Archive for January, 1996
Trainspotting
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who’s never touched drugs but can’t help being curious about them…
Trainspotting DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 8.00 out of 10 (60691 votes)
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Shirley Henderson, Stuart McQuarrie, Irvine Welsh, Dale Winton,
Tags: Drama, Crime, Comedy, addiction, aids, baby, bar-brawl, based-on-novel, bathroom-scene, bb-gun, betrayal, black-comedy, breasts, cannabis, cold-turkey, controversial, cult-favorite, death-of-child, defecation-scene, drug-addiction, drug-dealing, drug-overdose, drug-rehabilitation, drugs, fake-gun, female-nudity, filthy-toilet, goal, hallucination, heroin, hit-in-crotch, human-excrement, human-relationship, independent-film, infant, james-bond, job-interview, kicked-in-the-crotch, kitten, loss-of-child, loss-of-friend, male-frontal-nudity, montgomery-clift, narration, nightmare, nipples, nudity, psychopath, real-estate-agent, revenge, rhyming-slang, robbery, schoolgirl-uniform, scotland, scottish-accent, sex, sex-scene, sex-with-minor, soccer, soccer-fan, suppository, surreal, temper, terminal-illness, time-lapse-photography, toilet, tragedy, tragic-incident, transvestite, underage-sex, video-tape, violence, voice-over, vulgarity, woman-on-top
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Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
“Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood” is a parody of a lot of Afro-American movies, for instance “Boyz N the Hood”, “South Central”, “Menace II Society”, “Higher Learning” and “Juice”. We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. A lot of crazy stuff happens, for example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog’s grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.90 out of 10 (4378 votes)
Director: Paris Barclay
Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Vivian Smallwood, Chris Spencer, Helen Martin, Suli McCullough, Darrell Heath, Isaiah Barnes, Lahmard J. Tate, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Dora Everson, Keith Morris, Craig Wayans, Casey Lee,
Tags: Crime, Comedy, african-american, black-comedy, desert-eagle, drive-by-shooting, gang, gangsta-grip, idiot, independent-film, racial-slur, spoof
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Mars Attacks!
President James Dale of the United States and his right-hand man, Jerry Ross discover that an army of Martian UFOs are hovering around the Earth, and everyone has a different response. Some, like Texan alcohol dealer Art Land and slimy nesman Jason Black, just want to make a profit out of it. Others, such as TV hostess Nathalie Lake, Land’s spiritualist wife Barbara, and the Southern-like Norris family, are excited, and some, like Dale’s wife, Marsha, and daughter, Taffy, don’t care. Richie Norris is extremely intelligent but is only respected by his insane grandmother, while his older brother Billy is favored for joining the army. General Decker doesn’t trust the Martians and insist they fight, but General Casey is more optimistic. The Martians appear to come in peace but suddenly begin to use their super-powerful and technologically advanced weapons to wipe out the population and great structures. Soon, they attack Las Vegas, where the Norrises are living, where former heavyweight champion Byron Williams is visiting, where an obnoxious lawyer is gambling, and where Tom Jones is performing in concerts.
Mars Attacks! DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.10 out of 10 (31675 votes)
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Jim Brown, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie,
Tags: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actors-playing-themselves, alien, alien-attack, alien-invasion, ambassador, aquarium, b-movie, based-on-comic, based-on-trading-cards, black-comedy, boxing, casino, cattle, chandelier, chihuahua, crushed-to-death, death, desert, disaster, dog, donut, dysfunctional, end-of-the-world, ensemble-cast, exploding-head, fall-from-height, first-lady, head, homage, invasion, las-vegas-nevada, loss-of-wife, mars, martian, mass-destruction, military, miniaturization, mount-rushmore, nostalgia, part-computer-animation, person-on-fire, ray-gun, satire, scientist, secret-service, severed-finger, severed-hand, severed-head, skeleton, space, spacecraft, spy, stabbed-in-the-back, surreal, teen, television, theremin, tortoise, trailer-park, trailer-trash, transplant, u.s.-congress, u.s.-president, ufo, washington-d.c., weapon, white-house, x-rayed-skeleton, yodeling
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From Dusk Till Dawn
The Gecko brothers are fugitives, and are on the run after a very interesting bank robbery. They kidnap the Fuller family, and drive to a Mexican bar to meet with other on-the-run criminals. It turns out the crooks in the bar are vampires, and if the Gecko brothers and the Fuller family can survive from dusk until dawn, the “crooks” will let em’ go. Directed by Robert Rodriguez Screenplay by Quentin Tarentino
From Dusk Till Dawn DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.80 out of 10 (32882 votes)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini, Fred Williamson, Michael Parks, Brenda Hillhouse, John Saxon, Marc Lawrence, Kelly Preston,
Tags: Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Action, actor-playing-multiple-roles, anti-hero, bitten-in-the-throat, blood, boa-constrictor, brother, creature, crossbow, dance, dead-boy, death-of-brother, decapitation, dungeon, ethnic-slur, exploding-body, exploding-head, explosion, foot-fetish, fugitive, gay-slur, gore, gun, heart-in-hand, hell, hole-in-hand, holy-water, holy-water-balloon, holy-water-gun, hostage, independent-film, knife-in-hand, loss-of-faith, media-coverage, mexico, money, monster, morphing, murder, neck-breaking-scene, obscene-finger-gesture, on-the-run, person-on-fire, pool-cue, preacher, psychopath, racism, rape, recreational-vehicle, road, severed-arm, severed-head, shape-shifter, shot-in-the-head, shot-to-death, showdown, siege, slit-throat, splatter, stabbed-in-the-hand, strip-club, stripper, subliminal-message, supernatural, texas-ranger, torso-cut-in-half, truck-driver, twist-in-the-end, vampire, vampire-bat, vampire-slayer, villainess, violence, vulgarity, zombie
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Mission: Impossible
Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan’s the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps’ wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won’t be easy.
Mission: Impossible DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.60 out of 10 (38179 votes)
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave, Dale Dye, Marcel Iures, Ion Caramitru, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Valentina Yakunina, Marek Vasut, Nathan Osgood,
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, Action, aquarium, based-on-tv-series, betrayal, biblical, blockbuster, channel-tunnel, cia, computer, computer-cracker, elevator-scene, elevator-shaft, email, espionage, faking-own-death, falsely-accused, fugitive, gadget, heist, helicopter, high-concept, internet, mask, mistaken-identity, murder, prague, remake, secret-agent, spy, spy-hero, tgv, train, twist-in-the-end
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English Patient, The
Beginning in the 1930’s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
English Patient, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.10 out of 10 (27970 votes)
Director: Anthony Minghella
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jürgen Prochnow, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Rühring, Geordie Johnson, Torri Higginson,
Tags: War, Romance, Drama, 1930s, 1940s, airplane-accident, amnesia, art, assisted-suicide, bagpipe, based-on-novel, bathtub-scene, beach, betrayal, biplane, blockbuster, bomb-disposal, booby-trap, book, buried-alive, burn-victim, cairo-egypt, canadian, car-accident, caravan, cartographer, cave-painting, cavern, christmas, church, count, cuckold, dancing, desert, dinner-party, doomed-love, drawing, eavesdropping, egypt, english, escape, expedition, extramarital-affair, face-slap, famous-score, female-frontal-nudity, field-hospital, fire, hungarian, independent-film, interracial-relationship, interrogation, italy, jump-from-train, landmine, loss-of-husband, love, marriage, minesweeper, monastery, morphine, movie-theater, nonlinear-timeline, north-africa, nurse, ownership, paratrooper, piano, premarital-sex, profanity, promise, reading, revenge, sahara, sandstorm, santa-claus-suit, severed-thumb, shampoo, shepherd's-hotel, signal-flare, sikh, spy, statue, stranded, tank, thief, thunderstorm, tobruk, torture, tragedy, train, ve-day, wwii
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Sgt. Bilko
This movie is a remake of the hit series which starred, Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko. In this movie, Bilko is played by Steve Martin. Bilko tuns the motor pool and has all sorts of scams going on like gambling, renting out military vehicles, and so on, which are all violations. However, his commanding officer, Colonel Hall overlooks them, cause he is more concerned about his future, cause a lot of bases are being closed, and the inspector, Major Thorn was on the verge of doing that. But when he heard that Bilko was on the base, he turned into a mad dog. It seems that Thorn was a “thorn” in Bilko’s side many years ago but through a series of misunderstandings, Thorn was accused of carrying out or being the brains behind one of Bilko’s schemes, he would be sent to Greenland and his career has not gone as he hoped it would and now wants revenge on Bilko.
Sgt. Bilko DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 5.10 out of 10 (4275 votes)
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Actors: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Daryl Mitchell, Max Casella, Eric Edwards, Dan Ferro, John Marshall Jones, Brian Leckner, John Ortiz, Pamela Adlon, Mitchell Whitfield, Austin Pendleton, Chris Rock,
Tags: Comedy, based-on-tv-series, military, prototype-tank
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Jerry Maguire
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he’s really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?
Jerry Maguire DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 7.30 out of 10 (39203 votes)
Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O’Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Jared Jussim, Benjamin Kimball Smith, Ingrid Beer,
Tags: Sport, Romance, Drama, Comedy, american-football, black-romance, blockbuster, consciousness, egotism, friendship, greed, loneliness, loyalty, marriage, mission-statement, money, mother-son-relationship, product-placement, quitting-job, sign-language, singing-in-car, single-parent, sister, sports-agent, title-spoken-by-character
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