In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. Read More »
Daily Archives: January 7, 2020
Pippi Långstrump på de sju haven AKA Pippi in the South Seas (1970) Olle Hellbom, Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg
With their parents on vacation, Tommy and Annika spend time with their wonderful friend Pippi Longstocking at her cottage Villa Villekulla Read More »
9 Mois Ferme AKA 9-Month Stretch (2013) Albert Dupontel, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Marié
Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. Read More »
Här kommer Pippi Långstrump AKA Pippi Goes on Board (1969) Olle Hellbom, Inger Nilsson, Maria Persson, Pär Sundberg
The further adventures of super-strong girl Pippi Longstocking Read More »
Take a Girl Like You (2000) Nick Hurran, Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Robert Daws
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn’s arrival at her lodging-house. Read More »
Mon-seu-teo AKA Monster (2014) In-ho Hwang, Min-ki Lee, Go-eun Kim, Seo-Hyeon Ahn
Bok-Soon (KIM Go-Eun) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Read More »
A Royal Scandal (1945) Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter
In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit Read More »
Bôkô Kirisaki Jakku AKA Assault! Jack the Ripper (1976) Yasuharu Hasebe, Tamaki Katsura, Yuri Yamashina, Natsuko Yashiro
Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill Read More »
The Legacy (1978) Richard Marquand, Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing
A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow… Read More »
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) Frank Launder, Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. Read More »
Man Hunt (1936) William Clemens, Ricardo Cortez, Marguerite Churchill, Charles ‘Chic’ Sale
Jane, the school teacher, thinks that life in Coasterville is dull so she tells her pupils about the days of the Daltons Boys and the James Gang. Read More »
New York Nights (1929) Lewis Milestone, Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray
Chorus girl Jill and composer Fred are happily married until he steps out on her with another woman. Read More »
Entre onze heures et minuit AKA Between Eleven and Midnight (1949) Henri Decoin, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Robinson, Léo Lapara
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot dead whilst walking in a subway in Paris. Read More »
Dvoryanskoe gnezdo AKA Nest of Gentry (1969) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Irina Kupchenko, Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz
Lavretsky returns to his estate after stay in Paris. Frustrated with life,in his wife’s unfair, he falls in love with Lisa. Read More »
Yawarakai seikatsu AKA It’s Only Talk (2005) Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Read More »