August 10th, 2013: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot aka M. Hulot’s Holiday
Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) takes a vacation at a seaside hotel, where he delights, infuriates, amuses and creates havoc with the guests.
View ArticleSeptember 17th, 2013: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam aka The Golem (1920)
Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinruck) brings The Golem (Paul Wegener) to life to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution...but, in this version, The Golem is created with a little help from the demon...
View ArticleSeptember 24th, 2013: El Barón del Terror (aka The Brainiac)
In 1661, Baron Vitelius d'Estera (Abel Salazar) is condemned to death by the Inquisition in Mexico. He swears vengeance upon his accusers. 300 years later, the same comet that passed over the night of...
View ArticleSeptember 27th, 2013: Village of the Damned (1960)
Cast and Crew: Sterling Silliphant (Screenplay); Ron Goodwind (Score); Martin Stephens, Barbara Shelley What It’s About: The village of Midwich is mysterious cut off from the rest of the world. Anyone...
View ArticleOctober 4th, 2013: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
“Steamboat Bill” Canfield (Ernest Torrence) is a tough man whose steamboat business rests on the fact that he is the only game in town, despite his (and his steamboat’s) unpolished appearance and...
View ArticleOctober 11th, 2013: La Belle et La Bête aka Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Belle (Josette Day) asks her father (Marcel Andre) to bring her a rose as a present from his business trip. When he takes one from the supernatural abode of the Beast (Jean Marais), the Beast gives him...
View ArticleOctober 12th, 2013: Night of the Demon aka Curse of the Demon (1957)
A frantic Professor (Maurice Denham) pleads with a Mr. Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) to save him, offering to call off his investigation. Karswell says he will do what he can and sends the man home. The...
View ArticleOctober 20th, 2013: Bowery at Midnight
Professor Frederick Brenner (Bela Lugosi) leads a triple life. As soup kitchen operator Karl Wagner he recruits men for his gang of bank robbers. When his men fail him, he lets his associate Doc Brooks...
View ArticleNovember 2nd, 2013: Carnival of Souls (1962)
After a tragic car accident, Mary Henry (Candace Hilligloss) moves to a new town, and takes a new job as a church organist. Wherever she goes, she sees a pale ghoul of a man (Herk Harvey) that no one...
View ArticleNovember 3rd, 2013: Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Bambi meets Godzilla in the forest. The results are not pretty.
View ArticleNovember 11th, 2013: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
At the start of the Great War, Herr Mueller (Russell Gleason) whips Paul (Lew Ayres) and the rest of his class into a frenzy promising them glory, quick victory, and the honor of serving their country...
View ArticleDecember 7th, 2013: From Here to Eternity (1953)
Just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Dana Holmes (Phillip Ober) cares more about getting Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) to join his boxing team than his wife...
View ArticleDecember 9th, 2013: Terror in a Texas Town
George Hansen (Sterling Hayden) marches towards the center of a Western town with a harpoon and squares off against Johnny Crale (Nedrick Young), a man in black armed with the more traditional choice...
View ArticleDecember 10th, 2013: Dead Again (1991)
Private eye Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) takes on the case of a mysterious amnesiac found on the grounds of the orphanage he grew up in. Church dubs her Grace (Emma Thompson) and through hypnotic...
View ArticleDecember 25th, 2013: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
When Macy's Santa shows up drunk for their annual Thanksgiving parade, their special events manager, Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), persuades a handy old man (Edmund Gwenn). The man is hired as the...
View ArticleJanuary 5th, 2014: Divorzio All Italiana aka Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
Ferdinando Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) is a minor Sicilian baron who is unhappy with his wife Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) and in love with his cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). At this point in Italian...
View ArticleJanuary 20th, 2014: Roman Holiday (1953)
Down-on-his-luck American reporter Joe Bradly (Gregory Peck) is stuck in Rome when circumstances drop a drugged Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) in his care. Once he figures out who she is, Bradley makes...
View ArticleJanuary 27th, 2014: The Playhouse (1921)
In the opening dream sequence of this famed Buster Keaton short, Keaton plays everyone in vaudeville show: the performers, the audience, the theater workers.
View ArticleFebruary 8th, 2014: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Drifter Frank Chambers (John Garfield) gets himself a job working at Nick Smith's (Cecil Kellaway) gas station and roadside restaurant. The only trouble is Smith's beautiful, much younger wife Cora...
View ArticleFebruary 28th, 2014: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) is a down-on-his-luck, egotistical film producer who asks his money man Harry Pebbel (Walter Pidgeon) to get three old friends to help him out. They are: Fred Amiel...
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