Horror. A perfectly awful family goes to a small town and encounters a bunch of goblins who want to turn them into plants and eat them. This bogus sequel (made by Italians after a quick lira) has bad acting, camp dialogue (“Joshua is not a little shit. He’s just sensitive!”) and make-up effects that must have cost all of $20 but goes beyond your ordinary bad movie thanks to a lunatic quality that infuses everything about it. You really must see it.
Holy television camp, Batman! Will the caped crusader win the Bat-tle against the combined forces of the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin, and Catwoman? Will Batman and Robin save the United World Security Council from dehydration? Will the Bat genius ever figure out that Russian journalist Miss Kitka and Catwoman are one and the same? Biff! Thwack! Socko!
Appropriately the very first big budget superhero movie, SUPERMAN delivers and still entertains. The movie works on all levels of a straight adventure film with action, pathos and a love story. The film is faithful to the comic-book legend. Margot Kidder in person, Q&A, Autograph signing. Special Event, No Free List.
Lloyd's 1928 Speedy, his last silent picture, packs as many great gags per minute as any Lloyd film, and it also has one of his sweetest love stories (a courtship scene in the back of a moving van, with Harold rearranging the furniture to approximate a cozy living room). But the film is also notable for its extensive location shooting in New York City.
In some abstract war, a military patrol consisting of four men find themselves six miles behind enemy lines after their plane has crashed. Kubrick disowned the film soon after it's release, calling it amateurish like a child's drawing on a fridge, and wanted to make sure it was never seen again. A print survived and was recently discovered in Cuba.
A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.
An escaped convict of San Quentin prison, imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Vincent Parry undergoes plastic surgery to escape re-arrest and to prove his innocence. A stylish film noir starring Bogie and Bacall, Dark Passage is one of the lesser known greats that brought the two together onscreen. Noted too for its innovative use of first person POV - the first third of the film is shot entirely from Bogie's pre-bandaged view - a must see on the big screen.
Haneke's debut feature film, inspired by the true story of a middle class Austrian family who immigrate to Australia and commit suicide. Unnerving actions and the start of what will be a brilliant career for Haneke.
Benny is a bored teenager from an affluent family. His fascination is filming reality and watching the filmed images. His distance from reality mirrors his distance from humanity. As his actions and behaviours become increasingly estranged from what is normal and closer to a clinical and even morbid observation of others, Benny crosses a line, and his chilling calm will haunt you long after the images leave the screen.
Joe Dallesandro acquired life-long fame amongst underground, camp and kitsch fans thanks to the narrative genius of Paul Morrissey. Low budget, and the very invention of trash aesthetics, make Joe, the Hustler's journey through the streets of New York City more than just a story of prostitution.