Friday, December 18, 2009

Second Opinion Movie Assessments Designed For Your Entertainment

By Lesa Lee

On services like 'Netflex', you can even download accepted movies. You just go to the service and sign up for your account, and begin downloading in minutes. With the way the Internet is today, anyone can instantly and without difficulty hit upon their movie of choice within just a matter of moments. You can have fun, and you can do it reasonably, sometimes even FREE.

Pick a fantastic movie and download it straight to your computer so you can watch it whenever you desire!

Belles on Their Toes - Here, Myrna Loy is cast as a widowed architect who will campaign to rear her aging brood. 20th Century Fox back lot seen at its best in recollecting early 1900s America. Clifton Webb makes a brief appearance at the end. Cast includes Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Edward Arnold, Hoagy Carmichael, Barbara Bates, Robert Arthur, Verna Felton, and Martin Milner. (89 minutes, 1952)

Sugar Town - Amusing mosaic of LA life characterizing a handful of characters whose lives come together - a musician aspirant who'll do anything to get ahead, an uptight lone woman who allures the unsuitable men like a magnet, and a band made up of cleaned-up '80s rock stars, to name a few. Made on a shoestring, although clever and well recognized; brilliant cast contains a number of actual musicians. Cast includes Ally Sheedy, Rosanna Arquette, John Taylor, Jade Gordon, Michael Des Barres, Lucinda Jenney, and Martin Kemp. (92 minutes, 1999)

China Nine Liberty 37 - This is a mystifying Western in which railroad tycoons show mercy to a man from gallows in trade for killing another gunfighter. The gunfighter's girl falls for the killer and helps do his wicked work. Title refers to the signpost giving distance to two close-by towns. Cast includes Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter, and Sam Peckinpah. (102 minutes, 1978)

The Hex - Actor Keith steps behind the camcorder to direct this down-home terror film. A fatal meteorite lands on a Tennessee farm, genuinely driving the people insane after contaminating their food. Cast includes Will Wheaton, Claude Akins, Cooper Huckabee, John Schneider, and Amy Wheaton. (90 minutes, 1987)

Die Hard - In position to perpetrate the perfect crime, terrorists have commandeered a Los Angeles high rise, and are holding everyone captive. There is $460 million in the corporate safe that the terrorists want. Everything is going as per plan. Uninvited, so the terrorists don't know he is there New York cop John McClane is the single hope to stop the terrorists.

From Nashville with Music - Some excellent country and western music, although one would be better served to purchase one of the actors' albums rather than agonizing through this tale of a New York couple who go to the Grand Ole Opry by accident. Cast includes Marilyn Maxwell, Leo G. Carroll, Pedro Gonzalez, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, and Buck Owens. (87 minutes, 1969)

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective - This film is directed by Tom Shadyac. This is a naturally wild Jim Carey comedy. He is cast as Ace Ventura, a pet detective. The mascot of the Miami Dolphins has been kidnapped, and it is up to Ace Ventura to crack the case. Jim Carrey, Courtney Cox. And Sean Young star. (1994 Comedy)

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