Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Read More »
Daily Archives: November 22, 2020
We’re on the Jury (1937) Ben Holmes, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Phillip Huston
A gabby socialite busybody and a bumbling real estate developer are seated as jurors in a murder trial. Read More »
Storm Over Tibet (1952) Andrew Marton, Rex Reason, Diana Douglas, Myron Healey
During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains. Read More »
The Kill-Off (1989) Maggie Greenwald, Loretta Gross, Andrew Lee Barrett, Jackson Sims
Business at The Pavilion bar is down so Pete and Rags decide that the best way to get The Pavilion off the skids is to turn it into a strip joint. Read More »
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »
All the Invisible Children (2005) Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara
Seven short films – each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist. Read More »
Black (2005) Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Shernaz Patel
Based in Simla, the McNallys are an Anglo-Indian family consisting of Paul and his wife, Catherine. Read More »
Greenery Will Bloom Again AKA Torneranno i prati (2014) Ermanno Olmi, Claudio Santamaria, Camillo Grassi, Niccolò Senni
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. Read More »
Uniform AKA Zhifu (2003) Yi’nan Diao, Kai Han, Hongli Liang, Hua Qin
Economic unrest roils central China’s Shaanxi Province: local factories are merging, thugs threaten managers Read More »
Broadminded (1931) Mervyn LeRoy, Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr.
Jack’s father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. Read More »