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Being Smart and Attractive and Having A Dream is the Best

Not every movie on Fox Movie Channel features Technicolor murder, courtroom showdowns or crazies on the loose. I think a break from psycho murderers may be in order. A break that takes us to a time a little closer to our own: a time with pocket calculators and imported cars and liberated women. And into a story that involves hot young doctors in California in the early 90s trying to make it all work in life, love, and medicine. Meet a little story called Vital Signs.Vital Signs is basically a fun romp of a movie. Watch as good looking young...

Coordinating Lipstick and Murder

You know how it goes: meet a girl with great cheekbones, fall in love among the stunning scenery of New Mexico, get married, and watch as people around you start to die. Encounter the title Leave Her to Heaven without seeing the movie, and it has such an angelic ring - it sounds like a movie about a lady with a heart of gold destined for a better place. Looking at Gene Tierney's porcelain doll visage could confirm that idea, but therein lies the trap. Because quite in contrast to something heavenly, this is a movie about a chick -...

Sociopath vs. Sociopath

Black, white and creepy all over: you need only watch the first four minutes of Compulsion to get a serious dose of disturbing behavior. Watch the whole thing and you'll be treated to a story that's so wildly whacked out and psychologically troubling that it's still intriguing and unsettling today, even though it was made in 1959. And - as if this intense psycho thriller could get any creepier - it's inspired by a true story. Compulsion is based on the rather infamous 1924 Leopold Loeb murder case from Chicago. Since this is a movie where the audience knows whodunit...