When Chip Douglas’ father is murdered by rustlers, Chip is appointed Sheriff to combat the lawlessness. Read More »
Daily Archives: August 25, 2020
Rio Grande (1950) John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson
Rio Grande takes place after the Civil War when the Union turned their attention towards the Apaches. Read More »
50 Million Frenchmen (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, William Gaxton
Independently wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Read More »
Topper Takes a Trip (1938) Norman Z. McLeod, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Mrs. Topper’s friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs. Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo Read More »
Fort Apache (1948) John Ford, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
In John Ford’s sombre exploration mythologising of American heroes, he slowly reveals the character of Owen Thursday Read More »
Rider in Blue AKA Ryttare i blått (1959) Arne Mattsson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army’s riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. Read More »
The Color of Paradise AKA Rang-e khoda (1999) Majid Majidi, Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran’s institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt AKA Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
Missing Dad AKA Nos vemos, papá (2011) Lucía Carreras, Gabriela de la Garza, Cecilia Suárez, Moises Arizmendi
Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. Read More »
Where a Good Man Goes AKA Joi gin a long (1999) Johnnie To, Ching Wan Lau, Ruby Wong, Yiu-Cheung Lai
A former triad boss is just released from a Macau prison and ends up in a small inn runs by a simple and honest widow. Read More »
The Retrieval (2013) Chris Eska, Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr.
On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man. Read More »
Phantoms (1998) Joe Chappelle, Peter O’Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going
The resort town of Snowfield, Colo., is under attack by an evil spirit that almost wipes out the entire population, possessing a number of those it kills. Read More »