The film opens at St. Anne’s Academy, a California Catholic school in 1968, where a young girl named Deloris Wilson (Isis Carmen Jones) is scolded for wisecracking and disobeying rules. The setting then changes to the present day, where Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a lounge singer working in a casino called The Moonlight […]
Archives for January 2025
Mississippi Burning
The story is loosely based on the real-life murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. After the three are reported missing, two FBI agents are sent to investigate the incident in rural Jessup County, Mississippi (modeled after Neshoba County where the real murders took place). The two agents take completely different approaches: Agent […]
D-Box Seating and Cinema Therapy
D-Box Seating and Cinema Therapy Many of us who are interested in the therapeutic value of film are asking ourselves if D-Box Seats enhance or detract from the cinema therapy experience. D-Box Seats are manufactured by D-BOX Technologies, a Canadian company. The seats are engineered to move with the sound and scene content of a […]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven’s 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams.Craven takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them […]