SYNOPSIS: The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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Film Review: The Roly Poly Man (1994)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “This remarkable little film is a wonderful homage to the talents of the late Paul Chubb, who for once was able to showcase his ability as the lead in a feature film. He’s private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a ‘smooth’ ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he’s convinced there’s more to …
Read More »Film Review: Animal House (1978)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Faber College has one Frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The Dean enlists the help of the second Frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives …
Read More »Film Review: The Haunting (1963)
SYNOPSIS: “Ninety years ago, Hugh Crain builds the mansion Hill House in a remote area of New England. When his wife is moving to the mansion, she has an accident and dies, leaving the bitter Hugh Crain and his daughter Abigail alone in Hill House. Hugh Crain marries again and his wife also dies in Hill House. He moves to …
Read More »Film Review: Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
SYNOPSIS: A Montreal construction worker joins a band and turns out to be a long-lost rock star from 1960s New Jersey – none other than Eddie Wilson, who mysteriously disappeared after a road accident. REVIEW: Joe West comes out of hiding……….. Ok, so you have to suspend disbelief a bit here, it’s all good and fun. We had to wait …
Read More »Film Review: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
SYNOPSIS: “This is the story of Joel, who discovers that his long-time girlfriend, Clementine, has undergone a psychiatrist’s experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed, after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working fluidly. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn’t remember their time …
Read More »Film Review: Nude On The Moon (1961) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “Doctor Huntley and Professor Nichols are able to complete their work on a moon rocket because of an unexpected inheritance. They travel to the moon, but find a lush garden paradise rather than a barren wasteland. They are captured by virtually naked telepathic humanoids and taken in front of the Great Council. The Moon Goddess decides they should be …
Read More »Film Review: Fire with Fire (1986)
SYNOPSIS: A young woman from a Catholic school and a young man from a nearby prison camp fall in love and must run away together to escape the law, the church and their parents.
Read More »Film Review: Blade Runner (1982)
SYNOPSIS: “In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when four replicants escape …
Read More »Film Review: Breaking Glass (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal. REVIEW: We open to a single traveler midway in subway transit. Then without notice she breaks into a partial music video sing along. This non-traditional opening sets the stage for one of music greatest cult film creations. …
Read More »Film Review: Society (1989)
SYNOPSIS: Bill is worried that he is ‘different’ to his sister and parents. They mix with other ‘upper class’ people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach REVIEW: If you read my review …
Read More »Film Review: Because of the Cats (1973)
SYNOPSIS: A gang of wealthy ne’er do wells rape and terrorize women for fun and force their husbands to watch.
Read More »Film Review: Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)
SYNOPSIS: Drone slaves turn gooey and alarm their creator, a professor (Lisa Gaye) sporting a large beehive hairdo.
Read More »Film Review: Pi (1998)
SYNOPSIS: “The mathematician Maximillian Cohen is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson. Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around …
Read More »Film Review: The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T. (1953)
SYNOPSIS: “The bane of adolescent Bart Collins’ existence is the piano lessons he is forced to take under the tutelage of Dr. Terwilliker, the only person he admits he detests because of his dictatorial nature. Bart feels Dr. Terwilliker has undue influence for these lessons on his widowed mother, Heloise Collins. The one person who sympathizes with Bart, although quietly …
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