August 2014
My viewing log. All the films (listed at IMDb) I've seen during this month.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson, 2009, sh) - 8/10 (R)
May Tomorrow Shine The Brightest Of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (Ben Rivers/Paul Harnden, 2009, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
If There Be Thorns (Michael Robinson, 2009, sh) - 8/10 (R)
May Tomorrow Shine The Brightest Of All Your Many Days As It Will Be Your Last (Ben Rivers/Paul Harnden, 2009, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
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- DirectorRobb MossFrom peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.OL, 8/1/14. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorKeoni WaxmanStarsElisabeth RöhmTeryl RotheryMyron NatwickAmber Hagerman was nine years old when she was abducted while riding her bicycle, prompting her mother to seek out a system that alerts the nation of abducted children. This became today's Amber Alert system.TV, 8/1/14. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEbru CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNazan KesalDowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.TV, 8/1/14. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsAnne BaxterJeff ChandlerRory CalhounIn 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.TV, 8/2/14. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorAlejandro AzzanoStarsJosé Luis AlfonzoNancy AllenRodrigo BarrenaDiana and her mother Brenda travel from their home in New York City to Argentina. Once there they will seek out Diana's dad who's an archaeologist looking for a legendary cache of gold.TV, 8/2/14. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsDennis QuaidLouis Gossett Jr.Brion JamesDuring a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.TV, 8/2/14. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGeorge HarrisonHarry HarrisonPeter HarrisonFilmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs.TV, 8/2/14. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorStephen BelberStarsJennifer AnistonSteve ZahnWoody HarrelsonA traveling art saleswoman tries to shake off a flaky motel manager who falls for her and won't leave her alone.TV, 8/3/14. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorGérard KrawczykStarsSamy NaceriFrédéric DiefenthalEmma WiklundPolice inspector Emilien and his taxi-driver pal Daniel are back, this time on the tail of a group of Japanese yakuza.TV, 8/3/14. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsMichèle MercierRobert HosseinJean RochefortIn the first of the Angélique series, the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed sorcerer.TV, 8/3/14. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.TV, 8/3/14. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorLynn ReynoldsStarsTom MixJ. Farrell MacDonaldEva NovakA government agent infiltrates a gang of Chinese immigrant smugglers and pursues their ringleader throughout the heart of the Southwestern desert.OL, 8/4/14. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorSylvester StalloneStarsSylvester StalloneAntonio TarverMilo VentimigliaThirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.TV, 8/4/14. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorDejan SorakStarsVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicMiodrag KrivokapicMustafa NadarevicLika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by sergeant Cokula. The area is controlled by a group of outlaws led by Todor nicknamed "The Terrible". Sergeant Cokula and Todor did not bother each other, until bandits robbed the emperor's inspector.Orig. title: Mala pljačka vlaka.
OL, 8/5/14. 7.5/10 (R). - DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca LindforsAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.OL, 8/5/14. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsEmily WatsonRobert CarlyleJoe BreenAn Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.TV, 8/5/14. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsTommy Lee JonesCharlize TheronJonathan TuckerA retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.TV, 8/5/14. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorMark RappaportStarsRandy DansonMarilyn JonesKevin WadeSpins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.OL, 8/6/14. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorStacy PeraltaStarsSean PennJay AdamsTony AlvaDocumentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.OL, 8/6/14. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorJames E. DuffStarsAndrew PastidesMahira KakkarBrian SloanAn Indian student in Prague and a lonely New Yorker correspond online through video letters. A voyeuristic love story about aching for human connection in a hyper-connected world.TV, 8/6/14. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorKjell SundvallStarsRolf LassgårdLennart JähkelJarmo MäkinenA Stockholm cop moves back home to his brother near Norway and Finland. He investigates out of control reindeer poaching. He confiscates rifles with no permits. Everybody, even his brother and local cops, are against him. Things escalate.TV, 8/6/14. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorJohn FawcettStarsEmily PerkinsKatharine IsabelleKris LemcheTwo death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.OL, 8/7/14. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersSmiley BurnetteCarol HughesRoy is elected to Congress to bring the misery of the "dustbowl" of the 1930s to the attention of Washington politicians.OL, 8/7/14. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJames RyanStarsJosh CookeHarland WilliamsGreg PittsRon wants to marry Melinda. He must first survive a bachelor party used by Melinda's brother-in-law to kill the wedding.TV, 8/7/14. 4.5/10 (FF).
