I have recreated my list of the 10 scariest movies of all time. While the term “scary movie” is somewhat subjective, I focused on four types of criteria: Is the movie so scary that it could change someone’s behavior? Does the movie have a high likelihood of producing nightmares? Do scenes in the movie make […]
Archives for September 2013
Only God Forgives
If you like bizarre films and don’t mind a lot violence, you might like this film. The story is set in Bangkok. Ten years ago Julian (Ryan Golsing) killed a man and went on the run. Now he manages a Thai boxing club as a front for a drugs operation. Respected in the criminal underworld, […]
Roseanne: The Series
Roseanne is the story of a working class family struggling with life’s essential problems: marriage, children, money and parents in law. A classic sitcom, the story circles around the Connor family – a family of five; DJ (Michael Fishman), Darlene (Sara Gilbert), Becky (Alicia Goranson), Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) and Dan (John Goodman). The household’s mother, […]
Blue Jasmine
If you want to see this year’s master class in screen acting, you need to watch Cate Blanchett’s mesmerizing performance as Jasmine French, a delusional Park Avenue socialite wife in Woody Allen’s 46th directorial effort, a sly, bicoastal update of Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire.As the film opens, her impeccably dressed character has […]