My friend Stephanie referred to this movie as “total war porn” and she wasn’t wrong. I found the story to be mildly engaging and was interested in the amount of falling [...]
The book on which this movie is based is 748 pages, so it wasn’t very surprising to me that I had more than a few moments of “what in god’s name is happening?” This [...]
I had a rare experience of spending the first part of the move hating* this movie and then there was a slow reversal until I was completely charmed by the end. What started out as a wild [...]
The animated Cinderella was my favorite Disney film* and I wasn’t really convinced we needed a live-action entry. However, while this does not break new ground (as in Maleficent) it [...]
Stephen Sondheim’s musical styling gets on my nerves after about an hour, so that was distracting. Aside from that, this was a very fun movie with great performances by all.* It [...]
Probably the best thing I could say about this movie is that the actors all said their lines very well. I could say plenty of things that are not at all nice, but I shall not traipse in [...]
As the poster tells us, this is Bogdanovich’s attempt to bring back the screwball comedy, which, given that I can’t think of any other screwball comedies made in the 1970s, apparently [...]
Overall, this isn’t the best romantic comedy, but it scores points for originality (Live in the world of Jane Austen!) and for being funny throughout (Jennifer Coolege’s inexpertly [...]