The Beguiled
In 1864, a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) recovers in a school for young women housed in a former Virginia plantation, but his presence soon causes an uproar. Sofia Coppola’s…
The Beguiled
In 1863, a wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood) is brought to a Mississippi plantation that is now housing a school for young ladies; his arrival has a great impact on…
Manhunt
When President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) is shot in 1865 by one of the nation’s most famous actors (Anthony Boyle), War Secretary Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) begins an intense manhunt.…
Dances With Wolves: Finding Your Tribe
Kevin Costner. Photo: Orion Pictures If Dances With Wolves had been released today, poisonous social media activism and cable news outlets would have made it part of the culture war,…
Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…
North and South: Book II
When we meet the Mains and Hazards again, the Northern and Southern families are pitted against each other as the Civil War unfolds; the miniseries takes us through it. Elaborate,…
North and South
In the 1840s, George Hazard (James Read) from Pennsylvania and Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) from South Carolina enroll at West Point and become friends for life… but the increasing tension…