Saturday, September 28, 2013

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla Vs Hedorah/Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster (1971)


Godzilla Vs Hedorah/Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster (1971)

Plot Summary

 A pollution monster named Hedorah comes from outer space. First it terrorizes sea, then it goes on land where it encounters the big G. After it's after intial fight with Godzilla it retreats, only to reappear again in a flying form, it then starts to kill people. Finally, it takes on it's final form, that's when the Big G comes and the battle that decides the fate of the world begins


Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Nevada (1944)


Nevada (1944)


Plot Summary

Just as Nevada (Robert Mitchum) wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide (Larry Wheat) and his daughter Hattie (Nancy Gates) takes his $7000 in yellowbacks and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge (Craig Reynolds) has his man Powell (Harry Woods) kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.


Monday, September 23, 2013

X-Men (2000)


X-Men (2000)


Plot Summary

In the near future, when children are being born with a special X-factor in their genes, giving them special powers and making them mutants, the seeds of a new Holocaust are being sown by Senator Robert Kelly. (Bruce Davison) The situation brings into opposition the fellow mutants and former friends, Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, (Ian McKellen) and Professor Charles Xavier. (Patrick Stewart) While Xavier wants a peaceful means of stopping the hatred toward mutants, Magneto seeks to even things out with a machine that would speed up the mutation process in all humans, making everyone equal. To stop Magneto, Xavier brings together a special group of mutants called "X-Men" to stop him. In the meantime, two mysterious mutants emerge: Logan, (Hugh Jackman) a powerful and aggressive mutant with no past, no memories, and a young girl named Rogue. (Anna Paquin) Their quests for identities eventually land them in the sights of Xavier and Magneto, but for what purpose?


Saturday, September 21, 2013

Leather Burners (1943)


Leather Burners (1943)


Plot Summary

As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny (Jay Kirby) sends for his friend Hoppy, (William Boyd) Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. (Victor Jory)  Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe (Hal Taliaferro) knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.

Friday, September 20, 2013

A bit of housekeeping

Posts will be scarce for a while as i'm in the grip of GTA V fever....Should be back into the swing of things in a couple weeks.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Money and the Woman (1940)



Money and the Woman (1940)


Plot Summary

The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett (Jeffrey Lynn) to a branch office to check on a Charles Patteson. (Roger Pryor) Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is very involved with all of his customers. When offered a chance to run a new branch in Santa Monica, Charlie declines and is taken ill. His wife, Barbara, (Brenda Marshall) tells Dave that Charlie needs an operation and she will fill in for him at his savings window. Against the advice of Martha Church (another bank teller played by Lee Patrick) and Branch manager Jerry Helm, (John Litel) Dave does hire Barbara to do the job. When Dave works the window when Barbara goes to lunch, he notices that the accounts are short and the amount comes out to $9000. Dave does not know if Barbara or Charlie has taken the money, but Barbara blames Charlie and as Dave is sweet on her, he personally loans her the money. Dave hopes that this will end the problems and that Barbara will divorce Charlie but there is more trouble ahead for Dave Bennett.


Tuesday, September 17, 2013

20 Mule Team (1940)




NOTE: I've been feeling a bit down lately so we're skipping Modern Movie Monday this week. Here's a review a did earlier in the month that's scheduled to appear this week on the blog.

20 Mule Team (1940)

Plot Summary


t is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Bill Bragg (Wallace Beery) has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector that he buried on the road. Stag Roper (Douglas Fowley) knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bill to find the prospectors' claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bill in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean (Anne Baxter). Josie (Jean's mother played by Marjorie Rambeau) sees Roper for the scalawag that his is and it means trouble in Furnace Flat.


Saturday, September 14, 2013

Kaiju Friday: Godzilla's Revenge (1969)

OHHH BOY.......




Godzilla's Revenge (1969)


Plot Summary

 Ichiro is a highly imaginative, but lonely, boy growing up in urban Tokyo. Every day he comes home to the empty apartment he shares with his railroad worker father and his restaurant hostess mother. His only friends are a toy maker name Shinpei Inami and a little girl named Sachicko. The only other kids that are around is a gang of kids led by a bully named Gabara. To escape his loneliness, Ichiro imagines that he is on Monster Island where he befriends Minya, the son of Godzilla. It is through his daydreams that he watches Godzilla and Minya fight other monsters, including one also named Gabara who is just as bad a bully as the one that is tormenting Ichiro. It is through these daydreams that he learns that it is okay to fight back and face his fears. These lessons also help him to outwit a couple of bumbling bank robbers as well as finally have the guts to stand up to Gabara and his gang


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Modern Movie Week: Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)






Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)


Plot Summary


 The latest mission of the USS Enterprise takes them deep into space to rescue an endangered species from an active volcano. However, once again Captain Kirk's reckless behavior compromises the mission and nearly gets him booted from Starfleet. Turning back to his mentor Captain Pike, Kirk is demoted to a cadet and has to start over. But when an evil force attacks Starfleet HQ and kills Captain Pike in the process, Kirk takes command and takes the Enterprise deep into the "forbidden zone" and the planet Kronos. While forces between Starfleet and the Klingon army are hostile enough, it isn't helping that a Starfleet traitor is manipulating the two sides into a possible war. Will Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the crew stop the war before it's too late? And what awaits the crew of the USS Enterprise on their forthcoming five year mission?


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Modern Movie Week: The Frozen Ground (2013)


The Frozen Ground (2013)


Plot Summary

 Alaskan state trooper, Jack Halcombe (Cage) believes that Robert Hansen (Cusack) is a serial killer who abducts young girls then tortures and sexually assaults them then kills them. But he doesn't have enough evidence to justify a search warrant of Hansen's premises. He knows one of his victims, Cindy Paulson (Hudgens) somehow survived so he tries to find her and asks her to help him. But when he finds her, she's a junkie and has trust issues. So Halcombe has to try and earn her trust so that she could help him. But Hansen is still doing it.


Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Modern Movie Week: Emperor (2012)

So before I get into the review this is just a note about the direction this blog will be heading into for the foreseeable future. This week will be all modern movie reviews, for the purposes of this blog "modern" means any movie released from 1995 to present day. I will be doing a "Modern Monday" review every Monday from here on out.

With that being said let's do this:






Emperor (2012)

Plot Summary



 A story of love and understanding set amidst the tensions and uncertainties of the days immediately following the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. On the staff of General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones), the de facto ruler of Japan as Supreme Commander of the occupying forces, a leading Japanese expert, General Bonner Fellers (Mathew Fox) is charged with reaching a decision of historical importance: should Emperor Hirohito be tried and hanged as a war criminal? Interwoven is the story of Fellers' love affair with Aya, a Japanese exchange student he had met years previously in the U.S. Memories of Aya and his quest to find her in the ravaged post-war landscape help Fellers to discover both his wisdom and his humanity and enable him to come to the momentous decision that changed the course of history and the future of two nations.


Saturday, September 7, 2013

Kaiju Friday: Destroy All Monsters (1968)






Destroy All Monsters (1968)


Plot Summary


 In 1999, the United Nations has established bases on the moon and on Ogasawara Island off the coast of Japan. Ogasawara is also where all the world's monsters,Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Angilas and Minya, among others, have gathered for study and to keep them from wreaking havoc on the world. However, a group of alien women known as the Kiraku take over the island and put the monsters as well as the humans under mental control in order to conquer the rest of the Earth. It is up to astronaut Katsuo Yemabe and his crew to stop the Kiraku as well as release the monsters and the humans from their control before it is too late


Monday, September 2, 2013

Navy Secrets (1939)


Navy Secrets (1939)


Plot Summary

Due to the work of a Naval-intelligence officer, Carol Mathews, (Fay Wray) posing as Carol Evans, Chief-Petty-Officer Jimmy Woodford is arrested and charged with selling military secrets to agents of a foreign government, via the ruse of buying-and-selling foreign postage stamps. Chief Petty Officer Steve Fletcher, (Grant Withers) posing as Steve Roberts is assigned to find the members and leader of the gang by delivering an envelope to them with the explanation that Jimmy asked him to do so as a favor as Jimmy was spending a few days in the brig for being A.W.O.L. Steve Fletcher/Roberts has no idea of where to start other than knowing the name of Jimmy's girl-friend. But Navy "intelligence" neglects to inform him that the "girl-friend" is also an agent working undercover. He contrives to meet her accidentally at a shoe-shine stand with an explanation that he is a buddy of Jimmy's, and have her take him on Jimmy's usual route. She agrees, and they start at Nick Salado's café, have a fine grilled-fish dinner but Nick will not accept deliverance of the envelope. But Nick suggests that they take the envelope to Joe Benji's cocktail lounge, but not before Nick has a waiter spill soup on Steve so that Steve will need to go to the restroom and clean up...where Nick has a pickpocket, posing as a singing drunk, ready to relieve Steve of the envelope. But Steve has left the envelope at the table. Steve and Carol glide over to Joe Benji's, and Joe thinks Slavins might take the envelope and Slavins passes them on to Eldredge, posing as Peter Drake for no evident reason, and it takes a while before a man with a German-accent shows up ready to pay for the envelope.