Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma Greenway Horton (Debra Winger) are mother and daughter, both searching for deep romantic love. Beginning with Emma’s early childhood, Aurora reveals how difficult and caring she can be by nearly climbing into Emma’s crib in order to make sure her daughter is breathing—only to be reassured once Emma starts crying […]
Archives for November 2021
North By Northwest
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill (James Stewart) finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm (James Mason) and his henchman Leonard (Martin Landau) try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, […]
50 First Dates
With generous amounts of good luck and good timing, 50 First Dates set an all-time box-office record for the opening weekend of a romantic comedy; whether it deserved such a bonanza is another issue altogether. It’s a sweet-natured vehicle for sweet-natured stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. While the well-matched lovebirds wrestle with a gimmicky […]
Chicago PD: The Series
First introduced in Chicago Fire as a dirty cop bent on destroying Lt. Matthew Casey’s (Jesse Spencer) life, Sgt. Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) is back at District 21. For reasons unclear to even their chief, Voight has made arrangements with mysterious high-powered persons, releasing him from prison in order to head an Intelligence Unit that […]