The Towering Inferno
Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) arrives at the opening party of a new 138-story building in San Francisco, but parts of it are poorly constructed and when a fire breaks…
Tootsie: Dressed to Kill
Sydney Pollack and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: Columbia In the late 1990s, I was studying English in college when one of our teachers organized a reading of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance…
WarGames
Teenage computer whiz David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) finds a way of connecting with a super-sophisticated computer at the Pentagon and starts playing a war game that turns out to be…