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. […]
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth Director: Francis Lawrence Release Date: November 21, 2014 When Katniss destroys the games, she goes to District 13 after District 12 is destroyed. She meets President Coin who convinces her to be the symbol of rebellion, while trying to save Peeta from the Capitol. ~ IMDB Despite my dislike for the book […]
Director: Randall Wallace Writers: Alexandre Dumas père (novels) (as Alexandre Dumas), Randall Wallace (screenplay) Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich Release Date: March 13, 1998 The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king? The 1998 adaptation of […]
Director: David Fincher Writers: Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel) Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris Release Date: October 3, 2014 With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. This was […]
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Raymond Chandler (screen play), Czenzi Ormonde (screen play) Patricia Highsmith (novel) Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman Release Date: June 30, 1951 A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder – a theory that he plans to […]
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Frederick Knott (screen play), Frederick Knott (adapted from his play) Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings Release Date: May 29, 1954 An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. I hadn’t seen Dial M for Murder in […]
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Joseph Stefano (screenplay), Robert Bloch (novel) Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles Release Date: September 8, 1960 A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. I was thirteen […]