Charlie Chan in London

Charlie Chan's vacation to London is exteneded when called on to save Neil Howard from being hung for murder. Chan has only 72 hours to clear him and save him from the gallows. His trail takes him to a sumptous English country mansion where he evades poisonous darts and cryptic messages during his search for the real killer.

Charlie Chan in Snaghai

This early installment in the Charlie Chan movie series take place in early 1930's British colonial Shanghai. Chan's good friend, Sir Stanley Woodland is murdered at a banquet in his honor. A dangerous opium smuggling ring is discovered behind the murder. The ringleaders kidnap Chan and attempt to make him their next victim.

Movie Review: “The Black Camel”

This very early Charlie Chan movie is set in Hawaii. Inspector Chan starts his investigation with the cryptic proclamation: "Death is a black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate." Chan searches through the setting of a beach-side Art Deco hotel in 1930’s Hawaii for the murderer of a film starlet. Renowned horror icon Bella Lugosi stars as a Hollywood psychic who confronts the murdered actress about her dark past.

Review: “Encounters at The End of the World”

Filmmaker Werner Herzog chronicles his journey to the South Pole. He starts with the National Science Foundation headquarters on Ross Island in Antarctica. From there, he travels to more remote sites to document mostly scientist who are studying the climate and animals living above and below the ice pack.

Herzog seems more fascinated by the unusual characters that end up at “the end of the world” than by the continent. Some time is given to the weird creatures and their peculiar ways that populate the South Pole region. Herzog is stranger than the people he interviews.

The film is interesting, but about thirty minutes too long. Definitely a guy movie.

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

This is the first in the Charlie Chan series that stars Sidney Toler. A murder takes place on a Hawiian freighter docked in Honolulu. Chan is challenged by his enthusiastic "Number Two Son" who wants to aid his father. The ship's captain is pressured for a quick resolution so he can take the ship back out to see with his cargo.

Hitchcock's: The Lady Vanishes

Soon-to-be-wed English woman Iris Henderson is alarmed by the disappearance of an elderly governess Miss Froy during a train ride in 1930's central Europe. Other passengers deny seeing the woman. Iris has only one ally- a music scholar named Gilber Redman. The duo search for clues for Miss Froy's disappearance, unlocking a sinister international plot.

Expelled: No Intelligence Required

Ben Stein hosts this documentary examining how intelligent design scietists and academicians are denied tenured positions by those who are committed Darwinists. Acceptance by academia has played a role in the development of Nazism, Planned Parenthood and the abortion movement.

Ben Stein is inciteful and- being Ben Stein- is often humorous while interviewing parties on both sides of this debate.