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Monthly Archives: September 2021
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) Lynne Ramsay, Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller

Eva Khatchadourian is trying to piece together her life following the “incident”. Read More »
Bunco Squad (1950) Herbert I. Leeds, Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez

Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
The Fed One / Hranjenik (1970) Vatroslav Mimica, Fabijan Sovagovic, Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Giuseppe Addobbati

Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Read More »
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose

Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
Blackout (1985) Douglas Hickox, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark

A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery Read More »
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson

The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike

High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »
The Cobra Strikes (1948) Charles Reisner, Sheila Ryan, Richard Fraser, Leslie Brooks

Hard-boiled reporter Mike Kent investigates the murder of a prominent scientist Read More »
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden

Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze Read More »