The Complete Jane Austen on PBS: “Sense & Sensibility” (Part 1)

 
I think this adaptation is going VERY well- I REALLY like the scenery and Col. Brandon (David Morrissey)!  The Dashwoods are (quite literally) removed from their grand house to face the effects of wind, rain, and sea in this production.  The mother is a MUCH stronger character in this film, partly because of the GREAT [...]

Tyler Perry’s films compared to… Bollywood!!!

I ALMOST couldn’t believe the comparison (see below) when I read it!   
From March 31, 2008 issue of Time magazine (written by Richard Corliss):
“That format [domestic melodrama] which fed decades of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford weepies, still raises its head occasionally- in the HBO series Big Love or Broadway’s August: Osage County.  And it’s soapy, singing [...]

Movie Review: “Kinky Boots”

What does it mean to “be a man?”  This is one of the big questions that arise in the laugh-out-loud Brit comedy, Kinky Boots, starring a very sweet, likeable Aussie (Joel Edgerton) and the multi-talented Nigerian-Brit (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who I’ve seen in Amistad, Twelfth Night, and the wonderful Dirty Pretty Things.  There is friendship, a [...]