The film begins with Ron Kovic’s (Tom Cruise) childhood during a summer in Massapequa, New York. He plays war in the woods, attends a Fourth of July parade, plays and wins at a local neighborhood baseball game, and watches President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, which later inspires him to enlist in the Marines. After […]
The Tenant
The basic story is about a socially awkward clerk (Roman Polanski) moves in to an apartment previously occupied by a young woman who just died from injuries sustained by hurtling herself from that very apartment window. What he doesn’t realize is that, by his moving in, the stage has been set for him to inherit […]
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is based on a novel by Stephen King, directed by David Cronenberg and produced by Debra Hill. Such a trio of horror vets would be expected to come up with an evening of shocks and gore, but The Dead Zone is a surprise. While it has great atmospheric eeriness and undeniably scary […]
Chinatown
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski’s Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband’s extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double […]
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