An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2024
At Home in Kocourkov AKA U nás v Kocourkove (1934) Miroslav Cikán, Jan Werich, Jindrich Plachta, Václav Trégl
At Kocourkov railway station, an escaped fraudster Ferdinand Kaplan arrives and is welcomed Read More »
The Midas Touch AKA Eldorádó (1988) Géza Bereményi, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikõ Eszenyi
The story takes place in the urban districts of Pest focusing on the marketplace Read More »
Titanic Town (1998) Roger Michell, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O’Neill
Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie McPhelimy Read More »
The Delos Adventure (1986) Joseph Purcell, Roger Kern, Jenny Neumann, Kurtwood Smith
When demolition expert Bard Clemens joins a scientific expedition on the beautiful Read More »
Sin with a Stranger AKA L’étrangère (1968) Sergio Gobbi, Marie-France Boyer, Pierre Vaneck, Pierre Massimi
François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by a pretty blonde. Read More »
It’s a Bikini World (1967) Stephanie Rothman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Bobby Pickett
As soon as he sees her for the first time, Mike Samson, the big man on his southern California beach Read More »
Magnificent Butcher AKA Lin Shi Rong (1979) Woo-Ping Yuen, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan, Biao Yuen
A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble Read More »
Continental Divide (1981) Michael Apted, John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield
Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a tough Chicago reporter, gets a little too close to the Mob Read More »
Hellbent (2004) Paul Etheredge, Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris
Two gay men on a date are murdered the night before Halloween in West Hollywood, California. Read More »