The Night of the Hunter

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Preacher Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum)learns that his cellmate Ben Harper (Peter Graves)has $10,000.00 on his property in a small town. When Powell is released he charms his way into the hearts of the towns people and into Ben's widow (Shelley Winters). Powell is desperate for the money and the only thing that stands in his way are the widow's children.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) crash lands on a strange planet. Upon arrival he meets Nova and learns that Col. Taylor is on this strange planet. He ventures into Ape City where he learns that Taylor is in the Forbidden Zone where mutants with telekinetic powers live. Meanwhile the apes learn that a special type of human are living in the Forbidden Zone and proceed to wage war on the mutants.

The Other F Word

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

As a child you question who your parents are and why they act the way they do. But what if your dad happens to be covered in tattoos from head to toe and his moral values are not the same as everyone elses? What if your dad belongs in a punk rock band? Join Jim Lindberg of Pennywise, Lars Fredrickson of Rancid, Fat Mike of NOFX and Me First and The Gimmie Gimmies, Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Wanted, Duane Peters of U.S. Bombs, Mark Hopus of blink 182, Ron Reyes of Black Flag and many more as they discuss how parenthood has changed their outlook on life.

The Walking Dead: The Game- Part 1- A New Day

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Lee Everett may or may not be a murderer but he is given a second chance due to the zombie apocalypse. As you fight for survival you will have to make choices in order to make friends and enemies along the way. Remember some decisions could mean certain death for some. So choose your actions wisely because you never know who you will need on your side.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) crash lands on a strange planet light years from his own. He discovers that the dominant species on the planet are talking apes who do experiments on humans and use them for sport. Now he is in a fight for survival as he tries to learn where he is and how this has happened to the human species.

The Hunter (2011)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

A mercenary is sent to Tasmania to track down the last Tasmanian tiger and obtain its genetic material.

Journey

By Mr. Tropnevad
Summary

Your character wakes up alone and surrounded by miles of desert and you soon discover a mountaintop is your goal. Your passage through the desert will not be an easy one. You will travel through ruins, caves, and environmental challenges.

The Raid: Redemption

Summary

A SWAT team enters an apartment building to hunt down a drug lord and find themselves in a bad situation. Fighting their way through brutal gang members, they have to make a choice: Should they leave the job they weren’t prepared for, or fight their way to the top and stop the drug kingpin?

Rollerball (2002)

By Zentilack

Summary

An adrenaline junkie really wants to play professional hockey, but an old friend tells him that he can be a big name in a different sport. It's not long after he becomes a Rollerball star, though, that he realizes that he's playing a dangerous game.

Costume Quest

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

In Costume Quest you play a child (boy or girl) that is trick-or-treating when a monster kidnaps the sibling that you do not choose to play. As one of the siblings you must travel through a neighborhood, mall, and a fair collecting costume items, candy, and companions to rescue your sibling and send the monsters back to their home dimension.

The Host (2006)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

A young girl is snatched away from her father by an unknown creature that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul. Her family sets out to retrieve the girl from the monster and not even the government or the creature will stop them from bringing the young girl home.

The Guard

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Irish cop Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) teams up with uptight FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to track down a gang of international drug smugglers.

Dear Esther

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Dear Esther is a ghost story told in a way that most game players have never seen before. Instead of using traditional game play elements the focus is on exploration and the mystery of the island,who you are, and why are you there.

Mr. Tropnevad will be reviewing video games

By Mr.Tropnevad

For those that don’t know me, I am an amateur game designer. To get down to specifics I am a Level Designer and for those of you who don’t know what that is I can explain in one sentence. A level designer makes the world your character is in. The artists give the level designer the art to use and programmers are the ones that make sure the game runs. Programmers used to do all of the programming in the game, but now level designers are doing another form of programming called scripting which makes things happen in the game such as enemies move, physics, and so forth. Don’t misunderstand me though, programmers still do all of that stuff, too.

The Devil's Double

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) has been given an offer he can’t refuse from Saddam Hussein’s son Uday Hussein (Dominic Cooper). Latif must study every action by Uday in order to become his exact double. While some Iraqis would be honored to have this opportunity Latif becomes fed up with Uday’s immoral lifestyle.

Slaughter

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Former Green Beret, Slaughter (Jim Brown) wants to seek revenge on the mob for killing his parents. While looking for information on the killers the Feds contact him and inform him that the mobsters are in Mexico. Now with help from the Feds, Slaughter travels to Mexico to get his revenge and he will let nothing stand in his way.

9th Company

By Zentilack

Summary

A group of men enlist into the Soviet Army and are shipped off to Afghanistan during the closing year of the war.  The young men bond and grow into soldiers through hard work and sweat, but it is gunsmoke and blood that makes them the heroes of 9th Company.

The Apartment (1960)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is an office worker who loans his apartment to his philandering superiors in exchange for a serious of promotions. When head of the company, J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) asks for the key to take his mistress there things start to heat up because unbeknownst to Baxter they are both in love with Fran (Shirley MacLaine) the elevator girl. Now Baxter must choose between losing his job as the executive or losing the girl.

The Secret of My Success

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Kansas farm boy Brantley (Michael J. Fox) moves to New York City with intentions on moving up the corporate ladder. Brantley gets a job in his uncle’s large corporation’s mailroom. Instead of working his way up the old fashion way he discovers an empty executive’s office and changes his name to Carlton Whitfield and begins to impress a high ranking female executive. To make matters worse his oversexed aunt gets mixed up with Brantley and now he finds himself juggling two jobs, two identities and two women.

Boss Nigger

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Two black bounty hunters, Boss (Fred Williamson) and Amos (D’Uville Martin) arrive in a small town to collect a bounty on a white man. Discovering that the town has no sheriff they take the position and the white townsfolk began to protest. After they take over the role of sheriff, gangster Jed (William Smith) kidnaps a local woman and now Boss and Amos have to show the townspeople that they are not black devils and save the woman.

Sheba, Baby

She never looks like this in the movie.

By Zentilack

Summary

After learning that her father is being pressured to sell his business, private investigator Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) comes home to Louisville to help.  When the local crime boss crosses the line, however, Sheba starts shooting, and she's not gonna stop until the bad guys stop moving.

Scarface (1932)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Ambitious gangster Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) controls Chicago’s bootlegging racket by means of violence and not letting anyone stand in his way. As he climbs his way to the top of the mob his weakness becomes his ultimate downfall.

H.M.S. Pinafore (1982)

By Zentilack

[The above image is a poster from 1879, when the show was first put on.  I couldn't find a decent image for the cover of the 1982 version.]

Summary

Ralph Rackstraw (Michael Bulman) is a common sailor on the British warship H.M.S. Pinafore, and pines for the captain's daughter, Josephine (Meryl Drower).  Their different social positions make this impossible...until the odd Sir Joseph Porter (Frankie Howerd) comes aboard with his unorthodox notions of equality.  This seems to solve the problem, except for the fact Sir Joseph came specifically to ask Josephine to marry him.

Abby

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

An archeologist accidentally opens a box and frees the spirit of an African sex demon. The spirit leaves the archeological site and goes to America and possesses the archeologist's daughter in law. Now the archeologist must return to America and free the woman of the evil demon.

Bucktown

By Zentilack

Summary

Duke Johnson (Fred Williamson) is a big city man visiting the small city of Bucktown for his brother's funeral.  Though he has inherited his brother's bar, legal issues keep him from selling it for at least two months.  Deciding to run it himself in the meantime, Duke quickly learns that the city has problems with corruption.  But when Duke calls in some old friends to help clean things up, he finds that he has an even bigger problem on his hands.

Uptown Saturday Night

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Steve (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to the ritzy side of town one night and go to an illegal nightclub. While winning big money at the craps table the club is robbed and everyone there is forced to hand over their wallets and valuables. Steve discovers the next day that he had a winning lottery ticket and the two men have to find a way to recover it.

February is Blaxploitation month

Since it is black history month we are going to be focusing on the Blaxploitation genre of films. We will be reviewing other movies, too, but our focus will be blaxploiation. We may have a different theme every other month to where we focus on a particular genre or time period of movies. For those that don’t know what blaxploitation movies are or are just knowledgeable of them, I will explain.

Rollerball (1975)

By Zentilack

Summary

In a future where there are no nations, only corporations, a game is played for the amusement and distraction of the population of the world: Rollerball.  Jonathan E. (James Caan) is the best, most popular player to ever enter the ring.  But when mysterious forces try to drive him out of the game, Jonathan wonders who is against him.  Little does he know that this is the first of many dangerous questions that lie before him.

The Woman in Black (1989)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

An old widow dies and a young lawyer is sent to her estate to settle her affairs. When the lawyer arrives in the seaside town he discovers that everyone is hesitant to discuss the woman, her house, or the woman in black that he keeps seeing. Deciding that he needs to do his job, he goes to the house and soon discovers its history...and becomes obsessed with finding the truth.

The Man From Nowhere

By Zentilack

Summary

Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) is the owner of a small pawn shop and prefers to keep to himself.  A young neighbor girl named Jeong So-mi (Kim Sae-ron) is intent on spending time with him and he quietly tolerates her presence.  But when So-mi's mother gets in trouble with drug dealers, and the young girl gets kidnapped, Tae-sik will let nothing stop him from bringing her back.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

By Mr. Tropnevad and Zentilack

Summary

Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their rundown cabin in the mountains where they are trying to have a peaceful vacation of fishing, drinking beer, and fixing the cabin. Their peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare after saving a beautiful college student from drowning in a lake in the woods. Tucker and Dale are accused of kidnapping (and possibly murdering) the girl by her friends and a series of misunderstandings leads to a turn for the worst.

Burke and Hare (2010)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

When a man in Burke (Simon Pegg) and Hare’s (Andy Serkis) boarding house dies, the two decide they can earn some money selling the body to a medical school. They get the idea to sell more bodies for money, but there is a lack of fresh cadavers and the men are forced to murder people.

Fantastic Four (1994)

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Four friends travel into space and are exposed to a comet's radiation. They soon discover they have super powers and now have to fight an old friend, who is trying to destroy a city.

Vigilante

By Zentilack

Summary

Eddie Marino (Robert Forster) is a family man who lives and works in the big city.  His friends, including Nick (Fred Williamson), are fed up with the criminals taking over their streets and begin to fight back.  Eddie is not supportive of their extra-legal efforts, but when his family is attacked and the perps walk free, Eddie decides that becoming a vigilante is the only way to see justice done.

Night of the Lepus

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Arizona rancher, Cole (Rory Calhoun) is plagued with rabbits, and he wants to find a humane way to eliminate them. A zoologist,Roy(Stuart Whitman) is called upon to do experiments on a few rabbits to stop their reproductive system. One of the rabbit’s escapes and breeds with others to create giant man eating rabbits.

Them!

By Zentilack

Summary

New Mexico policeman Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) stumbles onto a series of curious events which end in several deaths.  FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) is called in to assist, but things turn really bad when they discover the true threat of Them!

The Stuff

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

Two men find goo erupting from the ground, decide to eat it, discover how addicting it is and decide to sell it. The American public falls in love with the Stuff which is marketed as ice cream, but a small boy named Jason (Grant Morris) soon discovers that it is alive and turning people into zombie-like creatures that always seem to need more of the Stuff. Rival ice cream companies want to know what the Stuff is and hire ex-FBI agent Mo Rutherford (Michael Moriarty) to find out what the secret ingredient is. Mo and Jason team up to stop the Stuff from changing all Americans into zombies.

Porco Rosso

Why did Disney make the DVD cover so boring?

By Zentilack

Summary

Set sometime in the 1920's, Porco Rosso is the tale of a WW I Italian flying ace who takes jobs fighting against air pirates and happens to have the head of a pig.  The titular Porco (voiced by Michael Keaton) drives the pirates to band together, hiring an American ace named Curtis (Cary Elwes) to shoot him down.

The Help

By Mr. Tropnevad

Summary

The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Viola Davis as Aibleen, and Octavia Spencer as Minny. They are three different women in Mississippi during the 1960’s who create a friendship over a book writing project that eventually breaks society’s rules and puts them at risk of jail time, loss of property, and even death. Their friendship eventually causes problems with Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard), the social leader of the city. These friends show Hilly and the rest of the townspeople that not all secrets are safe.

The Replacement Killers

By Zentilack

Summary

John Lee (Chow Yun-Fat) is an assassin being compelled to perform three jobs for a Chinese mob boss.  Unable to go through with the final task, he goes on the run.  Seeking a passport to China, John goes to forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino).  His betrayal quickly catches up to him, however, and Meg is caught up in his struggle against his former boss.

Warrior

By. Mr. Tropnevad


Plot Summary

The youngest son (Tom Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nick Nolte) returns home from the war to fight in a MMA tournament to win money for his fallen comrade’s family. The oldest brother (Joel Edgerton), a physics teacher and a family man, learns he will lose his house in ninety days if he does not earn some money fast. Two brothers eventually start training to fight again only to be reunited in the ring together for the grand prize.

Dead Heat

Plot Summary

We are going to try to not spoil things for you, because for all we know someone might end up wanting to watch this movie after reading our review. Dead Heat is the story of two detectives, Roger (Treat Williams) and Doug (Joe Piscopo), who respond to a jewelry store heist and stumble onto a conspiracy to resurrect the dead.