Shakespeare In Love
Full Price Feature, buy any tie-ins that occur If this does not win the Oscar for best screenplay at the very least then I don’t know what’s wrong with this country. Shakespeare in Love is a delight on...
View ArticleThe World Is Not Enough
I say network premiere because that way you will have the majority of the lamest jokes (known on an alternate, humor-free planet as double entendres) excised for a television audience, thereby...
View ArticleThe Shipping News
Matinee and Snacks if you love the book The reviewer tried to read the book. Thin, 337 pages, a trifle. On more than one occasion labored over the prose. Curt, choppy poetry that defies engagement of...
View ArticleIris
Watching Iris is like flipping through a painstakingly maintained scrapbook, lovingly assembled by someone with deep emotional ties to the subject. James Horner’s beautiful, delicate music (punctuated...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being Earnest
Last filmed in 1952, Oscar Wilde’s play was deserving of an update. Pity no one managed to see it. Horrifyingly, I have been stymied as to how to review it for months. Literally! It’s a frothy delight,...
View ArticleDie Another Day
By recent James Bond movie standards, i.e. the past 20 years, this installment rates a 7 or 8 out of 10. However, by regular movie standards, it still only rates a 4, which says more about the...
View ArticleThe Hours
They say this book was extremely difficult to film. The novel is as famous as L.A. Confidential in its complex unfilmability, mapping the internal landscapes of three women bound unknowingly across...
View ArticleHitch
I walked into Hitch assuming it would be a Will Smith mug-fest, his character being portrayed as cooler than cool and only flummoxed by another generic Hollywood beauty. (And still I went.) Instead, I...
View ArticlePride and Prejudice (2005)
I was so revolted by the heinous Hollywood marketing of Jane Austen’s classic (“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without” – I mean come on!) that I...
View ArticleThe Queen
When Princess Diana met her untimely death in Paris in 1997, having divorced the Prince and living a new life with Dodi Fayed, the Royal Family was curiously silent. While Britain and the world mourned...
View ArticleNotes On A Scandal
Narrated through the acidic yet poetic diary scratchings of Judi Dench’s character Barbara, Notes On A Scandal is a morbidly fascinating psychological thriller from a unique perspective. Barbara meets,...
View ArticleQuantum of Solace
I did not look up director Marc Forster’s filmography until I had already written the below review, and now I am even more disappointed then I was previously. Before, this was a fun but forgettable...
View ArticleNine
I didn’t really know what to expect, walking into Nine. Well, I kind of knew what to expect from director Rob Marshall (Chicago), and I knew Nine was sexy and kind of based on someone’s mental state,...
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Movie Issues: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has arrived, once again directed by John Madden and written by Ol Parker. We travel back to...
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Review: Murder on the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot is back on the big screen with this newest version of one of one the greatest mystery novels of our time: Murder on the Orient Express, based on Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel of the same...
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