Collection ID 445
Director: Boris Sagal
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville
Genre: Sci-Fi
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures   Release date: 1971   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French, Spanish (USA)
Summary: Robert Neville, a doctor,due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricty, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.
My Rating:
My Review: I own this movie, it's another version of the novel 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson. This novel (I have not read it) has been made into a movie several times, and this is one of them (see 'I Am Legend' above). In this movie Charlton Heston stars as the lone survivor of a world war. A war where biological weapons are unleashed on the world, and the consequences are dire. Fully 90% of Earth's population is killed by the plague. Of the remaining survivors, most have mutated into night dwelling, vampiric, mutants. Then there's Robert Neville, a scientist, a man of the wheel. One of the few people who is immune to the ravages of this disease. As Neville searches for a cure (based on the vacine that he injected himself with), he spends his days hunting down these infected creatures. Killing them one by one. These creatures are mostly mindless, but a few among them can reason. One of those is a charismatic leader who has gathered others together to lead them. Calling themselves 'The Family', they know where Neville lives, and they try to flush him out of his fortress. They would judge him as the last of those who brought destruction to the world. The machine users, the users of the wheel and the gun. The defilers of the Earth. Neville has become the boogeyman of 'The Family', and they must bring him to justice for all the crimes of 'Humanity'. Here is an awesome movie. The special effects may not meet today's standards, but at least there's no horrendous misuse of cgi. The creatures in this movie are frightening in another sense, they are organized, overwhelming in numbers, and their mission has become a religious crusade. Charlton Heston hams it up a bit in this movie. At time his overacting is a bit much, but overall, his performance was pretty good. His involvement with other 'survivors' is far more developed, and his goal is clearer. The ending of this movie is far better than the ending of 'I Am Legend'.

Collection ID 1036
Director: Boris Sagal
Starring: Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville
Genre: Sci-Fi
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures   Release date: 1971   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French, Spanish (USA)
Summary: Robert Neville, a doctor,due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic. They believe science and technology to be the cause of the war and their punishment, and Neville, as the last symbol of science, the old world, and a "user of the wheel", must die. Neville, using electricty, machinery, and science attempts to hold them at bay.
My Rating:
My Review: I own this movie, it's another version of the novel 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson. This novel (I have not read it) has been made into a movie several times, and this is one of them (see 'I Am Legend' above). In this movie Charlton Heston stars as the lone survivor of a world war. A war where biological weapons are unleashed on the world, and the consequences are dire. Fully 90% of Earth's population is killed by the plague. Of the remaining survivors, most have mutated into night dwelling, vampiric, mutants. Then there's Robert Neville, a scientist, a man of the wheel. One of the few people who is immune to the ravages of this disease. As Neville searches for a cure (based on the vacine that he injected himself with), he spends his days hunting down these infected creatures. Killing them one by one. These creatures are mostly mindless, but a few among them can reason. One of those is a charismatic leader who has gathered others together to lead them. Calling themselves 'The Family', they know where Neville lives, and they try to flush him out of his fortress. They would judge him as the last of those who brought destruction to the world. The machine users, the users of the wheel and the gun. The defilers of the Earth. Neville has become the boogeyman of 'The Family', and they must bring him to justice for all the crimes of 'Humanity'. Here is an awesome movie. The special effects may not meet today's standards, but at least there's no horrendous misuse of cgi. The creatures in this movie are frightening in another sense, they are organized, overwhelming in numbers, and their mission has become a religious crusade. Charlton Heston hams it up a bit in this movie. At time his overacting is a bit much, but overall, his performance was pretty good. His involvement with other 'survivors' is far more developed, and his goal is clearer. The ending of this movie is far better than the ending of 'I Am Legend'.

Collection ID 94
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens
Genre: Horror
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation   Release date: 1976   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (UK)
Summary: An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.
My Rating:
My Review: The Anti-Christ is coming. This Exorcist 'rip-off' is a damn good movie. The music is awesome (by Jerry Goldsmith - Won an academy Award in 1977), the cast (Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) outstanding, the story is chilling, the cinematography was above par, the editing, pacing and direction (by Richard Donner - Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon (1-4), Maverick, Conspiracy Theory) excellent. All around damn good. The story: Robert and Katherine Thorn (Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) are raising their child in a position of privilege. As the son of America's ambassador to Great Britain, and heir to the Thorn fortunes, Damien is assured a place in the upper echelon of tomorrow's society. Confronted by unusual circumstances, deadly 'accidents', and warnings from a priest and a photographer, Robert comes to believe that his 'son' is actually the Antichrist. The writing is outstanding and this movie rates a 5 out of 5.

Collection ID 883
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens
Genre: Horror
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation   Release date: 1976   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, French (UK)
Summary: An American ambassador learns to his horror that his son is actually the literal Antichrist.
My Rating:
My Review: The Anti-Christ is coming. This Exorcist 'rip-off' is a damn good movie. The music is awesome (by Jerry Goldsmith - Won an academy Award in 1977), the cast (Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) outstanding, the story is chilling, the cinematography was above par, the editing, pacing and direction (by Richard Donner - Superman, The Goonies, Lethal Weapon (1-4), Maverick, Conspiracy Theory) excellent. All around damn good. The story: Robert and Katherine Thorn (Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) are raising their child in a position of privilege. As the son of America's ambassador to Great Britain, and heir to the Thorn fortunes, Damien is assured a place in the upper echelon of tomorrow's society. Confronted by unusual circumstances, deadly 'accidents', and warnings from a priest and a photographer, Robert comes to believe that his 'son' is actually the Antichrist. The writing is outstanding and this movie rates a 5 out of 5.

Collection ID 672
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Westerns
Studio: Paramount   Release date: 1968   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French (Italy)
Summary: The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) "Once upon a Time in the West". After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from "A Fistful of Dollars" to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"), Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life, horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake: this is the wide, "wide" West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was: "There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her ... and one to kill her.") Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley. "--Jim Emerson"
My Rating:
My Review: A movie by the legendary Sergio Leone (Director of the original spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood). The characters are all misfits, renegades, murderers and opportunists - Archetypes of the old west. The untamed west. The west where men lived on their own. Survived on the power of their own will. Out to make a buck off their fellow man, the characters lie, cheat, steal, and kill in order to survive, in order to stay on top. In the end, as it becomes evident that those days are over, even these cold-blooded men are seeking redemption of some sort or another, they just won't admit it or submit to it. Unfortunately - for the characters in our story, redemption comes at a very heavy price. The consumption of their soul, the destruction of their body, the breaking of their will. Some great acting (Henry Fonda as a heavy was great casting), excellent directing, and best of all was the camera work. The movie was a bit long and drawn out at times, but overall it was a joy to watch. The character intros at the beginning of the film were great, and the music by Ennio Morricone was perfectly suited to this fable of the west. Containing numerous references to other films, this movie is a movie inside many movies.

Collection ID 1366
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Genre: Westerns
Studio: Paramount   Release date: 1968   Rated: PG   
Language (Country): English, French (Italy)
Summary: The so-called spaghetti Western achieved its apotheosis in Sergio Leone's magnificently mythic (and utterly outlandish) "Once upon a Time in the West". After a series of international hits starring Clint Eastwood (from "A Fistful of Dollars" to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"), Leone outdid himself with this spectacular, larger-than-life, horse-operatic epic about how the West was won. (And make no mistake: this is the wide, "wide" West, folks--so the widescreen/letterboxed version is strongly recommended.) The unholy trinity of Italian cinema--Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Dario Argento--concocted the story about a woman (Claudia Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer (Fonda) does. (The film's advertising slogan was: "There were three men in her life. One to take her ... one to love her ... and one to kill her.") Meanwhile, Leone shoots his stars' faces as if they were expansive Western landscapes, and their towering bodies as if they were looming rock formations in John Ford's Monument Valley. "--Jim Emerson"
My Rating:
My Review: A movie by the legendary Sergio Leone (Director of the original spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood). The characters are all misfits, renegades, murderers and opportunists - Archetypes of the old west. The untamed west. The west where men lived on their own. Survived on the power of their own will. Out to make a buck off their fellow man, the characters lie, cheat, steal, and kill in order to survive, in order to stay on top. In the end, as it becomes evident that those days are over, even these cold-blooded men are seeking redemption of some sort or another, they just won't admit it or submit to it. Unfortunately - for the characters in our story, redemption comes at a very heavy price. The consumption of their soul, the destruction of their body, the breaking of their will. Some great acting (Henry Fonda as a heavy was great casting), excellent directing, and best of all was the camera work. The movie was a bit long and drawn out at times, but overall it was a joy to watch. The character intros at the beginning of the film were great, and the music by Ennio Morricone was perfectly suited to this fable of the west. Containing numerous references to other films, this movie is a movie inside many movies.

Collection ID 1693
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Studio: Columbia Pictures   Release date: 2019   Rated: R   
Language (Country): English, German, Italian, Spanish (USA, UK, China)
Summary: Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age.
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Collection ID 557
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Genre: Drama
Studio: Fantasy Films   Release date: 1975   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German, English, Spanish (USA)
Summary: A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients.
My Rating:
My Review: A masterpiece. Based on a novel (of the same name) by Ken Kesey, this movie was brilliantly adapted by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. Shot at an actual mental health institute, the cast of relative unknowns (aside from Jack Nicholson) did an absolute fantastic job. This is one of my favorite movies.

Collection ID 1258
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Genre: Drama
Studio: Fantasy Films   Release date: 1975   Rated: R   
Language (Country): German, English, Spanish (USA)
Summary: A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients.
My Rating:
My Review: A masterpiece. Based on a novel (of the same name) by Ken Kesey, this movie was brilliantly adapted by Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. Shot at an actual mental health institute, the cast of relative unknowns (aside from Jack Nicholson) did an absolute fantastic job. This is one of my favorite movies.

Collection ID 703
Director: Marlon Brando
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden
Genre: Western
Studio: Digiview Productions   Release date: 1961   Rated: Unrated   
Language (Country): English, Spanish (USA)
Summary: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.
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My Review: Directed by and starring Marlon Brando. I was surprised to find this gem tucked away in the $1.00 bin at Wal-Mart. With an excellent cast - Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, the oh so sensuous Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens and others. It's a western in the tradition of Sergio Leone's 'Man with no name' series. A bad man is the hero, but we sympathize with him and despise his lawman partner. After two bandits (Brando and Malden) rob a Mexican bank, they're pinned down on a ridge with no where to go. At the flip of a coin Dad Lonworth (Malden) goes for help, but he changes his mind after he makes it out alive. Leaving Rio (Brando) to the Mexican authorities, he high-tails it for the border; leaving Rio at the mercy of the Mexican posse. Years later, Rio escapes and seeks his vengence on the now wealthy and respectable lawman who let him suffer all those years in a Mexican prison. It's a movie about double-crosses, honor, and revenge. Excellent writting produced by a convoluted chain of revisions. The direction and acting were outstanding. Marlon Brando was vibrant, honest and engaged. The camera work captured the locations in stark relief, transforming the harsh western landscape into a character of it's own. The story is full of character developments that turn the traditional western (of the late 50's) on it's head.