A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care […]
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Series
This whodunit series based on Agatha Christie’s crime novels and short stories, is named after its star sleuth, Hercule Poirot, a famous former Belgian policeman, who settled for good in London after the war, soon so famous as an infallible private detective that he becomes a society figure in his own right. In each episode […]
Blow
Based on a true story, Blow chronicles the high-speed rise and fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), who became the largest importer of Colombian cocaine to the United States ay the the time, forever changing the face of drugs in America. Set in the decadent 70’s and 80’s, Blow traces Jung’s partnership with Pablo Escobar […]
The Believers
John Schlesinger’s The Believers, a kind of voodoo twist on Rosemary’s Baby, is a horror movie where the echoes of otherworldly menace set the tone of terror, but the real evil comes from the hearts of humans. Recently widowed psychologist Martin Sheen moves to New York with his emotionally fragile son, and they become entwined […]
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