Film Reviews
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together... |
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Haunts |
A woman haunted by psychosexual nightmares begins to believe her father is responsible for a series of scissor-murders. |
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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter |
Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds (descendents of afro-American and Japanese couples). When one of the girls start dating a half-breed, they start a terror campaign to take all of them out of town. Mako and her gang fight back, helping their new friend Kazuma find his long gone sister. |
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The Hills Run Red |
After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up. |
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Folies Bergère de Paris |
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend. |
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The Long Night |
City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in. |
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Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick |
Hot young tech wizard Alan Resnick shares his secrets of immortality, along with his digital avatar Teddy. |
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Silence |
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor. |
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Führer Ex |
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later. |
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About Adam |
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend. |
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Becoming Jane |
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman. |
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Mighty Joe Young |
After being taken from his home in Africa, Gorilla "Joe" is an instant hit in a Hollywood nightclub. This fun and wonderfully entertaining slant on "King Kong" is much better than Kong's 1934 sequel, "Son of Kong". This all ages adventure has superb special effects from Willis O'Brien and his protege, Ray Harryhausen. |
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Hannibal |
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media. |
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The Married Woman |
Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines - does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a client, consulting a physician: there's tension at home, Pierre had her followed a few months before, their marital play has an edge, Pierre slaps her and apologizes. She quizzes Robert: is he acting when he's with her? Events may force her to choose Robert or Pierre. Close-ups fill the screen; is there more than surface? Her eyes tear up. The horrors of war provide a distant counterpoint. |
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King Uncle |
Ashok Bansal has a traumatic childhood which teaches him that money matters most to people, even more than their kids. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to get out of poverty, at the expense of his own family. However, Ashok’s life changes forever when Munna enters his life. |
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