Films that center on greed are hardly new. Hollywood has long been fascinated by man’s thirst for money and power. Often in these films, the spotlight shines on someone with one last shot at redemption. Sometimes the struggle is played…
Synopsis: From his Academy Award-nominated “On the Ropes”, to his singular blend of fact and legend in the Robert Evans portrait “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” Brett Morgen has explored increasingly provocative ways to transform documentary materials into new…
While ER can occasionally veer off into soap opera territory, the long running series about the medical staff and patients of Chicago’s fictional County General Hospital remains one of the best written shows on television today. One of the reasons…
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Though Family Ties debuted in September of 1982, it wasn’t until the series third season that the show really took off. Aided by its position behind The Cosby Show on Thursday nights, Family Ties reached #5 in the Nielsen ratings…
Beauty and the Beast was one of those shows that never did that well in the ratings but had a loyal following. When the show premiered in 1987, Catherine (Linda Hamilton) was a wealthy Assistant District Attorney looking for meaning…
From Newsweek.com via Forbes.com ‘Strike’ One for the Web: According to industry projections, video streaming revenue and video downloading revenue is expected to reach $3 billion and $1 billion by 2010 and 2011, respectively. And while that’s a fraction of…
Watching a remake of the 2002 German film Mostly Martha, No Reservations is like getting up at midnight and raiding the fridge – it feels good while you’re doing it, but you wouldn’t dream of telling your friends about it…
Recently, as part of Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar, I watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window(1954). The film about a wheelchair bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed…
Based on the 1997 film of the same name, Soul Food revolves around the lives of the Joseph sisters, three African American women trying to live their lives as best they can in Chicago. As season three begins, Teri Joseph…