Index of High Definition (HD) Movies on HD Cinema & Monsters HD

[Sean Mota]

Puppet Master 2 (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630191547X.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Alex and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by a master puppeteer. But they quickly uncover the secret of death in the form of five killer puppets. The first in the series of multiple sequels</p>

Starring: Elizabeth Maclellan, Collin Bernsen Director: Dave Allen
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I love this series. I have not seen them all in sequence which is the right way to do it. But everyone of them varies in HD transfers. It ranges from very good to Excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Puppet Master 3:Toulons Revenge (1991)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630191547X.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> It's World War II Germany and the Nazis, experiencing heavy casualties, are desperate for Toulon's magical potion that brings his amazing puppets to life. When Toulon refuses to cooperate the Gestapo murders his beloved wife. Now it's time for revenge. </p>

Starring: Guy Rolfe, Ian Abercrombie, Sarah Douglas, Walter Gotell, Kristopher Logan Director: David DeCoteau
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I love this series. I have not seen them all in sequence which is the right way to do it. But everyone of them varies in HD transfers. It ranges from very good to Excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Puppet Master 4: The Demon (1993)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630191547X.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The puppets take on the Totems, evil twins stealing their energy. With the help of a new puppet, "Decapitron," they may emerge victorious. </p>

Starring: Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Jason Adams, Teresa Hill, Guy Rolfe Director: Jeff Burr
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I love this series. I have not seen them all in sequence which is the right way to do it. But everyone of them varies in HD transfers. It ranges from very good to Excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Puppet Master 5: Final Chapter (1994)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303200915.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The band of living puppets go up against a demonic pharaoh from another dimension who controls his own band of murderous puppets. Not in fact the final chapter, this was followed by CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER </p>

Starring: Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ian Ogilvy, Teresa Hill Director: Jeff Burr
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I love this series. I have not seen them all in sequence which is the right way to do it. But everyone of them varies in HD transfers. It ranges from very good to Excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Night of the Demons (1988)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000EZWR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> A Halloween night funeral parlor break-in by a group of prankster teens goes hellishly awry when they stir an evil force into action. </p>

Starring: Alvin Alexis, Cathy Podewell Director: Kevin Tenney
Studio: Republic Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 both of them I liked. You can see that I am a horror/monsters freak. I love them.

 

[Sean Mota]

Night of the Demons 2 (1994)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303148409.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> It's trick-or-treat time as Angela, the Mistress of Mayhem, returns to transform another Halloween into a night of sheer terror for the libidinous, trespassing teens from St. Rita's Academy. Features state-of-the-art special makeup effects. </p>

Starring: Bobby Jacoby, Amelia Kinkade, Zoe Trilling Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Studio: Republic Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 both of them I liked. You can see that I am a horror/monsters freak. I love them.

 

[Sean Mota]

Friday the 13th Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000069I0C.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> It's trick-or-treat time as Angela, the Mistress of Mayhem, returns to transform another Halloween into a night of sheer terror for the libidinous, trespassing teens from St. Rita's Academy. Features state-of-the-art special makeup effects. </p>

Starring: Kane Hodder, Jensen Daggett Director: Rob Hedden
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 HD transfer was very good but the movie itself was not IMHO. I enjoyed some of the series but not this one.

 

[Sean Mota]

Night Angel (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-lg.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> Only true love can withstand the power of Lilith, a demon seductress who, with her long nails, can rip out a man's heart. </p>

Starring: Isa Andersen Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard
Studio: Delta Library Compan Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 1.0 Stars Did not like it at all. I thought the plot was to obvious. The transfer was very good.

TheTimm: 2.5 stars : At first glance you may be tempted to dismiss this as another crappy low-budget horror flick. Don't. This movie manages to overcome the nonsensical story and laughably bad acting with some creative bloodletting and generous helpings of nudity - frequently allowing the two to intermingle. A few hella-cool scenes, a few hot chicks, very good PQ, good sound, and some creative movie-making make this worthwhile.

 

[Sean Mota]

No Man's Land (2001)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000060MUZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Danis Tanovic's Academy Award®-winning satire of the war in the Balkans is an astounding balancing act, an acidic black comedy grounded in the brutality and horror of war. Stuck in an abandoned trench between enemy lines, a Serb and a Bosnian play the blame game in a comic tit-for-tat struggle while a wounded Bosnian soldier lies helplessly on a land mine. A French tank unit of the U.N.'s humanitarian force (known locally as "the Smurfs"), a scheming British TV reporter, a German mine defuser, and the U.N. high command (led by a bombastically ineffectual Simon Callow) all become tangled in the chaotic rescue as the tenuous cease-fire is only a spark away from detonation. Tanovic directs with a ferocious, angry eloquence and makes his points with vivid metaphors and a savage humor as harrowing as it is hilarious. Searing and smart, this satire carries an emotional recoil. --Sean Axmaker </p>

Starring: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac Director: Danis Tanovic
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 star. I liked this movie and the conflict that it showed in the middle of a war. The hd transfer was excellent. I really thought that somehow the end was going to be different.

 

[Sean Mota]

Animals Are Beautiful People (1975)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008MTY4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> On the short list for the "world's toughest place to live" award, Southwest Africa's Namib Desert houses a wealth of intriguing creatures, featured in Jamie Uys's Animals are Beautiful People. As various beasts, bugs, fish, and fowl appear, a soft-spoken narrator pinpoints behaviors that mirror human ones, often inventing whimsical tales meant to inspire chuckles or sighs. A male wart hog, a "homely bachelor," lands a "wife" with a penchant for redecorating his burrow; austere maribou glower like disapproving undertakers; a billowy, nameless fish is called a dizzy blonde. Uys's respect for the harsh lifestyle these creatures endure clearly displays itself amid the comical sound effects and Fantasia-lite melodies that infuse the 90-minute show. The result: a richly informative, beautifully filmed lesson in the power of adaptation and the lush wildlife that inhabits the cradle of civilization. Six years after completing this project, Uys went on to create The Gods Must Be Crazy. (Ages 5 and older) --Liane Thomas </p>

Starring: Director: Jamie Uys
Studio: Warner Home Video Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 stars. quite surprised to see this documentary on HD Cinema. You can see that it was done on film and some parts of if show grainy. It was quite good and I watched it with my kids who really liked it.

 

[Sean Mota]

One Million Years B.C. (1967)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00018D3ZA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Raquel Welch in a two-piece fur bikini. That and the title is pretty much all anyone needs to know. If that indeed isn't enough, there are the dinosaurs of technician-artist Ray Harryhausen (along with some superimposed iguanas), and a prologue that tells you all you want to know about this "brutal world." Want more? There are volcanoes, barehanded wrestling with warthogs, and rival, subhuman, cannibalistic tribes--Lord, the list goes on and on! The portrait of humankind isn't the most flattering: we're petty, greedy, we grunt a lot, and we don't play well with others. Welch portrays a cavewoman from the tribe of the Blondes trying to make a life for herself with an outcast from the tribe of the Brunettes, which doesn't sit well with anybody. --Keith Simanton </p>

Starring: Raquel Welch Director: Don Chaffey
Studio: Fox Home Entertainme Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 1.0 There's only one positive about this movie - Rachel Welch in her young years with a few clothes on.

 

[Sean Mota]

Mac and Me (1988)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000399WS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> When a mysterious alien creature (Mac) is accidently picked up by an American space probe and brought back to Earth, he finds himself in the home and eventually the heart of a handicapped boy who helps him reunite with his family and return to his own planet. </p>

Starring: Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward Director: Stewart Raffill Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 2 stars : Good PQ and surprisingly good surround sound. Movie sucks. Watches less like a movie and more like a two-hour commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola, not to mention Wickes, Skittles, Carnation, Volkswagen, etc. Don't think I've ever seen so much product placement - especially for Mac's and Coke. Ridiculous. Should've been titled "Mac's and Coke".

 

[Sean Mota]

Purple Hearts (1984)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300271609.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare </p>

Starring: Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd Director: Sidney J. Furie Studio: Warner Studios Aspect ratio 2:35:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 2 stars: Nothing here that hasn't been done before, and better, elsewhere. The sound is pretty good, though - and the PQ's alright. Ken Wahl cannot act. Cheryl Ladd is pretty, but hardly a candidate for Best Actress herself.

Sean Mota: 2.0 HD tranfers was of poor quality. Main reason, I think, it was not shown OAR. The movie itself was too long and I did not like it. Too much grainy and very soft.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Miracle (1991)

<p><img border="0" src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-lg.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance. </p>

Starring: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann Director: Neil Jordan Studio: Miramax Films Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 3 stars : Whoa. I was surprised by how satisfying I found this movie - a melancholy tale that kinda leaves ya sad. A sublime soundtrack of saxophone and piano -- and a surround mix to show it off. Add in some good PQ and acting and ya come up with a winner. Nothing really exciting happening - no big payoff, but a winner nonetheless.

 

[Sean Mota]

House of Games (1987)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304108877.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut was this mesmerizing study of control and seduction between two kinds of detached observers: a gambler who is also a con artist, and a psychotherapist who is also an emerging pop-psych guru in the book market. The latter (played by Lindsay Crouse) meets the former (Joe Mantegna) when one of her clients is driven to despair from his debts to the card shark. Mantegna's character agrees to drop the IOUs in exchange for Crouse's attention at the seedy House of Games in Seattle, a mecca for con men to talk shop and hustle unsuspecting customers. The shrink gets so caught up in the arcane rules and world view of her guide over subsequent days that she observes--with no false rapture--various stings in progress inside and outside the club. Mamet's story finally becomes a fascinating study of two people protecting and extending their respective cosmologies the way rival predators fight for the same piece of turf. The psychological challenge is compelling; so is the stylized dialogue, with its pattern of pauses and hiccups and humming meter. Mostly shooting at night, Mamet also gave Seattle a different look from previous filmmakers, turning its familiar puddles into concentrations of liquid neon and poisonous noir. --Tom Keogh </p>

Starring: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna Director: David Mamet
Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Aspect ratio 1:85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 not bad not bad at all. It was quite good but a little predictable. I knew she was getting scammed. HD transfer was not outstanding but it was ok.

TheTimm: 2 stars : Didn't do much for me. The PQ was good, as was the sound. I just didn't find the story as clever as I suspect it was supposed to be. Had trouble holding my interest.

 

[Sean Mota]

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304411391.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Robert Altman was often ahead of his time--once at the cost of being behind himself. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, a snorting exposé of the U.S. predilection for buying into heroic myths, opened on July 4, 1976. Clearly the film was positioned as the ultimate bicentennial event, Altman-style. But Altman had already delivered that a year earlier: the splendiferous, deeply disenchanted yet exhilarating Nashville. Both Nashville and Buffalo Bill are films about America-as-show business, hucksterism, and the rare miracle of performance. But everything Altman got so thrillingly right in Nashville, which teems with life and mystery and widescreen dynamism, came out flatfooted and obvious in Buffalo Bill, a cramped, smirky inside joke that ends up being on the joker.
The setting is the base camp for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, where the blustering Indian fighter of legend is gearing up for his latest national tour. Apart from sharpshooter Annie Oakley (Geraldine Chaplin) and her great friend, the Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull (Frank Kaquitts), the show is populated by phonies and opportunists. Biggest phony of all is Cody (Paul Newman), whose fame has been based more on the penny-dreadful scribblings of Ned Buntline (Burt Lancaster) than on any real accomplishments; even his long blond tresses are fake. Altman and cowriter Alan Rudolph (working from a play by Arthur Kopit) thump their insights about the Establishment's feet of clay as if they were breaking-news bulletins instead of countercultural clichés. Only the occasional ineffably mysterious Altman zoom shot offers relief. --Richard T. Jameson </p>

Starring: Paul Newman, Joel Grey Director: Robert Altman
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

TVlman: Just watched a delightful film by Robert Altman on VOOM Cinema 10; "Buffalo Bill and The Indians" with Paul Newman, Will Sampson, Harvey Keitel,Burt Lancaster and many others. If the real west wasn't to Bill's liking he simply changed it to conform to the way he thought it should have been. High moment is when he hires Sitting Bull to re-enact Custer's Last Stand and when SB tells him how it really happened he doesn't like it so he re-invents it. Paul Newman is excellent as the whiskey-drinking myth-making legend and Robert Altman tells the story in his own style of overlapping dialgoue (M*A*S*H).

Also playing today is "Our Man In Havana" the Graham Greene satire on government agents and spies during the cold war. Alec Guiness plays a vacuum cleaner salesman who is lured by Noel Coward into helping his government in the spy game. Ernie Kovacs is also along for the laughs.

It's great to see these classic films in HDTV.

 

[Sean Mota]

Lord of the Flies (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005O06X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the Lord of the Flies dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun." Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. --Keith Simanton </p>

Starring: Balthazar Getty Director: Harry Hook Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 3.5 stars : Not exactly Lord Of The Rings, but pretty good nonetheless. PQ was only okay, but did have some really nice shots. Sound was good - above average. I found the acting to be really bad (I know they're just kids, but damn! -- most kids you come across on the street could do better than some of these guys!), but I really like the story itself, although I've never read the book, which is supposed to be a classic.

Dvlos: I've read the book and have seen the movie, the HD transfer is as good as it's going to get. It's hard to watch some of these kid acting scenes and not cringe, but still there morale of the story and the fall of humanity is an interesting reflection against how they first started out. Target audience is really pre-teen/teen I think.

 

[Sean Mota]

In the Mood (1987)

<p><img border="0" src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-lg.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> This teenage comedy for adults tells the true story of the unlikely hero the tabloids dubbed "The Woo Woo Kid." Husbands and the law couldn't quite approve of Wisecarver's antics with older women. But the older women couldn't resist. </p>

Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Talia Balsam, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Constantine Director: Phil Alden Robinson Studio: Warner Bros. Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 4 stars : Really liked this movie! Good story that keeps moving along - and it's pretty tongue-in-cheek funny in spots, too! Patrick Dempsey is really good as the Woo Woo dude. Picture was a little grainy at times and not all that great, but with such a good tale I didn't really mind - and it wasn't that bad either (I thought the quick shot in the sewer early on was really cool!). Loved the sound, especially the surround mix on the music - jazzy big band stuff that sounded very good and added a lot to the feel of the film.

 

[Sean Mota]

Red Corner (1997)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304883773.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Using a faulty thriller for his soapbox as an outspoken critic of China, a devout follower of the Dalai Lama, and an influential supporter of Tibetan freedom, Richard Gere resorts to the equivalent of propagandistic drama to deliver a heavy-handed message. In other words, Red Corner relies on a dubious strategy to promote political awareness, but director Jon Avnet appeals to the viewer's outrage with such effective urgency that you're likely to forget you're being shamelessly manipulated. Gere plays a downtrodden TV executive who sells syndicated shows on the global market, and during a business trip to China he finds himself framed for the murder of the sexy daughter of a high Chinese official. Once trapped in a legal system in which his innocence will be all but impossible to prove, Gere must rely on a Chinese-appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) who first advises him to plead guilty but gradually grows convinced of foul play. Barely attempting to hide its agenda, Red Corner effectively sets the stage for abundant anti-Chinese sentiment, and to be sure, the movie gains powerful momentum with its tale of justice gone awry. It's a serious-minded, high-intensity courtroom drama with noble intentions ... but did it have to be so conspicuously lacking in subtlety? --Jeff Shannon </p>

Starring: Richard Gere, Ling Bai Director: Jon Avnet Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 1:85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Walter L.: 3.5 starts: Controversial as it clearly criticize the Chinese legal system. Perhaps not the best acting of Richard Gere, but Ling Bai is superb. Definitely, a movie worth watching and a good HD transfer.

 

[Sean Mota]

Article 99 (1992)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009Y3Q2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> A group of doctors in a veteran's hospital must contend with their hopeless situation: too many patients and not enough beds. The main cause of their problems is bureaucratic belt-tightening by the hospital administrators. The doctors are determined to give the best service they can, even if that means defying the orders of management and performing unauthorized operations. </p>

Starring: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland Director: Howard Deutch Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Aspect ratio 1:85:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm.: 3.5 stars : Watch this movie. You'll like it. Really good cast with lots of familiar names and faces. Very good PQ and sound. And a good story involving hypocrisy at a veteran's hospital. Only thing I didn't care for were the parts where it tried to be funny - just didn't work; this is not a comedy and is quite good when it doesn't try to be.