General Ahmed has started an inner-city People’s Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
This film looks at life in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn on a hot summer Sunday. Read More »
The Mean Season (1985) Phillip Borsos, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper. Read More »
The Man Who Wasn’t There (1983) Bruce Malmuth, Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Art Hindle
A State Department employee finds an egg-shaped device with a green fluid Read More »
Payment Deferred (1932) Lothar Mendes, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, Ray Milland
Bank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family’s bills. Read More »
Year of the Horse (1997) Neil Young, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph Molina
This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s 1996 concert tour. Read More »
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies Read More »
Ishtar (1987) Elaine May, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns Read More »
Company Business (1991) Nicholas Meyer, Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith
Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd is called back by “the Company” to do some work. Read More »
The Maltese Falcon (1931) Roy Del Ruth, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Sam Spade is quite the womanizer. When his secretary tells him the new customer waiting outside his office is a knockout Read More »
Port of Seven Seas (1938) James Whale, Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan
Madelon and Marius intend to marry but he finds the call of the ocean irresistible and leaves her and his father behind. Read More »
Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) Delbert Mann, Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill
When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down Read More »
Harlow (1965) Alex Segal, Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ginger Rogers
One of two “Harlow” film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley Read More »
Woman Wanted (1935) George B. Seitz, Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone
Ann Grey is wrongly convicted of murder. On her way to jail a car accident gives her the opportunity to escape. Read More »
Smooth Talk (1985) Joyce Chopra, Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place
Free-spirited fifteen-year-old Connie Wyatt may be too young to drive, but she’s already driving the boys crazy. Read More »