Little Women (2019)
What, you ask, are these? Movie adaptations that are better–in some cases, much better–than the books they are inspired by. Agree? Disagree? What would you add to the list?
Little Women (2019)
What, you ask, are these? Movie adaptations that are better–in some cases, much better–than the books they are inspired by. Agree? Disagree? What would you add to the list?
A friend came over this weekend and said he and his 22 year old daughter had been discussing this for fun and, no shock, had completely different answers to the question: Who is the most attractive on-screen couple of all time? His daughter felt it was impossible to beat Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in…
Two books are making their way from page to screen via Tim Burton productions in the coming months. On May 27 Alice Through the Looking Glass brings viewers a sequel to the 2010 Alice in Wonderland and what appears to be a very loose, really barely related, version of Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass….
I just returned from seeing Pitch Perfect 2 with my 19 year old daughter. We both enjoyed it thoroughly. I, however, am in the minority in my social media feeds. The movie is being soundly criticized for being not funny enough, not genuine enough, not interesting enough. And those are just the nots. It’s also…
I recently watched Casablanca with my mother and my daughter—three generations of women. I’d seen it before, decades ago. It’s one of my mother’s favorites and my daughter–who picked it–had never seen it. As the final credits rolled, we wiped away our tears and nodded our heads. That, we all agreed, was a phenomenal film. …
Since I’ve been marooned with my 20 something kids and we have just one decent TV right, we’ve been doing a bunch of family TV watching. And, which will surprise no one, it is often a struggle to find something that five adults all wish to watch.
Where I live, when June sinks into July, it’s hot. Hot. Hot. Hot. On days where the temperature and the humidity are both over 90, there’s nothing I like better than to sit in a cool place and watch a movie.