In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother’s diary. Read More »
Daily Archives: December 8, 2018
My Gal Sal (1942) Irving Cummings, Rita Hayworth, Victor Mature, John Sutton
Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer Read More »
The Petrified Forest (1973) Masahiro Shinoda, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi
Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Read More »
The Outsider (1939) Paul L. Stein, George Sanders, Mary Maguire, Barbara Blair
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon – and falls in love with her in the process. Read More »
The Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore
Nerd. Milquetoast. Klutz. These are just three of the many undesirable words that can be used to describe Professor Julius Kelp. Read More »
Images in a Convent (1979) Joe D’Amato, Paola Senatore, Marina Hedman, Paola Maiolini
Locked behind the walls of a convent are an order of beautiful nuns whose vows force them to forget the pleasures of sexual contact. Read More »
Count Three and Pray (1955) George Sherman, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey
This laid-back western manages to deliver a full quota of action, an agreeable dash of sentiment, and quite a few three-dimensional characterizations. Read More »
Black Samson (1974) Charles Bail, Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. Read More »
Smoke Signal (1955) Jerry Hopper, Dana Andrews, Piper Laurie, Rex Reason
Capt. Harper’s cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. Read More »
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Raoul Walsh, Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie
Set in the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Read More »
Mystery Junction (1951) Michael McCarthy, Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Martin Benson
Larry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Read More »
Karaoke Terror (2003) Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryûhei Matsuda, Kayoko Kishimoto, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. Read More »
Meteor (1979) Ronald Neame, Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid “Orpheus” is heading toward Earth. Read More »
The Inheritance (1976) Mauro Bolognini, Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth… Read More »
Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) Kaneto Shindô, Daijirô Harada, Nobuko Otowa, Keiko Torii
After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku Read More »