Hollywood loves to make high school sex comedies based (loosely) on classic works of literature. Clueless was adapted from Austen’s “Emma”, and 10 Things I Hate About You is a retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. When these sort of movies happen, we can only hope that the writers involved keep [...]
0 comments Friday 24 Dec 2010 | blogadmin | comedy, movie reviews, romance
For those of you who are not in a book club, The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl who is murdered in a cornfield near her home in 1970’s Pennsylvania. She narrates her tale and watches her family cope from the “in-between”–a perfect place to hang out before [...]
0 comments Thursday 22 Apr 2010 | blogadmin | blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
Julie & Julia is a very good movie. There are two parallel storylines: One is the story of Julia Child, the renowned chef, and the other is of Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams), a government cubicle worker who decides that the best way to get herself out of her doldrums will be to prepare [...]
0 comments Saturday 12 Dec 2009 | blogadmin | comedy, drama, movie reviews, recommendations
