
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2020
The Ambush: Incident at Blood Pass AKA Machibuse (1970) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yûjirô Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (2000) Kirk Browning, Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, Ron Eldard

An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forward to Read More »
By the Pricking of My Thumbs AKA Mon petit doigt m’a dit… (2005) Pascal Thomas, Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold

Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. How can you bear such impossible Christian (?) names in the first place? Read More »
American Swing (2008) Jon Hart, Mathew Kaufman, Bryce Britton, Irwin Corey, William Davidson

The parallel stories of Plato’s Retreat, a Manhattan sex club for straight couples that operated from 1977 until the mid 1980s Read More »
Immortal Love AKA Eien no hito (1961) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »
Let’s Go with Pancho Villa AKA Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1936) Fernando de Fuentes, Antonio R. Frausto, Domingo Soler, Manuel Tamés

The Mexican Revolution is on its way when six brave peasants, known as “Los Leones de San Pablo” Read More »
Just You and Me, Kid (1979) Leonard Stern, George Burns, Brooke Shields, Lorraine Gary

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway Read More »
O.C. and Stiggs (1985) Robert Altman, Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry, Jane Curtin

O.C. and Stiggs aren’t your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. Read More »
Running Brave (1983) Donald Shebib, Robby Benson, Pat Hingle, Claudia Cron

The story of Billy Mills, the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics. Read More »