Archive for January, 2010

Lesser Prophets

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Lesser Prophets (1997) IMDB rating: 5.80 Plot: The police have three bookies under surveillance, but they escape and set up shop elsewhere. By chance, one of the police finds them; instead of turning them in, he demands money that his brother, now a suicide, had lost to them. An odd guy named ...

Prince of Egypt, The

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Prince of Egypt, The (1998) IMDB rating: 6.80 Plot: Egypt, eons of years ago: Pharao Seti commands all male hebrew babies to be drowned. A desperate mother places her son in a basket and lets the Hebrew god guide it along its way on the river. The basket is found by the ...

Alice in Wonderland

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Alice in Wonderland (1951) IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice's journey, which culminates ...

Dog Day Afternoon

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) IMDB rating: 8.10 Plot: Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to steal enough money for his male lover to undergo a sex change operation. On ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of ...

The Rescuers Down Under

Friday, January 15th, 2010

The Rescuers Down Under (1990) IMDB rating: 6.60 Plot: Cody, a boy from Mugwomp Flats responds to a distress call about a trapped giant Golden Eagle called Marahute. Freeing her, he gains a close friendship with the bird. However, Cody is soon abducted by the murderous poacher, Percival McLeach, who is after ...

Last Starfighter, The

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Last Starfighter, The (1984) IMDB rating: 6.40 Plot: This is the story of a videogaming boy, named Alex Rogan who lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is manager and everyone is like a big extended family. Meanwhile, Alex becomes the top player of Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game where ...

Crime Fiction

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Crime Fiction (2007) IMDB rating: 6.20 Plot: Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you ...

Epic Movie

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Epic Movie (2007) IMDB rating: 2.10 Plot: The twisted minds of two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in "Epic Movie." The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee ...

The Echo

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The Echo (2008) IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he tries to intervene, however, a mysterious curse entraps him. Directors: Laranas Yam Actors: Alianak Hrant,Bradford Jesse,Carmody Brendan,Durand Kevin,Hinz Marvin,Lee Paul Sun-Hyung,Leon ...