
According to Scandinavian legend, whosoever dies on the stroke of Midnight on the last day of the year (St. Sylvester’s Night) must assume the duties of the “phantom charioteer,” collecting souls for the next 365 days. Read More »
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Little Boy Blue (1997) Antonio Tibaldi, Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Drama

Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that’s left him impotent Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama

The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »
Two Girls on Broadway (1940) S. Sylvan Simon, Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Musical, Romance

Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. Read More »
Sergeant Madden (1939) Josef von Sternberg, Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Crime, Drama, Family

A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Read More »
Wo ai chu fang / Kitchen (1997) Ho Yim, Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita, Kar-Ying Law, Drama, Romance

The lives of Louis (Jordan Chan), a hairdresser women, and transgender “mother” (Law Kar-ying) inevitably change with the arrival of a beautiful orphan who will stay at home (Yasuko Tomita). Read More »
Bizim büyük çaresizligimiz / Our Grand Despair (2011) Seyfi Teoman, Ilker Aksum, Fatih Al, Gunes Sayin, Drama

The peaceful cohabitation of bachelors Ender and Cetin is disrupted when they allow a friend’s sister to move in with them. Read More »
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) Alexander Hall, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Comedy

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, confides to English Professor Ronald Brooke that she is willing to gold-dig and blackmail her way to a Paris vacation. Read More »
O.H.M.S. / Youre in the Army Now (1937) Raoul Walsh, Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Action, Comedy, Drama

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Read More »
The Story of Molly X (1949) Crane Wilbur, June Havoc, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Molly’s husband Rick was a gang leader somewhere in the middle west. When he’s shot, the tough woman moves to S.F. with a couple of the gang to start anew. Read More »