My life at the movies.
Directed by Alex Phillips. Starring Phillip Andre Botello, Sammy Arechar, Betsey Brown, and Trevor Dawkins.
Two men struggling through emotional low-points snort and eat hallucinogenic worms and descend into a drug-fueled nightmare. Continue reading...
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, and Lyle Talbot.
Spencer Tracy plays Tommy, a smart but arrogant young convict entering New York’s Sing Sing prison, where he’s set to serve five to thirty years for armed robbery. There, he clashes with the incorruptible warden, but time sees the two develop a mutual respect. A trust tested when the warden grants Tommy a twenty-four-hour leave to visit his ailing girlfriend, played by Bette Davis. Continue reading...
Directed by Tod Browning. Starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, and Lionel Atwill.
When Sir Karell is discovered drained of blood and bearing puncture wounds in his neck, vampires are blamed. Lionel Barrymore plays an occult expert summoned to protect Sir Karell’s daughter who appears to be the vampire’s next target. Also, Bela Lugosi plays a Dracula-like character sporting an unexplained gunshot head wound whose only two lines come in the finale. Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
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...
