A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes. Read More »
Daily Archives: April 9, 2020
Shotgun (1955) Lesley Selander, Sterling Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo, Zachary Scott
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory’s Indian commissioner Read More »
Bootleggers (1974) Charles B. Pierce, Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens
In 1921, 10-year-old Othar Pruitt witnesses his bootlegger father murdered by a member of a rival bootlegger family. Read More »
Ivy AKA Sarmasik (2015) Tolga Karaçelik, Nadir Saribacak, Hakan Karsak, Kadir Cermik, Özgür Emre Yildirim
When the ship’s owner goes bankrupt, the crew learns there is a lien on the ship Read More »
The Room AKA Heya (1993) Sion Sono, Akaji Maro, Yoriko Dôguchi, Shirô Sano
A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through all the rooms Read More »
Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) René Cardona Jr., Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones Read More »
The Heist AKA Stöten (1961) Hasse Ekman, Gunnar Hellström, Maude Adelson, Tor Isedal
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. Read More »
Demonia (1990) Lucio Fulci, Brett Halsey, Meg Register, Lino Salemme
In southeast Sicily, a team of archaeologists investigate the ruins of a crypt where heretic nuns had been stoned Read More »
Face to Face AKA Faccia a faccia (1967) Sergio Sollima, Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian, William Berger
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett’s outlaw gang. Read More »
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (2000) Paul Tickell, Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society. Read More »
Seule, Georgie (1995) Otar Iosseliani, Documentary
The dreadful warfare in Chechnya, a neighbor of Georgia, provides a unique poignancy into Otar Iosseliani’s intriguing Read More »
Things To Do In Denver When Youre Dead (1995) Gary Fleder, Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd
Jimmy the Saint’s business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give ‘Afterlife Advice’ to their survivors. Read More »
Our Daily Bread (1934) King Vidor, Karen Morley, Tom Keene, John Qualen
John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Read More »
An American Tragedy (1931) Josef von Sternberg, Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee
Having just reached adulthood, Clyde Griffiths has always lamented his lot in life, he the only son of poor missionaries. Read More »
Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter, Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney
Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Read More »