When Sergeant Raymond Shaw’s (Liev Schreiber) army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, he saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) was knocked unconscious. Shaw uses the incident for political gain, eventually becoming a vice-presidential nominee. Meanwhile Marco is haunted by dreams of what he think […]
Archives for March 2024
Mannix: The Series
One of the most fondly remembered and action-packed detective series of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Mannix was the brainchild creators Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Murder: She Wrote) and executive producer Bruce Geller (Mission: Impossible). Mike Connors won an Emmy as the title character, a tough, streetwise private eye whose hands-on approach […]
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice is a film about a woman, Zofia “Sophie” Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a Polish immigrant and survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who now lives with her lover, Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), a exuberant American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol), the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New […]