Robin Hood
It’s summer movie season again!
The problem with a Robin Hood movie is that it inevitably draws comparisons to the story we know and the Kevin Costner version we all grew up with.
Tag: historical
Casablanca
Surprisingly, no, I’d never seen Casablanca before last week. I generally don’t like old movies so I pretty much don’t ever make the time to watch them. The production values are lower, the stories or characters can seem cheesy to a sophisticated audience (yes, that would be me). Plus, I don’t ascribe to the belief that just because a movie is a classic it’s therefore good. Someone once said that the golden age in Hollywood wasn’t really golden, it’s just when we learned to industrialize movie making. I agree, so, I don’t expect that all classic movies will stand the […]
The Secret Life of Bees
Sweet and heartwarming, this coming of age story is well told with wisdom and strength.
I loved the language of the film, the words and sentences. I don’t know how much of that came
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
To begin with, if you’ve read the book, let go of everything you know. This is a completely different creature. But it’s good. It’s very good.
I so don’t even know where to begin. I’ve read the book, possibly 2 dozen times. I
Leatherheads
The best thing about having seen Leatherheads is that now I get to post my Summer movie preview list.
The second best thing about Leatherheads is that it’s a great movie. It succeeds in doing
Atonement
Atonement is a lovely film. It’s simple and straightforward, not lovely because it’s told with a soft lense or because there is a sense of wonder and beauty about it. But lovely because the
Kingdom of Heaven
The only review I really have of the theatrical cut is a quote from Entertainment Weekly’s review of Kingdom of Heaven – May 13, 2005. There were a lot of things I liked about it and a lot of things I was
Elizabeth the Golden Age
I liked this movie a lot. It has it’s flaws, it’s choppy, jumping from scene to scene with little fluidity. The consipiracy is muddled and still scarce. It never fully feels like it has
Becoming Jane
I haven’t read a whole lot of Jane Austen. Honestly, just Pride and Prejudice after I saw the Kiera Knightley movie. So, I could see elements of that story in this film – and was told there were also elements of Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. Which, when rendering an author’s life into a story itself makes sense and is fun if
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
When I first came out of Pirates 3 wasn’t sure what I thought. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. I was thinking over different scenes and realizing how much I just enjoyed the film, enjoyed myself while I was watching it. It’s fun. It’s funny. The monkey was frickin’ hilarious.