By the time Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) was 22 in 1927, he had inherited his family’s fortune and was living in California. He hired Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run the Hughes Tool Company and began pursuing his interests in film and aviation. Hughes started by directing the silent film, Hell’s Angels. Despite skepticism among […]
Archives for January 2006
Misery
Novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is the author of a series of highly successful novels featuring a character called Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious novels, he writes a manuscript for a new unrelated novel. He departs from Silver Creek, Colorado to head to Los Angeles but is caught in a blizzard and […]
Angel: The Series
He’s hunky, he’s brooding, he’s a do-gooder, and he was Buffy’s first boyfriend. Angel, the tortured vampire destined to walk the earth with a soul, got his own series after three seasons on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and did what any new star might do: he moved to L.A. (the City of Angels–get it?) and […]
2005 Top 10 Cinema Therapy Films
1. Nine Lives – The lives of nine women occasionally overlap as they deal with unfaithfulness, loss, romance and parenthood. Cancer patient Camille (Kathy Baker) has a difficult time facing her life-threatening disease, prisoner Sandra (Elpidia Carrillo) desperately looks forward to seeing her child on visiting day, Maggie (Glenn Close) and her daughter have a […]