Classic Cinema
Abbott and Costello Hit the Ice (1943)
Director: Charles Lamont
Starring: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Patric Knowles, Joe Sawyer
Two sidewalk photographers, Tubby McCoy (Lou Costello) and Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott), aspire to work for the local newspaper. Their childhood friend,... Read more
The Chalk Garden (Blu-ray) (1964)
7.4/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Felix Aylmer, Elizabeth Sel...
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands th... Read more
The Magnificent Ambersons (Blu-ray) (1942)
7.7/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello
Orson Welles' followup to "Citizen Kane" was utterly different in style and texture, but just as brilliant in its own way. Famously re-edited by the s... Read more
Now, Voyager (Blu-ray) (1942)
7.9/10
Director: Irving Rapper
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
A classic romance about tragic love. Bette Davis plays a woman so dominated by her mother that she is afraid to love until her psychiatrist sets her o... Read more
Une Femme Mariee ( A Married Woman ) (Blu-ray) (1964)
7.6/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Macha Meril, Bernard Noel, Philippe Leroy
New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard focuses on a day in the life of a wife who is forced to decide between her pilot husband and her actor lover. Subtitle... Read more
Le Plaisir ( Pleasure ) (Blu-ray) (1952)
7.7/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Mila Parely, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Gaby Morlay, Claude Dauphin
Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each segment revels in the ecstasy of pleasure: an old man regains his youth with the aid of a... Read more
New Adventures of Tarzan: Volume 2 (1934)
5.4/10
Director: Edward Kull
Starring: Herman Brix, Ula Holt
This oddity was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' own company and was the first Tarzan film shot on location (in Guatemala). The adventurers seek the... Read more
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
6.8/10
Director: Preston Sturges
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn
Harold Lloyd's final film is actually a sequel to his 1925 comedy "The Freshman." After being fired from his job, staid bookkeeper Lloyd goes on a dri... Read more
The Bullfighters (1945)
6.4/10
Director: Mal St Clair
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Laurel and Hardy are detectives on the trail of petty thief, Larceny Nell, that leads them south of the border. They lose the girl but end up in the... Read more
The Dancing Masters (1943)
6.3/10
Director: Lee Marcus
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Robert Mitchum
Stan and Ollie show their artistic sides - not to mentoion their tutus - when they become dancing masters. Watch out for a very young Robert Mitchum... Read more