Love Among the Ruins (1975, TV-Movie)
Synopsis: Set in Edwardian England, Laurence Olivier (Rebecca) plays a well-regarded London barrister hired by a wealthy & eccentric ex-actress, played by Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen), to defend her […]
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White Zombie (1932)
Synopsis: A young couple, Madeleine Parker (Madge Bellamy, Charlie Chan in London) and her fiancé Neil Parker (John Harron, The Crowd Roars), agree to get married at a friend’s Haitian […]
Train to Busan (2016, aka Busanhaeng)
Synopsis: In modern South Korea, passengers inside a train try to survive amidst a sudden zombie epidemic. Reaction & Thoughts: Word War Z, Asian style. Hands down, the best zombie […]
Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Synopsis: In the 1920s, in a small Southern American town, Lila (Cheryl Smith, Caged Heat), an innocent 13-year-old girl, gets word that her father, who went into hiding after killing […]
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970, aka Valerie a týden divu)
Synopsis: Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová), who has just tuned thirteen, experiences her first period and that important event in the young girl’s life triggers a series of weird, surreal adventures … […]
The Green Slime (1968)
Synopsis: Scientists discover that a giant asteroid is on collision course with Earth. They dispatch a crew of astronauts from a space station to land on the asteroid and blow […]
Les Diaboliques (1955, aka Diabolique)
Synopsis: The timid wife (Vera Clouzot, Wages of Fear) and mistress (Simone Signoret, Room at the Top) of a mean-spirited headmaster (Paul Meurisse, Army of Shadows) of an all-boys private […]
Director’s Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock’s Number Seventeen (1932)
Synopsis: A group of strangers — a homeless man (Leon M. Lion, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss), a detective (John Stuart, Sink the Bismarck!), a mysterious young woman (Ann Casson, […]
Director’s Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rich and Strange (1931)
Synopsis: A suburban couple, Fred (Henry Kendall, The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss) and his wife, Emily (Joan Barry, Sally Bishop), are fed up with their mundane life styles. After unexpectedly […]
Billy the Kid (1941)
Synopsis: The life and times of the infamous 19th century gunfighter, played by Robert Taylor (Quo Vadis and Ivanhoe), whose exploits have become the stuff of legends. Reaction & Thoughts: […]
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Synopsis: Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller, RoboCop) is a full-time brain surgeon and part-time inventor who spends his spare time playing the guitar in a rock band (“The Hong Kong […]
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Synopsis: In 19th century Paris, France, a sadistic scientist and circus performer, Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi, Dracula), is determined to prove that humans and apes share the same ancestors. In […]
