Review These Movies

July 29th, 2009 by Allison Morin, under Music. No Comments

For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. The next generation it seems will be getting their movies from movie downloads, avoiding any trips to the store. You can get virtually any movie you want with a good movie download site. Here are some examples.

The Rains Came: Louis Bromfield novel lessened to Hollywood dribble, with wedded socialite Loy setting out to seduce committed Indian surgeon Power. Momentous earthquake and deluge scenes are displayed. The visual effects won an Academy Award. Cast includes Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph Schildkraut, and Mary Nash. (104 minutes, 1939)

Cruel Intentions: Kathryn and Sebastian, brother and sister through marriage, begin to play a very cruel game. It starts when Kathryn’s boyfriend Court dumps her. To get back she asks Sebastian to sleep with Cecile, Courts new girl, who is still a virgin. After that he sets his sight on a tougher target, Annette, who has said in Seventeen Magazine that will stay a virgin until married. Kathryn thinks it is impossible so a bet is made. If Sebastian wins, Kathryn will have to sleep with him.

Outbreak: deadly virus has hit Cedar Creek, California. Highly transferable, in a short time the virus is spreading fast. The other problem, once infected you have less than 24 hours to live. The virus must be contained, so people are sequestered if they are near the outbreak areas.

Act of Violence: Act of Violence is a tense drama where we follow a man who was permanently injured during the war. He is now after the senior officer who abandoned his men in a prisoner of war camp. The stars are Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, and Phyllis Thaxter. (1948 drama directed by Fred Zinnemann)

Sphere: Floundered sci-fi fable from Michael Crichton novel in reference to a group of scientists from variant controls who are carried to a terrific-secret underwater site where the U.S. Navy has discovered a wreck. What does it imply? Where did it materialize from and while? Fascinating set-up leads nowhere, with progressively brainless conduct from the principals and ludicrous chapter headings that lend assumed supply to each new pattern. Cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, and Queen Latifah. (133 minutes, 1998)

The Lawnmower Man: Jobe is retarded. He lives the simple life of mowing lawns. Dr. Lawrence Angelo wants to see if he can develop intelligence artificially. With some drugs, and a connection to virtual learning through a super computer, Jobe starts learning at an incredible rate. The question is, what are the consequences?

Strange Impersonation: Marshall gives a first rate acting job in this grade-B film noir in reference to an analysis scientist whose face is dreadfully maimed in a so-called mishap. Plastic surgery allows her to decipher the puzzle behind that episode and seek reprisal. It may be the definitive work of Garbo. Cast includes Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler, Ruth Ford, H. B. Warner, and Lyle Talbot. (68 minutes, 1946)

Law of the Lawless: War horse cast is chief interest here, with Robertson an ex-gunman turned magistrate. Cast includes Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Richard Arlen, and Kent Taylor. (88 minutes, 1964)

Gothica: Criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey wakes up to find herself in the institution where she works, the state prison for the criminally insane. She has been accused of killing her husband. She feels that a ghost is affecting her. She escapes the asylum to prove her innocence. Will she be able to?

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