Upward mobility, or “movin’ on up,” as the theme song for the 1970’s sitcom “The Jeffersons” put it, isn’t the same for African-American families today as it was three decades ago. In 1975, when the show was first broadcast, the gap between rich and poor hadn’t stretched into the chasm; the white middle-class and black […]
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Cookie’s Fortune deserves to be appreciated on its own terms. A less-ambitious outing from veteran director Robert Altman (at least when compared to movies like Nashville, The Player, and Short Cuts), this movie delivers agreeable performances and a charming, amusing story that offers little in the way of substance. Those who have identified some of […]
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Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement […]
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Rarely has a movie title been more — or less — descriptive than Peter Greenaway’s “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover.” On one level you can describe the movie simply in terms of the characters and the lustful and unspeakable things they do to one another. On another level, there is no […]
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Adam Baldwin (MY BODYGUARD, X-FILES) portrays an insurance salesman who is nearly killed by a man who starts shooting people in his office. Just before the man is about to blow his brains out the man says his name-and is shot by a security guard. But Baldwin had never met the man before. He goes […]
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