18 year old Eric, on vacation in the South with his parents, decides to escape the stifling situation especially with his 50 year old father, and join a group of fellow youth.Read More »

Pierre, a young pianist, goes to Munich for the funeral of his father, the great Alberto, a famous illusionist. Everything surprises and shocks him in this fairground world where he feels like a foreigner. He is however very attracted by a beautiful young girl who is part of the troop, Hildegret. Pierre discovers that under this identity, for the needs of the show, are actually hiding two twin sisters Greta and Hilda. And the illusion has only just begun.Read More »

During a thunderstorm, Greek alcoholic Maria, her English husband, Paul, their small daughter Judith, and traveling companion Claire seek refuge overnight in a small Spanish hotel. While drinking Maria observes Paul and Claire embracing on a balcony and is strangely excited.Read More »

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers “We can’t beat this kind of thing. We make a film like that maybe once in a decade. We haven’t got the actors. It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man, presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals. It is considered to be a “humanist” film, paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family. Cinema theorist Kate Taylor-Jones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided “a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.” (from wikipedia)Read More »

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The mind-searing action that came to a bubbling frenzy in DMJ 3: A New Beginning now reaches a fever pitch! In the grand finale of the Dark Bros. two-part epic, Justine Jones continues her quest to find the way out of Hell with a little help from her infernal guide. Their search takes them through the sexual underworld, where every known sexual whim is a reality; then it’s down to “The Racist Room,” where bigots discover the finer points of race relations. But the clincher comes when they reach “The Taboo Room” – and Justine discovers the shocking key to her forbidden past. But does she get out of Hell? You’ll find out in the unbelievable climax of The Devil In Miss Jones 4: The Final Outrage.Read More »

Antonin is a bit of a dandy. He has a way with words that could have made him a famous writer, but instead mostly serves to get him out of trouble.Read More »

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Set in the 23rd century on Mars, the plot follows the investigation on a murder case carried out by the couple formed by private investigator Aline Ruby and her android companion Carlos Rivera.In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.—olisilumeaRead More »

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Matthew Rovner, Jewish Daily Forward wrote:
On February 13, 1948, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency announced that film director Sergei Eisenstein, “the son of a Jewish merchant,” was dead at the age of 50. Eisenstein’s father was a prosperous German Jew and his mother Russian Orthodox. Eisenstein grew up highly assimilated, though he was aware of his Jewish heritage. He was friendly with Isaac Babel, and he learned to use Yiddish slang and humor. But Eisenstein’s Judaism had always been marginal to his work as an artist. In his first feature, “Strike,” a serious propaganda film, there is humor, although it is influenced more by Charlie Chaplin than Sholom Aleichem.Read More »

A Fascist pilot, Lt. Gino Rossati (Massimo Girotti), is flying a bombing run from Italy to Greece in the early spring of 1941. He is shot down by British aircraft and becomes a prisoner of war, first of the British and later the Greeks. In one of the prison camps, he falls in love with Anna (Michela Belmonte), the teenage daughter of an Italian doctor. During a bombardment by the Italians, he is able to escape by stealing a British plane. He returns home, although wounded, and lands in time to hear the reports of Greece’s surrender.Read More »