Film Reviews
Patrick |
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life. |
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It Always Rains on Sunday |
Robert Hamer's bleak portrait of life in London's East End. |
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The Red Spectre |
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him. |
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The Footprints of a Spirit |
A documentary about The Spirit of the Beehive featuring director Víctor Erice, producer Elías Querejeta, coscreenwriter Ángel Fernández-Santos, and actor Ana Torrent. |
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The Maltese Falcon |
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. |
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Man with a Movie Camera |
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. |
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Between the Lines |
Story of an underground newspaper in Boston about to be taken over by big business. |
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The Gnomes' Great Adventure |
David the Gnome and Swift the Fox embark on a search to find a gold treasure stolen by trolls. |
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Mega Piranha |
When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh. |
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The Reckoning |
When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters. |
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A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints |
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike. |
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Lisa, Lisa |
A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade. |
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King of Devil's Island |
Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order. |
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How to Hook Up Your Home Theater |
Goofy tries to set up his new home theater in time for the big game, with disastrous results. |
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Madame Curie |
Young Polish physics student Marie marries Doctor Pierre Curie, in whose lab she had worked for a while. On their honeymoon they decide to find out what caused the strange effect Prof. Becquerel has noticed with the uranium/thorium stones for her dissertation. After many experiments they find out that there must be more radioactive elements than uranium and thorium, and they try to isolate it. After years of experiments in a makeshift lab at the University, they are able to isolate a few grains of a new element, radium, from 7 tons of raw material, but at the height of their success, Pierre is killed in an traffic accident. Written by Stephan Eichenberg |
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