Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Windows (1980)

Released January 18th in the US.
Filmed entirely in New York.
The story : Emily is a quiet woman living alone with her cat.
She doesn't have more than really one friend , who she doesn't know very well at that.
One evening just after arriving home to her apartment , Emily is attacked by a man who tape records the whole ordeal.
Two police investigators are called in to talk with Emily , a man and a woman.
The man leaves Emily his card , as well as checking in on her from time to time.
Emily decides to get a new place to live but someone is watching Emily , stalking her every move.
When Emily gets close with the male police investigator , her stalker doesn't like it very much.
Stars Talia Shire , Russell Horton , Rick Petrucelli , Elizabeth Ashley , Joe Cortese , Linda Gillen , Kay Medford , Michael Gorrin , Michael Lipton , Ron Ryan , Linda Gillen , Tony DiBenedetto
Directed by Gordon Willis
Rated R
THRILLER/MYSTERY

"You know , Larry...it's all about your attitude."

"That's bullshit!"

Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)

Made for TV , airing October 12th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : It's been ten whole years since we've visited Stepford.
A woman news reporter has come to town to possibly do a story on Stepford.
She wants to know what everyone in towns' secret is , so she can spread the word to the rest of the world.
She is looking for an assistant and she finds one in Mrs. Brady.
Mrs. Brady's husband has taken a possiblly permanent but at the moment temporary job as a police officer in town.
The two ladies become very close.
They see amongst themselves how odd the wives of Stepford seem and want to know more about it all.
The ladies find out the town's secret when Mrs. Brady becomes one of "them".
Stars Sharon Gless , Audra Lindley , Mason Adams , Don Johnson , Julie Kavner , Arthur Hill , Ellen Weston , Thomas Hill , Jim McKrell , Lee Warrick , Ed Bell , Peter Maloney , Howard Witt , Sheldon Feldner , Millie Slavin , Stephanie Blackmore
Directed by Robert Fuest
Not Rated
SEQUEL/DRAMA

Monday, July 28, 2014

Detroit Rock City (1999)

Released August 13th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story : It's Ohio 1978 and four teens can think of nothing more than the KISS concert that is about a day away in Detroit.
It's been three years now that they have missed KISS when the band came to rock out in their area and there's just no way they are willing to miss this show.
One of the kids moms' gets a hold of their concert tickets and seeing how KISS is the devil band , she decides to make it her business that the guys don't get to use their tickets.
While their bud is brought off to be spoken to by the local priest , the rest of the guys decide they can win their way to the show.
Stars Lin Shaye , Sam Huntington , Edward Furlong , James DeBello , Giuseppe Andrews , Melanie Lynskey , Natasha Lyonne , Miles Dougal , Nick Scotti , Emmanuelle Chriqui , David Quane , Rodger Barton , Kathryn Haggis , David Gardner , Shannon Tweed , Joe Flaherty , Gene Simmons , Paul Stanley , Ace Frehley , Peter Criss
Directed by Adam Rifkin
Rated R
COMEDY

"You wanna reach out and touch pure evil! And in Detroit no less!"

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (1977)

Made for TV , airing October 5th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : Mary Jane Harper is a little girl who lives with her mother who is recently separated from her husband.
Mary Jane's mother is getting her ready for a visit with her father.
Mother changes little Mary Jane's clothes and asks of her only that she stay in her bedroom until her mother comes to get her.
But Mary Jane is a little girl with a lot of energy.
She doesn't want to stay in her room. She would rather go outside to play.
When Mary Jane does go outside she gets all dirty after falling.
This angers her father who has arrived to pick her up and decides to blame Mary Jane's mother and takes off in a huff.
Now this angers Mary Janes' mother. So much so that she brutalizes her little girl , causing a broken arm.
One doctor makes little Mary Janes' well-being her mission after the mother tells her Mary Jane got her arm broken by falling.
Stars Natasha Ryan , Susan Dey , Tricia O'Neil , John Vernon , Kevin McCarthy , Bernie Casey , Priscilla Pointer , Phillip R. Allen , Ray Buktenica , Rhea Perlman , Ivan Bonar , James Karen , Charles Lucia , Sandra Deel , Nancy Parsons , Elizabeth Robinson
Directed by Allen Reisner
Not Rated
DRAMA

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

When She Was Bad (1979)

Made for TV , airing on ABC November 25th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : Bobby Morgan has relocated his wife Teeny and their young daughter Robbie to a new home for a fresh start at things.
Almost immediately things are like before for Teeny.
She is having a hard time dealing with any stress , flies off the handle at the smallest things and is becoming increasingly bitter towards their daughter.
Teeny tries over and over again to tell Bobby that she needs help and that it's just all too much for her.
But Bobby keeps on insisting there is nothing wrong.
Not until Teeny is forced to get help does she realize that the deep-seated problem with her that she cannot control is from her own abusive childhood.
Stars Cheryl Ladd , Robert Urich , Nicole Eggert , Dabney Coleman , Marcia Lewis , Roxanne Gregory , Eileen Brennan , Ramon Bieri , Michael Flanagan , Paul Larson , Judy Kiern , Julie Parrish , Bill Stayers , Keith Jackson
Directed by Peter H. Hunt
Not Rated
DRAMA

Monday, July 21, 2014

Diana (2013)

Released November 1st in the US.
Filmed in UK , Croatia , Italy , India and Mozambique.
Based on truths.
The story : It is some years after Princess Diana has been separated from her husband Prince Charles.
She is slowly going on with her life , dealing with the daily grind of it all.
Diana meets a very prominent heart surgeon and the two fall head over heels in love with each other.
But the paparazzi is something neither of them can or want to deal with.
Stars Naomi Watts , James Puddephatt , Ilan Goodman , Max Wrottesley , Naveen Andrews , Cas Anvar , Charles Edwards , Douglas Hodge , Geraldine James , Prasanna Puwanarajah , Rose O'Loughlin , Nathaniel Facey , Christopher Birch , Juliet Stevenson
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Rated PG13
DRAMA/BIOGRAPHY

"Somewhere beyond right and wrong there is a garden. I will meet you there."

Jack Reacher (2012)

Released December 21st in the US.
Filmed in Pennsylvania.
The story : A man is accused of popping off five people at random.
When he is taken in for questioning , the only thing he will say to the police is to find a man named Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher is an ex military cop who knows something about the accused mans' past.
The accused mans' lawyer works closely with Reacher to find out what happened and why.
Stars Joseph Sikora , Werner Herzog , Jai Courtney , Vladimir Sizov , Richard Jenkins , David Oyelowo , Tom Cruise , Rosamund Pike , Michael Raymond-James , Alexia Fast , Josh Helman , Robert Duvall
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Rated PG13
MYSTERY/ACTION

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Jonestown : Paradise Lost (2007)

Released January 15th in the US.
Filmed in South Africa.
Based on truths.
The story : In November 1978 , San Francisco Congressman Leo Ryan escorted 18 people , including journalists and family members of people in Jonestown to Guyana for a visit.
Jim Jones schooled his followers on how they should behave for the visit and what to say but he still was not happy about any of it.
While the time spent in Jonestown , the Congressman spoke to many who lived there.
He understood that they were mostly happy to be there. But there were some that asked for his help in leaving.
When the Congressman broke the news of some of the Jonestown followers wanting to leave , it angered Jim Jones even more.
All Jim was trying to do by keeping his peoples' lifestyle out of the media was being manipulated by the visit and it had to stop somewhere.
Stars Stephan Jones , Vernon Gosney , Sherwin Harris , Tim Reiterman , Rick Roberts , Quentin Krog , Brendan Murray , Alon Nashman , Greg Ellwand , Kevin Otto , Roxanne Blaise , Cindi Sampson , Dean Slater , Nicole Crozier , Victoria Bartlett , Adrienne Pierce , Pope Jerrod , Patrick Lyster , Olive Cele , Franklin English , Dan Hirst
Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk
Not Rated
HISTORY/DRAMA

Witness (1985)

Released February 8th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Pennsylvania.
The story : Young Amish boy Samuel is going to visit his aunt with his mother.
While at the train station awaiting their train , Samuel goes to the men's room.
Shortly after entering the men's room , Samuel witnesses a heinous crime on a man who was already in the men's room.
When the police arrive on the scene , one takes a special interest in Samuel and his mother.
The police officer needs Samuel as he is the only one who can identify the man responsible for the crime.
The officer will go to no end to keep Samuel and his mother safe from harm while they help him solve the case.
Stars Lukas Haas , Kelly McGillis , Danny Glover , Harrison Ford , Josef Sommer , Brent Jennings , Jan Rubes , Alexander Godunov , Patti LuPone , Angus MacInnes , Frederick Rolf , Viggo Mortensen , John Garson , Beverly May , Ed Crowley
Directed by Peter Weir
Rated R
THRILLER/DRAMA

"Lady , if you take my picture with that thing I will rip your brassiere off and strangle you with it."

Monday, July 14, 2014

Black Rock (2012)

Released May 17 ,2013 in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story : Three women who were childhood pals go camping on a remote island they used to frequent as kids.
Things aren't all that stable between the ladies , as one has an undying beef with another.
While out by the waters edge , the ladies see three men hunting.
The ladies decide to invite the guys to hang with them.
During the course of the evening , almost everyone is drinking.
One of the ladies gets a little too drunk and begins making advances towards one of the guys.
That won't end well.
Stars Kate Bosworth , Lake Bell , Carl K. Aselton III , Katie Aselton , Will Bouvier , Jay Paulson , Anslem Richardson
Directed by (& story written) Katie Aselton
Rated R
THRILLER/MYSTERY

Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Released sometime in December of 1977.
Filmed in California.
The story : Three men are circling Saturn in space in the Scorpio Five.
The next thing we know , only one of the three men has survived the trip.
The survivor is in the hospital and he isn't doing very well.
When he comes to , he sees his hands are a grotesque mess.
So he rips off his bandages and inspects the damage to his face.
That's when he realizes he is horribly disfigured.
The nurse comes to his room but is quickly chased away by him in a panic.
Now he has escaped the hospital where an army general was trying to keep him confined , in hopes that the doctors can figure out what's going on with him.
But he's gone on to become a radioactive , melting , murdering mess.
Stars Alex Rebar , Myron Healey , Burr DeBenning , Bonnie Inch , Lisle Wilson , Ann Sweeny , Cheryl Smith , Julie Drazen , Chris Witney , Stuart Edmond Rodgers , Dorothy Love , Edwin Max , Janus Blythe , Jonathan Demme , Westbrook Claridge , Leigh Mitchell
Directed by (& story written) William Sachs
Rated R
SCIFI/HORROR

The Mean Season (1985)

Released February 15th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Florida.
The story : "Mal" Anderson is a news reporter/writer for the Miami Journal.
He has just gotten back from a trip to Colorado when his boss sends him to get the story on a recent local murder of a young girl.
After getting his story out about the murder , Malcolm becomes involved in the who-done-it game as the killer contacts him with much information about the murder and wants him to get the whole story right.
Malcolm works closely with the local police , as the killer has threatened more future murders.
Stars Tamara Jones , Kurt Russell , Richard Masur , Andy Garcia , Mariel Hemingway , Richard Jordan , Richard Bradford , Joe Pantoliano , Rose Portillo , William Smith , John Palmer , Lee Sandman , Dan Fitzgerald , Cynthia Caquelin , Fred Ornstein , Richard Liberty , Joan Murphy
Directed by Phillip Borsos
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER

"All news is good news."

The Grifters (1990)

Released January 4th in the US.
Filmed in California and Arizona.
The story : Roy Dillon is a small-time hustler , doing what he wants to do and making his living out of doing whatever he feels like.
Roy's mother , who hasn't exactly been a mother , makes her money by running race track horses for the mafia and skimming off the winnings.
Roy also has a small-time crook of a girlfriend who takes everyone for everything they've got.
Roy seems to be the only one of the three content with doing what he does and taking care of himself.
His girlfriend wants more like what she had before they met and his mother wants out of her dangerous profession.
The three are pros at the game they play , but who will end up being the winning player?
Stars John Cusack , Annette Bening , Anjelica Huston , Jan Munroe , Stephen Tobolowsky , Richard Holden , Henry Jones , Jimmy Noonan , Eddie Jones , Michael Laskin , Lou Hancock , Pat Hingle , Paul Adelstein , Jeremy Piven , Gregory Sporleder , David Sinaiko , Frances Bay, Billy Ray Sharkey
Directed by Stephen Frears
Rated R
DRAMA/MYSTERY

Going Ape! (1981)

Released April 10th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story : Foster is a young guy who barely makes a living selling mail orders.
His father , who he hasn't seen in quite sometime has just passed away.
At the reading of Foster's fathers will , he learns that he has inherited an important part of his father's second family - three orang outangs.
Foster doesn't want the monkeys but they do come with a bonus.
If Foster can keep and take care of the them like his father did for three years without letting anything bad happen to them , he will also inherit 3 million dollars.
Stars Tony Danza , Danny DeVito , Stacey Nelkin , Jessica Walter , Ellen Gerstein , Poppy Lagos , Marji Martin , Donna Ponterotto , D.J. Sullivan , Henry Charles , Merie Earle , Roger Arroyo , Gabriel Jarret , Gene LeBell , Ruth Gillette , Hamilton Mitchell , Jacquelyn Hyde , Leon Askin , Joseph Maher , Howard Mann , Rick Hurst , Frank Sivero , Art Metrano
Directed by (& story written) Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Rated PG
COMEDY

Friday, July 11, 2014

Sophie's Choice (1982)

Released December 8th in the US.
Filmed in New York , Croatia and Yugoslavia.
The story : It's 1940 and young American Southener/writer Stingo has come to Brooklyn to write his very important book.
He finds room and board in a big pink house where Sophie - a Polish immigrant who has spent time in a Nazi concentration camp and her lover Nathan - who is Jewish , a very eccentric and equally volatile couple also live.
Stingo is pretty much forced out of his silence and into the couples light-hearted romps and darkened arguments , becoming very close with them.
Meeting , getting to know and learning from the couple are all experiences young Stingo will soon not forget.
Stars Peter MacNicol , Rita Karin , Meryl Streep , Kevin Kline , Stephen D. Newman , Josh Mostel , Greta Turken , Moishe Rosenfeld , Robin Bartlett , John Rothman , Joseph Leon , Eugene Lipinski , David Wohl
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Rated R
DRAMA

"You look very nice. You're wearing your cocksucker..."

*laughs* "My Seersucker , yes."

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Almost Human (2013)


Released September 19th in the US.
Filmed in Rhode Island. hahahaha
Based on truths? So , he says....
The story : It's the evening of Friday , October 13 , 1987 in Patten , Maine.
Seth and another guy were driving when all of a sudden , some sort of crazy neon blue light has apparently shot down from the sky and sucked up Seth's buddy right before his very eyes.
Seth freaks and drives to his buddies Mark and Jen's house.
He tells Mark all about what happened but of course Mark doesn't believe him.
The next thing we know , the crazy neon blue light has summonsed Mark and poof! takes him away as well.
Two years later , Seth has been having horrible nightmares and health issues due to losing his friends the way he did , while Jen has gone on with her life.
Seth decides to visit with Jen. He tells her something bad is going to happen but he can't explain it.
I think Mark is on his way back into town ya'll. :P
Stars Graham Skipper , Josh Ethier , Vanessa Leigh , Anthony Amaral III , Michael A. LoCicero , Jeremy Furtado , Jami Tennille , Chuck Doherty , Kristopher Avedisian , Susan T. Travers , David Langill , John Palmer , Andre Boudreau
Directed by (& story written) Joe Begos
Not Rated
THRILLER

"I'm on a lowwwwwww budget!"

"What did you say!?!"

"I'm on a lowwwww budget."

"I thought you said that."

Nuff said. :P


Videodrome (1983)


Released February 4th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story : Max Renn is the president of a TV channel that produces programs containing soft porn , violence and murder.
Max is always on the look out for new tough and ground breaking ideas.
He goes on a TV talk show to talk about his channel and meets a radio talk show host named Nicki and a man who has a history in the same sort of industry as himself.
Later on , Max meets up with Nicki at his house.
While looking through his video collection , Nicki stumbles upon a video called 'Videodrome'.
Max explains that she probably wont like it and that it's pretty violent.
But she puts the video on anyways.
This brings the two of them into a dangerous hallucinatory world beyond either of their imaginations.
Stars James Woods , Peter Dvorsky , Harvey Chao , David Tsubouchi , Julie Khaner , Jack Creley , Deborah Harry , Leslie Carlson , Sonja Smits , Lynne Gorman , Reiner Schwartz , David Bolt , Lally Cadeau , Henry Gomez , Kay Hawtrey , Sam Malkin
Directed by (& story written) David Cronenberg
Rated R
SCIFI/THRILLER

"I Just can't cope with freaky stuff."

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Released February 5th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story : Doctor Bennell has just arrived back into town after a two week vacation.
His secretary informs him that many of his patients have been in need of his help for the whole two weeks , calling constantly.
First day back on the job , none of his patients seem to be in any great dire need of his help after all.
Pretty strange but that's about as much thought as the doctor puts into it.
But then , a young boy is brought into the office by his grandmother who claims that the boy is afraid to go home.
The woman who looks like his mother is not acting like his mother and he is frantic about it.
Doctor gives the boy two aspirin and tells his grandmother to keep him overnight.
Next , a longtime girlfriend of the doctors arrives telling him that her cousin is claiming that the man who looks like her father is not her father.
So the doctor pays them all a visit and sees nothing out of the ordinary. It isn't til later on that evening that the doctor actually sees some proof to all the stories he's been hearing.
Stars Kevin McCarthy , Jean Willes , Larry Gates , Dana Wynter , King Donovan , Carolyn Jones , Ralph Dumke , Tom Fadden , Virginia Christine , Kenneth Patterson , Guy Way , Beatrice Maude , Eileen Stevens , Jean Andren , Everett Glass
Directed Don Siegel
Not Rated
B&W
SCIFI/HORROR

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Nightmares (1980)


US release dates unknown.
Filmed entirely in Australia.
The story : One rainy evening , little Helen is taken on a car ride with her mother and her mothers' , boyfriend? Yes , sure why not.
So while driving , mom's boyfriend begins getting fresh with her.
Little miss Helen is just having none of that you see.
Helen causes an accident , killing her mother in the process.
Fast forward quite some years. ....
Helen is an adult now.
She is working in a theater production.
But Helen has a couple , issues.
Whenever anyone is getting "fresh" or just messes with her or her friends , Helen gets the urge to bust up some glass and make short work of those no good bastards.
:X
Stars Jennie Lamond , Maureen Edwards , Bryon Williams , Doug Bowles , Jenny Neumann , Max Phipps , Gary Sweet , Nina Landis , John Michael Howson , Edmund Pegge , Sue Jones , Adele Lewin , Briony Behets
Directed by John D. Lamond
Not Rated
HORROR