An Officer and A Gentleman is a timeless tale of romance, friendship and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen tortuous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for his brilliant portrayal of the […]
Archives for February 2021
The Fly
David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the science fiction classic about a scientist who accidentally swaps body parts with a fly is both smart and terrifying: an allegory for the awful processes of slow death and a monster movie with a tragic spin. Jeff Goldblum gives a masterful performance as a sweet, nerdy scientist whose romance […]
Rev.: The Series
Rev. is a BBC series that the British television network describes, simply, as: “A sitcom about a vicar running a modern inner-city church, with a reluctant wife and a depleted, motley congregation.” But it’s so much more than that. The series, which premiered in 2010, revolves around the Rev. Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander), a Church […]