
Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. Read More »
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Descent (2007) Talia Lugacy, Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust, Marcus Patrick

In the winter of her senior year, Maya talks to Jared at a frat party Read More »
Le couperet / The Ax (2005) Costa-Gavras, José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils

Bruno Davert, a chemist working for a paper company, is fired. Read More »
Billy Liar (1963) John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles

A young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker’s office, Billy is bombarded daily Read More »
The Lost Jungle (1934) David Howard, Armand Schaefer, Clyde Beatty, Cecilia Parker, Syd Saylor

Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. Read More »
Bakurô ichidai / The Life of a Horse Trader (1951) Keigo Kimura, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Takashi Shimura

This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiba tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka “The Shark,” Read More »
Devotion (1946) Curtis Bernhardt, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Bronte vie for the affection of the Reverend Arthur Nichols. Read More »
Elvis! Elvis! (1976) Kay Pollak, Lele Dorazio, Lena-Pia Bernhardsson, Fred Gunnarsson

Tale of a boy, roughly eight, who experiences a number of problems due to his estranged Read More »
Le premier venu (2008) Jacques Doillon, Clémentine Beaugrand, Gérald Thomassin, Guillaume Saurrel

A twenty-year-old woman tries to give some glow and lightness to her life, which she Read More »
Karaoke (1996) Renny Rye, Albert Finney, Roy Hudd, Richard E. Grant

Obsessive, self-destructive London television scriptwriter Daniel Feeld finds his health Read More »