Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his tidy whitey underwear. But there’s much more to this hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of […]
Malcolm in the Middle: The Series
In the words of They Might Be Giants’ rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, “life is unfair.” The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to […]
Blowout
Brian De Palma’s thriller is something of a homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterful Blowup, though there are hints of Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoia-inducing Conversation sprinkled throughout. John Travolta plays a sound-effects man who witnesses what appears to be a tragic car accident killing a presidential candidate. The audio tape he happened to be recording at […]
Without Limits
Without Limits is a biographical film about the friendship between running star Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup) and his coach Bill Bowerman (Donald Sutherland), who had co-founded Nike, Inc. This is a movie about life and the challenges we all face as family members, individuals, students, teachers, and members of society. It’s about sacrifice and going […]
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