Monday, May 28, 2007 Katharine Hepburn makes Cary Grant her special project in Holiday (1938), Julia Roberts becomes a movie star while Richard Gere turns gray in Pretty Woman (1990), and Gong Li brands her pretty face in the warlord epic The Emperor and the Assassin (1999). Learn what movies really have going on beneath the surface.
Monday, May 21, 2007 "Kung Fu" cult star David Carradine is more convincing as folkie Okie Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory (1976), Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are killers on a crime spree in In Cold Blood (1967), and Sidney Poitier is a stressed-out extended family breadwinner in A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Read and disagree completely, what fun!
Monday, May 14, 2007 The entertaining (if preposterous) comedy/romance/historical romance Shakespeare in Love (1998), Lon Chaney dresses up like Bigfoot in the high budget silent classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), and Katharine Hepburn has plenty of suitors for a bronze statue in The Philadelphia Story (1940). You can't read just one!
Monday, May 7, 2007 Los Angeles police hunt down elusive cop killer Richard Basehart in He Walked by Night (1948), manipulative Clint Eastwood wears out his welcome in the Civil War character study The Beguiled (1971), and Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan go through the buddy cop/martial arts motions in Rush Hour (1998).
Sunday, May 6, 2007 London crime boss Bob Hoskins learns the IRA mean business in The Long Good Friday (1980), Jerry Lewis transforms from dorky Professor Klump into lounge lizard Buddy Love in The Nutty Professor (1963), and psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman throws herself at head case Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945). Be the first on the block to read 'em all!