The first, and perhaps most magical, season of Bewitched still casts an enchanting spell. For escapist fantasy, this series, no doubt inspired by the play Bell, Book and Candle, broke significant television ground.The Stephens were sitcoms’ first mixed marriage. Advertising executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) was mortal, and wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) was a witch. […]
Pride & Prejudice
During the late 18th century, the Bennet family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet (Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn) and their five daughters—Jane (Rosamund Pike), Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), Mary (Talulah Riley), Kitty (Carey Mulligan), and Lydia (Jena Malone)—live in comparative financial independence as gentry on a working farm in rural England. As Longbourn is destined to […]
Walk The Line
In 1968, an audience of inmates at Folsom State Prison cheer for Johnny Cash’s (Joaquin Phoenix) band as he waits backstage near a table saw, reminding him of his early life. In 1944, Johnny (Ridge Canipe), then known as J.R., grows up the son of a share cropper on a cotton farm in Dyess, Arkansas, […]
The Constant Gardener
Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a shy low-rung British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz) was found dead on the veldt. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her colleague doctor Arnold Bluhm (Hubert […]