A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. Read More »
Daily Archives: February 23, 2018
A Constant Forge (2000) Charles Kiselyak, Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight, Documentary, Biography, Romance
A long look at John Cassavetes’s films, life (1929-1989), and exploration of how people love. Read More »
Fear Me Not (2008) Kristian Levring, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Emma Sehested Høeg, Drama, Thriller
42-year-old Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig – without telling his family. Read More »
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Delbert Mann, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Drama
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. Read More »
Defence of the Realm (1986) David Drury, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Thriller
A reporter Mullen ‘stumbles’ on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. Read More »
The Subterraneans (1960) Ranald MacDougall, Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Drama
Leo is a 28 year old writer who doesn’t have any friends because he finds normal people too shallow and so he hasn’t found love. Read More »
Les cousins (1959) Claude Chabrol, Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Drama
Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul’s flat. Read More »
Punchline (1988) David Seltzer, Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Steven Gold is a stand-up comedian who is flat broke and has recently dropped out of medical school. Read More »
La vallée / The Valley (1972) Barbet Schroeder, Jérôme Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy, Michael Gothard, Drama
Viviane, a French Consul’s wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. Read More »
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. Read More »
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Terence Davies, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies’s autobiographical series (‘Trilogy’, ‘The Long Day Closes’) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies’s own family. Read More »
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) Joseph M. Newman, Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Western
Bat Masterson doesn’t look for trouble, but he doesn’t walk away from it. When an army sergeant in Hays City tries to kill Bat and dies for his trouble Read More »