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Monthly Archives: December 2019
American Madness (1932) Frank Capra, Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson

It’s the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson’s bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. Read More »
Koma (2009) Naomi Kawase

A Japanese-Korean man (Kitamura Kizuki) travels to a village in Nara to fulfill his late grandfather’s final wish. Read More »
Wicked Woman (1953) Russell Rouse, Beverly Michaels, Richard Egan, Percy Helton

A blonde floozy drifts into town and gets a job as a waitress at a local bar. Read More »
Hue and Cry (1947) Charles Crichton, Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. Read More »
Conflagration (1958) Kon Ichikawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai

Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father Read More »
Come Back, Africa (1959) Lionel Rogosin, Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959. Read More »
Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) Andy Wolk, Judd Nelson, Mädchen Amick, David Gianopoulos

This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio Read More »
Westward the Women (1951) William A. Wellman, Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson

In a time when “The West” pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men Read More »
An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget (2012) Lav Diaz, Hazel Orencio, Erwin Romulo

Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic Read More »