In 1935, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a 13-year-old girl from a wealthy English family, has just finished writing a play. As Briony attempts to stage the play with her cousins, they get bored and decide to go swimming. Briony stays behind and witnesses a significant moment of sexual tension between her older sister, Cecilia (Keira […]
Archives for November 2007
Friends: The Series
A sitcom behemoth of the last 10 years, Friends shot out of the gate in 1994 with snappy writing and an attractive cast. The exploits of sensitive paleontologist Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), his obsessive-compulsive sister Monica Geller (Courteney Cox); Monica’s roommate Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), a spoiled rich girl trying to live on her own; […]
The Savages
After drifting apart emotionally over the years, two single siblings, Wendy (Laura Linney) and Jon (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), band together to care for their estranged, elderly father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), who is rapidly slipping into dementia. Wendy and Jon first travel to Sun City, Arizona, to attend the funeral of their father’s girlfriend of 20 […]
Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2007
Roget Ebert’s writing made him the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, in 1975. In that year he also began reviewing films on television, on the show for which he was awarded his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In his 2007 Yearbook, America’s favorite movie critic assesses the […]