I don’t watch a lot of family-friendly children’s films any more but I’m glad I spent some time watching Paddington, the story of how an English-speaking bear from “darkest Peru” arrives in London searching for a new family. I was […]
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Jupiter Ascending (2015) ☆ 1/2
Space operas, in movie parlance, are fairly rare these days. They are science fiction stories that involve other worlds, intergalactic romance and adventure, mighty feats of derring-do, intriguing technology and epic parameters. The most popular of all space operas is, […]
Continue reading »Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) ☆ ☆ ☆
Many, many movies have attempted to cash in on the James Bond cinematic phenomena over the years by emulating, parodying, copying, satirizing or, as in this case, outdoing the Bond cadre. Some of those imitators and descendants have been pretty […]
Continue reading »Wuthering Heights (1939) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our first potential classic of 2015 is another one of 1939’s Best Picture nominees: William Wyler’s romantic melodrama (produced by Samuel Goldwyn, who often claimed the movie as his own) Wuthering Heights, which was based upon the first sixteen chapters of […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Anchors Aweigh (1945) The Fortune Cookie (1966) Juggernaut (1974) The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Wuthering Heights (1939) I chose Wuthering Heights because I […]
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