The setting was Korea, 1950. They were a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit stationed three miles from the front. Incoming helicopters full of wounded brought the horrors of war to them daily and sometimes bullets flew right outside the operating room door. Occasional hilarity and constant hijinks were all that kept them sane. Loosely […]
Risky Business
Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his tidy whitey underwear. But there’s much more to this hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of […]
Blowout
Brian De Palma’s thriller is something of a homage to Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterful Blowup, though there are hints of Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoia-inducing Conversation sprinkled throughout. John Travolta plays a sound-effects man who witnesses what appears to be a tragic car accident killing a presidential candidate. The audio tape he happened to be recording at […]
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Originally called Sex Crimes, executive producer Dick Wolf wisely opted for something less lurid when the second in the inexhaustible Law & Order franchise hit the air in 1999. Still, as the opening voiceover makes clear, the “sexually based offenses” investigated by New York’s Special Victims Unit can be “especially heinous.” Wolf penned series premier […]
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