
Julia gets a call to a wrong number, but stays on the phone with the man on the other end for the entire day. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Crazy Knights / Ghost Crazy (1944) William Beaudine, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard, Maxie Rosenbloom, Comedy, Horror, Romance

Three goofy guys (Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert, Maxie Rosenbloom) run into ghosts, a gorilla and a haunted house. Read More »
Dressed to Kill (1941) Eugene Forde, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Detective Michael Shayne and his girlfriend Joanne are on their way to be married when a scream from a nearby hotel room draws his attention to a pair of theatrical murders. Read More »
Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Yûko Kusunoki

In the 1920s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. Read More »
Elmer Gantry (1960) Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Drama

Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. Read More »
Crazy House (1943) Edward F. Cline, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Cass Daley, Comedy, Musical

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. Read More »
A cavallo della tigre / On the Tigers Back (1961) Luigi Comencini, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Comedy, Drama

This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi Read More »
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) Mike Newell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gregory Peck, Dean Alexander, Drama, Sport

Chuck Murdock is an all American kid living in a sleepy town in Montana. He is the top pitcher of the little league team as well. Read More »
Vampires Kiss (1988) Robert Bierman, Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Comedy, Horror

A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. Read More »
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003) Mark Bittner, Judy Irving, Documentary

In San Francisco, there are at least two flocks of largely wild parrots who flock around the city. Read More »