In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter (Shane West), a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the […]
Archives for January 2024
Funny Face
In 1957, Paramount produced a very enjoyable musical comedy called “Funny Face”, directed by Stanley Donen, and to the music of George Gershwin, Adolph Deutsch, Roger Edens and Leonard Gershe. With a simple plot, the film begins in New York City within the offices of the major fashion magazine named “Quality”. Its president, Maggie Prescott […]
The Rockford Files: The Series
For only “two hundred dollars a day, plus expenses,” the original and quintessential anti-hero detective, Jim Rockford (James Garner) , is on the case. Garner stars as the ex-con-turned-private-investigator who stays under the radar and takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sunbaked streets and […]
Last Days
Last Days is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. In the film, introspective artist Blake (Michael Pitt) is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees, Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment […]