It's fun, but not THAT kind of fun. The Invisible Woman (1940) - A department store model finds a way to get revenge on her miserable boss when she answers an ad for test subjects. An eccentric scientist has found the way to make people invisible. There are a few problems still to be overcome!... Continue Reading →

When The End Comes, It Will Come For Us All. When the Wind Blows (1986) – Nuclear war disrupts the quiet routine of an elderly, retired couple in England. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami Starring Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Sir John Mills Why I Liked It – A charming fable with a heartbreaking end. Here’s a... Continue Reading →

One Of The Greatest Anti-War War Movies of All Tim Catch-22 (1970) – An American pilot tries everything to be relieved of combat flying, including being certified as insane. The problem is that there’s a catch to that question. An omnipresent, infallible stumbling block to the insanity all around it. Directed by Mike Nichols Starring... Continue Reading →

Where The Boyfriend Is A Jerk, But NOT The Biggest Jerk. The Blue Gardenia (1953) – A young woman has too much to drink and goes back to the apartment of a pickup artist. The next morning, she wakes up to a raging hangover and a dead body. Did she kill him? The early evidence... Continue Reading →

The Cooler (2006) – Bernie Lootz is not the man you want to stand next to you in a casino. Bernie is a man shaped jinx. Any luck you had at the table disappears. That makes him precious to the casino that employs him. When a pretty waitress comes into Bernie’s life, things will change.... Continue Reading →

Arabesque (1966) – A college professor with a specialty in ancient languages is drawn into an international crisis. Someone is trying to murder a visiting statesman to stop the signing of a treaty. Or are they? He has no idea who he can trust, including the beautiful wife of a suspect. Directed by Stanley Donen... Continue Reading →

Urban Cowboy (1980) – A young country boy moves to the big city looking for opportunities. He discovers work in the oil fields, and love in a legendary honky-tonk. Waiting for him are challenges he didn’t expect, including a mechanical bull, and an ex-con rival for his woman. Directed by James Bridges Starring John Travolta,... Continue Reading →

Nothing But The Night (1973) – The trustees of an orphanage are dying in suspicious circumstances. The surviving leadership refuses to read anything mysterious into those deaths. Then all the remaining trustees and 30 orphans die in a bus accident. A retired police detective, a pathologist, and a journalist begin an investigation of what was... Continue Reading →

Absence of Malice (1981) – A naïve reporter is tricked into spreading a story about an investigation of Mike Gallagher, a Miami businessman and son of a late mobster. There is no basis to the story, but the impact on Gallagher is profound. He has to find a way to clear his name and maybe... Continue Reading →