On the Beach (1959)
Jul 27, 2001The Nuclear Holocaust
The first major film confronting nuclear war full on with the world's last survivors gathered in Australia. Slightly ponderous today but nevertheless full of potent imagery
Fred Astaire
Finian’s Rainbow (1968)
Aug 17, 2002Leprechaun Musical
One of Francis Ford Coppola's earliest films as director, a musical where Fred Astaire procures a pot of gold and makes a deal with a leprechaun
Ghost Story (1981)
Jan 27, 2001Supernatural Retribution
Big-budget studio adaptation of Peter Straub's novel about four aging men who tell ghost stories to exorcise their past. This strips many of the book's storylines and never seems to make any of its attempts to scare pay off