
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Read More »
Daily Archives: November 22, 2020
Storm Over Tibet (1952) Andrew Marton, Rex Reason, Diana Douglas, Myron Healey

During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains. Read More »
The Kill-Off (1989) Maggie Greenwald, Loretta Gross, Andrew Lee Barrett, Jackson Sims

Business at The Pavilion bar is down so Pete and Rags decide that the best way to get The Pavilion off the skids is to turn it into a strip joint. Read More »
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori

This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »
All the Invisible Children (2005) Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara

Seven short films – each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist. Read More »
Black (2005) Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Shernaz Patel

Based in Simla, the McNallys are an Anglo-Indian family consisting of Paul and his wife, Catherine. Read More »
Greenery Will Bloom Again / Torneranno i prati (2014)

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. Read More »
Uniform / Zhifu (2003) Yi’nan Diao, Kai Han, Hongli Liang, Hua Qin

Economic unrest roils central China’s Shaanxi Province: local factories are merging, thugs threaten managers Read More »
Broadminded (1931) Mervyn LeRoy, Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, William Collier Jr.

Jack’s father is sending Jack away to keep him from the gambling, booze, girls and late nights. Read More »