The story concerns a special undercover squad attached to the Rome police force and commanded by Inspector Betti. Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2018
Affliction (1996) Mark Hejnar, GG Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, Documentary
This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman’s Sampler of sickness Read More »
The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Drama, Sport
“Fast” Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. Read More »
The Seventh Cross (1944) Fred Zinnemann, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Drama, War
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) Yasuzô Masumura, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Tamao Nakamura, Comedy, Drama
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. Read More »
The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo (1961) Claude Autant-Lara, Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Action, Adventure, Drama
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d’If. Read More »
Pony Express (1953) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, History, Romance, Western
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Read More »
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983) Claude Goretta, Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Drama
A TV journalist and his assistant come to interview a sociologist whose books deal with world hunger Read More »
Heat Street (1988) Joseph Merhi, Del Zamora, Quincy Adams Jr., Wendy MacDonald, Action
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. Read More »
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 »