The Crowd Roars (1932)
"It's a matter of LIFE and DEATH!" Directed by Howard Hawks (Scarface), The Crowd Roars boasts a stellar cast that includes James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak (who portrayed “Cesca”…
"It's a matter of LIFE and DEATH!" Directed by Howard Hawks (Scarface), The Crowd Roars boasts a stellar cast that includes James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak (who portrayed “Cesca”…
“We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is . . . until we get out of step with it.” Easily one of the greatest…
“Life is what you make it.” A bizarre little crime melodrama from MGM and directed by Tod Browning (Freaks), The Blackbird features a “Jekyll & Hyde” type story with Lon…
“The smugglers … the blood-money chiselers … and the danger-dame … they all owned a piece of the guy they called ‘Trouble’ …” A great and somewhat overlooked film-noirish adaptation…
“I am sorry because I have failed to give you what you had the right to demand of me as your teacher: sympathy, encouragement and humanity.” A devastating portrait of…
"Man, this guy is so burned, he's cooked! A fucking Big Mac, overdone!" A cut above (no pun intended!) the typical early 1980's slasher film starts with a prank gone…
“That house is not fit to live in. No one’s been able to live in it. It doesn’t want people.” One of the greatest atmospheric horror films, The Changeling ranks…
“So why did you try to kill him then?” … “Because we were friends.” In this offbeat, rambling road movie/crime thriller written and directed by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter),…
“I’ll bend every effort to win this race, and I come from a long line of effort benders!” The great W.C. Fields teams up with Alison Skipworth as the title…
"Anywhere is better than here." A little-known independent film directed by Julian Goldberger, Trans has a dreamlike, impressionistic style. It was filmed in and around Fort Myers, Florida. A teenage…