The chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the Falcon Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Chilly Scenes of Winter / Head Over Heels (1979) Joan Micklin Silver, John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles is a Salt Lake City civil servant who loves (*LOVES*) Laura, a lovely housewife with a lovely step-daughter and an A-frame-selling, ex-quarterback husband named Ox. Read More »
Angels in the Outfield (1951) Clarence Brown, Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
A young woman reporter blames the Pittsburgh Pirates’ losing streak on the obscenely abusive manager. Read More »
Angels Die Hard (1970) Richard Compton, Tom Baker, William Smith, Carl Steppling, Action, Drama
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster. Read More »
El Akhar / The Other (1999) Youssef Chahine, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Nabila Ebeid, Drama, Romance
Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world Read More »
The Great Garrick (1937) James Whale, Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Romance
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Read More »
The Divorcee (1930) Robert Z. Leonard, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Romance, Drama
Jerry and Ted are young, in love, and part of the New York ‘in-crowd’. Jerry’s decision to marry Ted crushes a yearning Paul. Read More »
Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears / Los amigos (1973) Paolo Cavara, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Pamela Tiffin, Western
Set in 1830’s Texas just after the Republic won its independence from Mexico. The Republic’s future is in doubt, with various factions and foreign powers hoping to sway matters to their own advantage. Read More »
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) Leo McCarey, Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Drama, Family
Father O’Malley, the unconventional priest from ‘Going My Way’, continues his work for the Catholic Church. Read More »
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli / Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) Francesco Rosi, Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Drama
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Read More »
The Clock (1945) Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Drama, Romance
Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. Read More »
Land of Mine / Under sandet (2015) Martin Zandvliet, Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Drama, History, War
In the wake of the Second World War, the Danish authorities force thousands of German prisoners of war to defuse the millions of mines buried on Danish beaches.
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Calling Homicide (1956) Edward Bernds, Bill Elliott, Don Haggerty, Kathleen Case, Crime, Drama
The third of five films (Dial Red-O, Sudden Danger, Calling Homicide, Chain of Evidence, and Footsteps in the Night in release order and released across a full period of three years) in which Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant Read More »
Breaking Home Ties (1987) John Wilder, Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, Doug McKeon, Drama
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the lessons in becoming a man. Read More »
Mysterious Island (1961) Cy Endfield, Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. Read More »