Sean Penn leads an all-star cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Ray Walston) in this hilarious portrayal of a group of southern California high school students and their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Amy Heckerling’s directorial debut brings to life first-time screenwriter Cameron Crowe’s insider’s view of teenage American […]
Arrested Development: The Series
Winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy its first year out, Arrested Development is the kind of sitcom that gives you hope for television. A mockumentary-style exploration of the beleaguered Bluth family, it’s one of those idiosyncratic shows that doesn’t rely on a laugh track or a studio audience; it’s shot more like a TV […]
Guarding Tess
Nicolas Cage stars as Doug Chesney, in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water, but when Carlisle, a bored and feisty widow, ends up kidnapped, Cage’s agent becomes a […]
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
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 […]
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