Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.Read More »

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The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.Read More »

Lights of Old Broadway
Essay by Matthew Kennedy
By 1924, Metro Pictures was ailing. Founded in 1915 it had major successes with child star Jackie Coogan, “Great Stone Face” Buster Keaton, and sensational Rudolph Valentino in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). But Metro lost Valentino to Paramount and was also in need of more theaters to better control exhibition. Goldwyn Pictures was in trouble, too, thanks to internecine fights between management and board. A merger could mitigate their respective business worries. When Metro and Goldwyn united on April 17, 1924, with the manipulative, canny, and robust Louis B. Mayer in charge, it became the nascent film empire Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. Twenty-four-year-old “Boy Wonder” Irving Thalberg, formerly at Universal, was signed as supervisor of production.Read More »

Daibutsu sama to kodomotachi (Children of the Great Buddha) is the final film in Hiroshi Shimizu’s war orphan trilogy. It features the same cast of orphans from Shimizu’s orphanage, The Beehive, as tour guides in Nara. Other titles include Introspection Tower, Children of the Beehive, and Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next.Read More »

The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who sailed alone around the world in a 23 foot sloop named “The Dove”. On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman (Patti Ratteree, played by Deborah Raffin) who is also traveling around the world. The story follows Robin around the world to many beautiful locals, as he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.Read More »

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Straight Out of Brooklyn is an 1991 independent film directed by Matty Rich in his directorial debut. The film is a gritty story about Dennis (played by Larry Gilliard Jr.), an African-American teen living in a housing project with his sister, mother and abusive, alcoholic father. Fed up with his family’s seemingly hopeless future, he plans with his friends to rob a drug dealer.Read More »

A poor samurai and a rich businessman become unlikely friends through the game of go. Yanagida is a masterless samurai who has lost his position because of false accusations, but hasn’t given up his honor. Genbei, an unscrupulous pawnbroker, ends up learning the value of honesty from Yanagida. Yanagida’s daughter Okinu and Genbei’s ward Yakichi also start to grow close. However, during a night of celebration, Yanagida receives a message summoning him to seek revenge – and Genbei loses a large amount of money, for which Yanagida is suspected.Read More »

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A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.Read More »

“The random babblings of another loser” is what anti-hero Barney speaks into his recorder, as he winds up his verbal memoirs in this pretentious, overwritten example of what happens when would-be filmmakers used the handy format of XXX porn in its early period (1973) to make a movie. It sums up the duo of directors’ work as well.Read More »