Recent viewings

[Jack]

Tooth And Nail (2007) - in a post-apocalyptic world (caused by us running out of gas), a small group of people are living in a hospital.  They bicker a lot.  They don't seem to like each other, and neither did I.  They take in a new girl, and as luck would have it, she's being pursued by a group of cannibalistic rejects from a Mad Max movie.  The kids in the hospital are pretty worthless and weak, so they don't even offer the bad guys much sport in their hunt.  Finally, after about 75 minutes of boredom, there are a couple of good plot twists and one of the characters develops a personality.  So the ending was actually quite good.  Too bad about the first 5/6ths of the movie though.  3/5.

[Doggett]

May
A lonely girl with a lazy eye, who only has a doll for a friend, tries desperately to fit in. She is a little too weird for people and ends up getting rejected. So she....
Its well directed and acted stuff. It wasn't brilliant but it was a pretty good way to fill the time. It has a freaky ending which is always nice.


3.5/5


Monsters Vs. Aliens.
Not as funny as I hoped it would be, but still pretty funny.
Plot ?
Oh, erm, there's some b movie style monsters who fight some aliens. Thats it.

3.5/5

[Doggett]

Triangle.

Hmmm...
What can I say about this without getting into too much detail.
I guess you could say its a murder mystery set on a boat, with a difference...

Oh, I really don't want to spoil it. It's really good though !!!!

4.5/5

[Rev. Powell]

Triangle.

Hmmm...
What can I say about this without getting into too much detail.
I guess you coud say its a murder mystey set on a boat, with a difference...

Oh, I really don't want to spoil it. It's really good though !!!!

4.5/5

I recommend TRIANGLE too.  Watch TIMECRIMES next and compare the two movies. 

[Doggett]

[REC]2

More of the same.

And...oh, you gotta be kidding me...

?!?! !?!?

3/5

[Jack]

b***h Slap (2009) - Some Tarantino wannabe got three hot chicks to star in this movie.  He made them into over-the-top caricatures that couldn't possibly be taken seriously as human beings.  One is a vulgar and violent pit bull, the second is pretty much the same, and the third is an utterly brainless stripper.  Then he made their fake cleavage the centerpiece of every shot.  I guess it didn't occur to him that cleavage is hardly sexy when it's on women you wouldn't want to get within 100 feet of in real life.  Anyhow, these three are criminals and they find out some mob guy has some money hidden out in the desert, so they go looking for it.  In between the numerous flashbacks, various people show up and they swear at them and shoot them.  Being a Tarantino style movie, it has absolutely no substance or really, anything whatsoever, it's all stylized violence and vulgarity.  I'll be very generous and give it a 3/5.

[Jack]

Outerworld (1987) - In the future, an alien spaceship was discovered and the technology gleaned from it resulted in gigantic profits for the corporations.  Now a second alien ship is discovered on a far off planet, and the corporations are anxious to obtain the riches it promises to contain.  A genetically engineered woman, the perfect corporate spy, is sent to steal information on its location from another corporation.  Rather stupidly, her employers tell her they're going to kill her after the mission is over, in order to tie up any loose ends.  Yeah, I didn't really get that either.  Anyhow, she obtains the location of the ship and decides to try to stake out the salvage rights for herself, with the help of a spaceship pilot she teams up with.  So they set off across the galaxy with the corporate bigwigs in hot pursuit.  

This was a really fun good/bad movie!  The special effects are a hoot, whether they're PS2 quality CGI or models straight out of a '60s Italian space opera.  But it's fun to watch and has some very creative and unique touches.  I enjoyed it as least as much as anything George Lucas has done recently with 10,000 times more money.  The acting is bad, and all the dialogue was apparently dubbed, sounding as if the actors were speaking directly into a microphone.  But the characters are clumsily developed and quite likable.  I proclaim it a minor classic in the so bad it's good pantheon    4/5.

[Rev. Powell]

THE WAYWARD CLOUD (): A porn stud romances a shy girl during a drought in Taiwan; four hallucinatory musical numbers describe the character's feelings.  A very strange film mixing graphic sex, song and dance production numbers and almost no story development; give the filmmakers credit for trying something different, but it never jells and is dull most of the time. There are a few standout scenes (the opening watermelon sex scene), but like every shot in the movie they go on for far too long and end up diminishing their own impact.  2/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Don't Look Now (1973) slow boiler starring the john holmes looking guy who played the professor in Animal House. There are alot of 4 and 5 star reviews of this but I think I would agree with Ebert that it's reach most definately exceeds it's grasp. It looks like a giallo because it takes place in Venice and is a kind of vaguely highfalutin sort of murder mystery. with a little tuning up it could have been great. 3/5

[Jack]

Burial of the Rats (1995) - Can't really sum it up any better than the IMDb summary:  "In 19th Century France, a young Bram Stoker is captured by a man-hating, all-female cult of thong bikini wearers."  These babes are almost all hot, all in black leather bikini's, and quite a few with no tops.  Sometimes no bottoms.  A particularly hot one (Maria Ford) falls in love with Bram and after a series of battles between the thong babes and the local militia, they eventually try to make their escape together.  This was probably more enjoyable for guys than gals I would say.  The characters were done pretty well, the plot wasn't bad, action moved along at a fair pace.  I liked    4/5.

[Psycho Circus]

Zombieland (2009)

Not a proper zombie movie, and I didn't care for it. It was watchable, mindless entertainment but it fell flat as both a horror or a comedy. It seemed more like some MTV special than a feature film and I found myself skipping through it around the last half hour. Emma Stone is hot though...

2/5

[Sleepyskull]

Psycho (1960)

This movie was great! The character Norman Bates was excellent! He was creepy, but I also felt sorry for him. He obviously had a tormented life. I liked how he was twitchy and nervous.

12.7 out of 13 stars


Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)  

This movie was enjoyable. I would not call it great, but it was very good. It moved along too fast for my liking. I loved the scene in which the creature was brought to life.

6.3 out of 13 stars

[Doggett]

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

It looked good and the end battle was great. Something was missing though...

3/5

[indianasmith]

VAMPS IN THE CITY . . .

A low-budget spoof of SEX AND THE CITY, with longwinded, gossipy vampires taking the place of longwinded, gossipy cougars.  Dumb jokes, little plot, not even any gratuitous nudity to relieve the tedium.  Avoid this one at all costs.

[Sleepyskull]

I just finished watching: Goodfellas (1990)

Very well done! He is not likable but the character of Tommy DeVito is one of my favorites.
I just loved every scene that had Joe Pesci in it!

13 out of 13 stars