Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Norman Taurog, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. Read More »
Bathing Beauty (1944) George Sidney, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who’s been paid by Steve’s agent Read More »
China O’Brien (1990) Robert Clouse, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke
China O’Brien; big city police woman; martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge Read More »
Dark Star (1974) John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle
Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets Read More »
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins
Wes, Vern and Otis are three cowhands on the way to a cattle drive. Read More »
The Foxes of Harrow (1947) John M. Stahl, Rex Harrison, Maureen O’Hara, Richard Haydn
Frank Yerby’s Foxes of Harrow was one of those long historical novels so popular in the 1940s. Read More »
The King Steps Out (1936) Josef von Sternberg, Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in. Read More »
Sound of My Voice (2011) Zal Batmanglij, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling
Two documentary filmmakers attempt to penetrate a cult who worships a woman who claims to be from the future. Read More »
Kottentail AKA Hybrid (2007) Tony Urban, Nathan Faudree, Kristin Abbott, Patricia Bellemore
The “Overlook Animal Research Laboratory” has long been working on genetic engineering without any trouble. Read More »
Walk Like a Dragon (1960) James Clavell, Jack Lord, Nobu McCarthy, James Shigeta
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln ‘Linc’ Bartlett finds out there’s a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco Read More »
A Date with Judy (1948) Richard Thorpe, Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor
The upper-class Pringles and middle-class Fosters are two Santa Barbara families. Read More »
The Murder Man (1935) Tim Whelan, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936) Harry Lachman, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, John McGuire
Charlie receives fourteen free passes to the circus for him and his entire family Read More »
Laughing Anne (1953) Herbert Wilcox, Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker
Based on Conrad’s short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer Read More »