The Notorious Bettie Page
Synopsis: In an incandescent performance, Gretchen Mol (The Shape of Things) stars as Bettie Page, who grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model […]
Tag Archives: Period piece
Phonogram, vol. 1: Rue Britannia
Summary: Britannia is ten years dead. Phonomancer David Kohl hadn’t spared his old patron a thought for almost as long… at which point his mind starts to unravel. Can he […]
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Synopsis: They say love and money don’t mix, but you can’t blame Harry Lockhart for trying. He’s been whisked from a life of petty crime to Hollywood, where he’ll audition […]
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Synopsis: In this captivating, exhilaratingly skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima (In The Realm Of The Senses, Empire Of Passion), David Bowie (The Man Who Fell To Earth, […]
Joyeux Noël
Synopsis: Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French […]
Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland
Summary: Joe Hill’s New York Times bestselling novel, NOS4A2, introduced readers to the terrifying funhouse world of Christmasland and the mad man who rules there: Charlie Talent Manx III. Now, […]
Animal House
Synopsis: One of the most popular movie comedies of all time is also the film that made food fights an art form and John Belushi a star. This raunchy, screwball […]
Porky’s Revenge
Synopsis: In this laugh-out-loud final installment of the ‘Porky’s’ adventures, the sexually frustrated boys and girls of Angel Beach High struggle with the school administration and their own raging hormones. […]
Wonderland
Synopsis: Sex. Guns. Money And Murder. Welcome To L.A. On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a […]
Cooley High
Synopsis: Often called ‘the black American Graffiti’, Cooley High takes a nostalgic, poignant – and hilariously funny – look at black teen life in 1960’s Chicago. It’s 1964. JFK has […]
Porky’s II: The Next Day
Synopsis: Proving they haven’t matured a bit since the original Porky’s, much of the original cast is back to take on right-wing bigots, religious fanatics and double-talking politicians. Count on […]
The People vs Larry Flynt
Synopsis: You may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it? Based on a true story of the notorious Hustler publisher […]
More American Graffiti
Synopsis: More laughs, more music! Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith and Paul Le Mat return in this laugh-filled follow-up look into the lives of the gang from George […]
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