 | Johnny Depp Excels in a Stephen King Mystery 117 out of 125 people found this review helpful
What I could call a psychological suspense akin to old Alfred Hitchcock films, "Secret Window," is based on a Stephen King novella of a different kind. The story begins with a sloppy avant ... read full review |
 | Cats An Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical 2000 DVD 116 out of 120 people found this review helpful
The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" is based upon fourteen poems from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.S. Elliot. The theme goes like this: every year the Jellico cats pick... read full review |
 | DH Lawrence's Sexually Scandalous Novel on Screen 113 out of 118 people found this review helpful
This 2005 DVD is based upon the last novel (1928) by British novelist D.H. Lawrence. In it's time it was (re)viewed as "sexually scandalous," so much so that D.H. Lawrence suffered continuously d... read full review |
 | P.U.L.S.E. Live at Earls Court 10.20.94, London 112 out of 112 people found this review helpful
When I was a Masters student in 1994, I traveled to the U. of Iowa to present at a conference. While walking outside that night over the campus bridge, all of a sudden, a burst of fabulous lights & Pink Flo... read full review |
| Johnny Depp: A Favorite Pirate for All 111 out of 113 people found this review helpful
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), is not y/our typical Errol Flynn type of machismo swashbuckling pirate; nor does he play another Disney Captain Hook. He's more like Fagan in "Oliver." And he... read full review |
 | 1968 Peter Sellers Up to His Famous Bumbling Antics 110 out of 113 people found this review helpful
Producer and Director Blake Edwards and comic actor Peter Sellers are delightfully matched up in this film about Hollywood's 1960's elitist snob culture. Sellers plays a bumbling Indian ac... read full review |
| Break Out the Violin for Streisand & Nolte 110 out of 112 people found this review helpful
Pat Conroy adapts a novel about a dysfunctional SC Southern family's traumatic events, with Barbra Streisand, into an Oscar-nominated intense role for Nick Nolte, who plays the leading man (Tom Wingo), to ... read full review |
| The Triplets of Bellville by Sylvain Chomet 109 out of 112 people found this review helpful
This drama is about French poverty in cartoon like caricatures. It won the Cannes, Telluride, & Toronto Film Festival picks in 2003. The music was nominated for an Academy Award as was the animation. Soundi... read full review |
 | Gandhi DVD 2001 VHS 1991 Winner of 9 Academy Awards 109 out of 112 people found this review helpful
The film Gandhi is more a docu-drama since actual film footage from the 1930's and 1940's Satyagrahi (truth and justice seeker) movement founded by Mohandas K. Gandhi became a truth-force for British... read full review |
 | An Apt Exposure of Bullying 109 out of 111 people found this review helpful
He was born after his mother was struck by lightning and raised by his elderly grandparents on a farm where he remained socially isolated. Powder's grandmother was his home school teacher who instilled in ... read full review |
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