The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)

 

Spoiler alert!
Just watched this movie an hour back and I have to say that it is seriously underrated. It's not just a tragic love story; there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. The summary beside the trailer says : A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
I figured out after watching it that the ghost of the man hangs in the fine line between life and death. In other words, he's in a coma. While in this comatose stage, he's visited by his best friend and highschool sweetheart, both of whom are also ghosts. His best friend encourages him to move on in life while his girlfriend pleads for him to join her in the afterlife. Not much happens throughout the film but things get pretty exciting towards the end.
We find out that that he's been lying in a hospital bed for a decade after surviving a car-train collision which killed both his friends. He never wakes up because he dies before he can. His late mother had plans for him but one major accident can not only destroy lives but can also wipe out all hopes for the future.
It makes you ponder over how futile life really is. Even the fact that Brendan Fehr's in it doesnt make the movie less depressing.

Top 5 Convincing Psychopaths in Films

1. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)

The Movie
An ambitious FBI agent enlists the aid of a criminally insane ex-psychiatrist to help track down a vicious serial killer.
About him
A brilliant, genius psychologist and a vicious murderer at the same time.

2. Jack Torrance (The Shining)

The Movie
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
About him
Jack is an extremely sympathetic character. His power as a protagonist lies in his deep desire, and great potential, to be a good person – a good father, a good husband, and a good writer. Yet, he's a tragic figure with very specific demons, namely his temper and the memory of his abusive father.

3. Michael Myers (Halloween)

The Movie
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.
About him
A common characterization is that Michael Myers is evil. John Carpenter has described the character as "almost a supernatural force - a force of nature. An evil force that's loose," a force that is "unkillable".Professor Nicholas Rogers elaborates, "Myers is depicted as a mythic, elusive bogeyman, one of superhuman strength who cannot be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire."

4. Norman Bates (Psycho)

The Movie
A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
About him
His character, suffering from severe mental illness as a result of years of abuse from his mother, appears normal to everyone else, as he presents himself as a humble business owner and son. His multiple personalities and deranged relationship with his mother lead him to kill anyone who threatens his mother’s wishes.

5. The Joker (Batman: The Dark Knight)

The Movie
Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as he drives each of them to their limits.
About him
Its the insatiable lust for chaos and destruction that makes The Joker so scary. He is flesh and blood, he is not immortal, but it is his disregard and denial of such petty constraints that truly make him terrifying. In one pivotal scene, The Joker quietly but vehemently urges Batman to run him down with the Batpod, a collision that would surely kill The Joker. It is not his own survival that The Joker considers, but the assertion of chaos. To get Batman to break his one rule – to never resort to killing – would be The Joker’s ultimate victory.

5 Vampire Films Way Better Than Twilight

1. The Lost Boys

Recently divorced Lucy packs up her belongings and, along with teenaged sons Michael and Sam, moves in with her eccentric father, who lives in the Northern California town of Santa Cruz. Rumored to be the "Murder Capital of the World," the town is dominated by an old amusement park. Michael, the older of the boys, becomes infatuated with a beautiful girl who introduces him to a strange gang of teen bikers led by David. As it turns out, the teens are vampires and Michael becomes one of them.

2. Salem's Lot (1979)

Salem’s Lot is loosely based on the great Stephen King novel of the same title. Salem’s Lot is a town which a new member, Mr. Straker, has taken as his new “home”, and has a mysterious partner, namely Mr. Barlow. Not too long after Straker arrives in Salem’s Lot, people start disappearing from sight and dying from odd causes. No one is sure why, including Ben Mears who is in town to write a new book on the town’s rumored haunted house, which hides a terrible secret.

3. Let The Right One In

Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other peoples blood to live he's faced with a choice. How much can love forgive?

4. Near Dark
 

Caleb, a restless young man from a small farm town, meets an alluring drifter named Mae. She reveals herself to be a vampire, who "turns" Caleb into one of her kind rather than kill him. But the rest of her "family" is slow to accept the newcomer. The ancient leader, Jesse, and his psychotic henchman Severen lay down the law; Caleb has to carry his own weight or die. However, he can't bring himself to kill. He manages to win the gang's approval when he rescues them from certain death in a daytime gunfight during a spectacular motel shoot-out in which every bullet hole lets in a deadly ray of sunlight. When the vampires threaten Caleb's real family, he's forced to choose between life and death.

5. Jennifer's Body

A horror film with a wicked sense of humor, Jennifer's Body is about small town high school student Jennifer, who is possessed by a hungry demon. She transitions from being "high school evil" - gorgeous, stuck up and ultra-attitudinal - to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a meaty snack, and guys who never stood a chance with her, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer's insatiable appetite. Meanwhile, Jennifer's lifelong best friend Needy, long relegated to living in Jennifer's shadow, must step-up to protect the town's young men.

5 Movies I Watched As A Kid

1. Beetlejuice

A childless couple, Barbara and Adam, move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the HANDBOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED, which not only lets them know they're dead, but comes in handy when they learn that they can continue to live in their house, even though a new family--from the land of the living--is moving in. The new owners, fresh from the city, are quite a strange group themselves, and include the overpowering hipster mom Delia, her pompous SoHo interior designer Otho, her meek husband Charles, and their morose teenage daughter Lydia, who befriends the ghostly couple. Though the threesome attempt to scare Delia from ruining the house with redecoration and her unpleasant personality, their attempts fail. As a last resort, they call upon the services of the demented, terrifying, but hilarious 'bioexorcist,' 'Beetlejuice'.

2. My Girl

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall in love with her, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

3. Big

When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body literally overnight.

4. Secret Garden

Young Mary Lennox is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle in a cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. Mary briefly meets him, still mourning for the wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries. First she finds an overgrown secret garden, the favourite of her aunt and locked up since her death. Second, that she has a cousin, Colin, a sickly lad who has been told he must remain in bed out of the daylight at all times. Once Mary and another new friend, local lad Dickon, have brought the garden back to life they decide Colin must see it, a decision that will change several lives.

5. Edward Scissorhands

An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

Life In Transition

A short film by the creator of the animated television series 'Courage the Cowardly Dog', John R. Dilworth on life, death and rebirth.
Warning : Watch with an open mind.

Top 5 Attractive Men In Films

1. Chris Evans

Christopher Evans is an American actor and model. He is perhaps best known for his role in the films Not Another Teen Movie, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.


2. James McAvoy

James Andrew McAvoy  is a Scottish stage and screen actor known for his roles in Atonement, The Last King of Scotland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Penelope, Wanted, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, Becoming Jane, and the British TV series Shameless and Early Doors.


3. Ioan Gruffudd

Welsh Actor Ioan Gruffudd got his start at age 13 in the Welsh soap opera, "People of the Valley". At 18, he won a spot at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He won his first role in the TV film a few years later, in Poldark. After playing Oscar Wilde's lover in Wilde and Officer Lowe in Titanic, Gruffudd became a leading man in the Hornblower series of TV movies.

4. Patrick Dempsey

Actor Patrick Dempsey has lived two charming but separate lives on film and TV. From an exuberant, somewhat awkward charmer in college comedy films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he has morphed spectacularly into a dreamy, wavy-haired TV hunk of the new-age millennium and this seductive new image has since spilled off into romantic lead roles back on the large screen as a slightly offbeat, self-effacing Prince Charming type.

5. Al Pacino

One of the greatest actors in all of film history, Al Pacino established himself during one of film's greatest decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

Sucker Punch

The premise of the film is that Baby Doll ( Browning) and her kid sister are in anguish after the death of their mother. Their wicked stepfather is left out of his wife’s will. When the letch starts creeping up on her sleeping sister, Baby Doll grabs his gun, conveniently left in the drawer in his study, and attempts to shoot him. She misses him, but not her sister. Stepdad takes Baby Doll to a mental institution, leaving him free to lay claim on the estate. Baby Doll is quickly scheduled for a lobotomy, and just as the doctor is about to hammer her frontal lobe, the scene suddenly changes. The general setting is the same, but now the mental institution is a seedy gentlemen’s club, and the other inmates are burlesque dancers.
 The doctors and orderlies and security personnel become a dance instructor (Gugino), patrons and the sinister hustler Blue Jones (Isaac) who trades the girls’ misery for high roller cash.
Baby Doll very quickly concocts a plan to escape, and enlists the aid of her fellow dancers, Sweet Pea (Cornish), Rocket (Malone), Blondie (Hudgens), and Amber (Chung). The girls find themselves thrust into World War I trenches fighting clockwork zombies, battling orcs and dragons, dueling giant samurai warriors or fending off waves of Terminator-like robots on a speeding bullet train. Of course, things go south for the heroic ladies and they don’t all succeed in their escape.

Top 5 Libran Beauties

1. Catherine Deneuve

Born 22 October 1943
Catherine Deneuve was born in Paris, France, the third of four daughters. She made her movie debut as Catherine Dorleac in Les Collegiennes (1957), but later took her mother's maiden name so she wouldn't be confused with her elder sister, who was also an actress. She continued to appear in minor films until she was given a meaty part in Vice and Virtue. Although the elegant and always radiant Deneuve has never appeared on stage, she is universally hailed as one of the "grandes dames" of French cinema.

Quote
" But that's what I like about film - it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing."

2. Monica Belluci

Born 30 September 1964
Born in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debut on TV in 1990, and her American film debut in Dracula (1992).

Quote
" Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity."

3. Marion Cotillard

Born 30 September 1975
Born in Paris, Cotillard is the daughter of Jean Claud Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Raised in Orléans, France, she made her acting debut as a child with a role in one of her father's plays. She studied drama at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique in Orléans. Her turn as Piaf brought Cotillard the Oscar, the César (France's equivalent to the Oscar), a BAFTA award and a Golden Globe among other prizes. Trevor Nunn called her portrayal of "Piaf" "one of the greatest performances on film ever".

Quote
" I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.

4. Catherine Zeta Jones

Born 25 September 1969
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on 25 September 1969, in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Catherine showed an interest early on in entertainment.  She first made a name for herself in the early 1990s when she starred in the Yorkshire Television comedy/drama series 'The Darling Buds of May'.  She starred in many big-budget blockbusters like Entrapment, The Haunting and  Traffic.

Quote
"I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."


5. Olivia Newton John

Born 26 September 1948
Actress/singer Olivia Newton-John was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Her performance as Sandy Olsson in Grease is ranked #89 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. Shortly after the success of Grease was considered for the lead role in a film version of "Evita". She had recorded "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" on her 1977 album, "Making a Good Thing Better".

Quote
"There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."

All Things Venus In Scorpio (Films)

Here are the Best Movies, in my opinion, which potray the Infamous Venus In Scorpio Intensity and Obsession with ... whatever be the case.

1. BLACK SWAN

A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan ,Princess Odette, but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. Its kind of like the Scorpio theme of death and resurrection ...but only in a different way.

2. NOTES ON A SCANDAL

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of
her students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Check out the music composed by Philip Glass for the movie. It's completely Venus in Scorpio.

3. DAMAGE

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée. They pursue their affair with obsessive abandon despite the dangers of discovery and what it would do to his complacent life and his son. Completely obsessed, he wants to give up his current lifestyle to be with her. She has no intention of allowing him to do this, preferring to have her marriage to the son as a cover. They are eventually discovered, and must deal with the damage.

4. WUTHERING HEIGHTS

The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be done.

5. THE CRUSH

A journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her advances.

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

 A haunting movie based on a novel by Joan Lindsay. The story is as follows...

The students from Mrs. Appleyard's School for Girls - a kind of boarding finishing school where decorum and etiquette are the most important subjects - are going on an outing to Hanging Rock, a local geographical landmark. Only one of them, Sara, is being left behind. The reasons for her exclusion are unclear, but it could have something to do with her unhealthy attachment to Miranda. At Hanging Rock, as everyone including the chaperones, Miss McCraw and Mlle. de Poitiers lounges in the afternoon sun, four girls go on an expedition of the rock formation. Three of them do not return and the fourth, when she gets back, is in a state of hysteria. Also missing is Miss McCraw. The police are called in, but their search turns up nothing: no bodies and no signs of foul play. When one of the girls, Irma, is discovered unconscious but largely unharmed a week later, she is unable to provide any clue about the whereabouts of the others - her memory is a blank.

    

5 Romantic Films I Really Liked Watching

1. SHE'S ALL THAT

A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.
Romance Rating: 3.5/5

2. PUMPKIN

 A satirical comedy about a cheerful college sorority girl blissfully ignorant about anything being remotely flawed with existance in the slightest, but then finds herself drawn to a young disabled man named Pumpkin when her sorority helps his team out with their intramural activities and, against all the ideals she was raised with, she begins a reluctant relationship with him, forsaking the tennis star boyfriend that everyone idolizes her for.
Romance Rating: 4/5

3. A CINDERELLA STORY

                                    

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Montgomery is excited

about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
Romance Rating: 4.5/5

4. A WALK TO REMEMBER

 The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
Romance Rating: 5/5

5. ENCHANTED

A classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City in a story about a fairytale princess who is sent to our world by an evil queen. Soon after her arrival, Princess Giselle begins to change her views on life and love after meeting a handsome lawyer. Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Romance Rating: 4/5

Teardrops Are Falling

A song from the movie 'CryBaby' starring a young and rebellious Johnny Depp along with Amy Locane. (That isn't his real voice by the way)

Labyrinth Trailer

One of my favourite movie dance scenes starring the beautiful Jennifer Connelly and the super-awesome David Bowie. It's all about a young girl, Sarah and the fantasy world she's created for herself as a means of escape from reality. It's pretty entertaining seeing her and her not-so-charming Gobling King constantly squabbling with each another. The movie should've had a proper fairytale ending but it was kinda disappointing knowing that she'd made it all up.