The Commuter (2018) on FXM :thumbsup:

A retired NYPD officer who is now an insurance agent is unexpectedly laid off from his job and heads home on the Metro North; the same route he has taken to and from work for years.

He is approached by a stranger on the train who tells him that $25,000 cash has been stashed in the train's bathroom and he will be paid a further $75,000 when his job is done. His job is to identify a passenger onboard who has stolen something.

By taking the money he then gets involved in a wide-ranging conspiracy.



Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga appear from The Conjuring franchise.

Homewrecker (2019)

A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio '19 :thumbsup: (Rod, radio DJ, hosts a popular horror-themed show packed with tales of terror for eager listeners. When he receives alarming calls from a horrified child things start to feel off.)

Shrooms '07 :thumbsup: (A group of American teenagers travel to Ireland to experience the trip of a lifetime, as promised by their Irish friend and hallucinogens expert Jake. As gruesome events unfold, the friends can't distinguish between hallucination and reality.)

Watched this with my daughter.

Spiral '19 :thumbsup: (Same-sex couple, Aaron and Malik, move to a small town so they can enjoy a better quality of life and raise their 16 year-old daughter with the best social values. But nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood as Malik begins learning the sinister truth about their neighbors)

Witches' Night '07 :thumbsup: (Halloween weekend. A jilted groom. A hastily-organized canoe trip. A pristine river. A deep, dark forest. The strange old woman behind the bait shop should've been a warning, but too much beer dulls the senses. When they stumble upon four beautiful women deep in the woods, it all seems too good to be true. And slowly they realize they'll be lucky to escape alive...)

Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016) on TBS-on-Demand :thumbsup:

The 4th film in the Barbershop franchise.

Tootsie (1982): Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Doris Belack, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, Geena Davis, Lynne Thigpen, Ellen Foley, Anne Shropshire, Amy Lawrence, Susan Egbert and Christine Ebersole.

- A talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to adopt a new identity as a woman to land a job.

Let's Scare Jessica To Death '71 :thumbsup: (A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.)

Tarantula

Meeting Evil

In A Stranger's House '18 :thumbsup: (Every year, hundreds of people go missing after using online classified ads. No case is as bizarre and unexplainable as this. In November of 2017, a broken video camera and smart phone were recovered from a recycling center. The camera houses a memory card that contained disturbing and unexplainable material. This is that material. The following is not for viewers of a sensitive disposition.)

The Accountant (2016) on FXM :thumbsup:

A high-functioning autistic, who is gifted in numbers and puzzles, works as a CPA for questionable clients.

As a kid his strict military father, who didn't believe in therapy, felt that his son should be "toughened up" and made him do brutal work-out and martial arts training. This later comes in handy when law enforcement and criminals go after him. He kills with no remorse due to his lack of empathy.

Vampires vs. the Bronx '20 :thumbsdow (A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification...and vampires.)

Rush Hour

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) on FXM :thumbsup:

The DEA kidnaps the daughter of a Mexican cartel leader and makes it seem like a rival gang did it to cause a feud between them.

Off the Black

Anger Management

The Babysitter: Killer Queen '20 :thumbsdow (Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.)


Re watch...


The Babysitter '17 :thumbsup: (The events of one evening take an unexpected turn for the worst for a young boy trying to spy on his babysitter.)

The Beaver

Nerve (2016) on FXM :thumbsup:

Two strangers team-up for an online dare game where the dares get more and more dangerous. The more extreme the dare the more money the players receive upon completion.

The Wednesday Children '73 :thumbsdow (Church janitor gives power to children so they can make all of the adults disappear.)

Ultra low budget regional film written and produced by an Ohio college professor. Good idea, but boring.

Bad Words, A League Of Their Own, and Caddyshack

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) on DVD :thumbsup:

I recently read (again) Dracula and I have to say that Gary Oldman's portrayal of the Count is the closest to the novel. He's described as an old man with white hair and white mustache. His fingers are long as he uses them as talons as he scales across the castle walls. He also has hairy palms.

The main difference with Coppola's version is that the Count had a romantic interest with Mina Harker as she reminded him of his wife; similar to The Mummy.

Tommy Boy

The Houses October Built '11 :thumbsup: (Every October, over 30 million people will visit Halloween Haunted Houses. This film sheds light on the dark world of haunting.)

Little Miss Sunshine

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)

Halloween '07 :thumbsup: (Unrated; After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.)

Halloween II '09 :thumbsup: (Unrated; Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.)

CATS (2019)

Needed more dogs...

Subspecies (1991) on Blu-ray :thumbsup:

This was actually the first American production to film in Romania. They filmed around Prejmer, a small village in Brasov County, Transylvania and got to shoot around the ancient ruins - mainly the Prejmer Fortified Church.

I think that's what makes this film stand out among other vampire flicks.

Evil Eye

Student Bodies '81 :thumbsup: (A killer named the Breather terrorizes students at a high school. Whenever the killer finds students having sex, he kills them. He has some intense issues with which to deal. He likes to breathe heavily, and he likes to make prank calls while talking through a rubber chicken.)

28 Weeks Later (2007) on Syfy-on-Demand :thumbsup:

British Jet Planes

Pandemonium '82 :thumbsup: (A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer. )

Happy Death Day 2U

Sophie's Choice (1982): Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman and Josh Mostel.

* A Polish immigrant with a dark secret from her past shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover and a young writer.

The Devil-Doll

A Trip to Wharfedale

Dracula (1931) on TCM-on-Demand :thumbsup:

I decided to watch this again after recently reading the novel and I didn't realize how much of it was changed.

On Blu...

Halloween '78 :thumbsup (Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.)

Halloween '18 :thumbsup: (Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.)

Stranger in the Night (2019)

Saturday The 14th '81 :thumbsup: (A family inherits an old mansion which houses the dangerous 'Book of Evil' that has all the monsters of the world trapped inside it.)


Hold That Ghost '41 :thumbsup: (Two gas station attendants inherit a haunted roadhouse from a bumped-off gangster.)

Courage Under Fire

Dream No Evil '70 :thumbsup: (Blu Ray; A young orphan girl obsessed with finding her father gets adopted by a traveling church. She grows up and gets engaged, but her obsession with locating her father is about to turn deadly.

Included on Arrow's American Horror Project Vol. 2)

Thirteen Ghosts

The Mortuary Collection '19 :thumbsup: (On the cusp of retirement, an eccentric mortician recounts several of the strangest stories he's encountered in his long career, but things take a turn for the phantasmagorical when he learns that the final story - is his own.)

Muppets From Space

Lost Souls (2000) on AMC-on-Demand :thumbsdow

A Roman Catholic schoolteacher, who is part of a devout exorcism group, believes that an investigative journalist was chosen by Satan to take over his body.

The film was originally set for release in 1999, but was delayed due to the releases of other religious thrillers such as Stigmata and End of Days.

Elysium

Downhill (2020)

Aptly named....

Scare Package '19 :thumbsdow (Chad, the owner of Rad Chad's Horror Emporium, recounts a series of bone-chilling, blood-splattered tales to illustrate the rules of the horror genre to his newest employee.)

The poster is the best thing about the movie, well, it did have some fun gore effects, but the humor was lame.



Re watch...


Dark Night Of The Scarecrow '81 :thumbsup: (In a small Southern town, a wrongfully-killed man exacts revenge from beyond the grave on those who murdered him.)

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

The Lie

Soapdish

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)


Danny Trejo was the only actor to appear in all 3 films. He also appeared in the television series.

Robert Patrick, from Part 2, also appeared on the television series in a different role.

Michael Parks appeared in 1 and 3 in different roles.

Bride of Chucky on AMC channel

Bride of Chucky on AMC channel

Chucky gets lucky

One Crazy Christmas on the Showtime x BET channel

Gandhi (1982): Starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielund, Trevor Howard, John Mills and Martin Sheen.

* Based on the life of the leader of nonviolent non-cooperative Indian Independence movement against the British Raj during the 20th Century. It covers from a defining moment in 1893 as he was thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment and concluded with his assasination and funeral in 1948.

The Founder (2016)

Scared Stiff '45 :thumbsup: (The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.)





Re watch...


Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff '49 :thumbsup: (A hotel detective, and a bellboy investigate a murder on the premises in which the bellboy is the prime suspect. )

27 Dresses

Deany Bean is Dead

Madeline: Lost In Paris

Insidious (2010)
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)


I think my favorite of them was Part 2.

AMC didn't have the fourth film available, The Last Key (2018)

Dangerous Game

Don't Go In The House '79 :thumbsup: (A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.)

Why Me?

The Coveted Coat

The Pale Door '20 :thumbsdow (After a train robbery goes bad, two brothers leading a gang of cowboys must survive the night in a ghost town inhabited by a coven of witches.)

Death Wish (2018) on USA-on-Demand :thumbsup:

I liked it as it wasn't a straight-forward remake of Charles Bronson's film.

Directed by Eli Roth.

Trapped Alive '88 :thumbsup: (On Blu; Several escaped prisoners and two hostage women along with a sheriff's deputy find themselves trapped in a mine shaft, where a cannibalistic mutant is hunting them for food.)

One of the characters in the film was named Randolph Carter, obviously named after the character that appeared in several HP Lovecraft stories. In the movie, he says friends at school call him Carter, in some of the Lovecraft stories he's referred to by his last name Carter.

Upgrade (2018) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A man is left paralyzed after being attacked and is later implanted with an experimental chip that gives him his mobility back. He later hears the chip talk to him in his mind and it gives him super-human abilities.

Directed by Leigh Whannell (SAW, Insidious series)

A Day in the Life of Head Keeper in 1954

Tom Horn

The Hexecutioners

Watched these with the wife last night...

The Haunting of M. '79 :thumbsup: (An Eastern European family finds itself haunted by the spirit of a dead suitor.)



Till Death '78 :thumbsup: (A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night, he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her from her coffin. things, of course, are not what they seem.)

Delta Force

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996) on AMC-on-Demand :thumbsup:

The second Tales from the Crypt feature film.

Good Fences

The Invisible Man (2020) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A modern take on H. G. Wells' classic 1897 novel.

One major difference is that the scientist does not actually become invisible; he creates a stealth optical body suit.

Directed by Leigh Whannell.

Tremors: Shrieker Island '20 :thumbsup: (When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.)

This Is 40

HALLOWEEN THEME DVD OF TONIGHT:

SE7EN (1995): Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Roundtree, Richard Schiff, Mark Boone Junior, Michael Massee, Leland Orser, Julie Araskog, John C. McGinley and Hawthorne James.

* David Mills, a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders.

Bride Of Chucky

Village of the Damned (1995) on AMC-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A modernized remake of the 1960 film.

It's notable as being Christopher Reeve's final role before he became paralyzed. I forgot Mark Hamill had a small role in this.

Legend

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

I watch this movie every year on Halloween :)

Carrie (2013) on IFC-on-Demand :thumbsup:

This is the 3rd adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel.

Chloë Grace Moretz said upon accepting the role that she had not seen the prior films and chose not to watch them in order to "make the performance her own".

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Night Of The Creeps '86 :thumbsup:


The Children '80 :thumbsup:


Eyes Of Fire '83 :thumbsup:

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Starring Sean Connery and Jill St. John.

The Snowman (2017) on FXX :thumbsup:

A troubled detective is taunted by a serial killer known as "The Snowman" who builds snowmen near his victims.

This was the first film that I've watched Val Kilmer in since he became ill with throat cancer. It's a shame on what happened to him. :( His voice was dubbed over.

On Halloween we watched :

(The original )Amityville Horror, Night of Dark shadows and Ruby ( a campy old horror movie from 1977) . ;):)

(Re-watched) The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Empire Of The Ants

The Pledge (2001) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A newly retired police detective promises the mother of a murdered child that he will find her killer.

Directed by Sean Penn starring his wife at the time, Robin Wright.

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)

Starring: Peter Sellers and Leight Taylor-Young

Run All Night

Hard Rain

1950s Kitchen Hygiene

Richie Rich (1994)

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) on FXM :thumbsup:

An idealistic defense lawyer finds himself in a tumultuous series of events as he tries to reform the unfair use of plea bargaining to obtain convictions.

Was a rare flop for Denzel Washington.

The Dark Knight Rises

Places In The Heart (1984): Starring Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich and Danny Glover.

* A young woman during the Great Depression in Texas who is forced to take charge of her farm after the death of her husband and is helped by a motley bunch.

Mercury Rising

The Prophecy (1995) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

Some angels became jealous when God created mankind and started a 2nd war in heaven. The Archangel Gabriel appears on Earth in order to obtain the soul of a recently deceased Korean War vet to use in the battle against God's loyal angels.

A detective, who was going to be a priest but doesn't due to terrifying visions, is destined to prevent this.


Was the only film in The Prophecy series to be theatrically released.

Snow Bride

A Grand Day out

Off Your Trolley?

Rat Race and The Brady Bunch Movie

Elevator To The Gallows '58 :thumbsup: (A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.)

Back to the Future again

Olympic Winter Thrills 1948

Mermaids

Silent Comedians

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Treasure of the Templars

The Maid's Room

I watched The Invisible Man, which, yes, I do realize is somewhat of a contradiction.

The Killing Fields (1984): Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich and Athol Fugard.

* The Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg.

The Final Wish (2018) on Showtime-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A young Chicago attorney returns to his hometown after hearing that his father died. He was estranged from his family and childhood friends since trying to make it in the big city.

He discovers an ancient urn among his father's belongings and learns that an evil spirit, a Djinn, resides inside and grants its possessor seven wishes. The possessor loses their soul after all seven wishes are granted.

Similar premise to the Wishmaster films.

Thunderbirds are Go

Rock You Sinners

Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, and Friday the 13th

Chasing Sleep

Outland '81 :thumbsup: (A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.)

Boomerang

Remember (2015) on Showtime-on-Demand :thumbsup:

Two elderly Auschwitz survivors in a nursing home make a pact to track down the fugitive SS officer responsible for their families' murder. One of the survivors is suffering from dementia so his friend, who is on an oxygen tank and can't travel, writes down letters and notes for his friend to follow on their mission.

The old man escapes from the nursing home and goes cross-country in order to find the Nazi fugitive who is now under an assumed name. Since he has dementia he constantly forgets where he is and what he is supposed to do.

This film was very well done and there is an interesting twist to it.

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann '82 :thumbsup: (A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.

Co written by Michael Nesmith.)

Valentino (1977) Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Michelle Phillips, and Leslie Caron.

Synopsis: In this highly fictionalized take on the Hollywood legend, immigrant Rudolph Valentino (Rudolf Nureyev) begins his stay in the United States humbly, working for minimum wage before becoming a New York City gigolo. He then makes his way to California, where his good looks allow him to seduce respected actresses. Eventually, his famous lovers help him become a leading man, and he quickly ascends to stardom. But he cannot escape the media's questions about his past and his sexuality.

There's a Girl in My Soup
(1970) Starring: Peters Sellers and Goldie Hawn

Synopsis: Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) is an egotistical television host who seduces woman at every opportunity. When he meets Marion (Goldie Hawn), an American who has just married a British rock performer named Jimmy (Nicky Henson), he tries to charm her. Although Marion is not impressed by Robert's alluring act, she does agree to go on a trip with him to see the wine country in France. When they return, Robert has fallen in love with Marion, but she still has feelings for Jimmy.

Oh, God (1977) Starring: George Burns, John Denver, and Teri Garr.

Synopsis: Jerry Landers (John Denver), an assistant manager in a supermarket, receives a visit from God (George Burns), who appears in the form of an old man. Reluctant at first, Jerry agrees to spread the word about his visits from the almighty creator of heaven and earth. However, Jerry's wife, Bobbie (Teri Garr), is skeptical, and theologians think Jerry's God is a fake. As Jerry continues to receive visits from God, religious authorities take action and demand that he prove his story.

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
(1978) Starring: Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, and AceFrehley.


Synopsis: A mad scientist (Anthony Zerbe) makes cartoon robots of the rock group (KISS), seen in a California concert.

Darkness Falls

A Symphony of London

Green Harvest

Dr. No, Fargo, Goldfinger, and Half Baked

A Passage To India (1984): Starring Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Victor Banerjee and Roshan Seth.

* Set in the 1920s during the period of the British Raj, this is a story about the interactions of several characters in the fictional city of Chandrapore, namely Dr Aziz, Mrs Moore, Adela Quested, and Cyril Fielding during the exploration themes of racism, imperialism, religion, and the nature of relationships both friendly and marital.

Adventures of Bunny Rabbit

Detachment

The Wizard of Oz

Chaplin (1992) Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw.

Synopsis: Re-creation of the life of comic genius Charlie Chaplin, from his humble beginnings in south London through his early days in British vaudeville, his silent movie career in America and his late masterpieces. His turbulent personal life saw four marriages and an enforced exile from the US - though he returned to receive an honorary Oscar in 1972.

Blood Rage '87 :thumbsup: ( As kids, Todd is institutionalized for a murder whilst his twin goes free. 10 years later, on Thanksgiving, Todd escapes and a killing spree begins in his neighborhood.)

Belushi '20 on Showtime On Demand

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14 Cameras

Tales from the Hood 3 (2020) on Syfy-on-Demand :thumbsup:

An old man (Tony Todd) is escorting a young girl through a cemetery avoiding an unseen evil force as she tells him various stories as a distraction:



Ruby Gates

A young real estate developer is trying to get the last family out of an apt. building still insisted on staying. He hires an arsonist to "burn them out", but the family winds up getting killed. He is then haunted by their vengeful spirits.



The Bunker

A crazed white supremacist is holed up in a bunker in a stand off with mysterious individuals outside his property line.



Operatic

An elderly African-American opera singer spends her days watching the footage of her one and only performance as the lead role in 'Carmen'. The lead and understudy were both sick and the company was desperate, so they had her take the lead role. This was the 50's and it didn't go over well w/ the audience and they demanded refunds and her opera career was done.

An aspiring young singer is hired to care for her and she realizes that not is all as it seems, especially as the elderly lady requests her "frequent blood transfusions".




Dope Kicks

A petty thief mugs an old lady and her daughter, a voodoo priestess, curses him to feel the pain and suffering of all of his victims. He later unknowingly kills a guy when knocking him out for his expensive sneakers.

Since his latest victim died he is cursed to feel his body die as he frequently loses his bodily functions, has rigor mortis and rotting flesh, and omits unpleasant smells.

Dangerous Liaisons

13 Cameras

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

The Jazz Singer (1980) Starring: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz.

Synopsis: Jess Robin (Neil Diamond) dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch (Laurence Olivier), forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba (Franklin Ajaye), Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox (Paul Nicholas) record one of his songs. Defying both his father and his wife, Jess leaves New York to pursue his dreams.

Haven't seen these since the 80s/early 90s...

King Solomon's Mines '85 :thumbsup: (Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, John Rhys-Davies, Herbert Lom)


Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold '86 :thumbsup: (Allan Quatermain once again teams up with Jesse Huston where the discovery of a mysterious old gold piece sends Quatermain looking for his long-lost brother, missing in the wilds of Africa after seeking a lost white race.

Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones. Robert Donner, Henry Silva

Cassandra Peterson has a non-speaking role as an evil priestess.)

The Invisible Man

Underwater (2020) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A handful of survivors at an underwater drilling facility try to escape as they are attacked by unknown underwater creatures.

It was completed in 2017, but wasn't released until Jan. 2020 since Disney purchased 20th Century Fox. It was the last film released under that name as it was changed to 20th Century Studios a week after its release.

Emma

Brahms: The Boy II (2020) on Showtime-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A mother and her young son survive a home invasion and are left severely traumatized as the boy now refuses to speak at all. The parents decide they need a change of scenery and move to the guesthouse of the now abandoned Heelshire mansion unaware of what had occurred there.

The boy finds the doll, Brahms, buried in the woods and forms a weird bond with it as he claims the doll is talking to him and "wants to be with him forever."

Who'll Stop The Rain?

Open 24 Hours

Once Bitten

Amadeus (1984): Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones and Charles Kay.

* Set in Vienna, Austria during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, described as "fantasia on the theme of Mozart and Salieri", that follows a fictional rivalry between Mozart and Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II.

The Organization

Tully

Turistas (2006) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A group of stranded American and European tourists in Brazil befriend each other after their bus crashes.

They wind up at an isolated beach bar that's used to lure in foreigners for organ trafficking.

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Tell It to the Bees (2018) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

Taking place in 1950's rural Scotland, the town doctor falls in love with a young mother and become ostracized.

Based on the 2009 novel by Fiona Shaw.

Don't Run

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

The Boy (2015) on Syfy-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A single dad and his young son operate an isolated run-down motel. The boy, pretty much bored with his life, has become fascinated with death.

The Boy (2015) on Syfy-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A single dad and his young son operate an isolated run-down motel. The boy, pretty much bored with his life, has become fascinated with death.

I really liked this one. Was supposed to be the first movie of a trilogy that sadly never went beyond this one. This was from Elijah Wood's production company, and the main kid from this played one of the infected kids in Cooties which starred both Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson.

I really liked this one. Was supposed to be the first movie of a trilogy that sadly never went beyond this one. This was from Elijah Wood's production company, and the main kid from this played one of the infected kids in Cooties which starred both Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson.

Almost every time I ask someone about The Boy they always assume I mean the 2016 one. This one is criminally underrated.

Almost every time I ask someone about The Boy they always assume I mean the 2016 one. This one is criminally underrated.

Same here.

This has one of the best child performances I've seen in a film.

Hollywoodland

Scrubbers '82 :thumbsup: (Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.)

Home Alone

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) on TCM-on-Demand :thumbsup:

An unorthodox preacher leads a handful of survivors to safety through a capsized luxury ocean liner.

I didn't realize how built Ernest Borgnine was - he was 55 in this.

Toy Story (1995): Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris and Erik von Detten.

National Lampoon's European Vacation

Haven't seen this since the 80s, this was one of my favorite films as a kid.

They Call Me Bruce '82 :thumbsup: (A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.)

Black Butterfly

Up The Academy '80 :thumbsup: (Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.)

Ralph Macchio's film debut.

Mad Magazine was hoping for the same success Nation Lampoon saw with Animal House, but after seeing the end result, Mad Magazine had their name and anything associated with them removed from the home release versions, these were eventually restored for the DVD release.

Actor Ron Leibman had his name removed before the film was released.

We see live action version of Alfred E Neuman at the beginning and end of the film, Rick Baker designed the mask.

Toy Story 2 (1999): Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Estelle Harris, Wayne Knight, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Jodi Benson, Jonathan Harris, Joe Ranft, Jeff Pidgeon and Andrew Stanton.

The Christmas Chronicles 2 on Netflix. I'm about half-way through it.

As Time Goes by

Who were You with Last Night?

Green Zone

Brewster's Millions '85 :thumbsup: (A minor league baseball player has to spend $30 million in thirty days, in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity or tell anyone about the deal.)

7 Seconds

The Equalizer 2 (2018) on FX-on-Demand :thumbsup:

Blade: Trinity

Black Christmas '74 :thumbsup: (During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.)

Hubie Halloween

Hubie Halloween

My daughter watched this. She said she could barely understand what Sandler was saying through most of the movie.

Gator

A Christmas Horror Story '15 :thumbsup: (Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.)

Switchback

Sixteen Candles (1984): Starring 16-year-old Molly Ringwald, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry and Anthony Michael Hall.

A Bad Moms Christmas

Deluge (1933)

Bite The Bullet (1975)

Dinner Ladies and School Safety in the 70s with Bernard Cribbins

Song Hits on Parade

Toy Story 3 (2010): Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, Blake Clark, Jeff Pidgeon, Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton Jodi Benson and John Morris.

Against the Wall (1994) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A partially fictionalized account of the 1971 Attica Prison Riot.

The Sound Of Music

When the Bough Breaks (1994)

Amelia (2009)

His House '20 :thumbsup: (A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.)

Just Between Friends

The Bells of St. Mary (1945)

Dreamgirls (2006)

Toy Story 4 (2019): Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Madeleine McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan and Joan Cusack.

Bombshell (2019) on Hulu :thumbsup:

A partially fictionalized account of the outing of Roger Ailes at Fox News by the female staffers accusing him of sexual harassment.

It won the Academy Award for Best Make-up and Hair Styling and it was well deserved since the cast actually looked like the people they were portraying, even if they were only in one scene.

Haven't seen these since the 80s/early 90s...

King Solomon's Mines '85 :thumbsup:


Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold '86 :thumbsup:


It seems that the '80s had all of these Indiana Jones' clones, like this and Michael Douglas' Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile to same some...

Chuck Norris did Firewalker, which also featured John Rhys-Davies.

Scrooge

Missing Link (2019): Starring Zach Galifianakis, Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Fry, Timothy Olyphant, Emma Thompson, Amrita Acharia, Matt Lucas, Ching Valdes-Aran, David Walliams, Humphrey Ker, Adam Godley, Neil Dickson, Ian Ruskin, Matthew Wolf, Darren Richardson, Alan Shearman, Jack Blessing and Richard Miro.

Run (2020) on Hulu :thumbsup:

A home-schooled teenager with a lot of chronic medical issues begins to suspect that her mother is keeping dark secrets from her and sabotaging her plans to go away to college.

It seems that the '80s had all of these Indiana Jones' clones, like this and Michael Douglas' Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile to same some...

Chuck Norris did Firewalker, which also featured John Rhys-Davies.


And I watched as many as I could back then haha


Even though King Solomon's Mine is based on the 1885 book, the first movie especially borrows heavily from Raiders and Temple Of Doom, right down to a similar truck chase scene.

There was also The Further Adventures Of Tennessee Buck with David Keith and Kathy Shower (who was the main reason to watch this one)

Fred Olen Ray's The Tomb

Jane And The Lost City Of Gold

Australia's Race For The Yankee Zephyr and Sky Pirates

Mexico's Treasure Of The Amazon

Italy's Treasure Of The Four Crowns

My wife, daughter, and I splurged on this one last night.

Freaky '20 :thumbsup: (After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.)

A slasher spin on the Freaky Friday/body-swap sub-genre.

Vince Vaughn was very funny.

Christmas in Connecticut

Valley of the Dragons

The Greatest Showman (2017) on Disney+ :thumbsup:

Musical inspired by P. T. Barnum's creation of Barnum's American Museum and circus.

The Babysitter's Seduction

I remember watching this with my parents when it premiered on HBO in 1985.

Fortress '85 :thumbsup: (An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.)

Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie (2017) on Hulu :thumbsup:

Arnold finally finds out what happened to his parents.

Terror Train '80 :thumbsup: (Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.)

Public Enemies, Black Mass, and Goodfellas

Where The Heart Is (2000): Starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Keith David, and Sally Field.

* Both actresses Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd appeared in both this movie and Heat (1995).

Money Monster (2016) on FXM :thumbsup:

A New York stock market TV personality is held hostage live from his studio by a bankrupt viewer who lost his money after following his advice.

Directed by Jodie Foster.

Double Platinum

Sisters (2015): Starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, John Cena, John Leguizamo and Dianne Wiest.

* Both actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appeared in this movie, Baby Mama (2008) and Mean Girls (2004), catch them as hosts again of this upcoming Golden Globes awards.
* Ike Barinholtz is the former supporting Mindy Project castmember.

Memories of Me

Skyscraper (2018) on FXM :thumbsup:

A former FBI agent, who got injured on the job and now works as a private security consultant, must rescue his family from a newly built Hong Kong skyscraper, the tallest in the world, after it is taken over by terrorists and set on fire.

It was good seeing Neve Campbell in something more recent, not related to SCREAM.

Big Daddy (1999) on Hulu :thumbsup:

I think it's one of Adam Sandler's best.

2 Bedroom 1 Bath

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)

Summer School (1987)

The Monkey's Paw (2013) on Syfy-on-Demand :thumbsup:

A modernized version of the classic 1902 short story - a factory worker is given the monkey's paw, a supernatural object that grants its possessor three wishes.

He accidentally kills his friend in a car accident and he wishes that his friend "was still alive". The friend comes back to life in a soulless body and hates it.

Kingpin (1996)

Venom (2018) on FX :thumbsup:

An investigative journalist is fired after he tries to expose the CEO of a bio-engineering corporation on its unethical human experimentation when he goes off-course during a scheduled interview. He is later contacted by one of the employees who wants to expose what's going on and she sneaks him into the lab.

He is accidentally exposed to an alien species that uses human bodies as hosts and begins to exhibit strange and super-human abilities.




It was originally planned on being a spin-off to the Spider-Man franchise after the character first appeared in Spider-Man 3 (2007). It got delayed and then they tried to use Venom in the MCU Spider-Man film, Homecoming (2017), but it didn't happen.

Then, similar to 2019's Joker, it was decided to make Venom its own entity. A sequel, Let There Be Carnage, is scheduled for June 2021 with Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kasady / Carnage.

Deadpool (2016) on FXM / Deadpool 2 (2018) on FX

Girl, Interrupted

And the Band Played On (1993) on HBO-on-Demand :thumbsup:

An HBO telefilm, based on Randy Shilts 1987 book, on epidemiologist Don Francis' experiences during the 1980's HIV/AIDS outbreak.

It won the Emmy for Outstanding Made-for-TV Film and Outstanding Casting for Mini-Series or Special.

Quantum Of Solace (2008)

Watched this with my daughter last night.

Shadow In The Cloud '20 :thumbsup: (On a stormy night during World War II, a female pilot with top secret cargo talks her way on board a bomber plane about to take-off. The crass all-male crew reluctantly agrees, but their suspicions about her identity and the mysterious cargo quickly grow. Just then a shadow appears in the clouds - was it the incoming Japanese fleet? Or caused by some other sinister stowaway?)

Mulberry Street

RoboCop ('87)

Mulan (2020) on Disney+ :thumbsup:

Disney's live-action adaptation of the 1998 animated film. I can see how this didn't appeal to children as it was a serious war epic and they cut out Mushu the talking dragon.

The film does feature some subtle references to the animated film. Ming-Na Wen, who voiced Mulan in the animated film, cameos as a palace aide introducing Mulan to the Emperor.