This made-for-television adaptation doesn’t waste time with preliminaries. Read More »
Daily Archives: December 9, 2018
Murder with Mirrors (1985) Dick Lowry, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills
Christian Gilbranson, Miss Marple’s lawyer, persuades her to visit the baronial estate of his step-mother Read More »
The Restless Years (1958) Helmut Käutner, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »
Chappaqua (1966) Conrad Rooks, Jean-Louis Barrault, William S. Burroughs
The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. Read More »
Film Adventurer Karel Zeman (2015) Tomas Hodan, Tim Burton, Tony Dalton, Kamil Fila
A biographical film looking back at the life, work and significance of the genius of world cinema. Read More »
The Balloon Goes Up (1942) Redd Davis, Ethel Revnell, Ronald Shiner, Donald Peers
The Balloon Goes Up is a British amalgam of music hall vulgarities and radio one-liners. Read More »
Star Dust (1940) Walter Lang, Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young
Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she’s too young. Read More »
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »