The titular “tarantula” is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Massacre Gun (1967) Yasuharu Hasebe, Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Yôko Yamamoto, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Read More »
Face of a Fugitive (1959) Paul Wendkos, Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Western
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. Read More »
Hakase no aishita sûshiki / The Professor and His Beloved Equation (2006) Takashi Koizumi, Akira Terao, Eri Fukatsu, Takanari Saito, Drama, Family, Romance
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
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The Ghost Goes Wild (1947) George Blair, James Ellison, Anne Gwynne, Edward Everett Horton, Fantasy, Comedy, Mystery
Monty Crandall is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. Read More »
La Terra Trema / The Earth Trembles (1948) Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono, Drama
Poor Sicilian fishers are exploited by fish wholesalers. One of the families is trying to escape them by being their own boss. But fate nobody helps them, and even fate is against them. Read More »
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, John Carroll Lynch, Comedy
The American senate, in order to improve it’s fast declining global image, asks comedian Albert Brooks to write a 500 page document about what makes Muslims laugh in India and Pakistan. Read More »
I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) Mario Monicelli, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Comedy, Crime
Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Read More »
Julia Has Two Lovers (1990) Bashar Shbib, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day. Read More »
Crazy Knights / Ghost Crazy (1944) William Beaudine, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Three goofy guys (Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom) run into ghosts, a gorilla and a haunted house. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Film Before Film (1986) Werner Nekes, Documentary
An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the “prehistory” of cinema. Read More »
Fire Down Below (1957) Robert Parrish, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Adventure, Drama
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. Read More »
Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki, Biography, Drama
In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama
Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »