My life at the movies.
Directed by William Dieterle. Starring William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, and Hugh Herbert.
William Powell plays a conman who recruits an artist played by Betty Davis into a fashion piracy scheme that takes them from New York to Paris. Continue reading...
Directed by Herbert Ross. Starring Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason, and Dyan Cannon.
James Coburn plays an influential movie producer whose wife, the titular Sheila, storms out of a party after an argument. Sheila leaves on foot, walking the winding Bel Air streets, where she falls victim to an unidentified driver who strikes and kills her.
One year later, Coburn invites six acquaintances, all connected to the party, for a week-long stay on his yacht in the Mediterranean. There, they’ll discuss a potential bio-pic about Sheila and play a series of parlor games. But when the guests learn the games involve their darkest secrets, murder ensues. Minor spoilers follow. Continue reading...
Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury, and Heidi Marnhout.
Mike confronts the Tall Man in the desert with Reggie in pursuit. Continue reading...
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright, and David Landau.
Richard Barthelmess plays a tenant farmer’s son who finds himself caught between worlds after the plantation owner affords him an education and job in the company store. Continue reading...
Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and Barbara Peeters. Starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, and Cindy Weintraub.
Delicate sensibilities beware. Humanoids from the Deep features explicit rape sequences, a graphic dog killing, and multiple mutilated dog corpses. But those that brave a viewing will discover a thrilling—albeit often ridiculous—monster movie. Continue reading...
Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson. Starring Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, and Tate Ellington.
Writer-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead play brothers struggling to forge a life outside the UFO death cult that raised them when a video-taped message prompts them to pay a return visit before the group’s “ascension.” Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, and Gloria Lynne Henry.
Reggie and a pair of unlikely allies pursue the Tall Man, who’s kidnapped Mike. Continue reading...
Directed by Sam Wood. Starring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, and Beulah Bondi.
An adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play chronicling turn-of-the-century life in a small New England town via two neighboring families, and their eldest children, played by William Holden and Martha Scott. Continue reading...
Directed by William A. Wellman. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, and Bette Davis.
Barbara Stanwyck plays a young woman who leaves her Chicago finishing school for a rural teaching job after her gambler father dies. There she marries and has a son who grows to manhood and leaves the farm for Chicago, where he turns gigolo to secure a lucrative job selling bonds, to Stanwyck’s disappointment. Continue reading...
Directed by Chester Erskine. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, and Henry Hull.
O. P. Heggie plays a jury foreman who poses a key question during a woman’s murder trial for a crime of passion. When she’s found guilty and sentenced to death, the papers hold him responsible. Fast-forward the execution night. A reporter played by Henry Hull bribes Heggie’s dim-witted son-in-law to bait Heggie into an emotional reaction. Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
