Labor Day begins when Adele (Kate Winslet) shows us with just a few gestures that she is not a happy woman, afraid to drive her car out of the driveway with her 13 year old son in tow to make her monthly trip to the local market. The son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) sees his mother’s […]
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance doesn’t break any new ground, but with Steven Pressfield’s inspirational novel to guide them, director Robert Redford and screenwriter Jeremy Leven have tilled fertile soil with a graceful touch. Redford does for golf what A River Runs Through It did for fly-fishing: the sport is a conduit for a philosophy […]
As Good As It Gets
For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor Simon (Greg Kinnear) and a waitress Carol (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep, […]
What’s Love Got to Do With It
Tina Turner (Angle Bassett), that dynamic diva of pop/soul/R&B from the ’60s to the ’90s, sings like a woman whose life story is every bit as rough and tough as her voice. And What’s Love Got to Do With It, based on her autobiographical account (in I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder) of her years […]
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