A busman’s holiday for Alfred Hitchcock, this black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighborhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as Jennifer Rogers, one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of […]
My Three Sons: The Series
When one thinks of cutting edge television, My Three Sons does not immediately leap to mind, but this beloved Boomer-era staple. It ran for 12 seasons, which, for a family sitcom, is second in longevity only to The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and broke the nuclear family mold. Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas was a […]
Welcome Back, Kotter: The Series
Travel back to a time when sitcoms were recorded live on tape before a studio audience and dialogue was dominated by nonsensical catch phrases, like “Up your nose with a rubber hose!” and “Off my case, potato face!” The year was 1975. Saturday Night Fever had yet to make John Travolta a star, and stand-up […]
Election
Matthew Broderick makes up for years of wet-noodle performances with his low-key but unsparing characterization of Jim McAllister, a high school teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska. Driven by a strange mixture of loathing and lust for pathologically overachieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), McAllister encourages a dim but popular athlete, […]
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