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Screen gangster James Cagney trades in Gatling guns for tap shoes in Lloyd Bacon’s star-studded 1933 backstage musical FOOTLIGHT PARADE. He plays Chester Kent, a theatrical producer whose job is on the line thanks to the popularity of new talking…
“Why settle for the usual walk around the exploitation block when offers a wild ride with the top down into uncharted territory?” - Rolling Stone Drew Barrymore stars as a seductive teenager nicknamed "Ivy" who befriends an introverted high school…
“There is a wonderfully diseased invention evident throughout Deranged. Camerawork, editing and production design all complement the combination of sinister, gritty horror and cringe-inducing dark humour.” John Costello, This Is Horror In the pantheon of gutbucket horror, no real-life figure looms larger…
“One of the strangest and most beguiling romantic comedies ever made.” - Philadelphia Inquirer Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman…
“Almost exactly like The Room except with a horny talking dog. It's the kind of bad that's better than good.” - Kazan645, r/badMovies Good-bad movies don't come much better or badder than LOVE ON A LEASH -- a gloriously baffling,…
Hysteria Fest returns in the heart of winter with CABIN FEVER, a full horror festival experience packed into a single evening. The night features two cult hit feature films, opening short films to kick things off, and a live Q&A with the director…
“A skewed, screwball retelling of the classic Snow White story, BALL OF FIRE ranks among the funniest American films ever made.” - American Film Institute A brilliant mix of whimsical comedy and sizzling romance, Howard Waks' BALL OF FIRE pairs…
This February, SAINT LOUIS VIDEO SOCIETY PRESENTS an extremely unique love story, CRYSTAL HEART (1986). It’s about a boy in an ornate, hermetically-sealed living environment falling for a burgeoning pop star, who he woos the only way he knows how—by…
CITY LIGHTS, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a…
“Defiantly strange, totally under-appreciated, yet completely wonderful” - Combustible Celluloid Before they became titans of Ephronian mass-market romantic comedy, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks were first paired up in an indescribably wonderful existential-rom-com-adventure from the writer of Moonstruck (also playing…