July 30th, 2014: The Last Picture Show (1971)
A group of West Texas teenagers come of age while their town is slowly dying out, just as the movie theater that stands in for the town much close.
View ArticleAugust 8th, 2014: La Strada (1954)
Traveling strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn) buys the simple Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) from her starving family so that he will have an assistant. Zampano treats Gelsomina horribly and takes her for...
View ArticleAugust 9th, 2014: Attack aka Attack! (1956)
During the closing days of the Second World War, a National Guard infantry company is ordered to move into a town that could be occupied by Nazi forces. Earlier in the day their cowardly, politically...
View ArticleAugust 20th, 2014: The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
H.P. Lovecraft, Providence's own master of horror and weird fiction (and notoriously racist and borderline mad), was born on this date in 1890. Few of the films based on Lovecraft's short stories come...
View ArticleAugust 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)
Villagers threatened with starvation at the hands of bandits who demand their crop decide to hire samurai to protect them, but the wages they can offer attract only seven. Can this rag-tag group...
View ArticleAugust 30th, 2014: Topper Returns
Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is drawn into a mystery by the ghost of Gail Richards (Joan Blondell), murdered when she trades rooms with her heiress girlfriend Ann Carrington (Carole Landis). Can Topper...
View ArticleSeptember 5th, 2014: King Rat
Captured with the fall of Singapore, Corporal King (George Segal) is the "King" of Changi prison camp, wheeling and dealing to get what the men want and need, but as the war approaches its end, and the...
View ArticleSeptember 26th, 2014: Cool Hand Luke
Luke (Paul Newman) is imprisoned in a Southern prison and forced to work on a chain gang for cutting the heads off of parking meters. He slowly wins the admiration of the other inmates-and the scorn of...
View ArticleOctober 2nd, 2014: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986)
The Great Pumpkin (Jeff Pidgeon) puts a bounty on Charlie Brown's (Etienne Badillo) head and all hell breaks loose.
View ArticleOctober 4th, 2014: One Week (1920)
A bride (Sybil Seely) and groom (Buster Keaton) attempt to assemble a pre-fabricated house over the course of a week with disastrous results.
View ArticleOctober 9th, 2014: Zoku Zatôichi Monogatari aka The Tale of Zatoichi...
Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), the blind masseuse who is also a gambler and expert swordsman, returns one year after the events of The Tale of Zatoichi to pay his respects at the grave of Hirate, the...
View ArticleOctober 11th, 2014: The Black Scorpion (1957)
Volcanic activity in Mexico releases giant scorpions from deep within the Earth. The largest kills the others and heads towards Mexico City. Can American geologist Hank Scott (Richard Denning) find a...
View ArticleOctober 16th, 2014: Beginning of the End (1957)
When grasshoppers get into a Department of Agriculture silo of radioactive wheat, the result is a plague of enormous, ravenous insects. Can scientist Dr. Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves) find a way to stop...
View ArticleOctober 20th, 2014: Night Monster (1942)
A man crippled from a botched operation, Kurt Ingston (the original Professor Mortis himself-Ralph Morgan!) summons his three doctors (Lionel Atwill, Frank Reicherto, and Francis Pierlot) to his...
View ArticleOctober 22nd, 2014: Rebecca (1940)
The second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) meets her wealthy husband, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo and the pairs whirlwind romance ends in a quick marriage. When she returns to...
View ArticleNovember 6th, 2014: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Young widow Lucy Muir (Gene Tierney) moves into seaside Gull Cottage with her young daughter Anna (Natalie Wood). The new place is perfect except for their unexpected roommate, Captain Daniel Gregg...
View ArticleNovember 11th, 2014: 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 ArticleNovember 13th, 2014: The Invisible Woman (1940)
Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) puts an ad in the paper looking for a human test subject for his invisibility treatment. Dress model Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce) responds to the ad, hoping to earn a...
View ArticleNovember 16th, 2014: It Happened One Night (1934)
Reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable) helps spoiled heiress Ellie (Claudette Colbert), who is traveling incognito to meet up with her aviator fiance, King Westley (Jameson Thomas), who her father Mr....
View ArticleNovember 21st, 2014: Young Frankenstein (1974)
Dr. Frankenstein's grandson (Gene Wilder) inherits his grandfather's castle and repeats his experiment, creating another monster (Peter Boyle). Can Frankenstein the Younger save his monster and avoid...
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