March 24th, 2013: The Great Escape (1963)
Cast and Crew: Elmer Bernstein (Score); Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, David McCallum, Nigel Stock What It’s About: During the...
View ArticleMarch 25th, 2013: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Cast and Crew: Peter Jackson (Director, Screenplay); J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel); Fran Walsh (Screenplay, Producer); Bob and Harvey Weinstein (Producers); Howard Shore (Score); Annie Lenox (Song); Sean...
View ArticleMay 3rd, 2013: Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958)
Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) goes to Switzerland (?) to find the castle of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee), ostensibly to catalog his library, but in reality to kill the Count. He kills Dracula's...
View ArticleMay 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)
In Edwardian England, the Banks family is in trouble. Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson) is a cold and distant banker who wants order in his family. Mrs. Banks (Glynis Johns) is wrapped up in her work...
View ArticleMay 28th, 2013: You Only Live Twice (1967)
S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is hijacking space flights and escalating tensions between the Super Powers. Can James Bond (Sean Connery) expose their plan before it is too late?
View ArticleMay 31st: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
At the tail end of the Civil War, farmer turned guerrilla Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood). His commander, Fletcher (John Vernon) negotiates a surrender with Terrill (Bill McKinney), leader of the hated...
View ArticleJune 2nd, 2013: The Ninth Configuration aka Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane
Colonel Vincent Kane (Stacey Keach) arrives at a remote castle where the U.S. Army tries experimental methods on its toughest psychiatric patients. Who are the patients, and who are the doctors, and...
View ArticleJune 3rd, 2013: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Based on the book of the same title written by Cameron Crowe and reporting his year undercover in a San Diego high school, Fast Times at Ridgemont High chronicles a year in the life of a group of high...
View ArticleJune 19th, 2013: The Lord of the Flies (1963)
The survivors of a shipwreck, all young boys, must find a way to survive. The boys form their own society, but it is not long before they begin to descend into savagery...
View ArticleJune 26th: Cidade de Deus aka City of God (2002)
The story of the slums of Rio De Janeiro told through the eyes of two brothers.
View ArticleJuly 6th, 2013: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
During the Great War, T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent by British Intelligence to investigate the Arab revolt against the Turks and ends up organizing and leading guerrilla forces to great success.
View ArticleJuly 24th, 2013: The Four Musketeers (1974)
Young swordsman D'Artagnan (Michael York) becomes a musketeer himself, and joins his three friends in foiling plots against the Queen (Geraldine Chaplin) and her chambermaid (Raquel Welch).
View ArticleJuly 26th, 2013: The Spiral Staircase (1945)
A serial killer who preys on those he deems "weak"-those with disabilities or disfigurements. Helen Chapel (Dorothy McGuire) is a maid who works for a rich family in a large old house-and happens to be...
View ArticleAugust 1st, 2013: The Train (1964)
Labiche (Burt Lancaster) is a member of the French resistance who is asked to stop Nazi officer Col. von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) from taking a train load of French paintings back to Germany. Initially...
View ArticleAugust 6th, 2013: Out of the Past (1947)
The past of gas attendant (and former private investigator) Jeff (Robert Mitchum) returns to haunt him when his former employer Whit (Kirk Douglas) arrives and offers to forget his past sins if he does...
View ArticleAugust 7th, 2013: The Thin Red Line (1998)
U.S. Army units arrive in Guadalcanal in a large push to break Japanese resistance.
View ArticleAugust 11th, 2013: The Jungle Book (1967)
Mowgli (Bruce Reitherman) is a man-cub who has been raised by wolves, along with Baloo (Phil Harris) the bear and Bagheera (Sebastian Cabot) the panther. When Shere Khan (George Sanders), the tiger,...
View ArticleAugust 14, 2013: Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jamie Graham (Christian Bale) is separated from his parents when Shanghai is invaded by the Japanese. He must learn to survive, first on his own in his parents abandoned estate, and finally in a...
View ArticleAugust 17th, 2013: Angel Heart (1987)
The year is 1955 and two bit gumshoe Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to find Johnny Favorite, a pre-war singer who served during the war and has supposedly been...
View ArticleSeptember 3rd, 2013: Shane (1953)
Shane (Alan Ladd) begins working for Joe Starett (Van Heflen) a "sodbuster" who, along with his fellows, faces relentless pressure to clear off the land by cattleman Morgan Ryker (John Dierkes). What...
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