Clint Eastwood’s mastery as a director is demonstrated in Changeling, a film based on a shocking but all-too-true story about child abduction and police corruption in 1920s Los Angeles. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) finds her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing when she returns home from work one day. She files a report with the […]
Archives for October 2020
Chinatown
Landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski’s Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband’s extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double […]
Cheers: The Series
Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, Kelsey Grammer. With some of the most memorable characters ever on TV, Sam, Diane, Rebecca, Woody, Cliff, Dr. Crane, Carla and Norm, brought the social exchanges of the quirky patrons of a Boston tavern into millions of homes for 11 hit seasons. Tip your glass to this […]