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Monthly Archives: April 2025
Widows’ Peak (1994) John Irvin, Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson

In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows’ Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Read More »
Docteur Chance (1997) F.J. Ossang, Pedro Hestnes, Elvire, Marisa Paredes

A young gangster deals with stolen works of art and other dodgy items under the order of his overbearing mother. Read More »
Removal (2010) Nick Simon, Billy Burke, Mark Kelly, Osgood Perkins

Gothic horror meets industrial-strength cleaning products in this spine-tingler about a pill-popping Read More »
Invoking Yell (2023) Patricio Valladares, Macarena Carrere, María Jesús Marcone, Andrea Ozuljevich

Set in 1990s story of three twenty something women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band. Read More »
Always Goodbye (1938) Sidney Lanfield, Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Ian Hunter

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
The Hidden Blade (2004) Yôji Yamada, Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. Read More »
Hoodlum Priest and the Gold Mint (1968) Kazuo Ikehiro, Shintarô Katsu, Kayo Matsuo, Taketoshi Naitô

The rogue Ryuzen priest is now not only gambling, fornicating, fighting, drinking Read More »
Escape to Burma (1955) Allan Dwan, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar

A local prince in British Burma has been killed, apparently by his prospecting partner Jim Brecan. Read More »