Archive for January, 1986
Platoon
A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers.
Platoon DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.10 out of 10 (41512 votes)
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Reggie Johnson, Keith David, Johnny Depp, David Neidorf, Mark Moses, Chris Pedersen, Tony Todd,
Tags: War, Drama, Action, 1960s, ambush, america, american, amputee, anti-war, army, asia, asian, blockbuster, bludgeoning, booby-trap, brief-nudity, brutality, cannabis, combat, correspondence, drugs, fight, gay-slur, heaven, helicopter, imagery, independent-film, infantry, jungle, jungle-warfare, latrine, machine-gun, male-nudity, marijuana, mass-grave, military, murder, napalm, poker, psychopath, race-relations, racial-slur, rainstorm, rape, rescue, revenge, self-inflicted-injury, shot-in-the-forehead, sniper, soldier, suicide-attack, tarmac, title-spoken-by-character, underground-bunker, usa, vietnam, vietnam-war, village, village-set-on-fire, vulgarity, war, war-crimes
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Name of the Rose, The
1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.
Name of the Rose, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (13516 votes)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Actors: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin, Michael Lonsdale, Volker Prechtel, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William Hickey, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus, Valentina Vargas, Ron Perlman, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Valobra, Vernon Dobtcheff,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller, 1300s, 14th-century, abbey, aristotle, autopsy, based-on-novel, bathtub-scene, battering-ram, beautiful-woman, bibliophilia, black-cat, blockbuster, book, book-burning, breasts, burned-at-the-stake, cat, catholic-church, chattering-teeth, cipher, detective, donkey, execution, fall-from-height, female-nudity, fire, flagellation, fog, girl, glasses, heresy, homosexuality, hunchback, inquisition, italy, labyrinth, library, male-nudity, medieval, monastery, monk, murder, narration, nipples, nudity, poison, prayer, premarital-sex, pyre, rat, religion, secret, secret-passage, sex, sexual-favor, skull, snow, stable, suicide, topless, torch, torture, translator, trapdoor, trial, woman-on-top
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Cobra
In the mid-1980s Marion Cobretti, nicknamed Cobra, is a ruthless LAPD lieutenant whose leather-jacketed garb and souped-up early-50s car make him “a reject from the 1950s,” as his partner Sergeant Reni Gonzalez puts it. Cobretti and Gonzalez are part of the LAPD’s Zombie Squad, officers tasked with criminals considered too violent or unpredictable for regular police; the Zombie Squad, however, is also considered a “dumping ground” for officers considered too extreme for a department increasingly besieged by politics, shown in Cobretti’s running clashes with Detective Andrew Monte, an officer who despises Cobretti’s methods (the two officers nearly come to blows when Monte accuses Cobretti of using a terrified witness solely as expendable bait), and also in a confrontation between Cobretti and a TV journalist after a gun-wielding psychopath opens fire in a supermarket and is dispatched with ruthless panache by Cobretti. The supermarket showdown comes amid a wave of knife killings by a man known as The Night Slasher, and Detective Monte stubbornly refuses to heed Cobretti’s warning that the Night Slasher killings are the work of a criminal anomaly - an organized army of psychopaths. Cobretti’s theory proves accurate when Ingrid Knudson, a model, accidentally witnesses a Night Slasher killing and is pursued by the gang, and is placed under the protective wing of Cobretti and Gonzalez. Tragedy nearly strikes, however, when a message from police HQ separates Cobretti and Gonzalez from Ingrid Knudson, and simultaneous attempts are made on the lives of Cobretti and Knudson that both barely escape. Furious that a mole in the department is working for Night Slasher, Cobretti and Gonzalez must take Knudson out of the city, unaware that the department is quietly hoping this will draw Night Slasher’s gang away, which leaves the two officers and their scared witness in a wild flight for their lives in upstate California.
Cobra DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.20 out of 10 (6152 votes)
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Brian Thompson, John Herzfeld, Lee Garlington, Art LaFleur, Marco Rodríguez, Ross St. Phillip, Val Avery, David Rasche, John Hauk, Nick Angotti, Nina Axelrod,
Tags: Crime, Action, automobile, based-on-novel, bone-saw, chase, christmas, cult, detective, extremist-group, helicopter, hospital, knife, lasersight, megalomaniac, motorcycle, motorcycle-gang, murder, obscene-finger-gesture, oil-tanker, parking-garage, police, predator, predatory-criminal, rivalry, sawed-off-shotgun, serial-killer, stalker, stalking, twist-in-the-end, victimization, violence
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Mission, The
Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.
Mission, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (8155 votes)
Director: Roland Joffé
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi, Ronald Pickup, Chuck Low, Liam Neeson, Bercelio Moya, Sigifredo Ismare, Asuncion Ontiveros, Alejandrino Moya, Daniel Berrigan, Rolf Gray, Álvaro Guerrero,
Tags: War, Drama, 1700s, bathing, brazil, breasts, bullfight, canoe, child's-play, child-murder, child-nudity, children, choir, christian-religion, christianization, crucifixion, dead-child, duel, female-nudity, flaming-arrow, genocide, historical, idealism, independent-film, indian, infant-nudity, jesuit, jungle, male-nudity, massacre, missionary, murderer, music, native-american, native-boy, native-humor, native-tribe, nude-bathing, nude-swimming, nudity, partial-nudity, portuguese, procession, punishment, religion, ritual-murder, rock-climbing, slave, slave-owner, slavery, south-america, spanish, teenager-nudity, topless, tragedy, waterfall
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Aliens
More than a half-century after the events of ‘Alien’, Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley’s employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer’s license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.
Aliens DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.30 out of 10 (73342 votes)
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Ricco Ross, Colette Hiller, Daniel Kash, Cynthia Dale Scott, Tip Tipping,
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action, 2100s, acid, action-heroine, alien, alien-contact, ambush, android, bio-organic-weapon, blockbuster, bravery, brotherhood, cat, catfight, child-in-peril, christ-allegory, combat, conspiracy, courage, cowardice, cryogenics, cryonics, cult-favorite, death, death-wish, dismemberment, dissection, elevator, escape, female-soldier, flame-thrower, friendship, futuristic, gothic, gun, hand-grenade, head-crushed, heroism, honor, human-relationship, humanity, humor, impalement, love, loyalty, monster, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-figure, nightmare, obscene-finger-gesture, outer-space, parasite, pistol, poetic-justice, power-outage, promise, redemption, reluctant-hero, reverse-footage, righteous-rage, robot-sentry, sacrifice, second-part, sequel, shot-through-the-mouth, shotgun, siege, slide-locked-back, slime, social-commentary, soldier, space, space-colony, space-travel, space-war, spacecraft, spaceship, spacesuit, splatter, swarm, swarm-tactics, technology, terraforming, torn-in-half, tragedy, vacuum, video-footage, violence, warrior, warrior-woman, weapon, western-in-space, women-soldiers, xenomorph
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Blue Velvet
A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police’s pace, he and the police detective’s daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man.
Blue Velvet DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (21815 votes)
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Jack Harvey, Frances Bay, Ken Stovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, J. Michael Hunter, Dick Green,
Tags: Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller, alcohol, amateur-detective, american-football, blackmail, car-chase, closet, controversial, convertible, crime-scene, criminal-investigation, critically-acclaimed, cult, cult-director, cult-favorite, dance-party, detective, diner, disturbing, dream, drugs, duplicity, ear, erotica, evil, evil-man, exterminator, face-slap, female-frontal-nudity, femme-fatale, fetish, fire, floral-microphone, hardware-store, home-from-college, homosexual, hospital, house-breaking, independent-film, kidnapping, knife, lounge-singer, love, love-triangle, male-nudity, mouth, murder, mysogynist, mystery-woman, neo-noir, nightclub, nudity, obsession, oxygen-mask, perverse, perversion, perversity, pervert, police, police-corruption, psychopath, psychotronic, public-nudity, rape, sadist, sadomasochism, secret, severed-ear, sex, sex-maniac, sex-slave, sexual-attraction, sexual-humiliation, sexual-obsession, sexual-perversion, sexual-predator, sexual-sadism, sexual-thriller, sexual-violence, sexuality, sliced-off-ear, small-town, small-town-america, stroke, stylization, suburbia, surreal, surveillance, title-based-on-song, villain, voyeurism, vulgarity
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Crocodile Dundee
New York reporter Sue travels to Australia to meet and interview Michael J Crocodile Dundee, a man who runs a safari business and has just survived an attacked by a crocodile. After spending a few days touring the safari park, Sue invites Mick to come back with her to visit New York. How would the clash of cultures and different life style affect the Aussie bushman? How do things turn out when Sue falls for his charms?
Crocodile Dundee DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (13476 votes)
Director: Peter Faiman
Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Ritchie Singer, Maggie Blinco, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Terry Gill, Peter Turnbull, Christine Totos, Graham ‘Grace’ Walker, David Bracks, Brett Hogan,
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, adventurer, australia, australian, bar, bidet, blockbuster, boat, cocktail-party, corroborree, crocodile, crotch-grab, culture-clash, drugs, fiancé, first-of-series, fish-out-of-water, friendly-brawl, hotel, italian-restaurant, journalist, jumper, kangaroo, knife, limousine, mansion, mounted-police-officer, new-york, newspaper, outback, party, poacher, prostitute, pub, publisher, subway, suicide-attempt, swamp, tourist, world-trade-center-new-york
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Top Gun
Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father’s death in combat that killed others due to his father’s error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted.
Top Gun DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.50 out of 10 (37202 votes)
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside, John Stockwell, Barry Tubb, Rick Rossovich, Tim Robbins, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Whip Hubley, James Tolkan, Meg Ryan, Adrian Pasdar,
Tags: Romance, Drama, Action, aerial-dogfight, aircraft-carrier, aviation, based-on-article, blockbuster, cold-war, cult-favorite, ejection-seat, fighter-pilot, fighter-plane, homoeroticism, jet-fighter, male-bonding, obscene-finger-gesture, partner, pilot, pro-war, reagan-era, title-spoken-by-character, us-navy
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