13 Conversations About One Thing is a smartly written and wonderfully acted movie about happiness and fate. It takes four characters and blends their stories into a delicate but potent mix. The movie starts with a scene whose significance will be understood at a much later stage. John Turturro, playing a physics college professor is […]
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Yancy Derringer: The Series
Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney), an ex-Confederate soldier turned gambler, was a suave lady’s man in New Orleans, Louisiana. In reality, he was working for John Colton, the civil administrator of the city. Yancy’s job was to prevent crime and if necessary, arrest the culprits. His constant companion was Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah (X Brands) an Indian who watches […]
A Walk on the Moon
Although its tale of marital crisis, A Walk on the Moon is a story that gently involves. The characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she’s one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on […]
An Unmarried Woman
Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband Martin (Michael Murphy) of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in […]