Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. Read More »
Crime
The Night Club Lady (1932) Irving Cummings, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher
Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolph Menjou) sets out to discover who murdered Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Bullets or Ballots (1936) William Keighley, Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Read More »
Equinox (1992) Alan Rudolph, Matthew Modine
Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins that were separated being infants, and they don’t know each other. Read More »
Bunco Squad (1950) Herbert I. Leeds, Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo Cortez
Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section Read More »
The Beggar’s Opera (1953) Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose
Authentic rendering of John Gay’s 18th century musical, filmed in Technicolor Read More »
Blackout (1985) Douglas Hickox, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery Read More »
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton
The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Inferno of Torture / Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku (1969) Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Asao Koike
High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Read More »