December 7th, 2014: High and Low — a.k.a. Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Best known for his historical epics (including Ran and Seven Samurai), Akira Kurosawa started his career with some gripping detective films. In High and Low, adapted from the novel King's Ransom by Ed...
View ArticleDecember 8th, 2014: Eastern Promises (2007)
Anna, a young British woman of Russian descent, witnesses the death of a pregnant Russian teenager. Eager to find her family and a home for the posthumous newborn, she ends up in contact with various...
View ArticleDecember 10th, 2014: Billy Jack (1971)
Wandering ex-Green Beret, half-Native American Hapkido expert Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) finds himself in Arizona, where he faces off against the local racists, cops, and well-off ranchers in his...
View ArticleDecember 12th, 2014: Pootie Tang
Folk hero musician actor Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther) fights Corporate America, who want him to endorse addictive products.
View ArticleSouth Shore Movie Guild Review: The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
The South Shore Movie Guild meets typically once a month, usually to watch something in the horror/sci-fi/action genres in quality running from high (usually a horror movie) to abjectly terrible...
View ArticleDecember 13th, 2014: Inside Man (2006)
Cast and Crew: Spike Lee (Director); Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor What It’s About: A police detective and hostage negotiator, Keith...
View ArticleDecember 19th, 2014: The Chase (1994)
Cast and Crew: Adam Rifkin (Director), Cassian Elwes (Producer); Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins What It’s About: Truth in advertising is the word of the day here: all but the first five...
View ArticleDecember 20th, 2014: The Hebrew Hammer
Mordecai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) allies with the Kwanzaa Liberation Front to save Hanukkah from the schemes of Santa Claus's demented son Damien (Andy Dick).
View ArticleDecember 26th, 2014: Diva (1981)
Cast and Crew: Jean-Jacques Beineix (Director); Irene Silberman (Producer); Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu What It’s About: Diva is a purely aesthetic...
View ArticleDecember 31, 2014: Strange Days (1995)
Strange Days is a disturbing dystopian vision of the near future from 1995. The anarchic 1999 Los Angeles it depicts is an over-the-top depraved riot of leather and goth and Sony MiniDiscs. With...
View Article