Archive for January, 1995
Waterworld
The world is flooded. Civilisation is lost under the sea. The Mariner sails his trimoran over the seas, drinking his own Urine and visits a floating atoll of “Drifters”. When they find the Mariner to be a mutant they sentence him to death. Meanwhile, a girl with supposedly a map to get to dry land tattoo-ed on her back, is the objective for an attack by a gang of smokers who attack the atoll.
Waterworld DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.40 out of 10 (22288 votes)
Director: Kevin Costner; Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Chaim Girafi, Rick Aviles, R.D. Call, Zitto Kazann, Leonardo Cimino, Zakes Mokae, Luke Ka’ili Jr., Anthony DeMasters, Willy Petrovic, Jack Kehler, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Lanny Flaherty, Robert A. Silverman, Gerard Murphy,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Action, bare-butt, blockbuster, boat, cigarette, controversial, convertible, destiny, environmental, epic, futuristic, global-warming, gyrocopter, little-girl, mutant, national-geographic-magazine, oil-tanker, post-apocalyptic, sailing, sea, seaplane, smoker, smokers-and-nonsmokers, smoking, studio-logo-segues-into-film, tattooed-map, trading, water, wave-runner
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Jumanji
Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt and Kirsten Dunst star in this adaptation of the award-winning children’s book! When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn’t realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported–before the startled eyes of his friend Sarah–into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game’s spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan (Robin Williams) reunites with Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) and, together with Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), tries to outwit the game’s powerful forces.
Jumanji DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.00 out of 10 (17721 votes)
Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: , Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Bonnie Hunt, Bebe Neuwirth, David Alan Grier, Patricia Clarkson, Adam Hann-Byrd, Laura Bell Bundy, James Handy, Gillian Barber, Brandon Obray, Cyrus Thiedeke, Gary Joseph Thorup,
Tags: Fantasy, Family, Comedy, Adventure, Action, 1960s, age-to-age, animal-rampage, based-on-book, blockbuster, bully, buried, cgi, elephant, elephant-gun, estranged-father-son, flood, game, gun, human-animal, jungle-hunter, jungle-magic, kids-and-family, part-animated, stampede, time-travel, title-spoken-by-character, wildlife, wonder-bread, zebra, zoo
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
It’s a quiet morning in New York City…until a massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing several drivers to come to a sudden stop. This throws the NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what’s going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Cobb of the NYPD’s major case unit gets a call from a man who calls himself Simon. Simon asks for Lieutenant John McClane, and Walter tells Simon that John, who is now an alcoholic, is on suspension. Simon wants John to go to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem and wear a racist sign. Walter and his fellow officers Joe Lambert, Connie Kowalski, and Ricky Walsh find John, who is now an alcoholic who is seperated from his wife Holly, and they talk to him. Ricky tells Walter that there have been 3 killings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the past two nights, and 14 dump trucks were stolen from a construction yard on Staten Island. John wants to know where the backup is going to be, and Walter tells him that the backup will be on 128th Street, 10 blocks away. John complains that 10 blocks is too far away for the backup to be. Walter tells John that Simon has threatened to detonate another bomb if the police don’t do what he says. John wants to know why he’s been targeted by Simon, but no one knows why. While John is in Harlem, store owner Zeus Carver rescues John from a black street gang that was beating John up because of the sign. John and Zeus find themselves stuck with each other as Simon continues his antics and forces John and Zeus to work together to do what he tells them, but John and Zeus can’t stop one of Simon’s bombs from blowing up a subway station, and it turns out that Simon is Simon Peter Gruber the brother of Hans Gruber, the terrorist that John rescued the Nakatomi building from in Los Angeles years ago. The question now is, is this about revenge on John, or is Simon planning something a lot bigger?
Die Hard: With a Vengeance DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.10 out of 10 (29525 votes)
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman, Anthony Peck, Nicholas Wyman, Sam Phillips, Kevin Chamberlin, Sharon Washington, Stephen Pearlman, Michael Alexander Jackson, Aldis Hodge, Mischa Hausserman,
Tags: Crime, Thriller, Action, action-hero, attempted-murder, black-comedy, blockbuster, blood-splatter, boat, bomb, brooklyn-bridge, buddy-comedy, butterfly-knife, car-chase, child-in-peril, corpse, die-hard-scenario, dump-truck, exploding-car, exploding-helicopter, fall-from-height, ghetto, gold, heist, helicopter, humor, machine-gun, new-york, new-york-city, police, racial-slur, racist, revenge, riddle, sequel, ship, shootout, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-to-death, sliced-in-two, sniper, stabbed-to-death, subway, subway-station, switchblade, taxicab, telephone-booth, terrorism, third-part, throat-slitting, torso-cut-in-half, train, twist-in-the-end, urban, vengeance, villainess, violence, vulgarity, yugo
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Major Payne
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin’ machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school’s JROTC program, a bunch or ragtag losers with no hope. Using such teaching tools as live grenades and real bullets, Payne starts to instill the corp with some hope. But when Payne is recalled to fight in Bosnia, will he leave the corp who has just started the believe in him, or will he find out that killin’ ain’t much of a livin’?
Major Payne DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.20 out of 10 (2555 votes)
Director: Nick Castle
Actors: Damon Wayans, Ross Bickell, Scott ‘Bam Bam’ Bigelow, Joda Blaire, Orlando Brown, Peyton Chesson-Fohl, Stephen Coleman, Mark Conway, David DeHart, Joshua Todd Diveley, Robert Faraoni Jr., Michael Gabel, Albert Hall, William Hickey, Michael Ironside,
Tags: Comedy, army-life, drill-instructor, kukri-dagger, marine-corps-us, marine-hymn, remake, teaching, wetting-pants
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Dead Man
Heading towards a metalworks factory at the edge of the known universe, a pristine, young accountant named William Blake steps into the ungodly, mechanical hell that is the town of Machine. And so begins this man’s descent into purgatory…in the wrong place, at a point where time itself is nonexistent. Blake arrives in Machine after a demented, tireless train ride through what may be his own self. Spanning the beauty of epic horizons and dense forests, yet ending in the bleak misery of the barren desert, we meet this out-of-place traveler in a tiring, strange situation. His frailty is evident: alone, without a living heir, struggling to make his way amidst the freaks and grim destination that awaits. As expected, the town itself begs no welcome, as the malevolent rumors prove true, and leave Blake face to face with the dusty spines of inexorable destiny. In more ways than one, the Wild West awaits… From this point on, Blake embarks on his surrealistic journey into nothingness, as he becomes a marked man running from nearly everyone and everything. Trusting in a Native friend (appropriately named ‘Nobody’), the descent into Blake’s rejection is juxtaposed with the realities of a truly inescapable destiny. As such, the notions of ill fate and bad luck are separately defined alongside each other. Soon enough, however, Blake learns to cope with the road to ruin, and from his relationship with Nobody, he begins to transform into the gunslinging poet he never was.
Dead Man DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.60 out of 10 (12256 votes)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Johnny Depp, Crispin Glover, Gibby Haynes, Richard Boes, George Duckworth, John Hurt, John North, Robert Mitchum, Mili Avital, Peter Schrum, Gabriel Byrne, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd,
Tags: Western, Crime, Adventure, 1870s, accountant, anti-hero, autograph, beach, black-comedy, bounty-hunter, broken-engagement, caged-human, campfire, cannibalism, canoe, city-slicker, cult-favorite, culture-clash, death-of-friend, drugs, dying-man, england, eyeglasses, factory, falsely-accused, flashback-sequence, fugitive, gunshot-wound, hallucination, horse-thief, hotel, independent-film, jealousy, loss-of-son, manufacturer, marshal, mistaken-identity, murder, native-american, new-job, oral-sex, outcast, pacific-northwest, peyote, poetry, police-officer-killed, saloon, shootout, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-neck, shotgun, skull, small-town, stabbed-in-the-hand, throat-slitting, totem-pole, trading-post, train, transvestism, twist-in-the-end, vulgarity, wilderness
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French Kiss
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French Kiss DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.20 out of 10 (8717 votes)
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Jean Reno, François Cluzet, Susan Anbeh, Renée Humphrey, Michael Riley, Laurent Spielvogel, Victor Garrivier, Elisabeth Commelin, Julie Leibowitch, Miquel Brown, Louise Deschamps, Olivier Curdy,
Tags: Romance, Comedy, affair, airplane, american-in-paris, arc-de-triomphe, canada, cheese, citizenship, diamond-necklace, eiffel-tower, engagement-ring, fear-of-flying, france, human-relationship, impotence, paris-france, poker, railroad, smuggling, toronto-ontario, train, vineyard, wine
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Four Rooms
This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It’s New Year’s Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He’s on his first night on the job, when he’s asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster’s kids for him while he’s away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.
Four Rooms DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (12649 votes)
Director: Robert Rodriguez; Allison Anders; Alexandre Rockwell; Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Paul Calderon, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Sammi Davis, Amanda De Cadenet, Valeria Golino, Madonna, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt, Jennifer Beals, David Proval, Antonio Banderas, Lana McKissack, Patricia Vonne, Tamlyn Tomita, Danny Verduzco, Salma Hayek,
Tags: Drama, Comedy, anthology, bathroom-scene, bellhop, bet, bizarre, black-comedy, bondage, brother-sister-relationship, champagne, child, child-smoking-cigarette, chopped-finger, corpse, coven, cult-favorite, cult-movie-cast, dead-prostitute, drunken-phone-call, elevator, film-making, gangster, goddess, hanging-out-window, hostage, hotel, independent-film, interracial-relationship, magic, meat-cleaver, mistaken-identity, mother-daughter-relationship, movie-producer, movie-star, new-year's-eve, nudity, party-hat, precocious-child, retro, satire, scene-during-end-credits, screwball, sex, slapstick, supernatural, surreal, syringe, topless, vulgarity, witch, witchcraft
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Desperado
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, “El Mariachi,” director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of “El Mariachi,” where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.
Desperado DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (20818 votes)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Carlos Gómez, Quentin Tarantino, Tito Larriva, Angel Aviles, Danny Trejo, Abraham Verduzco, Carlos Gallardo, Albert Michel Jr., David Alvarado, Angela Lanza,
Tags: Crime, Thriller, Action, black-comedy, blood, blood-splatter, breasts, broken-leg, confessional, dark-hero, desert-eagle, ex-musician, fall-from-height, filthy-toilet, guitar, guitarist, gun-fu, hitman, knife-throwing, man-with-no-name, mariachi, neck-breaking-scene, organized-crime, remake, revenge, righteous-rage, rough-sex, sawn-off-shotgun, sequel, sex, shootout, shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-back, shot-in-the-forehead, shot-in-the-hand, shot-in-the-head, shot-in-the-leg, shot-in-the-neck, shot-in-the-shoulder, shot-point-blank, shot-to-death, stabbed-in-the-arm, stabbed-in-the-back, villainess, violence, vulgarity
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