Don’t Go In The House: The Death of Disco and A Mother Too Far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuDc7Bn7iM Don't Go In The House. 1979. Directed by Joseph Ellison. Screenplay by Ellison, Ellen Hammill, & Joe Masefield. Starring Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Osth, Dennis M. Hunter, John Hedberg, Ruth Dardick, Johanna Brushay, Darcy Shean, Mary Ann Chinn, & Lois Verkruepse. Turbine Films Inc. Rated R. 82 minutes. Horror ★★★★  Still …

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Skinhead Subculture vs. White Nationalism in This Is England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjEYfslwpA This Is England. 2006. Directed & Written by Shane Meadows. Starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, & Jack O'Connell. Warp Films/Big Arty Productions/EM Media. Unrated. 101 minutes. Crime/Drama ★★★★★  Shane Meadows is a British National Treasure. His …

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Immortals a.k.a Greek Mythology on Steak and Eggs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSmJ5UXtUnk Immortals. 2011. Directed by Tarsem Singh. Screenplay by Charley & Vlas Parlapanides. Starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Joseph Morgan, Anne Day-Jones, Greg Bryk, Alan Van Sprang, Peter Stebbings, Daniel Sharman, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, & Steve Byers. Relativity Media/Virgin Produced/Mark Canton Productions. Rated 18A. 110 minutes. …

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Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a Dystopian Vision of Not-So-Distant Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPFC8DA9_8 Brazil. 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Screenplay by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, & Tom Stoppard. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, Kathryn Pogson, Bryan Pringle, & Shella Reid. Embassy International Pictures. Rated R. 132 …

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Carl Th. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath: An Allegory of Power and the Raw Truth of Religious Cruelties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_SATxIRMts Day of Wrath. 1943. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Screenplay by Dreyer, Pol Knudsen, & Mogens Skot-Hansen; based on the play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen. Starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, & Albert Hoeberg. Palladium Productions. Not Rated. 97 minutes. Drama ★★★★1/2  History allows us to look back on films …

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Bergman’s HOUR OF THE WOLF is an Intensely Personal Journey into the Shattered Mental Health of Artists

Not considered one of his master works, Bergman's Hour of the Wolf is a shattering rumination on what it is mentally to be and live with an artist.

Frank White, Republican Nightmare: Abel Ferrara’s King of New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt94pENFmjc King of New York. 1990. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Screenplay by Nicholas St. John. Starring Christopher Walken, Larry Fishburne, David Caruso, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Giancarlo Esposito, & Paul Calderon. Seven Arts/Lions Gate Home Entertainment. Rated R. 106 minutes. Drama/Crime ★★★★★  Abel Ferrara is an all-around exciting, unique filmmaker. He …

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Zodiac: The Dark Reality of an Uncaught Killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSuUJ-Scbeg Zodiac. 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book of the same name by Robert Graysmith. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson, John Lacy, Chloë Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, & Elias Koteas. …

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