The Seven Year Itch 1955 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

What was so daring in the 50's seems almost corny by todays perverse standards.Released in 1955 and running only 104 minutes,this film signifies the "dumb blonde"image that Marilyn Monroe lived off in her screen career.Paired with a rather ordinary,and maybe thats why the film worked so well,Tom Ewell ,they gave us a funny and somewhat poignant comedy of a 39 year old mans mid life crisis.Perhaps its my age but they truly don't make em like this anymore.Even the famed subway grating up skirt scene is so innocently iconic it makes you wonder how anyone else thinks they can do it justice.It took class to pull it of then,not the crass of todays directors.You can also see why Marilyn is today still studied and immortalized.But one also has to credit Toms fine performance as well.Bucket list film for true movie fans.Classic clip URL from the movie ( Skirt scene) follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.

With his family away for their annual summer holiday, New Yorker Richard Sherman decides he has the opportunity to live a bachelor's life - to eat and drink what he wants and basically to enjoy life without wife and son. The beautiful but ditsy blond from the apartment above his catches his eye and they soon start spending time together. It's all innocent though there is little doubt that Sherman is attracted to her. Any lust he may be feeling is played out in his own imagination however. Written by garykmcd

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1289397529/

TV Series - Primeval - BBC - 5 seasons - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Considering the BBC was a laughing stock for FX,its truly amazing that this 5 season show,from 2007 - 2011 is "OUT"standing.Yes it starts with Jurassic park,a movie reviewed on this blog,worthy effects both of the past and the future, kinds of creatures as the show explores "strange anomalies in time"as the appear in England and try to keep it a secret from the public even as they become "victims".In the 4th and 5 season they add a DS9 actor as a sort of "bad guy"you have to watch to find out who it is.Hint he was a good guy in DS9.The cast is fine,the storys interesting and FX that fits rather than becomes the show.I took 1 star off because over the long haul I felt the writer really didn't know what to make of the anomalies themselves.Still jolly good fun !!!! Episode trailer follows the picture.Watch it !!!.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1551958553/

The Lives of Others 2006 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Usually I stay away from foreign subtitled films BUT in this case this film released in 2006 and running 137 minutes,caught my attention.Because it is in German and might be considered as somewhat boring,I took 1 star off.However it is a important film if you have a interest of what life was like in a surveillance state,even if you were loyal to it.It plays like a play rather than a movie as it slowly unveils how people were watched and sometimes in error before both Germanys re-unified in 1989.Its hard to explain except that you are watching lives unfold like a reality show only this was how it was back then and not filmed for entertainment value,rather for its informational historic value.If you have a interest in life behind the wall,see it,if you want a good time,don't. Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.

In the early 1980s, Georg Dreyman (a successful dramatist) and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland (a popular actress), were huge intellectual stars in (former) East Germany, although they secretly don't always toe the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more. Written by fippi2000

http://www.moviestrailer.org/das-leben-der-anderen-movie-trailer.html

TV Series - Highlander - 6 seasons - 92-98 - 5 stars out of 5 stars

Maybe the best TV show not named star trek ever made,maybe,can there be more than one??? What do you like in a series?? Romance?? Tragedy??History??Action,Sci fi,adventure??You name it,its here in 5 wonderful seasons,the 6th is mainly bunch of pilots for a future spinoff show called "Raven",so they don't count.I reviewed the movie"Highlander"on this blog,of which this show is itself a spinoff,but its far better in scope and script.Adrian Paul IS the Highlander much as Bill Shatner IS captain Kirk in Star Trek. The show stands on his interpretation of the tormented immortal who can not be killed unless you take his head !!!!We are treated to his loves,adventures and life through flashbacks as he encounters others like himself.It fantastic fantasy entertainment.The opening sequence of the show as a trailer follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.Must see bucket list TV.

Taken from the film, Highlander, Duncan MacLeod, clansman of Connor in the film also finds he is being stalked by not only other immortals trying to kill him before the time of the gathering, but also a secret society of mortals who call themselves 'The Watchers' and also seem intent on killing him. Duncan and the other immortals can only be killed by decapitation and often live for centuries. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi866976025/

42 - 2013 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Everyone knows about Jackie Robinson,but this visual portrayal of mainly his first year as a dodger is still rather striking for younger viewers who have no frame of reference to that long ago time, and for me,that is the true value of this 2013 release that runs 128 minutes.Thus 1 star off since I didn't learn anything that I hadn't already known.However that is also the films value to educate those who only have read about its time and thus aren't still aware of the dangers of history always repeating itself to those less  uninformed.the cast is fine and the story seems fairly close to the truth.So i do recommend mainly for those too young to remember those times.Small note,the "Dodgers"have now been in LA longer than they ever were in Brooklyn and Jackie NEVER was a LA Dodger.My how time HAS marched on.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.Much more than a "Sports"film.

 In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3440617241/

TV Series - Battlestar Galactica - 4 seasons 2004-2009 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

I've had many arguments with my sons who LOVED the original TV series back in the late 70's and 80's which someday I will have to re-watch to review,because they don't like this updated version.But I do love this very dark and nasty remake.Its hard to say but sometimes you think that humanity deserves what it gets,never the case in the original!! That said, the FX is the best EVER on TV even to this day.The stories are trek like in the relevance to today in many cases.The hardest to watch was humans being suicide bombers against other humans!!!!Holy Frak !!! The cast,well Edward James Olmos IS Admiral William Adama and  Katee Sackhoff as Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace,yes a FEMALE, Shocked the old series fan base. But I loved the unholy romance between  Tricia Helfer as Cylon Number Six and  James Callis as Dr. Gaius Baltar,the traitor,as delicious  evil pleasure !!There are many other fabulous actors doing great characters to numerous to mention.That may be the hidden strength of the series.The show ran 4 seasons from 2004-2009 and spun off a prequel .I took off 1 star because the series ending of well,SPOILER HERE,humans and colons intermingling to form US ?? was a little out there.Series opining attack trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.



The second war against the Cylons is over and The Twelve Colonies have been destroyed. Now Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galatica and President Laura Roslin lead a ragtag fleet of refugees in a supposed search for the fabled lost thirteenth colony, Earth. However, the dangers they face are many which compound an already difficult situation. In addition to the Cylons hunting and attacking the fleet in space, their infiltrator units carry out a more subtle plot even as their former unwitting pawn, Gaius Baltar, helps in the hunt for them while hiding both his own guilt and the strange presence that haunts his every thought. If that wasn't enough, the fleet also faces internal political conflict in which the rabble-rousing figure, Tom Zarek, is merely the loudest dissenting voice. In the midst of these trials however, clues begin to appear that suggest that Adama's simple bluff about Earth may be more truthful than anyone could have guessed. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cti9qz3ev1g

The Girl 2012 - 2 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

There are a few films named"The Girl"this one is a HBO-BBC co production about a the relationship between famed director Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren. Now I don't know anything about the directors personnel life,nor Hedrens,however I found much of this unbelievable.The only reason I rate it 50/50 is BECAUSE I don't know,so you be the judge.I also don't like the actors and find them also unbelievable.Still,it does tell a story that many want to hear I guess.Released in 2012 it runs 91 minutes.A trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.For fans of salacious stories about famous people I guess.

When Grace Kelly retires from films to marry Prince Rainier Alfred Hitchcock looks for a similar blonde and finds her in TV model,the little known Tippi Hedren,who will star in his film adaptation of horror story 'The Birds'. Hitchcock is obsessed with Tippi sexually and,when she rebuffs his advances,sadistically puts her through five days of filming where she is attacked and injured by real birds. Hitchcock's wife Alma and his assistant Peggy are appalled but can do nothing. Tippi is resolved that she will not give in to Hitchcock despite the situation giving her nightmares. Hitchcock and Tippi make a second film,'Marnie'. Having admitted that Alma is the only woman he has ever had sex with and that he now finds her cold Hitchcock continues to pursue Tippi, bombarding her with phone calls declaring his love for her yet reminding her that he alone made her famous and she owes him. At this stage Tippi demands that her contract be terminated and an end title states that they never ... Written by don @ minifie-1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxMslIwsCZU

TV Series - Elfego Baca - Disney 1958 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Televised in 1958 as one of a couple great TV miniseries during Disney's classic TV show,this one stared Robert Loggia as the legendary Sheriff and Lawyer, Elfego Baca, back in 1880's New Mexico.As with the other great series from Disney I have reviewed on this blog,its based on a real life figure of the time and is truly inspirational in the values set forth from that time and the time of its broadcast,unlike the more confusing times we now live in.Very sad indeed and another reason to watch it.Like the other shows,this has a great list of guest stars including in one episode a original Star Trek member,er clue only,also played in another western.You'll just have to watch it.Also a beach blanket Disney mousekater..Only took 1 star off because its corny at times and lacks some true violence,but thats also a good thing.Instead os a trailer,the full first episode URL follows the picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQwYgEZCnI

Quicksilver 1986 - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

Strange this film doesn't get more love.Maybe because I'm a city kid,worked on wall street and was a messenger in HS,and road a Bike ALOT as a kid,I see more to this film  than most.yeah the story is a little out there but most of the "characters"are fair enough stereotypes and it was released in 1986 and runs 105 minutes,right at the height or low,depending on your point of view,of the "bike messenger" craze  that hit all the major urban locals in the country.Kevin Bacon starts a little slow but warms to the character,Jack Casey,soon enough and Laurence Fishburne has a small but very powerful presence in the film as a character named"voodoo".Paul Rodriguez is fun as well as a ,you guessed it,Mexican wants a better life type.Its not great cinema at all,but its very watchable and fits that period of time as well as most films of the day.You could do FAR worse.I took 1 and 1/2 stars off because of the above reasons of being out there and it should have been shot in NYC rather than Frisco.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below. 


 Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' )used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis? Written by Reid Gagle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPTu2F450sk

TV Series - Person of Interest - CBS Current 3 seasons so far. - 5 stars out of 5 stars

Sometimes a TV show can be SO ahead of the curve its scary good.This is such a show.Running for 3 years now and awaiting a forth,the plot of this show is simple,yet very complicated at the same time.Like the highly politicalized world we live in.The NSA,Postal Service,Police license plate scanners and public street cameras,and who knows what else is yet to be discovered,are used to spy or fix a broader picture of probability on bad things before they happen by observing"patterns"so surveillance can stop terror before it happens.Thats fact NOT fiction and the world we now live in.This IS the world producer J.J. Abrams,yes THAT guy,takes and goes super computer wild on us.Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel are a sort of everyday Batman and Robin on steroids,as the series stars with fine supporting cast and guest stars all over the place each episode.It rings oh so true but can be a little over the top thus 1 star off but if you are a now person and political as well as loves a exciting mystery,its YOUR show.Episode trailer URL below ands a IMDB summary below.

A billionaire software-genius named Harold Finch creates a Machine for the government that is designed to detect acts of terror before they can happen, by monitoring the entire world by monitoring every cell-phone, email and surveillance camera. Finch discovered that the machine sees everything, potential terrorist acts and violent crimes that involve ordinary people. When the government considered violent crimes between normal people "irrelevant", Finch built a back door into the system that gives him the social security number of a person involved in a future violent crime so he could act. Partnered with John Reese, an ex-CIA agent, the two work in secret to prevent violent crimes before they can happen. Eventually their activities lead to being hunted by the New York Police Department, CIA Agents in pursuit of Reese who was listed as dead, a computer hacker named Root who wants access to the Machine, and government officials who want to keep all knowledge of the Machine a complete ... Written by Jones

http://www.thewb.com/shows/person-of-interest-on-dvd/the-deep-end/d5364991-e634-44a0-9b96-0aacfbff5d40

Behind the Candelabra 2013 - 3 stars out of 5 stars

For those of a certain age the flamboyance of Liberace was the first inkling that there were gays out there.Even though he had won lawsuits claiming liable when confronted with the issue he never admitted to and the medical arguments over his cause of death of heart illness vs aids,I believe we all believed he WAS gay.This 2013 HBO film, that runs 118 minutes,leaves no doubt he was.Michael Douglas is sufficiently  flamboyant enough to remind one of Liberace and  Matt Damon as Scott Thorson,a long time lover are the true stars as they seem gay enough after playing a ton of heterosexual  roles in the past.However the film offers no real insight into one of the greatest showmen of his time other than "outed"gayness.Instead the film seems to be more about Thorson which I guess is to be expected since its based on HIS kiss and tell all book.So I took 2 stars offer and only recommend for those who want a inkling of what Liberace was like in performance since the film does show that, but not much else.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.


Scott Thorson, a young gay man raised in foster homes, is introduced to flamboyant entertainment giant Liberace and quickly finds himself in a romantic relationship with the legendary pianist. Swaddled in wealth and excess, Scott and Liberace have a long affair, one that eventually Scott begins to find suffocating. Kept away from the outside world by the flashily effeminate yet deeply closeted Liberace, and submitting to extreme makeovers and even plastic surgery at the behest of his lover, Scott eventually rebels. When Liberace finds himself a new lover, Scott is tossed on the street. He then seeks legal redress for what he feels he has lost. But throughout, the bond between the young man and the star never completely tears. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi510240281/

TV Series - Babylon 5 - 5 seasons 94-98 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Yes it ran around the same time as DS9,which is reviewed on this blog,but there are far more differences than similarities and it deserves to be seen.I liked it.My only reason for taking 1 star off is uneven acting at times and a ending that smacks of "The Matrix"( or does the Matrix smack of IT )which i have to re-watch before I review.That aside,it is dark and menacing sci-fi and thats a good thing as well.Its also reminiscent of "The New Battlestar Galattica"which I have yet to review.As far as the characters go,i have to say Stephen Furst of "animal house" fame,a film reviewed on this blog,is amongst my favorites here as well as  he plays Vir Cotto,who descends from buffoon to,well,not so lovable…….In fact the alien characters are far more entertaining than the earthlings,at least for me. Episode clip URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.Give it a look,you'll enjoy it I do believe.

 In the year 2258, it is ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Commander Sinclair takes command of a giant five-mile-long cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. At a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy, Cmdr Sinclair (2d season Captain Sheridan) must try to establish peace and prosperity between various interstellar empires, all the while fighting forces from within the Earth Alliance. It is a precarious command, particularly given that sabotage led to the destruction of Babylon stations 1, 2, and 3 and 4 vanished without trace. Written by Tony Lammens <lammens@connexus.apana.org.au>

http://www.thewb.com/shows/babylon-5/babylon-5-season-1/b511e97a3e

Sharknado 2013 - 3 stars out of 5 stars

OK all disaster films are silly to a degree,this more than most.However that doesn't mean that laughing in between screams can't be fun.Hey,sharks in a mother fu- -ing,oops wrong film,ha,ha…….Released this year as a SciFy TV movie that runs 86 minutes,its become somewhat of a cult film already,thats why I viewed it.Two stars off for silliness and no BIG stars like the old Irwin Allen disaster films of my youth,like some reviewed on this blog.Still you can do a lot worse with mostly zombie flicks these days.Think of all the horrible tornados and Hurricanes in recent years and add a good dose of Jaws,a film reviewed on this blog,and you have this film for the most part. Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.The ending is really "cutting it"!!!!

When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsqFR5bh6Q

Forever Amber 1947 - 5 stars out of 5 stars

While watching "Home Sweet Homicide"reviewed on this blog,there was a reference to the novel this movie is based on,and,oh well I had seen it as a youth and hardly remembered other than I liked it.Time to revisit.What a idea for a novel over 70 years old,set in a period over 350 years old,England under King Charles 11.The story may seem like a pot boiler in todays terms,but for its day it had to be something as I'm sure this movie was,and for me,still is.Forget that Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene,George Sanders and a host of other great actors of that day made this fine film,or that Otto Preminger directed.Whats important is the story.Based on a novel by Kathleen Winsor     we have a epic story of a love consummated but never achieved.By that I mean even though the two principals conceive a child on a lonely rainy night the faiths intervene to prevent them from having a true relationship despite the far reaching unbelievable
 attempts of the woman and the seemingly indifference of the man at that moment.Although the faiths are not done with them until………….
Bucket list film for true doomed romance lovers.Released in 1947 and runs 138 minutes.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.

1660, England. Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from a country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LUMuguY1Tg

The Kentucky Fried Movie 1977 - 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

Before "Animal House"and "Airplane"and with a dead on spoof of "Enter the Dragon"and"Wizard of Oz",all films reviewed on this blog,comes this film.Director John Landis and writers David Zucker, Jim Abrahams,Jerry Zucker got their later gigs based on this work.Urban legend has it that Michael Jackson hired Landis for his "Thriller"video based on liking this film so much.Released in 1977 and running but 88 minutes,its very dated and younger viewers will struggle with much of the references,after all,it is a spoof film and if you are not familiar with is being spoofed,well thats why I took 1/2 star off.That said, for those of a certain age and not afraid to laugh at political correctness right in the face,its FUNNY !!!! Yes there's some nudity and swearing and offensive stuff,but it was 1977 and all kinds of"revolution"was in the air,including comedy.This was and still is a landmark comedy.Full of funny cameos ,including a actor who played James Bond ( no spoiler see it yourself)  and some really funny skits.A fistful of yen was my sons favorite and it is a MUST for Bruce Lee fans,but there were 3 shorted ones that I laugh at just thinking about because I'm a dirty old man,again,no spoiler,but think black and other spoliation films.Bucket list comedy for truly PC incorrect fans who are slightly depraved as I am,HA.HA !!! Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below. 

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV. Written by Parca Mortem <icy_shadow@rocketmail.com>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyMZHNBVcio

Far and Away 1992 - 2 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

This is the first Ron Howard film that I have seen that is too long and boring dispute the good cast headed by Cruse and Kidman,so I can only rate it 50/50 at 2 1/2 stars.Released in 1992 it runs a very long 140 minutes.My biggest issue is that there are maybe 3 central parts to this long story and Howard should have zeroed in on one of them but he seems to have bitten off more than he could chew. So it is again a fine film  for long lonely nights only.Trailer URL follows the picture.IMDB summary is below.

A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAebotpLVOI

Home Sweet Homicide 1946 - 4 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

Wise cracking kids,widow,crime novels and a real murder next door,Ingredients to shake than write,then film.As a kid I first saw this 1946 release that runs 96 minutes.The cast is good,story great but the peek into life back in the post war years in priceless.Yes it is not that way today,but nostalgia is one reason to be entertained by a film,STRONG family values is another.Oh yes,Dean Stockwell as a 5 or 6 year old,crazy !!!!Randolph Scott is also believable as a cop rather than his usual cowboy roles.I love this film and TRUE film buffs/historians MUST see.Kids lighting a moms cigarette YES,true,I did that before I knew better,and also had 2 older sisters,though not as happy memories.If you liked the stooges and bowery boys,than see this family style of the same wise cracking.I took only the 1/2 star off for being in B&W.URL link for a scene follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.

Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgsdsmd97M

Foolproof 2003 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Canada continues to amaze at times.This relatively unknown gem combines a few genres into a rather ordinary but well acted heist,youth, the trick turn con arts film.All 4 "leads"fit their roles like gloves.Ryan Reynolds,Kristin Booth,David Suchet,Joris Jarsky are the four but even a small bit part for David Hewlett was a nice surprise.Released in 2003 and running 94 minutes,I took 1 star off because at times,I couldn't follow the tricky plot.You might have to watch it twice,but it was a little gem and I highly recommend for a heist film fans.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary is below.

 Twenty-something Torontonians and friends Kevin, Sam and Rob play a game they call Foolproof: they plan foolproof heists, but without the intention of actually carrying them out. They have a few rules in the game, including the three having the necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required for the heist, the plan cannot include loaded guns, and there is no violence meaning that no one gets hurt. They try to be as meticulous if not more so than the best high stakes thieves. The fun is in knowing they could do it if they truly wanted. Their collective lives change when someone breaks into Sam's apartment and steals their latest plan for a jewelry warehouse heist. After the warehouse is hit, the culprit identifies himself to them as Leo 'The Touch' Gillette, a known but never convicted high stakes thief who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He tells them that the break-in at Sam's apartment was not by accident, and that part of his grand plan is to ... Written by Huggo

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4138139929/

Newsies 1992 - 2 1/2 stars out of 5 stars

Strangely I didn't really care about this 1992 releases,that runs a long 121 minutes,story or music and that since I am a union man,ex NYorker and love musicals.It just didn't come together for me,so its 50/50 at best to recommend by rating only 2 1/2 stars.A good cast is assembled around a very young and singing Christian Bale and rather sunny singing Bill Pullman are the curious +'s.It's also a period piece set around factual events in 1899 NYC.So I can recommend as a curiosity only on those nights when you are bored stiff,this might help on those nights only.Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.

July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful. Written by Kaitlin Dwyer Rankins

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi44802073/

The Game 1997 - 4 stars out of 5 stars

Before you try to punch holes in this film,remember the TV series,"Fantasy Island"and the sci-fi thriller,"Westworld"that I reviewed on this blog ??This is just another version of the rich paying for a fantasy thrill,but with a new and updated twist.Its in real time,in the real world,rather than a adult play world,thereby making in far more dangerous to the "players".If you liked Michael Douglas in,"Wall street"also reviewed on this blog,think of him as Gekco but this time its more personal and on him.Add a fine cast ,although it truly is Michael's film,and hold on after a slow start,thus the one star off.You think you might have figured out the game,but then………..well believe me,you didn't.Released in 1997 and running 129 minutes,its a game i'd never play,but would you???? Trailer URL follows the picture and a IMDB summary below.

Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him. Written by Anonymous

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3301942297/