To share expenses unemployed Alabama move in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster’s mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster’s bodyguard. Read More »
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Blue Thunder (1983) John Badham, Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. Read More »
Cuba (1979) Richard Lester, Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Jack Weston, Adventure, Romance, Thriller, War
End fifties a British hireling is send to Cuba to train the Basistas. They must be trained to fight Castro’s army. Read More »
Blood Beach (1980) Jeffrey Bloom, David Huffman, Marianna Hill, Burt Young, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. Read More »
11 Minutes Ago (2007) Bob Gebert, Ian Michaels, Christina Mauro, Evan Lee Dahl, Romance, Sci-Fi
Traveling in 11-minute increments, a time-tumbler from 48 years in the future spends two years of his life weaving through a two-hour wedding reception. Read More »
Bronco Bullfrog (1969) Barney Platts-Mills, Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Drama
British working-class youth are realistically portrayed in this rare, mod film. A group of delinquent teenagers in London’s East End circa 1969 roam the streets “bored as usual” because “there’s nothing to do ’round here.” Read More »
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit / Kaibyô nori no numa (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Horror
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Takafusa Ryuzoji, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. Read More »
My Favorite Year (1982) Richard Benjamin, Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Comedy
Benjy Stone is the junior writer on the top rated variety/comedy show, in the mid 50s (the early years). Read More »
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) Thom Andersen, Fay Andersen, Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge, Documentary, Biography
Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Read More »
Broadway Bad (1933) Sidney Lanfield, Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Drama
Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing. Read More »