A loser with a crummy apartment, an odious mother, and a job that isn’t taking him anywhere (kid’s clown), gets a new idea. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Losing Ground (1982) Kathleen Collins, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Clarence Branch Jr.
A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering Read More »
Experiment Perilous (1944) Jacques Tourneur, Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas
In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Read More »
The Delavine Affair (1955) Douglas Peirce, Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman, Gordon Jackson
The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Read More »
The Hole (1998) Ming-liang Tsai, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. Read More »
Mickey One (1965) Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield
After incurring the wrath of the mob, a comic flees Detroit for Chicago taking the name “Mickey One.” Read More »
Fog Over Frisco (1934) William Dieterle, Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
Arlene Bradford is the quintessential high society bad girl. Read More »
The Whip Hand (1951) William Cameron Menzies, Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier
Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota Read More »
Killing Spree (1987) Tim Ritter, Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone
Tom feels that his wife is cheating on him. It doesn’t take long for his paranoia to get the best of him Read More »
Caveman (1981) Carl Gottlieb, Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long
A simple caveman accidently becomes leader of a clan of cavemisfits and outcasts. Read More »