The film opens with a hostage situation in South Dakota where FBI Agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), who, as the inside man, protects a 11 year old kid named James while trying to talk a bank robber named Edgar Halstrom (Richard Riehle) into surrendering. However, the FBI task force kills the robbers and James. Jeffries […]
The Silence of the Lambs
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit. He tasks her with interviewing Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, believing Lecter’s insight might be useful in the pursuit of a serial […]
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,” […]
Hill Street Blues: The Series
Created by Steven Bochco and one of television’s most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father’s cop show. The Emmy-winning pilot episode, “Hill Street Station,” immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal interface with the police experience. To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, […]