March 27th, 2013: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Joe (Laurence Tierney) and "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot (Chris Penn) recruit six crooks to pull a jewelry heist. Each criminal only knows the others as a color. When the robbery goes wrong, the survivors...
View ArticleApril 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)
The teenaged caveman (Robert Vaughn) is the son of the Symbol Maker (Leslie Bradley). The Black Bearded One (Frank DeKova), a staunch traditionalist, watches the Symbol Maker and his son closely...
View ArticleApril 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)
Con man Harold Hill (Robert Preston) arrives in River City and proceeds to work his chosen scam: setting up a children's marching band and selling lessons and instruments, planning to skip town with...
View ArticleApril 29th, 2013: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an alcoholic Pakistani immigrant (Roshan Seth) living in London. Papa, as he’s referred to throughout the film, calls his brother Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) to get Omar...
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 24th, 2013: I Bury the Living (1958)
Newly elected cemetery board director Robert Kraft (Richard Boone) begins to believe that he has power over the life and death of the owners of cemetery plots. Is it all a coincidence, or is something...
View ArticleMay 26th, 2013: El Dorado (1966)
John Wayne was born on this date in 1907. El Dorado is, for my money, the most fun of the three versions of this story that Howard Hawks and John Wayne made together, and one of Wayne's best late...
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 ArticleJune 28th, 2013: Spaceballs (1987)
Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and Barf (John Candy) must save Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) from Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) and the rest of the Spaceballs.
View ArticleJuly 4th, 2013: Vigilante Force
When oil boom prosperity undermines law and order, the Mayor brings in Vietnam veteran Aaron Arnold (Kris Kristofferson) to lead a Vigilante Force of vets to clean things up, but before long the Force...
View ArticleJuly 9th, 2013: He Knows You’re Alone
Amy Jensen (Caitlin O'Heaney) is about to get married, and intends to spend the weekend before the wedding in a low key celebration with her friends while her fiance goes off for a bachelor weekend....
View ArticleJuly 10th, 2013: Superman (1978)
Superman's father (Marlon Brando) Jor-El tries to convince the council that governs the planet Krypton that it is doomed, but they refuse to listen or allow him to warn others. Jor-El constructs a...
View ArticleJuly 16th, 2013: The Fly (1986)
Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) is a brilliant scientist working on a new technology: teleportation. He woos investigative journalist Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) by offering her exclusive coverage....
View ArticleJuly 23rd, 2013: Brick (2005)
Streetwise Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) scours the underworld (of high school drug dealers) in search of his missing ex, Emily (Emilie De Ravin).
View ArticleJuly 30th, 2013: Memento (2000)
Leonard (Guy Pierce), a man with no short term memory, hunts the killer of his wife.
View ArticleAugust 9th, 2013: 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 25th, 2013: Alligator (1980)
David Madison (Robert Forster) is a Chicago homicide detective assigned to investigate the body parts that keep showing up in the city’s sewer system. When he discovers the culprit is an alligator of...
View ArticleSeptember 4th, 2013: Blood Simple (1984)
Bar owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires a private eye (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill his wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her boyfriend Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's bartenders. Of course, lack of...
View ArticleSeptember 14th, 2013: Saturday the 14th (1981)
On Thursday the 12th, John (Richard Benjamin) and Mary (Paula Prentiss) move into an old, spooky house they just inherited. Their kids don't appreciate it, but when Billy (Kevin Brando) opens an old...
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