House of Cards attempts to portray the contemporary political landscape that situates money and power against one another, and as mediators, vain politicians. And to call these players on the Washington theatrical stage vain is misleading – pathological is a more appropriate word. At the juncture of the decline of preserving the inherited institution of American government, which....

Frances is trying to make it. Like everyone else who moves to the Big Apple, she has hopes and dreams larger than their hometown residencies can handle. And it helps tremendously to rub shoulders with those kindred spirits, who have taken off the leash of the simple life in pursuit of the good life.   Fortunately for Frances she found this spirit through her passageway in college. They....

Raging Bull is considered consistently one of the best films ever made, and it is very easy to see why. Mr. Scorsese flawlessly is able to capture the sea of emotions that arise through interpersonal conflict in a way which is simply stunning and uncanny. The most powerful points in the film are ironically at their most simplest, filmed on a small set that is supposed to pass as a mid-century....