Molly and her troupe of dancing girls and “entertainers”, sent for by saloon owner “Sometime” Smith Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2019
The Raven (1943) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
A vicious series of poison-pen letters spreads rumours, suspicion and fear among the inhabitants of a small French town Read More »
The Spider (1931) Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel
The great Chartrand (Edmund Lowe) can make people disappear and his assistant, Alexander, dazzles the crowd with his psychic abilities. Read More »
Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes (1986) Piotr Szulkin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura
Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world Read More »
Car Cemetery (1983) Fernando Arrabal, Alain Bashung, Juliet Berto, Micha Bayard
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal’s outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. Read More »
Beyond Therapy (1987) Robert Altman, Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson
This is an insane and fast-paced romantic comedy about a bizarre dinner date among Bruce (Goldblum) Read More »
A Star Is Born (1976) Frank Pierson, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
Talented rock star John Norman Howard has seen his career begin to decline. Read More »
Within the Woods (1978) Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Mary Valenti
A group of friends spend a weekend at a remote cabin, and one of them accidentally desecrates an Indian burial ground. Read More »
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) George Sherman, Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland
Mexico, 1915. US bank robber Tom Bryan hopes to retire to Mexico Read More »
Mary Poppins (1964) Robert Stevenson, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
When Jane and Michael, the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family Read More »
All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse, Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
Joe Gideon is a Broadway director, choreographer and filmmaker Read More »
Mademoiselle (2001) Philippe Lioret, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Candelier, Zinedine Soualem
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Read More »
Gong Tau: An Oriental Black Magic (2007) Herman Yau, Mark Cheng, Maggie Siu, Suet Lam
Bearing the same Chinese-language title as the 1975 Shaw Brothers shocker Black Magic Read More »
Mad Enough to Kill (1975) Yves Boisset, Marlène Jobert, Tomas Milian, Thomas Waintrop
Julie Ballenger has spent the last five years in a psychiatric clinic. Read More »
Young Dr. Freud (1976) Axel Corti, Karlheinz Hackl, Guido Wieland, Sylvia Haider
The film probes deeply into the ways in which Freud’s own experiences Read More »