Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
An appealing cast of talented performers and some mild good intentions cannot save this uneven and sour comedy (originally released with the title “Strike!”) about a girls’ boarding school that is threatened with co-education. It is 1963 and three girls (Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffman, and Heather Matazarro) are students at tony Miss Godard’s. They don’t …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Huey Long was man of gigantic proportions, an epic, almost operatic figure who rose to power as the greatest of populists, succumbed to corruption, and was murdered at age 42. His story inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning book and an Oscar-winning film. That has now been remade with Sean Penn as Willie Stark, the man who …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
A+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: | PG |
| Profanity: | Some very strong language for a PG including the f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Brief epithets |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some tense moments |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 1976 |
| Date Released to DVD: | June 11, 2012 |
| Amazon.com ASIN: | B000CEXEWA |
This week is the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and a good time to look at the Oscar-winning movie about the two reporters who would not give up on the story of the Watergate break-in, this is as gripping as any detective novel. Bob Woodward (Robert Redford), a junior reporter for the Washington Post, is …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Morgan Freeman returns as Dr. Alex Cross in this prequel to “Kiss the Girls.” Like the original, this movie has a nursery rhyme title and centers on a kidnapped girl. This time it is not a serial killer, just a madman inspired by the Lindburgh kidnap case, trying to make a name for himself with …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
Antionio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham in an Oscar-winning performance), the court composer, should have been Mozart. He followed all the rules, worked hard, and cared deeply. Music was his life. Mozart (Tom Hulce) arrives, a bawdy, bratty, foolish boy whose music could enchant the angels. Salieri, ironically the only one who understands music well enough …
