An ex-cop discovers that his brother’s recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city’s porno movie scene. Read More »
Tag Archives: USA
Cry Havoc (1943) Richard Thorpe, Margaret Sullavan
The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn’t what they expected. Read More »
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Alan Rudolph
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit Read More »
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987) Paul Wendkos
Fashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Read More »
Deadline for Murder (1946) James Tinling, Paul Kelly
A murder is committed when documents, pertaining to and detailing information about oil-fields in Central Europe, are stolen. Read More »
X: The Unheard Music (1986) W.T. Morgan, John Doe
This film is a documentary about the personalities in, and the music of, the early 1980’s Los Angeles punk band X. Read More »
Flight Angels (1940) Lewis Seiler, Virginia Bruce
The story is centered on commercial pilots eager to fly higher and up-in-the-air attendants eager to land a man. Read More »
Confessions of a Good Samaritan (2023) Penny Lane
Penny Lane’s decision to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger Read More »
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991) Charles Finch
Bruce Simmons is an idealistic but out-of-work writer who stubbornly ignores Read More »
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch, Anthony Hopkins
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Read More »