The River was the third of the so-called “save the farm” movies of 1984-85. Like Places in the Heart and Country we are treated to a gutsy, young farm family who come together to keep their land in the face…
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…
“He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.” Narrated from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) Terrence Malick’s Badlands can be seen as a kind of modern day…
Despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, institutionalized indenture existed in the southern United States throughout the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The black “help” were not simply housekeepers, but nannies to…
BURBANK, Calif., October 5, 2011 — The Help, the inspirational summer hit film people can’t stop talking about, arrives in homes just in time for the holidays, delivering this powerful story on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD, Digital Download and On-Demand,…
It seems like Paramount has been releasing Blu-ray titles by the boatload over the last few months. As an enthusiastic adapter of the high-definition technology, most of the time I’m more than happy to embrace any new title that comes…