Sep 14
Plot:
Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
IMDB rating: 8.20 out of 10.0 (23571 votes) Continue reading »
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1960s,
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arson,
assault,
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beach,
betrayal,
blackmail,
blood,
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bootlegging,
boy,
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brooklyn-bridge,
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brother-sister-relationship,
brutality,
car,
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cemetery,
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child-murder,
child-nudity,
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cinema,
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Crime,
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face-slap,
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fire,
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railway-station,
rainstorm,
rape,
release-from-prison,
reporter,
restaurant,
rooftop,
sadism,
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sadness,
sex,
sex-scene,
sex-with-minor,
sexual-assault,
sexual-favor,
sexual-joke,
shadow-puppet,
shooting,
shot-in-the-eye,
speakeasy,
stairwell,
strip,
stripping,
suitcase,
surprise-ending,
switchblade,
teen,
telephone-box,
television-news,
toilet,
tomb,
torture,
twist-in-the-end,
underage-sex,
urination,
urination-scene,
vice,
vicious,
violence,
violent-movie,
voyeur,
voyeurism,
vulgarity
Sep 13
Plot:
The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani’s are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani’s go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.
IMDB rating: 5.20 out of 10.0 (1368 votes) Continue reading »
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ewoks,
giant-monster,
giant-spider,
magic,
quest,
star-wars,
star-wars-spinoff,
stop-motion
Sep 13
Plot:
In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.
IMDB rating: 7.90 out of 10.0 (69069 votes) Continue reading »
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answering-machine,
artificial-intelligence,
automation,
blood-splatter,
breasts,
car-trouble,
chaos,
chase,
cop-killer,
cult-favorite,
cyborg,
death,
department-store,
destruction,
dog-killed,
dystopic-future,
explosion,
factory,
famous-line,
female-nudity,
first-of-series,
flashback-sequence,
gas-station,
grand-theft-auto,
gun,
gun-dealer,
homemade-explosive,
hydraulic-press,
independent-film,
killer-robot,
lasersight,
los-angeles-california,
love,
male-nudity,
mass-destruction,
mass-murder,
motel,
motorcycle,
murder,
nipples,
nuclear-war,
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patrol-car,
plastic-explosive,
police,
police-station,
post-apocalypse,
post-apocalyptic,
post-nuclear-war,
robotics,
roommate,
sex,
sex-scene,
social-commentary,
stop-motion,
sunglasses,
switchblade,
telephone-booth,
telephone-box,
the-terminator,
time-travel,
title-spoken-by-character,
tragic-love,
truck,
two-way-mirror,
violence,
voice-sampling,
vulgarity,
waitress,
woman-on-top
Sep 13
Plot:
After a frightening escape from death at the hands of Chinese gangster Lao Che in Shanghai, Indiana Jones & 2 companions, Short Round (Quan) and Willie Scott (Capshaw) board a freight plane to escape. Over the Himalayas, the pilots dump the fuel, and Indy discovers they are in serious trouble when the plane’s engines start to stall. Parachuting out of the plane in a life raft, they survive a 300-foot fall into a raging mountain river and its rapids. They are now in India, and as their raft heads down river they are met by an Indian shaman, who leads them to his village where people are starving, crops are blighted, and there is not a single child! Indy’s mastery of their language helps him learn that a sacred stone was taken by some strange men, which caused all the problems facing the villagers now. Short Round & Indy figure out that the missing stone is one of the Sankara stones, which are supposed to have a magical effect on whomever possesses them. The shaman sends them on a mission to Pankot Palace, which once housed the Thuggee cult. After a series of near-death encounters, Indy & the others discover the Temple of Doom, where the human sacrifices to Kali - the Thuggee goddess of death - are carried out, as well as a mine that has enslaved the children of the Shaman’s village. Indy must get the stone back and free the children from the Thuggees and their psychopathic high priest, Mola Ram (Puri). What follows are several spectacular fights, a frightening chase through a mine shaft in tiny mine cars, and a bridge collapse 100 feet above a river filled with crocodiles! Hang on - and enjoy!
IMDB rating: 7.20 out of 10.0 (40825 votes) Continue reading »
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1930s,
adventurer,
airplane-accident,
ancient-ritual,
antidote,
archeologist,
archeology,
argument,
banquet,
bizarre,
blockbuster,
blood,
booby-trap,
bravery,
british-colonial,
bugs,
card-game,
chase,
child-driving-car,
child-kidnapping,
child-labor,
children,
chosen-one,
christ-allegory,
cliffhanging,
compassion,
controversial,
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cruelty,
curse,
danger,
death,
death-trap,
diamond,
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eating-brains,
eating-monkey-brains,
elephant,
escape,
face-slap,
fall,
fall-from-height,
famous-score,
father-figure,
father-son-relationship,
fedora,
fire,
foreigner,
friendship,
gore,
grindstone,
hallucinogenic,
hanging,
heart-in-hand,
hero,
heroine,
heroism,
honor,
human-sacrifice,
india,
indiana-jones,
innocent-deaths-avenged,
insect,
jungle,
justice,
kidnapping,
kindness,
kiss,
lava,
leather-jacket,
love,
magic,
maharajah,
martial-arts,
mine,
mine-shaft,
monkey,
murder,
nightclub,
occult,
palace,
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Romance,
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sadist,
secret-passage,
sequel,
shanghai-china,
shrine,
singer,
skeleton,
slavery,
snake,
spit-in-the-face,
stop-motion,
studio-logo-segues-into-film,
sword,
tap-dancing,
thuggee,
tommy-gun,
torture,
trap,
tuxedo,
tyranny,
tyrant,
village,
villain,
violence,
voodoo,
voodoo-doll,
warrior,
water,
whip,
young-boy
Sep 13
Plot:
Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won’t have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he’s a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
IMDB rating: 7.90 out of 10.0 (10758 votes) Continue reading »
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1970s,
1980s,
asia,
awards-dinner,
based-on-true-story,
bomb,
butcher,
cambodia,
communism,
communist,
death-of-child,
distopia,
embassy,
escape-attempt,
genocide,
historical,
holocaust,
journalism,
khmer-rouge,
landmine,
leftist,
mass-murder,
murder,
murderer,
new-york,
new-york-city,
new-york-times,
photographer,
political-repression,
post-war,
prison-camp,
progressive-rock,
reporter,
road,
torture,
vietnam,
violence,
vulgarity,
writing
Sep 12
Plot:
This time Zucker and Abrams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
IMDB rating: 6.80 out of 10.0 (9374 votes) Continue reading »
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animal-in-cast-credits,
ballet,
beach,
binoculars,
bookstore,
breaking-the-fourth-wall,
buxom,
car-radio,
compacted-car,
cow,
dove,
firing-squad,
funny-dance,
funny-nazi,
gunfight,
island-romance,
motorcycle,
nazi,
parachute,
pinto,
plane,
prison,
prisoner,
reverse-footage,
rock-music,
rug,
spoof,
spoon,
spy,
surfing,
telephone,
tic-tac-toe,
train,
tunnel,
underwater,
underwater-fight,
vibrator,
War
Sep 12
Plot:
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called “Ghostbusters”. Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana’s neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer.
IMDB rating: 7.50 out of 10.0 (34489 votes) Continue reading »
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accountant,
anti-environmentalism,
apocalyptic,
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cello,
chandelier,
demon,
destiny,
electric-shock,
elevator-scene,
epa,
experiment,
famous-score,
firehouse,
ghost,
ghostbuster,
giant-monster,
green-slime,
haunted,
hotel,
librarian,
library,
manhattan,
marshmallow,
mayor,
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nerd,
new-york,
paranormal,
paranormal-investigation,
part-stop-motion,
possession,
product-placement,
ray-gun,
research,
secretary,
slime,
supernatural,
taxi,
title-spoken-by-character,
tv-commercial,
twinkie,
university,
zener-card
Sep 12
Plot:
Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop–a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop’s owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don’t get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand’s gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed ‘Gremlins.’
IMDB rating: 6.80 out of 10.0 (17372 votes) Continue reading »
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swimming-pool,
sylvester-the-cat,
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