| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
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| Bad Education (La Mala educación) - NC-17 |
Bad Education (Spanish: La Mala Educación) is a 2004 film by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (who worked on the film's story structure for over ten years). Sexual abuse by Catholic priests, transsexuality, drug abuse, and a metafiction are also important themes and devices in the plot.
This drama, tragedy is a must to see, just to notice these problems still are in the world. There are the good, and the bad. Go with the good, don't blame the bad ... |
February 15, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Crash - R |
The film Crash depicts several characters living in Los Angeles, California during a 36-hour period and brings them together through car collisions, shootings, and carjacking. Through these characters' interactions, the film seeks to depict and examine not only racial tension, but also the distance between strangers in general.
Crash won three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing of 2005 at the 78th Academy Awards My oh my, one of the best character-soaps of racial behaviour I've ever seen, excellent play! |
February 12, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Step Up - PG-13 |
This oldie follows the tale of the disadvantaged Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) and the privileged modern dancer Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan), who find themselves paired up in a showcase that determines both of their futures. Realizing that they only have one chance, they finally work together.
It is a pity the movie is like the shadow of Fame, although Channing Tatum became well-known after his model-work. He is stunning in the advertisement of the Italian fashion designers, that is all ... |
February 11, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Duchess - PG-13 | Enjoyed this movie ... great fashy costumes and styles, great to know about the old-fashioned rules, not my fashion way of life ... ;o))) | February 9, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Wittgenstein - Unrated | February 9, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Exorcist - R |
A classic goldie for cold nights >>>
The Exorcist is a 1973 American horror film, adapted from the 1971 novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, dealing with the demonic possession of a young girl, and her mother?s desperate attempts to win back her daughter through an exorcism conducted by two priests. The film features Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Lee J. Cobb, Jason Miller and Mercedes McCambridge. Both the film and novel took inspirations from a documented exorcism in 1949, performed on a 14-year-old boy. The film is one of a cycle of 'demonic child' movies, including The Omen series and Rosemary's Baby. The film became one of the most profitable horror films of all time, grossing $402,500,000 worldwide |
December 11, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Entity - R |
The Entity is a 1981 horror film starring Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a California woman who was tormented by an unseen entity.
The film is allegedly based on the life of the real Carlotta Moran, who claims to continue to be assaulted by an invisible being, though with lesser frequency and intensity (more recently it is claimed she no longer suffers from physical attacks, but still experiences visual phenomena such as those seen in the movie)[citation needed]. It opened to major critical panning and was called misogynistic and unnecessarily sexually graphic. It's worth to see this horror movie ... when you love paranormal subjects, based on a true story, go for this movie! |
December 11, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Mission Impossible - PG-13 |
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Impossible Trilogy, Action, Adventure, Thrilled ... Tom Cruise ? On December 1. 2008, TV Guide reported that Cruise has been selected as one of America?s top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for an upcoming Barbara Walters ABC special due to air on December 4, 2008 ... guess so ;o) |
December 4, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Abyss - PG-13 |
The Abyss is a science fiction film that was written and directed by James Cameron in 1989. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn.
The Abyss won the 1990 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Underwater scenes were filmed in the containment building of Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant, an unfinished nuclear power plant near Gaffney, South Carolina, in the United States. It took seven million gallons (26.5 million liters) of water to fill the tank to a depth of 40 feet (12 m), making it the largest underwater set ever. The depth and length of time spent underwater meant that the cast and crew sometimes had to go through decompression. Filming was also done at the largest underground lake in the world?a mine in Bonne Terre, Missouri, which was the background for several underwater shots. The book Reel Views 2 comments, "James Cameron's The Abyss may be the most extreme example of an available movie that demonstrates how the vision of a director, once fully realized on screen, can transform a good motion picture into a great one." For a moment I thought I saw ET, although the SF-movie was an ocean of its own ... |
December 4, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Capote - R |
Amazing cinematography, phenomenal acting, every character is perfectly cast. incredible movie ...
On November 15, 1959, the brutal murder of a family in a small Kansas town sent shockwaves through the nation?and captured the attention of one of the most distinctive minds of our time. One-of-a-kind author Truman Capote was sent to Kansas to pen an article about the crimes for ''The New Yorker'' magazine. He ended up writing one of the most celebrated books of the century. ''Capote'' follows Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) on his odyssey to create the landmark bestseller ''In Cold Blood''. With signature style and mordant wit?and his friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener) in tow?Capote attempts to charm the locals and work his way into the story behind the murders. He's soon shocked, however, to find himself forming a friendship with one of the killers, Perry Smith (Clifton Collins, Jr.). As the book nears completion and execution day approaches, Capote finds himself torn in directions he never anticipated and is forever changed by his experiences. |
September 14, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Cabaret - PG |
Just loved the Cabaret movie for miss Saaly Bowles aka Liza Minnelli, the phantastic songs, the echo of WW II, wonderful Michael York, and the seventies for all it mysteries ...
Cabaret was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 1973, and nearly performed a clean sweep, winning 8, including Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Liza Minnelli), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Joel Grey), and winning for Cinematography, Editing, Music, Art Direction and Sound (losing Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay to The Godfather). It won 7 BAFTA awards, including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy). Cabaret was produced by ABC Pictures and first distributed in the US by Allied Artists. Warner Bros. is the current US distributor. |
September 14, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Parent Trap - PG | So funny 'cause I loved Hayley Mills when very young, still like the movie Parent Trap, a pity miss Hayley missed the fame-boat ... | September 14, 2008 | N/A | |||
| When a Man Loves a Woman - R | Alcohol ... a song famous by Percy Sledges, this is drama! When all seems fine... all goes wrong ... is that good, bad, or just the subject for a movie, just see it | August 1, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Blowup (Blow-Up) (Blow Up) - Unrated |
An award-winning 1966 British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni with fabulous fashion concept, read >>>
The story concerns a photographer (Hemmings) who may or may not have inadvertently preserved evidence of a murder, which may or may not involve a woman Vanessa (Redgrave) who visits the photographer in his studio. As is typical with Antonioni films, the story does not follow a conventional narrative structure. As a professional photographer, the main character mixes with the rich and famous in the London of the sixties. One day he chances upon two lovers in a park and takes photos of them. The woman of the couple pursues him, eventually finding his apartment and desperately trying to get the film. This leads the photographer to investigate the film, making blowups (enlargements) of the photos. This process seems to reveal a body, but the director uses the heavy film grain and black and white imagery to obscure the image. This drives the photographer to keep making blowups and try to find the truth. He does eventually find the body in the park, but this time, unfortunately and surprisingly, he is without his camera. He tries to get a friend to act as witness, but later the body is gone. Ultimately, the film is about reality and how we perceive it or think we perceive it. This aspect is stressed by the final scene, one of many famous scenes in the film, when the photographer watches a mimed tennis match and, after a moment of amused hesitation, enters the mimes' own version of reality by picking up the invisible ball and throwing it back to the two players. A tight shot shows his continued watching of the match, and, suddenly, we even hear the ball being played back and forth. Another version of reality has been created. Then, at the very end, Hemmings, standing all alone in the green grass of the park, suddenly disappears, removed by his director, Antonioni. |
August 1, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within) - PG-13 | Moving movie ... going deep in your emotions, touching, powerfull ... great share of Flixter friends | August 1, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Sweet Charity - G |
The 1969 film version, Sweet Charity, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, starred Shirley MacLaine and John McMartin, recreating Fosse's original Broadway role.
Sweet Charity follows the adventures of Charity Hope Valentine, a taxi dancer at a dance hall euphemistically called the "Fandango Ballroom" in New York City. It's not the movie, the brilliant miss Shirley MacLaine or the plot of this film which got legendary. To me it was the part of the clip Big Spender, maybe together with The Aloof-dance performance of the dancers in Sweet Charity, which was absolutely the best I've ever seen. Remember in those days of the 60s and 70s this was top of the bill because of the guts to show prostitutes in a clip-like song, included dance, top make-up, styling & hair. And all in the trendy looks of those old days. A must !!! |
June 29, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Gladiator - R | Oowkee... for the gladiator, and Russell Crowe, although it gives me the creepes people still are the same like in the Gladiator. | June 29, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Repulsion - Unrated |
Repulsion is a 1965 film directed by Roman Polanski on a scenario by Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language film, and was filmed in Britain. The cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, with a cameo appearance by Roman Polanski himself. It is widely considered a masterpiece of the psychological thriller.
Carol (played by a 20-year-old Deneuve) is a young Belgian virgin, who is both repelled and attracted by the idea of sex due to repressed feelings. Timid and fragile, she lives in London with her sister Helen. When Helen leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend, Carol is left alone. Isolated at work too, she shuts herself up in their apartment, and becomes a slave of her own paranoid fears, unable to tell fantasy from reality, and begins to hallucinate. She violently kills a would-be suitor, Colin, using a candlestick, and later the landlord who attempts to rape her. When her sister returns home, she finds Carol under her bed, catatonic, and only a shell of her former self. Loved the Catherine Deneuve appearence here ... |
June 16, 2008 | N/A | |||
| A Streetcar Named Desire - PG |
Super sexy 27 year-old Marlon Brando, in his second screen role (after his first appearance in Fred Zinnemann's The Men (1950)) and recreating his 1947 Broadway role (it premiered on December 3, 1947), delivered an overpowering, memorable, and raw naturalistic performance as a sexually-powerful, animalistic, brooding primal brute - Stanley Kowalski, Blanche's brother-in-law ...
A recurring theme found in A Streetcar Named Desire is a constant conflict between reality and fantasy, actual and ideal. Blanche says "I don't want realism, I want magic." Plot: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her ... when she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed. |
June 12, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Gilda - PG |
A black-and-white film noir starring Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale ... I loved Rita Hayworth!
Hayworth's introductory scene was shot twice. While the action of her popping her head into the frame and the subsequent dialog remains the same, she is dressed in different costumes - in a striped blouse and dark skirt in one film print, and the more famous off-the-shoulder dressing gown in the other. Miss Hayworth in probably her most famous quote: "Every man I've known has fallen in love with Gilda and wakened with me." |
June 8, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Tsunami: The Aftermath - Unrated |
Inspired by true accounts, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the harrowing aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago.
Well-written, well-directed and well-acted ... |
June 8, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) - PG-13 |
One of the best spaghetti Western film, directed by Sergio Leone.
The music was written by composer Ennio Morricone, Leone's regular collaborator, who wrote the score under Leone's direction before filming began. As in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the stirring music contributes to the film's mythic or operatic grandeur and, like the music for The Good the Bad and the Ugly, is considered one of Morricone's greatest compositions. The music still creeps me ... |
April 19, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Deliverance - R |
Deliverance, an oldy, is a 1972 Warner Bros. motion picture drama directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and, in his film debut, Ned Beatty.
Widely acclaimed as a landmark film, Deliverance is the story of four suburban professional men from Atlanta on a weekend canoe and camping trip. The film is noted for the memorable music scene near the beginning that sets the tone for what lies ahead: a trip into unknown and potentially dangerous territory. In the scene, set at a rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally-challenged hillbilly youth named Lonnie (implied as being an inbred albino in the novel, portrayed by Billy Redden in the film). The boy eventually outplays Drew with his banjo. The song won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. The film was selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made," while the viewers of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom voted it 45 in a list of The 100 Greatest Films. An oldy althoug a must, on DVD, too |
April 14, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Lola - Unrated | April 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Awakenings - PG-13 | great... sad movie | April 13, 2008 | N/A |
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