Nicolas Cage stars as Doug Chesney, in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water, but when Carlisle, a bored and feisty widow, ends up kidnapped, Cage’s agent becomes a […]
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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care […]
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Series
This whodunit series based on Agatha Christie’s crime novels and short stories, is named after its star sleuth, Hercule Poirot, a famous former Belgian policeman, who settled for good in London after the war, soon so famous as an infallible private detective that he becomes a society figure in his own right. In each episode […]