# jake's movie guide

psyCohn's comment:
Bo knows what sells; somewhat entertaining

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George Webber escapes from the bustle and headaches (and toothaches) of Los Angeles to the beaches of Acapulco. While there he runs into Jenny, the daughter of his dentist who is on her honeymoon


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In his traditional style, Charles Bronson attempts to stop a serial killer that's terrorizing a collage dormatory. In his attempts, he finds the law isn't always on his side.


psyCohn's comment:
wild; many great actors doing many funny things; underrated

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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy.


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Two friends, Ralph and Scott live in a small minded town at the offset of the Vietnam war. While Scott's brother enlists, he and Ralph are outspoken in their opposition to the war.


psyCohn's comment:
very, very bad version of "Escape from N.Y."

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In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.


psyCohn's comment:
these post-"Pulp" films are not very good; not worth your time

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48 hours of intersecting lives and crimes in Los Angeles


psyCohn's comment:
masterpiece, very slow though; some view it as best film ever

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Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.


psyCohn's comment:
good sequel; really, very little like the first, but still entertaining

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A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happen to the Discovery


psyCohn's comment:
outstanding; like a combo of "Memento" + "Traffic" and more; best film of 2003

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A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician (Penn), a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro)


psyCohn's comment:
this would have been a 9 w/o Lee's rants; excellent current period piece of a man about to serve some time

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Cornered by the DEA, Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term


psyCohn's comment:
not bad; has a "Cuckoo" feel to it at times; some very funny moments

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A big-city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after stealing a limousine and crashing it into a house


psyCohn's comment:
loved it until the lackluster ending; had a 'Vanilla Sky' beginning; refreshingly different

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Jim wakes up from a coma in a London hospital to find the hospital deserted - and the rest of London as well. By degrees he comes to learn that in the past 28 days, a blood-borne virus has been released from a research facility and swept across England


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A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer


psyCohn's comment:
Eminem and Phifer were great, and the movie did get much better than it's slow beginning

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A young rapper (Eminem) in Detroit struggles with his anger through music. Can a white kid with a blue vocabulary and lots of hate in his heart transcend his meager beginnings and attain global superdupermegastar success?


psyCohn's comment:
far and away one of the worst films of the 90's; where have you gone, Nic Cage?

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A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not


psyCohn's comment:
average fare from brat-packers; pre-child/boobs Demi not so bad, though

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A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends


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Nico learned martial arts in Japan, and was in Vietnam for the CIA, and now is a cop in the vice squad of Chicago. A junkie tells him about a big drug deal; However it turns out that the deal was about C4 explosives and that one of the parties was the CIA


psyCohn's comment:
good courtroom drama but not one of Newman's best

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Paul Newman plays the son of a long dead Mafia boss who is a simple liquor warehouse owner. Frustrated in his attempt to solve a murder of a union head, a prosecutor leaks a false story that Newman is a target of the investigation


psyCohn's comment:
absolutely terrible; not very suspenseful or realistic

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Based on the novel by David Baldassi, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two


psyCohn's comment:
would have ranked higher except for lousy ending

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A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species


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A rape victim, enraged at the light sentence her attackers received on account that she was of "questionable character" goads a female prosecutor to charge the men who literally cheered the attack on


psyCohn's comment:
Carrey rises above other comics with this one

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A goofy detective specializing in animals goes in search of a missing dolphin mascot of a football team


psyCohn's comment:
marks early Sharon Stone appearance, if that is important

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Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition


psyCohn's comment:
made without funding; lacks a real plot or an actual ending but is extremely funny


psyCohn's comment:
Dice-man came and went, though this has many funny lines

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Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts


title:
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The

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Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert


psyCohn's comment:
Weller always has some interesting roles

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Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension


psyCohn's comment:
plot must have been left out; decent acting, though

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An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left


psyCohn's comment:
Scorsese packs 3 hours of super fun & action into 1.5; Dunne kicks butt!!!

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Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over, and things take a turn for the bizarre.


psyCohn's comment:
good, but too dramatic; Ms. Ward looked hot though…

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A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear


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The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane


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This is a spoof of the airport disaster movies. When the crew of an airplane are struck by some form of virus, the fate of the passengers depends on an ex-war pilot who is the only one able to land the plane safely


psyCohn's comment:
a superb cast makes it seem almost like a documentary

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A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his days in the ring


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Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back


psyCohn's comment:
spawned popular T.V. series, kind of slow

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A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer


psyCohn's comment:
Weaver at her best; great background music; full of very suspenseful scenes

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The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awaken from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS.


psyCohn's comment:
not even worth watching Ms. Ireland (now, if she had shown some skin…)

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A nerdish teenager goes looking for her missing archaeolist father, and stumbles into a strange underground civilization


psyCohn's comment:
adequate enough; Weaver still makes the series go

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Ripley continues to be stalked by a savage alien, after her escape pod crashes on a prison planet


psyCohn's comment:
excellent special effects and good cast make this one a real winner

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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


psyCohn's comment:
hard to believe it really happened; great crash sequence; exhilarating; great acting

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Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to eat each other to survive after a plane crash


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A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer


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A high school footballer desperate for a scholarship and his headstrong coach clash in a dying Pennsylvania steel town


psyCohn's comment:
excellent story of a young writer following a rock band

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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo


psyCohn's comment:
bizarre but typical Russell; Hurt's debut a strange one; "trippy"

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An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression


psyCohn's comment:
splendid tale of Mozart, as told in flashbacks from Antonio Salieri years later; both leads are fantastic

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The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum


psyCohn's comment:
fun to watch; similar to "Kentucky Fried Movie" and the "Groove Tube"

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A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there


psyCohn's comment:
very original, surreal, and twisted; Spacey never disappoints as Lester the man; a modern masterpiece

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Lester Burnham is a loser suburbanite rebelling against his dead-end job, bitch-on-wheels wife, unloving daughter, and imminent middle-age. His subsequent actions unfold into a darkly comic drama


psyCohn's comment:
stunning; tale of Nazism w/in LA; I feel better having watched it

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A former neo-nazi skinhead (Norton) tries to prevent his younger brother (Furlong) from going down the same wrong path that he did


psyCohn's comment:
one of the funniest teen movies ever; gross & refreshing

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At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college


psyCohn's comment:
probably a few more funny moments, but the story is not as good; another great comedy, though

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After their first year at college, the guys reunite for another summer of fun


psyCohn's comment:
better effort from Douglas but too Reiner-ish

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Comedy-drama about a widowed US president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all aboveboard, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic satire of 1980's serial killer lifestyle; excellent book!!!

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A young, well-to-do man isn't quite as normal as he seems....once you notice all the body parts of women he keeps in his apartment


psyCohn's comment:
yet another solid entry in this AP series; Stiffler stole the show

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The third film in the American Pie series deals with the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister


psyCohn's comment:
does not live up to title; loosely based on a true story

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Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away


psyCohn's comment:
simply nothing new here; a combo of "The Ring" + "The Shining", but only of the lessor parts

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A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder


psyCohn's comment:
outstanding debut from Iñárritu; fantastic stores make the excessive dog-violence tolerable

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A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love


psyCohn's comment:
great mix of horror-comedy; good "moon" soundtrack

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Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists


psyCohn's comment:
Rourke at his best; good small De Niro role as Louis Cyphre

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A Louisiana detective is hired to track down a man who sold his soul to the devil but than disappeared before he could pay up


psyCohn's comment:
classic; the "Godfather" of comedies; made Belushi a star

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At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him.


psyCohn's comment:
great Allen film with typical gut-busting dialogue

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Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting


psyCohn's comment:
another depressing venture a la "Bonnie & Clyde" from dir. Clark; watchable

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In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong leading to dissent, violence and murde


psyCohn's comment:
not bad, not great either; really slow 1st half brought the wonderful story down a bit

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With the help of a psychiatrist, a navy seaman prone to fits of violent rage comes to terms with his disturbing past


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Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it


psyCohn's comment:
great use of talent; best war movie ever; a true epic

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Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence.


psyCohn's comment:
better than I thought; excellent work; great effects

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True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication


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A group of college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to Foreman to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret and as they are revealed they end up dead


psyCohn's comment:
Goodman is the main quality of this film

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South American killer spider hitches a lift to the US in a coffin and starts to breed and kill


psyCohn's comment:
Moore is charming but film drags a little

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Arthur is a happy drunk with no pretensions at any ambition. He is also the heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries Susan. He does not love Susan, but she will make something of him the family expects


psyCohn's comment:
this sequel will make you want to get drunk

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In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune. Will the former millionaire playboy be able to survive as a broke, unemployable alcoholic


psyCohn's comment:
it really should have ended 20 minutes earlier, but it was worth the watching

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A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother


psyCohn's comment:
extremely funny film; in that Grumpy Old Men tradition but quite better

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A single mother/waitress (Helen Hunt), a man (Jack Nicholson) and a gay artist (Greg Kinnear) form an unlikely friendship


psyCohn's comment:
not the epic as intended to be; way too long

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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all


psyCohn's comment:
only redeemable parts are the over-the-top torture scenes @ the end

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Widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all...


psyCohn's comment:
many, many drop-dead funny moments (maybe best of the 3); weak story

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Austin continues the fight of good vs. evil against Dr. Evil and Fat Bastard while falling in love with the beautiful Foxy Cleopatra and making a new enemy: Goldmember


title:
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

psyCohn's comment:
very funny at times, not at others;  worth a look, though

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A 1960's hipster secret agent is brought out of cryofreeze to oppose his greatest enemy into the 1990's where his social attitudes are glaringly out of place


psyCohn's comment:
better than the first; the Dr. Evil scenes were great; great groovy lingo

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Dr. Evil is back...and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 60's and steal Austin Powers's mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".


psyCohn's comment:
nothing here, but Ms. Russell is a cutie

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Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney


psyCohn's comment:
Williams always shines in serious roles; De Niro is amazing

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The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them


psyCohn's comment:
story of a pig wanting to be a sheep-dog; very funny at times

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Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett


psyCohn's comment:
Goodman should have been nominated for something; very underrated

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Babe Ruth becomes a baseball legend but is unheroic to those who know him


psyCohn's comment:
good for awhile but Hanks' humor is not enough

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A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party


psyCohn's comment:
great for several one-liners; Dangerfield is very funny

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To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself


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Eccentric Doc Brown invents time travel; young Marty McFly goes back in time, stops his parents from meeting; they must, or he won't be born


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After visiting 2015, Marty must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip


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Marty travels to 1885 to keep Doc Brown from being murdered


psyCohn's comment:
good; should have been even better with this cast; most "unsafe" Howard film

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Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose


psyCohn's comment:
surprisingly good even with that B-movie feel

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An artist (Foster) witnesses a Mafia hit and calls the police. At the police station she realizes that the Mafia has a man in the force, so she runs. Trailed by the police, who need her testimony, and a hitman (Hopper)


psyCohn's comment:
Penn did not have to even act in this one

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Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing Paco Moreno's kid brother


psyCohn's comment:
Lowe's best role and Spader is typical self

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Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier.


psyCohn's comment:
Keitel is better suited for supporting jobs

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While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt cop tries to change his ways and find forgiveness


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An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league


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The Bears make a cross country trek to Houston for an exhibition game


psyCohn's comment:
a movie way ahead of it's time; loosely based on Starkweather murders of 50's

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A teenage girl and her older boyfriend become fugitives after he murders her disapproving father


psyCohn's comment:
possibly worst movie ever made; worthless story combined with meaningless action; sickening

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Tasked with destroying each other, an FBI agent and a rogue NSA agent soon discover that there's a much bigger enemy at work


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In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training under the Indian Joe. When this is successful, they move back to Miami


psyCohn's comment:
quite possible the most dated movie ever

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In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people


psyCohn's comment:
long, often funny film of 18th-century dufus; not one of Kubrick's best, though

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A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period


psyCohn's comment:
quite a dark comedy from the masters; splendid camera work

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In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block


psyCohn's comment:
Stone really shines; is Douglas always the frustrated male?

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A detective investigating a series of vicious sex murders encounters a seductive woman who seems too obvious as a suspect perhaps by her own choice?


psyCohn's comment:
Keaton surprisingly good and Burton does well with his dark atmosphere; Jack is outstanding as The Joker

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The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker


psyCohn's comment:
this show never had to worry about the Emmy's after this pilot; still, gotta love 'em

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Batman and Robin battle the combined forces of four supercriminals who have stolen an invention and intend to use it maliciously


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When a corrupt businessman and the grotesque Penguin plot to take control of Gotham City, only Batman stop them, while the Catwoman has her own agenda


psyCohn's comment:
was a great T.V. series; everyone remembers Dirk Benedict

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After the destruction of the human colonies, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift refugee fleet in a search for Earth


psyCohn's comment:
never really had a chance, but I loved some of the scenery; reminds me of…

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Not quite ready to surrender himself to responsibility or mainstream society, a young American travels to Asia and discovers he is not alone in his feelings


psyCohn's comment:
good but definitely a female movie; could never watch this one again

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A privileged rich debuttant and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years


psyCohn's comment:
not bad tale of high-school friends meeting for a reunion

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A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love


psyCohn's comment:
Crowe is wonderful as John Nash: paranoid-schizophrenic-genius

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John Nash, diagnosed as paranoid-schizophrenic, goes on to win a Nobel Prize for work on game theory


psyCohn's comment:
Burton films always have those great atmospheres; almost underrated

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A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a "bio-exorcist" in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.


psyCohn's comment:
kind of interesting, but not very memorable

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Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend


psyCohn's comment:
some fantastic special effects at the beginning could not save this typical Hollywood war flick

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A Navy pilot is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him


psyCohn's comment:
what an original film; very funny @ times, and Ms. Keener is very sexy in this flick…

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A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich


psyCohn's comment:
they needed to let the dog say a little more

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A stray dog saves two kidnapped children


psyCohn's comment:
I do not know where this film was going then or now

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Town Sherif and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse


psyCohn's comment:
has some great moments; Williams is just a riot

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A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game


psyCohn's comment:
I think this one had something to do with a car

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The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy


psyCohn's comment:
refreshing view of some ultra smart Asian teens; I liked the atmosphere

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A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities


psyCohn's comment:
separates Cusack from other post brat-packers

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A teenager has to deal with his girlfriend dumping him among family crises, homicidal paper boys, and a rival skier


psyCohn's comment:
theme song is better than the rest of the film

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A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills


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When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight


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Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law


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A group of college friends reunite at the funeral of one of their friends


psyCohn's comment:
love those Louisiana settings; Quaid does a pretty good job

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Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office


psyCohn's comment:
interesting drama coming from Burton, and he does add his touches; well-done, and great cast!

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The story is about a William Bloom (Billy Crudup) trying to learn more about his dying father (Albert Finney) by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself


psyCohn's comment:
kind of strange, kind of funny, worth a rent; great supporting cast

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"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.


psyCohn's comment:
funny story of many folks in Miami; keep your eyes out for the great Johnny Knoxville

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The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results


psyCohn's comment:
not great but don't cut it down, either, dude

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Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine


psyCohn's comment:
this is what happens when Gen.-X takes over

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Depicts an authentic case: Ron Levin, a wealthy businessman has disappeared. No body is found, but there was a list with instructions in his house - a recipe for murder. It's author is the defendant


psyCohn's comment:
horrifying; just think if it were happening to you; Hitch was never much better

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Birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness


psyCohn's comment:
not even a semi-nude Ms. Collins matters here

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The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place


psyCohn's comment:
great; maybe the most constant intensity of any war movie; based on true Somalia incident

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123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis


psyCohn's comment:
early Garcia appearance; standard film with enough good qualities

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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape


psyCohn's comment:
great lead from Dern, a very underrated talent

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An Isreali anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist plot at the Super Bowl


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A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance


psyCohn's comment:
tons of action & violence, but just not a great film; non-stop just the same

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Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers vampires who feed on vampires


psyCohn's comment:
Ford at his best for my money; awesome atmosphere

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Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 5 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker


psyCohn's comment:
bravo to this new form of film, though it really falls quite flat overall

imdb plot outline:
In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. One year later, their footage was found


imdb plot outline:
Best friends and their daughters holiday in Rio only for one to fall for the other's daughter


imdb plot outline:
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining but Brooks doesn't do it for me

imdb plot outline:
To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary


imdb plot outline:
Walter Davis is a workaholic. His attention is all to his work and very little to his personal life or appearance. Now he needs a date to take to his company's business dinner with a new important Japanese client


psyCohn's comment:
not much on this one; even the sex was not that good

imdb plot outline:
Joseph and Maria are married for six months and Maria still has never had an orgasm with her husband. They begin to visit mysterious doctor Baltazar who teaches them how to reach ecstasy in sex


psyCohn's comment:
stylish, cool film of murder in Texas; early Coen work - great camera stuff

imdb plot outline:
A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple


psyCohn's comment:
almost like a documentary, very powerful film of the event that inspired the U2 song

imdb plot outline:
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972


psyCohn's comment:
Depp is just great is this true/sad story of George Jung & cocaine

imdb plot outline:
The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970's


psyCohn's comment:
should have done what "Pulp" did for Travolta

imdb plot outline:
A soundman accidentally records the evidence that proves a car "accident" was murder, and consequently finds himself in danger


psyCohn's comment:
could have been even better; great beginning

imdb plot outline:
Jimmy Dove works for the bomb squad in Boston and he is always the one who is on the tough jobs. One day he decides to quit the force and to become a teacher for the rookies of the squad


psyCohn's comment:
slow and almost plotless; still manages to be a great film

imdb plot outline:
A photographer who is talented but aimless has photographed violence and pain without feeling any involvement. When he takes pictures of a couple in a park, he finds that he may have discovered a mystery, one that insists on involving him


psyCohn's comment:
terrible; someone should have left Aikens and Shields there

imdb plot outline:
Richard and Em are children when shipwrecked and marooned alone on a lush tropical island. By the time they are rescued, they have learned a great deal about life and are raising a child of their own


psyCohn's comment:
Scheider not great in lead roles, but the movie was not so bad

imdb plot outline:
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle


psyCohn's comment:
Hopper's Boothe represents 8.75 out of the ranking; Lynch is way out there

imdb plot outline:
An innocent young man discovers that a dark underworld exists beneath the surface of his seemingly quiet hometown


psyCohn's comment:
one of the great comedies; Jake & Elwood will live forever

imdb plot outline:
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised


psyCohn's comment:
De Palma excels at this kind of film; look for early M. Griffith role; interesting plot

imdb plot outline:
When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.


imdb plot outline:
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences


imdb plot outline:
A woman is accused of killing a man to inherit his millions by having sex with him


psyCohn's comment:
an above-average entry in the crime-thriller movies over the last few years

imdb plot outline:
Two cops on the trail of a brutal killer. They must see as one, they must act as one, they must think as one, before the next victim falls


psyCohn's comment:
charming, hilarious, and sad look at the porn industry of the 70's; Wahlberg is fantastic

imdb plot outline:
Eddie is an aspiring actor who gets discovered by Jack Horner, a porn director that considers his job an artform. Eddie then changes his name to Dirk Diggler and gets sucked in the lifestyle and relationships of the porn industry of the late-seventies


psyCohn's comment:
say what you want, Stone gets the actors he wants & makes good films

imdb plot outline:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for


psyCohn's comment:
1st Anderson effort, and in his typically awkward style; very funny @ the end

imdb plot outline:
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan (who seems far less sane than Anthony.) Dignan has hatched a hair brained scheme for an as-yet unspecified crime spree


psyCohn's comment:
anything with lesbians = good; good plot and story, until the end

imdb plot outline:
Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crocked boyfriend Caeser


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining thriller, though apparently nothing like the book; good enough

imdb plot outline:
A man washes ashore, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia


psyCohn's comment:
just not good; basically, a 2hour car chase w/little plot; Potente (the HOTTIE!) dies 10minutes into the film!

imdb plot outline:
When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive


psyCohn's comment:
well-done about the Columbine shootings and gun-control in general

imdb plot outline:
the US is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed


imdb plot outline:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other


psyCohn's comment:
great opening; a bigger budget could have helped

imdb plot outline:
Ray and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trial of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout


imdb plot outline:
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them


psyCohn's comment:
great concept; Walken a most underrated star; Wood's last film

imdb plot outline:
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in


psyCohn's comment:
hard to follow at times, but awesome to watch; I love Oldman

imdb plot outline:
This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name.


psyCohn's comment:
best Python-ish film I have seen; look for De Niro's small role

imdb plot outline:
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams.


psyCohn's comment:
essential, defining early Gen.-X film; every teen-ager required to see this

imdb plot outline:
Forced to spend a Saturday detention in school, five disparate high school kids find that they have more in common than they ever realized.


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Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days


imdb plot outline:
A minor league baseball player has to waste $30m in 30 days in order to inherit $300m; however he's not allowed to tell anyone about the $300m deal


psyCohn's comment:
even tons of explosions & Travolta's cool bad-guy do not save this one

imdb plot outline:
Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the US military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans


imdb plot outline:
A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s


psyCohn's comment:
charming story of three Irish brothers in NY & their troubles with women

imdb plot outline:
Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity


psyCohn's comment:
hilarious story of Elvis & JFK battling this Egyptian spirit; you'd think Campbell was really Elvis

imdb plot outline:
"true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley...teams up with "President John F. Kennedy" to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds


imdb plot outline:
A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders


psyCohn's comment:
Gallo is over the top here; very strange account of a dysfunctional lifestyle

imdb plot outline:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same).


imdb plot outline:
A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires


imdb plot outline:
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.


psyCohn's comment:
Wilder and Pryor are always good for a few laughs

imdb plot outline:
Joe Braxton, an ex-con, is given a second chance to freedom after violating his probation. He has been hired by a school teacher named Vivian Perry to drive a bus load of Special kids to Washington from Philadelphia, Penn


psyCohn's comment:
Lyonne is great as "Megan"; pokes a lot of fun at homophobia

imdb plot outline:
A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian


psyCohn's comment:
stellar cast with a top-10 ending; cool all-around

imdb plot outline:
Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.


psyCohn's comment:
way more than just your typical teen-slasher flick; ultra hilarious @ times

imdb plot outline:
A group of people are trapped in the woods and methodically killed off by a horrifying flesh-eating virus


psyCohn's comment:
dark - not your typical Carrey, but entertaining enough

imdb plot outline:
One man wants free cable while his strangely possesive cable guy wants a new friend


psyCohn's comment:
I can watch this whole film and barely laugh; not sure on the hype

imdb plot outline:
Comical goings on at an exclusive golf club. All the members are wealthy and eccentric, and all the staff are poor and slightly less eccentric. The main character is 'Danny'; he's a caddy who will do almost anything to raise money to go to college


psyCohn's comment:
I can watch this film and barely keep from puking

imdb plot outline:
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park


imdb plot outline:
Millionaire Richard Trainor is celebrating the fact that his new calendar featuring twelve nude woman is a huge success. However the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a building and later on that night Miss February is knifed to death


imdb plot outline:
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race


psyCohn's comment:
almost a parody of those teen comedies; not that great

imdb plot outline:
Multicharacter teenage comedy about high school graduates with different agenda of life on graduation night


psyCohn's comment:
good but dated; Peck and Mitchum made cameos in the remake

imdb plot outline:
Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family


psyCohn's comment:
new generation simply likes this one better

imdb plot outline:
Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about his case during the trial


psyCohn's comment:
hash of "Scarface" but Penn and Pacino are great

imdb plot outline:
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend.


imdb plot outline:
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night


psyCohn's comment:
well-made story of a woman's love for a man she cannot have

imdb plot outline:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside


psyCohn's comment:
like "Goodfellas"; classic Scorsese, though; love the narration

imdb plot outline:
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's


psyCohn's comment:
look for the Dice-Man, since there is really nothing else here

imdb plot outline:
Two women friends, with quite different sexual histories, try visiting a health resort to look for a man to settle down with


imdb plot outline:
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done


psyCohn's comment:
pretty funny kids film with some adult moments kids would not notice

imdb plot outline:
Conrad and Sally Walden (Spencer Breslin and Dakot Fanning) are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat (Mike Myers) walks in the front door


psyCohn's comment:
great concept; Kinski is a BABE and McDowell has a great role

imdb plot outline:
The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to Leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People


psyCohn's comment:
excellent cast; slows toward the end; Arkin a "10" by himself

imdb plot outline:
A man is trying desperately to be certified during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.


psyCohn's comment:
stupid foreign film of the coming of age of a young girl

imdb plot outline:
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died


imdb plot outline:
A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker.


title:
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

imdb plot outline:
Murderer who turn victim into human baked potato have real appetite for crime


psyCohn's comment:
nice guy chasing down a lesbian; great film from the maker of "Clerks"

imdb plot outline:
Holden falls in love with lesbian Alyssa, which threatens both their friendship, and his friendship and working relation with Banky


psyCohn's comment:
Oldman's southerner is spectacular, but rest of the fact film is slow

imdb plot outline:
An American war hero attempts suicide and ends up in Chattahoochee State Mental Hospital. But he realises that doctors in hospital are humiliating patients


psyCohn's comment:
all these C & C's are the same, yet funny

imdb plot outline:
Cheech and Chong house sit for a marijuana grower and rip off the crop. Stalked by keystone-style cops, Los Guys have a series of encounters with L.A. area characters even weirder than themselves


imdb plot outline:
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail


imdb plot outline:
Alison follows her friends to a summer camp for cheerleaders. But she is having bad nightmares. Her boyfriend has followed her to the camp but he seems to be more interested in the other girls, girls who sooner or later are found brutally murdered


imdb plot outline:
A sign language teacher at a school for the deaf becomes involved with a troubled deaf woman


imdb plot outline:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted


imdb plot outline:
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues


psyCohn's comment:
Jack at his best; slightly confusing plot overcome by great acting

imdb plot outline:
A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.


psyCohn's comment:
as good as a killer-car movie can get w/ some good, young talent

imdb plot outline:
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with a evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.


psyCohn's comment:
these are not that funny; Chase fans have no mentality

imdb plot outline:
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.


psyCohn's comment:
Caine is fantastic, the story is great, and the rest of the cast is splendid

imdb plot outline:
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world


psyCohn's comment:
just never seemed to get interesting; good cast wasted

imdb plot outline:
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences


psyCohn's comment:
amazing story of the ghetto in Rio de Janeiro and the rise&fall of it's people; like a "Mean Streets" of Brazil

imdb plot outline:
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer


psyCohn's comment:
the special effects almost seem real; great when I was young

imdb plot outline:
A film adaption of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda


psyCohn's comment:
Bisset is so hot; not a bad entry in this brat pack genre

imdb plot outline:
Jonathan, a naive country boy, gets a scholarship to a classy prep school, where he rooms with suave, rich and handsome Skip


imdb plot outline:
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from the mental institution and crashes the party.


psyCohn's comment:
Vaughn is fantastic is this offbeat killer film; great Montana scenery

imdb plot outline:
Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife


psyCohn's comment:
interesting; look for Smith as "Silent Bob"; millions of funny scenes

imdb plot outline:
Dante, clerk at a convenience store, must choose between his two girlfriends, with no particular help from friend and fellow clerk Randall


psyCohn's comment:
Renfro is good but these films are ho-hum

imdb plot outline:
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Modano, a Mafia hitman. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyett is buried


psyCohn's comment:
another story of the black youth fighting drugs in NY; too slow

imdb plot outline:
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutilage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Yahoo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses


psyCohn's comment:
makes you want to be an English punk; exceptional piece of film

imdb plot outline:
In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims.


psyCohn's comment:
Dreyfuss is splendid; a top-10 70's film

imdb plot outline:
A line worker, after a encounter with UFO's, feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.


psyCohn's comment:
all true modern day tale of 2 couples and their dishonesty; Owen is fantastic

imdb plot outline:
intriguing story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from the second coupling


psyCohn's comment:
well-made movie of the bored game with an entertaining cast

imdb plot outline:
Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery


psyCohn's comment:
better than I expected, but I did not expect much

imdb plot outline:
Jane Austen's Emma meets Beverley Hills 90210 in US West Coast teen lifestyle parody


imdb plot outline:
A reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is


psyCohn's comment:
I might have slept through part of this one

imdb plot outline:
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour


psyCohn's comment:
very interesting futuristic film about forbidden love; seemed to combine several themes from those type of films

imdb plot outline:
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility


psyCohn's comment:
typical Mann film, this time w/Cruise as a bad guy; great LA feel, and some awesome gun fight scenes

imdb plot outline:
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last victim


psyCohn's comment:
sequel to "Hustler"; look for F. Whitaker cameo

imdb plot outline:
A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protégé


psyCohn's comment:
not much of a plot here; Willis must have been looking for a B-movie part

imdb plot outline:
Psychologist Bill Capa gives up his practise when he unintentially pushes a patient to committ suicide. In an effort to come to terms with this tragedy he visits an old colleague, Bob Moore, who is subsequently murdered


imdb plot outline:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in coma's


psyCohn's comment:
funny for awhile, but these can get old quickly

imdb plot outline:
An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will


imdb plot outline:
A retired elite commando has only a few hours to find and rescue his daughter from an exiled


imdb plot outline:
The epic tale of child sold into slavery who grows into a man who seeks revenge against the warlord who massacred his tribe


imdb plot outline:
Princess Jehnna has been captured by a sorcerer, so the evil queen Taramis (who wants to sacrifice Jehnna and take the throne for ever) asks from Conan to find her and bring her back to the castle


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic special effects and Foster was perfect for the role

imdb plot outline:
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious


psyCohn's comment:
amazing scenery; Greenaway is all by himself

imdb plot outline:
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron


psyCohn's comment:
classic Newman prison tale; Kennedy won Oscar

imdb plot outline:
Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn't work, and he gains respect


psyCohn's comment:
useless violence & sex, coupled with an underutilized plot made this one a real stinker

imdb plot outline:
The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and it's is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas' aging Shangri-La casino


psyCohn's comment:
great cast and pretty good story; cliched, though

imdb plot outline:
The sheriff of a town inhabited by the NYPD uncovers crime and corruption involving the NYPD


psyCohn's comment:
long start; Connick's five minutes are great

imdb plot outline:
Sigourney Weaver plays a psychiatrist who specializes in serial killers. She suffers from agoraphobia and her only link to the outside world is her computer.


psyCohn's comment:
definitely a date movie, but not that good of a film

imdb plot outline:
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners


psyCohn's comment:
people getting off on car crashes - perfect!

imdb plot outline:
Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former 'TV scientist' has become obsessed by the marriage of motor car technology with what he sees as the `raw sexuality' of car-crash victims


psyCohn's comment:
boring; not nearly enough background of the true Gacy murders

imdb plot outline:
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house


psyCohn's comment:
absolutely chilling; Lee & Cushing are fantastic

imdb plot outline:
A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist's family and friends


psyCohn's comment:
good King stories with some great moments

imdb plot outline:
Based on the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen


psyCohn's comment:
exhilarating at times; Perkins as a Priest?; Russell is fried

imdb plot outline:
An architect leads a double life as a hooker named China Blue.


imdb plot outline:
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City


psyCohn's comment:
so-so movie; look for Steve Vai as "the Devil"

imdb plot outline:
Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him


psyCohn's comment:
bad overall, but it did make for some nice eye-candy @ times…

imdb plot outline:
Three childhood best friends, and a guy they just met, take a trip across the country, finding themselves and their friendship in the process


psyCohn's comment:
casino dealer's insights & thoughts about the world around him

imdb plot outline:
A struggling author (Clive Owen) uses his father's connections to get a job running a roulette wheel at a casino. Soon he meets a woman (Alex Kingston) who seduces him and then encourages him to join her associates in a robbery scheme.


psyCohn's comment:
Lee is good but film doesn't go far; good soundtrack

imdb plot outline:
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his finacee's murder


psyCohn's comment:
has a "tough to watch at times" subject matter, but worth a viewing

imdb plot outline:
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S&M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer


psyCohn's comment:
documentary of artist Robert Crumb & his strange life; fabulous

imdb plot outline:
A cinematic portrait of the controversial comic book writer/artist and his traumatized family


psyCohn's comment:
sort of a "Lolita" for the 90's; that Silverstone is a babe

imdb plot outline:
A journalist, Nick Elliot, moves into a picturesque suburb. His landlady's daughter, Adrian, takes more than a passing interest in him. Her fullblown obsession turns violent when he rejects her


psyCohn's comment:
too long but Washington is awesome in his portrayal of Steve Biko

imdb plot outline:
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend the black activist Steve Biko


psyCohn's comment:
just another excuse to show skin, which I do not mind

imdb plot outline:
Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail


imdb plot outline:
A British soldier is kidnaped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world


imdb plot outline:
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town


imdb plot outline:
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh


imdb plot outline:
A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area.


imdb plot outline:
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves


psyCohn's comment:
basically, this was just a touch of a movie compared to what it should have been

imdb plot outline:
Based on the true crime story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, this movie tells the emotionally riveting story of a man who turned his darkest fantasies into a horrifying reality


psyCohn's comment:
long but great; why does Costner get bad rap?

imdb plot outline:
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military


psyCohn's comment:
Malkovich dazzles with great supporting cast; very quotable

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Rich and bored aristocrats in Baroque France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal


psyCohn's comment:
she does a good job and the kids are well-played; standard fare, though

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An ex-marine teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city schools


psyCohn's comment:
basically a bad remake of "La Femme..."; plenty of T & A, though

imdb plot outline:
On a trip to Europe, a woman gets abducted and soon finds herself in a training facility for female mercenaries. In deed, a doctor and his wife manipulate the women into killing. If they do not comply, a chip inserted into their brain will kill them


psyCohn's comment:
another entry in the comic-movie genre; pretty well done, and darker than "Spider-Man"

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A man blinded by radioactive waste which also enhanced his remaining senses fights crime as an acrobatic martial arts superhero


psyCohn's comment:
possibly the most disappointing movie ever; extremely bad, based on the talent involved

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A hideously scarred and mentally unstable scientist seeks revenge against the crooks who made him like that


psyCohn's comment:
slow German film but with an exhilarating sequence at the end

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The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror


psyCohn's comment:
well-made for something that could have been worse

imdb plot outline:
A lookalike is hired to impersonate the president who has suffered a stroke rendering him a vegetable while having sex with a co-worker


psyCohn's comment:
a very fun ride; scarry, funny, and truly suspenseful

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The US is turned upside-down overnight by a plague-like event in which millions of corpses return to live and walk the earth as blood-thirsty zombies.  A small group of survivors of the onslaught find shelter within a massive shopping mall


psyCohn's comment:
some memorable special effect scenes, but the story kept getting more cheesy as time went on

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A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age


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A graphic, disturbing film about the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of central Missouri


psyCohn's comment:
good but hard to watch in this day & age

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An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that we must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets


psyCohn's comment:
noteworthy only for driving sequences; Cruise's worst film?

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A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level


psyCohn's comment:
maybe best teen movie ever with a top soundtrack; dozens of great laughs

imdb plot outline:
The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976


psyCohn's comment:
even better if it had been less confusing

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In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate


psyCohn's comment:
quite suspenseful; Zane is a good bad guy

imdb plot outline:
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems


imdb plot outline:
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families


psyCohn's comment:
well-done; Hawke's speech at end is moving; great

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Two school kids meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.


psyCohn's comment:
standard Eastwood/Dirty Harry; look for Carrey cameo

imdb plot outline:
Dirty Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target


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The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat entertaining at times, Quaid a +

imdb plot outline:
A second-string pro golfer desprate for his shot at success tours the country. A realisting view of his adventures (or lack of them) while he tours the country.


psyCohn's comment:
gotta love Walken; really 2 great stories in one; based on King novel

imdb plot outline:
Christopher Walken wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...


psyCohn's comment:
Chase just proves that his humor really sucks most of the time

imdb plot outline:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications


psyCohn's comment:
Martin was funny when I saw this back then; mostly in B&W

imdb plot outline:
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut


psyCohn's comment:
many funny moments carry this one; nothing spectacular, though; very dark

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When he is fired for taking payola, the host for a children's television show plots revenge against his replacement, a rhino named Smoochy


psyCohn's comment:
would regard higher if 193 sequels weren't made

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Paul Kersey, New York Archtitect, is a bleeding-heart liberal whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and the rape of his daughter


psyCohn's comment:
very strange movie, with Reeve and Caine getting a little too close

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A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script


psyCohn's comment:
very entertaining look at rock music and its effects on today's fans

imdb plot outline:
A rock documentary ranging from interviews with seen-it-all veterans such as Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, Steven Tyler, Faster Pussycat, Poison, and London. A revealing and fascinating chronicle on the 1980s scene of excess


psyCohn's comment:
masterpiece story of post-Vietnam effects; some truly great scenes

imdb plot outline:
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA


psyCohn's comment:
Brooks is charming & hilarious as someone stuck in purgatory

imdb plot outline:
In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage


psyCohn's comment:
Beatty's one-liners are historic; exhilarating piece of work

imdb plot outline:
Based on James Dickey's novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.


psyCohn's comment:
Rourke is watchable (not to mentions Ms. Rogers) in this suspense

imdb plot outline:
Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she's left behind


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Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled 'Desperately Seeking Susan'. She heads off to New York, following one of the ads, and finds Susan


psyCohn's comment:
not much here but Tarantino is excellent

imdb plot outline:
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Dodge RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem


psyCohn's comment:
Deuce just as too few funny moments; some of his dates are great, though

imdb plot outline:
A man becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo's house


psyCohn's comment:
started bad and got worse; a nice late 50's setting was all this film had to offer

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Two brothers, Leon and Bobby are members of the street gang in Brooklyn known as the deuces. Their brother was killed by a drug overdose a few years earlier and the gang is determined to keep drugs off their block.


psyCohn's comment:
better than I had expected, though Pitt's Irish accent left something to be desired

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One of top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists, Frankie MgGuire, escapes to NY, where he, under the name of Rory Devaney, with support of friendly judge Peter Fitzsimmons, lives in the house of Irish cop Tom O'Meara, who doesn't know who Frankie really is.


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat interesting plot, but movie did not really impress in the end

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The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears


psyCohn's comment:
comic-book hero Beatty stalls but top-flight cast saves this one

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The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob


psyCohn's comment:
Bond has never had more action in a film; Berry is smokin'…

imdb plot outline:
Hot on the trail of the principle villains, Bond travels to Iceland where he experiences at first hand the power of an amazing new weapon before a dramatic confrontation with his main adversary back in Korea where it all started


psyCohn's comment:
low point for Swayze, who is not good anyway

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Spending the summer in a holiday camp with her family, Frances ('Baby') falls in love with the camp's dancing teacher


psyCohn's comment:
Eastwood's second major film character (Callahan); "Do You Feel Lucky?"

imdb plot outline:
A cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer


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Sexual harassment is the theme, but here it is the man who is harassed by his new female boss. A high-flying executive, Meredith, is out to ruin her former lover (Douglas), who she's just beaten to the top job in an electronics company


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10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions


psyCohn's comment:
full of funny lines but few and far between

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A timid college professor, conned into posing as a flamboyant pimp, finds himself enjoying his new occupation on the streets


psyCohn's comment:
same old stuff; nothing new; I laughed once, if that

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A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain


psyCohn's comment:
interesting story, especially for the mid 70's; "Attica, Attica"

imdb plot outline:
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus


psyCohn's comment:
wow; fantastic entry of the what-just-happened? category of recent films

imdb plot outline:
Highschooler Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant evil rabbit who orders him to commit acts of violence and predicts the impending end of the world


psyCohn's comment:
double role of the geek/biker is charming, at too few times

imdb plot outline:
Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely. Therefore, his caring sister tries to set him up with suitable woman


psyCohn's comment:
Morrison would have had trouble playing himself any better that Kilmer

imdb plot outline:
Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971


psyCohn's comment:
has a few funny parts, but simply not nearly enough

imdb plot outline:
A man on the run takes another man's passport, only to find himself stuck with the identity of a street hustler


psyCohn's comment:
first Bond film; sets the typical tone; and could "Honey Ryder" be any hotter?

imdb plot outline:
In the first James Bond movie, Bond pursues the villainous Dr. No to his secret installation on a Caribbean island


psyCohn's comment:
ultimate cold-war black comedy; Sellers is stellar in his three roles

imdb plot outline:
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop


psyCohn's comment:
Hanks and Aykroyd make a great team here

imdb plot outline:
The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery


psyCohn's comment:
Bruce Lee story features an exceptional lead from J. S. Lee

imdb plot outline:
True story of the kung-fu king Bruce Lee that dwell not on his mysterious death but his inspirational life and improable rise to stardom from the streets of Hong Kong


psyCohn's comment:
quite unique - scary and funny and odd - @ all times

imdb plot outline:
Friends since childhood, four troubled guys reunite for a camping trip, when they encounter a stranger with knowledge of an alternate and deadly world that they will soon see


psyCohn's comment:
cool flick; Quaid somewhat of an underrated actor

imdb plot outline:
A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but finds a conspiracy is hiding the true reason behind the research


psyCohn's comment:
great beginning mall sequence; "Hitch"-like ending

imdb plot outline:
Caine plays the part of a psychiatrist to a woman who is murdered early in the film. He is initially reluctant to help the police. The detective assigned to the murder seems happy to do nothing


imdb plot outline:
Elizabeth's imaginary childhood friend Drop Dead Fred suddenly appears uninvited in her life again as a young adult considering marriage. In the years since they last saw each other, Elizabeth grew up, but Fred didn't


psyCohn's comment:
a personal favorite; Dillon gives outstanding lead; look for W. Burroughs

imdb plot outline:
A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime


psyCohn's comment:
haunting & entertaining for a slow movie; great narration

imdb plot outline:
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer


imdb plot outline:
The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends


psyCohn's comment:
confusing, but great scenery and strong cast

imdb plot outline:
In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for


psyCohn's comment:
pathetic attempt at a sad drama; Roberts vastly overrated

imdb plot outline:
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer


psyCohn's comment:
maybe the most classic kid movie ever; would be hard to watch again, though

imdb plot outline:
A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home


psyCohn's comment:
Pesci & Dangerfield are very funny throughout this one

imdb plot outline:
The life of a young man about town suddenly reaches a turning point. Before this he led a life of debauchery. He will get 10 million dollars as an inheritance if his life has undergone a complete change within a year


psyCohn's comment:
slow, for such a "classic"; many memorable scenes/lines; early Jack; sorta plotless

imdb plot outline:
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America


psyCohn's comment:
just a fantastic, funny movie from Bartel

imdb plot outline:
When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartement (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him


psyCohn's comment:
good music and entertaining enough story

imdb plot outline:
Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin) is a reporter who's interviewing the surviving members of a band who's music is being revived


psyCohn's comment:
Depp's character somewhat autobiographical for Burton

imdb plot outline:
An artificial man with scissors for hands lives completely alone until a local woman befriends him and brings him home


psyCohn's comment:
phenomenal tale of the 1919 Black-Sox scandal; Sweeny & cast shine

imdb plot outline:
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series


psyCohn's comment:
simply amazing; Sant's impression of Columbine is outstanding, yet slow & 'Slacker'ish

imdb plot outline:
A violent incident rocks the students and faculty at a high school in Portland, Oregon


psyCohn's comment:
haunting tale of a deformed man and his struggles through life

imdb plot outline:
A Victorian doctor comes to care for a man catastrophically deformed with Proteous Syndrome


imdb plot outline:
Based on a true story, Powers Boothe plays an American dam engineer in Brazil. Boothe's son (played by Charlie Boorman - son of director John Boorman) is kidnapped by a rain forest tribe, and raised as one of their own


imdb plot outline:
A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by circumstance and accident


psyCohn's comment:
best Bruckenheimer; even Smith is good; excellent effects

imdb plot outline:
A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidently receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crim


psyCohn's comment:
maybe a little long, but a well-made sad love story

imdb plot outline:
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair


psyCohn's comment:
Hershey is a babe; based on true(?) story of possession

imdb plot outline:
Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon


psyCohn's comment:
blend 'The Matrix' & '1984' and you get this cool flick

imdb plot outline:
In a fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man charged with enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system


psyCohn's comment:
not one of his better recent films, but plenty of action

imdb plot outline:
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons


psyCohn's comment:
joke of a film; the artsy crowd is lying when they say they like it

imdb plot outline:
Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic fits. Mary gives birth to Henry's child, a frightening looking mutant, which leads to the injection of all sorts of sexual imagery into the depressive and chaotic mix


psyCohn's comment:
one of the great films of its kind; Russell's Pliskin is stellar

imdb plot outline:
In 1998, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue


psyCohn's comment:
another entry into the mind-altering genre - outstanding for the most part, and I like Carrey in non-comedic roles

imdb plot outline:
Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwaik, to have Clementine removed from his own memory


psyCohn's comment:
Chase films get old really fast; same thing, over & over

imdb plot outline:
The Griswalds win a vacation tour across Europe where the usual havoc ensues.


psyCohn's comment:
quite a step up from part 1, very funny horror keeps it going; "Groovy!"

imdb plot outline:
A sequel/remake of the film The Evil Dead. A young man named Ash takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin, and plays back a professor's tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead


imdb plot outline:
Five friends are spending the weekend in a remote cabin in the woods. Whilst investigating the cellar they discover a tape and a decaying old book full of strange incantations


imdb plot outline:
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi


psyCohn's comment:
very fictional story leading up the murder of JFK

imdb plot outline:
A wealthy group of power-brokers employ mercenaries to assassinate JFK


psyCohn's comment:
yet another run-of-the-mill terrorist film; the bad guys are actually pretty cool

imdb plot outline:
When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation


psyCohn's comment:
truly chilling during several sequences; quite underrated

imdb plot outline:
A serial killer haunts the streets of Georgetown, do these events have anything to do with the exorcism of 15 years ago?


psyCohn's comment:
early horror classic, maybe the most accepted/best of its kind; Blair never better

imdb plot outline:
Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist


psyCohn's comment:
sex-filled tale of an upscale NYC couple; masterful sets, plots, lighting; classic Kubrick

imdb plot outline:
Tom Cruise plays a doctor who is married to an art curator. One day his wife admits that she almost cheated on him and that leads Cruise's character through an odyssey of sexual and moral discovery.


psyCohn's comment:
unique film of a special effects guy hired to fake a murder of a mob boss

imdb plot outline:
A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger


psyCohn's comment:
Douglas at his very best; does everyone have a breaking point?

imdb plot outline:
An unemployed defence worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them


psyCohn's comment:
ashamed to even include this one on the list

imdb plot outline:
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation


psyCohn's comment:
kind of sneaks in there as one of the better films of the mid-1980's; hilarious

imdb plot outline:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise


psyCohn's comment:
Coen bro's never disappoint; many funny moments & funny violence

imdb plot outline:
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson


psyCohn's comment:
utter high-school classic; most of the cast never better than in this one

imdb plot outline:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe


psyCohn's comment:
extremely successful film of a woman obsessed with a married man; good work

imdb plot outline:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family


psyCohn's comment:
few chilling moments do not really make this one work (where's the Fun Bunch?)

imdb plot outline:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him


psyCohn's comment:
horrible; I guess there were enough boobs in the film to save it from a "1"

imdb plot outline:
Four bodies are found in New York City. The coincidence? They all died 48 hours after logging on to a site named fear.com. Tough detective Mike Reilly collaborates with Department of Health associate Terry Huston to research these mysterious deaths.


psyCohn's comment:
I was lucky enough to be a teen when the greatest teen film ever came out

imdb plot outline:
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that


psyCohn's comment:
Nicholson is awesome along with rest of cast

imdb plot outline:
Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders of their imperious CO, Jessup


psyCohn's comment:
slow at times, but a charming story of a man and his baseball dream

imdb plot outline:
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox come


psyCohn's comment:
had all the makings of a great one, and it came through; great message & effects

imdb plot outline:
A man disillusioned by what his life has become encounters an exciting stranger who introduces him to a new way of life


psyCohn's comment:
not as chilling as "Omen" but a watchable film

imdb plot outline:
The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him


psyCohn's comment:
great story of a battleship getting trapped in time

imdb plot outline:
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour


psyCohn's comment:
the 1st ever full-length 3D animated film; amazing in many ways

imdb plot outline:
A female scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms


psyCohn's comment:
sort of a "Good Will Hunting" feel, good, but very slow

imdb plot outline:
An afro-american teen writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author


imdb plot outline:
A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then search the ocean to find him


imdb plot outline:
This film recreates the strange events which happened November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the woods. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter an UFO


psyCohn's comment:
predictable but Eastwood's Leon Sprague gives it the right touch

imdb plot outline:
A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter that can be partially controlled by a neuralink


imdb plot outline:
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic


psyCohn's comment:
as good as I expected it to be, for whatever that is worth

imdb plot outline:
A young lawyer joins a prestigous law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side


psyCohn's comment:
when inspected, wasn't that good even then

imdb plot outline:
A mentally unstable Vietnam war vet, when abused with a small town's police force, begins a one man war with it


psyCohn's comment:
should have had a lot more action; almost rather lame

imdb plot outline:
This installment of Chan's Police Story series has our hero trying to locate a missing nuclear warhead


psyCohn's comment:
Kline is funny at times, but I was not blown away by this one

imdb plot outline:
In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot


imdb plot outline:
A radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a horrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was a victim of it.


title:
Fistful of Dollars, A (Per un pugno di dollari)

psyCohn's comment:
first of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns; made Eastwood the all-time Western anti-hero

imdb plot outline:
A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge


psyCohn's comment:
better than it looks on paper; Dillon is quite a fine actor

imdb plot outline:
Jeffrey feels boxed in; in his home, in his life, in his dreams. At the Flamingo beach club his eyes are opened to a world filled with what he sees as beautiful people and perfect lives


psyCohn's comment:
if I were still 10, I might have given this one a 9

imdb plot outline:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth


psyCohn's comment:
Hopper & Sutherland mix well; has some funny moments

imdb plot outline:
The young FBI-agent John Buckner is instructed to bring Huey Walker, a hippy from the sixties, to prison. They travel by train, and of course Huey tries to escape


psyCohn's comment:
hip to slam, but bad enough to deserve it

imdb plot outline:
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school


psyCohn's comment:
impressive effects save this one; bad acting almost blows it; hardly believable

imdb plot outline:
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived


psyCohn's comment:
surprisingly good story, and Quaid and Caan excel

imdb plot outline:
"Flesh and Bone," an artistically told story in the Texas Outback, gives us a cultural peek at ways of life we would probably not encounter otherwise


psyCohn's comment:
those "classic" funny moments are too few and far apart; very overrated

imdb plot outline:
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining throughout w/ very few breaks; very funny at times

imdb plot outline:
A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents


psyCohn's comment:
splendid film and effects; excellent Goldblum effort

imdb plot outline:
Seth Brundle is a scientist working on teleportation. Just when he thinks he's ironed out the last bug in his system, the intervention of a common house fly turns Seth into a 6 foot insect


psyCohn's comment:
very interesting debut film from Nolan of a 'follower' who meets up with a thief; in b&w

imdb plot outline:
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing


imdb plot outline:
A city boy comes to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned


title:
For A Few Dollars More (Per qualche dollaro in più)

psyCohn's comment:
Eastwood's "man w/ no name" became legend

imdb plot outline:
Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw


psyCohn's comment:
run-of-the-mill Moore/Bond film; would not recommend from that group

imdb plot outline:
Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands


psyCohn's comment:
wonderful film; Hanks has come a long way since his "... Buddy" days

imdb plot outline:
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him


psyCohn's comment:
Newman could have stayed away from this script - he is only quality of film

imdb plot outline:
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country


psyCohn's comment:
terrible - Tarantino better stick with solo directing and quit this side shit

imdb plot outline:
Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve


imdb plot outline:
A group of four teenage girls in the San Fernando Valley, and the usual problems teenagers has to cope with. Deidre is fascinated by sex, Madge is unhappily overweight, Annie is into drugs and Jeanie has to take care of all of them


psyCohn's comment:
some interesting scenes and a decent plot twist made this Paxton effort watchable

imdb plot outline:
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."


psyCohn's comment:
suspenseful Polanski film features a story that lives up to its title

imdb plot outline:
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. His lack of language, and the odd way she disappeared makes it nearly impossible for him to find any official help in his search


psyCohn's comment:
Reese never better in this unique black comedy of sorts

imdb plot outline:
Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990's: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she'd rather go and search for the grandmother she's never met


psyCohn's comment:
quite an interesting film; launched Hackman to stardom

imdb plot outline:
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection


psyCohn's comment:
absolutely one of the most boring movies of all time

imdb plot outline:
Supposedly true story of Madame Claude, who provided high-class call girls to dignitaries and heads of state


imdb plot outline:
A serial killer is murdering London women with a necktie. The police have a suspect... but he's the wrong man


psyCohn's comment:
story of the struggle of a black youth and his life surrounded by crime

imdb plot outline:
Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge


psyCohn's comment:
hard to even admit that I watched this one; decline of brat pack evident here

imdb plot outline:
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She claims to be 20 years old, but he learns that she's actually just 16 and already married


psyCohn's comment:
the first of maybe the best cheapo horror movie series; watch for Kevin Bacon in this one

imdb plot outline:
A young boy named Jason drowns in a camp lake. Eleven years later, counselors at the camp are systematically slaughtered. Could it be Jason back from his watery grave?


psyCohn's comment:
2nd installment, and a pretty good sequel I must say - all campers must die!

imdb plot outline:
Thought to have drowned in Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees returns with an arsenal of weapons to exact his revenge on the unknowing campers of the lake


psyCohn's comment:
Jason in 3D?  What more could you want?; part of the early 80's part 3's in 3D; takes on a band of bikers in this one

imdb plot outline:
Having escaped in the last episode, Jason is back, hockey mask and all, to continue his murderous rampage across Crystal Lake


psyCohn's comment:
Jason is woken from the dead and returns to slash even more victims

imdb plot outline:
Tommy returns to the grave to make sure Jason is dead and accidently brings him back to life. Now it's up to Tommy to stop Jason's mindless killing and put him back where he belongs


psyCohn's comment:
some poor girl bring Jason back from Crystal Lake and the terror begins again; marks debut of Hodder as Jason

imdb plot outline:
Years after Tommy Jarvis chained him underwater at Camp Crystal Lake, the hulking killer Jason Vorhees returns to the camp grounds when he's released accidently by a teenager with psychic powers


title:
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

psyCohn's comment:
Jason 'dies' in this one by toxic waste in NYC - what could be better?  One of the funnier "Fridays"

imdb plot outline:
A passing boat bound for New York pulls Jason along for the ride. Look out New York, here comes hell in a hockey mask


psyCohn's comment:
well, he's died in part 4, but here he comes again in part 5, better than ever, sorta

imdb plot outline:
While Jason lies unconscious, a local man decides to use Jason's old M.O. and wreaks havoc at a halfway house for troubled teens


psyCohn's comment:
finally, Jason dies in this 4th "Friday"; look for Feldman and Glover

imdb plot outline:
Having been revived at the hospital, Jason returns to Crystal Lake to meet more victims. However, this time has he met his match in Tommy Jarvis ?


psyCohn's comment:
much better than I had expected; Fox worth the watch

imdb plot outline:
A psychic private detective who consorts with deceased souls becomes engaged in a mystery as members of the town community begin dying mysteriously


psyCohn's comment:
as long as you view half-heartedly, should find this one funny

imdb plot outline:
Doctor Pretorius and his colleague work on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation if the pineal gland they want to open mind for higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms


imdb plot outline:
Two brother criminals and their hostages encounter vampires at a Mexican bar


psyCohn's comment:
Depp always shines in this fictional account of Jack the Ripper

imdb plot outline:
In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper


psyCohn's comment:
never dull; excellent TV-to-movie transition

imdb plot outline:
Wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble escapes from a prison bus and tries to find out why she was killed and who the murderer really was.


psyCohn's comment:
highly disturbing at times, funny at others, engrossing throughout

imdb plot outline:
A group of soldiers develop dehumanized personalities in their training and it shows in their tour of duty in Vietnam


psyCohn's comment:
starts out kind of slow, but it just gets better as you go along; hilarious ending

imdb plot outline:
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity


psyCohn's comment:
great Aussie epic set in WW1; exceptional ending; very early Gibson

imdb plot outline:
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I


psyCohn's comment:
strange 'birthday' gift turns into a story of dozens of twists & intrigue

imdb plot outline:
Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life


psyCohn's comment:
not a movie for a young male to see & enjoy

imdb plot outline:
The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish - to meet Greta Garbo


psyCohn's comment:
nice little indy coming-of-age film; Portman was great

imdb plot outline:
A young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade


psyCohn's comment:
just terrible to watch; Leigh is hard to look at in this film

imdb plot outline:
Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia (Mare Winningham) who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong


psyCohn's comment:
very interesting mix of humor & action, w/ a good plot & cameos

imdb plot outline:
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job


psyCohn's comment:
better than I thought; Goldberg is the best part

imdb plot outline:
After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost


psyCohn's comment:
well, it was not your typical scary movie, but it was not that good either

imdb plot outline:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1953 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen


imdb plot outline:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing


psyCohn's comment:
you have to ask yourself, could you really watch this one again?

imdb plot outline:
Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service


psyCohn's comment:
sad & true story of a fashion model who gets involved w/drugs; Jolie is eye-catching

imdb plot outline:
Fact-based story of supermodel Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in America whose death was attributed to the disease


psyCohn's comment:
Jolie is fantastic; very interesting story; like a "Cukoo's Nest" for women

imdb plot outline:
Susanna is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960's. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. She befriends the band of troubled women in her ward


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic; Crowe is now at the forefront of bad-ass actors

imdb plot outline:
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge


psyCohn's comment:
not much here; early Slater role of a skateboarding meddling kid

imdb plot outline:
Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so he skates off to investigate the murder himself


psyCohn's comment:
candidate for most underrated movie ever; possibly best group acting I have seen

imdb plot outline:
Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive by Blake to succeed in a sales contest


psyCohn's comment:
Wenders isn't speedy but he is scenic; must really be in the mood


psyCohn's comment:
excellent piece of work; maybe Pacino's best work; good conclusion

imdb plot outline:
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young


psyCohn's comment:
classic, though didn't blow me away; made wise guys cool

imdb plot outline:
A Mafia boss' innocent son gets involved in the bloody family business when his father is critically wounded in a mob hit


psyCohn's comment:
candidate for strangest comedy ever; simplest film I can remember

imdb plot outline:
Misery is brought to a small tribe of African bushmen in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters western "civilization", a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot


imdb plot outline:
Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan


psyCohn's comment:
started bad and got a lot worse; Danza no threat to the academy

imdb plot outline:
When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orang outangs. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years


title:
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

psyCohn's comment:
kids' movie about two H.S. girls and their search for gold; like I said, for kids

imdb plot outline:
After her dad's death, Beth Easton and her mother, Kate, move to the house left to the family by a deceased aunt. Kate meets up with several old friends, but Beth has none


psyCohn's comment:
Bond films of today just do not have it; absurd plot

imdb plot outline:
Bond is back, this time with Pierce Brosnan as the British superspy. Now that the Cold War is over, Bond has new enemies to contend with


psyCohn's comment:
a very quirky film which had many funny moments

imdb plot outline:
The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he's Holden Caulfield


psyCohn's comment:
great cast talent and touching story; a better Williams effort

imdb plot outline:
An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam


psyCohn's comment:
great story of a genius underachiever and his views on people, life; excellent

imdb plot outline:
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychiatrist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.


psyCohn's comment:
maybe best of the three Leone Spaghetti Westerns

imdb plot outline:
Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune. Who will walk away with the cash?


psyCohn's comment:
masterpiece!  Liotta, Pesci, & De Niro set standard

imdb plot outline:
The story of Irish-Italian American, Henry Hill, and how he lives day-to-day life as a member of the Mafia. Based on a true story, the plot revolves around Henry and his two unstable friends Jimmy and Tommy


imdb plot outline:
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park


imdb plot outline:
Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a vacation in Germany where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only interested in him because he is a virgin.


psyCohn's comment:
this was basically "The Ring", and very cliched

imdb plot outline:
Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of committing a terrible crime


psyCohn's comment:
post-college classic with a great Hoffman lead; great cast

imdb plot outline:
A young man just out of college doesn't know what to do with his life. But being involved with a young woman AND her mother probably wasn't it.


psyCohn's comment:
fun when young; almost hard to watch now

imdb plot outline:
The friendships, romances, and adventures of a group of highschool kids in the 1950s.


psyCohn's comment:
standard comedy; maybe last good Aykroyd film?

imdb plot outline:
A Chicago man's hope for a peaceful family vacation in the woods is shattered when the annoying in-laws drop in.


psyCohn's comment:
story of a Marine with too much energy; funny at times and pretty good

imdb plot outline:
The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the peaceful years before the Vietnam war. Bull Meechum, the self-described "great Santini," is manic


psyCohn's comment:
debuts of De Niro & De Palma; funny scenes from time to time

imdb plot outline:
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making


imdb plot outline:
A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.


title:
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

imdb plot outline:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa.


psyCohn's comment:
an utter classic; Cusack's best film; produced by Scorsese

imdb plot outline:
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child.


psyCohn's comment:
Chase debut; like "K.F. Movie" & "Amazon..."; fun

imdb plot outline:
A collection of skits that make fun of television. Everything from commercials to the nightly news are spoofed. Chevy Chase makes a brief (as well as his debut), appearance.


psyCohn's comment:
Cusack is always great & this one has a great plot; look for Aykroyd

imdb plot outline:
Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time


psyCohn's comment:
Murray is great and the story keeps rolling, and rolling, and rolling…

imdb plot outline:
Phil, a sarcastic weather man, finds himself trapped in the identical February 2, but he's the only person that realizes it.


psyCohn's comment:
more of the same as the first one; entertaining enough

imdb plot outline:
Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter"


psyCohn's comment:
not as funny as I thought it would be, but good enough

imdb plot outline:
John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street


imdb plot outline:
College exploitation film focusing on the wild escapades of the women of H.O.T.S. Sorority. The antics include but are certainly not limited to a wet t-shirt contest, a sky-diving eposide, plenty of fraternity boys and even a house-keeping robot.


title:
Hairdresser's Husband (Mari de la coiffeuse, Le)

psyCohn's comment:
very romantic French film about a boy/man who wants only to marry a hairdresser

imdb plot outline:
Antoine, a little boy, falls in love with the local hairdresser, so he gets a hair cut every time he can. This situation causes some problems with his parents. However, when he grows up, he is still obsessed with the hair cutting


psyCohn's comment:
classic Carpenter debut; started the multi - B-horror movies; very scary

imdb plot outline:
Michael Myers has been in an institution since he was a young boy, after murdering his sister. Now he's escaped and is heading back home to terrorise the quiet community which still rememebers him


imdb plot outline:
Peyton Flanders seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage, and blamed it on Claire (the mother).


psyCohn's comment:
good concept but film can't grasp audience

imdb plot outline:
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.


psyCohn's comment:
great opening; one of the better Eastwood stories

imdb plot outline:
A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die.


psyCohn's comment:
good, but not great; Moore is a great Starling, though Liotta was out of place

imdb plot outline:
Hannibal returns to America and attempts to make contact with disgraced Agent Starling and survive a vengeful victim's plan


psyCohn's comment:
disturbingly funny; strange subject matter & not for everyone, but a great film

imdb plot outline:
Three middle-class New Jersey sisters all have their problems with their families and sex lives.


psyCohn's comment:
great debut by PTAnderson; sets stage for future films; good acting

imdb plot outline:
Sydney is a veteran gambler in his sixties who still spends his time at the casinos. When he meets John, a loser with no money at all, he sees him as a son and tries to help him


psyCohn's comment:
LeBrock is hot and the film is watchable

imdb plot outline:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma.


psyCohn's comment:
great opening setting but film falters from there

imdb plot outline:
A wandering soldier finds a robot head in the post-apocalyptic desert. He brings it back to his girlfriend for use in one of her sculptures. He investigates the origin of the head, and discovers it's from the Mark 13 project


psyCohn's comment:
really slows towards end; hilarious first half enough for me

imdb plot outline:
Harold is a depressed, death-obsessed 20-year-old man-child who spends his free time attending funerals and staging fake suicides in front of his mother. At a funeral, Harold befriends Maude, a 79-year-old woman who has a zest for life.


psyCohn's comment:
grade-A B-movie of a now famous urban legend

imdb plot outline:
Given a very short time allotment, a writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for profit' operation.


imdb plot outline:
Dan and Lorie are journalists working in the same office. More often than not they have opposing view of the issue in question. Deciding that this is hot stuff, a television producer gives them their own program


imdb plot outline:
Sergeant Tom Highway, a hardened, tough veteran of Korea and Vietnam returns to the United States for his last tour of duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. He is assigned to training a recon unit.


psyCohn's comment:
little biased here, but a great documentary

imdb plot outline:
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now'


psyCohn's comment:
overwhelming characters; the Mann music moves

imdb plot outline:
A Los Angeles crime saga, "Heat" focuses on the lives of two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief


psyCohn's comment:
odd characters w/ typical high-school situations; maybe Slater at his best

imdb plot outline:
A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics.


psyCohn's comment:
unbelievable imagery and character development

imdb plot outline:
Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge


psyCohn's comment:
eight great animated fantasy stories w/ celebrity voices; certainly a guy film

imdb plot outline:
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror


psyCohn's comment:
best of the bunch; the cynobites fall to the good doctor

imdb plot outline:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain.


psyCohn's comment:
classic rental; meet Pinhead for the first time

imdb plot outline:
A man finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the puzzle of the Lamont Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites


imdb plot outline:
Pinhead is stuck in a block after the Big Confrontation in "Hellbound," The block containing Pinhead and the puzzle cube is bought by a young playboy as sculpture.


psyCohn's comment:
good adaptation of Bugliosi book; great leads

imdb plot outline:
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".


psyCohn's comment:
too long; first NC-17 film; Thurman is hot

imdb plot outline:
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June


psyCohn's comment:
powerful, real look at serial killers; true story

imdb plot outline:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door" and the mass murderer. Low budget movie, with some graphic murder scenes.


psyCohn's comment:
sort of suspenseful @ times, but nothing too special; the 'twist' was not so twisty

imdb plot outline:
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend


psyCohn's comment:
I just can't get into these Brooks films

imdb plot outline:
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on.


psyCohn's comment:
standard great Eastwood with a red town at the end

imdb plot outline:
A small town with a dark secret hires a mysterious, vengence-minded drifter to protect it from three criminals.


psyCohn's comment:
great film; excellent transitions & time changes; "There can be only one."

imdb plot outline:
An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".


psyCohn's comment:
pathetic; same story as the first, only worse

imdb plot outline:
An entombed Immortal is uncovered, and comes seeking the Highlander.


imdb plot outline:
A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. They crash and are stranded in a desert. They are being stalked by a group of people, which have not emerged into modern times.


psyCohn's comment:
Hauer is a great bad-guy; similar to a "Twilight Zone"

imdb plot outline:
Driving someone else's car from Chicago to San Diego, a young man (Jim?) picks up a hitchhiker with a taste for murder. The police, unaware of the real murderer i.e. the John Ryder, blame Jim. Ryder shows super human powers in his destructive spree.


psyCohn's comment:
Allen is up to his old paranoid self in this movie-farce of the industry itself

imdb plot outline:
Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a film director, who was once big in the 1970's and 1980's, but has now has been reduced to directing TV commercials. Finally, he gets an offer to make a big film.


imdb plot outline:
An eight year-old, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas, has to defend his home against idiotic burglar's.


imdb plot outline:
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family


psyCohn's comment:
sad but true film of small Indiana H.S. basketball teams

imdb plot outline:
A film following the lives of two African American boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional


psyCohn's comment:
"Smokey" should have done something different

imdb plot outline:
Sonny Hooper, Hollywood's greatest stuntman, deals with his relationship with the daughter of his mentor, a challenge from a young stuntman who idolizes him, and the egomaniacal director of his latest movie.


psyCohn's comment:
great basketball film; Hopper role won Oscar; loosely based on a true story

imdb plot outline:
A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.


psyCohn's comment:
film of the struggles of a single mother; pretty well done for a chick flick

imdb plot outline:
A women who comes back to her home town in Smithville Texas after a very sloppy and painful divorce with her daughter and has to deal with the people in her town


psyCohn's comment:
terrible; the lovely Ms. Benton is only reason for the 2


psyCohn's comment:
B-grade ski movie; nothing good to say about it

imdb plot outline:
Naive corn-pone skiing wunderkind picks up beautiful hitchhiking bimbo on way to ski competition. Once at the ski competition he is taunted in the daytime and laid at night, by different people.


psyCohn's comment:
if you try, you might be able to watch this

imdb plot outline:
Young guys on the make get a job at a resort hotel in the Caribbean.


imdb plot outline:
Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper's mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.


psyCohn's comment:
what is the "Greatest American Hero" doing here?

imdb plot outline:
Roger Cobb is a Vietnam vat. Whose career as a horror novelist has taken a turn for the worse when his son Jimmy mysteriously disappears while visiting his aunt's house. Roger's search for Jimmy destroys his marriage and his writing career.


psyCohn's comment:
better than average werewolf movie; good ending

imdb plot outline:
Eye-popping special effects highlight an updated werewolf story. TV newswoman, Karen White, goes on a retreat after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. But is she really safe?


imdb plot outline:
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper


psyCohn's comment:
black comedy of the rise and fall and rise again of an everyman in a huge company

imdb plot outline:
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam


imdb plot outline:
Woman is raped at cocktail party. Years later, her son grows up to be a big hairy murderous monster who stalks a group of teens shipwrecked on his island.


psyCohn's comment:
very underrated vampire film; Bowie & Sarandon are fantastic

imdb plot outline:
Miriam, a centuries-old vampire, preys on urban clubgoers with her vampire lover John. When John suddenly ages and wastes away, Miriam casts her spell upon Sarah, a doctor who researches premature aging.


imdb plot outline:
In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?


psyCohn's comment:
not sure where this film was ever going, but it did have a few moments of comedy

imdb plot outline:
Hurly-burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes who's personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios


psyCohn's comment:
true story of Ruben Carter's imprisonment; pretty good, but a little Hollywood at the end

imdb plot outline:
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence


psyCohn's comment:
pool-hall classic; Newman vs. Gleason is stellar match-up

imdb plot outline:
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.


psyCohn's comment:
might not be good now but had some funny moments

imdb plot outline:
A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to write the great American novel.


psyCohn's comment:
lesser version of "Scream"; worth watching for a few scares

imdb plot outline:
Four teens are in great danger one year after their car hits a stranger whose body they dump in the sea


psyCohn's comment:
Keaton wins the most bad-ass woman ever award

imdb plot outline:
The film follows Jennifer, a writer who is working on a new novel and needs to get out of the city to finish it. She hires a river side apartment to finish her novel, attracting the attention of a number of male locals.


imdb plot outline:
An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive. He must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man


psyCohn's comment:
phenominal cast with a very unique story; HORRIBLE ending though

imdb plot outline:
When a nasty storm hits a hotel, ten strangers are stranded within and as they begin to know each other, they discover they are being killed off one by one


psyCohn's comment:
touching story of a blind man and his walk through life

imdb plot outline:
A blind college student trying to live a normal life -- and succeeding.


psyCohn's comment:
supposedly suspenseful & funny film that's neither


imdb plot outline:
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.


psyCohn's comment:
exceptional; Oldman's overall best overall film

imdb plot outline:
Ludwig van Beethoven dies and his mentor proceeds to deal with his affairs (last will and testament). There is a question as to who really is his "immortal beloved", and so tries to find out who this might be.


imdb plot outline:
Lottie Mason (Theresa Russell) is a police vice cop who has just the right looks to be a decoy for the whore-mungers on the streets of Los Angeles. She seems to always be where the action is whether it be vice or drugs.


psyCohn's comment:
a nice tale of some Irish immigrants; Morton is great, and the kids were wonderful

imdb plot outline:
Intimately told by their 11-year-old daughter Christy (Sarah Bolger), a child wise beyond her years, is a coming of age story about an Irish couple (Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine) trying to find their way IN AMERICA


psyCohn's comment:
based on Capote novel with excellent leads

imdb plot outline:
Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat good, but I was never really scared watching this; easily not missed

imdb plot outline:
Claire Cooper dreams strange things from time to time. One night, she dreams about a little girl being taken away by a stranger, right in her neighbourhood. When her own daughter Rebecca is kidnapped and murdered


psyCohn's comment:
one of the most cruel stories ever; not for many women

imdb plot outline:
Two junior executives on a six week business trip, both of whom have been recently hurt by women, devise a horrible plan to get even with women for their past hurts: They intend to find, romance, and then dump a vulnerable woman


imdb plot outline:
Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.


psyCohn's comment:
powerful & moving; based on a true story

imdb plot outline:
Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom.


imdb plot outline:
A fugitive scientist is cursed by the tendency of turning into a huge green monster when he gets emotionally excited.


psyCohn's comment:
I could not sit through 5 minutes of this now

imdb plot outline:
When an ordinary woman is exposed to a unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically shrink.


psyCohn's comment:
modern day Star Wars?  you know what you are getting into

imdb plot outline:
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive


psyCohn's comment:
worthy for the series; kind of hope they do not make any more, though

imdb plot outline:
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, returns for the 3rd and final Indy film. Teaming up with his father, Indiana sets out to try and find the Holy Grail.


psyCohn's comment:
true story of an "Insider" in the tobacco industry; Crowe & film fantastic

imdb plot outline:
True story of tobacco executive-turned-whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand and his relationship with "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman


psyCohn's comment:
creepy Williams and a subdued Pacino make this film work; excellent editing; my 1100th film

imdb plot outline:
Brought in to investigate the murder of a young girl, a celebrated cop accidentally kills his partner and is blackmailed by a sadistic killer who witnessed it.


psyCohn's comment:
highly entertaining; Gere is a great bad-guy

imdb plot outline:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady.


title:
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

psyCohn's comment:
still not quite sure what to think of this one; good imagery

imdb plot outline:
It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire.


imdb plot outline:
Ed Okin's life is somewhat out of control. He can't sleep, his wife betrays him and his job is dull. One night he starts to drive through Los Angeles and he finally ends in the parking garage of L.A. Airport.


psyCohn's comment:
possibly the best remake of a film ever; Sutherland is great

imdb plot outline:
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.


psyCohn's comment:
amazing that these film even get made; what "genius" is behind this sh-t?

imdb plot outline:
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out.


psyCohn's comment:
cannot give a Jack film too low of a score

imdb plot outline:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher.


psyCohn's comment:
very disappointing; strange how these get a budget; worse than very bad (a DHC recommendation)

imdb plot outline:
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that it's inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor


psyCohn's comment:
good first half can't save terrible ending; especially when watched out of order

imdb plot outline:
Seven youths have to defeat a demonic creature named Pennywise which dresses in a clown suit and terrorizes a 1960's town in Maine


psyCohn's comment:
great cast in this never-dull film of revenge amongst robbers

imdb plot outline:
The plan was flawless... the job was executed perfectly... the escape was clean. The only threat mastermind thief Charlie Croker (Wahlberg) never saw coming was a member of his own crew


psyCohn's comment:
has some suspenseful moments; Willis was great

imdb plot outline:
Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill some high-ranking person


psyCohn's comment:
gut-wrenching disguesting humor; 'harder' than the show; I could see it 100x

imdb plot outline:
Johnny Knoxville and his crazy friends appear on the big screen for the very first time in Jackass: The Movie. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf court, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators


psyCohn's comment:
way long; few good moments; QT needs something to work besides "Dogs" & "Pulp"

imdb plot outline:
A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer


psyCohn's comment:
underrated modern-day Jack the Ripper tale; Spader shines in double role

imdb plot outline:
A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders.


psyCohn's comment:
amazing imagery; Robbins is amongst the finest actors; what is real?

imdb plot outline:
New York postal worker Jacob Singer is trying to keep his frayed life from unraveling. His days are increasingly being invaded by flashbacks to his first marriage, his now-dead son, and his tour of duty in Vietnam.


psyCohn's comment:
could have been a lot better; Fiorentino is quite hot

imdb plot outline:
Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect


psyCohn's comment:
hardly remember watching this one, but I liked it

imdb plot outline:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder.


psyCohn's comment:
not as good as "Toy Story" or "Babe"; more for kids

imdb plot outline:
James' happy life at the English seaside is rudely ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two horrid aunts. Daringly saving the life of a spider he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues


psyCohn's comment:
well, Jason dies in the beginning, but his spirit lives on in this 9th installment of the series

imdb plot outline:
The secret of Jason's evil is revealed. It is up to the last remaining descendant of the Voorhees family to stop Jason before he becomes immortal and unstoppable. This is the final (?) battle to end Jason's reign of terror forever


psyCohn's comment:
yet again, our boy J just can't die in this souped up edition of the "Friday" series

imdb plot outline:
Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century


psyCohn's comment:
Moby Dick of movies; Shaw's Quinn the coolest of cats; effected an entire generation of beach-goers

imdb plot outline:
A police chief, a scientist, and a grizzled sailor set out to kill a shark that is menacing the seaside community of Amity Island.


psyCohn's comment:
sorta like "Duel" at first, this turns into an awkward horror film, with not a pretty ending

imdb plot outline:
Siblings Darryl (Justin Long) and Trish (Gina Phillips) are on their way home from their freshmen year at college. But the trip starts turning dangerous as they see a man in a trench coat and a hat that covers his face dumping something down a pipe


psyCohn's comment:
high moment for those SNL films; full of classic one-liners

imdb plot outline:
Navin is an idiot. Hew grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family. But at his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis...


psyCohn's comment:
I found this to be better than most people; not a classic, though

imdb plot outline:
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins.


psyCohn's comment:
very surprised at how funny this was; very well done & acted w/ many cameos

imdb plot outline:
When a sports agent has a moral ephiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him


imdb plot outline:
This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life.


psyCohn's comment:
greatest editing, supporting cast ever; believe what you want, but film shines

imdb plot outline:
Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.


psyCohn's comment:
amazing how bad this one is; easily Hanks' worst effort

imdb plot outline:
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.


psyCohn's comment:
well, they took what should have been a good story line and made it totally predictable

imdb plot outline:
A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.


psyCohn's comment:
sometimes touching tale of several Chinese women & their daughters; too female for me

imdb plot outline:
The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other


psyCohn's comment:
good, but Spielberg should have made it more tame or more gruesome

imdb plot outline:
Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber.


psyCohn's comment:
fairly predictable, but entertaining enough; good, for Connery these days

imdb plot outline:
Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence.


psyCohn's comment:
good film exploration of why some might turn to killing; stars C. Gunter

imdb plot outline:
Brian Kessler, a journalist researching serial killers, and his photographer girlfriend Carrie set out on a cross-country tour of the sites of the killings. Sharing the ride and their expenses are Early Grayce and his girlfriend Adele.


psyCohn's comment:
good back then but a must never see again

imdb plot outline:
A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting.


psyCohn's comment:
early Mann film, during Nazi Germany; great background music

imdb plot outline:
Nazis make an old East European town's Keep their base. The local people fear the place is haunted. As soldier after soldier is killed by the beast in the Keep, the Nazis have no option but to seek the aid of a Jew to translate some manuscripts


psyCohn's comment:
very funny movie of childhood friends that become a rabbi & a priest

imdb plot outline:
A story about two friends, a priest and a rabbi, who fall in love with the same beauty (Jenna Elfman)


psyCohn's comment:
early slapstick; has many a funny moment

imdb plot outline:
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.


psyCohn's comment:
story of quiet kid whose parents die; strange

imdb plot outline:
I young man (the 'Kid') returns to the small town where his parents were murdered whn he was a boy. He's there for revenge. Locals Kate and Louie befriend him much to the annoyance of some of the town folk.


imdb plot outline:
An amoral young skater sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible, but things go badly when one gets tested for HIV.


psyCohn's comment:
way over the top; great action and Thurman rocks; Japanimation scene is good too

imdb plot outline:
A female assassin attacked on her wedding day by her group leader, Bill, wakes up from a coma and seeks revenge


psyCohn's comment:
soild enough follow-up; great action, and more story development, though some wasted time

imdb plot outline:
There were five on her list. Now it's three. O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green were the first to fall, now The Bride (Uma Thurman) is out to finish the job by killing Elle Driver, Budd, and last of all, Bill


psyCohn's comment:
debut from Dahl with solid story and a cool Kilmer lead

imdb plot outline:
A young detective becomes involved with a beautiful woman on the run from the mob and her psychopath boyfriend


psyCohn's comment:
"Reservoir Dogs," only in a bank & less interesting

imdb plot outline:
Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day.


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining, for 1933; must have scared some people back then

imdb plot outline:
An expedition team go to a tropical island and discover a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde companion.


psyCohn's comment:
Lange's screen debut; not bad, but the big ape is not really scary

imdb plot outline:
An expedition of the "Petrox" company, is exploring in search of petrol. A strange island where they arrive is the home of a giant ape, King Kong, that is captured by the expedition in order to make money exhibiting it to the world.


psyCohn's comment:
Scorsese's rebuttal to Hinkley-Reagan shooting; De Niro good in comedic role

imdb plot outline:
Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around.


imdb plot outline:
Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone before she becomes famous) to help her find her father, who's been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration


psyCohn's comment:
funny bowling movie? good for very many laughs

imdb plot outline:
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches


psyCohn's comment:
very well done remake; Cage and Caruso have good parts in this "Pulp" like film

imdb plot outline:
When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and is whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... they want 'Little Junior'


psyCohn's comment:
sort of like a combo of "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven"; very suspenseful

imdb plot outline:
Police hunting for a serial killer are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time


psyCohn's comment:
very thrilling; Fonda's best work & Sutherland is spell-binding

imdb plot outline:
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.


psyCohn's comment:
a different edition in the mob genre; had some good moments, but nothing spectacular

imdb plot outline:
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining film of thought-provoking sci-fi; Spacey & Bridges are great

imdb plot outline:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations


psyCohn's comment:
thought of it as a modern, violent "Chinatown"; stellar acting

imdb plot outline:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films


psyCohn's comment:
like "...Private Idaho", story of sorted male youth and his encounters; extremely well made

imdb plot outline:
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man


imdb plot outline:
Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.


psyCohn's comment:
blows away American version; excellent story w/ great ending

imdb plot outline:
Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin


psyCohn's comment:
hard to rate; some cool moments & strange sexual overtones make it almost good

imdb plot outline:
In this sexy vampire romp, Lord James D'Ampton and friend Angus Flint visit D'Ampton's ancestral home. A alluring new neighbor has moved into the chateau next door, and seems to be at the heart of a major outbreak of vampirism in the area.


imdb plot outline:
Someone is killing women with a laser to the temple during the full moon (hence the title, get it?). An all-night DJ whose marriage and ratings are disintegrating gets the killer to call him


psyCohn's comment:
can barely remember this one - was that Magnum?

imdb plot outline:
Lassiter is a handsome jewel thief operating in London in the late 1930s.


psyCohn's comment:
film for frustrated, women-hating males; nice guys finish last

imdb plot outline:
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.


psyCohn's comment:
utter classic story of the last emperor of China; long, but awesome

imdb plot outline:
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle


psyCohn's comment:
actually not that bad, but Mr. Willis can get old at times

imdb plot outline:
A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town


psyCohn's comment:
dramatic story of Texas teens and their summer before college

imdb plot outline:
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends.


psyCohn's comment:
Fiorentino is flawless in apathetic role

imdb plot outline:
Bridget Gregory has a lot going for her: she's beautiful, she's intelligent, she's married to a doctor. But all of this isn't enough, as her husband Clay finds out


psyCohn's comment:
kid-fantasy film of a video game pirate who gets sucked in for real; sounds great

imdb plot outline:
A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.


psyCohn's comment:
excellent black comedy with a cast of great cameos

imdb plot outline:
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs


psyCohn's comment:
strange; Brando's role interested only in nailing Schneider, in a number of ways

imdb plot outline:
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide.


psyCohn's comment:
excellent scenery & imagery in Scorsese's epic; phenomenal DaFoe lead

imdb plot outline:
At his execution, Jesus is tempted by an alluring image of a peaceful and pleasant life with Mary Magdelene to try to get him to refuse the sacrifice he must make.


psyCohn's comment:
Fitzgerald novel (which was never completed); boasts H.O.F. cast & good story


imdb plot outline:
A scientist performs experiments involving intelligence enhancing drugs and virtual reality on a simple-minded gardener. He puts the gardener on an extensive schedule of learning, and quickly he becomes brilliant.


psyCohn's comment:
funny enough story of pro-women's baseball league during WWII

imdb plot outline:
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry


psyCohn's comment:
third in "Chainsaw" series; not much to say about this one

imdb plot outline:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.


psyCohn's comment:
depressing tale of an alcoholic; phenomenal acting

imdb plot outline:
Ben Sanderson goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death; he forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with hooker Sera


psyCohn's comment:
not one of Redford's best efforts; barely a plot

imdb plot outline:
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon.


psyCohn's comment:
I just can't find these chick-flix funny, and this one was no exception

imdb plot outline:
Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing


psyCohn's comment:
better than expected; female "Rebel w/o a Cause" story

imdb plot outline:
A Texas teenager cuts her hair short and becomes an outlaw martyr with her brother and friends


psyCohn's comment:
true story of failed comic Lenny Bruce; very sad w/ great Hoffman lead

imdb plot outline:
Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce.


psyCohn's comment:
poor attempt at the up & down lives of rich kids

imdb plot outline:
Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at a college in New Hampshire to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles.


psyCohn's comment:
these are all the same, yet just entertaining enough

imdb plot outline:
A veteran detective is partnered with a young detective with a suicidal death wish.


psyCohn's comment:
debut of Pesci in this series is about the only redeeming part of this one

imdb plot outline:
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities


imdb plot outline:
Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked formed policeman and his huge arms racket


imdb plot outline:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results.


psyCohn's comment:
short tale of the 2 famour adventurers who discovered the great West

imdb plot outline:
short tale of the 2 famour adventurers who discovered the great West


psyCohn's comment:
worst Carrey film; a lawyer who cannot lie?  Get real...

imdb plot outline:
A fast track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after the lawyer turns his son down for the last time


imdb plot outline:
The siblings Patty and Joe live in an industrial suburb. While Patty's ambition is their rock band "The Barbusters" only, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty's young son Benji.


psyCohn's comment:
extremely boring; the best thing about this one is when it ends

imdb plot outline:
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why they coudn't get married because Tita's mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first, and have Tita to stay and take care of her


psyCohn's comment:
dramatic look at a family torn apart; Roth is spectacular; splendid film

imdb plot outline:
This film tells a bitter tale of a dysfunctional family. Joshua, a cold-blooded professional killer, returns to his Brighton Beach boyhood home for a "job." He knows it will be difficult to return to the Russian-immigrant community of his youth


psyCohn's comment:
Moore proved to be much less of a Bond; actually one of his better efforts

imdb plot outline:
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.


psyCohn's comment:
Bond, possibly at his worst; these were never that great, anyway

imdb plot outline:
James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitikar and General Koskov.


psyCohn's comment:
b-movie director trying to get his film done; Buscemi quickly becoming the king of this

imdb plot outline:
Film about filmmaking. It takes place during one day on set of non-budget movie. Ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers


psyCohn's comment:
long story of an older man falling for a young girl; Sellers steals every scene he is in

imdb plot outline:
Middle-aged novelist Humbert Humbert rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house after he falls passionately in love with her daughter Lolita


psyCohn's comment:
promising beginning ruined by long, boring scenes having nothing to do w/ the film

imdb plot outline:
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town


imdb plot outline:
A fourteen year old bed wetter runs home from school every day to retrieve the wet sheet his mother has hung from his bedroom window to punish him. He races to get there before any of his friends pass the house.


imdb plot outline:
Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amidst the corruption and racism of the American south.


psyCohn's comment:
started out pretty well, but just too much blood & guts in the end

imdb plot outline:
A women suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again


imdb plot outline:
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release


psyCohn's comment:
barely makes entertaining grade; is that a ghost?

imdb plot outline:
Mollie is a single mum who's on the lookout for a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of which of the men she dates would make a good father figure! If only she could understand him...


psyCohn's comment:
classic good vs. evil, with good characters; interesting book adaptation

imdb plot outline:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.


psyCohn's comment:
favorite animation; advanced art for time; based on Tolkien's classic tales

imdb plot outline:
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle Earth.


title:
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The

psyCohn's comment:
1st part of of the classic trillogy - phenominally well-done & acted; might seem slow to some

imdb plot outline:
In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it


psyCohn's comment:
this one is slightly better than the 1st, if only for the more action sequences; Mortensen is excellent as Aragorn

imdb plot outline:
Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard


imdb plot outline:
A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems.


psyCohn's comment:
not-so-good film of young guys going to Mexico to do some sexual exploration

imdb plot outline:
Teen sex comedy set in 1965 which follows four Los Angeles school friends, Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell and the series of misadventures they get into when they travel south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico


psyCohn's comment:
modern teen vampire film, excels; Patric shines, as does most of the cast

imdb plot outline:
After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires


psyCohn's comment:
Lynch is the master of imagery with no order; beyond strange

imdb plot outline:
Fred Madison, a saxophonist, is accused under mysterious circumstances of murdering his wife Renee. On death row, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton, leading a completely different life


psyCohn's comment:
very clever, funny, and interesting film; Murray is hilarious and Johansson is great

imdb plot outline:
Charlotte, fresh out of Yale with a philosophy degree, is in Tokyo with her husband, a photographer whose work takes him away that week. She's adrift, her soul on ice. Bob, mid-50s, a semi-retired movie star, is there to make $2 million doing a Scotch ad


psyCohn's comment:
not much of a premise here; Herbie should have hit a tree

imdb plot outline:
A race car driver becomes a champion with a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own


psyCohn's comment:
bad acting in this boring drama; is only worth looking at an often nude Ms. Curtis

imdb plot outline:
A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.


psyCohn's comment:
boring story of some dopey high-school football player

imdb plot outline:
A young nerdy boy hopes to gain acceptance in a high school by not backing down against the school bullies, attempting to make the football team and by befriending a new popular girl.


psyCohn's comment:
amazing; courtroom tactics still apply today; early serial killer film

imdb plot outline:
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.


psyCohn's comment:
good Altman, who is never middle of the road

imdb plot outline:
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. That's where two young surgeons, Duke and Hawkeye end up during the Korean War. There is no plot as such, but instead a series of episodes during which they put their stamp on


psyCohn's comment:
splendid early Gibson; virtually started the action-adventure explosion

imdb plot outline:
In a dystopic future Australia, a vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal


psyCohn's comment:
epitome of action-adventure films; maybe the pioneer of its kind

imdb plot outline:
In the post-apocolyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits


psyCohn's comment:
by far the worst of this series; what is Turner doing here?

imdb plot outline:
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children


psyCohn's comment:
boring 1950's drama; I am not sure why I watched this one

imdb plot outline:
The Topham family wins a "Dunmow Flinch". However, it is stolen while the husband kisses a Hungarian maid.


imdb plot outline:
From the rain of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour.


psyCohn's comment:
this movie did what "Child's Play" couldn't

imdb plot outline:
Magician's assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called Fats to improve his act and within a few years Corky is at the height of fame


psyCohn's comment:
phenomenal film of several stories and how ANYthing can happen; must see

imdb plot outline:
Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"


psyCohn's comment:
very funny baseball movie; hilarious cast

imdb plot outline:
The Cleveland Indians have gone 34 years without a division title. Team owner Donald Phelps has died, and his snobby wife Rachel Phelps, a former showgirl, has taken over as the new owner.


imdb plot outline:
A tail about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.


psyCohn's comment:
basically a bad remake of "Fatal Attraction"; the only attraction here are Molly's boobs

imdb plot outline:
Doug, a college baseball star, cheats on his longtime girlfriend in this 'Fatal Attraction'-esque thriller. Melissa becomes obsessed with Doug and begins an escalating reign of violence and terror when he finally spurns her


psyCohn's comment:
another great K. Smith effort with his typical wit & humor

imdb plot outline:
Brodie Bruce, a Sega and comic book obsessed college student, and his best friend, TS Quint, are both dumped by their girlfriends on the same day, and to deal with their loss, they both go to the local mall


imdb plot outline:
Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene.


psyCohn's comment:
French film of a serial killer and his camera crew that follows him around

imdb plot outline:
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people.


psyCohn's comment:
another entry in the 'good vs. bad but the good guy is not so good' category, with tons of implausable action

imdb plot outline:
In Mexico City, a former Marine swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect


psyCohn's comment:
Carrey is excellent, giving his first real acting performance

imdb plot outline:
A biopic based on the life of Andy Kaufman, an eccentric comedian who went onto enjoy a career as lovable foreign car mechanic Latka Gravas on TV's "Taxi" and later gained infamy as an inter-gender wrestling champ


psyCohn's comment:
interesting piece of sci-fi from the mid-1970's; Bowie is a strange one indeed

imdb plot outline:
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him


psyCohn's comment:
majorly boring; Reynolds just is not that good


psyCohn's comment:
very slow, but not in a bad way; BBT is awesome; great film noir

imdb plot outline:
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.


psyCohn's comment:
this seemed to be interesting at the time

imdb plot outline:
Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores Benedict in a car accident. He operates on her and saves her life using a technique of his own invention: cranial screw-top brain entry.


psyCohn's comment:
haunting post-war look at (possible) military experiments during Korea

imdb plot outline:
A group of American soldiers are captured and brainwashed into becoming sleeper agents.


psyCohn's comment:
top-10 on underrated list; Peterson is fantastic w/ Mann in typical great form

imdb plot outline:
A psychopathic serial killer is on the lose, killing a family each full moon and the police and FBI are clueless. Therefore they ask Will Graham, the FBI agent who captured Doctor Hannibal Lecktor, to look into the case.


psyCohn's comment:
good French film of a woman fighting to save her family's land

imdb plot outline:
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She determines to take revenge upon the men responsible for the death of her father in the first film


psyCohn's comment:
well-done thriller; a can't miss torture scene w/ Oliver

imdb plot outline:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his globe trotting brother, his European girlfriend and a Nazi war criminal in hiding. Includes one of the most agonizing torture scenes ever portrayed


imdb plot outline:
Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be


psyCohn's comment:
good story of deformed kid; Stoltz does a great job

imdb plot outline:
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances


psyCohn's comment:
not one of Carrey's better efforts; some good moments, though

imdb plot outline:
Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic super-hero when he wears a mysterious mask


psyCohn's comment:
classic scam artist film, and Cage is (finally) fantastic; odd type of film for Scott

imdb plot outline:
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly


psyCohn's comment:
slow, true tale of oppression within a coal mine in the 1920's

imdb plot outline:
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company


psyCohn's comment:
sorry, but this just didn't do it for me; no story, boring dialogue, unoriginal fight scenes, and suspect acting

imdb plot outline:
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams


psyCohn's comment:
Keanu is "the one;" maybe his best work; great effects & story keep this one going

imdb plot outline:
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it


imdb plot outline:
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie (Tom Hanks) and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern


psyCohn's comment:
many funny moments; one of Carrey's better films

imdb plot outline:
A nice guy cop with multiple personality disorder, must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates


psyCohn's comment:
a very typical modern teen-flick - not enough eye candy!

imdb plot outline:
Born in Africa, Cady Heron (Lohan) thinks she knows the survival of the fittest especially when she joins the Plastics, the alpha girl group at her new high school led by Regina


psyCohn's comment:
rough, father to those Scorsese-De Niro films; a "Goodfella" prequel

imdb plot outline:
The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbourhood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy.


psyCohn's comment:
supposedly a classic camp comedy; I might have laughed a few times

imdb plot outline:
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.


psyCohn's comment:
quite pathetic; Connery should know better

imdb plot outline:
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer.


psyCohn's comment:
good, but not great; strange ending; never like DeNiro in a comedy

imdb plot outline:
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare


psyCohn's comment:
whatta film!  Very unique concept of how a man w/o short term memory tries to find his wife's killer

imdb plot outline:
A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's killer.


imdb plot outline:
Carl and James are two pleasant but unambitious garbage men.


psyCohn's comment:
hard for me to admit, but this was a good & sad romance film

imdb plot outline:
A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author


psyCohn's comment:
actually rated X when released; first big role for Voight; must see

imdb plot outline:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.


psyCohn's comment:
Davis gives emotional performance; exhilarating true story of Billy Hayes

imdb plot outline:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 20 years in prison.


psyCohn's comment:
successful comedy of bounty hunter (De Niro) and funny guy (Grodin)

imdb plot outline:
An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail


psyCohn's comment:
hilarious mockumentary of a folk music reunion; "Spinal Tap"ish

imdb plot outline:
Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen (Guest, McKean, Shearer) as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter


psyCohn's comment:
no real substance to this all right film

imdb plot outline:
Milagro, New Mexico. Population 426. Nothing had changed here for 300 years. But there's something about this day…


psyCohn's comment:
good story with ho-hum acting; really could have been a lot better

imdb plot outline:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past.


psyCohn's comment:
dark gangster movie; rare non-comedy from the Coen brothers

imdb plot outline:
Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties


psyCohn's comment:
outstanding story (originally by P.K. Dick)  + Cruise + Spielberg make MR a sci-fi classic

imdb plot outline:
In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence


psyCohn's comment:
surprisingly charming look at growing up in the 50's

imdb plot outline:
1956: The shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of highschool. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons.


imdb plot outline:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy New England road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.


psyCohn's comment:
they actually try to pass this as being good

imdb plot outline:
Colonel Braddock, who escaped from a POW camp after 10 years, returns to Vietnam. He attempts to track down the location of a POW camp and rescue the prisoners to prove that several MIAs are still alive and being held captive.


psyCohn's comment:
excellent action and Cruise is great; plot & story are hard to follow, though

imdb plot outline:
An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization


psyCohn's comment:
DaFoe and Hackman = great team; makes you think

imdb plot outline:
Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.


psyCohn's comment:
like a "Dead Poets Society" for women; well made, and Roberts is tolerable

imdb plot outline:
Set in 1953, a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom


psyCohn's comment:
amazing dumbed-down look Theron pulled off; very chilling film

imdb plot outline:
A biopic on Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed for killing seven men in the state of Florida during the 1980s


imdb plot outline:
King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.


imdb plot outline:
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide


psyCohn's comment:
had a few funny moments, and Cage is great

imdb plot outline:
A widowed Brooklyn book-keeper is torn between her fiancé and his brother


imdb plot outline:
Los Angeles: A new law says that the first ambulance that arrives at an accident obtains the contract to transport the injured person. The result is ruthless competition between several companies.


psyCohn's comment:
very scary at times; Gere overacts at times; not a great ending

imdb plot outline:
A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.


title:
Motorcycle Diaries, The (Diarios de motocicleta)

psyCohn's comment:
spectacular docu-drama of Che Guevara and his road trip in the 1950's

imdb plot outline:
based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s


imdb plot outline:
A fading baseball player is traded to a Japanese team and has trouble fitting into the society.


imdb plot outline:
Larry Burrows is unhappy and feels powerless over his life. He believes his entire life could have turned out differently had he not missed that shot in a baseball game when was a kid.


imdb plot outline:
Glenn Holland (Dreyfuss) is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world


imdb plot outline:
Jack and Caroline are a couple struggling to make ends meet. When Jack loses his job, they agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...


imdb plot outline:
A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.


imdb plot outline:
Kermit and his new found friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit.


psyCohn's comment:
sorta good plot with ruined by way too much Bullock here

imdb plot outline:
Two gifted high school students execute a series of "perfect" murders then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.


psyCohn's comment:
powerful; moving; gruesome; and magnificent

imdb plot outline:
Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punnishment, he is put in solitary confinement.


imdb plot outline:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before


psyCohn's comment:
contained several funny moments, and very cultural

imdb plot outline:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity


psyCohn's comment:
good movie for friendship development (what am I saying here?)

imdb plot outline:
When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.


psyCohn's comment:
very funny at times; Pesci really has that character down

imdb plot outline:
Bill and Stan are mistaken for murderers while on vacation, and Bill's family sends his cousin to defend them for his first case as a


psyCohn's comment:
wonderful Swedish story of a young boy and his search for his identity

imdb plot outline:
Ingemar lives with his brother and his terminally ill mother. He may have a rough time, but not as bad as Laika - the russian dog sent into space... He gets sent away to stay with relations for the summer.


psyCohn's comment:
surreal; Phoenix &  Reeves roll together (probably due to GVSant)

imdb plot outline:
In his finest performance, River Phoenix plays Mike, a narcoleptic street hustler with false memories of a terrific childhood. Mike wants to find his mother and family, but how or why he left them is never discussed.


imdb plot outline:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity.


psyCohn's comment:
hard to even call some of this acting in this teen-sex flick

imdb plot outline:
A rich father hires a tutor for his son. The son is a horny teenager and the tutor is a gorgeous blonde. Complications ensue.


psyCohn's comment:
great drama/murder mystery based in Boston; solid performances but not a good ending

imdb plot outline:
Three childhood friends are reunited after one loses a daughter, but all for different reasons


title:
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The

psyCohn's comment:
Nielsen is the Godfather of slapstick; I love these films

imdb plot outline:
Incompetent cop Frank Drebbin has to foil an attempt to assasinate Queen Elizabeth II.


psyCohn's comment:
hard to follow but great for some audiences

imdb plot outline:
Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee


psyCohn's comment:
very goofy story of a HS nerd; similar to "Welcome to the Dollhouse"

imdb plot outline:
An alienated teen decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small town high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home


psyCohn's comment:
Stone is the master editor; great media farce; good cast

imdb plot outline:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.


psyCohn's comment:
hokey, but the best baseball movie ever; no better feel-good film

imdb plot outline:
An overage baseball player comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.


psyCohn's comment:
unknown gem; magnificent modern vampire film

imdb plot outline:
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.


imdb plot outline:
Due to NCAA sanctions, the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos must form a football team from their actual student body, with no scholarships to help, to play their football schedule.


imdb plot outline:
A quiet man's peaceful suburban lifestyle is threatened by the new, obnoxious couple that moves in next door


psyCohn's comment:
better than I thought; nothing to die for, though

imdb plot outline:
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage.


psyCohn's comment:
cool look at inner city NY; Ice-T kicks tail

imdb plot outline:
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.


imdb plot outline:
Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and ... murder her


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat thrilling; filmed in real time is really only cool part of it

imdb plot outline:
Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter


psyCohn's comment:
not a good De Niro film; has good moments

imdb plot outline:
The story about a cheating and incompetent lawyer (Harry Fabian) who suddenly gets obsessed on becoming a boxing promoter.


psyCohn's comment:
more than meets the eye here; really not bad

imdb plot outline:
A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.


psyCohn's comment:
cult-classic fathered the B-horror movie; still fun to watch

imdb plot outline:
The radiation from a fallen satellite causes the recently deceased to rise from the grave and seek the living to use as food. This is the situation that a group of people penned up in an old farmhouse must deal with.


psyCohn's comment:
Keaton's first film has some good moments

imdb plot outline:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success.


imdb plot outline:
A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attentions of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them.


psyCohn's comment:
looking back, one of the better Stallone films

imdb plot outline:
A German terrorist goes on a killing trip to New York to prove he still is competent.


psyCohn's comment:
scary at times and very funny at others - a rare film of it's kind; classic in many ways

imdb plot outline:
In the dreams of his victims, a specteral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.


psyCohn's comment:
only a decent plot twist (if you can call it that) provides any interest at all

imdb plot outline:
A lonely young woman decides to kindle her passions in a fling with a married photographer after feeling challenged by her own best friend's affair


imdb plot outline:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets into an impersonal affaire with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to complicate.


imdb plot outline:
Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him.


psyCohn's comment:
eerie; haunting; great book adaptation; Hurt is wonderful

imdb plot outline:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.


psyCohn's comment:
not that good and Liotta will always be a 'good-fella'

imdb plot outline:
The year is 2022. In the prison of the future escape is impossible. Survival isn't much easier.


psyCohn's comment:
best Costner role; suspenseful with a perfect ending

imdb plot outline:
A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.


psyCohn's comment:
considered best Hitch ever; amazing use of fear in isolated places

imdb plot outline:
An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.


imdb plot outline:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.


psyCohn's comment:
bad, for so many reasons; way too few funny moments

imdb plot outline:
At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie


imdb plot outline:
A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and taken to the local court.


psyCohn's comment:
Streisand is surprisingly good in this atypical role for her

imdb plot outline:
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent


psyCohn's comment:
supposedly a great film; I didn't see that; do love McDowell, though

imdb plot outline:
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone


psyCohn's comment:
completely boring; only about 20 good minutes of film, which happened @ the end

imdb plot outline:
Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11


imdb plot outline:
A Faberge Egg found with a murdered British agent puts Bond on the trail that leads to a plot to kill thousands to weaken NATO defences in Europe.


imdb plot outline:
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.


psyCohn's comment:
many funny moments in this one that's all too much like real offices

imdb plot outline:
Comedic tale of company workers who hate their jobs and decide to rebel against their greedy boss


psyCohn's comment:
Keith was fantastic; really, a good story with great characterization

imdb plot outline:
Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting.


imdb plot outline:
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.


imdb plot outline:
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.


psyCohn's comment:
deeply frightening story of the devil's son; quite creepy

imdb plot outline:
An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.


psyCohn's comment:
good performances in otherwise slow story

imdb plot outline:
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage.


psyCohn's comment:
great acting but can't give a slow drama high rankings

imdb plot outline:
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.


psyCohn's comment:
only see the long (3 3/4 hours) version; classic Mafia tale time piece

imdb plot outline:
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.


title:
Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West)

psyCohn's comment:
dry yet excellent; Bronson is cool & calm; Fonda off-cast

imdb plot outline:
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad in this long frontier epic.


psyCohn's comment:
good tale of the South; violent; written by Billy Bob Thornton

imdb plot outline:
With the assistance of two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Star City, Arkansas Police Chief Dale "Hurricane" Dixon prepares to take on several criminals heading to his small town after a crime-filled road trip from California


psyCohn's comment:
crazy people going crazy in a crazy place; Jack great, as usual; won all big 5 Academy Awards

imdb plot outline:
A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients


psyCohn's comment:
started out good enough, but got lousy as it went on; Williams sure has been creepy this year

imdb plot outline:
An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family


psyCohn's comment:
true story of Ron LeFlore & his troubled past away from baseball

imdb plot outline:
True story of Ron LeFlore, a troubled Detroit youth who rose from Michigan prisons to star in Major League Baseball.


imdb plot outline:
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge.


psyCohn's comment:
shot almost like a documentary; some suspenseful moments; probably worth watching

imdb plot outline:
Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left


psyCohn's comment:
funny but even Carvey falls flat after awhile

imdb plot outline:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark


psyCohn's comment:
drill instructor taking things too far; exhilarating at times

imdb plot outline:
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their objective is to reach the safety zone before the "opposing force" captures them.


psyCohn's comment:
quick story of an orange super hero; lacks ending

imdb plot outline:
classic, unfinished tale of a local orange-dressed superhero in Knoxville, TN


psyCohn's comment:
typical plot, typical acting, typical yawner; only the beautiful Angelina makes this worth watching

imdb plot outline:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp


psyCohn's comment:
rare good-guy role for Hauer in this entertaining film

imdb plot outline:
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.


psyCohn's comment:
set right after WW2, a woman + 2kids live in a haunted? house; has a "6th Sense" feel

imdb plot outline:
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted


psyCohn's comment:
sorta like a poor-man's "No Way Out"; very suspenseful as the movie goes on

imdb plot outline:
Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington), respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion


psyCohn's comment:
monkey spreading a deadly disease; started well, hurried ending

imdb plot outline:
Extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. But how extreme, exactly?


imdb plot outline:
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.


psyCohn's comment:
story of young boys facing older realities; amazing future talent here

imdb plot outline:
Based on S.E. Hinton's popular novel, this is a simplistic movie about kids from the wrong side of the tracks.


psyCohn's comment:
what you'd expect from a Stallone arm-wrestling film

imdb plot outline:
After the death of his ex-wife, truck driver Lincoln Hawk decides to get back in touch with his young son, much against the wishes of his wealthy ex-father-in-law.


psyCohn's comment:
quite scary; watch out for those San Francisco roommates

imdb plot outline:
Based on a real life experience, a couple Patty and Drake buy their dream house in San Fransisco. They decide to rent out the ground floor apartment to help out with the mortgage payments.


psyCohn's comment:
makes you want to watch a bad action movie

imdb plot outline:
Hart is a confused first year law student at Harvard. He is trying to survive the year under his strictest professer, the legendary Kingsfield


psyCohn's comment:
not even the often-nude Ms. Cates can save this one

imdb plot outline:
David and Sarah travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis the white-slave agent 'Jackal' raids them, mainly to add the beautiful young Sarah to his harem. Only David and Sarah can flee, all the others are slayed.


psyCohn's comment:
incredibly slow; has a good story; I love Kinski

imdb plot outline:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before.


psyCohn's comment:
very over the top look @ the NYC club kids of the early 1990's; very good @ times

imdb plot outline:
This is the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate


psyCohn's comment:
classic Edwards with scene after scene of humor

imdb plot outline:
A clerical mistake results in a bumbling film extra being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired


psyCohn's comment:
extremely gorey take of Jesus in his last 12 hours; it was interesting and hard to watch, but not an outstanding film

imdb plot outline:
Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death


imdb plot outline:
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them


imdb plot outline:
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge


psyCohn's comment:
very "Lethal"-ish and violent; typical mindless Mel

imdb plot outline:
Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge


psyCohn's comment:
Woo films are just too much, and Uma, what are you doing in this???  Worst PKDick book2film…

imdb plot outline:
Jennings (Affleck), an electrician who has had part of his memory erased, struggles to to find clues to his whereabouts for the past two years…


psyCohn's comment:
typical "we must stop those bombers" film but Clooney is good

imdb plot outline:
A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists


psyCohn's comment:
very funny and Burton's settings are splendid

imdb plot outline:
The weirdo man-child goes on a cross-country trek in pursuit of his stolen beloved bike


imdb plot outline:
It's the depression era and Chicago. Sheet music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them.


imdb plot outline:
A young boy (about 10 years of age) helps his sister's boyfriend burgle the house of their money grabbing landlord. The house is a cross between that of the Adams Family and Fort Knox..


psyCohn's comment:
true story of the founder of "Hustler" magazine; Woody is very funny

imdb plot outline:
A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people


psyCohn's comment:
great storm scenes, though the acting was weak

imdb plot outline:
An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger


imdb plot outline:
After escaping from a Huntsville prison, convict Butch Haynes and his partner Terry Pugh kidnap a young boy, Phillip Perry, and flee across Texas.


imdb plot outline:
The intertwined lives and loves of three highly-ranked athletes striving for the national team; Chris (Mariel Hemingway) bounces between the beds of male coach Terry and her female friend, competitor, and role model Tory


imdb plot outline:
The Creeds have just moved to a new house in the countryside. Their house is perfect, except for two things: the semi-trailers that roar past on the narrow road, and the mysterious cemetary in the woods behind the house


psyCohn's comment:
good but not great; the sequel is much better

imdb plot outline:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave-robber known only as the "Tall Man."


psyCohn's comment:
funny; Scrimm's  "Tall Man" rules; just one of those great B-horror movies

imdb plot outline:
The young boy from the sequel seeks to gain revenge on the Tall Man, who killed his brother and many others


imdb plot outline:
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure


psyCohn's comment:
slow horse film about the "fastest two minutes in sports"

imdb plot outline:
The true story of a New Zealand racehorse that becomes a champion with the help of a local stableboy


psyCohn's comment:
way out story of a math wiz who is chased by wall streeters & Hasidics for his #'s

imdb plot outline:
Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence


psyCohn's comment:
exploration of decline/alienation of a rock star; splendid animation

imdb plot outline:
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.


psyCohn's comment:
one of the last in the series; I found it funny

imdb plot outline:
Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doom's Day machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques


imdb plot outline:
In the first movie starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, he tries to catch a jewel thief who is right under his nose


psyCohn's comment:
"true" story of the coming of age of Bill Gates & Steve Jobs and the computer industry

imdb plot outline:
This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires


psyCohn's comment:
funny with many lines; strange sad ending, though

imdb plot outline:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion


psyCohn's comment:
Vietnam almost at its best; pre-conspiracy Stone

imdb plot outline:
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when a sergeant orders a massacre of villagers.


psyCohn's comment:
wild yet controlled; a top-10 ending; Altman can shine, sometimes

imdb plot outline:
A studio executive is being blackmailed by a writer whose script he rejected but which one? Loaded with Hollywood insider jokes.


psyCohn's comment:
great story of 2 modern day kids getting thrown back into 1958

imdb plot outline:
Two teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world


psyCohn's comment:
not worthwhile; Busey overacts uncontrollably

imdb plot outline:
Johnny Utah, a freshman at FBI's bank-robbery crew, goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of surfers he suspects can be the infamous ex-president-robbers. To infiltrate them, he has got to learn to surf, something his boss doesn't like very much


psyCohn's comment:
adequate re-make, blows the ending though

imdb plot outline:
Maggie, a convicted cop murderer, is sentenced to death by lethal injection. However, after the execution, Maggie wakes up to find that the government have decided to stage her execution and funeral in exchange for her becoming an assassin


psyCohn's comment:
bad version of "Lolita" or "Blame...Rio"

imdb plot outline:
A sexy teen (Barrymore) who lives with her aunt moves in with a reclusive teen (Gilbert) and slowly works her way into the lives of her adopted family


psyCohn's comment:
these can all be grouped together: the films that suck category

imdb plot outline:
A group of good-hearted but incompotent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks


imdb plot outline:
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter


psyCohn's comment:
slow moving, but good acting from Roberts & Rourke

imdb plot outline:
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss


imdb plot outline:
The sailor man travels to Sweethaven, falls in love with Olive Oyl, adopts Sweetpea and makes an enemy with Bluto


imdb plot outline:
Porky's bar is the sleaziest dive imaginable, and the place where the boys in a small Florida town KNOW they will find action, underage or not. When they finally make it to Porky's the owner dumps them in the bay and the boys plot revenge


psyCohn's comment:
nowhere near the 1st, but they never are

imdb plot outline:
When the students of Angel Beach High decide to stage "An Evening With Shakespeare," their efforts are threatened by Miss Balbricker, who views the works of Shakespeare as obscene


psyCohn's comment:
could not have expected any better or worse

imdb plot outline:
Meat, an Angel Beach high school student, picks up a shapely girl when she appears to have broken down by the side of the road; he is, however, shocked when her face doesn't match her figure


psyCohn's comment:
Jack, not at his best, but in some steamy moments

imdb plot outline:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain


psyCohn's comment:
charming film of albino boy with special powers; "light bulb"

imdb plot outline:
A young bald albino boy with unique powers shakes up the rural community he lives in


psyCohn's comment:
better effort from Schwartz. with a good second half

imdb plot outline:
A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior


imdb plot outline:
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.


psyCohn's comment:
lawyer Ford never better; great story w/ top-flight ending

imdb plot outline:
Evidence suggesting that a murdered woman was a prosecutor's mistress leads to him being tried for the crime.


imdb plot outline:
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks, a geeky new-waver who worships her, a rich High School Hunk who has her eye, and John Hughes


psyCohn's comment:
what is the big deal about Roberts?  Alexander is the real star here

imdb plot outline:
A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love


imdb plot outline:
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat typical court-film, but with a twisted ending; Norton is spectacular!

imdb plot outline:
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.


psyCohn's comment:
funny; slow at times, but very watchable

imdb plot outline:
A classic fairy tale, with swordplay, giants, an evil king, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather).


psyCohn's comment:
not a bad principal-shake-up-the-school story; not great, either

imdb plot outline:
Rick Latimer is a teacher who gets a job as the principal of a school with a very bad reputation. In fact, his transfer there is a kind of punishment because he beat his wife's boyfriend


imdb plot outline:
A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected


imdb plot outline:
This spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories finds Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart investigating a strange death in a possibly haunted mansion, while dealing with the beautiful heiress and the crazed staff which live therein


psyCohn's comment:
Ms. Kristel is hot is this otherwise lackluster coming of age flick

imdb plot outline:
Patrick Piccininni is priceless as the best friend of the 15 year old Phillip, who eggs him on. Eric Brown is even better as Phillip, who isn't quite sure how to respond to his housekeeper's advances.


psyCohn's comment:
funny ~true story of Howard Stern (starring himself); worth it if you like him

imdb plot outline:
The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star


imdb plot outline:
You won't believe what goes on and what comes off in ... Private


psyCohn's comment:
hit-man story slows during middle third but still great, anyway; Oldman rocks

imdb plot outline:
Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda, a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade


psyCohn's comment:
classic Greenaway scenery (no one does it better); nudity is overwhelming

imdb plot outline:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.


psyCohn's comment:
even the cuteness of Goldie does not save this lackluster effort

imdb plot outline:
A naive cocktail waitress saves the life of a visiting dignitary when he chokes in a bar. She is then given a job at the United Nations as a diplomat, where the U.S. government sells her to the middle east


psyCohn's comment:
first film really exploring a mental breakdown; most famous of Hitch films; frightening

imdb plot outline:
Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, Marion gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother.


psyCohn's comment:
shot for shot remake; great, but could have been different/better

imdb plot outline:
Marion Crane steals a lot of cash from a man whom her boss is in business with. On the way to see her boyfriend, she stops off by an old motel, run by the odd Norman Bates. She is murdered in the shower


psyCohn's comment:
Perkins looks remarkably the same some 20 years later

imdb plot outline:
It has been 22 years since Norman Bates was committed for the murders of Marion Crane and Detective Arbogast, as well as his mother. Now, the state of California has declared him sane and he is allowed to return to his creaky old mansion


psyCohn's comment:
Hitch turned in his grave when they released this one; why?

imdb plot outline:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man


psyCohn's comment:
bad attempt of a "Talk Radio"; actually, pretty good until the second half

imdb plot outline:
Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable TV show with the question "what's wrong with Brewster?"


psyCohn's comment:
shocking; there needs to be more movies like this

imdb plot outline:
The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who hit men for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge


psyCohn's comment:
though I was older, film made a strong teen-impression; Slater never better

imdb plot outline:
Mark (Christian Slater) runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens


psyCohn's comment:
many quick, hilarious moments; Sandler easily never better

imdb plot outline:
A beleaguered small-business owner embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman who plays the harmonium


psyCohn's comment:
pathetic post-war attempt at some boring drama


psyCohn's comment:
when looked at now, this is the film formally not known as being good

imdb plot outline:
A young man with a tallent for Music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that tallent alone isn't all that he needs


imdb plot outline:
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source


psyCohn's comment:
wonderful acting; Redford a great director

imdb plot outline:
Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel


psyCohn's comment:
De Niro's portrayal of LaMotta is the single greatest piece of acting ever; spectacular

imdb plot outline:
A biographical film about the middleweight champ, the physically tough, but emotionally self-destructive Jake LaMotta.


psyCohn's comment:
quite a classic; Ford's Indiana Jones became legend; great series

imdb plot outline:
Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments.


psyCohn's comment:
maybe Cruise's best role; one of the most watchable films ever

imdb plot outline:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know he had. They set out on a cross-country journey of discovery.


psyCohn's comment:
so typical; Grisham's "movies" are getting pretty boring

imdb plot outline:
An idealistic young lawyer and his cynical partner take on a powerful law firm representing a corrupt insurance company


psyCohn's comment:
what's the big deal?  the ship sunk, get over it!

imdb plot outline:
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic


psyCohn's comment:
greatest comedy, EVER!; Cage & Hunter set the one-liner standards of all-time

imdb plot outline:
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated


psyCohn's comment:
never needed to be made; Stallone's career became null & void after this one

imdb plot outline:
John Rambo is serving time in a federal prison. When the US military hears of American soldiers missing in action from the Vietnam war possibly still being alive and held captive, Colonel Trautman is authorized to send Rambo in to rescue them


psyCohn's comment:
typical Howard, but w/ a little more spunk

imdb plot outline:
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals


psyCohn's comment:
takes more than a big, bad hog in Australia to turn me on

imdb plot outline:
A wild, vicious pig terrorizes the Australian outback. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child's granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but aquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist


psyCohn's comment:
candidate for most disappointing movie ever; Altman is vastly overrated

imdb plot outline:
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.


psyCohn's comment:
from the Real World folks; probably an accurate documentary of 'spring breakers' in Cancun

imdb plot outline:
Sixteen American college students drink, flirt, fight and canoodle during their Spring Break vacation in Cancun, Mexico


psyCohn's comment:
utter B-horror-movie classic; entertaining from start to finish

imdb plot outline:
A medical student returns from Austria after working in regenerative experiments with a well known scientist who died under mysterious circumstances. He enrolls at Miskatonic University where he begs to differ with his professor on issues


psyCohn's comment:
classic among classic Hitch; Burr's role is of the most chilling, ever

imdb plot outline:
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.


psyCohn's comment:
dramatic classic; Dean defines the word "legend"

imdb plot outline:
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family


psyCohn's comment:
started well, too bad film spiraled downhill from there

imdb plot outline:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces


psyCohn's comment:
just like "Manhunter" with the exception of the beginning/ending 5 minutes; still great, though

imdb plot outline:
FBI agent Will Graham seeks the help of Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter to help solve the case of "The Tooth Fairy".


psyCohn's comment:
horrible; not even gazing @ the beautiful Ms. Moss could save this film

imdb plot outline:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry


imdb plot outline:
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs.


psyCohn's comment:
I bet you can guess what happens in this one

imdb plot outline:
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.


imdb plot outline:
Sam Dietz, a New York cop recently reassigned to Los Angeles, joins the hunt for a serial killer who seemingly picks his victims at random from the telephone directory - but the closer he gets to cracking the case, the more personal the stakes become


psyCohn's comment:
Estevez never better; almost a classic because of its originality

imdb plot outline:
Otto is working at the grocery when he loses his temper and quits. Befriended by a Repo Man, Otto sees vehicle repossession as a kind of modern buckaneering. He is attracted by the adventure and the 'who gives a damn' attitude of the other Repo men


psyCohn's comment:
very intense & sad film of 4 people who are effected by drugs

imdb plot outline:
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger


psyCohn's comment:
amazing that a film based almost entirely in a warehouse can be this good

imdb plot outline:
Five Total Strangers Team Up For The Perfect Crime. They Don't Know Each Other's Name. But They've Got Each Other's Number


imdb plot outline:
Third in the Pink Panther series. The "Pink Panther" Diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and a white glove is left making everybody think that the famous jewel thief "The Phantom" has stolen it.


psyCohn's comment:
started great, but did not finish that way; really only good for the Thailand shots

imdb plot outline:
Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession


psyCohn's comment:
underrated; Quinn put on a great performance & Costner, Stowe work well

imdb plot outline:
Tom Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman


psyCohn's comment:
funny and not too silly to keep it entertaining; some great lines

imdb plot outline:
At a big campus, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self respect


imdb plot outline:
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. Once Clouseau's death has been announced, the former Chief Inspector, Charles Dreyfus, feels much, much better


psyCohn's comment:
as bad as a movie can really be, maybe even worse


imdb plot outline:
He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who know he's innocent is the killer who framed him


psyCohn's comment:
story of first moon mission; long, but hard to quit watching

imdb plot outline:
The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program


psyCohn's comment:
much better than today's typical horror film (isn't saying much); young Aidan's character was haunting

imdb plot outline:
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it


psyCohn's comment:
the Japanese film that inspired "The Ring"; this version is really good and more creepy

imdb plot outline:
A mysterious video kills whomever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic teen film; Cruise never better; made quite an impression on me

imdb plot outline:
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand


psyCohn's comment:
a sibling reminder; Redford a great director; excellent roles

imdb plot outline:
true story about two boys Norman (Craig Sheffer) and Paul (Brad Pitt) growing up in Montana. One is rebellious of his father, Rev. Maclean (Tom Skerrit), while the other has his feet on the ground.The one love they both have is Fly Fishing


psyCohn's comment:
Hopper's "Feck" a standout character; early Reeves appearance; true (?) story

imdb plot outline:
A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police


psyCohn's comment:
very solid all the way around, but not a 10 by any means; spectacular music; Law is great

imdb plot outline:
Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living


psyCohn's comment:
awful to watch; Brooks' films do not do enough for me

imdb plot outline:
The standard story of Robin Hood: Evil Prince John is oppressing the people while good King Richard is away on the Crusades. Robin steals from the tax collectors, wins an archery contest, defeats the Sheriff, and rescues Maid Marian


imdb plot outline:
Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard of education. The putative leader of the students is Riff Randell, who loves the music of the Ramones


psyCohn's comment:
very typical prison/action film; Cage's good one-liners only saving grace

imdb plot outline:
A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when soldiers threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco


psyCohn's comment:
would have been great if no others had been made

imdb plot outline:
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect


psyCohn's comment:
most audience-interactive movie ever; fun piece of work

imdb plot outline:
A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter


psyCohn's comment:
Balboa sequel passes test but no more were needed

imdb plot outline:
Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a


psyCohn's comment:
Clubber Lang is the only saving grace to this pathetically acted film

imdb plot outline:
When Rocky is defeated by a brutal challenger, Apollo Creed offers to retrain him in order to regain his fighting spirit


psyCohn's comment:
root for Lundgren's "Drago" -- it will make this one more fun to watch

imdb plot outline:
When Apollo Creed is killed in a match against a powerful Soviet boxer, Rocky decides to challenge him himself


psyCohn's comment:
disgusting; hard to believe same dir. as "Rocky I"

imdb plot outline:
Rocky Balboa is forced to retire after having permanent damage inflicted on him in the ring by the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Returning home after the Drago bout, Balboa discovers that the fortune that he had acquired as heavyweight champ has been stolen


psyCohn's comment:
cookie cutter movie yet entertaining enough

imdb plot outline:
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic; Shakes meets MTV in this incredible film

imdb plot outline:
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny


psyCohn's comment:
another Oldman masterpiece; superb script w/ excellent narration & ending

imdb plot outline:
A corrupt police sergeant who supplies tips on the locations of safeguarded witnesses to the Mob bites off more than he can chew when he attempts to assassinate a beautiful but ruthless Russian hitwoman


psyCohn's comment:
violent look at Australia skin-heads; not extremely watchable

imdb plot outline:
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running


psyCohn's comment:
pretty good, but I would have liked something more out of the norm

imdb plot outline:
A group of freelance intelligence agents work together to steal a mysterious package, only to have a doublecross throw things into confusion


psyCohn's comment:
early use of the effect of continuous time; loosely based on a true crime

imdb plot outline:
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him


psyCohn's comment:
Midler almost redeems Joplin story, but it is too long & boring

imdb plot outline:
The story of the tragic life of a self destructive female rock star, modeled after Janis Joplin


psyCohn's comment:
truly horrifying; outstanding acting with Farrow caught in the middle; early film to explore devil worship

imdb plot outline:
Rosemary and her new husband, Guy, move into a new apartment in New York, befriending an elderly couple who live near by. But when another girl in the block commits suicide, Rosemary starts getting more attention than she desires


psyCohn's comment:
very funny at times; take off of a couple of doomed Hamlet characters

imdb plot outline:
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them


psyCohn's comment:
gotta know when to hold 'em; great up & down gambling movie

imdb plot outline:
A young man (Matt Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks


psyCohn's comment:
actually pretty good at times, one of Martin's bettor efforts

imdb plot outline:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks


psyCohn's comment:
not nearly as good as "Rushmore"; had many funny scenes, though

imdb plot outline:
An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when one of their member announces he has a terminal illness


psyCohn's comment:
good but nothing like "Hoosiers" of "Natural"

imdb plot outline:
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players


imdb plot outline:
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- The Motorcycle Boy


psyCohn's comment:
wild German action film; 3 different 'real time' stories/endings; Potente is so hot

imdb plot outline:
At home, Lola gets a call from her frightened boyfriend who has lost a large amount of gang money he was smuggling into the country. His only chance of staying alive is if she can get replacement cash to him in twenty minutes


psyCohn's comment:
bad acting but good enough story; look for Simmons as the bad guy

imdb plot outline:
A tough cop is assigned the dangerous task of discovering who is responsible for a rash of killings perpetrated by rebellious robots


psyCohn's comment:
typically good Grisham-movie, though nothing outstanding; huge cast

imdb plot outline:
A juror on the inside, and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer


psyCohn's comment:
bad Arnold film also featuring Dawson of "Family Feud"

imdb plot outline:
A parody within an action thriller. Arnold Schwartzenegger plays an innocent man who is sentenced to the Running Man game show, a futuristic audience participation capital punishment television show


psyCohn's comment:
Patric underrated; G. Allman shines in small role

imdb plot outline:
Two small town Texas cops goes undercover to catch a major drug runner & end up getting caught up in the drug culture


psyCohn's comment:
refreshingly funny; Murray seems to be getting better w/ age

imdb plot outline:
A determined student falls hard for a teacher at his prep school, as well as his mentor, an unhappy millionaire


psyCohn's comment:
pretty cool action/adventure cop movie; Farrell was really good

imdb plot outline:
An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it


psyCohn's comment:
only Kilmer makes this film worth above a 2 rating

imdb plot outline:
Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell


imdb plot outline:
Young novelist returning home to Salem's Lot after many years is disturbed by the strange behaviour of its people. He begins to believe that the source of the trouble may be the eerie old Marsten House that overlooks the town


imdb plot outline:
Samantha is a normal woman leading a normal life...until she meets Henry


imdb plot outline:
Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition


psyCohn's comment:
almost funny enough to cross the +/- line

imdb plot outline:
A Family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue


psyCohn's comment:
a cool hs movie about religion and the lack thereof; solid all around; LOVE Jena!

imdb plot outline:
When a girl (Jena Malone) attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her


psyCohn's comment:
maybe most gut-wrenching war film ever, though very watchable; excellent cast & action

imdb plot outline:
Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.


psyCohn's comment:
maybe the most original horror movies in a long time; fantastic twist ending

imdb plot outline:
With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed "Jigsaw" by the police because of his unusual calling card


psyCohn's comment:
absolutely a great, great movie; Cusack reminds me of me in this movie when I was in H.S.

imdb plot outline:
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college


psyCohn's comment:
masterpiece epic from De Palma; Pacino never better, "my little friend"

imdb plot outline:
Remake of the 1932 film, which follows the rise of Tony Montana, a Cuban emigre who, with his friend Manny Ray, builds a strong criminal empire in early 1980's Miami.


psyCohn's comment:
latest movie version of the fabled tale, Oldman & Moore are good, but the story just falls flat overall

imdb plot outline:
Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers and other outsiders. Passion draws her to a young pastor.


psyCohn's comment:
horrible - I maybe laughed 2-3x; these type of films can be good; this 1 was not

imdb plot outline:
In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, Cindy has to investigate mysterious crop circles and video tapes, and help the President in preventing an alien invasion


psyCohn's comment:
great Pacino lead along with solid story

imdb plot outline:
A college student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated


psyCohn's comment:
shocking account of Oskar Shindler and how he saved 1100 Jews in WW2; amazing acting

imdb plot outline:
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them


psyCohn's comment:
a better than average film of this kind, and some of the kid actors were really good

imdb plot outline:
A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band


psyCohn's comment:
typical Craven - the bad guy was not so bad and plenty of humor kept the pace going

imdb plot outline:
A teenage girl (Neve Campbell) becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter (Courtney Cox) is determined to uncover the truth


psyCohn's comment:
rare sequel that actually works; just as good as the first; confusing ending

imdb plot outline:
Sidney Prescott relocates to Winsdor College, trying to forget what happen in Woodsborro, only to find that another psychotic killer wants her dead. They also make the Woodsborro events into a motion picture, "Stab", based on the Gale Weathers book


psyCohn's comment:
a feel-good holiday movie that just made the grade

imdb plot outline:
A cynically selfish TV executive gets haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.


psyCohn's comment:
horrific & disgusting @ times; great mental use of killings & aftermath; not for the squeemish

imdb plot outline:
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins.


psyCohn's comment:
a real thriller; one of Pacino's best efforts

imdb plot outline:
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case.


psyCohn's comment:
started out good enough but turned into a bad 'Cape Fear' by the time it was done

imdb plot outline:
Mort Rainey (Depp), a writer just coming off of a troublesome divorce with his ex-wife, Amy (Bello), finds himself stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger (Turturro) who claims Mort stole his best story idea (changing just the ending)...


psyCohn's comment:
M.Gyllenhaal goes way overboard with her fettishes; Spader is his typical nutty self

imdb plot outline:
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one


psyCohn's comment:
possibly some of the worst all-around acting of all time

imdb plot outline:
An attractive, well-known TV newscaster is stalked by an obsessed admirer, a TV station scriptwriter, whose obsession turns to hate when she rejects his advances and his moves become more harassing and ultimately murderous


psyCohn's comment:
not much here but Ms. Andress is the babe of all babes

imdb plot outline:
As an aging widower begins suffering from heart trouble, his greedy heirs hope to speed him on his way by hiring a super-seductive nurse to get his pulse racing


imdb plot outline:
Dennis Allan is an scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recepient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug's effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead.


psyCohn's comment:
horrible attempt at a romantic comedy; I chuckled about 2x, and that was @ the movie, not with it

imdb plot outline:
When Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texas husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe


psyCohn's comment:
well-made with outstanding supporting cast

imdb plot outline:
Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse--as outlined in the Book of Revelations--seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer


title:
Sex Machine, The (Conviene far bene l'amore)

imdb plot outline:
In the future, the world's oil supply has finally been exhausted, causing a massive enery crisis. In a search for alternative sources of energy, a scientist invents a machine that can harness the energy expended during sexual intercourse


psyCohn's comment:
pathetic attempt for a movie; there was absolutely nothing to this one


psyCohn's comment:
plenty of all three; Soderberg produced this independently; great film

imdb plot outline:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything


psyCohn's comment:
Hitch's personal favorite, I really do not see it; good, though

imdb plot outline:
Charlie Oackley is the "Merry Widow Murderer", an evil strangler who seduces and kills rich widows. In order to be safe from the police he is going to his sister Emma who lives with her husband, Joseph Newton and her daughter Charlie


psyCohn's comment:
not much here; reminded me too much of "Darkman"

imdb plot outline:
In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb


psyCohn's comment:
Sam was perfect for this TV to movie remake; fun, but choppy

imdb plot outline:
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder


psyCohn's comment:
makes you ask, "What's a little murder among friends?" - fantastic

imdb plot outline:
Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash


imdb plot outline:
Burt Reynolds plays Tom Sharky, an Atlanta veteran cop who, after an attempt to catch a drug dealer, ends up provoking a shootout, which ends up with the death of one hostage. Sharky's superiors send him to work in a small department without any prestige


psyCohn's comment:
took too long to get going, and it was really not all that entertaining

imdb plot outline:
A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living


psyCohn's comment:
fantastic story of prison life adapted from a King novel; the best of acting

imdb plot outline:
After the murder of his wife, hotshot banker Andrew Dufresne is sent to Shawshank Prison, where the usual unpleasantness occurs. Over the years, he retains hope and eventually gains the respect of his fellow inmates, especially longtime convict "Red"


psyCohn's comment:
this is the safest movie ever; induces vomiting

imdb plot outline:
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them.


psyCohn's comment:
another charming tale of relationships from Mr. Burnes; excellent

imdb plot outline:
Two brothers. One older, hippie-like, lost, not knowing what he wants. The younger a Wall St. power player, beautiful wife, rich. Unfortunately, he's having an affair with the older brother's ex-fiance.


psyCohn's comment:
marvelous true story of an Australian piano player and his walk through life

imdb plot outline:
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.


psyCohn's comment:
possibly my all-time favorite; exceptional work from Kubrick, Nicholson; terrifying

imdb plot outline:
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while.


psyCohn's comment:
I don't remember liking this one too much

imdb plot outline:
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police


psyCohn's comment:
maybe the worst acting ever; major disappointment

imdb plot outline:
Nomi Malone sets out for Las Vegas to become a showgirl.


psyCohn's comment:
perfect leads in a solid rock-drama; based on the true story

imdb plot outline:
Based on the true story of Sid Vicious, guitarist for the legendary punk rock band "The Sex Pistols", and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Their the music of the Sex Pistols, their relationship was always volatile


psyCohn's comment:
good, until the end; would have been better if it had ended 15 minutes earlier and didn't have lame aliens

imdb plot outline:
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess (Gibson), the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles


psyCohn's comment:
remarkable; rare user-friendly serial killer film; believe the hype as it won all big 5 Aawards

imdb plot outline:
Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer


psyCohn's comment:
very "Fargo"-ish; had a lot of unexpected humor

imdb plot outline:
Three diverse characters, for the most part intellectually challenged, find a deserted plane with a bag full of millions of dollars inside. They devise a simple plan to keep the money if no-one claims it.


imdb plot outline:
When a 'Single White Female' places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she's just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right


psyCohn's comment:
great music overshadowed by few good moments

imdb plot outline:
A group of twenty-something friends, most of whom live in the same apartment complex, search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle


imdb plot outline:
When a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful models living with him


psyCohn's comment:
not as funny as it could have been; turned into bad version of "Romancing the Stone"

imdb plot outline:
Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island


psyCohn's comment:
came during the height of Brat Pack, and one of their better efforts

imdb plot outline:
Samantha's life is going downhill fast. The fifteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all this, the rest of her family forgets her birthday


psyCohn's comment:
Willis finally breaks from bad action films w/ a great one; a top10 finish

imdb plot outline:
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist


psyCohn's comment:
Linklater had great vision to make this one; super concept

imdb plot outline:
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes.


psyCohn's comment:
tough to watch at times, but a very well done film; would be hard to see twice

imdb plot outline:
After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized; 10 years later, they get their chance for revenge.


psyCohn's comment:
possibly the most predictable movie ever; Roberts sucks

imdb plot outline:
Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different


psyCohn's comment:
not much here; King films past 1985 usually suck

imdb plot outline:
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on


psyCohn's comment:
Burton just can not make a bad film; great classic story to film

imdb plot outline:
Constable Icabod Crane is sent to an isolated village to investigate a series of murders reportedly commited by a headless horseman


psyCohn's comment:
one of the best films ever; Thornton blew away the '97 Oscar competition

imdb plot outline:
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.


psyCohn's comment:
whole bunch of nothing in this one; Stone might do better with her clothes on

imdb plot outline:
Young publishing executive Carly takes an apartment in an exclusive "sliver" building in New York, only to learn that the previous tenant, who bore a great resemblance to Carly, died in a mysterious fall from the apartment balcony


psyCohn's comment:
set up really well; interesting cast & stories

imdb plot outline:
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its


psyCohn's comment:
I could not watch this one ever again; really was not that funny even then

imdb plot outline:
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot persute by a pesky sheriff


psyCohn's comment:
common story does well enough in this one

imdb plot outline:
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school


imdb plot outline:
Claire Gregory has accidentally witnessed a murderer commiting his crime. Unfortunately she manages to escape and New York cop Mike Keegan is assigned to protect Claire. He risks his job and his marriage when he falls in love with Claire


psyCohn's comment:
Nicholson is superb; if I were 50+, this would be my all-time favorite movie

imdb plot outline:
Harry Langer is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica


psyCohn's comment:
not nearly as good as it should have been; cussing <> funny

imdb plot outline:
When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance & Phillip, they are pronounced "corrupted", and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada


imdb plot outline:
Planet Spaceball's President Scroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them


psyCohn's comment:
good film, even beyond the title; very funny at times

imdb plot outline:
Ray is a promising pre-med student at MIT, home briefly (he thinks) before leaving again for a prestigious internship. His plans evaporate when his callous father insists he stay home to care for his mother after an accident


psyCohn's comment:
robotical acting + a typical plot made this one a yawner; should have been WAY better

imdb plot outline:
A "lone wolf" U.S. government secret agent, Scott, is assigned the task of rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the president, only to discover along the way a larger, more sinister plot with origins within the White House itself


imdb plot outline:
Ray Quick is an ex-CIA bomb expert now living as an high-tech outsider somewhere in Miami, Florida. May Munro has heard of his skills and tries over and over to convince Ray to bomb the guys who killed her parents once.


psyCohn's comment:
Henstridge is lovely, but the plot was too much of a rehash

imdb plot outline:
A group of four specialists are given the task of tracking down Sil. "She"'s part human, part alien, beautiful, strong, very dangerous and desperate to mate with a human


psyCohn's comment:
a not so well made film of true-life murder Richard Speck's night in the house of 8 nurses

imdb plot outline:
movie about the serial killer Richard Speck, who killed several nurses in Chicago in the sixties


psyCohn's comment:
excellent special effects make this one of the better comic-book movies

imdb plot outline:
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy high school student gains spider-like abilities which he must eventually use to fight evil as a superhero.


imdb plot outline:
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys


psyCohn's comment:
excellent story with a great cast; wonderful atmosphere

imdb plot outline:
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town


psyCohn's comment:
entertaining; good early role for Hanks; Hannah never better

imdb plot outline:
A man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is


imdb plot outline:
Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun


psyCohn's comment:
I liked the 3D stuff, but it was almost straining on the eyes @ times - ok kids movie

imdb plot outline:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker (Stallone). It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world


psyCohn's comment:
very disappointing; worst effort from Brat Pack with little plot or story

imdb plot outline:
A Group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood. Their main problem is that they're all self-centered and obnoxious


psyCohn's comment:
classic movie with some of the best teen acting ever; touching

imdb plot outline:
4 young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by a gang of older boys. A story of boys hangin' out and growin' up.


psyCohn's comment:
TV series on the classic book; correct ranking for each episode: 10, 8, 5, 3

imdb plot outline:
After the world is decimated by a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors


psyCohn's comment:
De Niro low point; what is so interesting about these boring relationship films?

imdb plot outline:
An illiterate cook (Robert De Niro) at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman (Jane Fonda). As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read


psyCohn's comment:
true story of a centerfold's death; still not very good

imdb plot outline:
Based on the story of Dorothy Stratten, 1980 Playmate of the Year, Star 80 explores a brief and tragic career that was engineered by Stratten's loutish husband and manager, Paul Snider


psyCohn's comment:
excellent premise with good enough acting to boot

imdb plot outline:
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty


imdb plot outline:
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body


imdb plot outline:
The crews of the Enterprise and the Excelsior must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation


psyCohn's comment:
the cast was really too old to do this, but it did kind of work

imdb plot outline:
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it


psyCohn's comment:
not a bad follow-up; feel the "Wrath of Kahn"

imdb plot outline:
Admiral Kirk's midlife crisis is interrupted by the return of an old enemy looking for revenge and a potentially destructive device


title:
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

psyCohn's comment:
much better 2nd half; great race scene; brought back fond memories; my 999th movie

imdb plot outline:
Two Jedi knights and an outcast must help a queen save her world, and along the way discover a boy who has the potential to be a powerful Jedi himself


title:
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

psyCohn's comment:
I'd put it a distant 3rd of the 5 so far; good effects with horrible acting; still, part of 'the' great series

imdb plot outline:
Set 10 years after the events in "The Phantom Menace". After an assassination attempt on the life of Senator Padme Amidala, Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker are sent to investigate


psyCohn's comment:
the sci-fi classic of all time; maybe most 'important' film for my generation

imdb plot outline:
Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.


title:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

psyCohn's comment:
best & darkest of series; perfect side characters and the best acting of all of them

imdb plot outline:
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke


title:
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

psyCohn's comment:
perfect first half,  but last part (the "Muppets"?) almost tried to ruin the film

imdb plot outline:
Han Solo is imprisoned by Jabba the Hutt, the Empire is building a new Death Star, and Luke hasn't finished his Jedi training


imdb plot outline:
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra


psyCohn's comment:
Bridges is magnificent; film flows very well

imdb plot outline:
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them


psyCohn's comment:
funny at times, boring at others; does seem to keep your interest

imdb plot outline:
Humans of a fascisticly militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival


psyCohn's comment:
typical camp humor; nice to see the original S&H pop up @ the end

imdb plot outline:
Two streetwise cops (Stiller and Wilson) bust criminals in their red-and-white Ford Torino with the help of police snitch called Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg).


psyCohn's comment:
Penn & Oldman are excellent as Irish buddies on opposite sides of the law

imdb plot outline:
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie


psyCohn's comment:
great scenery, but the story is rather weak

imdb plot outline:
For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with the young Italian who kissed her and corresponded for a while


psyCohn's comment:
many funny moments, though Green was either way on or way off w/his humor; love Jason Lee

imdb plot outline:
A middle-class man turns to a life of crime in order to finance his niece's first year at Harvard University


imdb plot outline:
A typical 80's teen pseudo-sex comedy. A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants


psyCohn's comment:
gangster films do not get much better than this one

imdb plot outline:
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.


psyCohn's comment:
classic Pryor/Wilder; "That's right, we bad, we bad"

imdb plot outline:
Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural tallent for riding broncos


psyCohn's comment:
Bo must have run over Bosworth one too many times

imdb plot outline:
Joe Huff is a tough, go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation to convict some extremely violent bikers, who are angry at the capture of their leader.


psyCohn's comment:
major disappointment from "Happiness" & "Dollhouse" director; still, many funny moments

imdb plot outline:
Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young / troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation


psyCohn's comment:
possible low point for Hoffman; film is way too slow, boring

imdb plot outline:
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.


psyCohn's comment:
only fun to watch in big groups of people

imdb plot outline:
Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.


psyCohn's comment:
lives up to its title; entertaining and full of action

imdb plot outline:
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a police conspiracy in 1999 Los Angeles


psyCohn's comment:
great opening & rest of film flows well; Hitch quite the master

imdb plot outline:
You'd like your wife killed, wouldn't you? I'll do it for you if you'll kill someone for me, and since we're strangers we'll be free of suspicion.


psyCohn's comment:
these old drama "classics" do not really turn my crank; great acting by Brando, though

imdb plot outline:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters.


imdb plot outline:
The film is about three black animals trying to make it big in Harlem 'The Home of every black man' but before the do that they have to get rid of the sheriff and the Mafia boss.


psyCohn's comment:
"Rock & Roll love story" features the (then) underrated Pare'

imdb plot outline:
Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950's and the present or future. Her ex-boyfriend returns to town and to find her missing and goes to her rescue.


imdb plot outline:
John becomes a defacto leader in his basic training platoon as we follow them through training to their first assignment. Included in this is the recruits version of drilling and a small side trip into East Germany


psyCohn's comment:
terrible; how many Reynolds films are good?

imdb plot outline:
The title character, a popular NASCAR driver, clashes with the fried-chicken mogul that sponsors his racing team


psyCohn's comment:
funny adaptation of the E.B. White novel; that little rodent was cool

imdb plot outline:
The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him


imdb plot outline:
There is a killer named The Breather terrorizing students at a high school. Whenever the killer finds students having sex, he kills them. He has some intense issues to deal with. He likes to breathe heavily


imdb plot outline:
A rape victim is exacting revenge on her agressors in a small town outside San Francisco. Dirty Harry, on suspension for angering his superiors (again), is assigned to the case


imdb plot outline:
Ex-mob boss Christopher Walken is kidnapped by a group of four kids in a haphazard attempt at paying the ransom for another, separate kidnapping. Complexities arise as the group cannot seem to do anything right


psyCohn's comment:
great coming-of-age film for a young male

imdb plot outline:
A bittersweet story of the coming of age of three adolescents set on the east coast beaches of the United States during WWII is a cool story specially blended with Michel Legrand's music


psyCohn's comment:
Lee captures the feelings of NYC w/ fantastic intensity during the sos murders

imdb plot outline:
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City in the summer of 1977


imdb plot outline:
A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students.


psyCohn's comment:
classic tale of the dark side of Hollywood

imdb plot outline:
Recently deceased hack writer Joe Gillis tells of his excursions with delusional silent movie star Norma Desmond


psyCohn's comment:
funny and disturbing look at a guy who ate nothing but McDonalds for a month

imdb plot outline:
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject of this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald's fast food, three times a day for a month straight


psyCohn's comment:
we need to get rid of women's lib, though Slater is a cutie

imdb plot outline:
Supergirl is transported to Earth accidentally, where she meets Ethan. Ethan has been put under a spell by the witch Selena, which makes him fall in love with the first person he sees.


imdb plot outline:
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero


imdb plot outline:
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth


imdb plot outline:
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man


imdb plot outline:
College freshman John (Gib) Gibson decides to go cross country to visit his friend in California during winter break. Awaiting there is a bikini-clad babe whom his friend assures him is a "sure thing".


psyCohn's comment:
interesting movie w/ some redeeming qualities

imdb plot outline:
After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster


psyCohn's comment:
typical chick flick, though it had some good humor

imdb plot outline:
A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right


psyCohn's comment:
very interesting foreign film; in that, 'what just happened' genre

imdb plot outline:
A British mystery author (Rampling) visits her publisher's (Dance) home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter (Sagnier) sets off some touchy dynamics


psyCohn's comment:
awesome look @ working for a horrible boss; extremely dark & funny

imdb plot outline:
A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel


psyCohn's comment:
off-beat hilarious comedy featuring some fine, unknown talent, "baby"

imdb plot outline:
Wannabe actors become regulars in the stylish neo-lounge scene; Trent teaches his friend Mike the unwritten rules of the scene


psyCohn's comment:
definitely not for all audiences but a great film

imdb plot outline:
The true story of homosexual lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men


psyCohn's comment:
only so-so, but it did have the typical Sena good action at times

imdb plot outline:
The world's most dangerous spy is hired by the CIA to coerce a computer hacker recently released from prison to help steal billions in unused government funds


imdb plot outline:
The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 16 different personalities


imdb plot outline:
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell.   It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies


psyCohn's comment:
produced few laughs - something needed for a comedy

imdb plot outline:
The "Alison Group" has bought four beer breweries in difficulties. The young but rising top manager Franck Macklin is sent to reorganize one of them - the one which happens to be the main company in his home town


psyCohn's comment:
Bogosian flawless in rise & fall of talk show host; loosely based on true story

imdb plot outline:
An abrasive radio talk show host, the night before he goes national, finds himself getting death threats from neo nazis during his show.


psyCohn's comment:
plenty of bad one-liners and bad acting here

imdb plot outline:
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder


psyCohn's comment:
almost entertaining, but Garner is nothing great here

imdb plot outline:
Zack is a Master Sargent assigned to his last post before leaving the service. He is a colorful character and even on has his own WWII vintage tank that is used for parades and such.


psyCohn's comment:
bizarre female-action-hero film; somewhat good

imdb plot outline:
Tank Girl (Rebecca) and her friends are the only remaining citizens living in the wasteland that is Earth, where all the remaining water is controlled by Water and Power, the mega corporation/government that runs the territory


psyCohn's comment:
youths taking over military school; good acting

imdb plot outline:
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers


imdb plot outline:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan


imdb plot outline:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes dangerously obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot.


psyCohn's comment:
quintessential film; De Niro's pseudo-hero cabby one of the great characters

imdb plot outline:
A New York City taxi driver violently and brutally lashes out at the scum of society after encounters with several diverse individuals, including a beautiful campaign worker, an underage hooker, a murderous pimp, and a presidential candidate.


imdb plot outline:
A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.


psyCohn's comment:
good, steamy cast & story; Julia is great

imdb plot outline:
Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice.


psyCohn's comment:
great special effects and tons of action here

imdb plot outline:
A shape-shifting cyborg is sent back from the future to kill John Connor before he can grow up to lead the resistance; a protector is sent, too.


psyCohn's comment:
basically the same movie as T2; still, worth catching, and leaves the door open for T4

imdb plot outline:
John Connor is now in his early 20's, and a female terminator, called T-X or Terminatrix, is after him . Another T-800 is sent back through time to protect John once again on the verge of the rise of the machines


psyCohn's comment:
classic, action-adventure; Schwartz.'s best role

imdb plot outline:
A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it


imdb plot outline:
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research


psyCohn's comment:
I don't remember this well but it was good when I saw it; early Dillon

imdb plot outline:
Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.


psyCohn's comment:
don't look too far into this one, but it's a period piece classic, and B-horror movie godfather; some great lines as well

imdb plot outline:
A group of hippies travelling through 1970's Texas fall prey to a trio of murderous brothers and their cannibal grandparents


psyCohn's comment:
nice thrill ride with plenty of shock/gory/scarry scenes for all

imdb plot outline:
On a trip through Texas to Mexico, a group of teens pick up the survivor of a massacre that took place the night before


psyCohn's comment:
very average sequel, didn't need to be made

imdb plot outline:
Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt.


psyCohn's comment:
first half was ok, but it completely fell apart; too MTV-ish

imdb plot outline:
An all star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of a down on his luck salesman


psyCohn's comment:
wondering how many times Seagal can make the same film

imdb plot outline:
Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified


psyCohn's comment:
funny, but I actually liked their other two movies (D & D, Kingpin) more

imdb plot outline:
A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster


psyCohn's comment:
had some pertty scary moments, but it was nothing too out of the ordinary, especially for Craven

imdb plot outline:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her


imdb plot outline:
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee


psyCohn's comment:
Mann debut; fantastic background music & story

imdb plot outline:
A highly skilled jewel thief operates a resturaunt and a car dealership as covers for his illicitly-gained income. He falls for a woman he meets out on the town and gets hired by the local godfather to pull a few heists


imdb plot outline:
A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man


psyCohn's comment:
best war film since "Apocalypse"; made me think; stunningly filmed

imdb plot outline:
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units.


psyCohn's comment:
superb remake; solid cast w/ top-10 ending; Russell's MacReady was so cool

imdb plot outline:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.


title:
Things to do in Denver When You Are Dead

psyCohn's comment:
mob hit goes sour and they will have to pay; cool film, very underrated

imdb plot outline:
Jimmy the Saint's business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give 'Afterlife Advice' to their survivors. He hasn't been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business


imdb plot outline:
Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling around behind his back


psyCohn's comment:
pretty good premise, but the acting is just not that great

imdb plot outline:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world


psyCohn's comment:
maybe the funniest music-movie ever; millions of good lines

imdb plot outline:
Spinal Tap, the world's loudest band, is chronicled by hack documentarian Marti DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour


psyCohn's comment:
very unique, choppy film; had some good moments, but it could have been better

imdb plot outline:
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, 4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who need their help


imdb plot outline:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends


psyCohn's comment:
most underrated H.S. movie; great direction

imdb plot outline:
Jerry Mitchell just bumped into Buddy Revell. Now Jerry isn't thinking about math or english. Because at three o'clock, he's history.


psyCohn's comment:
film (and Kilmer) are very underrated; great scenery

imdb plot outline:
An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage.


psyCohn's comment:
Spanish film is hard to follow; early Bandares appearance

imdb plot outline:
Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince here to be his wife.


imdb plot outline:
A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty.


psyCohn's comment:
by far the best movie from that crappy author; superb cast

imdb plot outline:
A lawyer and his assistant fighting to save a father on trial for murder. A time to question what they believe. A time to doubt what they trust. And no time for mistakes


psyCohn's comment:
spectacular effects; though the love story is pretty boring; easily made fun of

imdb plot outline:
Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship


psyCohn's comment:
decent Hitch; good early crime psychology

imdb plot outline:
Stars Cary Grant as a former thief suspected of a new series of crimes and Grace Kelly as the woman who romances him


psyCohn's comment:
excellent acting; based on the classic novel; the kids are fantastic!

imdb plot outline:
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge and his kids against prejudice


psyCohn's comment:
one of my favorites; good guys don't fare well

imdb plot outline:
Two cops in Los Angeles try to track down the vicious criminal Eric Masters. Then, one of them is killed by Masters and the other one swears revenge no matter what the cost.


psyCohn's comment:
robots could have acted better in this one


psyCohn's comment:
better than "Wyatt..."; Kilmer's Holliday flawless; very watchable film

imdb plot outline:
Former lawman Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and friend Doc Holliday settle in the town of Tombstone in order to lead a profitable and peaceful life but soon come into conflict with the Cowboys, a band of outlaws led by the Clanton brothers.


imdb plot outline:
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult because of that


psyCohn's comment:
amusing at times; hard to watch at others

imdb plot outline:
An unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera.


imdb plot outline:
The macho students of an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots compete to be best in the class, and one romances the teacher


imdb plot outline:
When East Germany can't get Leonard Bernstein for their cultural festival (which is to draw attention away from the nefarious plan to rule the world they have put together) they settle for Nick Rivers, renowned singer of Skeet Surfin'


psyCohn's comment:
magnificent action with a suitable story

imdb plot outline:
When a man goes for virtual vacation, memories of Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events force him to go the planet for real


psyCohn's comment:
I think this one was supposed to be scary

imdb plot outline:
Teenagers come across a shut-in psychopath (played by Chuck Connors) with telekinetic powers. He proceeds to use these powers to slay them one by one as well as animate the various mannequins he uses to keep himself company.


psyCohn's comment:
some outstanding lines & great humor make this fun

imdb plot outline:
This is the story of Melvin, the resident geek at the local health club. One day, Slug and Bozo (some resident jocks) chase Melvin around the club and Melin ends up plunging out of the window into a tub of toxic waste. Melvin is transformed


psyCohn's comment:
great computer animation, took 5+ years to make; funny story

imdb plot outline:
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room


psyCohn's comment:
never in a million years would I watch this again

imdb plot outline:
An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat


psyCohn's comment:
one of the best movies of its kind; Murphy never better

imdb plot outline:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires


psyCohn's comment:
I'm convinced movies are getting better; fantastic, with a unique filming technique

imdb plot outline:
A modern day look at America's war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another


psyCohn's comment:
kind of a 90's version of "Clockwork"; exhilarating at times, depressing at others

imdb plot outline:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends


psyCohn's comment:
pretty good action scenes barely keep this afloat from the bad acting and typical plotline

imdb plot outline:
This film is about a man (Statham) whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. Complications arise when he breaks those rules


imdb plot outline:
Two reporters travel to a strange castle in Transylvania to investigate the apparent reappearance of Frankenstein, and encounter kooky creatures


psyCohn's comment:
similar to "Leaving Las Vegas," and Buscemi is great

imdb plot outline:
Tommy (Steve Buscemi) has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck


psyCohn's comment:
not bad, for a movie devoted to giant earthworms

imdb plot outline:
Val and Earl plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dustbowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground.


psyCohn's comment:
exceptional effects for '82; cool atmosphere

imdb plot outline:
A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games


psyCohn's comment:
standard A.S. action-adventure; good ending scene

imdb plot outline:
When a secret agent learns of his wife's extra-marital affair, he pursues her and uses his intelligence resources in a job he kept secret from her


psyCohn's comment:
good story w/ souped-up spot actors; extremely watchable

imdb plot outline:
Clarence and Alabama are newlyweds who acquire an unexpected wedding present. Unknown to the blissfully happy couple, ruthless gangsters are on their tail, determined to reclaim their lost property


imdb plot outline:
David Byrne of Talking Heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of the town's celebration of the state's sesquicentennial. He meets various colorful local characters


psyCohn's comment:
unique film of a man's life as a TV show;  good, but could have been better

imdb plot outline:
Jim Carrey is Truman, a man whose life is a fake one... The place he lives is in fact a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere, and all his friends and people around him, are actors who play their roles in the most popular tv-series in the world


psyCohn's comment:
one of my favorites; Stockwell has great cameo in this great film

imdb plot outline:
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept


imdb plot outline:
Jimmy Lynch is angry because his older brother, who was injured as a result of an off duty fire rescue, is denied benefits by the city. At the same time, Mayor Tyler is embroiled in a political scandal that he denies all previous knowledge of.


imdb plot outline:
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court


psyCohn's comment:
very "Brazil" like; Pitt is just like Hopper from "Apocalypse"; interesting

imdb plot outline:
Terry Gilliam's nightmarish low-tech/high-tech future vision takes place in 1997, after a deadly virus has killed 99% of the humans--forcing the survivors to flee beneath our planet's surface. This leaves the animals topside, to rule the Earth once again


psyCohn's comment:
movie of classic TV series; has that original feel

imdb plot outline:
Famous directors create their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series.


psyCohn's comment:
good for one viewing only; just not that funny

imdb plot outline:
A physically perfect, but innocent, man goes in search of his twin brother, who is a short small-time crook


psyCohn's comment:
definite could-have-been; way too clustered

imdb plot outline:
The sequel to "Chinatown" finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil


imdb plot outline:
Set in Mexico, a nun called Sara is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan, who is on his way to do some reconnaissance, for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan


psyCohn's comment:
long, well-done story with chilling ending

imdb plot outline:
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.


psyCohn's comment:
excellent follow-up by Shyamalan; very comic and scary;

imdb plot outline:
A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident


imdb plot outline:
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister


psyCohn's comment:
virtually unknown war film with good cast

imdb plot outline:
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Supported his father (a retired military man himself) and a rich businessman whose son was also a POW


psyCohn's comment:
standard action flick; Seagal is not all that bad

imdb plot outline:
A former SEAL, now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they sieze control of a US Navy battleship


psyCohn's comment:
vampires vs. werewolves, "Matrix" fighting scenes, a semi-love story - what more could you want?

imdb plot outline:
a beautiful vampire warrior is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with Michael, a werewolf who longs for the war to end


psyCohn's comment:
it's dangerous playing with other people's minds; good enough, for Dahl

imdb plot outline:
Unsuccessfully framed for his wife's murder, Dr. David Krane attempts to find the real culprit by utilizing a new drug that allows him to experience the memories of other people first-hand


psyCohn's comment:
good to be considered as one of his classic westerns; not a good-guy film

imdb plot outline:
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man


psyCohn's comment:
like many other movies; Liotta does well

imdb plot outline:
A person/family befriend someone who gives the first impression of being normal. Soon he/she shows himself/herself to be a psycho. In this version the family are a young professional couple, and the psycho is a cop who answers a burglary call


psyCohn's comment:
odd, charming film; entertaining comedy w/o a real plot

imdb plot outline:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular


psyCohn's comment:
great old-time feel; good work from cast; De Niro gained 50 lbs. for role

imdb plot outline:
Federal Agent Elliot Ness sets out to take out Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.


psyCohn's comment:
top-10 most dated movie ever; would be hard to watch again

imdb plot outline:
John Travolta stars as a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar


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Used car salesman Rudy Russo needs money to run for State Senate, so he approaches his boss Luke. Luke agrees to front him the $10,000 he needs, but then encounters an "accident" orchestrated by his brother Roy,


psyCohn's comment:
best movie of 1995, fantastic story & ending; excellent group acting

imdb plot outline:
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a crippled con-man.


imdb plot outline:
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the WallyWorld theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.


psyCohn's comment:
started a (thank goodness) short-lived girl lingo

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Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.


psyCohn's comment:
whatta acid trip; these 'dreamy' movies seem to work these days

imdb plot outline:
A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover


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The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.


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A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.


imdb plot outline:
Complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with fear of heights and with a woman


psyCohn's comment:
very gross violence at times, very funny at others; good overall

imdb plot outline:
A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches


psyCohn's comment:
good soccer/war movie with a unique cast

imdb plot outline:
In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propiganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game


imdb plot outline:
Max runs a TV channel, and is looking for new material to show...he discovers - Videodrome. His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for Videodrome, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot which uses Videodrome as its front.


imdb plot outline:
James Bond is faced up against a mad industrialist who plans to destroy Silicon Valley. It is up to 007 to stop him and his ally May Day


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An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realise that the kids are not human


psyCohn's comment:
Night's best since "The 6th Sense"; very well done, even w/a few holes; Howard was great

imdb plot outline:
tale of an isolated town confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders.  This village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods


imdb plot outline:
18 years old Lauden Swayne is the best in his weight class in the high school wrestling team. He trains day and night to loose weight to be able to challenge the champion Shoot two classes below him


psyCohn's comment:
contained many funny moments, and the beginning is stolen in "Goodfellas"

imdb plot outline:
A sensitive character study of five young men trapped in a small town on the Adriatic. Their discontentment and restlessness lead them into a variety of activities, not all of them admirable.


psyCohn's comment:
another disaster flick;  these all have the same formula; good enough, I guess

imdb plot outline:
A volcano erupts in downtown L.A., threatening to destroy the city


psyCohn's comment:
very chilling; Arkin's "roles" are spine tingling as Hepburn shines

imdb plot outline:
Susie's husband is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. She disappears. Mike and Carlino are small time hoods who find the woman's body in Susie's apartment, placed there by her partner


psyCohn's comment:
"Slacker" part 2 really, except more 'dreamy' and animated over live-action film

imdb plot outline:
A man in a dream state encounters many characters who, one by one, talk about their views on the meaning, perception, and reality of human existence


psyCohn's comment:
pathetic acting & very boring story make this one a dog

imdb plot outline:
After returning from the war, Paul and a young Hispanic-American woman meet on a bus as she's headed home from college to help with the grape harvest and face her Old World domineering dad


psyCohn's comment:
story of greed with a great cast; Oliver, no conspiracy here?

imdb plot outline:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top


imdb plot outline:
A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle


psyCohn's comment:
fun when young but might drag if seen today

imdb plot outline:
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.


imdb plot outline:
Sometime in the future, the polar ice caps have melted and the world's oceans and seas have covered the land. People are few and far between, living in small communities at sea or sailing from one to another as traders.


psyCohn's comment:
unknown; a good UFO movie with  a cool "feel" to it

imdb plot outline:
Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways


psyCohn's comment:
very funny; good, old-fashioned love comedy

imdb plot outline:
Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other


psyCohn's comment:
adequate story kind of falls flat at times

imdb plot outline:
A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to "finish him off."


psyCohn's comment:
movie about two high-school boy's dream project

imdb plot outline:
Two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that


psyCohn's comment:
somewhat of a female "Catcher..." tale; quite charming at times, odd at others

imdb plot outline:
Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities


psyCohn's comment:
Murray is funny at times but film moves too slowly

imdb plot outline:
A successful psychiatrist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients tracks him down during his family vacation


psyCohn's comment:
way out there, that's for sure; tries to give scientific meaning to our life; not for everyone

imdb plot outline:
part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience


psyCohn's comment:
well-done film of simple times; Depp is a fine actor; great cast

imdb plot outline:
Gilbert has care for his autistic brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.


psyCohn's comment:
one of the most frustrating movies to watch ever; I hated it

imdb plot outline:
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.


psyCohn's comment:
very dry but full of funny lines & scenes; Murray never better

imdb plot outline:
The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state


psyCohn's comment:
had some very funny parts; kinda like a 'In the company of women'

imdb plot outline:
Three men who think they're God's gift to women end up picking up on the same woman


imdb plot outline:
Billy and Sydney think they're the best basketball hustlers in town, so when they join forces, nothing can stop them, except each other. To add to their problems, Billy owes money and is being chased by a pair of gangster types.


psyCohn's comment:
takes domestic disputes to a new level; extremely well-done

imdb plot outline:
New Biology instructor Nick and his wife Honey visit the campus home of burned-out History professor George and his viperish wife Martha. Exchange of late-night pleasantries turns into an ugly battle of words between George and Martha


psyCohn's comment:
Madonna's acting decline starts with this one

imdb plot outline:
His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Lounden to give the pretty and no less self concious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans


psyCohn's comment:
maybe best Lynch film; Cage is fantastic; "What do you faggots want?"

imdb plot outline:
Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor


imdb plot outline:
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.


psyCohn's comment:
not sure how to take this one; quite strange & unpredictable, yet the story was weak overall

imdb plot outline:
Sam Lombardo is a well-respected Florida high school guidance councelor who gets his life turned upside down when two students, spoiled rich-girl Kelly Van Ryan, and trailer-trash bad-girl Suzie Toller, bring rape charges against him


imdb plot outline:
Molly is a highschool track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff and her former husband


imdb plot outline:
A poor boy wins the oppurtunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all


psyCohn's comment:
just entertaining enough with that evil "ouija"

imdb plot outline:
A girl (Linda) finds an interest in her friends Brandon's Ouija Board when he brings it by her party


imdb plot outline:
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives


psyCohn's comment:
good, unique film; Pennsylvania never looked better

imdb plot outline:
A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial


imdb plot outline:
An updated, urban, African-Americanized version of The Wizard of Oz. Dorthy gets whisked from her inner-city neighborhood to the mystical land of Oz. All the characters from The Wizard of Oz are in this movie, but with an urban flavor


title:
Wo ho zang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

psyCohn's comment:
for some reason, this Asian action film was supposed to be great; it wasn't

imdb plot outline:
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are lead to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.


imdb plot outline:
Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. But after being bit by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself energized


psyCohn's comment:
very scary from the director of "Woodstock"

imdb plot outline:
A city cop is assigned to solve a bizarre set of violent murders where it appears that the victoms were killed by animals. In his pursuit he learns of an Indian legend about wolf spirits.


psyCohn's comment:
really only worth watching for a quick nude look at LeBrock

imdb plot outline:
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say ?


psyCohn's comment:
excellent editing, and I liked how Holmes (Kilmer) was not all of the focus of the movie

imdb plot outline:
In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes


psyCohn's comment:
excellent documentary/concert with the stellar 60's music

imdb plot outline:
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers


psyCohn's comment:
definitely strange yet entertaining; one of a kind; great work by Williams

imdb plot outline:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time


imdb plot outline:
Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. More of a documentary than Hollywood tinsel, this movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's greatest heros.


psyCohn's comment:
not nearly as good as the 1st - too much going on & not enough development

imdb plot outline:
The X-Men band together to find a mutant asassin who has made an attempt on the President's life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces


psyCohn's comment:
up-chuck material; possibly THE worst movie ever

imdb plot outline:
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters a musician/artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink


psyCohn's comment:
no compromising here; phenomenal TV-to-movie film w/ several answers & ?'s

imdb plot outline:
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.


psyCohn's comment:
great comic book to big screen adaptation; "Wolverine" kicks ass

imdb plot outline:
Two mutants come to a private academy for mutants whose resident superhero team must oppose a powerful mutant terrorist organization


psyCohn's comment:
Gibson plays an Aussie reporter in Africa; way too slow

imdb plot outline:
Guy Hamilton is a journalist on his first job as a foreign correspondent. His apparently humdrum assignment to Indonesia soon turns hot as President Sukarno electrifies the populace and frightens foreign powers


imdb plot outline:
The story of an advanced jewish girl named Yentl, who used to study the Torah when no woman could do it. After losing her father, she decides to go to a Yeshiva, the jewish school for priests. The big problem is that only boys are allowed to study there


psyCohn's comment:
B-movie remake of "Taxi Driver"; started well

imdb plot outline:
about a dopey hack actor in Hollywood who can't land any acting gigs. And he has this strange obsession with the movie Taxi Driver


imdb plot outline:
1878 in New Mexico: John Tunstall picks up young gun men from the road to have them work on his ranch, but also to teach them reading and to civilize them. However he's a thorn in the side of the rich rancher Murphy, as he's a competitor in selling cattle


psyCohn's comment:
personal favorite Allen film; great film work & editing

imdb plot outline:
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.


psyCohn's comment:
stylistic detective story full of fun and wit; Stiller is one of the funniest

imdb plot outline:
The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening


psyCohn's comment:
a sometimes hilarious look at the male modeling world; love Stiller

imdb plot outline:
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia


