Fear Island

I watched this movie and did not think it would be any good. It started with a girl in a hospital being held down by the Police. So I was intrigue wondering this might be something. The movie had its twists and turns. It is a good mystery 
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Five students on spring break meet at a secluded island cabin for aweekend getaway. After a night of music, drinking and getting re-acquainted the five friends are shocked to find the cabin's caretaker murdered and the only boat off the island gone. Stranded on the island they become the prey of a mysterious killer who seems bent on revenge for something the friends have done. They must defend themselves and find their tormentor or face death one by one.

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I really enjoyed the delivery of this movie.  We begin with the lone survivor of the island, Jenna (Haylie Duff), being found, and then interrogated by Detective Armory (Martin Cummings) and monitored by a psychiatrist, Dr. Jamie Chalice (Anne Marie DeLuise).  The cop believes Jenna only survived because she is the murderer, and the Dr. believes the opposite.  Jenna can’t remember what happened and slowly recounts the story as she remembers it.  So we alternate back and forth between what happened on the island and the scenes in the hospital/police station.

On the island, stupid stuff happens, they find a young girl, Megan (Lucy Hale) was a stowaway on their boat, they don’t care because she’s cute, they party, blah blah blah.  Then the dog disappears.  Oh no!  They look for it, can’t find it, because the islands caretaker, Keith (Jim Thorburn) took it.  He then gets killed.  And we never see the dog again.  We never hear what happened to the dog.  Big empty gaping plot hole that could have been easily fixed but just having the dog run outside or something at a later scene.  But whatever.

Next morning, dumb teens notice he’s dead, and then they do the normal “Let’s separate ourselves into stupid groups! And then further separate from our groups!”  So another girl dies.  She gets drowned in a boiling hot hot tub.  First off, you can clearly see her taking breaths with the loads of air room after the cover is put over it.  Then, I’ve never seen a hot tub with a mat for a top that you can’t move or push up, even if it’s locked down.  And no normal hot tub should get hot enough to instantly scald and burn you.  Whatever.  It was hilarious to watch though (yes, I’m sadistic, I guess).

At some point after this, some crazy person is shooting a nail gun into the house.  Randomly.  Whatever.  One guy gets hit.  Then later he disappears.  And they find him the next day (I think) buried alive.  It was boring and I zoned out.

Next guy dies in my favorite death ever.  He (for some reason) decides to look for the killer…. in thekitchen cabinets.  Not like a pantry, I mean the above the sink type cabinets where pots, pans, food items, etc. go.  So he opens one… and a full-grown rattlesnake lunges out and sinks its teeth into his chest.  It doesn’t just bite him, it’s completely stuck in his chest.  Best. Death. Ever.  This was the part where I started texting people about the hilarious scene they needed to go watch on netflix.  It was gold.

Then ok more stuff happens and we’re revealed the twist!  The two guys had sex with a girl last year, somehow she died (never clear whether they actually did it or she actually was drunk and hit her head).  Either way, they buried her.  Now Megan, the little stowaway, is revealed to be her sister and is seaking revenge.  She tries to kill Jenna, but Jenna kills her and that’s how she lived. Woo.  Anyone who didn’t see that twist coming deserves a nice slap in the face.

Now back at the police station, we’ve seen the cop and the psychiatrist slowly shift opinions.  The cop originally thinks Jenna is guilty, then at the end believes her.  The psychiatrist thinks she’s innocent, but sees major problems with Jenna’s story by the end.  At this point, you should have figured out the second twist.  Let me put it in actress names to make more sense – Haylie Duff, was telling the story AS Jenna… but it’s revealed that she is really Megan, the stowaway sister who did it all.  So yes, Megan was doing the killings, but Haylie Duff was the one doing it, not small brunette Lucy Hale.  Which, I’m fine with.  Except for one piece.  Haylie Duff looks like she could be a college student.  Lucy Hale LOOKS super young.  At one point, a guy tries to get with “Megan” on the island, as Lucy Hale.  He finds out she’s 15, and won’t.  That’s believable if it’s the Lucy Hale actress, but as the Haylie Duff character, no.  So she either made that up, or another plot hole.  But whatever, I’m over thinking it.  Haylie Duff did well in this role, I thought.

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The Final Cut

Well Robbin Williams has done a Thriller Sci-fi movie that gets deep and Thrill you.

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First-time filmmaker Omar Naim wrote and directed the sci-fi drama The Final Cut. Set in the near future, the story concerns a device implanted in the body that is capable of recording a person's entire life. Once it is extracted from the body after death, the footage can be played back on a screen in the form of "rememories." Robin Williams plays Alan Hakman, an editor who cuts together the footage to make pleasant movies for funerals. Tormented by his job and his own memories, Alan also has atroubled romantic relationship with bookseller Delila (Mira Sorvino). While looking through footage for his next project, Alan discovers a man whom he believes is from his own past. Meanwhile, former editor Fletcher (James Caviezel) wants the footage for his own purposes. The Final Cut was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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Storyline

The story is set in a world where implanted microchips can record all moments of an individual's life. The chips are removed upon death so the images can be edited into something of a highlight reel for loved ones who want to remember the deceased. Caviezel portrays the leader of the organization that opposes this technology's development.Written by Bubba

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The Originals

The Originals The CW's new Vampire Show

Orleans will be ruled by THE ORIGINALS once again. The series stars Joseph Morgan (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Immortals”) as Klaus, Daniel Gillies (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Saving Hope”) as Elijah, Claire Holt (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Pretty Little Liars”) as Rebekah, Phoebe Tonkin (“The Vampire Diaries,” “The Secret Circle”) as Hayley, Charles Michael Davis (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Switched at Birth”) as Marcel, Daniella Pineda (“The Fitzgerald Family Christmas,” “Homeland”) as Sophie, Leah Pipes (“The Deep End,” “Sorority Row”) as Cami and Danielle Campbell (“Starstruck,” “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection”) as Davina. THE ORIGINALS is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with My So-Called Company, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios. Julie Plec (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl”) and Gina Girolamo (“The Lying Game”) are executive producers. Plec wrote the pilot episode, which was directed by Chris Grismer (“The Vampire Diaries”).

Well The Originals is a new Vampire Show on the CW the Pilot is on Hulu it was fun teen crush actors.
It was fun to watch and see how they define Vampires. No more only Dark vampire like the original Going to Bram Stroker and to me Anne Rice. Original Vampires.

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2006 The Deal

This Was a Good family Action movie. A good mother is tricked to think her loved husband and one daughter were Killed. She finds out its a a set up. Pissed off mother going for her daughter. you know Hollywood pissed off mothers are going to get there way.

Laura (Penelope Ann Miller) loses her family in a tragic fire while living in Spain. Just as she prepares to return home to the States, a member of the American embassy (Henry Thomas) provides proof that it wasn't an accident. Laura decides to stay and uncover the truth about her family's death, a decision which soon places her own life in jeopardy as she becomes embroiled in murder, stolen diamonds, cover-ups, and the Colombian mob.

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The Helpers(2012)

I say if you like Saw's gore or Phycho thrill not sure why or what is going on. You would like this movie.


Rotten Tomatoes review

motel-set torture shocker The Helpers goes efficiently enough through the routines it borrows from Psycho, Vacancy, Wrong Turn and Saw, without ever really finding its own voice.


Seven friends from Sacramento California all decide to go on a documented trip to Las Vegas. All seems fun until they hit a detour/road block. A couple hours of lost driving later, both of the back tires on the truck are blown out! After some moments of confusion and arguing, the gang comes up with the plan that all the girls will stay inside the truck while all the guys walk down the road to find HELP. A couple miles down the road, the guys find a little gas station Diner/Motel, run by the mostfriendly, polite and "helpful" people. It appears that their problems are solved, but boy are they wrong! When convinced by "The Helpers" to stay overnight, the friends all wake up in their rooms to a new kind of gruesome and bloody terror! (c) Official Site

IMDb review

Seven friends on a road trip to Las Vegas break down near a rest-stop motel, where they encounter a seemingly helpful group of people. Convinced to stay overnight, the friends wake up in their rooms to a gruesome and bloody terror.

Director:

 Chris Stokes

Stars:

 Kristen Quintrall, Denyce Lawton, Christopher Jones| See full cast and crew

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Tommy

Ok if you havent seen the Who's Rock Musical you have a sheltered Life. It may be corny at times it has good meaning for its age. Do we all know the songs.It is on Crackle

Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother, Nora (Ann-Margret), and stepfather Frank (Oliver Reed) take him to see a specialist (Jack Nicholson) but Tommy is apparently a hopeless case. That is, until Tommy discovers that "he sure plays a mean

pinball." Tommy gains fame when he defeats the Pinball Wizard (Elton John) for the world championship. As a result, Tommy becomes such a celebrity that he even founds his own religious cult. But his fans begin to commercialize his fame, while Tommy wants to stick to the straight and narrow. When Tommy wants to end the commercialization of his message, his supporters accuse him of being hypocritical and turn on him. Ann-Margret, with a slinky red dress slit way up the side, was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, losing out to Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

NY Times Review

Tommy (1975)

Film::'Tommy,' The Who's Rock Saga

By VINCENT CANBY

Published: March 20, 1975

Ken Russell makes movies the way another man might design a ride through a funhouse. He deals in headlong but harmless plunges from giddy heights, abrupt changes of pace, joke turns, anachronistic visual effects, ghouls that pop out of the dark, all accompanied by sound of a force to loosen one's most firmly rooted back teeth.
The method is spectacular but it has seemed wickedly foolish in movies like "The Music Lovers" (about Tchaikovsky), "The Savage Messiah" (about Gaudier-Brzeska) and "The Devils" (an adaptation of Huxley's "The Devils of Loudun"). Now at long last the man and his method have found a nearly perfect match in subject matter, "Tommy," The Who's rock opera written by guitarist-composer Pete Townshend.
"Tommy" can take being fiddled with, and Mr. Russell's "Tommy" virtually explodes with excitement on the screen. A lot of it is not quite the profound social commentary it pretends to be, but that's beside the point of the fun. "Tommy," which opened yesterday at the Ziegfeld Theater, is mad, funny, irreverent, passionately overproduced, very very loud and full of the kind of magnificent physical energy that usually wrecks a movie by calling attention to performance.
"Tommy" is a solemn tale that must not be taken too seriously. It's an elaborate put-on about the terrible victimization of a small boy who is traumatized deaf, dumb and blind when he sees his stepfather murder his real father. Young Tommy then goes on to become the pinball champ of the world and, eventually, after he miraculously regains his senses, the new messiah who preaches salvation through pinball playing.
Mr. Russell's style, which had the effect of literalizing the artistic impulse in "The Music Lovers" and "The Savage Messiah," seems to liberate Mr. Townshend's rock score and lyrics, which are sometimes in embarrassingly dead earnest.
"Tommy" is composed of excesses. Bad jokes or heavy-handed satire are redeemed by everyone—director, production designer, orchestrators, actors—going too far, which is, after all, what the original "Tommy" is all about: a world inhabited by people too jaded to react to anything but overdoses.
The performers are extravagantly fine, particularly Ann-Margret who, as Tommy's mother, ages 20 years in the course of the film (largely through the increased application of blue eye shadow) and sings and dances as if the fate of Western civilization depended upon it. She is tough, vulgar, witty and game. The Who's lead singer, Roger Daltrey, plays the grown-up Tommy with a drive that matches Ann-Margret's while successfully simulating show biz innocence. Oliver Reed is, correctly, almost a cartoon as the opportunistic stepdad. He also sings quite nicely.
The movie, which has the structure of a vaudeville show, is laced together with specialty bits, some of which are simply jokes (Jack Nicholson playing a vacuous Harley Street medical specialist) and some of which are production numbers as riveting as rock can be at its best. These include a sequence in which Tina Turner shows up as The Acid Queen who attempts to cure the catatonic Tommy, and others with Elton John, as the Pinball Wizard defeated by Tommy, and Eric Clapton, as the Preacher who presides over a Lourdes-like shrine devoted to the healing powers of St. Marilyn (Monroe).
As I said, it's all fairly excessive and far from subtle, but in this case good taste would have been wildly inappropriate and a fearful drag.

The Cast
TOMMY, directed by Ken Russell; screenplay by Mr. Russell, inspired by the rock opera by Pete Townshend; additional musical material by John Entwistle and Keith Moon; produced by Robert Sligwood and Mr. Russell; executive producers, Beryl Vertue and Christopher Slamp; music director, Mr. Townshend; directors of photography, Dick Bush and Ronnie Taylor; editor, Stuart Baird; distributed by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 110 minutes. At the Ziegfeld Theater, 54th Street west of the Avenue of the Americas. This film has been rated PG.
Nora Walker . . . . . Ann-Margret
Frank Hobbs . . . . . Oliver Reed
Tommy . . . . . Roger Daltrey
Pinball Wizard . . . . . Elton John
Preacher . . . . . Eric Clapton
Uncle Ernie . . . . . Keith Moon
Specialist . . . . . Jack Nicholson
Group-Capt. Walker . . . . . Robert Powell
Cousin Kevin . . . . . Paul Nicholas
Acid Queen . . . . . Tina Turner
Young Tommy . . . . . Barry Winch
Priest . . . . . Arthur Brown
Sally Simpson . . . . . Victoria Russel
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The Butcher's Wife

I found this movie quite Good. For a comedic romance movie. Funny how Demi Moore in her prime did this silly funny movie. it has a deeper meaning to the whole film. I say it worth a watch. I saw it on NetFlix
Variety said this review

A gentle romantic comedy with a distinct 1940s flavor, The Butcher’s Wife is blessed with a fine cast working from a storybook plot. The unpretentious and simple film has a ‘make ‘em weep like they used to’ quality. Its belief in modern-day magic (in a sense similar to Moonstruck) softens an inherent predictability dictating that all loose ends be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction in 100 minutes.

Demi Moore plays a country clairvoyant whose visions of romance are answered in the surprising form of a New York butcher (George Dzundza) whom she marries immediately, returning with him to his neighborhood. Her visions immediately start to touch all those who cross her path, in the process increasingly nettling the local psychologist (Jeff Daniels), whose patients seem to need him far less as they bathe in the comfort of Moore’s future gazing.

Those who encounter Moore include the shrink’s girlfriend (Margaret Colin), a dowdy patient (Mary Steenburgen) with aspirations to sing the blues, and lesbian friend (Frances McDormand), who’s told romance waits just around the corner.

Helmer Terry Hughes, a TV director, and first-time screenwriters bring a fresh, uncynical eye to familiar terrain. Pic’s only real revelation is Steenburgen, not for her considerable acting skills, but for her fine voice in a trio of bluesy ballads.

The NY times Review

A mermaid is a welcome sight in Manhattan. She really stands out in a crowd. Even a mermaid of the two-legged variety, like the beautiful sea-sprite played by Demi Moore in "The Butcher's Wife," is a wonder, especially if she is willing to hand out free advice to every lovelorn person she meets. There are many such people in this new-age romantic comedy, and all are enchanted by sweet, guileless Marina (Ms. Moore), with her long, flowing locks and her magical powers. Audiences will be, too.

Ordinarily a lot more hard-boiled, Ms. Moore comfortably inhabits the role of a country clairvoyant from a tiny island off the North Carolina coast. This place is presented as a rustic paradise in the film's swift, confidently staged prologue, a sequence filled with omens that persuade Marina she must fall in love with a fisherman who appears on her shores. "My Adonis, my Poseidon -- no, my Zeus!" she declares to the plump, understandably perplexed Leo Lemke (George Dzundza), who happens to be a butcher from New York City. They are married that very same day and Marina immediately follows Leo home to the kind of safe, clean, neighborly Greenwich Village block that is every bit as fanciful as Marina's original home.

"What a leap I made, from my little island to his!" Marina exclaims as the film takes its first look at New York. But the transition proves to be less drastic than it could have been, since Marina retains some of her country habits, like walking barefoot and wandering around at night in a diaphanous gown. Installed in the butcher shop as her husband's partner, she immediately begins to have an effect on the neighborhood by handing out free meat to nice people, having orders prepared before anyone asks for them, and seeming to know an awful lot about the problems of everyone who comes in.

This last gift of Marina's poses particular problems for Dr. Alex Tremor (Jeff Daniels), the local psychiatrist, and such a confirmed rationalist that he wears a T-shirt quoting Plato. Dr. Tremor feels his practice slipping away under Marina's more soothing influence, and he is clearly worried. "A woman as intelligent and insightful as you doesn't need a clairvoyant to tell her how to live her life," he tells the frumpy Stella (Mary Steenburgen), a schoolmarm who has just been encouraged by Marina to try to sing like Bessie Smith. "That's why we're here." But Stella starts singing all the same.

"The Butcher's Wife," written by Ezra Litwak and Marjorie Schwartz and directed by Terry Hughes (one of whose principal credits is directing "The Golden Girls" on television), eventually bogs down in plot mechanics once Marina has launched her lonely neighbors on their searches for one another. Too much of the film is spent matching up lovers who must almost literally get their stars uncrossed in order to find happiness. But a lot of it is enjoyably buoyant, even when it's several shades too broad. The delicately funny Ms. Steenburgen -- who sings very nicely, incidentally, once she finally takes off those glasses and puts that white camellia in her hair -- should not have had to grapple with an exaggerated New York accent to manage this role.

The film's earnestness about Marina's magical abilities is such that its press kit includes a four-page interview with the real psychic who helped to coach Ms. Moore. But none of that translates into anything overbearing, and most of the film sustains a light comic tone. Mr. Daniels, as the doctor who is alternately exasperated and entranced by Marina, makes himself comically and convincingly frazzled in her presence.

Mr. Dzundza is also good, especially when beaming at Ms. Steenburgen (Leo keeps a framed photo of Bessie Smith in his apartment and he, too, loves the blues). Christopher Durang appears briefly as a psychiatric patient, and in the background of one scene gets to do what many such patients have doubtless dreamed of: furtively trying on the decorative tribal mask that hangs on the doctor's wall.

Frances McDormand has some nice moments as a clothing store proprietor who has never seen a customer like the barefoot Marina with her butcher's apron and her beatific smile. Ms. Moore herself, speaking in a thick twang and wearing a wig that risks looking ridiculous, seems so utterly sure of her character that her confidence is contagious. The film gets a lot further on sheer self-assurance than on either sense or style.

"The Butcher's Wife" is helped visually by Frank Tidy's lively cinematography, Charles Rosen's cosy production design, Theadora Van Runkle's soft, flowing costumes and Bald Head Island, N.C., a place that shares Marina's magical glow.

"The Butcher's Wife" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes sexual references and mild profanity. The Butcher's Wife

Directed by Terry Hughes; written by Ezra Litwak and Marjorie Schwartz; director of photography, Frank Tidy; edited by Don Cambern; music by Michael Gore; production designer, Charles Rosen; produced by Wallis Nicita and Lauren Lloyd; released by Paramount Pictures. Running time: 104 minutes. This film is rated PG-13. Marina . . . Demi Moore Alex . . . Jeff Daniels Leo . . . George Dzundza Stella . . . Mary Steenburgen Grace . . . Frances McDormand Mr. Liddle . . . Christopher Durang

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