Director: Tom Hooper Writers: William Nicholson (screenplay), Alain Boublil (screenplay) Stars: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway Release Date: December 25, 2012 In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker’s daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. […]
Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay), Philippa Boyens (screenplay) Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage Release Date: December 14, 2012 A reluctant hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home – and the gold within it – from the dragon Smaug. […]
I saw The Hunger Games this afternoon and let me tell you, it was awesomeness! After having finished and loved the novel, I was excitedly anticipating seeing the film. I patiently waited for the hub to die down (I didn’t want to be stuck in a theater full of middle schoolers). So I waited, and […]
I could just start and end this review with Hugh Grant and Colin Firth but that just doesn’t seem right. Bridget Jones is a thirty-something woman with incredibly bad habits (smoking, drinking, weight, and word vomit just to name a few) and does not want to die alone being found weeks later being eaten by […]
I will never look at little girls with pigtails the same way again. Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old who if doesn’t get her way goes far beyond a childhood tantrum but resorts to cold-blooded murder, in this case, to obtain a penmenship medal she feels was wrongly awarded to another classmate. Patty McCormack […]
Director: Gurinder Chadha Writers: Jane Austen (novel), Paul Mayeda Berges Stars: Martin Henderson, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nadira Babbar Release Date: March 11, 2005 Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment. Maybe it’s because I’ve become accustom to Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, but I had difficulty with Bride and Prejudice. Bride and Prejudice […]
Director: William Wyler Writers: W. Somerset Maugham (by), Howard Koch (screen play) Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson Release Date: November 23, 1940 The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. Stars: Bette Davis, […]
Director: Roger Michell Writers: Jane Austen (novel), Nick Dear (screenplay) Stars: Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood Release Date: April 16, 1995 Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. […]
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Sidney Gilliat (screen play), Joan Harrison (screen play) Daphne du Maurier (by) Stars: Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton Release Date: October 13, 1939 In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. Jamaica Inn is another Daphne Du […]
Director: Jim O’Hanlon Writers: Jane Austen, Sandy Welch Stars: Romola Garai, Michael Gambon, Jonny Lee Miller Release Date: January 24, 2010 Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit – matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, […]