Drama

Monster

April 30, 2009 by Dr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

After moving to Florida, Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron), a female prostitute, meets Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) in a gay bar. After initial hostility and declaring that she is not gay, Aileen talks to Selby over beers. Selby takes to Aileen almost immediately, as she likes that she is very protective of her. Selby invites her […]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

April 28, 2009 by Dr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

In 1462, Vlad Dracula (Gary Oldman) returns from a victory against the Turks to find his wife, Elisabeta (Winona Ryder), has committed suicide after receiving a false report of his death. Enraged that his wife is now damned for committing suicide, Dracula desecrates his chapel and renounces God, declaring that he will rise from the […]

Silkwood

March 28, 2009 by Dr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep), a worker at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (near Crescent, Oklahoma), shares a ramshackle house with two co-workers, her boyfriend Drew Stephens (Kurt Russell) and her lesbian friend Dolly Pelliker (Cher). She makes plutonium fuel rods for nuclear reactors, where she deals with the threat of exposure to radiation. She […]

Shadow of a Doubt

March 5, 2009 by Dr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

Alfred Hitchcock considered this 1943 thriller to be his personal favorite among his own films, and although it’s not as popular as some of Hitchcock’s later work, it’s certainly worthy of the anyone’s admiration. Scripted by playwright Thornton Wilder and inspired by the actual case of a 1920’s serial killer known as “The Merry Widow […]