Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as “The Bat”. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2017
I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975) Peter Sasdy, Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Horror
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Read More »
A Gathering of Old Men (1987) Volker Schlöndorff, Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Drama
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. Read More »
Dark Odyssey (1961) William Kyriakis, Radley Metzger, Athan Karras, Jeanne Jerrems, David Hooks, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Yianni Martakis, a sailor immigrant in New York City, is on a mission to find and kill the man who raped his sister. Read More »
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972) Dick Richards, Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Western
Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. Read More »
Enemy Agent (1940) Lew Landers, Richard Cromwell, Helen Vinson, Robert Armstrong, Adventure, Mystery
A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are. Read More »
Crimewave (1985) Sam Raimi, Louise Lasser, Brion James, Paul L. Smith, Comedy, Crime, Horror
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair. Read More »
Voice in the Wind (1944) Arthur Ripley, Francis Lederer, Sigrid Gurie, J. Edward Bromberg, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Nazis during the war for playing a banned song. Read More »
A Circle of Deception (1960) Jack Lee, Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Drama, Romance, War
In 1944, prior to the Allied landings in Normandy, British Intelligence is anxious to mislead the Germans regarding the actual landing sites. Read More »
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001) Paul Cox, Derek Jacobi, Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Biography, Music, Drama, Documentary
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky’s diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife. Read More »
Girl, Interrupted (1999) James Mangold, Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Drama
Susanna is depressed and directionless after finishing high school in the late 1960’s. A suicide attempt lands her in Claymore, a mental institution. Read More »
London Blackout Murders (1943) George Sherman, John Abbott, Mary McLeod, Lloyd Corrigan, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the dark days of World War II, young Mary Tillet is bombed out of her home and forced to seek lodgings upstairs from a tobacconist. Read More »
Judex (1916) Louis Feuillade, René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Adventure, Crime, Drama
The fraudulent banker receives a Favraux with Judex , signed request to replace his victims the damage , otherwise he would not survive the day. Read More »
Innocence (2000) Paul Cox, Julia Blake, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Drama
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Read More »
Charlie Bubbles (1967) Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw, Comedy, Drama
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous Read More »