A present-day female evangelist strongly feels that she resembles the legendary Pope Joan Read More »
Daily Archives: April 10, 2020
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice AKA Goyôkiba (1972) Kenji Misumi, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiji Asaoka, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura
Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Read More »
The Banishment AKA Izgnanie (2007) Andrey Zvyagintsev, Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city. Read More »
American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers Read More »
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies AKA Kinema no Tenchi (1986) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kiichi Nakai, Narimi Arimori
The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early ’30s are recreated in this drama that looks back Read More »
No One’s Ark AKA Baka no hakobune (2003) Nobuhiro Yamashita, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Tomoko Kotera, Yûko Hosoe
A budding capitalist and his girlfriend abandon their failure in the big city Read More »
Little Marines (1991) A.J. Hixon, Stephen Baker, Noah Williams, Steve Landers Jr.
3 friends named Stevie, Chris, and Noah get out of school for the summer and decide to take a trip camping. Read More »
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) Fatih Akin, Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia Read More »