The film is about a primary school teacher’s relationship with a driving instructor, from whom she receives lessons. Thirty years old and single, Pauline “Poppy” Cross (Sally Hawkins) shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe (Alexis Zegerman), a fellow teacher. Poppy is free-minded, high-spirited and kind-hearted. The film opens with Poppy trying to […]
Archives for September 2008
Rachel Getting Married
Kym (Anne Hathaway) is released from rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt). Kym’s father (Bill Irwin) shows intense concern for Kym’s well-being and whereabouts, which she interprets as mistrust. She also resents her sister’s choice of her best friend Emma (Anisa […]
Kinsey
The movie “Kinsey” is based on the true story of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. The film begins with Kinsey (Liam Neeson) being interviewed about his sexual […]
The Big Bang Theory: The Series
The delightful sitcom The Big Bang Theory revolves around a character type rarely seen on television: The alpha geek. Physicists Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) get their lives shaken up when an attractive young woman named Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moves in to the apartment across from theirs. The key to the show, though, […]