Saturday, December 30, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Monday, December 04, 2006
The Sentinel (1977)
Last night, I watched The Sentinel, a 1977 Michael Winner horror flick, based on Jeffrey Konvitz's novel. The movie wasn't all that bad -- just slow. You'll have to wait half-way through the movie to understand where it's heading, and the last 10-minutes to see the really cool effects of the movie.
The movie concerns a model, Alison Parker, who moves into an apartment building with some really eccentric neighbours -- or maybe weird is a better word -- with the weirdest being a blind, reclusive priest, who lives at the top of the building and spends all his time looking out the window from his perch. Miss Parker has some strange encounters with her neighbours, some secrective religious types and a whole bunch of fainting spells. Prompted by this, her boyfriend investigates, only to find nothing less than the gateway to hell, with both the church and the devil having designs on Alison Parker's future.
You'll have to get through a whole lot of plodding in the story to get there, but the plodding is good -- not to mention a little freaky at times. The last 10-minutes, when the denizens of hell and the devil make their appearance is worth the wait. The effects are astounding, considering it was all done in the 1970s. You will also get to see a bunch of actors in their younger days, including small appearances by Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger and Nana Visitor -- as well as appearances by veterans Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, John Carradine and Arthur Kennedy.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
The Fountain Movie Trailer
Read more on Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain in Wired magazine. I'm interested in seeing this movie.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
The Descent Movie -- Original Ending
This original ending of the movie was chopped short by over a minute for the North America release. This ending is actually the better one.
See my review of the movie, here.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Friday, June 30, 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - Trailer # 1
| I have to see this! Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reunite in Walt Disney Pictures' PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN?S CHEST, an all new epic tale chronicling the further mis-adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, Captain Jack sets sail on an all new adventure ? filled with more intrigue, more spectacular special effects and more comedy. Opens July 7, 2006. | |
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Here's a 7-minute preview of the upcoming X-Men 3 movie. You can download the 64MB version here.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
V for Vendetta (2005)
Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
1st Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
2nd Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
3rd Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
4th Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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5th Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
6th Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
V TV Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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V for Vendetta (2005)
Sutler Movie Trailer/Clip
From IMDB:
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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Shu Shan Zheng Zhuan / Zu Warriors (2001)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Surrender Your Illusion , Fight For Your Destiny
Plot Summary: Among the heaven and the earth exist the Zu's mountain range, where live the immortals of Omei, the highest mountain of Zu, but the kingdom is in danger by Amnesia, a renegade immortal what want to rule Zu and all the world. White Eyebrows, Zu's leader, call to his most experts fighters for to defeat Amnesia until destroy It, but Amnesia hiddens on a Blood Cavern for to strong his power. While Red watchs the enter of Blood Cavern King Sky and the others will try to find a way of exterminate Amnesia with a ancients and powerful swords.
Friday, April 14, 2006
Clerks 2 Internet Exclusive Trailer
Picking up ten years after "Clerks" left off, "Clerks II" looks in on Dante and Randal's semi-new life (or lack thereof). Jeff Anderson and Brian O'Halloran star, along with Rosario Dawson, Trevor Fehrman and Jennifer Schwalbach. Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith return as Jay and Silent Bob.
Clerks II Movie Trailer
Ah ... the sequel ... and it's in colour!
Plot (this may pass as one): A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire. Free from his dead-end job (and lodged in a new one), Dante begins to break free of his rut, planning to move away with his clingy fiancé. Dante is ready to leave the horrors of minimum-wage New Jersey behind, but Randal - always the more hostile of the two - starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005)
aka Lady Vengeance: Movie Trailer
From IMDB:
Tagline: Coming For You
Plot Summary: Lee Geum-Ja, at the age of 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a child on behalf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, only to find out that she is betrayed. While in prison, she carefully prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow inmates with her kindness, thus earning herself the nickname 'kind Ms. Geum-Ja'. Upon her release from prison after 13 years, she finally sets out to seek revenge on Baek, with the help of her former prison mates.
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Shooting Dogs (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: 1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days. Would you risk your life to make a difference?
Plot Summary: Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic priest (Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Dancy) finds themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005)
From IMDB:
Plot Outline: Narrative digressions on sex, race, politics, and more from comedienne Sarah Silverman.
Art of the Devil 2 (2005)
When the reunion of 7 souls commence, a haunting past binds the ring of friends in an evil world filled with black magic and doom. What horror previously initiated, now beckons with revenge. The demented world stops at nothing in tearing up the 7 lives, rendering them without a chance of redemption.
Yonna In The Solitary Fortress (Hanare Toride no Yona) (2005)
On the other side of loneliness lasts the memories of her . . . "Yonna in the solitary fortress" is the latest computer graphics animation release from Kengo Takeuchi, the CG creator engaged behind the groundbreaking CGI movie "Final Fantasy." Yonna and her older brother live alone in a solitary fortress on the frontier. Almost daily somebody comes to the fortress in an attempt to steal away Yonna and the strange powers that lie inside her, but due to the dilligence of her brother, not once have they succeeded. That is until the day a young boy appears in front of the lonely Yonna setting off a string of events that send out into the world.
Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Ready or not...here they come
Plot Outline: A young boy named Hikora enters the ruins of a forbidden city with a group of other children to play "Otokoyo" (a game of hide-and-seek where the players are said to be kidnapped by ghosts and demons) to find his missing sister.
Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Ready or not...here they come
Plot Outline: A young boy named Hikora enters the ruins of a forbidden city with a group of other children to play "Otokoyo" (a game of hide-and-seek where the players are said to be kidnapped by ghosts and demons) to find his missing sister.
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
In an alternate timeline, Japan was divided after losing World War II: Hokkaido was annexed by "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands were under US sovereignty. A gigantic yet mysterious tower was constructed at Hokkaido and could be seen clearly from Aomori (the northernmost prefecture of Honshu) across Tsugaru Strait. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they'll build an aircraft and unravel the tower's mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. Three years later, Hiroki Fujisawa accidentally found out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asked Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to revive her. What they don't know yet is that Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and the world.
Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place (2004)
In an alternate timeline, Japan was divided after losing World War II: Hokkaido was annexed by "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands were under US sovereignty. A gigantic yet mysterious tower was constructed at Hokkaido and could be seen clearly from Aomori (the northernmost prefecture of Honshu) across Tsugaru Strait. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they'll build an aircraft and unravel the tower's mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. Three years later, Hiroki Fujisawa accidentally found out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asked Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to revive her. What they don't know yet is that Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and the world.
Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)
In an alternate timeline, Japan was divided after losing World War II: Hokkaido was annexed by "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands were under US sovereignty. A gigantic yet mysterious tower was constructed at Hokkaido and could be seen clearly from Aomori (the northernmost prefecture of Honshu) across Tsugaru Strait. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they'll build an aircraft and unravel the tower's mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. Three years later, Hiroki Fujisawa accidentally found out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asked Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to revive her. What they don't know yet is that Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and the world.
Hoshi no koe [Voices of a Distant Star] (2003)
From IMDB:
Plot Summary: The story of the high school students Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao. When the alien Tarsians attack, Mikako volunteers to be a pilot in the space force that will protect mankind. The lovers try to remain in contact using cellular telephone text messages, but as each battle takes Mikako further from the Earth, each message takes longer to arrive. Will their love stand the tests of time and distance?
Hoshi no koe (2003)
From IMDB:
Plot Summary: The story of the high school students Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao. When the alien Tarsians attack, Mikako volunteers to be a pilot in the space force that will protect mankind. The lovers try to remain in contact using cellular telephone text messages, but as each battle takes Mikako further from the Earth, each message takes longer to arrive. Will their love stand the tests of time and distance?
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Shooting Dogs (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: 1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days. Would you risk your life to make a difference?
Plot Summary: Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic priest (Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Dancy) finds themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.
Shooting Dogs (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: 1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days. Would you risk your life to make a difference?
Plot Summary: Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic priest (Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Dancy) finds themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.
The Wild (2006)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Hitting the streets 2006
Plot Outline: A adolescent lion (Greg Cipes) is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
"A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode.
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An American Haunting (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Possession Knows No Bounds
Plot Outline: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Wu Ji (2005)
This is the standard trailer. Short.
From IMDB:
Plot Outline: Empowered by the love of a slave (Dong-kun), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.
This is an 11-minute trailer. It gives a better idea of how breathtaking and well choreographed the movie really is.
Apocalypto (2006)
From IMDB:
Tagline: When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go
Plot Outline: As the Maya kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a young man chosen for sacrifice, flees the kingdom to avoid his fate.
Friday, March 24, 2006
The Dying Gaul (2005)
From IMDB:
Plot Outline: A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
Edge of Sanity (1989)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Double the terror, double the fun!
Plot Summary: When Henry Jekyll's experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can't catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind.
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Cameron's Closet (1989)
From IMDB:
Tagline: A new place to look for terror.
Plot Summary: A young and lonely boy named Cameron has telekenetic powers which his father experiments with. The young boy's loneliness is the cause of a strange spell to be cast. A demon from hell is unleashed and tries to take over the boy's soul. A delusional police officer and his new girlfriend psychiatrist are the only one's able to help the child after his father and mother's boyfriend are killed. The demon lives in the boy's closet and in a part of the mind that can only be reached by entering it.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Escape to Canada (2005)
ESCAPE TO CANADA (Albert Nerenberg, CANADA, 2005) Called ‘an altogether winning portrait of a country’ by Variety and a ‘fantastic drama’ by the Montreal Mirror, Escape to Canada is a comical, hot-blooded voyage across Canada’s freedom adventure. The film spotlights the ‘Summer of Legalization’, when same-sex marriage spread from province to province and marijuana cafes opened across the land. Suddenly Canada is a refuge for a AWOL soldiers fleeing the war in IRAQ, gay couples fleeing Bush’s America and ‘reefer refugees’. ‘Albert Nerenberg director of the hit Stupidity along with a team of videographers tell it with blazing cinematography and comic absurdity.’ With Conservatives in power and many of its character’s now in peril, Escape to Canada is the ‘Battle for Canada’ revealed. Escape is a weird kind of party movie, stoned or not, Escape to Canada will give you a patriotic rush. A National Film Board of Canada and Elevator Films co-production for Canal D, Documentary Channel and Movie Central. Produced by Shannon Brown. 84 Minutes
Bad Moon (1996)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Half man. Half wolf. Total terror.
Plot Summary: One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is loosing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.
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The Calling (2000)
From IMDB:
Plot Outline: On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist!
The Dark (1979)
From IMDB:
Tagline: A Chilling Tale of Alien Terror
Plot Outline: Los Angeles is being stalked by a seven-foot alien that decapitates its victims and shoots laser beams from its eyes. William Devane is the father of its first victim, and teams up with a TV reporter, a rival detective and a psychic to track "The Mangler" down before it claims its next victim.
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
From IMDB:
Tagline: A family reunion with some minor complications.
Plot Outline: Ed misses his mother who has been dead for a year. He has lived almost his whole life with his mother, so when a stranger appears one day from a company called "Happy People Ltd." and claims that they can bring his mother back for 1 000$, he doesn't think long before he agrees. But everything doesn't go as it should go. For a while everything is fine and Ed's mother bakes cakes and takes care of him, exactly as before. But then she starts to act more and more strangely. Pealing potatoes in the fridge, repainting the kitchen over night, chasing dogs for meals, jumping over fences and other things that ordinary old mothers usually don't do. And when Rob (who was sent to jail by Ed's mother) appears, things really start to get out of hand.
Gargoyles (1972)
From IMDB:
Tagline: They're coming for you!
Plot Outline: An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles who in the end only want to be left alone.
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
From IMDB:
Tagline: The most shocking tale of carnage ever seen.
Plot Outline: Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. When the four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from, they pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. This is where the two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. As the family attacks the unsuspecting couples, Jerry and his friends try to survive the house of 1000 corpses and it's dark secrets.
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Jack Frost (1996)
From IMDB:
Tagline: He's chillin...and killin
Plot Outline: Serial killer is genetically mutated in car wreck on the way to his execution. After which, he becomes a murdering snowman hell-bent on revenge for the sheriff who caught him.
The Keep (1983)
From IMDB:
Tagline: THEY WERE ALL DRAWN TO THE KEEP. The soldiers who brought death. The father and daughter fighting for life. The people who have always feared it. And the one man who knows its secret... THE KEEP Tonight, they will all face the evil.
Plot Outline: Nazis are sent to guard an old, mysterious fortress in a Romanian pass. One of them mistakenly releases an unknown force trapped within the walls. A mysterious stranger senses this from his home in Greece and travels to the keep to vanquish the force. As soldiers are killed, a Jewish man and his daughter (who are both knowledgable of the keep) are brought in to find out what is happening.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Skinner (1995)
Skinner (1995)
From IMDB:
Tagline: He'll get under your skin.
Plot Summary: A decent-looking lad called Dennis Skinner rents an appartment in Kerry's and Geoff's house.At night he roams the streets with a goodie-bag filled with knifes looking for victims to skin,constantly followed by the hobbling,wobbling junkie Heidi who was mutilated by him and is now looking for revenge.Dennis is attracted to Kerry and wants to show her his real him.
The Ant Bully (2006)
New in town, friendless and tormented by a neighborhood bully, young Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler Eisen) has been taking out his frustration on the innocent ant hill in his yard. But one day the ants retaliate. Using a magic potion, they shrink Lucas down to ant size and sentence him to live like an ant in their colony. In this strange new world Lucas will learn important lessons about friendship, get a whole new perspective on life and ultimately find the courage to stand up for himself.
Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Loveable, dim-witted Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and her self-serving, sex-crazed pal, Brenda (Regina Hall) are joined this time around by the cute-but-utterly clueless Tom Ryan (Craig Bierko). Together, they battle to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion.
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16 Blocks (2006)
All he wanted to do was go home and get a drink.
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But at 8:02 a.m., hungover NYPD detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is assigned a seemingly simple task. Petty criminal Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) is set to testify before a grand jury at 10:00 a.m. and needs to be taken from lock-up to the courthouse, 16 blocks away. It should take Jack 15 minutes to drop him off at the courthouse and get home.
But when assassins try to take Eddie out, Jack realizes there's more to this assignment than he'd anticipated and he calls for backup. Homicide detective Frank Nugent (David Morse) and his team are first to arrive at the scene. Eddie suddenly goes pale---one of the detectives on Nugent's team is the man he is supposed to testify against. In an instant, Jack's quickie trip downtown turns into the nightmare of a lifetime: the criminals that want Eddie dead are actually cops.
But at 8:02 a.m., hungover NYPD detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is assigned a seemingly simple task. Petty criminal Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) is set to testify before a grand jury at 10:00 a.m. and needs to be taken from lock-up to the courthouse, 16 blocks away. It should take Jack 15 minutes to drop him off at the courthouse and get home.
But when assassins try to take Eddie out, Jack realizes there's more to this assignment than he'd anticipated and he calls for backup. Homicide detective Frank Nugent (David Morse) and his team are first to arrive at the scene. Eddie suddenly goes pale---one of the detectives on Nugent's team is the man he is supposed to testify against. In an instant, Jack's quickie trip downtown turns into the nightmare of a lifetime: the criminals that want Eddie dead are actually cops.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
From IMDB:
Tagline: A trio of terror!
Plot Summary: 3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister.
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Lord of the Rings Online
Not quite the movie -- but it's supposed to be totally immersive. Check out this trailer of the continuing adventures in Middle Earth.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Bread and Circus (2003)
From IMDB:
Plot Outline: In a kingdom, a man is born as a child to Mother Earth. He's checked for normality, confirmed normal, and is let into the system. The man gets old, and the system has no use for him. So he's brought out to be executed. The man gets flashbacks, and understands what his life has been. So he hammers out a message on a piece of stone, for coming generations. Later, a couple finds the message, and journeys out to put an end to the oppressive system.
Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Heads Will Roll
Plot Summary: Adapted from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, BEOWULF & GRENDEL is a medieval adventure that tells the blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll in this provocative take on the first major work of English literature. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster. The monster, Grendel, is not a creature of mythic powers, but one of flesh and blood - immense flesh and raging blood, driven by a vengeance from being wronged, while Beowulf, a victorious soldier in his own right, has become increasingly troubled by the hero-myth rising up around his exploits. Beowulf's willingness to kill on behalf of Hrothgar wavers when it becomes clear that the King is more responsible for the troll's rampages than was first apparent. As a soldier, Beowulf is unaccustomed to hesitating. His relationship with the mesmerizing witch, Selma, creates deeper confusion. Swinging his sword at a great, stinking beast is no longer such a simple act. The story is set in barbarous Northern Europe where the reign of the many-gods is giving way to one - the southern invader, Christ. Beowulf is a man caught between sides in this great shift, his simple code transforming and falling apart before his eyes. Building toward an inevitable and terrible battle, this is a tale where vengeance, loyalty and mercy powerfully entwine. A story of blood and beer and sweat, BEOWULF & GRENDEL strips away the mask of the hero-myth, leaving a raw and tangled tale that rings true through the centuries.
Dracula's Dog (1978)
From IMDB:
Tagline: There's More To The Legend Than Meets... The Throat!
Plot Summary: Russian soldiers accidently unleash the servent of Dracula, as well as his dog, during excavationss of Romania. Together, they set out for America, to find the last descendent of the great Count.
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The Zero Boys (1986)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Dawn Of A New Breed Of Heroes
Plot Outline: A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.
Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)
From IMDB:
Tagline: From beyond imagination... from beyond the earth itself... XTRO waits.
Plot Outline: Marines on a deserted island are ordered to disfuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
Xtro (1983)
From IMDB:
Tagline: When Tony grows up, he's going to be just like Daddy!
Plot Summary: Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
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The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Not even the U.S. Army can keep her away from the man she loved--but only the U.S. Army can save her from the monster he became!
Plot Summary: During the test of a new weapon, a plutonium bomb, a plane crashes in the test area. Colonel Glen Manning fearing that someone may still be alive runs to the plane, but before he gets to the pilot, the bomb explodes and burns him over 90% of his body. He is then brought to the base hospital, but is not expected to survive the night. The next morning, Manning not only is still alive, but the burned tissue is completely healed. When his fiancee Carol Forrest arrives to visit she finds out that he as been moved as well as the physicians that have been working on him, Dr. Paul Coulter and Major Eric Lindstrom, M.D.. Through some checking on her own, Carol soon finds out where they are keeping Glen and is horrified to find out that the radiation has affected his cells and caused him to grow uncontrollably. The doctors search find a cure, but before they can administer it to him, he escapes and begins terrorizing Las Vegas. They they corner him, but after they inject him with the formula to stop his growth, Manning picks up the needle and spears Major Lindstrom, killing him instantly. He then picks up Carol and makes off with her taking her to Hoover Dam where he is cornered by the military. He comes to his senses long enough to let Carol go and as soon as that happens the military opens fire on him causing him to fall seemingly to his death in the Colorado River.
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The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Not even the U.S. Army can keep her away from the man she loved--but only the U.S. Army can save her from the monster he became!
Plot Summary: During the test of a new weapon, a plutonium bomb, a plane crashes in the test area. Colonel Glen Manning fearing that someone may still be alive runs to the plane, but before he gets to the pilot, the bomb explodes and burns him over 90% of his body. He is then brought to the base hospital, but is not expected to survive the night. The next morning, Manning not only is still alive, but the burned tissue is completely healed. When his fiancee Carol Forrest arrives to visit she finds out that he as been moved as well as the physicians that have been working on him, Dr. Paul Coulter and Major Eric Lindstrom, M.D.. Through some checking on her own, Carol soon finds out where they are keeping Glen and is horrified to find out that the radiation has affected his cells and caused him to grow uncontrollably. The doctors search find a cure, but before they can administer it to him, he escapes and begins terrorizing Las Vegas. They they corner him, but after they inject him with the formula to stop his growth, Manning picks up the needle and spears Major Lindstrom, killing him instantly. He then picks up Carol and makes off with her taking her to Hoover Dam where he is cornered by the military. He comes to his senses long enough to let Carol go and as soon as that happens the military opens fire on him causing him to fall seemingly to his death in the Colorado River.
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The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
From IMDB:
Tagline: Not even the U.S. Army can keep her away from the man she loved--but only the U.S. Army can save her from the monster he became!
Plot Summary: During the test of a new weapon, a plutonium bomb, a plane crashes in the test area. Colonel Glen Manning fearing that someone may still be alive runs to the plane, but before he gets to the pilot, the bomb explodes and burns him over 90% of his body. He is then brought to the base hospital, but is not expected to survive the night. The next morning, Manning not only is still alive, but the burned tissue is completely healed. When his fiancee Carol Forrest arrives to visit she finds out that he as been moved as well as the physicians that have been working on him, Dr. Paul Coulter and Major Eric Lindstrom, M.D.. Through some checking on her own, Carol soon finds out where they are keeping Glen and is horrified to find out that the radiation has affected his cells and caused him to grow uncontrollably. The doctors search find a cure, but before they can administer it to him, he escapes and begins terrorizing Las Vegas. They they corner him, but after they inject him with the formula to stop his growth, Manning picks up the needle and spears Major Lindstrom, killing him instantly. He then picks up Carol and makes off with her taking her to Hoover Dam where he is cornered by the military. He comes to his senses long enough to let Carol go and as soon as that happens the military opens fire on him causing him to fall seemingly to his death in the Colorado River.
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