How many times will screenwriters continue to think they're doing something new and innovative by dribbling out Westerns that feature one or more characters pontificating about how "times have changed"? This idea should have been put to rest after ...
Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a morality tale of love, betrayal, seduction and ultimately, murder. Yet it is also the uplifting story of a young woman who retains her dignity and courage despite the hardships that fate and society have ...
The inspirational teacher movie has been a tried-and-true staple since at least 1939, when Goodbye, Mr. Chips boosted Kleenex sales nationwide. Since then we've been treated to countless variations on the theme - including The Blackboard Jungle, Dead Poet's ...
Online references on Charles Dickens Patchwork-Look Velvety Chenille Tapestry Carpet Bag with Shoulder Strap Internet Movie Database lists seven different versions of Great Expectations including this new interpretation made by the BBC ...
Possessed wants to be The Exorcist's docudrama cousin—both films are based on the same case—but lacking the budget, the acting talent, or the screenplay of the earlier film, Possessed winds up becoming one of the funniest movies of the ...
Stretch halter mini dress with open weave sides The Chris Isaak Show shouldn't work. The episodes are overlong, the acting is often amateurish, the quality of the writing is wildly uneven ...
Suggested reading: Hitchcock and Selznick:The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood (1999), Leonard J. Leff Hitchcock's Notebooks: An authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock ...
"The thing you need to know is, it's all about sex." That's the first spoken line in Queer as Folk, Showtime's remake for the American market of a British series of the same name. Notice has been given, then, ...
Langston Hughes brought his renowned art as a poet to the writing of prose as well, writing that is sometimes deceptively plain on the surface, but is highly focused and densely packed with image and irony. Cora Unashamedis ...
A ski lodge, 1965. Well-scrubbed teenagers lounge around the fireplace, lazily sipping hot chocolate. In walk four black men, nattily dressed in identical hooded floor-length dusters with enormous white lapels. One of them sports a mountainous, perfectly coifed pompadour. ...
