Actor Jason Steel plays a caring, godlike doctor on television. Off the set, he’s the insecure fiancé of pretty art teacher Melissa. Read More »
The Court Jester (1956) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England. Read More »
The Brass Bottle (1964) Harry Keller, Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden, Comedy, Fantasy
Comedy about the proverbial genie who comes out of a bottle (a table lamp in this instance) to serve his new master. Read More »
Repent at Leisure (1941) Frank Woodruff, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, George Barbier, Drama, Romance
A New York department store employee falls in love with a co-worker, but what he doesn’t know is that she’s the store owner’s daughter. Read More »
Schaste / Happiness (1935) Aleksandr Medvedkin, Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, Nikolay Cherkasov, Comedy, Drama
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness. Read More »
The Snake Pit (1948) Anatole Litvak, Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Drama, Mystery
Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum…and can’t remember how she got there. Read More »
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) Kent Jones, Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Documentary
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Read More »
Helter Skelter (1949) Ralph Thomas, Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson, Mervyn Johns, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
This is the ultimate screwball comedy, its weird, but endearing. An heiress who is being courted by two gentlemen develops incurable hiccups after watching a comedic dinner-theater performance. Read More »
Sibirska Ledi Magbet / Siberian Lady Macbeth (1962) Andrzej Wajda, Olivera Markovic, Ljuba Tadic, Kapitalina Eric, Drama, Mystery, Romance
In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »
Des femmes disparaissent / Girls Disappear (1959) Édouard Molinaro, Robert Hossein, Magali Noël, Estella Blain, Thriller
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Read More »