Being a) a lover of cinema; b) a peruser of film books and movie criticism; and c) an enthusiast of online film sites, this is an attempt (with more lists to come) to combine the three, so that at a glance, you can see how the film you're interested in rates in the quite popular 'Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever'. I will update each list as future guides are printed. Just be patient--this is both a work in progress and a personal labour of love.
My raison d'etre is to eventually put ALL of the info from my various film guides on here, and to cross-reference them, putting them on these 'Videohound' entries, so that if you click 'Read Notes', then…
Being a) a lover of cinema; b) a peruser of film books and movie criticism; and c) an enthusiast of online film sites, this is an attempt (with more lists to come) to combine the three, so that at a glance, you can see how the film you're interested in rates in the quite popular 'Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever'. I will update each list as future guides are printed. Just be patient--this is both a work in progress and a personal labour of love.
My raison d'etre is to eventually put ALL of the info from my various film guides on here, and to cross-reference them, putting them on these 'Videohound' entries, so that if you click 'Read Notes', then a particular film, you could eventually have ALL of the information right there at your fingertips. I felt it'd be very helpful for me in my film research, and may prove helpful to others as well. I will spend about 4 hours a day on this, since I do that everyday anyway for my script research. It's no problem, really.
In my humble estimation, these would approximate the lowest tier of GOOD movies, and would value in the range from 6.0-7.0 on IMDb or similar scales (out of 10).
Description (from their 2016 edition): 'Technically well-made but often standard fare; won't make you yell at the screen too much.'
--William Wood; Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Code name: talisencrw) =)
Not included on Letterboxd so far from this category (please feel free to contact me at any time with any comments or updates):
Aristocrats (David Caffrey, 1999)
Banjo Hackett (TV-movie; Andrew V. McLaglen, 1976)
Big Bear (2-episode TV-miniseries; Gil Cardinal, 1998)
The Blackheath Poisonings (Stuart Orme, 1992)
Bloodlines (Philip Martin, 2005)
The Brontes of Haworth (Marc Miller, 1973)
Chaos and Cadavers (Niklaus Hilber, 2003)
The Charmer (Alan Gibson, 1987)
Circle of Deceit (Geoffrey Sax, 1994)
Columbo: Murder by the Book (TV-movie; Steven Spielberg, 1971)
Comeback (Christel Buschmann [Videohound spelled her name wrong], 1983)
The Confession (Bertram Bracken, 1920)
Cracker: Men Should Weep (Jean Stewart, 1994)
Cracker: The Big Crunch (Julian Jarrold, 1994)
Crash Course (Thomas Rickman, 2000)
Danger UXB (Roy Ward Baker, Douglas Camfield, Ferdinand Fairfax, Henry Herbert, simon Langton and Jeremy Summers, 1979)
Dark Justice (Jeff Freilich [not certain; it's a 99 minute distillation of 3 episodes of the TV series], 1991)
Day at the Beach (Nick Veronis, 1998)
Dementia (Woody Keith, 1998)
Diana: Her True Story (Kevin Connor, 1993)
Discretion Assured (Odorico Mendes, 1993)
Do or Die (Rowan Woods, 2001)
The Doorbell Rang: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (first or pilot episode TV-movie for 2-season/27-episode series; Timothy Hutton, 2001)
Dream West (3-episode TV-miniseries; Dick Lowry, 1986)
The Early Bird (Charles Hines, 1925)
Eat Your Heart Out (Felix O. Adlon, 1996)
The Ebb-Tide (TV-movie; Nicholas Renton, 1998)
Echoes (4-episode TV-miniseries; Barbara Rennie, 1988)
Edward the King (13-episode TV-miniseries; John Gorrie, 1975)
Edwin (TV-movie; Rodney Bennett, 1984)
Element of Doubt (Christopher Morahan, 1996)
Fallout (Robert Palumbo, 2001)
Flooding (Todd Portugal, 1997)
Frankenstein (two episodes of the 53-episode TV-series 'The Wide World of Mystery'; Glenn Jordan, 1973)
The Great Mike (Wallace Fox, 1944)
The Heat of the Day (TV-movie; Christopher Morahan, 1991)
High Stakes (TV-movie; Joyce Chopra, 1993)
Highlander: The Gathering (re-editing of Season 1 episodes from the 6-season, 119-episode TV-series; Thomas J. Wright and Ray Austin, 1992)
Hold the Dream (TV-movie; Don Sharp, 1986)
In the Lake of the Woods (TV-movie; Carl Schenkel, 1996)
Invasion: Earth (6-episode TV-miniseries; Richard Laxton and Patrick Lau, 1998)
The Inveterate Bachelor (Giorgio Bianchi, 1958)
JAG (two-part TV-movie that was pilot for the 10-season, 227-episode TV-series; Donald P. Bellisario, 1995)
Jane Doe (TV-movie; Ivan Nagy, 1983)
The Joe McDoakes Collection (63 short-films from 1942-56, all directed by Richard Bare)
Kings in Grass Castles (2-part TV-miniseries; John Woods, 1997)
The Lady's Not For Burning (TV-movie; Julian Amyes, 1987)
Land Girls (5-episode TV-miniseries; Paul Gibson, Steve Hughes and [though VideoHound forgot] Daniel Wilson, 2009)
The Last Debate (TV-movie; John Badham, 2000)
For the other 8 links in this series, here goes:
Videohound zero stars (or bones) out of 4 (latest edition): boxd.it/Fsdg
Videohound one star (or bone) rating out of 4 (latest edition): boxd.it/FsdA
Videohound 1 1/2 star (or bone) rating out of four (latest edition): boxd.it/FsdK
Videohound 2 star (or bone) rating out of 4 (latest edition)--Part I: boxd.it/FscM
Videohound 2 star (or bone) rating out of 4 (latest edition)--Part II: boxd.it/PHGC
Videohound 3 stars (or bones) rating out of four (latest edition): boxd.it/Fsee
Videohound 3 1/2 stars (or bones) rating out of four (latest edition): boxd.it/Fsey
Videohound 4 stars (or bones) rating out of four (latest edition): boxd.it/FseS
OCT. 21/2016 UPDATE: The ratings so far have been from the 2016 VHGMR (VideoHound Golden Movie Retriever). Weekly, I have checked amazon.com to see if/when the 2017 edition was to be released. Yesterday it was finally announced for, at least in the USA, a November 4th release date. When I get it, since I'm still in the process of each of these lists alphabetically, I will resume from that film, from then on, in the newest guide, then when I finish the Z's, I'll go back to add any new ones from the start of the book to where I left off at, if that makes any sense.