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 […]
Hope Springs
Although they are a devoted couple, empty nesters Kay and Arnold Soames (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones) need some help to put the passion back in their marriage. Ever since Arnold had surgery many moons ago, they have slept in separate rooms, giving up any chance of intimacy or physical affection. One day Kay […]
A Beautiful Mind
A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe), a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. The movie depicts how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, […]
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 […]
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