Tom Jones: A Bawdy Adventure

Susannah York and Albert Finney. Photo: United Artists The film that won director Tony Richardson an Oscar and launched the international career of Albert Finney had quite a challenging shoot.…

Boston Legal: Bonding on a Balcony

James Spader and William Shatner. Photo: ABC I hate writing this review. I'm doing it because the last episode of Boston Legal has aired and it is time to close…

Sports Night 

Aaron Sorkin’s first TV series blew some fresh air into network television, but has since been eclipsed by far greater cable shows. To a certain degree, this story about the…

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 

It was supposed to be Aaron Sorkin’s great follow-up to The West Wing, featuring parts of the same cast and crew. A knowing look behind the scenes of a Saturday…

Dalecarlians

Mia (Sofia Helin) is driving home for her father’s 70th birthday, fearing the sense of isolation in the village where she grew up, and the aggressive bitterness of her sister…

Terms of Endearment: Fighting Back the Tears

Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Paramount It never fails. I’ve seen this film, director-producer James L. Brooks’ first, four or five times and it always leaves me…

Ally McBeal: Justice in a Miniskirt

Vonda Shepard, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Jane Krakowski, Calista Flockhart, Lisa Nicole Carson, Greg Germann, Portia de Rossi, Peter MacNicol and Lucy Liu. Photo: Fox David E. Kelley has a…

Flickering Lights 

Four criminals lay their hands on a large sum of cash in Copenhagen and escape to the countryside where they come up with a perfect front – starting a small…

MASH: Indecency At Its Best

Gary Burghoff and Roger Bowen. Photo: 20th Century Fox Everyone knows and loves M*A*S*H, the wonderful TV show that made Alan Alda a star. Most people also know that the series…