Five Mexican street urchins steal a dime from the church’s collection box and bet it on a race-horse. Read More »
Daily Archives: November 9, 2021
The Bastards AKA Los bastardos (2008) Amat Escalante, Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Rubén Sosa, Nina Zavarin
A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Read More »
Afternoon Breezes AKA Kazetachi no gogo (1980) Hitoshi Yazaki, Setsuko Aya, Naomi Ito, Hiroshi Sugita
Two young girls, Mitsu and Natsuko, share the same apartment. Read More »
Body Bags (1993) John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Larry Sulkis, Tom Arnold
Three short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer Read More »
The Human Beast AKA La bête humaine (1938) Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Jacques Lantier is a train engineer who is prone to violent seizures Read More »
In the Shadow of the Wind AKA Les fous de Bassan (1987) Yves Simoneau, Steve Banner, Charlotte Valandrey, Laure Marsac
Stevens Brown, now an old man, recalls the events that unfurled 50 years before Read More »
City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. Read More »
Endless Love AKA San bat liu ching (1993) Tung-Shing Yee, Ching Wan Lau, Anita Yuen, Carina Lau
A jazz musician (Lau Ching-Wan) who has problems in both his life Read More »