Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient “the fat guy”) and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city. Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Pufnstuf (1970) Hollingsworth Morse, Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Martha Raye
Young Jimmy is being pursued by the evil Wilhemina W. Witchiepoo. More specifically, Witchiepoo is after Jimmy’s small friend Read More »
Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963) Joan Littlewood, James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Read More »
Alferd Packer: The Musical AKA Cannibal! The Musical (1993) Trey Parker, Dian Bachar, Stephen Blackpool
Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost Read More »
Young Adam (2003) David Mackenzie, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh Read More »
The Battle of El Alamein AKA La battaglia di El Alamein (1969) Giorgio Ferroni, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Michael Rennie
June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Read More »
Haunted Summer (1988) Ivan Passer, Philip Anglim, Alice Krige, Eric Stoltz
Based on the infamous Summer of 1816 when Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein” Read More »
Eskimo Nell (1975) Martin Campbell, Michael Armstrong, Terence Edmond, Christopher Timothy
Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch Read More »
They Don’t Wear Black Tie AKA Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1981) Leon Hirszman, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli
A large factory in Brazil is having problems with its workers and their union Read More »
Vanities (1981) Gary Halvorson, Meredith Baxter, Shelley Hack, Leslie Hoffman
A wonderful ensemble piece about three women that takes them from High School to College and then to a later reunion. Read More »