A little slow at the end, but mostly fun. It might even be more fun to compare and contrast Seattle then and Seattle now for people who know the city. I didn’t know that Beau Bridges was [...]
Proof that Gwenneth Paltrow deserved her best actress award, she plays her character with a good sprinkling of unsteadiness. Hope Davis also rocks her role as controlling older sister and Jake [...]
I spent the first disk of this miniseries not getting the whole Mr. Darcy (he’s kind of a snotty jerk) thing. This made the “getting” the Mr. Darcy thing in disk two that much [...]
I’m not the biggest fan of the movies as they cannot possibly include all that the books do, but I found this quite a good adaptation. This goes to prove what I’ve been saying: books [...]
I watched this in preparation for the Cohen Brothers’ remake and I have to say I enjoyed it. It was a bit slow, in that pre-Mtv movie way, but was amusing. Kim Darby was right on the age of [...]
I confess that I confused this with Everything is Illuminated and so was confused for the first twenty minutes until I just let it go. Overall, I found this con man caper a little slow, but there [...]
A well-crafted, tense “scary movie,” it had it all: creepy things happening; sympathetic main character; awful, unsympathetic other character. I enjoy scary movies that rely on very [...]
In a group setting, the job of the person who has seen the movie before is to sit quietly, with a Cheshire Cat grin on his or her face, while everyone else experiences the movie. The job of said [...]