21 Apr
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world […]
Posted in 1983, Drama, USA by: admin
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21 Apr
Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman’s 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen […]
Posted in 1962, Comedy, Drama, Romance, UK, USA by: admin
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15 Apr
A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to […]
Posted in 1999, Crime, Thriller, USA by: admin
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28 Mar
Clint Eastwood is a hidden preacher who comes to a gold mining theatrical near a diminutive town in the mountains. The miners are in fault-finding danger as a atrocious landowner decides to receive their purse, with the lawyer of the sheriff. The solo one who seems strong enough to conserve them is this clergyman who […]
Posted in 1985, Action, USA, Western by: admin
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19 Feb
La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters […]
Posted in 1973, Animation, Czechoslovakia, France, Sci-Fi by: admin
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18 Feb
Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take […]
Posted in 2006, Drama, UK by: admin
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07 Feb
Lee Holloway is a smart, quirky woman in her twenties who returns to her hometown in Florida after a brief stay in a mental hospital. In search of relief from herself and her oppressive childhood environment, she starts to date a nerdy friend from high school and takes a job as a secretary in a […]
Posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA by: admin
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03 Jan
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become […]
Posted in 2002, Australia, Fantasy, Horror, Music, USA by: admin
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23 Nov
A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.
Posted in 2004, Canada, Comedy, Germany, Horror, Thriller, USA by: admin
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21 Oct
‘It’ is a Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), an ancient, ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day on a secret beach at their uncle’s mansion. It grants them one wish per day, lasting until sunset. But they soon learn it is very hard to think of really sensible wishes, and each one […]
Posted in 2004, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, France, UK, USA by: admin
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