Synopsis
As Sputnik orbits Earth in the year 1957, something from outer space plummets through the eye of a storm and lands in the waters off the coast of “Rockwell,” Maine. The […]
Entries from April 2008
The Iron Giant (1999)
April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Animation · Based on novel · Military · Mother/son relationship · No opening credits · Paranoia · Small town · Waitress
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
April 27th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Synopsis
On the 6th of January 1917, five condemned French soldiers are taken to a trench in Somme. A carpenter, a welder, a farmer, a Corsican pimp, and a young lighthouse keeper named Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) have each been court-martialed […]
Tags: Based on novel · Femme fatale · Military · Train
Coming Home (1978)
April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Synopsis
Luke Martin (Jon Voight) is at the pool table of a VA hospital with the other disabled veterans, who start to talk about whether they’d go back to fight if they could. One of the vets states that this logic makes sense to him […]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Military · Prostitute · Unconventional romance
Klute (1971)
April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Synopsis
A soft spoken but unwavering police officer from rural Pennsylvania named John Klute (Donald Sutherland) is compelled to investigate the disappearance of his best friend Tom Gruneman. The FBI claims that Gruneman led “a Jekyll and Hyde existence” and wrote several obscene letters […]
Tags: Paranoia · Prostitute · Psychoanalysis · Unconventional romance · Woman in jeopardy









