Here’s how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas’s 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: “[It’s] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie’s success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.” The time […]
Archives for April 2021
Pretty Woman
Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular, morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story. This is the movie that made Roberts a star; the charm of her personality helping tremendously to carry viewers over the rough spots […]
The Bletchley Circle: The Series
In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer. During WWII, men and women working at Bletchley Park played a vital role, breaking the codes used by the German military.Nine years later, former codebreaker Susan (Anna Maxwell Martin) is a housewife and mother, but […]