 | A Man for All Seasons [Read More ...] Description: Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as ... |
 | Persuasion [Read More ...] Description: Movie adaptations of Jane Austen's classic novels were all the rage (relatively speaking) in the mid-1990s. Clueless updated Austen's Emma, which was more conventionally adapted in another version (Emma) starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Emma was produced yet again, this time for British... |
 | The Forsyte Saga, Series 1 [Read More ...] Description: Granada Television's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga achieved the seemingly impossible in spring 2002, matching the BBC's 35-year-old black-and-white classic version with a richly cast and superbly directed take on John Galsworthy's first two novels. The success of these six 90-mi... |
 | The Red Baron [Read More ...] Description: The incredibly prolific exploitation film producer and director, Roger Corman, tries his hand at a war film with Von Richthofen and Brown, about WWI air battles between German icon Baron Manfred Von Richtofen (John Phillip Law), and his alleged captor, Canadian Lt. Roy Brown (Don... |
 | A Man For All Seasons [Read More ...] Description: Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as ... |
![]() | Excalibur [Read More ...] Description: This lush retelling of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a dark and engrossing tale. Director John Boorman (Deliverance) masterfully handles the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of Englan... |
 | Excalibur [Read More ...] Description: This lush retelling of the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a dark and engrossing tale. Director John Boorman (Deliverance) masterfully handles the tale of the mythical sword Excalibur, and its passing from the wizard Merlin to the future king of Englan... |
![]() | Close Your Eyes (2002) (Spanish) [Read More ...] Review: Don't Close Your Eyes Or You'll Fall Asleep:Somebody just woke me up to give this review. I fell asleep watching this movie because it was so boring, but I did rewind to finish it so I could give a fair review. It's a story about a hypnotist who is helping the cops track down a s... |