
This modern tale borrows from an old story in establishing Langan, who works on a ship that docks in San Francisco Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2021
The 10th Victim AKA La decima vittima (1965) Elio Petri, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli

It is the 21st Century, and society’s lust for violence is satisfied by “The Big Hunt,” an international game of legalized murder. Read More »
The Bride of Frank (1996) Steve Ballot, Morgan Tara, Frank Meyer, Johnny Horizon

Disturbed and Hideously ugly ‘Warehouse Worker’ Frank dates then murders women Read More »
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô

Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth.  Read More »
Container (2006) Lukas Moodysson, Jena Malone, Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Åberg

Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as “a black Read More »
Loving Couples AKA Älskande par (1964) Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré

Stockholm, 1915. Three women, Agda, Adele and Angela are about to give birth in a clinic.  Read More »
Everybody Does It (1949) Edmund Goulding, Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. Read More »
The Idle Rich (1929) William C. de Mille, Conrad Nagel, Bessie Love, Leila Hyams

Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Read More »
Hi-Riders (1978) Greydon Clark, Mel Ferrer, Stephen McNally, Darby Hinton

A couple scam a Hi-Rider out of some cash during a drag race, and when he refuses to pay, they track him down to the gang’s hideout. Read More »
Big Meat Eater (1982) Chris Windsor, Clarence ‘Big’ Miller, George Dawson, Andrew Gillies

Bob Sanderson is the mild mannered butcher of the small, sleepy town of Burquitlam. Read More »