Recent viewings

[claws]

Inception (2010) Blu-ray (Region B)

Leonardo DiCaprio is dreaming, exploring his subconscious and bickering with memories. In Mission: Impossible mode. Original mind-f**k (and dare I say) "fantasy" with dazzling special effects. I barely dodged hype last summer, glad I went into this with a clean slate. 5/5

[Doggett]

Eating Raoul (1982)

A nice, timid couple want to raise money for a resturant. They accidently kill a swinger who has lots of cash and decide that killing perverts might be a good way of making easy money. So they arrange to do sex fantasies for clients (who they then kill with a frying pan). A crook called Raoul enter the story and finds out whats going on. In exchange for keeping quiet, Raoul wants the bodies.

Of course, a handsome man like Raoul around this might cause troubles for the marriage.

This is very funny, very sweet natured stuff. Which involves murder and perverts. 

4/5

[JaseSF]

Some Like It Hot (1959): Running afoul of mobsters, musicians Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon must pose as women in a all-ladies band to avoid ending up in pine boxes. Along the way they meet fellow musician/singer Marilyn Monroe, who soon proves quite the temptation for both men. Can they fool everyone, avoid the mob, and will one of them be successful in wooing Marilyn despite being in drag?

This classic comedy is actually quite good. It's a fun little film that really seems to have its heart in the right place. It manages to be sweet, funny and pull at your heartstrings a little bit too. Marilyn is better than I expected performing a stunning Betty Boop song that should appeal to most men but also delivering believable facial expressions which manage to make her character surprisingly sympathetic throughout this film. Curtis & Lemmon are even better and despite being in drag throughout most of the film, both men seem to be having a blast. A good fun film but I think it might generally be just a little overrated. *** out of ***** stars

Skyrunners (2009): Nick & Tyler Burns (Kelly Blatz and Joey Pollari) are a pair of teenage brothers who stumble across a UFO. With it being pursued by government agents, they decide to hide it in their mother's garage. Eventually they discover the UFO is in reality a living being and it seemingly befriends them and takes them on exciting flights. However these trips have an unexpected impact on the younger brother Tyler giving him super abilities, speeding up his growth and giving him the power to read minds. Eventually an evil alien nasty looking shapeshifting critter tracks down Tyler and abducts him leaving it up to goofy, girl-chasing screwup older brother Nick to come to the rescue.

This plays in predictable Disney TV movie fashion. Overall this feels like a poor castoff cousin of Night of the Explorer mixed with some rather lame superheroics. The twist ending leaves things open for an unwanted sequel. There's very little to recommend it. It all feels like something we've seen done better elsewhere before. * out of ***** stars

[3mnkids]

Mirrors 2~ I'd say it's as good as the first one      The scene in the beginning with the mirrors first victim was a little much for me. I had look away and mute it. 

The shower scene was odd to me...Her figure looked weird but I couldn't put my finger on why. Did anyone else think that?It was distracting.

[Jack]

Survival Island (2006) - Some rich people are out on a yacht, but it sinks and the only survivors are a woman and the dashing young cabin boy.  Doesn't take long before they've got a nice little Blue Lagoon thing going on their own tropical island, but then another  person washes up on shore - the woman's husband.  He's quite the jealous type and it doesn't take long at all before there's quite a feud going between him and the cabin boy.  The wife can't decide which side to choose.  By the end of the movie it's descended into total war.  This was really quite good.  The characters were very well developed and sympathetic.  Mostly.  They all behaved in a very immature manner, but I guess if they had been mature adults we wouldn't have had much of a movie.  And the woman...very easy on the eyes    4/5.

[Rev. Powell]

BIG MONEY RUSTLAS (2010):  Thought this might be good for a laugh; I was wrong!  It's a western comedy, but the gimmick is the stars are the guys from Insane Clown Posse, acting in face paint and ten gallon hats and speaking in hip-hop lingo.  That concept wears thin in about 5 minutes, and the rest of the jokes are pure corn.  You may like this if you like Troma comedies, but it has far less craziness and no nudity.  2/5 (and I think I'm being a little generous).     

FAWLTY TOWERS (THE COMPLETE SERIES) (1975/1979):  Snobbish, razor-tongued Basil Fawlty endures a shrewish wife and a series of self-caused misadventures while trying to attract a higher class of client to his seaside hotel.  This may be the best sitcom ever written; the verbal wit is fast, the farcical plots are brilliant, and there's even a significant amount of slapstick.  5/5.     

[lester1/2jr]

Metal Skin (1994) - I saw Romper Stomper when I was in college. I didn't have a big interest in skinheads, they'd kind of had their day at least in the mainstream spotlight (remember Geraldo?)  by the mid 90's but the movie still kicked ass and was really just the typical movie a college kid would go see at a small theatre and be blown away by.

This is by the same guy and also follows a subculture, this time illegal drag racing. It's been a long time since I saw Romper Stomper so I can't draw that many comparisons but the women here are simlarly nihilisticly sexual and crazy though the whole thing isn't quite as over the top.  

The main character is 20 ish guy named Joe, sometimes called Psycho Joe by his enemies, who has some combination of Aspergers and just stupidity and lives a depressing existence with his Dad who has lost it and fires guns everywhere. He is really good with cars though, especially crazy drag racing ones with weird tubes in the engines and whatnot. Not so good with the girls and alot of this is his painful attempts to get with various of them. He meets up with a guy named Dazey who is the polar opposite, he pretty much bangs all the girls Psycho Joe wants. You hate him already right? Drag racing, cat food stealing and debouchery ensue.

While the ending was a little more anguished and the main character seemed a little bit too good looking to be playing this contant second fiddle to the other guy I have to say I haven't been this impressed with a movie in a while. It's pretty much everything you want out of a foreign film. Edgy in all the right places and the director shows real mastery, particularly in the first half, second half dragged just a little bit. This one girl being an out and out satan worshipper and doing all this weird stuff was a colorful touch.

4.75/ 5

[Trekkie313]

The Man Who Fell To Earth, it was not what I expected!

The cinematography, acting and visual style are great. But the story lags in some places...especially since its nearly half-way through the film that they tell you why David Bowie is on Earth.

The DVD and Blu-Ray are OOP.

[claws]

1408: Extended Director's Cut (2007) (Blu-ray) (Region B)
- Why the Director's Cut was never released to Blu-ray in the U.S. remains a mystery. It's no mystery that the folded toilet paper continues to freak me out 
One of the better based on Stephen King book movies. 4.5/5

[Doggett]

A Muppets Christmas Carol (1992)

I'm sure you've all seen this.
Its wonderful. Great songs, humor, Christmas feeling. Fantasic.


4/5

[indianasmith]

Last night I watched a French zombie film called MUTANT.  A lady doctor named Sophie and her boyfriend Marco are fleeing a zombie outbreak/apocalypse in an ambulance and wind up taking shelter in an abandoned hospital.  Sophie has been bitten but healed completely - she is apparently immune to the virus that transforms everyone else into undead mutant flesh-munchers.  But Marco is not, so when he gets bitten she tries infusing him with her blood to slow or stop his transformation.  Most of the movie is the pain and trauma as she watches him transform slowly into an undead mutant. But the drama kicks back in when four desperate survivalists crash into the hospital hoping to steal the ambulance and, of course, wind up letting a bunch of zombies in.  Will Marco retain enough of his humanity to save Sophie?  Will the army choppers get there in time to evacuate her?  Will any of the survivalists survive?

This was actually a pretty decent zombie movie with some new twists.  Definitely worth catching.

[lester1/2jr]

nightmare at something creek (1988)- the 80's weren't too kind to lindsey wagner. She was smoking hot as the bionic woman but here she looks like a gym teacher. was that rude? would it be more polite to say "this movie is veryLifetime-eque" ? it means the same thing. anyway, this is a largely mediocre made for tv movie about 3 women and one of their daughters who gets caught in a stand off with white power guys in the mountains. I have no idea why they were targetted. Tom Skerrit is the hero. His name is Ding or something and he and his nice dog are on the ladies team.

They go up the mountain on a tourist horse trip thing and get stuck and thats when the s**t for some reason hits the fan. They go through the motions of the thing, like an italian jungle movie with better pacing and no nudity or gore.. it wasn't techincally bad but I was relieved when it was over. It was just really alot like something that would be on tv that I wouldn't even watch,

2.5/5

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

BIG MONEY RUSTLAS (2010):  Thought this might be good for a laugh; I was wrong!  It's a western comedy, but the gimmick is the stars are the guys from Insane Clown Posse, acting in face paint and ten gallon hats and speaking in hip-hop lingo.  That concept wears thin in about 5 minutes, and the rest of the jokes are pure corn.  You may like this if you like Troma comedies, but it has far less craziness and no nudity.  2/5 (and I think I'm being a little generous).

We used to drink and watch BIG MONEY RUSTLAS a lot. it was so horrible because it was lingering on seriousness. I heard they tried putting more comedy into this and it was also terrible but not watchable terrible.


Watched about 6 minutes of Transylmania and shut it off. I just wasn't expecting it to be that bad.

[3mnkids]

The city of lost children~ A crazy scientist kidnaps children for their dreams.

I really love this movie. It's weird, creepy, and dark, but beautiful(If ya like that sorta thing and I do)      

[RCMerchant]

The city of lost children~ A crazy scientist kidnaps children for their dreams.

I really love this movie. It's weird, creepy, and dark, but beautiful(If ya like that sorta thing and I do)      

Great movie! Very good! I thought I was the only one who ever seen this!