
Mr. Topaze (‘Peter Sellers’) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Movie Movie (1978) Stanley Donen, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons

Three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature. Read More »
First Cousin Once Removed (2012) Alan Berliner, Eli Berliner, Stuart Blazer, Susan Brown

Acclaimed filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles the deeply personal story of his mother’s first cousin–well-known poet/translator/professor Read More »
A Man Called Peter (1955) Henry Koster, Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau

Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea Read More »
Critic’s Choice (1963) Don Weis, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell

Parker Ballantine is the most respected and forthright of the New York theater critics. Read More »
The Colonel AKA Mon colonel (2006) Laurent Herbiet, Olivier Gourmet, Robinson Stévenin, Cécile De France

A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Read More »
Why Me? (1990) Gene Quintano, Christopher Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd

A jewel thief, his wacky sidekick, and his girlfriend are chased around Los Angeles by cops, the Cia Read More »
The Falcon’s Brother (1942) Stanley Logan, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph

Gay Lawrence, amateur detective known as The Falcon, learns that his brother Tom Read More »
King Solomon’s Mines (1937) Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young

Fortune hunter Patrick O’Brien has left his daughter Kathy Read More »
Hammers Over the Anvil (1993) Ann Turner, Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe, Alexander Outhred

This is the story of the crippled young Alan Marshall and his hero worship of the local he-man horse trainer East Driscoll Read More »