I saw Beauty and the Beast last week and was more than happy to be their guest. I really liked that the opening introduction stayed truer to the original story than the 1991 animated film. Instead of the Beast appearing because Belle’s father trespassed Maurice is jailed for taking a rose. This was a nice […]
I had my hesitations going into Bridget Jones’s Baby. The trailers only looked so-so but I had enjoyed the first two movies and thought I might finish off Bridget’s journey through singleton on film. What a big mistake. Bridget, who has broken off her engagement to Mark Darcy is back to her thirtysomething ways despite […]
I read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them earlier this year in preparation for the movie. At under 100 pages I closed the book and wondered, how on Earth will they make a two-hour movie out of this. Well my friends, J.K. Rowling has done it again. Fantastic Beasts opens with faded copies of […]
I had heard mixed things about the adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Despite the remarks my enjoyment of film adaptations and curiosity for Tim Burton I bit the bullet and headed to the theater. Sadly, I should have listened and stayed away. There were a few things that really stood out to […]
The Actors While watching The Family Fang I realized something, Jason Bateman plays the same role in every movie — Michael Blooth. The do-gooder who holds himself slightly above others but does it without looking like a dooche. Baxter Fang was no exception, he was a bit of an oblivious doofus and portrayed the lost […]
I really enjoy Scully Gillian Anderson in Charles Dickens adaptations and like her performance in Great Expectations, she plays the creep Lady Deadlock wonderfully. She is mysterious and strange, quiet similar to her character in the X-Files, or perhaps I’m grasping at straws. Anna Maxwell Martin was so cute as Esther Summerson, her character was […]
Director: Thomas Vinterberg Actors: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge Adaption From: Thomas Hardy’s book of the same name Release Date: May 22, 2015 Far From the Madding Crowd is a victorian version of The Dating Game. Bathsheba Everdene who circles a “woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” […]
The love story of Charlotte Vale, a middle-aged spinster who suffers a nervous breakdown because of her domineering mother and is finally freed after a brief love affair with Jerry, a man she meets while on a cruise after spending time in a sanitarium. They never marry, but through a miracle of chance Vale ends […]
Actors: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart Director:Richard Glatzer Adapted from: Still Alice by Lisa Genova Run Time: 101 minutes Release Date: January 23, 2015 A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. I must admit I have a tendency to make fun of Jullianne Moore. […]
I must start by saying that this 1940s adaptation is an over the top melodrama, but I have a love affair with that genre so it has only fed my love for this film. All This and Heaven Too is an old fashioned Amanda Knox case. It is based the murder case of Duchess Du […]