In 1926, Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone branch made movie history with its “sound-on-disc” recording process, and the studio-within-a-studio would go on to make a variety of short subjects Read More »
Daily Archives: April 24, 2018
Touch (1997) Paul Schrader, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray Read More »
Take Me High (1973) David Askey, Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Merchant banker Tim, excited to hear he’s to go to New York, is sent to Birmingham instead to pressure a small struggling restaurant. Read More »
Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) Richard Bartlett, Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Comedy, Music
Jimmy Daley and Angelo Barrato are teenage members of a band who learn of a contest that they believe will bring them fame. Read More »
Mister Rock and Roll (1957) Charles S. Dubin, Alan Freed, Teddy Randazzo, Lois O’Brien, Drama, Musical
Alan Freed is “Mr. Rock and Roll” as he sets out to prove that rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t cause juvenile delinquency. Terrific original rock ‘n’ roll legends perform their classics! Read More »
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Roger Corman, Charles B. Griffith, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Comedy, Horror
Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Read More »
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) François Girard, Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Biography, Drama, Music
As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films Read More »
Wives (1975) Anja Breien, Anne Marie Ottersen, Katja Medbøe, Frøydis Armand, Comedy, Drama
Though they were friends in school, the three women in this movie have not kept in touch. When they meet at an alumni meeting, they go off on a three-day jaunt together. Read More »
Escalation (1968) Roberto Faenza, Lino Capolicchio, Claudine Auger, Gabriele Ferzetti, Comedy
1968, London. Luca (Lino Capolicchio), the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties Read More »
Zoo in Budapest (1933) Rowland V. Lee, Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Drama, Romance
Flamboyant Zani grew up and works in the zoo. He loves animals so much that he steals animal furs from the women who wear them. Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Blessed Event (1943) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Comedy
Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat’s new kittens. Read More »
Mexican Spitfires Elephant (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Comedy, Romance
A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Read More »
Wheres Charley? (1952) David Butler, Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Shackleton, Comedy, Musical
From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas’s 1890’s farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate’s aunt from Brazil–“where the nuts come from.” Read More »
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942) Leslie Goodwins, Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Comedy
The troubles begin when, in the absence of Lord Epping, his you partner, Dennis and the latter’s Aunt Della open up Eppings’ Read More »
The Sun Also Rises (1957) Henry King, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Drama
Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafés. Read More »