
British beat group Herman’s Hermits, on tour in the USA, is offered an opportunity to have a spaceship named after the group. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
House of Bamboo (1955) Samuel Fuller, Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Read More »
Caged (1950) John Cromwell, Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Frightened 19-year-old Marie Allen gets sent to an Illinois penitentiary for being an accomplice in an armed robbery. Read More »
The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) Charles Brabin, Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Drama, History, Romance

Showgirl Sally meets young playboy Leonard St. John; they fall in love and are secretly married. Read More »
The Phantom Planet (1961) William Marshall, Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The mysterious appearance of an unknown planet brings miniature people, giant monsters, beautiful women and undaunted heroes to the screen. Read More »
Kind Lady (1951) John Sturges, Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. Read More »
The Brotherhood of Justice (1986) Charles Braverman, Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Lori Loughlin, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A group of high school students, led by a rich boy Derek, is sick of school violence and decides to become underground vigilantes named “Brotherhood of Justice”. Read More »
The Getaway (1972) Sam Peckinpah, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Action, Crime, Thriller

Carter “Doc” McCoy is a career robber, currently in his fourth year of a ten year prison sentence at the Texas State Penitentiary. Read More »
Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986) George Mendeluk, Sally Kellerman, Patrick Dempsey, Al Waxman, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A 14-year-old boy named Rudy is trying desperately to lose his virginity. Read More »
La circostanza (1973) Ermanno Olmi, Ada Savelli, Gaetano Porro, Raffaella Bianchi, Drama

The bourgeois family Olmi observes here is caught in a process of disintegration that hardly requires the promptings of a languid summer’s minor crisis. Read More »