Ordinary People: Absent Mother

Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. Photo: Paramount Judith Guest gave up her teaching job to focus on writing her first novel, the one that would become ”Ordinary People”, trying…

Uncut Gems 

Diamond District jeweler and gambling addict Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is desperately trying to get a rare black opal back from famous basketball player Kevin Garnett. The movie that brought…

Independence Day: Resurgence

Twenty years after the war that put an end to a global alien invasion, there are troubling signs that the aggressive extra-terrestrials are mounting another attack. The director and many…

Independence Day 

An inflated and flag-waving throwback to the grand space movies and disaster flicks of the 1950s and ’70s; the story, where Earth is attacked by aliens and must retaliate, could…

A Beautiful Mind: The Brain as Friend and Foe

Russell Crowe. Photo: Universal They said the screenplay had little to do with the brilliant mathematician John Nash’s real life. They said director Ron Howard had made the film too…