During WWII, the British Royal Navy uses a captured German submarine to trick the enemy and protect their supply convoy. Read More »
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Last Year at Marienbad AKA L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais, Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
At a weekend gathering, a man tries to convince a woman that they had met there and spent some time together the previous year. Read More »
Hiruko the Goblin AKA Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko (1991) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Read More »
Death of a Soldier (1986) Philippe Mora, James Coburn, Bill Hunter, Reb Brown
Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Read More »
World on a Wire AKA Welt am Draht (1973) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Mascha Rabben
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality Read More »
The Law and Jake Wade (1958) John Sturges, Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark, Patricia Owens
Outlaw Clint Hollister escapes from jail with the help of Marshal Jake Wade, because once Clint did the same for him. Read More »
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Robert Wise, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane
The abuse Rocky Barbella endures at the hand of his father and subsequent run-ins with the law lead him in Read More »
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler AKA Der 20. Juli (1955) Falk Harnack, Wolfgang Preiss, Annemarie Düringer, Robert Freitag
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg Read More »
A Better Tomorrow III AKA Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor (1989) Hark Tsui, Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Anita Mui
At the end of the Vietnam war, Cheung goes to Saigon, intent on bringing his uncle and cousin back to Hong Kong. Read More »
Violated (1953) Walter Strate, William Holland, Lili Dawn, Mitchell Kowall
Filmed in New York City and intended for the niche market from art houses to back-street grind houses, with most of the distribution landing in the latter Read More »
Like a Crashed Plane AKA Como un avión estrellado (2005) Ezequiel Acuña, Ignacio Rogers, Santiago Pedrero, Manuela Martelli
Gauche, mumbling Nico works in a veterinary clinic run by domineering brother Fran, their parents having died in a plane crash. Read More »
Strange Holiday (1945) Arch Oboler, Claude Rains, Bob Stebbins, Barbara Bate
Businessman John Stevenson returns from a camping holiday in the mountains to discover the whole of America has been taken over by foreign invaders. Read More »
The Two Missionaries AKA Porgi l’altra guancia (1974) Franco Rossi, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. Read More »
The Mummy (1959) Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka Read More »
The Living Coffin AKA El grito de la muerte (1959) Fernando Méndez, Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires. Read More »