Recent viewings

[lester1/2jr]

The EVil Mind- It's not an evil mind at all but who cares. A guy with a corny "Nightmare Alley" type mind reader show gets the ability to actually predict events because he sees this particular woman in the audience. Why does she have this effect on him? They dn't really go into into it. Also, he has this ability but he only makes a couple of predictions, what does his show that becomes all the rage consist of post-thing? Who knows. So a few little holes here and there but it's a "fun little movie" that I say deserves a slightly better cheapo DVD release. On a disk with "the MOst Dangerous Game" as the alluring Fay Wray is in both. Sh's hotter in MDG

3.75/5 worth checking out

Big Rig (2007) very good doc about people who drive big rigs. There's no Morgan Spurlock or Michael Moore there giving you factoids and jokes, it's just some interviews, you'd think the best parts, of alot of different truckers. There is a black guy and a couple women and p**sed off native american but white guys. Some harrowing tales of accidents, complaints about inflation which has hurt them particularly hard and the sense that the job is getting less fubn for various reasons and,you know, America is on the wrong path and whatnot. They rarely interview anyone more than once so it stays fresh. Not as depressing as I am making it out to be. Highly recommended 5/5

[odinn7]

Lucio Fulci's 1979 crapfest...Zombie. Actually, it wasn't all that bad. The acting was horrible and the makeup on the zombies looked like clay but since it was my 5th or 6th time viewing it, I must not dislike it too much. I do have to say though, the scene with the shark was completely ridiculous.

[bob]

this is beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the most powerful films I have ever seen

at a little over 3 hours it is paced perfectly

The film depicts the trial of certain judges who served during the Nazi regime in Germany

5/5 highly recommened

[RCMerchant]

the MIST (2007)-well done adaption of the Stephan King story. Good acting...scary critters....loved the ending,which differs from the book...but it works well.
DISTRICT 9 (2009)-Enjoyable sci fi hokem about aliens being stranded in slums on earth. Nice location footage in South Africa. There ya go,Trev!

[Jack]

Knock, Knock (2007) - a masked slasher is killing off the students at a high school.  He really chops them up in some horrible ways - one guy is found with his decapitated head piled on top of all his intestines, with his severed hand on the pile too, just for good measure.  A girl is gutted like a deer and left hanging naked from her shower curtain rod.  The only halfway competent cop in the town is a retired detective - it's funny.  They bring in some mildly retarded guy for questioning, but the detective knows he's not the guy.  How you may ask?  Because the coroner's reports say the victims were murdered by someone who was right handed, but this guy is left handed.  "You're amazing."  One of the other cops tells the detective.  There's also some "sexy" female detective in one of those good buddy / hate-your-guts type relationships with the retired detective.  I dunno, the acting in this is so bad it's hard to tell if that was intentional or not.  The plot and the brutality of the murders kept it interesting, and the terrible acting and inappropriate theme music kept it amusing.  3.75/5.

[claws]

"Masters of Horror" Homecoming (2005)

Deceased soldiers of the war come back to life, looking for a few good men.

Brilliant and provoking MOH Episode that p**sed many people off. So glad nothing offends me  5/5

[Rev. Powell]

BEDWAYS (2010): A female director wants to make an arty erotic film but never actually gets started.  There's a few moments of explicit sex, but this is a German art film, so the characters pause to wonder whether God exists, quote Foucalt, and watch an industrial dance music band whose singer gyrates like one of the dancers from"Sprockets."  This pretentious film is guilty of a crime against humanity: it makes sex boring.  Easily the worst movie I've seen all year. 0.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

Derby- not for all tastes but I really liked this 2 in 1 doc about the world of roller derby, thats one part, and this guy who wants to be in it. The review in shock cinema said the guy was a jerk and his part of the movie was terrible but I disagree. He is pretty much a jerk but an entertaining one. The style of the film is not exactly artsy or pretentious but it has a good amount of space and stuff in real time and so forth. Again, not for all tastes. I'm not terribly interested in roller derby other than as a funky 70's artifact and wouldn't watch it for more than 20 seconds probably but the people in this are into it and they fill like Madison Square Garden I think at one point. I was marginally interested in the roller derby stuff but the guy's life with his layabout brother and various girlfriends and whatnot was more memorable to me. 5/5

[tracy]

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape"....excellent character study about a young man trying to keep his family together while longing to get away. Leonardo DiCaprio plays his 18 year old brother who is mentally challenged and I feel he should have won for Best Supporting Actor.

[bob]

I found this to be cliched, but the story was good

if I had a 3d TV I might have been able to over look the cliches

3/5

[Vik]

Made in U.S.A.
Very interesting film, I can now see where Tarantino had the name-censor thing from in Kill Bill.

[Jack]

Finished watching season 1 of The Walking Dead.  I really like that they did a serious zombie apocalypse TV series.  On the other hand, the characters just are not sympathetic and other than the main character, we don't get to know any of them enough to care about their plight.  The plot is full of holes;  I originally complimented the show on its realism and attention to detail, but by about the third episode it stopped making sense.  For instance, our group of survivors lives outside in tents.  Um, why not move into a building?  Then you'd have walls between you and the zombies.  That would be an advantage I would think.  At one point they go into downtown Atlanta - which is wall-to-wall zombies - to retrieve some guns.  Um, this is America.  Just go through a few houses if you need guns.  They're not a precious commodity.  And on and on and on.  I'll give it a 3.5/5.

[diamondwaspvenom]

Murders in the Rue Morgue.

As much as I adore this classic, I can't but feel annoyed with how the film portrayed scientists (evil, scheming, exploiting human lives for their own gain, etc).

Still, Lugosi was awesome as Dr. Mirakle.

[claws]

Contraband (1980)

Smugglers, drugs, mafia and cops. Lucio Fulci's violent crime thriller is Euro-Grindhouse in perfection. Gruesome and even sexy. Loved the sizzling disco sequence  5/5

[lester1/2jr]

Thriller tv show (60's)- Alot of you have seen this I'm sure. It was hosted by Boris Karloff and is kind of like Outer limits or Twilight Zone. The episodes I saw were not quite on the level of those classic shows but they were very good and entertaining. They were actually more true crime-ish than horror though "The Cheaters", where a magic pair of glasses allows the one wearing them to hear what people are really thinking, was pretty horror/ sci-fi -ey. The plots weren't amazing but they were solid. A clever touch was in the episode "knock 3-1-2": the couple has a secret knock so she knows it's him and they incorpoate it into the episodes musical score. I'd watch more, particularly where I've been through most Twilight Zone and outer Limits. 3.75/5 others would I bet grade it higher.