The Fishers are your typical dysfunctional family. Ruth (Frances Conroy) is the stern matriarch who has trouble expressing emotion and snaps at the slightest problem. Daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose) is an underachiever who cultivates a moody, mysterious loner image in high school (she’s indulging in illegal substances too). Brother David (Michael C. Hall) works in […]
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: “The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a […]
Places in The Heart
Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff (Yankton Hatten) is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moze (Danny Glover), helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. The banker makes […]
Petticoat Junction: The Series
Songwriter Paul Simon said it best: Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance. Especially when that train is the Hooterville Cannonball (“the train that’s loved by all”), whose heralding whistle sets this charming series’ classic theme song in motion. An instant hit in its first season, Petticoat Junction, like The Andy Griffith […]
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