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Monthly Archives: July 2019
Blood for Blood (1971) Yasuharu Hasebe, Jô Shishido, Makoto Satô, Meiko Kaji
A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. Read More »
Hardcore (2001) Stephen Walker, Robert Black, David Christopher, Mark Handel
Hard hitting documentary about an English girl trying to break into the American pornography industry to support her daughter. Read More »
Emily (1976) Henry Herbert, Koo Stark, Sarah Brackett, Victor Spinetti
In England in the 1920s, Emily, a maturing daughter of a once wealthy family arrives at their family Read More »
Darklands (1996) Julian Richards, Craig Fairbrass, Jon Finch, Rowena King
Darklands follows journalist Frazer Truick as he investigates the mysterious death of the brother of trainee journalist Rachel Morris. Read More »
The Penthouse (2010) Chris Levitus, Rider Strong, Corey Large, April Scott
Three lifelong friends inhabiting a penthouse apartment find themselves at odds when one of them attempts to move Read More »
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. Read More »
Just a Gigolo (1931) Jack Conway, William Haines, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith
Haines plays the role of a festive British nobleman, for whom a marriage has been arranged by his relatives. Read More »
Framed (1930) George Archainbaud, Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde
Rose Manning, the daughter of a racketeer who has just been killed, along with a policeman Read More »
The Man from the Alamo (1953) Budd Boetticher, Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills
The Man From the Alamo manages to pack a few nuances and surprises in its traditional western plotline. Read More »
Guilty Parents (1934) Jack Townley, Jean Lacy, Glen Boles, Donald Keith
A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime Read More »
Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980) José Fonseca e Costa, Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Read More »
Designing Woman (1957) Vincente Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
After Mike Hagen and Marilla Brown wed after a whirlwind love on the west shore they come back to New York to discover they don’t have much in common. Read More »
I Thought It Was Love (1991) Massimo Troisi, Francesca Neri, Marco Messeri
Tommaso is a charming restaurant owner with a roving eye and a similarly roving hand. Read More »
Oklahoma Annie (1952) R.G. Springsteen, Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers
A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff. Read More »