WATCH NOW FAR FROM HEAVEN is writer-director Todd Haynes’s aesthetically gorgeous and genteel emulation of the 1950s so-called woman’s picture, with a major difference in frankness. Julianne Moore’s Cathy Whitaker is an affluent mother of two in 1957 suburban Hartford who seems to have everything. But, as the title suggests, this is not paradise. Haynes […]
WATCH NOW FARGO During a depressing North Country winter, a car dealer who is used to scamming a few extra bucks out of his customers plans a bigger outrage, an absurd swindle. The mark is his wealthy boss, who is also his father in law. Jerry (William H. Macy), our homespun antihero, hires some goons
WATCH NOW FATHER’S DAY Tacky on the surface, this first teaming of comics Robin Williams and Billy Crystal is a sentimental tribute to the joys and rewards of being a good father. It won’t make any all time comedy lists, but its aspirations are modest, probably something like the old Hope-Crosby series. The story is
WATCH NOW This precious little indie gives us the night in the life of 18 year old Ben Mercado (Dante Basco), who manages to face down his overbearing dad, realize his dream to go to art school, do a little breakdancing, get in a fight, and meet the love of his life all while attending
WATCH NOW Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings reportedly sold more than 100 million books. Now the movie version of the first volume in the series, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is finding box-office success. The plot of the film is simple enough. A gold ring recovered from the
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THE FIGHTING FITZGERALDS: This offering of Irish-American characters will have to labor to get beyond the clichés. It helps that the star is Brian Dennehy, both a movie and TV icon for years and a recent Tony winner for a revival of Death of a Salesman. But on this show he’s an Irish Archie Bunker.
WATCH NOW THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS Darrin Fox (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is fired from his high-power job at a Manhattan advertising agency when his boss (Steve Warren) finds out he lied about going to Yale. Just then, Darrin learns that his Great-aunt Sally (Ann Nesby) has died in his hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia. Her will
WATCH NOW FIREHOUSE DOG Rex is a pampered canine celebrity who accidentally falls out of a plane while shooting a commercial. He lands in a truckload of tomatoes and loses his hairpiece. Unrecognizable, Rex is carried away into the city, where a firefighter named Connor Fahey (Bruce Greenwood, Racing Stripes) rescues the lost pooch and
WATCH NOW FINDING NEVERLAND After the unsuccessful opening of his play Little Mary in London in 1903, Scottish playwright James Matthew Barrie (Johnny Depp) goes off with his Newfoundland dog to write a new play in nearby Kensington Gardens. There he becomes friends with a family of four fatherless boys and their mother, Sylvia Llewelyn
WATCH NOW Welcome a brand new children’s classic. Finding Nemo employs extraordinary imagination and animation to tell a story that children of all ages can love. Although this is a totally imaginary world created beneath the ocean waves, the characters become very real to the audience, thanks to the father son relationship that forms the
