“You’ll always be one punch away.”

Plot Summary: A seemingly washed-up fighter (Robert Ryan) enters the ring for his last bout unaware that his manager has fixed the fight with gangsters.
Review:
Combining the potency of the boxing drama with the shadowy atmosphere and fateful sensibility of film noir, The Set-Up is one of the best film’s of the ’40s, […]

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Mat Viola
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“There’s only one thing they want.”

Plot Summary: A sexually repressed woman (Catherine Deneuve) with a pathological disgust for men slowly descends into homicidal madness.
Review:
One of the creepiest visions of madness ever put on film, Repulsion slowly draws us into the mentally crumbling world of its beautiful but deeply disturbed protagonist, Carol. At first she just […]

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Mat Viola
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“Please, sir, I want some more”

Plot Summary: Based on Charles Dickens’s second novel, Oliver Twist tells the story of an orphaned boy who manages to escape from a workhouse only to fall in with a young pickpocket known as The Artful Dodger and a den of thieves led by the wretched Fagin.
Review:
Oliver Twist, one of […]

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“All I can say is that sometimes you have to back your convictions even when it would be easier to disown them.”

Plot Summary: Joan of Arc is tried and convicted for heresy by hostile inquisitors.
Review:

Working from actual historical records, Dreyer’s aim was to make the viewer feel as if he were an actual onlooker at […]

Posted on January 26th, 2008 by Mat Viola
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