Nothing that occurs at the inhospitable, blurrily photographed summer house is more horrible to see than Karen Black's and Oliver Reed's uninhibited reactions to what occurs there -- her grotto-mouthed screams and his sweaty, convulsive shudders. With Bette Davis and Burgess Meredith; directed by Dan Curtis.
WWJDD, an acronym to live by. Space Jam, The Phantom, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Men, just this weekend during Fantastic Four...how many times has the question chugged through my mind like a ticker tape: What would Joe Dante do? But when genius goes wrong, nothing goes right: Chaplin rang down …
A harried husband decides to find a man who will get his wife off his back — by laying her onto hers. Directed by Enrique Begne. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Daniel Stern the executive producer assigns Daniel Stern the actor a role that blends the Daniel Stern of City Slickers with the Daniel Stern of Home Alone: an innocent fugitive from justice who takes refuge as an imposter scout leader on a camping expedition in the mountains. Quite a workout …
A Labour Party pamphlet come to life (or partway thereto), concerning a case of sexual harassment in a Liverpool boutique, and the lengthy aftermath. Pretty believable, but pretty dreary, too, and not all the fault of Mrs. Thatcher. With Glenda Jackson, John Thaw, and Cathy Tyson; written and directed by …
Documentary from Adam Finberg on troubles within the addiction recovery industry.
Touted as a feminine answer to In the Company of Men. Two women at opposite ends of the corporate pecking order -- a stressed exec and a sassy apprentice, who between them do a good deal of drinking and telephoning -- visit a kind of revenge on a hapless male …
Silents Synced presents Buster Keaton’s 1924 masterpiece, featuring music from R.E.M.‘s Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi albums.
Buster is a happily married (if not entirely happy) young dad working the night concierge desk in a remote mountainside hotel. He’s also a bearded crank who breaks into luxury homes and calls in to radio shows to rant about "the coming inversion." He’s also lost at sea and daring …
Two grown men, Newman and Redford, having fun just like kids, never minding the hard times undergone by bank robbers in the Old West. A fey and frilly Western, sometimes nostalgic and sometimes mythic, and swamped with winsomeness. Directed by George Roy Hill.
The title, besides being the name of an Irish folk song, is a fitting appellation for the young protagonist once he becomes an employee in a butcher shop: a square-faced little carrot-top with the mischievous look of a ventriloquist's dummy. This problem child of an alcoholic father and a suicidal …
Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on …