In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends–all fiftysomething […]
Archives for November 2019
M*A*S*H: The Series
The setting was Korea, 1950. They were a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. Incoming helicopters full of wounded brought the horrors of war to them daily and sometimes bullets flew right outside the operating room door. Occasional hilarity and constant hijinks were all that kept them sane. Loosely […]
Risky Business
Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his tidy whitey underwear. But there’s much more to this hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of […]