The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in the northern suburbs of Chicago trying to return to normal life after the accidental death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Feeling alienated from his friends and […]
Archives for March 2010
Seabiscuit
Proving that truth can be greater than fiction, the handsome production of Seabiscuit offers a healthy alternative to Hollywood’s staple diet of mayhem. With superior production values at his disposal, writer-director Gary Ross is reverent toward Laura Hillenbrand’s captivating bestseller, using archival material and David McCullough’s familiar PBS-styled narration to pay Ken Burns-like tribute to […]
Fringe: The Series
Teleportation. Mind control. Invisibility. Astral projection. Mutation. Reanimation. Phenomena that exist on the Fringe of science unleash their strange powers in this thrilling series, co-created by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias), combining the grit of the police procedural with the excitement of the unknown. The story revolves around three unlikely colleagues – a beautiful young FBI […]
Practical Magic
Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) Owens have always known they were different. Raised by their aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest) after their parents’ death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical. For example, their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of […]