Friday, 4 September 2020
Pathos - Segreta inquietudine (1988)
A cop is assigned to catch a serial killer who is murdering his way through Rome's sexual underground
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Nothing Sacred (1937)
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Lively and mildly amusing satire is quite dated, but watchable for its wit, fast pace and good cast.
Halliwell***: "Hollywood's most bitter and hilarious satire, with crazy comedy elements and superb wisecracks; a historical monument of screen comedy, though its freshness at the time can't now be recaptured."
Maltin***1/2: "Classic comedy...Ben Hecht's cynical script vividly enacted by March and Lombard (at her best)."
American Epic (2015)
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts set out across America to capture the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world.
Fascinating and insightful historical investigation into the roots of American popular music dicsovers some good archive material; the final episode, The American Epic Sessions recreates the recordings on the same recording machine from the time performed by some good current musicians and pop stars.
Misterios de ultratumba (1959)
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists
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