A girl from an impoverished family is jilted by her rich fiance, whose father doesn’t approve. Read More »
Monthly Archives: May 2023
True and Tender Is the North / A Corte do Norte (2008) João Botelho, Ana Moreira, Ricardo Aibéo, Rogério Samora
A young woman seeks to unearth the truth about a distant ancestor in director João Botelho’s adaptation Read More »
Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven (2017) Issa López, Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo
Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Read More »
The Bomber / Sprängaren (2001) Colin Nutley, Helena Bergström, Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson
The Victoria stadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage Read More »
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician / Morte di un matematico napoletano (1992) Mario Martone, Carlo Cecchi, Anna Bonaiuto, Renato Carpentieri
Naples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics Read More »
Ryaba, My Chicken / Kurochka Ryaba (1994) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Inna Churikova, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Surin
Kurochka Ryaba is a sarcastic sour comedy sequel to Konchalovsky’s own 1966 movie ‘The Story of Asya Klyachina Read More »
The Child / Barnet (1940) Benjamin Christensen, Agis Winding, Bjarne Forchhammer, Charles Tharnæs
The action begins one early summer morning in a hostel, where we see, among others Read More »
Soul Hustler (1973) Burt Topper, Fabian, Nai Bonet, Tony Russel
Matthew Crowe, a whoring, pot-smoking, wandering singer teams up with a tent-show preacher. Read More »
The Panama Deception (1992) Barbara Trent, Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo
This documentary details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US Read More »
Spitfire (1995) Albert Pyun, Lance Henriksen, Debra Jo Fondren, Sarah Douglas
A pre-story sequence with Lance Henriksen as a super-spy and an opening credits Read More »