Archive for January, 1988
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
After having her father and perverse stepmother killed by the cenobites, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Lawrence) is sent to a psychiatric hospital. Even after trying to convince the authorities of what really happened with her family, nobody believes in her version of the history and they decide to place her in the institute, so that she rests and relaxes a little bit. The hospital is commanded by a brilliant and strange psychiatrist, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham), who has been looking for the key for another dimension for a long time. The only person who believes in Kirsty is a young and kind assistant of Dr. Channard, called Kyle MacRae (William Hope). Following Kirsty’s version of the story, Channard put his hands on the bloodstained mattress where her stepmother Júlia (Clare Higgins, from the first Hellraiser) died, Channard decides to resurrect her, killing his patients and offering them as food for Júlia. She returns without skin, and she decides to help Channard to bring the forces of the evil, but the plans of the two will be disturbed by Kirsty, who wants to end at once with the cenobites, and for Kyle, who doesn’t want to see Kirsty being hurt…
Hellbound: Hellraiser II DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.80 out of 10 (4236 votes)
Director: ; Tony Randel
Actors: Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Imogen Boorman, Sean Chapman, William Hope, Doug Bradley, Barbie Wilde, Simon Bamford, Nicholas Vince, Oliver Smith, Angus MacInnes, Deborah Joel, James Tillitt, Bradley Lavelle,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, based-on-novel, blood, brain-surgery, chain, cult-favorite, demon, doctor, evil, gore, hell, independent-film, maggot, mental-institution, pinhead, psychiatric-hospital, puzzle, razor-blade, sequel, skin, splatterpunk
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Die Hard
New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr. have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40-story skyscraper where the uppermost floors are still under construction. John stayed behind in New York because John didn’t think Holly would make it in Los Angeles and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug using co-worker Harry Ellis, because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While he’s by himself in the office, John is wishing that this argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists, led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl, enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans then tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and after John alerts LAPD Sergeant Al Powell about the situation, John is forced to kill Karl’s brother Tony. Now, Karl wants revenge on John, and John must keep Karl off his back and work on his own to rescue the hostages from Hans, because other than Powell, the LAPD is not much help.
Die Hard DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (67975 votes)
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Reginald Johnson, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, William Atherton, De’voreaux White, Alan Rickman, Hart Bochner, Dennis Hayden, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski, James Shigeta, Robert Davi,
Tags: Crime, Thriller, Action, action-hero, against-the-odds, based-on-book, based-on-novel, bearer-bonds, blockbuster, blood, blood-splatter, body-landing-on-car, cameraman, car-accident, car-explosion, christmas, christmas-tree, cigarette, computer-cracker, corpse, criminal, death-by-falling, die-hard-scenario, driving-backwards, elevator, elevator-shaft, estranged-couple, exploding-car, exploding-helicopter, explosion, fall-from-height, first-of-series, fragments-of-glass, free-fall, funny-accent, glass, gun, hanged-man, heist, helicopter, hostage, humor, kicked-in-the-face, limousine, los-angeles-california, media-coverage, murder, neck-breaking-scene, police, reporter, robbery, rocket-launcher, santa-costume, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-knee, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, skyscraper, suspense, teddy-bear, television, terrorism, u.s.-treasury-bonds, vault, violence, vulgarity, walk-on-broken-glass, walkie-talkie, weapon
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Twins
Many years ago an experiment was conducted to produce a perfect human being. Unfortunately there was a problem. The zygote split unevenly leaving two children - one with strength, brains, personality and love and the other one with what else was left! Both children were raised seperately at different locations until one day the two unite and help one another find their long lost mother.
Twins DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (15129 votes)
Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett, Trey Wilson, Marshall Bell, David Caruso, Hugh O’Brian, Nehemiah Persoff, Maury Chaykin, Tony Jay, Tom McCleister, David Efron, Peter Dvorsky,
Tags: Comedy, actor-breaking-typecast, blockbuster, brother, brother-brother-relationship, redemption, twins, twins-separated-at-birth
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Rain Man
Charley is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.
Rain Man DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.90 out of 10 (49468 votes)
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Dolan Dougherty, Marshall Dougherty, Patrick Dougherty, John-Michael Dougherty,
Tags: Drama, Adventure, abduction, airport, anxiety, apology, autism, autistic-savant, bankruptcy, baseball, bathtub-scene, blackjack-game, blockbuster, brother-brother-relationship, california, car-dealer, car-radio, casino, cemetery, cincinnati-ohio, convertible, dance-lesson, desert, diner, doctor, elevator, escalator, extortion, father-son-estrangement, fear-of-flying, first-kiss, flatulence, frustration, funeral, hotel, inheritance, institutional-life, las-vegas-nevada, laundromat, long-lost-relative, loss-of-father, lying, missouri, motel, obsession, phone-book, photograph, premarital-sex, psychiatric-examination, railroad-crossing, railway-station, road-accident, road-movie, road-trip, savant, singing, small-town, smoke-alarm, telephone-box, texas, title-spoken-by-character, toothpick, underwear, video-surveillance, vulgarity, wheel-of-fortune, will-reading
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Fish Called Wanda, A
Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George’s lawyer - Archie Leach.
Fish Called Wanda, A DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.70 out of 10 (27726 votes)
Director: Charles Crichton
Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Cynthia Cleese, Mark Elwes, Neville Phillips, Peter Jonfield, Ken Campbell, Al Ashton, Roger Hume,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, airplane, airport, animal-abuse, barrister, black-comedy, blockbuster, controversial, cult-movie-cast, dog, dog-killed, fish, fish-tank, heist, jewel-theft, katana-sword, lawyer, london-england, lovers-posing-as-siblings, man-pretending-to-be-gay, marriage, necklace, nudity, run-over-by-a-steamroller, screwball, stuttering, tarmac, trial, unsubtitled-foreign-language, what-happened-to-epilogue, yelling
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Cocktail
After leaving the Army, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) tries to get a marketing job in New York. But without a college degree, this was not possible. He then decides to start studying for a business degree at the local City College and gets a part time job as a bartender. He realizes that its not that easy, but when his new boss Douglas Coughlin (Brian Brown) teaches him the secrets of the bar trade and they become the most famous bartenders in town. Both Brian & Doug Coughlin want their own top class cocktail bars someday and Brian’s Cocktail Bar is to be called ‘Cocktails & Dreams’, and in order to get the necessary money to open it, Brian travels to Jamaica to work as a bartender at a resort Tiki Bar, and the pay is good. There he meets Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue), a young and pretty, up and coming American artist on vacation with her girlfriend from New York, staying at the Island resort. Jordan and Brian spend some quality time together and fall in love. But when Brian takes a dare from his old buddy, Doug Coughlin to sleep with an older woman, who is also staying at the resort. Jordan, herself the daughter of wealthy parents back in New York, leaves the Island overnight, after seeing Brian and the older woman together after closing… Will Jordan ever forgive Brian and will they get back together???
Cocktail DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.20 out of 10 (11314 votes)
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill, Kelly Lynch, Gina Gershon, Ron Dean, Robert Donley, Ellen Foley, Andrea Morse, Chris Owens, Justin Louis, John Graham, Richard Thorn,
Tags: Romance, Drama, Comedy, alcohol, bankrupt, bartender, bartending, best-friend, bikini, blockbuster, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, caribbean, chrysler-building-new-york, father-daughter-relationship, g-string, jamaica, money, new-york, new-york-skyline, nightclub, one-night-stand, outdoor-sex, poetry, pregnancy, skinny-dipping, subway, suicide, world-trade-center, world-trade-center-new-york, yacht
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Red Heat
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.
Red Heat DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (6822 votes)
Director: Walter Hill; Walter Hill
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O’Ross, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, Richard Bright, J.W. Smith, Brent Jennings, Gretchen Palmer, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael G. Hagerty, Brion James, Gloria Delaney, Peter Jason,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Action, airplane, aquarium, artificial-limb, baseball-bat, buddy-comedy, bus, bus-crash, bus-station, chicago-illinois, desert-eagle, detective, drug-dealer, gun, independent-film, moscow, nude-fight-scene, nude-with-a-gun, nudity, pistol, police, police-officer, political, revolver, revolving-door, russia, russian-mafia, shotgun, wheelchair, x-rayed-skeleton
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Messenger of Death
Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn’t give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.
Messenger of Death DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 4.90 out of 10 (254 votes)
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Charles Bronson, Trish Van Devere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett, Charles Dierkop, Jeff Corey, John Ireland, Penny Peyser, Gene Davis, John Solari, Jon Cedar, Tom Everett, Duncan Gamble, Bert Williams,
Tags: Thriller, based-on-novel, dead-boy, independent-film, mormon, murder-of-family
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