From the offbeat mind of Mike Judge, this HBO half-hour comedy takes viewers inside the world of tech start-ups – and the socially awkward underdogs who try to navigate its lucrative potential. Starring a talented ensemble of young comic actors and veterans, Silicon Valley charts the rising fortunes of Richard (Thomas Middleditch), an introverted computer […]
Scream
With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out.Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles […]
Gone with the Wind
Gone With the Wind is a story about a spoiled Southern girl’s hopeless love for a married man. The movie opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry “mealy mouthed” Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de […]
Castle: The Series
One of the best shows to emerge midway through the 2008-2009 TV season, Castle has a cast and a sense of humor that set it apart from the normal police procedural. Nathan Fillion plays Rick Castle, a bestselling author of pulpy crime novels who’s called in to assist the New York police when a serial […]