All in all, Shakepeare Retold is an excellent set of DVDs providing rich entertainment complex enough for multiple viewings and entertaining enough to engage viewers away from all other distractions. Drama like this is rare enough without the added enjoyment of Shakepearean…
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Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
What The Devil Wears Prada does is suggest something of that dilemma, but it pays such respect to Miranda Priestly that the alternatives that do exist do not appear with the appropriate appeal or drama in the world the film gives us: alternative ways of being, feeling, thinking, and valuing are barely seen.
A review of Accused directed by Jacob Thuesen
The film’s early photography is clear, full of blues and greens, and is attractive without being glamorous. Henrik’s eyes are blue and, primarily, he seems to wear blue, gray, and black clothes. Henrik and Nina, with her shoulder-length light brown hair and trim figure, look like ordinary people—in early middle age, and they are attractive but not distractingly so.
A review of Casanova
The Venice architecture and lively crowd scenes make an enchanting world for these characters. The film Casanova, with a screenplay by Kimberly Simi and Jeffrey Hatcher, cinematography by Oliver Stapleton, production design by David Gropman, and music by Alexandre Desplat,…
A Review of the film “We Were Soldiers” (From the book We Were Soldiers Once….and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joe Galloway)
We Were Soldiers, the latest in the growing war film trend, is based on the true story of the Americans first encounter with the North Vietnamese in the la Drang Valley. On November 14, 1965, Lt. Col. Harold Moore lead…
A Review of Baz Lurhman’s film version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
This update of Romeo and Juliet is set in verona beach, where the capulet’s and montague’s are dueling coorporate heads. After an opening that is just too silly to be believed, (somehow I don’t think Shakespeare had a gunfight at…
Review of the Film Don’t Say a Word (from the book by Andrew Klavan)
Scriptwriters need to seriously ponder a common mistake made by those taking favored books to screen; the fatal error of assuming that everyone in thetheater has already read the book. In the case of Don’t Say a Word those that have read…
A Philosophical Examination of the film Shattered
Such is the stuff of our nightmares – body snatching, demonic possession, waking up in a strange place, not knowing who we are. Without a continuous personal history – we are not. It is what binds our various bodies, states…
A Review of The Time Machine (From the book by HG Wells)
A Review of The Time Machine (From the book by HG Wells) The Time Machine (based on HG Wells’ novel of the same name) is the story Columbia University physics professor, Alexander Cartegen. one night, after proposing to his girlfriend,…
A review of the film “In the Bedroom,” (based on the novel by Andre Dubus)
In the Bedroom, based on the novel from Andre Dubus, is a study of a family in Maine, who suffers a horrendous tragedy and the aftermath of it. To say much more would give away too much of the plot. Suffice to say, it’s chock full of everything you’ve come to expect from Miramax, sublime acting, above average writing, and an excellent director at the helm.