My Movie Picks

Movie Title: Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1959) {Where Are They? (#3.12)}

Bob — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:01:39 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: The small California town of Chico is suddenly subjected to a bizarre occurrence–every day at precisely 3:00 p.m., the town is bombarded by a rainstorm of rocks. Then someone realizes that this phenomenon began the day a strange inventor arrived in town, claiming that he could turn water into gasoline.

Movie Title: Comic Book Confidential (1988)

Bob — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:03:27 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: This film explores the history and major talents of one of North America’s true native, but grossly underappreciated artforms from the invention in the 1930′s to the alternative scene today.

Movie Title: Doctor at Large (1957)

Bob — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:10:29 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital’s governors and finally gets his place on the staff.

Movie Title: Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

Bob — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:19:42 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President’s most trusted advisors.

Movie Title: Colors (1988)

Bob — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:28:47 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.

Movie Title: Fragile (2006/I)

Bob — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:03:16 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: A riptide occurs when 2 opposing natural currents collide. ‘Fragile’ is a non-conventional tale about a married woman who goes through a mid-life crisis and who finds self-liberation after an encounter with a photographer with a strange offer while her husband is on the hunt for a rapist.

Movie Title: Terminator: SkyNET (1996) (VG)

Bob — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:11:15 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Set in the doomed future of the original movie. Following a report about suspicious Skynet (the bots) activity John Connor orders you to go to an old missile base. Inside you learn of an old nuclear missile known as Hades essentially the most powerful nuclear weapon ever made. Skynet plans to launch the missile against the surviving resistance. You have to run/drive/fly/battle your way through Skynets defenses to the missile launch platform and destroy it launches and the resistance is destroyed.

Movie Title: Great Whaleback Steamer, Christopher Columbus, The (1903)

Bob — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:28:00 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: As it wends its way on the great lakes to the City of Milwaukee from Chicago. A great vessel bound from a great city, and the largest passenger boat in the world. This boat has a license to carry four thousand people, and carries that many almost daily.

Movie Title: Stepfather III (1992) (TV)

Bob — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:08:45 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: That psycho stepfather has escaped from the insane asylum and had his face surgically altered. Now he’s married again, this time to a woman with a child in a wheelchair. He goes on a killing spree once again.

Movie Title: All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, The (1986)

Bob — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:19:08 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: An updated version of the classic Hanna-Barbera mystery cartoon. Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo travel from town to town in their van, The Mystery Machine, solving cases of hauntings, monsters and unexplained occurrences. In this series, the gang is joined by Scooby’s pint-sized nephew, Scrappy-Doo. Unlike his uncle, little Scrappy is constantly looking for a fight, and it is all Scooby and Shaggy can do to keep him from hurtling head-on into every ghost and monster they encounter. Of course, after doing a little investigating, most of these ghosts and monsters turn out not to be so scary after all.