Oct 28 2016 INFERNO opens. Dir. Ron Howard. Convoluted & largely tedious 2nd sequel to The Da Vinci Code with symbologist Tom Hanks back on board running against time through European museums trying to stop a nutty Dante obsessed biotech billionaire from detonating a poison-bomb.

Oct 28 1964 RIO CONCHOS opens. Dir. Gordon Douglas. Modest B picture Western with Richard Boone as ex-Confederate officer hired by the US Army to lead small team into Mexico to recover or destroy a load of US Army repeating rifles which have fallen into the hands of the Apaches.

Oct 28 2011 THE RUM DIARY opens. Dir. Bruce Robinson. Colorful uneven adapt. of Hunter S. Thompson’s unpublished autobiographical novel set in Puerto Rico 1960 with Johnny Depp as a dissolute, hard drinking ex-NY reporter looking to expose the island’s rampant corruption.

Oct 28 2005 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO opens. Dir. Martin Campbell. Historically compromised, stultifyingly inferior sequel to 1998's winning original finds Antonio Banderas' masked swashbuckler salving his marital woes with action scenes bordering on cartoon buffoonery.

Oct 28 1994 STARGATE opens. Dir. Roland Emmerich. In Egypt dweeby scientist James Spader & military hardass Kurt Russell travel thru newly excavated time portal to ancient slave world lorded over by despotic, pharaoh-like alien. Flashy, Spielberg-lite sc-fi epic becomes BO hit.

Oct 28 1966 THE LIQUIDATOR opens in NY. Dir. Jack Cardiff. Modest, diverting, semi-serious Bond-like Cold War spy romp with hunky Rod Taylor as a clueless ex US sergeant who is mistakenly recruited by Brit Intel to carry out Govt. assassinations. Great Shirley Bassey title song.

Oct 28 1964 THE NAKED KISS opens in NY. Dir. Samuel Fuller rummages thru the tawdry, sleazy underbelly of small town America in a scrappy, bizarre, pulp noir masterpiece with a remarkable Constance Towers as ex-NYC hooker futilely looking to start a new life in rural boondocks.

Oct 28 1941 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY prem. in NY. Dir. John Ford. Stately, venerated generational saga set at turn of 19th cent. chronicling the hardscrabble life & loves of Welsh coal-mining family impacted by industrial winds of change. Beats Citizen Kane for best pic Oscar.

Oct 27 1965 KING RAT opens in NY. Dir. Bryan Forbes. Scalpel sharp dissection of class hierarchies in a Jap controlled POW camp in Changi, Singapore 1945 with a superb George Segal as opportunistic, wheeling dealing US Corporal holding court as the camp’s king of black marketing.

Oct 27 1995 COPYCAT opens. Dir. Jon Amiel. Well worn genre gets a fresh coat of atmosphere & gripping terror as agoraphobic crim. psychologist Sigourney Weaver & cop Holly Hunter pool their resources to catch a psycho obsessed with copying past serial killers' grisly handiwork.

Oct 27 1989 KILL ME AGAIN opens. Dir. John Dahl. Married couple Kilmer & Whalley topline stylish, tightly wound, Coen Bros-worthy neo noir crime thriller centering on a double crossing femme fatale, her psycho boyfriend, a low rent Vegas PI & suitcase full of stolen Mob money.

Oct 27 1995 LEAVING LAS VEGAS opens in LA & NY. Dir. Mike Figgis. A wasted writer slowly drinking himself to death & a jaded Vegas hooker find fleeting comfort in their common misery. Nicolas Cage in mesmerising, Oscar-winning tour-de-force alongside terrific Elizabeth Shue.

Oct 27 1965 THE CINCINNATI KID prem. in New Orleans. Dir. Norman Jewison replacing a fired Sam Peckinpah. Steve McQueen as cocky, hot-shot, Depression-era poker player looking to burnish his rep by challenging Edward G. Robinson's ageing, reigning champ to winner-take-all game.

Oct 27 1964 THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY opens. Dir. Arthur Hiller. Paddy Chayevski's excellent adapt. of W. Huie's biting anti-war comedy/satire set in pre D-Day London with James Garner as opportunistic, combat averse Navy Lt. & Julie Andrews as his not so prim love interest.

Oct 27 1955 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE prem. in LA. Dir. Nicholas Ray's brooding, mid '50s LA-set portrait of alienated youth with a mannered James Dean working "the method" as troubled new kid in town oozing angst from every pore. A dated albeit culturally iconic film of its time.

Oct 26 2001 THIRTEEN GHOSTS opens. Dir. Steve Beck. A largely scare-free remake of William Castle’s low budget (now cult) 1960 original with Tony Shalhoub as a widower who, along with his 2 kids, discovers his newly inherited glass house is in fact a prison harboring 12 ghosts.

Oct 26 2007 BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD opens. Dir. Sidney Lumet’s sublime swan song. Philip Seymour Hoffman & Ethan Hawke as 2 financially strapped brothers whose desperate, deadly heist gone wrong detonates a powderkeg of suppressed familial secrets, lies & betrayals.

Oct 26 2001 K-PAX opens. Dir. Ian Softley. An enigmatic stranger claiming to be an extraterrestial from the planet K-Pax is placed in the care of a psychiatric facility's benevolent doctor. Superb Kevin Spacey & Jeff Bridges headline marvellously entertaining, under-rated gem.

Oct 26 2019 ROBERT EVANS, flamboyant, hustling, 7 time married H’wood producer & sometime actor, dies in LA aged 89. During his tenure as Paramount head he oversaw production of classics like The Odd Couple, Rosemary’s Baby, The Godfather, Serpico, The Conversation & Chinatown.

Oct 26 1994 THE LAST SEDUCTION opens. Dir.John Dahl. On the lam with her hubby's $mill, slinky, predatory, bad to the bone femme fatale finds the perfect schmuck to help make good her escape. A steaming, scheming Linda Fiorentino consolidates a crafty neo noir classic.