Hot off her Oscar winning turn in Coal Miners Daughter, Sissy Spacek stars as Nita, the divorced mother of two small boys, who works virtually day and night as a telephone operator in a little house, in a nowhere Texas…
Based on Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winning play, August: Osage County is the kind of drama many actors love to do: thick with dialogue, it gives multiple performers a chance to really chew some scenery. Packed with fighting, crying, drinking,…
Adapted from Tom Wolfe’s engrossing book, it’s still hard to believe that The Right Stuff wasn’t one of the biggest hits of 1983. One explanation might have been that former astronaut and veteran Ohio Senator John Glenn was gearing up…
Generally speaking, romantic melodramas aren’t my cup of tea; I don’t read a lot of them and I usually wait for the Blu-ray release before seeing them in movie form. The Notebook was a bit different. Though I never read…
Lionsgate Films | 2009 | 104 mins. | Rated R Director Jim Sheridan’s (My Left Foot, The Boxer) films usually offer viewers a powerful story with some surprising elements and great casting. Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie…