UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. A half crime Drama/half legal procedure focusing on the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) Detectives who investigate murders involving the people on the streets of […]
Archives for March 2012
Fried Green Tomatoes
Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is a woman having trouble in her marriage and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) when she befriends Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy). Ninny tells […]
Small Town U.S. Theaters Closing
The film industry announced recently that it would no longer make film copies of its movies and will only be providing digital versions, forcing theaters across the U.S. to retire their old 35mm projectors and go digital. This switch is expensive as digital projectors cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars. Some small theaters […]
Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies III
Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now and his biweekly essays on great movies have been appearing there since 1996. As Ebert noted in the introduction to the first collection of those pieces, “They are not the greatest films of all time, because all lists of […]