Georgetown is a prestigious area of Washington, DC, and was home to Albrecht Muth, called Ulrich Mott in the movie Georgetown. Muth was a grifter, social climber, and a seemingly professional liar. In his late forties, Muth was 44 years younger than his wife, a woman named Elsa Brecht in the film but who is … Read more
This is a typical whodunit written by Agatha Christie in the early 1930s, although the movie and book are a bit different. It features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and starts when a socialite named Linnet Ridgeway Doyle tries to convince him to stop her former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort from stalking her. She is stalking … Read more
American Beauty is a black comedy that centers around Lester Burnham, a stressed-out businessman who is having a midlife crisis. He develops an infatuation with his daughter Jane’s cheerleader friend, Angela, quits his job, and takes a job at a fast-food burger joint. Lester starts smoking pot, buys his dream car, and begins working out … Read more
The Highwaymen tells the story of Frank Hamer (Kevin Costner) and Maney Gault (Woody Harrelson), who were former Texas Rangers that go after the notorious crime duo Bonnie and Clyde in the 1930s. It is directed by John Lee Hancock and was picked up by Netflix in 2018 and filmed mostly in Louisiana and Texas. … Read more
Molly’s Game is a 2017 film based on the true story of Molly Bloom, who was eventually indicted for running illegal poker games in both Los Angeles and New York. She starts out as a mogul skier with intentions of being in the Olympics, but she is injured in 2002 and her career as a … Read more
Let Him Go is a film set in the early 1960s and tells the story of George and Margaret Blackledge. They live in Montana with their only son, James, along with his wife, Lorna, and their infant son, Jimmy. When James dies suddenly in a horseback-riding accident, George and Margaret are devastated. When their daughter-in-law … Read more
The movie The Bodyguard is a 1992 romantic thriller starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. The Bodyguard’s plot is about a former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard who is hired to protect a pop star in Los Angeles. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the movie four stars out of four, calling it “one of the … Read more
The movie “Open Range” is a 2003 western directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It was based on the novel “The Open Range Men” written by Lauran Paine. The film takes place in Montana and stars Robert Duvall and Annette Bening. The story follows two cowboys, played by Costner and Duvall, who are forced to … Read more