A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family’s finances to the brink of ruin. Read More »
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Affliction (1996) Mark Hejnar, GG Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, Documentary
This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman’s Sampler of sickness Read More »
The Hustler (1961) Robert Rossen, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Drama, Sport
“Fast” Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. Read More »
The Seventh Cross (1944) Fred Zinnemann, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Drama, War
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. Read More »
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Ava Gardner, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. Read More »
Pony Express (1953) Jerry Hopper, Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, History, Romance, Western
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Read More »
Heat Street (1988) Joseph Merhi, Del Zamora, Quincy Adams Jr., Wendy MacDonald, Action
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs. Read More »
A Constant Forge (2000) Charles Kiselyak, Seymour Cassel, Carol Kane, Jon Voight, Documentary, Biography, Romance
A long look at John Cassavetes’s films, life (1929-1989), and exploration of how people love. Read More »
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Delbert Mann, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Drama
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. Read More »
Defence of the Realm (1986) David Drury, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, Thriller
A reporter Mullen ‘stumbles’ on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. Read More »