Here’s how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas’s 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: “[It’s] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie’s success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.” The time […]
Pretty Woman
Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular, morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story. This is the movie that made Roberts a star; the charm of her personality helping tremendously to carry viewers over the rough spots […]
The Bletchley Circle: The Series
In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer. During WWII, men and women working at Bletchley Park played a vital role, breaking the codes used by the German military.Nine years later, former codebreaker Susan (Anna Maxwell Martin) is a housewife and mother, but […]
Harold and Maude
Self-destructive and needy but wealthy teenager Harold (Bud Cort) is obsessed with death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching the demolition of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get the attention of his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother, and having sessions with his psychologist. When Harold meets the anarchic seventy-nine-year-old Maude (Ruth […]
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