Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is an advertising executive who has just been assigned a lucrative new account. Ted rushes home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin […]
Archives for February 2012
The Wire: The Series
After one episode of The Wire you’ll be hooked. After three, you’ll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series’ remarkable first season, you’ll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece. Series creator David Simon was a veteran crime reporter from The Baltimore Sun who cowrote the […]
Movie Therapy How It Changes Lives
Movie therapy: Do you believe in the healing power of film? Having a mid-life crisis? Overburdened with guilt? Unable to form healthy relationships? The answer to these problems could be as simple as sitting down to watch your favorite DVD. At least, that is what the psychotherapist and film buff Bernie Wooder believes. He is […]
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film written by Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play called “Juicy and Delicious.” Faced with her hot-tempered father’s (Dwight Henry) fading health and flooding in her ramshackled bayou community, a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) struggles to be survive. Hushpuppy is a […]