Cape Fear
Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
★★★☆☆- Title
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Language
- English
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
- Title
- Interstellar (2014)
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Language
- English
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
★★★★★Scenes from a Marriage
★★★★★- Title
- Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Language
- Swedish
One of the truest, most luminous love stories ever made.
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
- Title
- Darkman (1990)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Sam Raimi
- Language
- English
The picture escalates into absurdity and the last half hour, essentially a chase sequence, is marred by surprisingly cheesy special effects.
— Jay Scott, Globe and Mail
The pic supplies more than enough sick wit and visual sweep to make it well worth a look.
— Joe Kane, New York Daily News
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
- Title
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
- Director
- Sergio Leone
- Language
- Italian
- From
- Martin Scorsese
There were three men in her life. One to take her… one to love her —and one to kill her.
★★★★★- Title
- Blue (1993)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Director
- Derek Jarman
- Language
- English
- From
- Sight and Sound
Caryn James reviews Fox's new late-night talk show The Magic Hour, hosted by Magic Johnson; photo (M)
— Caryn James, The New York Times
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
