Claire Danes’s performance as an off-the-rails federal agent may be the best thing about Homeland, but it’s certainly not the only thing to admire about a show that’s the visual equivalent of a page-turner. The focus here is on the specter of domestic terrorism. When Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), missing and presumed dead […]
Girl, Interrupted
In the spring of 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) voluntarily checks herself into Claymoore Hospital after overdosing on aspirin. She denies that she was attempting to commit suicide, claiming that she was just “trying to make the shit stop.” Susanna tells her therapists that she does not actually want to go to college and […]
Fried Green Tomatoes
Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is a woman having trouble in her marriage and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson) when she befriends Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy). Ninny tells […]
Take Shelter
In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams of being harmed by people close to him, but he keeps them from his wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He focuses on building a storm shelter in his backyard, but the strange behavior strains his relationship with his family. […]
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