A boy named Walter is dropped by his mother Mae at his great-uncles’ house. Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Words and Music (1948) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, June Allyson
Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Read More »
Good News (1947) Charles Walters, June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring 20’s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane Read More »
The Devil Makes Three (1952) Andrew Marton, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober
1947: Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany to thank the Lehrt family Read More »
The Consul of Bordeaux AKA O Cônsul de Bordéus (2011) João Correa, Francisco Manso, Vítor Norte, Carlos Paulo, João Nunes Monteiro
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization Read More »
Celestine, Maid at Your Service AKA Célestine… bonne à tout faire (1974) Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Howard Vernon, Olivier Mathot
At the beginning of the 20th century: A police raid broke into a clandestine brothel in which Célestine is a boarder. Read More »
It Happens Every Thursday (1953) Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down Read More »
Memories of My Body AKA Kucumbu tubuh indahku (2018) Garin Nugroho, Muhammad Khan, Raditya Evandra, Rianto
In Center Java Juno, a pre-teen abandoned by his father, joins a Lengger dance centre Read More »