The Stolen Border (Uloupená hranice) is a 1947 Czechoslovak war film depicting events before signing fateful Munich Agreement Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Murder Is Easy (1982) Claude Whatham, Bill Bixby, Lesley-Anne Down, Olivia de Havilland
A mathematician and author, Luke Williams, is travelling up to London on a train when he meets a old lady Read More »
Delusion AKA Blændværk (1955) Johan Jacobsen, Mimi Heinrich, Henrik Wiehe, Poul Reichhardt
This noir drama has a double plot. A political thriller about sabotage on NATO transports. Read More »
When They Cry: Reshuffle AKA Higurashi no naku koro ni: Chikai (2009) Ataru Oikawa, Aika, Rin Asuka, Ayako Kawahara
Rena’s mental state devolves after her parents divorce. She moves with her father to Hinamizawa Village. Read More »
Barbarosa (1982) Fred Schepisi, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor Read More »
When They Cry AKA Higurashi no naku koro ni (2008) Ataru Oikawa, Gôki Maeda, Airi Matsuyama, Rin Asuka
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. Read More »
Senorita from the West (1945) Frank R. Strayer, Allan Jones, Bonita Granville, Jess Barker
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. Read More »
General Spanky (1936) Gordon Douglas, Fred C. Newmeyer, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Ralph Morgan
A small boy is instrumental in a famous Civil War victory in this Our Gang spinoff Read More »
The First Gas Human AKA Gasu ningen dai 1 gô (1960) Ishirô Honda, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. Read More »
Valmont (1989) Milos Forman, Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. Read More »
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956) Norman Foster, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York
Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie compete against boastful Mike Fink (“King of the River”) in a boat race to New Orleans. Read More »
Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) Norman Foster, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett Read More »
Weird Woman (1944) Reginald Le Borg, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. Read More »
Strange Confession (1945) John Hoffman, Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Carrol Naish
A distraught Jeff Carter arrives at a renowned lawyer’s home with a mysterious bag Read More »
Pillow of Death (1945) Wallace Fox, Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne’s wife is found Read More »