November 26, 2020

MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS 

AKA BABES IN TOYLAND

Directed by Gus Meins, Charley Rogers

Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

1934 - Fantasy - USA -  73 mins - NR

Rated 100% FRESH on RottenTomatoes!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING... our first free Holiday movie for the season!

Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) rent rooms in Mother Peep's shoe in Toyland. When Mother Peep can't make her mortgage payment to evil Silas Barnaby (Harry Kleinbach), he attempts to blackmail her into having Little Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry) marry him, despite the girl's attachment to Tom-Tom Piper. Stannie and Ollie offer their assistance to Mother Peep, Bo-Peep and Piper, and later enlist an army of wooden soldiers to battle Barnaby's cave-dwelling bogeymen.

November 19, 2020

NO WAY OUT

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell

1950 - Drama - USA - 106 mins - NR

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Robbers Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) and his brother are shot and taken to the local hospital. There, the two are treated by Dr. Brooks (Sidney Poitier), the hospital's only black doctor. The brothers assault Brooks with racist slurs. And, when his brother ends up dying on the operating table, Ray accuses the doctor of murdering him. Blind with rage, Ray works to turn the white community of the city against Brooks, who finds an unlikely ally in the dead man's widow, Edie (Linda Darnell).

(From Rotten Tomatoes) Note: A powerful & disturbing film about racial discrimination.

Receives a 90% FRESH rating on RottenTomatoes.

November 11, 2020

★★IN HONOR OF VETERANS DAY★★

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STALAG 17 (1953) 120 mins.
A classic. Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot ) directed this award-winning take on the complicated life inside a German POW camp during WWII. Stars William Holden (won the Oscar® for best actor), Otto Preminger, Peter Graves, and a who's who of Hollywood's best character actors. Based on the Broadway stage play. 

November 11, 2020

★★IN HONOR OF VETERANS DAY★★

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WHEN TRUMPETS FADE (1998) 92 mins.
Private David Manning (Ron Eldard) is a soldier in the 28th Infantry Division, and as a result of the horrendous fighting in World War II's Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, he is the sole survivor of his platoon. Based on a true story of heroism, passion, and perseverance. Also stars Frank Whaley, Martin Donovan, and Bobby Cannavale. 

November 05, 2020

MIRAGE

1965 - Thriller - USA - 109 mins - NR

Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Bakker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy

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After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) finds he can't remember the past two years of his life. Discovering that a rich humanitarian died after falling from the same building and that there are shady gunmen out to get him, Stillwell must piece together the missing memories of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye (Walter Matthau) and a reluctant old flame (Diane Baker), Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.

November 05, 2020

MIRAGE

1965 - Thriller - USA - 109 mins - NR

Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Bakker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy

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After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) finds he can't remember the past two years of his life. Discovering that a rich humanitarian died after falling from the same building and that there are shady gunmen out to get him, Stillwell must piece together the missing memories of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye (Walter Matthau) and a reluctant old flame (Diane Baker), Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.

October 22, 2020

SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK
Directed by Tim McLoughlin

Starring Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, William Sanderson

Horror - USA - 97 mins - Rated R

Sometimes They Come Back is a 1991 horror film based on the short story of the same title by Stephen King.  High school teacher Jim Norman (Tim Matheson) reluctantly returns to his hometown with his wife (Brooke Adams) to pursue a job. Jim is haunted by the childhood memory of his brother being murdered by a group of teenagers. Now, the teenagers have returned to town as they appeared before they died.

"...follows the King formula, entertaining with thrills, murders, facing-up-to-fear philosophizing and snappy lines.." -Chicago Tribune

October 22, 2020

SCARECROWS
Directed by William Wesley
Starring Ted Vernon, Kristina Sanborn, B.J. Turner

1988 - Horror/Action - USA - Rated R

Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows. Nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award. Remastered for HD.

October 15, 2020

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES 

Directed by Robert Fuest
Starring Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Terry-Thomas, Susan Travers

1971 - Comedy/Horror - Great Britain - 93mins - NR

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In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant (Virginia North), Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues.

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Receives an 85% FRESH rating on RottenTomatoes.

October 08, 2020

CARNIVAL OF SOULS 

1962- Horror - USA - 77mins - NR

Director: Herk Harvey

Writer: John Clifford (written)

Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger 

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Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man (Herk Harvey). As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past. (Rotten Tomatoes)

Receives an 86% FRESH rating on RottenTomatoes.

October 01, 2020

PUNK: attitude

2005 - Documentary - USA - 89 mins 

Note: Contains mature language. Viewer discretion advised.

Directed by Don Lettes

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Filmmaker Don Letts examines the history of punk rock and its impact on the music industry. The film covers the evolution of punk from MC5 and the Velvet Underground through to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols,The Dolls,  The Clash and many more. Includes interviews with Henry Rollins, David Johansen, Jim Jarmusch, Mick Jones, Chrissie Hynde, and Captain Sensible.

September 17, 2020

ROCK-A-BYE BABY

1958 - Comedy - USA - 103 mins - NR

Directed by Frank Tashlin

Starring: Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Hans Conreid

Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) is a TV repairman who still has feelings for his old high school girlfriend, Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell). Trouble is, Carla is now a glamorous movie star and the wife of a Mexican bullfighter. When her husband is tragically killed and she needs to keep the baby a secret, the star turns to Clayton for help. He is thrilled at the prospect of acting as a babysitter. But Carla neglects to tell him she actually had triplets.

September 03, 2020

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

1969 - Drama/Comedy/Romance - Great Britain - 116mins

Directed by Ronald Neame

Starring: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Pamela Franklin, Robert Stephens

It is the thirties and Jean Brodie, a teacher in her prime, takes in her new class at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland. She gathers her girls around, clearly picks her favorites and lets them know that they are the "crème de la crème." While she is ostensibly their teacher, tasked with teaching them history and literature, she instead teaches them of life, or so she thinks.

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Maggie Smith won the 1970 Oscar® for Best Actress.

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"Maggie Smith's tour-de-force performance as a school-teacher slipping into spinsterhood is one of several notable achievements in this sentimental and macabre personal tragedy." -Variety

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August 20, 2020

THIS SPORTING LIFE

1963 - 134 mins - Drama- UK

Directed by Lindsey Anderson

Starring Richard Harris, Alan Badel, Rachel Roberts, Colin Blakley

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Adapted by David Storey from his own novel, this drama stars Richard Harris as an athletic coal miner who aspires to the greener pastures of professional rugby. Soon establishing himself as one of the most brutal and arrogant players in the business, Harris begins amassing a fortune.

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Best Picture 1963 Intl Film Critics

Best Actor 1963 Cannes Film Festival

August 13, 2020

JACK AND SARAH

1995 - 110 mins - Comedy/Drama- UK

Directed by Tim Sullivan

Starring Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Ian McKellan

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In this quirky British comedy, nervous yuppie widower Jack finds himself saddled with the responsibility of raising his infant daughter. To keep his mother-in-law at bay, Jack hires a clumsy but vivacious American waitress as a baby-sitter. Mayhem ensues as she adjusts to the job, and Jack adjusts to fatherhood.

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August 06, 2020

CUL-DE-SAC

1966 - 111 mins - Comedy/Drama/Mystery - UK

Directed by Roman Polanski

Starring Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Donald Pleasance, Jacqueline Bisset

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Roman Polanski and Gerard Brach wrote this memorable black comedy about an uptight recluse and his nymphomaniacal young wife, whose stormy existence in an isolated British castle is turned upside down when two wounded gangsters break into their home and take over their lives.

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"BEST FILM" 1966 Berlin International Movie Fest

"CRITICS AWARD" 1966 Venice Film Festival

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July 30, 2020

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

1971 - 87 mins - Comedy/Drama - UK

Starring Geroge C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford

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This whimsical comedy-drama centers on a retired judge, who comes to believe that he is Sherlock Holmes. When he is sent to a psychiatrist, he manages to charm the doctor, a woman by the name of Dr. Watson, who soon finds herself playing along with his fantasies.

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July 23, 2020

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN

1969 - 101 mins - Comedy - UK

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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his Hamlet soliloquy with a striptease. A vile cesspool of excrement is seeded with cash and the money-hungry dive right in. Wilfred Hyde-White is the drunken captain, Yul Brynner is uncredited in his performance as a chanteuse transvestite, and John Cleese is the director of Sotheby's auction house. Roman Polanski, Richard Attenborough, and Raquel Welch also appear in this offbeat comedy. Paul McCartney wrote and produced "Come and Get It," the first international hit from the power-pop group Badfinger. John "Speedy" Keene wrote "Something In The Air" and performed the track with his group Thunderclap Newman. Sellers, Cleese, Graham Chapman, and Terry Southern co-authored the screenplay taken from Southern's novel. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

June 20, 2020

SHOUT AT THE DEVIL

1976 - 147 mins - Action adventure Drama - UK

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Based on the novel by Wilbur Smith, this film follow the scheme of a proper English gentleman, Sebastian (Roger Moore), and a wild Irish-American, Flynn (Lee Marvin), as they set out to destroy a German battleship docked in East Africa before the outbreak of World War I.

June 19, 2020

THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR (1967)

81 minutes - United Kingdom

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A British horror cult classic...

Set during the Victorian era, the film stars Peter Cushing as a Holmes-like detective on the trail of a serial killer. The mystery angle is minimal since we know virtually from the beginning that the killer is a gigantic....moth! It seems that Wanda Ventham, daughter of addled scientist Robert Flemyng, has spent too much time in her dad's lab, and can turn herself into a malevolent moth at will. Flemyng tries to mollify Ventham by creating a playmate for her-and the result is two murderous moths. Blood Beast Terror was also released as The Vampire-Beast Craves Blood.

June 13, 2020

ARIA

Directed By:

Nicolas Roeg, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Ken Russell, Bruce Beresford, Julien Temple, Bill Bryden, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Charles Sturridge

Starring:

John Hurt , Theresa Russell, Jack Kyle, Buck Henry, Bridget Fonda, Beverly D'Angelo, Marion Peterson 
as Les Jeunes Filles

90 minutes - Multi country - Rated R

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An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising body-builders, to the more literal approach of Franc Roddam, who transports Tristan und Isolde's story to modern-day Las Vegas. A particular stand-out is Julian Temple's take on Rigoletto, which recasts Verdi as the accompaniment to a contemporary Southern California sex farce.

June 06, 2020

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for this classic film. Set in a seedy travelling carnival, this symbolism-laden drama revolves around brutish strongman Zampano, his simple and servile girlfriend Gelsomina, and clown/aerialist Matto.
Genre: Art House & International, Classics, Drama
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Written By: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Runtime: 115 minutes - English subtitles via YouTube player

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"Signor Fellini has used his small cast, and, equally important, his camera, with the unmistakable touch of an artist. His vignettes fill his movie with beauty, sadness, humor and understanding." -NY Times

June 05, 2020

Director: Milos Forman

Actors: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Šebánek, Josef Valnoha

The fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don't go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing nor particularly beautiful. 73 mins Czech with English subtitles.

"A delicious parody-fable of Slavic bureaucracy." -Time Magazine

May 24, 2020

Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive their hated headmaster (Richard Burton) insane. The boys launch their scheme by cooking up the most bizarre and depraved of imaginary sins, then recite these infractions in the Confessional. This sadistic little game gets wildly out of hand, resulting in murder. It's a toss-up as to who is the most repulsive character; the headmaster or his two charges. One of a long line of 1970s stinkers barely redeemed by the presence of Richard Burton, Absolution was not released until 1988, long after Burton's death.  98 mins.

May 17, 2020

It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the family can pass her college exams within a 200-year period, ownership of the institution will be turned over to her. Comes 1938, and the last of the Alden girls, giddy Gracie Alden (Gracie Allen, of course) hires glib-tongued tutor Bud Brady (Bob Hope) to help her pass her exams. She also tries to win over no-nonsense professor Hubert Dash (Edward Everett Horton), who has no intention of handing his college over to a blithering idiot like Gracie. Once she has inherited the place, however, Gracie turns it into a jumpin'-jivin' joint, complete with jitterbugging students, swing bands and remote radio broadcasts. Though George Burns' role is nearly nonexistent, he does get to indulge in his patented cross-talk with Allen. Others contributing to the fun are Ben Blue, Jerry Colonna, Betty Grable, and Grable's then-husband Jackie Coogan. Highlights include Allen's spirited Irish jig and her endearing song duet with Edward Everett Horton. College Swing is the sort of high-powered, all-star entertainment that is virtually impossible to reproduce today. 83 mins.

May 16, 2020

Blake Edwards's stylish direction bolsters this Cold War romance starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. Andrews plays Judith Farrow, a British civil service functionary who meets dashing Russian agent Feodor Sverdlov (Omar Sharif) under the romantic skies of the Caribbean. The Caribbean breezes work their magic and soon Judith is head-over-heels in love with Feodor. Feodor then tries to enlist Judith to become an agent for the Soviet Union. But after Judith is warned by the British government to stay away from him, Feodor decides that he'd rather have her than the Soviet Union. However, a kink is thrown into their love affair when an undercover Russian secret agent, posing as a British agent, decides to eradicate the two lovers.en, including 17-year-old Billy Macfarlane who's enlisted in order to be with his older brother, Eddie. But Eddie's sent home after being wounded, leaving his innocent brother behind to face the slow, inevitable countdown to the bloodiest massacre in British military history. 130 mins

May 15, 2020

Starring Daniel Craig (James Bond) & Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders)

This dramatization of the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916 underscores the bitter loss of innocence of a group of idealistic young men, including 17-year-old Billy Macfarlane who's enlisted in order to be with his older brother, Eddie. But Eddie's sent home after being wounded, leaving his innocent brother behind to face the slow, inevitable countdown to the bloodiest massacre in British military history. 98mins

May 11, 2020

Best known for his comic roles, Peter Sellers makes his debut as a dramatic actor in this crime drama. He plays the cold-blooded boss of a London car-stealing ring that is exposed by the determined investigation of a disgruntled car salesman. 88 mins. NR

May 08, 2020

The best of the often overlooked cartoon star of the century... Mr. Daffy Duck.

A one-hour compilation of his best from the 40s and 50s.

Laugh with your children, parents, spouse and enjoy.

May 02, 2020

A Frank Capra classic.

In this film, Apple Annie is a besotted, rag-clad street vendor. Annie's daughter Louise is under the impression that Annie is a high-society dowager. When Louise proposes a visit, Annie enlists the help of her gangster friend to pass as a woman of means.

136 mins. NR

May 01, 2020

A classic western. Director John Ford, notoriously difficult to please, regarded The Sun Shines Bright as his favorite film. Laurence Stalllings' screenplay is based on several short stories by Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb, some of which had previously been cinematized in Ford's 1934 Will Rogers vehicle Judge Priest. 92 mins.

April 25, 2020

While the silent The Lodger was not director Alfred Hitchcock's first film, it was the first to truly deserve the designation "A Hitchcock Picture". British matinee idol Ivor Novello plays Jonathan Drew, a quiet, secretive young man who rents a room in a London boarding house. Drew's arrival coincides with the reign of Terror orchestrated by Jack the Ripper. As the film progresses, circumstantial evidence begins to mount, pointing to Drew as the selfsame Ripper. In addition to Novello's 1932 remake, The Lodger was remade in 1944 with Laird Cregar, then again in 1953 as Man in the Attic, with Jack Palance as Jonathan Drew. (~ Hal Erickson, Rovi)

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"Hitchcock's most underrated movie." -The London Times

"Hitchcock at his most 'innovative." -Chicago Reader

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91 mins. Not rated.

April 24, 2020

Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune. Blanche's cohort is "investigator" Lumley (Bruce Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran (William Devane and Karen Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir. 121 mins. Rated PG.

April 23, 2020

If you don't know Buster Keaton's work... you should.

Here is a silent gem from 1924 (with score), starring & directed by Keaton. Keaton was 29 years old when the film was made.

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A film projectionist longs to be a detective and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.   45 mins.

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★★★★★ "Magical"  -Empire Magazine

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"...groundbreaking and profound. And it's a laugh riot, too."  -Chicago Reader

April 19, 2020

Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's surrealistic art direction and to the frequently bawdy injections of sex and politics by screenwriters Fellini and Tonino Guerra. Fellini clearly has deep affection for the people of this seaside village, warts and all, and communicates it through episodic visual anecdotes which are seen as if through the mists of a favorite dream, playfully scored by Nino Rota and lovingly photographed by Giuseppe Rotunno. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

125 mins. Rated R. In Italian with English subtitles.

April 13, 2020

A big band, singing, dancing and animation extravaganza! An early talkie that they even tinted. Includes some of the biggest tunes of the past century...  Gershwin and more

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Intended as Universal Pictures' entry in the "all-star musical" cycle of the early talkie era, King of Jazz is certainly the most elaborate of the bunch, though far from the most successful financially. Staged by Broadway impresario John Murray Anderson, the film is held together by the charismatic personality of rotund bandleader Paul Whiteman. The show begins with a Walter Lantz cartoon wherein it is recalled how Whiteman earned the title of the King of Jazz (Lantz's animated star Oswald Rabbit makes a brief appearance). Then Whiteman appears in the flesh (and plenty of it), coaxing his miniaturized orchestra out of a small box. 

93 mins.

April 12, 2020

Park Pix Flix presents...A Mr. Bean 5+ hour marathon for Easter Sunday afternoon...

The classic bumbling British TV comedy character created and played by the incomparable Rowan Atkinson.

We need some good laughs right now. Mr. Bean provides them. And all of the episodes are FREE!

5 hrs 50mins.

April 10, 2020

"Look! Up in the air... it's a bird, it's a plane..."

Incredible animation!

This is the biggest Superman compilation running over 2 hours from the critically-acclaimed Superman series produced by Mac & Dave Fleischer and Paramount's Famous Studios of the early-1940s. All episodes have been digitally remastered & restored. 

Fun for all ages!

2 hrs 26 mins.

April 07, 2020

Film very noir.

Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney), a singer at the Silver Fox, a seedy nightclub owned by the physically grotesque Phil Nosseross Francis L. Sullivan. Harry, who also works for Phil steering unsuspecting customers to the club, comes up with a plan to wrest control of professional wrestling from promoter and underworld kingpin Kristo (Herbert Lom) by manipulating Kristo through his father, retired wrestling great Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko). For financial backing, Harry turns to Phil and Phil's wife Helen Googie Withers, both of whom give him the money, but only to further their own ends. When Gregorius is accidentally killed by his protege's upcoming opponent, Strangler (Mike Mazurki), and Phil realizes that Helen is leaving him for Harry, the scheme quickly unravels. Truly a glimpse of hell, Night and the City's distorted visuals and dark symbolism depicts an underworld from which there is no escape and in which redemption comes at a very high price.

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95 mins.

April 05, 2020

The Cold War was never colder...

A 1966 British-American neo-noir euro spy film filmed in Deluxe Color and Panavision, adapted from the 1965 spy novel The Berlin Memorandum, by Elleston Trevor under the name "Adam Hall", screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, and Senta Berger. The film was shot on location in West Berlin and in Pinewood Studios, England. It was nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards,[2] while Pinter was nominated for an Edgar Award for the script.

1 hr. 45 mins.

April 04, 2020

A classic horror film.

A millionaire (Vincent Price) offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. Campy and frightening.

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75 mins.

March 27, 2020

SXSW has long been a champion of independent filmmakers, and premiering a short film at the festival is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for creators to share their vision with the world. When the City of Austin had to cancel this year’s festival, hundreds of filmmakers lost the opportunity for their work to be seen. Together, Mailchimp and Oscilloscope Laboratories have created a digital home for this incredible slate of short films, so you can watch them from wherever you are. While we can’t replace the camaraderie of the SXSW festival, watching these films is a way to support the artists you love and connect to the world around you, during a time when we could all use a little more connection.

Please enjoy the SXSW 2020 Official Short Film Selections.

March 25, 2020

Wrongfully accused of criminal acts, a tramp (Charlie Chaplin) unwittingly ducks into a big top, where his bumbling attempts to avoid pursuing police officers earn the laughter and applause of the circus-goers. Impressed, the ringmaster (Allan Garcia) decides to employ the tramp as an entertainer. In between getting trapped in a lion's cage and partaking in clumsy high wire escapades, he falls for a beautiful show rider (Merna Kennedy), who unfortunately has eyes for a daring tightrope acrobat.

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1 hour 21 minutes.

March 26, 2020

LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS COMPILATION

11 of the best classic Looney Tunes Cartoons, some never before seen on YouTube, which streams up to ULTRA HD 4K (2160p) running over 1 and half hours. This features some of the best-known characters from the golden era of the Looney Tunes Collection. All episodes have been digitally remastered & restored in ULTRA HD 4K. 

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1 hour 32 minutes.

March 22, 2020

The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. It is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.

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RottenTomatoes 96% Certified Fresh

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Running Time: 1hour 26 minutes

March 16, 2020

Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. ... Astaire and Powell play siblings in a song and dance duo, echoing the real-life theatrical relationship of Fred and Adele Astaire.

November 11, 2019

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. The film was released on December 22, 1939, by Paramount Pictures, who had the feature produced as an answer to the success of Walt Disney's box-office hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The sequences for the film were directed by Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Tom Palmer, Grim Natwick, William Henning, Roland Crandall, Thomas Johnson, Robert Leffingwell, Frank Kelling, Winfield Hoskins, and Orestes Calpine. This is Paramount's first feature-length animated film. Gulliver was the second cel-animated feature film ever released and the first produced by an American studio other than Walt Disney Productions. The story is based very loosely upon the Lilliputian adventures of Gulliver depicted in Jonathan Swift's 18th-century novel Gulliver's Travels.