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Aliens (1986)
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller [USA:R, 2 h 34 min]
Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser
Director: James Cameron
The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors — if any remain. (IMDb)
Critical reception:
Test and pre-screenings were unable to take place for Aliens due to the film not being completed until its week of release. Once it was released in cinemas, critical reaction was generally positive to very positive. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it “painfully and unremittingly intense” and a “superb example of filmmaking craft.” He also stated “when I walked out of the theater, there were knots in my stomach from the film’s roller-coaster ride of violence.” Walter Goodman of The New York Times said it was a “flaming, flashing, crashing, crackling blow-’em-up show that keeps you popping from your seat despite your better instincts and the basically conventional scare tactics.” Time magazine featured the film on the cover of its July 28, 1986, issue, calling it the “summer’s scariest movie”. Time reviewer Richard Schickel declared the film “a sequel that exceeds its predecessor in the reach of its appeal while giving Weaver new emotional dimensions to explore.” The selection of Aliens for a Time cover was attributed to the successful reception of the film, as well as its novel example of a science fiction action heroine. Echoing Time’s assessment, Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader called the film “one sequel that surpasses the original.” Gene Siskel gave the film a negative review, describing Aliens as “one extremely violent, protracted attack on the senses” and that “toward the end, the film resorts to placing a young girl in jeopardy in a pathetic attempt to pander to who knows what audience. Some people have praised the technical excellence of Aliens. Well, the Eiffel Tower is technically impressive, but I wouldn’t want to watch it fall apart on people for two hours.” (Wikipedia)
Cry of the City (1948)
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance [USA:Passed, 1 h 35 min]
Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters
Director: Robert Siodmak
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.2/10 (1,122 votes)
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles’ allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he’ll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him? (IMDb)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Crime, Drama [2 h 1 min]
Kim Stanley, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke, Maria Kazan
Director: Bryan Forbes
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★☆
Inside Out (2015)
Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family [USA:PG, 1 h 34 min]
Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader
Directors: Ronaldo Del Carmen, Pete Docter
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★★☆ 8.8/10 (22,339 votes)
When a young girl named Riley is uprooted from her Midwestern lifestyle and moves to the busy and chaotic San Francisco, her emotions; Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and (her most important emotion) Joy, start to disagree on how to deal with this dramatic change, which causes problems up in Headquaters, the central living and working place for the five emotions. IMDb
House II: The Second Story (1987)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror [USA:PG-13, 1 h 28 min]
Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Bill Maher
Director: Ethan Wiley
IMDb rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 5.3/10 (7,094 votes)
House II: The Second Story (also released as La Casa Di Helen or informally as La Casa 6) is a 1987 American comedy horror film and sequel to the 1986 film House. While a sequel, the film ignores the storyline and characters from the first film, in favor of a new supernatural comedy. The film’s tone was much lighter than the original film. (Wikipedia)
Asylum (1972/I)
Horror [USA:PG, 1 h 28 min]
Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing
Director: Roy Ward Baker
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 6.5/10 (3,221 votes)
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about 1) the revenge of a murdered wife, 2) a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, 3) a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and 4) a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads. (IMDb)
The Monster Club (1981)
Comedy, Horror [USA:Unrated, 1 h 44 min]
Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Stuart Whitman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 5.9/10 (1,701 votes)
A writer of horror stories is invited to a “monster club” by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs. (IMDb)
Critical reception:
The film was released to cinemas in the UK on 24 May 1981. (Wikipedia)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
a.k.a. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Horror, Thriller [USA:R, 1 h 23 min]
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail
Director: Tobe Hooper
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 7.5/10 (85,306 votes)
A group of five hippies on a road trip through the backwaters of 1970’s rural Texas fall prey to a murderous cannibalistic family making up of a leather-masked chainsaw-wielding maniac, his knife-wielding grave robber brother, and their cannibal chief father and decaying grandfather. (IMDb)
The Vault of Horror (1973)
Horror, Mystery [USA:PG, 1 h 27 min]
Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Mike Pratt, Erik Chitty
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims’ deaths. (IMDb)
Masters of the Universe is the He-Man live action movie from the 80’s that a lot of people have willfully erased from their memories, and the rest have just never bothered to watch. The movie stars Dolph Lundgren as He-Man, Principal Strickland from Back to the Future 2 as a dick cop, some guy who plays 80’s synthesizers and looks like Judge Reinhold, and a pre-fame Courtney Cox who totally became my celebrity crush after repeatedly watching this movie on VHS.
Master’s of the Universe begins with the evil Skeletor attacking Castle Greyskull and capturing a benevolent sorceress then slowly robbing her of power. He-Man, with only like two other people backing him up tries to go to the rescue, and chops a bunch of people up with his sword which makes crazy sparking effects on contact like the power rangers weapons did. There’s lots of lazer blasting and 80’s special effects as Skeletor and He-Man eventually cross swords (heh), but Skeletor ends up whooping his ass prompting He-Man and his team to escape into a dimensional wormhole which leads them to 80’s motherfucking USA [Insert Keytar solo here].
The reason for the wormholes is something known as a Cosmic Key, which makes jammin sounds, and was made by a yoda-esque dwarf character named Gwildor. Unfortunately the key gets lost during the wormhole jump and is picked up by Judge Reinhold’s doppelganger who thinks it’s a new synthesizer and starts jamming the fuck out on it. Skeletor gets pissed off and sends some of his monster henchmen after the team of wayward heroes, and to reclaim the lost cosmic key, while the heroes race against time to destroy Skeletor and save Greyskull and the Sorceress.
Much like nearly every movie shot in the 80s, Masters of the Universe was a vehicle to sell toys from the He-Man lineup; a fairly unoriginal knock-off of the Conan the Barbarian character which nonetheless became extremely popular. The movie itself did not, becoming both a critical and financial failure. The reasons are obvious: the dialogue is corny, the jokes are cheesy, 80’s new wave was on the way out making room for dance music and hip hop, and the He-Man toy line was also starting to slow down in popularity.
The sets looked like they were made out of styrofoam, the CGI was decent for the time, but has aged very poorly, and the overall story was a plodding 90 minute cliche. All things considered though, the movie isn’t actually that bad; it’s got a certain charm to it, and the people performing their roles seem to actually think there’s something to this film giving it an air of conviction that may or may not exist. Also seeing Dolph Lundgren run around in a speedo around 80’s LA or wherever it was supposed to be is amusing enough on its own.
TL;DR — 7/10
Yeah, the movie isn’t great, and yeah 7 seems like a pretty high score for what essentially amounted to a cheesy b-movie, but like I said: this movie was good enough that eight year old me was able to watch it numerous times in a week, and that means it got two things right: it was entertaining, and kids were able to watch it numerous times. Seeing that this is what the movie was aiming to achieve, it gets a nice boost, and is recommended for any fans of He-Man, B-movie cinema, and general 80’s nonsense.
Xin qi long zhu (1991)
a.k.a. Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins (1991)
Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi [1 h 26 min]
Chi-chiang Chen, Jeannie Tse, Tung-Chuen Cheng, San Peng
Director: Chun-Liang Chen
IMDb rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 4.2/10 (856 votes)
This live-action version of the popular Japanese animated series Dragon Ball. A villainous king known as Emperor Horn has stolen the mystical power of the “Dragon Pearls” in an attempt to possess them all and rule the world! When all but one of the pearls has been stolen, the former rag-tag group of guardian heroes (led by Goku) of the mysterious magic jewels decides to band together and take some big action! Led by a pig-headed wizard and a half-turtle martial arts master, the team first takes on King Horn’s army in a desperate bid to stop him from gaining control of the Dragon Pearls. (IMDb)
Long men fei jia (2011)
a.k.a. Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Action, Adventure [USA:R, 2 h 2 min]
Jet Li, Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Lun Mei Gwei
Director: Hark Tsui
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6.0/10 (5,818 votes)
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a 2011 wuxia film directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Gwei Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and New Dragon Gate Inn (1992). Production started on 10 October 2010 and is filmed in 3-D. The film screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. The film received seven nominations at the 2012 Asian Film Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. (Wikipedia)
Sci-Fi
Hussain Kuwajerwala, Paresh Ganatra, Rio Kapadia, Shivani Tanksale
Director: Rajesh Bachchani
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6.0/10 (168 votes)
Shree, an ordinary man, works at a telecom company. In love with Sonu but cannot marry yet as need to make some basic money. Randhawa, a wealthy businessman, in his ceaseless pursuit of power, has zeroed in on Shree as his last guinea pig. Shree is the last piece of puzzle of a scientific experiment, devised by a brilliant scientist, supported by commissioner of police and funded by Randhawa. If successful, it could change the fate of their lives and that of the whole world. Lured in by promise of a bright and successful future, Shree trade in 12 hours of his life. Randhawa offers him 20 lakhs for participating in a experiment which will last for 12 hours. He trust them and needs the money, excitedly Shree trade in 12 hours of his life. But as soon as these 12 hours start, he finds that his simple life has been turned upside down. Accused of murdering the scientist, the commissioner of police and many more people. Shree an ordinary man, now is the most wanted man in the city. Now must use his wit and intelligence to prove his innocence. Now he must rise above the ordinary, and become Extraordinary. (IMDb)
Starred Up (2013)
Drama [USA:Not Rated, 1 h 46 min]
Jack O’Connell, Gilly Gilchrist, Frederick Schmidt, Edna Caskey
Director: David Mackenzie
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.4/10 (22,977 votes)
Eric Love (O’Connell) is a 19 year old teenager who is so violent he has been ‘Starred Up’ (Moved to Adult prison) where he finds his father Neville (Mendelsohn) who Eric hasn’t seen since he was 5 (since he was put into care). Neville tries to get Eric to settle down, so Eric gets a chance to go through therapy with Oliver (Friend). (IMDb)
Starred Up received critical acclaim by critics and at festivals, for its acting (particularly for Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn and Rupert Friend), David Mackenzie’s direction, realism, and the father-son dynamic of Asser’s screenplay. Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 99% of critics gave the film a “Certified Fresh” rating, based on 101 reviews with an average score score of 7.9/10, with the site’s consensus stating, “Smart, hard-hitting, and queasily realistic, Starred Up is an instant classic of U.K. prison cinema.” Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 81 (out of 100) based on 26 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be “universal acclaim”. (Wikipedia)
La morte viene dallo spazio (1958)
a.k.a. The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
Sci-Fi [1 h 22 min]
Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Madeleine Fischer, Ivo Garrani
Director: Paolo Heusch
IMDb rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 4.3/10 (410 votes)
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Action, Horror [USA:R, 1 h 32 min]
Shô Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, David Chung
Director: Sam Firstenberg
IMDb rating: ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆ 4.8/10 (2,206 votes)
Young Adam (2003)
Crime, Drama [USA:NC-17, 1 h 38 min]
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer
Director: David Mackenzie
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 6.5/10 (10,854 votes)
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe’s past relationship with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge. (IMDb)
Critical reception:
It holds a 62% rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 119 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The critical consensus states that the film is a “A grim mood piece with good performances from the leads.” (Wikipedia)
http://friendsinyourhead.com/primer/ ←-SPOILER TO THE WHOLE MOVIE, AND VERY LONG!
And the most detailed diagram of the plot I’ve seen so far.
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Primer (2004)
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller [USA:PG-13, 1 h 17 min]
Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Director: Shane Carruth
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.0/10 (61,063 votes)
At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can’t have, what do you want when you can have anything? (IMDb)
Gimme an ‘F’ (1984)
Comedy [USA:R, 1 h 41 min]
Stephen Shellen, Mark Keyloun, Jennifer Cooke, Beth Miller
Director: Paul Justman
IMDb rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 4.2/10 (366 votes)
Can a squad of misfit cheerleaders with an over-age trainer possibly win the big cheerleading competition? Looked down upon by the other teams, it will be an difficult. Their lack of skill and talent make it even harder. (IMDb)
Na-eui sa-lang na-eui sin-boo (2014)
a.k.a. My Love, My Bride (2014)
Comedy, Romance [1 h 51 min]
Jung-suk Jo, Min-a Shin, Seong-woo Bae, Mu-song Jeon
Director: Chan-sang Lim
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 6.5/10 (117 votes)
My Love, My Bride (Hangul: 나의 사랑 나의 신부; RR: Naui Sarang Naui Sinbu) is a 2014 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Jo Jung-suk and Shin Min-ah. (Wikipedia)
The Butcher (2006)
Horror, Thriller [USA:R, 1 h 30 min]
Bill Jacobson, Tom Nagel, Alan Ritchson, Nick Stellate
Director: Edward Gorsuch
IMDb rating: ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆ 3.6/10 (1,244 votes)
While driving to Las Vegas with his college friends Rachel, Liz, Atlanta, Sophie and Adam, the selfish and wealthy Mark decides to take a shortcut. Mark stresses with the driver of an old tow truck, and suddenly he sees a woman crossing the road and has a serious car accident. His friend Liz dies, and Mark and Adam run after the girl, who is wounded. The group decides to seek help while Atlanta stays with the severed body of Liz in the car. They find an old house in the woods where a family of psychopaths lives and they are chased by the insane family. (IMDb)
Critical reception:
Mitchell Hattaway, writing for DVD Verdict, gave a negative review. He said that “The Butcher was shot on cheap digital videotape, and the disc’s transfer is flat, dull, and noisy. There is little channel separation in the stereo soundtrack, and dialogue sounds tinny and canned. An assortment of previews is the only bonus feature. I would be remiss if I didn’t give the filmmakers props for their one original idea: I’m pretty sure this is the only movie in the history of cinema in which a character is killed by being drowned in a bathtub filled with strawberry Nestlé’s Quik. Eat your heart out, Mr. Hitchcock.” HorrorTalk wrote that “Right off the bat, The Butcher is going to be a love-it or hate-it film for most, due to the fact that its sole purpose of being nothing more than a torture horror film at its most basic level.” DreadCentral wrote that: “Originally entitled The Harvest, Lionsgate realized that was just too generic and changed it to the almost nearly as generic The Butcher. Considering the film doesn’t seem to have an original idea in its body or any intention of even trying to come up with an original idea or the ability to do anything even remotely creative with its recycled material, a more fitting title would have been The Nevada Wrong Turn Massacre.” (Wikipedia)
“Denei Shoujo Ai” (1992)
Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi [USA:Not Rated, 2 h 54 min]
Masaki Aizawa, Ryûzô Ishino, Takeshi Kusao, Yuuichi Nagashima
Director: Mizuho Nishikubo
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 7.9/10 (509 votes)
Because Youta worried for another instead of dwelling on his own broken heart, he happened upon a very special video store that only the pure of heart can see. There, he buys what he thinks is a normal erotic video — until a girl climbs out of his television set. Her name is Ai, and thanks to a broken VCR, her personality is a little glitchy. Still, it’s her job to help Youta feel better, and perhaps even help him get the girl of his dreams, even if Ai herself might be falling for him as well. (IMDb)
Himiko (1974)
Drama, Fantasy, History [1 h 40 min]
Shima Iwashita, Masao Kusakari, Rie Yokoyama, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.1/10 (124 votes)
Himiko (Japanese: 卑弥呼) is a 1974 Japanese fantasy-drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival Feature Film Competition. (Wikipedia)
Sweet Movie (1974)
Comedy, Drama [USA:Unrated, 1 h 38 min]
Carole Laure, Pierre Clémenti, Anna Prucnal, Sami Frey
Director: Dusan Makavejev link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3N37cgU5rs
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6.3/10 (3,581 votes)
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she’s in a fetal position, until everyone’s rescued by reminders that “it’s just a movie.” (IMDb)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Horror, Romance, Thriller [USA:Not Rated, 1 h 45 min]
Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore, Janae Caster, Colton Osborne
Director: James Nguyen
IMDb rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 1.8/10 (11,592 votes)
A platoon of eagles and vultures attacks the residents of a small town. Many people die. It’s not known what caused the flying menace to attack. Steve,Nate,Aaron, and David manage to fight back, with death totals rising high they strike back hard and fast, but will they survive Birdemic? (IMDb)
Critical reception:
Birdemic has been noted for its poor quality, with reviewers calling out its wooden acting and dialogue, amateurish sound and editing, nonsensical plot and, in particular, its special effects, consisting entirely of poorly rendered CGI eagles and vultures that, in addition to performing physically awkward aerial maneuvers (non-animated bird sprites in the background will simply rotate 360° in mid-air), spit acid and explode with unrealistic smoke upon impact with the ground with a plane dive sound effect. It has also been noted that the birds do not appear until 47 minutes into the film, nearly half way into it. (Wikipedia)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Comedy, Drama [USA:R, 1 h 58 min]
Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill
Director: William Friedkin
IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 7.7/10 (2,555 votes)
It’s Harold’s birthday, and his closest friends throw him a party at Michael’s apartment. Among Harold’s presents is “Cowboy”, since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he’s getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty turn as the men become drunker. Climaxed by a cruel telephone “game” where each man must call someone and tell him (or her?) of his love for them. (IMDb)
Critical reception:
The film has a pure 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 15 reviews. (Wikipedia)
self loathing and terror of being outed as lgbt was very real at that time, i was 20 in 1970. the real changes being made started back then, with the Stonewall riots..there were pockets of lgbt communities but when I was a kid no one even knew lgbt folks existed (50s) except in their own communities. things have truly changed for the better. and this movie was made before the AIDS crisis, which really rallied the gay community to be recognized..add the internet, tolerance, young people with open minds, and now we can look at how fast the changes have come since I was young.
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