Five hundred years in the future there’s a whole new frontier, and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action. They’ll take any job, legal or illegal, to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table. But things get a bit more complicated after they […]
Archives for February 2020
Clueless
Alicia Silverstone won everyone over with her portrayal of a Beverly Hills teen, Cher Horowitz, whose penchant for helping others with their relationships and self-esteem is a cover for her own loneliness. Director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) made a smart, funny variation on Jane Austen’s novel Emma, sweetly romantic and gently satirical […]
Prince of Tides
Nick Nolte plays Tom Wingo, a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein (Barbara Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). As a unemployed-football-coach, Wingo is unhappy with his life. His wife doesn’t understand him and he also doesn’t get along […]