This is the story of a mid-life crisis where a marriage between a lawyer and an ex-real estate house flipper turned housewife who live with their two kids in a comfortable affluent NY suburb starts to get stale. The housewife busy with running the home, taking Pilate classes with her friends, and hanging out with … Continue reading
Meek’s Cutoff story is as bleak as the vast wasteland of Oregon that is played out in. Its 1845 and three pioneer families have hired a guide, Stephen Meek, to lead them through the Cascade Mountains, but it soon becomes obvious that he doesn’t really know where he is taking them. Running out of food, … Continue reading
I guess it stands to reason if you write a banned novel back in 1796 that becomes a best-seller and it’s about a devout Catholic Monk who cannot avoid lurid sins of the flesh and has some supernatural elements, then it’s bound to get made into a movie once or twice over the next few … Continue reading
When we first see Simon who has just graduated from College, he’s camping out at a acquaintance’s apartment in Paris and talking out-loud to himself about Michelle his ex-lover back home in New York who caused his current misery when she broke up with him. He’s lonely and somewhat bitter, and in a city where … Continue reading
Paul has always imitated and bullied his rather meek adult son Martin. He blames his wife’s premature death on the sheer stress of looking after puny Martin in his difficult childhood, and although his son has worked hard to take his place in the family winemaking business, he still does not have either the love … Continue reading