
“I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true…. I always have to tell people that.” So asserts comedian-turned-playwright-turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly to the viewer Read More »
Comedy
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934) Edgar Selwyn, Richard Boleslawski, Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allan, Lewis Stone

There have been a spate of London police murders, the victims always killed by a long knife (which the police know is a sword cane) Read More »
Dont Give Up the Ship (1959) Norman Taurog, Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer

John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Read More »
A Piece of the Action (1977) Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones

Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Read More »
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) Richard Wallace, George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien

Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Read More »
Outrageous! (1977) Richard Benner, Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley

Robin Turner is a gay hairdresser. He hates his job. He loves old movies and will do his customers’ hair in the style of an iconic movie star if they’ll let him, and even if they don’t. Read More »
College Scandal (1935) Elliott Nugent, Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie

Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Read More »
The Happy Time (1952) Richard Fleischer, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt

Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert Read More »
Blue Hawaii (1961) Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury

Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. Read More »
He Laughed Last (1956) Blake Edwards, Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter

In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. Read More »