Archive for January, 1994
Léon
Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, accidental-killing, air-duct, allegory, anti-hero, apartment, assassin, assassination, axe, bathtub-scene, birthday-party, black-comedy, blood-splatter, boarding-school, central-park-new-york, character-name-in-title, child, child-abuse, child-assassin, child-in-peril, child-murder, child-smoking-cigarette, child-swearing, child-with-gun, crime-scene, crooked-cop, crush, disguise, domestic-violence, drug-addiction, drug-dealing, drug-enforcement, drugs, eviction, exercise, exploding-body, exploding-car, explosion, fall-from-height, father-figure, flashback-sequence, friendship, gas-mask, government-agent, grenade, hanging, happy-birthday-to-you, hitman, hotel, illiteracy, independent-film, italian, italian-american, jogger, juvenile-delinquency, lasersight, little-italy, lolita, loner, loss-of-family, machine-gun, mafia, melodrama, metal-detector, milk, movie-theater, murder, murder-of-family, neck-breaking-scene, neighbor, neo-noir, new-york-city, organized-crime, plant, police-officer-killed, pot-holder, precocious-child, profanity, protection, psychopath, puppet, racial-slur, redemption, restaurant, restroom, revenge, role-playing, rooftop, roosevelt-island-tram, russian-roulette, self-discovery, sex, shootout, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-shoulder, shot-to-death, shotgun, simple-man, sit-up, sniper, solitude, spit-in-the-face, stairwell, stuffed-animal, suspense, swat-team, taxicab, tension, throat-slitting, tragedy, tragic-love, violence, violent-movie, vulgarity, weapon, world-trade-center-new-york
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Mask, The
Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed “The Mask” by the media. After Ipkiss’s alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed.
Mask, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.40 out of 10 (25590 votes)
Director: Chuck Russell
Actors: Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni, Orestes Matacena, Tim Bagley, Nancy Fish, Johnny Williams, Reg E. Cathey, Jim Doughan, Denis Forest, Cameron Diaz, Joseph Alfieri, B.J. Barie,
Tags: Musical, Fantasy, Crime, Comedy, Action, anti-hero, bad-luck, bank, bank-robbery, bank-worker, based-on-comic, blockbuster, breaking-the-fourth-wall, car-trouble, cartoon, dark-horse-comics, evil-landowner, independent-film, jail-cell, mask, mechanic, nightclub, nightclub-singer, object-in-rectum, park, part-computer-animation, pig-latin, police, stolen-money, superhero, tongue, transformation, x-rayed-skeleton
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True Lies
Harry Tasker is a spy. Presently, he is working on a case involving nuclear warheads in the possession of terrorists. Now his wife doesn’t know what he does; as far as she is concerned, he is a computer salesman. Now Harry came close to apprehending the leader of the terrorists but he got away and knows who he is. While Harry tries to pick up his trail, he inadvertently overhead his wife, Helen talking about having a “boyfriend”. So, he uses his resources to find out who this guy is. And he learns that he is a car salesman pretending to be what Harry is. When Helen goes to one of their rendezvous, Harry stages an attack on them. He then from behind a shroud, that she could be sent to prison unless she does something for them–plant a bug in a guy’s phone. Now she does what she is told but unknown to her the man in the room is Harry, she was about to leave when the terrorists break into the room and take them away. It is there that she finds out who and what Harry is, and it’s a good thing cause the terrorists plan to kill when they are through with them.
True Lies DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.00 out of 10 (35072 votes)
Director: James Cameron; James Allen
Actors: Charlton Heston, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Art Malik, Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov, Marshall Manesh, Dieter Rauter, Jane Morris, Katsy Chappell, Crystina Wyler, Ofer Samra,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, Thriller, Adventure, Action, affair, automobile, blackmail, blockbuster, blood-splatter, blue-danube-waltz, buddy-comedy, car-dealer, child-in-peril, computer-cracker, dance, double-agent, exploding-car, exploding-helicopter, explosion, extremism, father-daughter-relationship, femme-fatale, flame-thrower, florida-keys, gash-in-the-face, grenade-launcher, gunfight, helicopter, hit-in-crotch, honesty, hostage, humiliation, humor, infidelity, knee-in-groin, knife-throwing, marriage, martial-arts, mass-murder, motorcycle, murderous-fantasy, mushroom-cloud, neck-breaking-scene, neo-noir, nuclear, nuclear-weapons, power-abuse, remake, remake-of-french-film, secret, seduction, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, slut, spy, stabbed-in-the-eye, striptease, tango, terrorism, truth-serum, two-way-mirror, undercover, unfaithfulness, urination-scene, villainess, violence, washington-d.c., wetting-pants, x-rayed-skeleton
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Forrest Gump
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he’s too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.
Forrest Gump DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.20 out of 10 (106111 votes)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Rebecca Williams, Michael Conner Humphreys, Harold G. Herthum, George Kelly, Bob Penny, John Randall, Sam Anderson, Margo Moorer, Ione M. Telech, Christine Seabrook,
Tags: Drama, Comedy, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abused-child, aids, alabama, american-football, amputation, amputee, anti-war-protest, assassination, balcony, baptist-church, based-on-novel, bathroom, black-panthers, blockbuster, boarding-house, boat-accident, box-of-chocolates, bully, bus, bus-stop, cancer, car-accident, china, chocolate, cocaine, college, cornfield, dancing, death-of-friend, demolition, depression, desegregation, desert, destiny, disco, doctor, drugs, epic, face-slap, fad, fainting, faith, famous-line, famous-score, feather, female-nudity, fight, firework, fishing, fishing-boat, folk-singer, fondling, graduation, grave, guitar, helicopter, hippie, hurricane, ice-cream, idiot-savant, interracial-friendship, jefferson-memorial, jump-into-water, kindness, ku-klux-klan, leg-brace, legless-person, lighthouse, lincoln-memorial, locker-room, los-angeles-california, loss-of-mother, loss-of-wife, love-at-first-sight, lsd, maid, male-nudity, marketing, marriage-proposal, medal-of-honor, memphis-tennessee, mental-retardation, military-enlistment, military-hospital, military-officer, military-training, mother-son-relationship, napalm, new-year's-eve-party, new-york-city, nudity, paraplegic, philanthropy, ping-pong, prayer, premarital-sex, profanity, prosthetic-limb, prostitute, racial-slur, rainstorm, running, satire, savannah-georgia, school-bus, shot-in-the-butt, shrimp, simple-man, single-father, single-mother, slow-motion, strip-club, suicidal, summer-of-love, swimming, table-tennis, talk-show, television-news, title-spoken-by-character, told-in-flashback, tree-climbing, u.s.-president, university-of-alabama, usa, vietnam, vietnam-war, war, war-hero, washington-d.c., washington-monument, watergate, wedding, white-house, zen
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Frankenstein
Based on Mary Shelly’s novel. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein(Kenneth Brannagh). A promising young doctor who devestated by the death of his mother during child birth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster(Robert De niro) which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpes. It’s not long before Frankenstein regrets it’s actions.
Frankenstein DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (8180 votes)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm, Richard Briers, John Cleese, Robert Hardy, Cherie Lunghi, Celia Imrie, Trevyn McDowell, Gerard Horan, Mark Hadfield, Joanna Roth,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama, acupuncture, based-on-novel, blindness, bone-saw, cholera, death, doctor, doctor-frankenstein, ethics, experiment-gone-wrong, frankenstein's-monster, funeral-pyre, gothic, heart-in-hand, heart-ripped-out, hybris, ice, immolation, lynching, male-frontal-nudity, man-with-no-name, mob-scene, murder, obsession, revenge, science, sin, snow, suicide
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Natural Born Killers
Delivery boy Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) falls in love with customer Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis). He soon helps her kill her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and enabling mother (Edie McClurg), beginning their macabre journey down Route 666. Their M.O.: every few miles, they attack everyone within their site, invariably leaving only one person alive to tell the tale. The two are made famous by unscrupulous reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downy jr.), as they run across the countryside, pursued by the equally sadistic Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Just before the trial, a ratings-whoring interview by the same reporter who made them famous leads to pandemonium, not just within the prison itself, but nationwide. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence.
Natural Born Killers DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.70 out of 10 (29733 votes)
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Rodney Dangerfield, Everett Quinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Edie McClurg, Russell Means, O-Lan Jones, Lanny Flaherty, Richard Lineback, Robert Downey Jr., Ed White, Kirk Baltz, Terrylene, Maria Pitillo,
Tags: Romance, Crime, Thriller, Action, beating, black-comedy, black-humor, blood, blood-splatter, bloody-violence, bridge, brutality, camera, controversial, convertible, corrupt-cop, corrupt-police, corruption, cruelty, dancing, dark-humor, death, desert, desert-eagle, diner, disturbing, dream-sequence, drugs, escape, escaped-convict, experimental-film, extreme-violence, female-killer, female-psychopath, gore, groin-kick, gruesome, hallucination, highway, horse, incest, independent-film, indian, insanity, jail, jail-cell, journalism, kill, killer, killing, madness, media-exploitation, media-hype, merciless, murder, murderer-duo, neo-noir, orff-carmina-burana, panties, part-animated, pie, police, police-officer-killed, pop-culture, prison, prison-riot, psycho-cop, rabbit, rape-scene, rattlesnake, revenge, ring, riot, road, sadism, sadist, sadistic, satire, scorpion, serial-killer, serial-killers, sex-with-minor, shooting, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-hand, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, shotgun, slide-locked-back, snake-bite, society, splatter, stabbed-in-the-throat, strangulation, surreal, surrealism, tabloid, television, two-killers, villainess, violence, violent-movie, vulgarity, weapon, wedding-ring
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Pulp Fiction
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hitmen on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a few unexpected detours along the road. Marsellus is out of town, and he’s gotten Vincent to take care of his wife, Mia. That is, take her out for a night on the town. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who’s been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (not their real names) are two lovebirds/thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they’re currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn’t turn out to be as easy as the other places they’ve robbed.
Pulp Fiction DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.80 out of 10 (158637 votes)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Phil LaMarr, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Maria de Medeiros, Rosanna Arquette, Duane Whitaker, Peter Greene, Eric Stoltz, Paul Calderon, Uma Thurman, Frank Whaley,
Tags: Drama, Crime, accidental-shooting, addiction, allegory, anal-rape, anti-hero, bathroom, bathroom-scene, biblical, biblical-passage, black-comedy, black-suit-clad-killer, blockbuster, blood-splatter, body-piercing, bondage, boxer, boxing, briefcase, burger-king, california, cardiac-injection, celebrity-impersonator, cocaine, coffee, convertible, corpse, crime-comedy, crime-drama, crime-epic, crime-gone-awry, critically-acclaimed, cult, cult-comedy, cult-director, cult-favorite, cult-movie-cast, dance-contest, dancing, dark-comedy, diner, divine-intervention, drug-addiction, drug-overdose, drugs, elvis-impersonator, ensemble, ethnic-slur, fixed-fight, flashback-sequence, foot-fetish, foot-massage, full-circle, gangster, gun, hamburger, heroin, heroin-addict, hitman, homosexual-rape, human-relationship, independent-film, injection, interracial, interracial-relationship, jeri-curl-hairstyle, katana, knoxville-tennessee, los-angeles-california, loyalty, macguffin, machine-gun, male-rape, marilyn-monroe, mcdonald's-restaurant, mexican-standoff, milkshake, moll, moral-ambiguity, moral-transformation, motorcycle, multiple-time-frames, neo-noir, nonlinear-timeline, nose-bleeding, organized-crime, postmodern, psychotronic, pulp-fiction, racial-slur, rape, redemption, religion, revenge, robbery, satire, shot-in-the-chest, shot-in-the-face, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-genitals, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, sliced-in-two, splatter, syringe, taxicab, tied-to-chair, toaster, torso-cut-in-half, urban, violence, violent-movie, vulgarity, waitress, watch, wristwatch
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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
It hadn’t even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis’ mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.20 out of 10 (41815 votes)
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Mike Seelig, Bellina Logan, Thandie Newton, Indra Ové, Helen McCrory, Lyla Hay Owen, Lee E. Scharfstein,
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Drama, 18th-century, 19th-century, american-abroad, anger, aristocrat, ashes, based-on-book, based-on-novel, blockbuster, blood, child-killing-child, child-murderess, child-vampire, coffin, dark-hero, dead-child, death, destiny, erotica, father-daughter-relationship, female-nudity, fire, france, gambling, golden-gate-bridge, good-versus-evil, gore, goth, gothic, guilt, helicopter, homoerotic, homoeroticism, homosexual, homosexual-subtext, human-relationship, immortality, interview, louisiana, mind-reading, mississippi-river, mourning, murder, narration, neck-breaking-scene, new-orleans-louisiana, nude-woman-murdered, nudity, orphan, paris-france, piano, plague, plantation, poker-game, prostitute, revenge, san-francisco-california, scythe, sex-murder, sexuality, slavery, sliced-in-two, sorrow, spiral-staircase, swamp, theater, vampire, vampire-bite, vampirism, young-boy, young-girl
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