Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy “Medea” (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2018
The Perfect Specimen (1937) Michael Curtiz, Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Comedy
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection Read More »
Show Them No Mercy! (1935) George Marshall, Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot, Crime, Drama
The title refers to the government’s plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. Read More »
La morte-saison des amours / The Season for Love (1961) Pierre Kast, Françoise Arnoul, Daniel Gélin, Pierre Vaneck, Comedy, Drama
Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. Read More »
Disgraced (1933) Erle C. Kenton, Helen Twelvetrees, Bruce Cabot, Adrienne Ames, Mystery, Romance
A lovely fashion model’s dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. Read More »
Burger Boys (1999) Lav Diaz, Gerald Madrid, Marcus Madrigal, Marco Salvador, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Four high school friends hatch a plan for a farcical heist that sends them spiraling into a series of surreal events littered with clowns Read More »
Blind Date (1934) Roy William Neill, Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Comedy, Romance
A class vs class tale of a model at a department store that supports her family who’s torn between two rival beaus Read More »
Battle Stations (1956) Lewis Seiler, John Lund, William Bendix, Keefe Brasselle, Drama, War
A rebuilt WWII carrier sails back to the Pacific theater to rejoin the war in early 1945, a carrier the Japanese think they sank. Read More »
Bachelor of Hearts (1958) Wolf Rilla, Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann. Read More »
Theres Always Tomorrow (1956) Douglas Sirk, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Drama, Romance
Clifford Groves, toy manufacturer, is in full charge at the factory but feels left out and taken for granted by his wife and children at home. Read More »
Le capitaine Fracasse / Captain Fracasse (1943) Abel Gance, Fernand Gravey, Assia Noris, Jean Weber, Drama
A destitute baron joins a troupe of travelling actors. Read More »
The Bride with White Hair (1993) Ronny Yu, Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Francis Ng, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance, Action
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan’s forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. Read More »
Un chapeau de paille d’Italie / An Italian Straw Hat (1928) René Clair, Alice Tissot, Alexis Bondireff, Marise Maia, Comedy
On his way through the woods to his marriage, Fadinard’s horse eats the hat of a married lady spending here a few moments with her lover. Read More »
Crystal Fist / Jade Claw (1979) Shan Hua, Billy Chong, Siu Tin Yuen, Chiu-Sing Hau, Action, Drama
A young man vows revenge against the killers of his father. To do this, he must train with his father’s teacher who teaches him the “Shadow Claw” Read More »
Where Love Has Gone (1964) Edward Dmytryk, Bette Davis, Susan Hayward, Mike Connors, Drama
After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife’s current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subsequent events which led to the tragedy. Read More »