and are joined in the robbing spree by a trained criminal scientist ( Steve Zahn ) . Quite humorous in spots , but mainly it is the jiggle and wiggle that garners attention . The only thing I can think to make this movie better is to have Hayek and Cruz joined with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Cote de Pablo ( NCIS ) as saddle pals . |
382,733 | 449,021 | 369,339 | 6 | Nothing like going along for the ride . | Max ( Jamie Foxx ) is a mild mannered ambitious taxi driver who must endure the fare of his life . Vincent ( Tom Cruise ) is a professional hit man that pays Max six hundred dollars to drive him all over Los Angeles as he commits a series of commissioned hits . Reluctlantly Max complies with the gray haired and suave hit man ; and finally garners his sense of right and wrong to stop the killer from executing the final victim on his list . . . an attorney played by Jada Pinkett Smith . A night not too easy to forget . It is unusual to see Cruise playing this sort of character and with gray hair even . But I think he pulls it off very well . Foxx exercises his dramatic talents in this Michael Mann thriller . The cast is rounded out with Mark Ruffalo , Peter Berg and Bruce McGill . My favorite scene is early in the movie when Fox reacts to the first victim falling on the top of his taxi . COLLATERAL is worth your interest . |
383,174 | 449,021 | 397,078 | 6 | The luckiest girl in town is also the hottest . | Star-crossed romantic comedy . Lindsay Lohan is Ashley Albright , the luckiest girl in New York City . A great career and living the high life . Jake Hardin ( Chris Pine ) happens to be the unluckiest guy in all of Manhattan . Mishap and misfortune are his middle names . Their lives change when they meet at a swanky masquerade party and share a kiss . Just a kiss . . . Ashley turns into a bad luck magnet and Jake is soon headed for his fame and fortune guiding a young rock group McFly . Ashley desperately wants to change her fate , but must find Jake to steal her luck back . Also in the cast : Missi Pyle , Faizone Love , Samaire Armstrong , Bree Turner , Carlos Ponce and the band McFly . An upbeat soundtrack keeps the flick in the groove with tunes from Jo Boxers , Chantal Kreviazuk , Robert Palmer and of course McFly . This movie may seem a bit cutsie to most , but Miss Lohan and McFly make it worth watching . |
382,007 | 449,021 | 47,437 | 6 | Romantic comedy . Well written . Perfect cast . | Billy Wilder directs a well rounded cast into a masterpiece . Audrey Hepburn is Sabrina , a chauffeur's daughter that falls in love with her father's employer's playboy son ( William Holden ) . The playboy's older brother , played by Humphrey Bogart , pretends to woo the young and charming Sabrina ; only to actually fall in love with her . Also in the cast are Martha Hyer , John Williams and Francis X . Bushman . Remakes fail to capture the charm of this offbeat love story . |
382,446 | 449,021 | 35,356 | 6 | War and romance . Brothers compete for the same girl . | This is a war / romance drama like too many others ; but the star studded cast keeps your interest . Clark Gable and Robert Sterling are brothers and both are war correspondents that fall in love with the same girl ; and what a girl ( Lana Turner ) . Turner gets the brothers attention while evacuating children in Indochina during WWII . The love scenes between Gable and Turner sizzle and make you forget the flimsy story line . Patricia Dane is quite an eye full herself . Also in the cast are Van Johnson , Frank Faylen , Keye Luke and Reginald Owen . If you like this ; check out HOMECOMING ( 1948 ) , another Gable / Turner war drama with more substance . |
382,522 | 449,021 | 265,029 | 6 | How could they be bad for each other ? | A charming and funny movie about what people do for love . The shy sister ( Julia Roberts ) of a glamorous movie star ( Catherine Zeta-Jones ) falls in love with her estranged brother-in-law ( John Cusack ) . Billy Crystal is the movie publicist that must bring his two stars together for a publicity junket for their latest movie . Christopher Walken is great as the ' wigged out ' movie director . Hank Azaria plays an obnoxious , conceited lover . Most of the comedy is visual , although you have no trouble guessing that Crystal is a co-writer . This is a ' feel good ' kind of movie . |
383,731 | 449,021 | 397,101 | 6 | Southern-fried hoodoo voodoo . | Slow going , disturbing drama set outside New Orleans . Caroline ( Kate Hudson ) takes a $1 , 000 a week job as a hospice worker taking care of an elderly woman's ( Gena Rowland ) dying husband ( John Hurt ) . Being a live-in care giver , Caroline is given a skeleton key that opens every room in the rundown , remote delta mansion . It is odd that no mirrors are on the walls of the rambling homestead and Caroline's skeleton key will not open a hidden room she discovers in the attic . Rain and thunder make great accent for this supernatural themed flick . Be prepared to jump to the edge of your seat a couple of times . . . you are due . Rounding out the cast are : Peter Sarsgaard and Joy Bryant . |
384,043 | 449,021 | 52,929 | 6 | The Earth is under attack . | Low budget Sci-Fi directed by Edward L . Cahn . The Earth is being attacked by mysterious invisible invaders . Due to the Earth's atmosphere the attackers are invisible and must reanimate into bodies of the dead . Dr . Noymann ( John Carradine ) tries to warn of the impending attack , but is killed and his corpse will be used to urge his scientific partner Dr . Adam Penner ( Philip Tonge ) to forewarn the world of its doom . Major Bruce Jay ( John Agar ) is put in charge of shuttling a concerned group to a top secret research center , where an ultra-sonic gun is developed to combat the attacking aliens utilizing rotting corpses . This black & white feature only runs about 67 minutes , but is worth watching . The primitive special effects are part of the fun watching . Don't expect more than mediocre acting . Other players : Jean Bryon , Robert Hutton and Paul Langton . |
383,819 | 449,021 | 35,438 | 6 | The war needs more fliers . | William Wellman directs this movie evocative of the early 1940's . In Arizona desert land is the secluded Thunder Bird airbase . Young Americans , British and Chinese are fliers in training . A veteran WWI pilot , Steve Brit ( Preston Foster ) volunteers to train these young fliers to take their part in WWII . Peter Stackhouse ( John Sutton ) is one of the trainees that is full of determination , but has a problem with motion sickness every time he goes up . Plus Stackhouse is competing for the affections of a young woman ( Gene Tierney ) that is Brit's old flame . The in-flight photography is probably before its time . Also in the cast : Jack Holt , Dame May Witty , Reginald Denny , Ted North and Richard Haydin . |
384,524 | 449,021 | 295,613 | 6 | Black and white of Birmingham . | Powerful drama driven TV fare . A fact based story about the bombing of an Afro-American Baptist Church in Birmingham , Alabama in 1963 . The blast took the lives of four little girls . Tom Cherry ( Tom Sizemore ) battles with his own conscious and values when he has to decide to turn in his bigot father , Bobby Frank Cherry ( Richard Jenkins ) for involvement . The elder Cherry hid from his past dealings with Alabama Klansmen by moving to Texas . Tom , as a child was an eye witness to terror ; and just could not continue to hide his dark secret from the light of justice . His aging father was finally arrested with little resistance . Sizemore has played some quirky characters in the past , but this character is straight forward and riveting . Ving Rhames is steadfast in the role of best friend of Tom . Good wins in the end and justice is belated but done . This eye opener is good family watching and a fine teaching tool . |
383,041 | 449,021 | 48,791 | 6 | Bette is Queen Elizabeth . | A very impressive movie , almost majestic . The untouchable Bette Davis appears flawless as Queen Elizabeth I . A well intentioned , albeit conniving Sir Walter Raleigh ( Richard Todd ) petitions to see the Queen in hopes of getting funds to sail three ships and promising Her Highness the riches found . The Queen is not so quick with the idea , but she does want him as an assistant to flirt with . Beth Throgmorton ( Joan Collins ) is the lady-in-waiting and the secret object of Raleigh's true affections . I really got into the first half of the film ; then for some unexplainable reason my interest waned . Costumes , sets and scenery are super . Miss Collins is very pleasant to watch . Other players : Jay Robinson , Dan O'Herlihy , Robert Douglas , Leslie Parrish and Herbert Marshall . |
382,508 | 449,021 | 452,592 | 6 | Remembering can get you killed . | Crossing the border is like a trip to hell . Ed ( Brian Presley ) , Henry ( Jake Muxworthy ) and Phil ( Rider Strong ) are Texas students that take a road-trip into Mexico for a wild weekend of drinking and whatever ( getting layed ) . Without warning , they fall prey to a powerful drug dealing human-sacrifice cult . The recent Mexican locals of Manzinita were strong and didn't holler and scream in pain . Now the cult is looking for gringos in hopes they will howl in agony loud enough to please the worshiped Gnanga . Stark and emotion consuming . Emense grisly torture and violence sustain this horror flick from After Dark Films . The cast also includes : Martha Higareda , Sean Astin , Damian Alcazar , Beto Cuevas and Marco Bacuzzi . |
383,372 | 449,021 | 377,800 | 6 | The old cowboy rides off . | Director Wim Wenders ' homage to John Ford . This story and screenplay by Sam Shepard holds your interest with unanswered questions being answered . Shepard plays Howard Spense , a washed up actor that once was one of Hollywood's hottest . He rides off the set of his latest western movie in progress and decides to hide out for while at the home of his mother ( Eva Marie Saint ) . Seeing his mother for the first time in 30 years , Spense is told he may be the father of a grown son ( Gabriel Mann ) , who is living as a singer in a small town in Montana , where the much younger Spense once had a relationship with a winsome waitress ( Jessica Lange ) . Hot on Spense's trail is an insurance agent ( Tim Roth ) representing the film company . If this is not enough , a young woman ( Sarah Polley ) with her dead mother's ashes in tow also has a questionable interest in the former cowboy star that just wants to be left alone . DON'T COME KNOCKING garnered interest at the Sundance Film Festival as well at the Cannes Film Festival . Beautiful scenery featuring Monument Valley and wide open spaces of the west ( Utah , Nevada , California along with Montana ) . The very solemn soundtrack features : Bono , T-Bone Burnett , Cassandra Wilson and Garbiel Mann . Also with small roles are : James Gammon , Fairuza Balk and George Kennedy . |
384,160 | 449,021 | 64,110 | 6 | Explosive encounter near the end of WW2 . | This is a well-acted , fictionalized and familiar story line war drama . A group of Allies defend the last remaining bridge on the Rhine . For some reason the Nazis command wants to blow up the bridge trapping their own forces . Plenty of explosions highlight this decent depiction of WW2 . All-star cast includes : George Segal , Ben Gazzara , E . G . Marshall , Bradford Dillman , Bo Hopkins , Sonja Ziemann and Robert Vaughn . |
383,155 | 449,021 | 473,514 | 6 | There goes the neighborhood . | Jim Mickle directs and co-writes this low budget feature that is part of the latest series of After Dark Horrorfest : 8 Films To Die For . Mulberry Street finally has something in common with the more affluent areas of Manhattan when a deadly rat-borne virus spreads . Citizens of every creed and color become bloodthirsty rodent-like zombies . Six recently evicted tenants have only their crumbling apartment complex for protection . Baseball bats and prizefighting trained fists are as useless as karate lessons . You can tell there was no elaborate budget set aside for special effects , but the purpose is served . And there might be a couple moments that will have you flinch . Its really not that bad of a movie . The cast includes : Nick Damici , Kim Blair , Tim House , Bo Corre and Ron Brice . |
382,175 | 449,021 | 90,264 | 6 | Underground and in the air ! Bond fights a callus foe . | Roger Moore in his last performance as 007 . Agent Bond goes up against a very egotistical industrialist who goes to great lengths and expense trying to flood California's Silicon Valley . Cornering the market on computer chips will make a mad man more powerful . Christopher Walken is perfect as the ruthless villain . Walken's side kick is Grace Jones , who can not be ignored . Tanya Roberts proves to be more than eye candy in her role as Bond's able bodied distraction . The story line is no great shakes . But the action , gadgets and scenery could only mean James Bond is on the job . And get the job done , he does . |
383,184 | 449,021 | 45,049 | 6 | Candy coated story about a Hall of Fame pitcher . | This is the story of Jerome ' Dizzy ' Dean , Hall of Fame pitcher of the St . Louis Cardinals . An injury caused early retirement , a bout with drinking and gambling ; but his down home manner led to another career . . . baseball radio / tv announcing . Dan Dailey is kind of ho-hum in his attempts at Dean's hayseed mannerisms . Richard Crenna plays Paul Dean , Dizzy's brother , who also pitched for the Cardinals . Very little actual baseball action , but the movie is interesting and fun to watch . All little boys that have an interest in baseball should watch this along with PRIDE of THE YANKEES and the BABE RUTH STORY . Also in the cast are Richard Hylton , Joanne Dru , Stuart Randall and Hugh Sanders . Remember to take a good whack and don't forget to slud into second . |
383,672 | 449,021 | 144,168 | 6 | What really led to Nixon's resignation ? | Andrew Fleming presents a farcical comedy about the 1972 break-in at the Watergate Hotel . Two irresistible , but dim-witted teens ( played by Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams ) stumble across the Watergate break-in not knowing all its implications . The two wander from their White House tour and accidentally meet President Richard Nixon ( Dan Hedaya ) , who makes the two his official dog walkers for Checkers . Then the girls become " Secret Advisors " , before realizing Nixon is not the nice man they thought . Dunst is charming . Williams turns into a swan . Hedaya is a near perfect Nixon . And Saul Rubinek is hilarious as Henry Kissinger . Others of note in the cast : Teri Garr , Jim Breuer , Harry Shearer , Dave Foley and Will Ferrell . DICK also features a very diverse soundtrack that features the likes of Carly Simon , Harry Nilsson , Jackson 5 , Elton John , Redbone and David Essex . |
383,526 | 449,021 | 102,307 | 6 | Solemn , stressful and dark ; when do you turn your life around . | How long can your business be a success ? When do you try to change and upgrade your life ? Susan Sarandon is an upscale drug dealer with a list of elite clients . One of her better runners ( Willem Dafoe ) is burning out delivering the " goods " . He is fighting with his conscience and wants to give the job up and better his life . Sarandon also is planning to stop dealing drugs . Dafoe wonders if this will put an end to his loneliness and sad existence . Sarandon and Dafoe are absolutely great . Sarandon seems just as sexy and self assured as she was in BULL DURHAM . Dafoe puts a jagged edge on his intense persona . Also in the cast are Dana Delany and David Clennon . And quite comical is David Spade , who has a brief scene as a stoned " Cokehead " . Writer / director Paul Schrader presents a complex modern day story in an old fashioned way . At times you may think this film drags a little ; but this type story needs to simmer not boil . |
383,741 | 449,021 | 51,554 | 6 | Yikes ! This guy really bites . | What can you say about a Dracula flick ? There are so many : but this is from Hammer Productions with the right atmosphere , castle , ample bosomed women , creepy effects and Christopher Lee as the Prince of Darkness . Director Terence Fisher and writer Jimmy Sangster dared to recraft Bram Stoker's fable of the " man in black " , with the toothsome smile . All in blood curdling Hammer color . Lee takes the first stabs at becoming the master blood sucker . Also in the cast is that other stellar star for Hammer , Peter Cushing . Rounding out the players are : Michael Gough , John Van Eyssen , Melissa Stribling , Carol Marsh and Valerie Gaunt . |
382,067 | 449,021 | 60,167 | 6 | Nostalgia rules ! Hit makers of the mid 60s . | Great fun to look back at this film of headliner acts taking part in a musical review in a disco type setting . TV star David McCallum introduces acts like Ray Charles , Petula Clark , The Byrds , Ike & Tina Turner , Bo Diddley , James Brown , Roger Miller , The Ronettes and more . A very diverse collection of artists and musical styles . A time capsule showing the hair styles and clothing that went with the music . Relax , gear down and enjoy . |
383,651 | 449,021 | 377,749 | 6 | Confederates battle the supernatural . | Suspenseful horror . A group of Civil War soldiers rob a bank and seek refuge inside an abandoned plantation mansion . A cornfield serves warning of a creepy night ahead . While a raging thunderstorm begins to consume the night , each soldier begins to have supernatural visitations from the trapped souls that suffered atrocities within the mansion walls . Evil forces still plague this mansion that once housed a very troubled family . No longer is stolen gold a priority . . . sustaining life and sanity is . This fantastic horror flick stars : Henry Thomas , Michael Shannon , Patrick Fugit , Nicki Lynn Aycox , Isaiah Washington and Mark Boone Junior . Genuinely scary and highly recommended . |
383,767 | 449,021 | 40,068 | 6 | The gang is all here . Laughs . Thrills . Chills . | This is one of the very best Abbott & Costello flicks . Plenty of slapstick mixed with humorous horror . The comedy duo play bungling baggage handlers that end up close and personal with Dracula ( Bela Lugosi ) , the Wolfman ( Lon Chaney Jr . ) and Frankentstein's Monster ( Glenn Strange ) . A nice looking Dr . Monay ( Lenore Aubert ) tries to seduce Costello into donating his brain to put in the Monster . In support : Frank Ferguson and Jane Randolph . Harmless fun . Take time for a chuckle or two . The finale features Vincent Price as the voice of the Invisible Man . NOTE : Folklore has it that this movie was showing ( 1948 ) in Tupelo , MS when Elvis Presley was fourteen years old and is believed to be the first motion picture he ever saw . The story goes that Gladys Presley did not want her son going to the movies and Elvis ' dad , Vernon , helped him sneak to the theater and watched it with him . |
383,314 | 449,021 | 79,271 | 6 | Culture shock : welcome to the porno world . | A stark , frank look at the underbelly of the entertainment industry . George C . Scott plays a midwestern businessman that finds out his daughter is missing from church camp . His daughter , played by the ever so cute Season Hubley , heads to California for a change of lifestyle . Peter Boyle plays a slightly underhanded private detective that comes to the aid in search of the missing girl . Guess who is making porno movies ? Honest , disturbing and eye opening to say the least . Also in the cast are Gary Graham , Dick Sargent and Leslie Ackerman . |
382,788 | 449,021 | 64,217 | 6 | A good man goes down tough and hard . | Cottonwood Springs , Texas wants to go into the new century courting eastern bankers and investors . The only thing holding things back is the fear of the citizens of their town Marshall , Frank Patch ( Richard Widmark ) , who has a troubled past and an old way of dealing with justice and the law . No one can conjure the nerve to tell Patch he is no longer wanted ; but they do have the gumption to gang up on him . Lean Horne plays Widmark's love interest . This strong cast also features : Carroll O'Connor , Jaqueline Scott , John Saxon , Dub Taylor and Victor French . DEATH OF A GUNFIGHTER is the first crediting Alan Smithee as director . " Smithee " is credited when directors , for any reason , don't want their name associated with the movie . This particular film was originally directed by Robert Totten ; but when he met disapproval from Widmark , Don Siegel finished directing . Horne sings a lovely and haunting tune called " Sweet Apple Wine " . |
384,364 | 449,021 | 280,778 | 6 | Take the words from her mouth . | Kudos to director Richard Eyre of this 2001 bio-drama about Iris Murdoch , Irish-born novelist , philosopher and lover of the written word . This film is a passionate look at the melodramatic relationship between the free-spirited and sexual libertine Murdoch ( Judi Dench ) and the scholarly and timid , virtual virgin John Bayley ( Jim Broadstreet ) . Both acclaimed and well respected for their own accomplishments . Iris known for her novels that were usually sexual and ethical . Bayley , the Oxford scholar , sexually frustrated worshiper of Iris . The story line begins with the couple's meeting and attraction ; Kate Winslet playing the young Murdoch and Hugh Bonneville as Bayley . Early on , Iris is the dominate of the soul mates as Bayley lives in the shadow of his famous wife . Later in life it is Bayley that becomes the doting and devoted caretaker of the Alzheimer's ravaged Iris . Dementia robbing from her those words that made her world . Dench and Winslet are superb . |
383,460 | 449,021 | 473,356 | 6 | A missing teenager and S & M . . . attention grabber . | Dark , brooding and heavy . When you think you've seen it all . . . you haven't . Pretty intense movie until the " over-the-top " finale . Richard Gere turns in a strong performance . Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell write a very intense story of a diligent Department of Safety employee Erroll Babbage ( Gere ) , who is being edged out of his job . He has spent his entire career tracking sex offenders , and his unorthodox operating procedure is almost as rough and brutal as the criminals he monitors . While Babbage is training his replacement Allison Lowry ( Claire Danes ) , he is convinced that a missing girl is linked to one of his " flock " , those deviants he monitors . Erroll and his naive female partner will make an unofficial investigation into the S & M underground in search of the missing local teen . High-octane , sensational and disturbing . Danes is not called upon to show her acting chops , but sure looks fine . Also in the cast : KaDee Stickland , Russell Sams , Ray Wise and singer Avril Lavigne . |
383,920 | 449,021 | 48,691 | 6 | A well rounded sagebrush saga . | Raoul Walsh directs this strong western . Brothers Ben Allison ( Clark Gable ) and Clint Allison ( Cameron Mitchell ) are Confederate army veterans that endure a cattle drive with cattle baron Nathan Stark ( Robert Ryan ) . The brothers do not trust their new boss . . . let alone like him . On the drive from Texas to Montana , there is harsh winter weather and Indian country to deal with . Along the drive they encounter a beautiful woman , Nella ( Jane Russell ) , who joins the drive for her own protection . And the brothers and the baron all want her , but her sights are set on Ben . Gable appears to be at the top of his game , as his career is nearing its end . He is strong and self assured . Russell is very flirtatious and more than an eye-full . It is very hard not to notice her . Other players on the bill : Juan Garcia , Emile Meyer and Mae Marsh . |
383,529 | 449,021 | 48,696 | 6 | Bullets and dynamite can't stop a giant tarantula ! | An excellent example of early 50s horror . This is a black & white thriller that lets your imagination fill in the gory details . The aftermath is there to fuel the fear of the over grown tarantula . Leo G . Carroll plays a professor experimenting with a synthetic food stuff with intent to feed the crowded earth in 2000 . His experiments on animals cause them to mature in three to six days . A rat can grow to the size of a dog in about 12 days . Two assistants die after injecting themselves with the secret supplement . The professor is injected while fighting off one of his dying helpers that is setting fire to the lab . An oversized tarantula escapes the fire to terrorize the area . John Agar is the county doctor that leads in the destruction of the hairy legged menace . Mara Corday is the new assistant to the dying deformed professor . Character actors Nestor Paiva and Hank Patterson also star . And of note : very brief screen time for unknown Clint Eastwood as a jet fighter pilot and Bing Russell as a deputy . I remember seeing this at the Saturday Kiddie Double Feature . My Milk Duds and Cherry Root Beer didn't last very long . Besides both hands were needed to hold on to the seat . This was pretty darn scary back then . Not to say it wouldn't scare a few grade schoolers today . Catch it on AMC or SFN and relive those days when we were frightened by an over grown anything . Bigger the scarier . |
382,204 | 449,021 | 44,828 | 6 | Water is a priceless commodity in the desert . | Better than average western directed by Andre DeToth . Cavalry Sgt . Matt Trainor ( Broderick Crawford ) and his detail are helping a stagecoach across a hundred miles of sweltering desert following an Indian attack . Among the riders in the coach is Julia Lanning ( Barbara Hale ) , who is going to visit her brother , an officer at the military encampment a couple of days away . Not far behind is Chief Black Cloud ( John War Eagle ) and his Comanche warriors , who are also in need of water . Trainor and the group find water at an old abandoned mission , where they must fight for the water they found and their very lives . Among Sgt . Trainor's detail are Jim Starbuck ( Lloyd Bridges ) , Rusty Potter ( Mickey Shaughnessy ) , Billy Creel ( Martin Milner ) and Cpl . Floyd ( Jack Woody ) . A young Comanche boy Little Knife ( Johnny Stewart ) actually is sent to bring the cavalry to the rescue . A well written story and very interesting . It is easy to see that Crawford is wasting his talents in this role . Miss Hale is impressive in a movie that has mostly monotone dialog . |
383,334 | 449,021 | 408,345 | 6 | Terse and gripping story of desperation . | Jack Stanfield ( Harrison Ford ) is just a hard working family man that heads up the security for a Seattle bank . The bank is getting prepared for an important merger , but Stanfield has something else to think about . His wife ( Virginia Madsen ) and family has been kidnapped and he now must heist $100 million dollars from the ultra-secured system he designed . He is being watched every step of the way and then the script gets a little muddled . Plenty of techno-twists , but the suspense becomes pitiful . Its a race against time and a ruthless , calculated villain ( Paul Bettany ) . This cat-and-mouse chase is full of electronic gadgets , but flash becomes a glimmer . The finale is hackneyed leaving you with less than you expected . Supporting cast : Robert Patrick , Mary Lynn Rajskub , Robert Forster and Alan Arkin . |
384,107 | 449,021 | 64,155 | 6 | A must see . Elvis is an ex-outlaw trying to go straight . | Elvis Presley plays Jesse Wade who tries to leave a gang of thieves led by Victor French . Jesse's neck is branded in order to frame him for stealing a Mexican war cannon . Jesse becomes sheriff as one of the gang is arrested . The bad guys now threaten the town with cannon fire until the leaders little brother is released from jail . Elvis sings only the title song under the credits . This is a different Elvis , with beard and a hat hung low over his eyes . Well known critic , Leonard Maltin , calls this a BOMB ! Produced , directed and written by Charles Marquis Warren , this flick is better than the bad rap it has received . Also in the cast are Ina Balin , Solomom Sturgess , and Lynn Kellogg . |
382,588 | 449,021 | 36,104 | 6 | A black leopard causes terror . | One of RKO's low budget horror flicks directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton . This thriller takes place in a small New Mexico village . A night club performer Kiki Walker ( Jean Brooks ) is persuaded by her publicity manager Jerry Manning ( Dennis O'Keefe ) to interrupt Clo-Clo's ( Margo ) act by strolling into the club with a leashed black leopard . Havoc and fear rules when the loose animal becomes a savage killer . My favorite scene is when the young girl Teresa ( Margaret Landry ) is sent to the store and she has to walk across town and back . Its the anxiety that makes that walk chilling . This may be one of the better Tourneur / Lewton collaborations . Also in the cast : Ben Bard , James Bell and Isabel Jewell . |
383,751 | 449,021 | 82,533 | 6 | Investigative reporting gets hairy and hairier . | This puppy is the one that started a small franchise . Not saying that the sequels were any more popular or even better made . An attractive and ambitious television reporter ( Dee Wallace-Stone ) takes on an assignment at a rehab center hoping to get a quality story and ends up with actually more than she can handle . Upon investigation it is discovered the patients at the clinic are werewolves . THE HOWLING is a gruesome thriller with elements of cheeky dark comedy and a pioneering sequence of on-screen man-to-wolf transformation . The finale you may say is extreme reality TV . The intense cast directed by Joe Dante includes : Kevin McCarthy , Patrick Macnee , Slim Pickens , John Carradine , Dick Miller , Belinda Balanski and a cameo by Roger Corman . |
384,471 | 449,021 | 486,583 | 6 | Did you know about Santa's big brother ? | Hold off on calling this a holiday classic just yet . However there is more substance , albeit comedic , than those Tim Allen efforts . Very good photography and a brisk story about Nick ' Santa ' Claus ( Paul Giamatti ) and his estranged brother Fred ( Vince Vaughn ) , who ran away from home at an early age due to the favoritism shown Nick by mom and dad Claus ( Kathy Bates and Trevor Peacock ) . Nick of course went on to a very successful career , while Fred just never could catch a break . He needs to once again borrow money from his little brother and there is a stipulation that Fred fly to the North Pole for Christmas . At the same time the whole Santa toy delivery thing may be going out of business due to an efficiency expert ( Kevin Spacey ) , who is on the verge of shutting Santa down . Fred in spite of his carefree and slacker ideas gets the chance to save Christmas and bring back together the Claus family . Really did enjoy the use of the two Elvis songs " Santa Claus Is Back In Town " and " Rubberneckin ' " ; the latter being part of my favorite scene . Also starring are : Rachel Weisz , John Michael Higgins and the beautiful Elizabeth Banks . |
384,138 | 449,021 | 373,926 | 6 | Gripping , intelligent thriller . | Oscar winning director Sydney Pollack and Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn gang up to give us a thinking man's drama . Kidman plays Silvia Broome , an African-born U . N . interpreter , who happens to overhear a death threat against an African head of state scheduled to speak to a General Assembly at the U . N . Tobin Keller ( Sean Penn ) is a Fed agent assigned to protect Broome . Keller recently lost his wife in an auto accident and his mind is still a bit cloudy ; nonetheless he feels the interpreter is not telling the whole truth in her mincing words accusation . On the other hand , there is Dot Woods ( Catherine Keener ) a Secret Service agent that tends to believe Broome , based solely on her behavior . Is the interpreter a victim . . . or a suspect . Its a race against the clock to avoid a high profile assassination . The story is driven by the apt cast that also includes : Yvan Attal , George Harris , Earl Cameron , Jesper Christensen and Pollack . |
384,175 | 449,021 | 204,946 | 6 | May the best moves win ! | Torrance Shipman ( Kirsten Dunst ) becomes the new captain of the high school cheer leading team that takes pride in winning competition championships year after year . She discovers that the cheers and routines for the last several years have been stolen from another school's squad . Torrance relies on a reluctant gymnast named Missy ( Eliza Dushku ) to convince the cheer team to learn new material to take to the next state competition . What a shame it is that the football team is so awful that the schools pride is in the cheerleaders . This is an interesting eyeful , but actually just another vehicle for the enticing Miss Dunst . Fine support from : Pua Kapiolani , Tsianina Joelson , Clare Kramer and Nicole Bilderback . If you have a cheerleader fetish , you will think this romp deserves an Oscar . Nonetheless enjoyable . |
382,275 | 449,021 | 324,216 | 6 | When you hear the chainsaw hummin ' . . . get your ass to runnin ' ! | You can't tell this story too many times can you ? Almost on the same level of excitement as the 1974 Tobe Hooper original . . . Texas CHAINSAW MASSACRE will get your heart to pumping . Erin ( Jessica Biel ) and four friends are on the backside of a road trip to Mexico and are smuggling a sizable load of " pot " through 1973 Texas when their van almost hits a comatose girl walking down the middle of the road . No sooner than the mystery girl gets in the back of the van . . . she blows her brains out the back window . The teen travelers decide the right thing to do is report this messy suicide and get the hell out of Texas . No such luck . In short they meet a backward inbred family that gravitates around a huge hunk o ' horror . . . Leatherface ( Andrew Bryniarski ) that lets his chainsaw do the talking . . . and slicing . Then there is Sheriff Hoyt ( R . Lee Ermey ) who seems to keep on being Sheriff long after there was no need for one . The repulsive Sheriff cops a feel of the dead girl's breast and also checks out the condition of her nether region . Nonstop tension , gore and maiming somehow blends with the coughing of the smoking killing machine chainsaw . Jonathan Tucker , Erica Leerhsen , Mike Vogel and Eric Balfour are a source of fresh meat for Leatherface and family . Biel is absolutely HOT . The girl has a top notch scream and knows how to fill out a tank top . Ermey is an absolute hoot . For the weak of heart this is a must to avoid . For horror freaks . . . this is a strong must see . |
383,341 | 449,021 | 48,750 | 6 | Very funny black comedy . Being dead is not easy . | A very unusual Alfred Hitchcock film . A dead man is found in a beautiful Vermont meadow . The deceased is believed shot by a rabbit hunter ; discovered by a water gun carrying little boy ; sketched by an artist ; tripped over twice by the same hiking reader ; buried , unburied , buried and unburied . . . the subject of shallow remorse and weak guilt . This is laugh out loud funny . Very unlike the stable of Hitchcock masterpieces . John Forsythe and Edmund Gwenn star . You see Shirley MacLaine in her debut and a very young Jerry Mathers , before he became ' the Beaver ' . |
382,452 | 449,021 | 208,988 | 6 | You must know the difference between a promise and a threat . | Director Stephen Kay gets one hell of a performance out of Sly Stallone . Ranking right up there with Rocky fighting the Russian boxer . Stallone plays Jack Carter , a no nonsense enforcer for the mob in Vegas . He goes back home for his brother's funeral and suspects that the death was not accidental , but murder . Carter goes up against some tough resistance in collecting info on his brother and his death . Carter's niece ( Rachel Leigh Cook ) slowly warms up to her estranged Uncle . Mickey Rourke is one bad ass rival and Michael Caine is not a total dormant threat . The scenes that Stallone shares with Rourke are explosive , how could they not be . This action filled drama also stars Miranda Richardson and Johnny Strong . Rough and tumble thrills keep your attention . Surprisingly powerful story . |
382,017 | 449,021 | 129,387 | 6 | From geek to lesser geek . Babe to Wow ! ! ! ! ! ! | The Farrelly brothers have out done themselves with this witty , fast paced , sexy comedy . Ben Stiller is marvelous as the geek that wants a reunion with his almost Prom date . Cameron Diaz is Mary . And it seems everyone is in love with Mary . Comedy fits her like a glove . She has a quality that should shine in any role she chooses . Matt Dillon is excellent as a jerk and Chris Elliott is well . . . Chris Elliott . You will laugh and then laugh harder . This movie is pretty childish and sprinkled with adult situations . The combination makes one heck of a flick . Most of the credit goes to Ms . Diaz , who makes the whole thing click . |
383,479 | 449,021 | 40,446 | 6 | A small town doctor goes to war as an Army surgeon . | Clark Gable plays a self centered , over achieving physician that proves his worthiness as an Army surgeon . Anne Baxter is the dutiful and absorbing wife that finally realizes that her husband is romancing his nurse ( Lana Turner ) between bombings and marathon mending of WWII . This is not one of Gable's better performances ; but Miss Turner is stunning as ' Snapshot ' McCall , the nurse every soldier dreams of . Other cast members of note are : Ray Collins , John Hodiak , Marshall Thompson and Cameron Mitchell . Mervyn LeRoy directs this dreary drama . In spite of Gable's lack of effort , Turner more than makes this lengthy film memorable . |
383,151 | 449,021 | 408,236 | 6 | Revenge and salvation ; a close shave away . | Tim Burton's dark adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical stars Johnny Depp as the titular character Sweeney Todd . Todd is a wronged man and is obsessed with revenge for consequences suffered by his wife and daughter while he was away in prison . He returns and reopens his barber shop and " shaves the heads of gentleman never seen again . " His accomplice in crime is the over amorous Mrs . Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter ) , who makes meat pies out Sweeney's victims . Judge Turpin ( Alan Rickman ) , who sent Sweeney to prison , is the prime target for the deepest cut of them all . Depp is guilty of capturing your imagination and attention . Others in the cast : Timothy Spall , Sacha Baron Cohen , Ed Sanders and Jayne Wisener . |
383,068 | 449,021 | 36,038 | 6 | Oil . Land . And a woman or two . | Originally titled WAR OF THE WILDCATS . Rough and tough cowboy Dan Somers ( John Wayne ) battles a high and mighty land baron Jim Gardner ( Albert Dekker ) for not just land , but oil drilling rights around Sapulpa Oklahoma . Wayne as customary sides with the Native Americans in hopes of legally claiming , drilling and transporting the oil on their land . There is the obligatory romance to deal with thanks to Martha Scott . The eye popper is actually dance-hall girl Dale Evans . That's right ! This vision of Miss Evans is . . . well . . . entertaining . Other cast members of this fast paced western : ' Gabby ' Hayes , Paul Fix , Grant Withers and Sidney Blackmer as President Teddy Roosevelt . Real good black and white sagebrush tale . Pride , determination and fortitude . . . the Pioneer way . |
383,610 | 449,021 | 36,092 | 6 | East meets west . AKA The Cowboy and the Girl . | This is a funny and enjoyable movie . Jean Arthur plays Molly Truesdale , a young woman that needs a break from her job and the pursuit of three fellows wanting her companionship . She signs up for a fourteen day bus trip west . The vacation gets interesting when she meets a cowboy at a rodeo . That cowboy is Duke Hudkins ( John Wayne ) , who is smitten with her coy flirtations . There is a magical interaction between Arthur and Wayne that seems to make the black and white film glow . Phil Silvers plays the tour bus guide . The cowboy's side kick , Waco , is played by Charles Winninger . Also in the cast is Mary Field and Jean Stevens . |
383,546 | 449,021 | 71,276 | 6 | A stake to the heart is what it takes . | An above average horror film that blends adventure with fright . Captain Kronos ( Horst Janson ) a sword-wielding hero and his hunchback sidekick are a professional team of vampire killers . Story line is interesting enough . Special effects are par for this type of movie . I knew it had me for the duration as soon as I heard the wind blowing . . . creepy and foreboding . Plus some winsome lasses to keep you entertained . Another very good Hammer Production from the UK . The players include : John Cater , Caroline Munro , John Carson and Lois Daine . |
382,662 | 449,021 | 374,102 | 6 | Bone chilled shark bait . | This chiller is based on a true story . Susan ( Blanchard Ryan ) and Daniel ( Daniel Travis ) are a scuba-diving couple in need of a vacation . The two are accidentally left behind from their tour boat in open water . The couple not only need to tend to the dangers of shark invested water ; but also their own fears and imagination . It is so easy to care for the stranded characters treading dangerous waters hour upon hour . Your own fear sustains all the way through the choppy waves to the expectable unexpected anticlimax . Some very impressive cinematography considering it was filmed in hi-definition digital video . Not as riveting as JAWS , but nonetheless intense and sensually arousing . Kudos to director Chris Kentis for his creativity . And for Blanchard Ryan . . . I am smitten . |
383,209 | 449,021 | 265,662 | 6 | Follow that dream . | Wholesome determination makes for a film for the entire family to watch . A former minor league pitcher Jimmy Morris ( Dennis Quaid ) turns to teaching and coaching in Big Lake , Texas and bargains with his formerly hapless high school players that if they go to the state championships he will try out for the big leagues again . In 1999 , Morris becomes the " Oldest Rookie " when he lands a job with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a 98 mph throwing lefty from the bullpen . Morris ' dream is short , but sweet . And his story seems to have spawned from a Hollywood script . Although this is based on fact the movie could have been much better if filmed with a more " mature " approach . My favorite scene is where Morris is at the tryouts camp and he wipes his nose holding a soiled diaper . Also in the cast are Rachel Griffiths , Rick Gonzales , Russell Richardson and Blue Deckert . |
384,095 | 449,021 | 456,630 | 6 | Life after death ? Memories of a massacre . | Creepy . Nightmarish . Eerie story of a film director recreating a thirty-five year old mass murder of eleven people . A crazy professor studying reincarnation commits gruesome killings , including his wife and small children , before his own suicide . The movie director for realism and wanting the cast to get a feel of what actually took place . . returns to shoot his movie in the abandoned Japanese hotel where the gruesome killings took place . A young starlet gets the leading role and as shooting commences she becomes haunted by the souls of the massacre victims . Even the cast members begin to suffer the fates of those whose roles they are playing . Watching in the dark enhances the chills . Starring are : Yuka , Karina , Kippei Shiina and Shun Oguri . |
382,605 | 449,021 | 25,515 | 6 | The lights go out and a gem is missing . | In spite of a short 45 minute run time I really enjoyed THE MOONSTONE based on the book by Wilkie Collins . Reginald Baker directs a tight knit collection of performers in this mystery that takes place in a crowded house during a rain storm . Anne Verinder ( Phyllis Barry ) inherits a priceless gem the Moonstone necklace . Her fiancée Franklin Blake ( David Manners ) is bringing the precious diamond to England from India . He arrives at the Verinder's countryside home and finds a house full of guests that includes a notorious money lender Carl Von Lucker ( Gustav Von Seyffertitz ) . While everyone is assembled the storm causes the lights to go out and the necklace is snatched from Anne's neck . It was grabbed by a maid for " safe keeping " . Anne puts the stone under her pillow and when she awakes the necklace is gone . Scotland Yard Inspector Cuff ( Charles Irwin ) is to figure out which one of the guests is a jewel thief . The loud rain storm provides great atmosphere . Also in the cast are : Herbert Bunston , Evalyn Bostock , John Davidson and Jameson Thomas . |
382,111 | 449,021 | 339,343 | 6 | One man making his dreams worthwhile . | A very charming feel-good seasonal tale of a man with strong dreams and expectations . Jason Alexander plays Erector Set inventor , A . C . Gilbert , who is asked by the Government to urge citizens to cancel Christmas during the first world war and buy bonds instead of toys . Gilbert turns his toy manufacturing plant in a war supply plant making gas masks , bomb casings , chemical suits and bayonets among other things . Gilbert has a change of heart and goes with his deepest and long fostered dreams . He goes before the nation's Defense Counsel and gets permission to go back to making his toys . The toy maker still kept manufacturing war supplies , but also turned his own home into a producing center for more Erector Sets . After the war , Gilbert continued manufacturing Erector Sets , Chemistry Sets , Magician Trick Sets , trains and other toys for over forty years . Alexander is outstanding in this role and light-years away from his obnoxious role on TVs " Seinfeld " . Also in the cast are Kelly Rowan , Ari Cohen , Ed Asner and Jake Brockman . Entertaining for all ages . |
382,331 | 449,021 | 496,436 | 6 | Scary Sci-Fi . Survival can be a burden . | Abe Dale ( Nathan Fillion ) takes his family to a corner diner for breakfast where they are killed in front of him . The trauma results in his own momentary death on the operating table . He saw the white light and his life immediately changed . He realizes that he can identify those among the living who are about to die . He is almost obsessed with trying to save people from their destiny and it becomes apparent that his interference in fate has a price to pay . He picks up communication through cell phones , televisions and various electrical appliances . . . but his ability to save lives may not help him save his own . Also in the cast : Katee Sackoff , Teryl Rothery , Craig Fairbrass , Adrian Holmes and William MacDonald . Interesting F / X , but no great shakes . |
382,740 | 449,021 | 36,027 | 6 | Unstoppable voodoo . | Thought-provoking , literate horror from RKO Radio Pictures . This ' Jane Eyre'-like story is probably the most memorable Val Lewton / Jacques Tourneur collaboration . This eerie film still holds firm after all these years . The story's menacing fear is not what appears on screen , but what hovers in the minds of the characters on screen . A young American nurse ( Frances Dee ) comes to Haiti to care for a rich plantation owner's ( Paul Holland ) catatonic wife ( Christine Gordon ) , who appears to be burnt out by a tropical disease . Of course the locals believe she is a zombie . . . victimized by rampant voodoo . The nurse falls in love with her employer and is desperate to find a cure for his wife and seeks a cure at a voodoo ritual . Creepy enough with great eerie atmosphere . Rounding out the cast are : James Ellison , Edith Barrett and the beach strolling zombie . . . Darby Jones . |
382,045 | 449,021 | 71,230 | 6 | Laugh riot . Not the way the west was won . | Mel Brooks directs , writes and stars in this western spoof . Sight gags and quick quips galore . One belly laugh after another . When released in 1974 , this was pushing the line on offensive rudeness . Today it may still be funny ; but the shock value is gone . A crooked political boss ( Harvey Korman ) wants to run everyone out of a little town , so he can claim the land to sell to the railroad . He appoints a black sheriff ( Cleavon Little ) in hopes of offending the townsfolk . The sheriff , with the help of a former gunslinger ( Gene Wilder ) , rallies the town in defending itself against corruption . Situational humor will have you laughing your butt off . This movie compels you to urge your friends to watch it . I am not a Mel Brooks fan , but think this is the best project of his whole career . Also appearing in this fun filled romp are : Slim Pickens , Madeline Kahn and Alex Karras . Sharing writing credits on this comedy classic is Richard Pryor . |
383,467 | 449,021 | 29,358 | 6 | Those ' little rascals ' put on a show . | Hal Roach still cranking them out ; Gordon Douglas directs as the Our Gang comedies get a little longer in length . Remember during the depression era kids with character and talent were highly entertaining . Spanky ( George ' Spanky ' McFarland ) and the gang decide to put on a song and dance show with the headliner being of course Alfalfa ( Carl ' Alfalfa ' Switzer ) billed as " King of the Crooners " , but as the abrasive voiced star arrives late , he proclaims giving up crooning for the opera . His daydream ends up an elaborate nightclub sequence . The cast will also feature Billie ' Buckwheat ' Thomas , Joe Geil , Betsy Gay , Gino Corrado and every young boy's sweetheart Darla Hood . |
383,156 | 449,021 | 890,870 | 6 | The gruesome puzzles continue . | Jigsaw ( Tobin Bell ) lays on the cold slab and the autopsy reveals a clue that his ingenious intricate trap filled games continue . SWAT Commander Rigg ( Lyriq Bent ) , the last office untouched by Jigsaw , is abducted and pushed into the latest of the madman's demented maze-like trap laden game and has a time limit of ninety minutes to endure the interconnected traps to save an old friend . . . or become victim of assured grotesque consequences . Suspense , intrigue , gore and graphic images keeps the franchise alive . If you get past the autopsy scene , you've got it made . Not for the faint-of-heart . Rounding out the cast : Scott Patterson , Costas Mandylor , Betsy Russell , Donnie Wahlberg and Dina Meyer . |
383,221 | 449,021 | 55,633 | 6 | Being in a gang is the name of the game . | John Frankenheimer directs this intense story of three teenage killers in New York City's Spanish Harlem and the idealistic DA ( Burt Lancaster ) given the job to prosecute them . Young gang members trying to protect their turf see no use in cooperating with the law . Lancaster plays the part as if he were Jack Webb . ( That is meant to be a compliment ) . This movie also gives Lancaster the chance to work with Shelley Winters . ( Wink , wink ) Also in the cast are Dina Merrill , Chris Robinson , Edward Andrews and the debut of Telly Savalas . Very little actual violence , but some pretty good drama . |
382,884 | 449,021 | 473,333 | 6 | Stark discovery in the Spanish woods . | A bit strange , but THE BACKWOODS will grow on you . If you are a Gary Oldman fan , you will be pleased . An English couple played by Oldman and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon ) decide to holiday in Spain . To be exact , to check out the family property he bought in desolate woods . Invited along are a bickering couple ( Virginie Ledoyen and Paddy Considine ) , who are reluctant to be there in the first place . As the men are out hunting they discovery an abandoned home , where they find a young animalistic girl chained inside . They take her back to their cabin with intentions to take her to the authorities . Tension builds when a group of rural locals arrive armed with shotguns looking for the frightened child . A powerful performance turned in by Oldman . And Ledoyen I found striking and very easy to watch . Also in the cast : Lluis Homar , Kandido Urganga and Andres Gertrudix . |
383,544 | 449,021 | 106,308 | 6 | Evil Dead 3 ! | Sam and Ivan Raimi let comic book hero Ash Williams ( Bruce Campbell ) slay another day . In order to escape the 14th-century and return home he must retrieve a book of evil . He must prove to his hosts that he is not a coward and that leads to fighting off an army of skeletons . Tongue-in-cheek fantasy and comedy . Plenty of action and the best part of the film is that the horror is graphic . Those Raimi guys are not slouchy with the F / X . Also in the cast are : Embeth Davidtz , Ian Abercrombie and Marcus Gilbert . This requires a watch party and a spare pair of underwear . |
382,717 | 449,021 | 183,523 | 6 | Spectacular effects . Predictable script . Great view . | Far from ridicule of director Brian De Palma , this is a new breed of sci-fi . Marvelous and different views of the angry red planet . Special effects , sound and cinematography are pretty awesome . Talented cast with predictable script and reactions . A rescue mission is to investigate the ill fated first manned mission to Mars . Great acting turned in by Don Cheadle as Luc . Along for the ride are Gary Sinise , Tim Robbins and Jerry O'Connell . Connie Nielsen catches your imagination with or without limp script . The bigger the screen the better . Sit back and WOW ! |
382,363 | 449,021 | 197,521 | 6 | Japan is terrorized by a giant monster . | This is classic sci-fi . This American version has Raymond Burr's character as world news reporter spliced into the original version . Special effects of the 1950s may be crude today , but is still the star of this thriller . An atomic blast awakens a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex from his hibernation in the Pacific . The monster is determined to destroy Tokyo . Godzilla is the monster of all monsters . Japanese stars include : Takashi Shimura , Momoko Kochi and Akira Takarada . |
384,075 | 449,021 | 35,958 | 6 | Uplifting war drama . | Ray Enright directs this Black & White patriotic war film that of course is definitely dated ; but highly entertaining . . . with no apologies for propaganda . This movie without a doubt lifted spirits of wartime Americans . GUNG HO ! is based on a true story of World WarII Marines on Makin Island . Some very realistic scenes even though some dialog is genuinely hokey . Talk about an All-Star cast : Randolph Scott gives up his horse and saddle for military garb in the role of Colonel Thorwald . There is a young Robert Mitchum on the brink of stardom . Others featured are : Noah Berry Jr . , Rod Cameron , Alan Curtis , J . Carrol Naish , Sam Levene , David Bruce and Milburn Stone . Not much can bust up these commandos . . . except war . |
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