Gone With the Wind is a story about a spoiled Southern girl’s hopeless love for a married man. The movie opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry “mealy mouthed” Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de […]
Archives for October 2024
Haloween
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter (Jamie Lee Curtis) tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac (Tony Moran) goes after the town’s hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates […]
Castle: The Series
One of the best shows to emerge midway through the 2008-2009 TV season, Castle has a cast and a sense of humor that set it apart from the normal police procedural. Nathan Fillion plays Rick Castle, a bestselling author of pulpy crime novels who’s called in to assist the New York police when a serial […]
Footloose
Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager raised in Chicago, moves with his mother to the small town of Bomont to live with his aunt and uncle. Soon after arriving, Ren makes a friend named Willard (Christopher Penn), and from him learns the city council has banned dancing and rock music. He soon begins to fall […]