Closer: Bodies in Motion

Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Jude Law. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing Mike Nichols was lauded for turning Tony Kushner’s play “Angels in America” into a great miniseries in…

Amadeus: The Burden of Mediocrity

Tom Hulce. Photo: Orion Pictures Most of us recognize Antonio Salieri’s feelings. He has worked hard to achieve something, got a good education and managed to become court composer to…

Falkenberg Farewell: Avoiding Adulthood

Photo: Memfis Film When this film premiered, I realized that I was probably not the only one in the audience who kept thinking back to the period in life depicted…

Cast Away: Me, Myself & Wilson

Tom Hanks. Photo: 20th Century Fox We’ve all watched too many episodes of Survivor to have a realistic idea of what it would be like to be stranded on a…

The Practice: Idealism Be Damned

Steve Harris, LisaGay Hamilton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dylan McDermott, Michael Badalucco, Marla Sokoloff, Camryn Manheim and Kelli Williams. Photo: ABC In 1997, producer and writer David E. Kelley delivered two…

Six Feet Under: Death Is the Beginning

Freddy Rodríguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy, Peter Krause, Richard Jenkins, Rachel Griffiths and Jeremy Sisto. Photo: HBO In the beginning of the series finale,…

Schindler’s List: A Place of Protection

Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Photo: Universal In 1993, Schindler’s List was a seminal event, one of those things you simply had to experience. I was in school and every…

Life as a House

When everything falls apart for architect George Monroe (Kevin Kline), he decides to spend his last months building the house of his dreams – together with his estranged son Sam…

West Wing: A World Without Bush

Janel Moloney, Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, John Spencer, Martin Sheen, Dulé Hill, Bradley Whitford, Allison Janney and Richard Schiff. Photo: NBC I am a political nerd. Everything concerning American politics…