The governments of the world watch helplessly as their citizens fall ill and die by the millions. Too late does American President Richardson learn from Senator Barkley and Dr. Meyer that the Italian Flu is in fact MM88, which had been part of a secret study for a new biological weapon led by Colonel Rankin.... - [More]

Posted: August 1, 2010 in Movies

Cautionary tale features a fictionalized and highly exaggerated take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to “reefer” cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.... - [More]

Posted: June 18, 2010 in Movies

In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called ‘engaging’, is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma.... - [More]

Posted: June 13, 2010 in Movies

A young boy goes to meet a ruined industrialist in a treeless wasteland and hear his tale of what happened to him. His tragic story is about how he began a thriving business with a useless fashion product derived from the trees of a forest. As his business booms, the forest and its inhabitants suffer as he wantonly clearcuts without regard to the warnings of a wise old creature called the Lorax about the dire consequences of his greed.... - [More]

Posted: June 12, 2010 in Movies

The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.... - [More]

Posted: June 3, 2010 in Books, Movies

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.... - [More]

Posted: April 4, 2010 in Movies

Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who’s visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. ... - [More]

Posted: March 28, 2010 in Movies

Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors. A key opens a small door: eventually, she’s through into a garden where a dog awaits. Later, in the rabbit’s home, her size is again a problem. She tries to help a nanny with a howling baby, then a Cheshire cat directs her to a tea party where the Mad Hatter and March Hare dunk a dormouse. Expelled from the party, Alice happens on a royal processional: all the cards in the deck precede the Queen of Hearts, who welcomes then turns on Alice and calls on the royal executioner. Alice must run for her life. ... - [More]

Posted: March 26, 2010 in Movies

A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor’s ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. ... - [More]

Posted: March 12, 2010 in Movies

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the earliest surviving film version of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel. It was partly based on the 1902 stage musical, though much of the film deals with the Wicked Witch of the West, who does not appear in the musical.... - [More]

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