Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950’s and the present or future. Read More »
Drama
The Japanese Yakuza / Nihon kyôkaku-den (1964) Masahiro Makino, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ken Takakura, Minoru Ôki
A timber merchant and haulage firm in late 19th century Tokyo is in trouble. Read More »
The Final Curtain (2002) Patrick Harkins, Aidan Gillen, Adrian Lester, Peter O’Toole
Jonathan Stitch, having just won a prestigious MacKinlay Award for his first novel Read More »
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) Alan Crosland, Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. Read More »
Married and in Love (1940) John Farrow, Alan Marshal, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles
Two married couples become engulfed in a storm of emotional fury when Doctor Leslie Yates Read More »
The White Sound AKA Das weiße Rauschen (2001) Hans Weingartner, Tobias Amann, Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig
Driving through the countryside, Kati, Jochen and Lukas take some magic mushrooms. Read More »
The Son AKA Le fils (2002) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart
Olivier – meticulous, careful, even-handed – teaches carpentry at a vocational school in Liège. Read More »
Rosetta (1999) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux
The first scene, like almost all others, is a fighting scene. A girl, about 18, is sacked from her factory work because her trial period is over. Read More »
Condemned! (1929) Wesley Ruggles, Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil’s Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges. Read More »
Friendly Enemies (1942) Allan Dwan, Charles Winninger, Charles Ruggles, James Craig
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things Read More »