Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle-aged magazine writer who hates his job. His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), is a real-estate broker. Their sixteen-year-old daughter, Jane (Thora Birch), has low self-esteem and despises her parents. The Burnhams’ new neighbors are retired United States Marine Corps Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper), his wife, Barbara (Allison Janney), […]
Mr. Brooks
Kevin Costner appears in this psychological thriller as Earl Brooks, a warped serial killer and pillar of the community whose dark side is embodied by an on-screen William Hurt Mr. Brooks is an unsavory story, and it turns out to be a lot less kicky than it sounds. Mr. Brooks is a Portland, Oregon tycoon […]
Dreamgirls
Backstage at an amateur talent show at the Detroit Theater in 1962, Cadillac salesman Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx) meets a girl group known as “The Dreamettes” with lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and back-up singers Deena Jones (Beyoncé Knowles), and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose). Curtis presents himself as the Dreamettes’ new manager […]
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese’s 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) says, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster,” […]