From America’s most trusted and best-known film critic, one hundred brilliant essays on the films that define for him cinematic greatness.For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called “The Great Movies,” in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of […]
NYPD Blue: The Series
Within the first few minutes of the pilot episode, it’s clear what made NYPD Blue stand out from the rest of the cop show pack, as the characters express themselves in startlingly colorful language. This, combined with glimpses of nudity, earned NYPD Blue the reputation as R-rated television–but just about every episode demonstrates the propulsive […]
Junebug
When newlywed Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), an art dealer, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local, self-taught painter for her outsider art gallery, she takes the opportunity to meet the family of her husband George (Alessandro Nivola) who live close by.There is his judgmental mother Peg (Celia Weston), his reserved father Eugene (Scott […]
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Cinema Therapy
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. After a traumatic experience, it’s normal for a person to feel frightened, sad, anxious, and disconnected. But if the upset doesn’t fade and the person feels […]