Meet Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy): proud, working-class patriarch to a motley brood of six smart, spirited and independent kids who, without him, would be better off. In Frank’s booze-addled view, parenting just eats into his hard-earned bar-crawling and carousing time around Chicago so he leaves it to eldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum) to hold […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The movie is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), a loner, coping with the suicide of his best friend and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he can belong. The introverted freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), who […]
Film and Suspense
An important fact about films and stage plays is that the creation, and the creators, of the most successful of them are shrouded in mystery. This is true especially about Shakespeare, Hitchcock and other top filmmakers of Hollywood in general. This book unveils the secret of the success of the masters of drama. The general […]
As Good As It Gets
For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) and a waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep, […]
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