At one time or another, most teenagers have fantasized about being rid of their parents Read More »
Monthly Archives: March 2021
The Dragon Tamers / Nu zi tai quan qun ying hui (1975) John Woo, James Tien, Carter Wong, Chang-suk Kim
A young Chinese martial arts student travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Read More »
Capricious Young Man / Akanishi Kakita (1936) Mansaku Itami, Chiezô Kataoka, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Sôjin Kamiyama
Akanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Read More »
Shopping (1994) Paul W.S. Anderson, Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee
Lone group of teens, led by recently released joyrider and his disenchanted Belfast girlfriend Read More »
Cocaine Cowboys (1979) Ulli Lommel, Jack Palance, Tom Sullivan, Andy Warhol
Dustin (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Read More »
Rented Lips (1988) Robert Downey Sr., Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly
A documentary filmmaker, who has spent the last 15 years making films like “Aluminum: Our Shiny Friend,” Read More »
The Guinea Pig (1948) Roy Boulting, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II Read More »
Mayerling (1968) Terence Young, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason
It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince Read More »
Low Down (2014) Jeff Preiss, John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close
A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter Read More »
Nine Lives (2005) Rodrigo García, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Glenn Close
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them Read More »