U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Goliath Awaits (1981) Kevin Connor, Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert
During World War II, the passenger liner Goliath is sunk by a German submarine. Read More »
A Chaos of Flowers (1988) Kinji Fukasaku, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ken Ogata
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »
Slight Changes in Temperature and Mind (2004) Cyril Tuschi, Fabian Busch, Stipe Erceg, Lilja Loeffler
When mom still runs your life, when candy is your only pleasure Read More »
The Keeler Affair (1963) Robert Spafford, Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore, Alicia Brandet
A teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal. Read More »
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) Randa Haines, Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. Read More »
Throw Down (2004) Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying
A former judo champion quits the tournament cirucit and runs a nightclub. Read More »
Beyond the Sea (2004) Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. Read More »
The Venus Tear Diamond (1971) Umetsugu Inoue, Lily Ho, Yun Ling, Chih Hsien Po
Legendary jewel thieves “Nocturnal Earl” (Ling Yun) and “Fragrant Night” (Lily Ho) are set on a collision Read More »
The Mission (1999) Johnnie To, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis Read More »
The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) Radu Jude, Andreea Bosneag, Doru Catanescu, Claudiu Dumitru
Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize Read More »
Mafia Connection (1970) Camillo Bazzoni, Antonio Sabato, Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp Read More »
Gregorys Girl (1980) Bill Forsyth, John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D’Arcy
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his school-friends are starting to find out about girls. Read More »
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) Thom Andersen, Encke King, Ben Alexander, Jim Backus
Of the cities in the world, few are depicted in and mythologized more in film and television than the city of Los Angeles. Read More »
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask
Hedwig, born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. Read More »