Category: Film

  • REVIEW of Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain (BOOK vs. MOVIE!)

    REVIEW of Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain (BOOK vs. MOVIE!)

    The movie of Mr. Malcolm’s List follows generally all the same plot points as the book, except for removing some of the more outrageous scenes and trimming down the ending. But here is the major difference: the movie tries to be an actual romance and not a spoof….

  • REVIEW of Bridgerton (Netflix, 2020) and TOP TEN THINGS I learned from Bridgerton

    REVIEW of Bridgerton (Netflix, 2020) and TOP TEN THINGS I learned from Bridgerton

    TOP TEN THINGS I LEARNED FROM BRIDGERTON: * If you are a young lady, and anyone anywhere says anything about you, you will be ruined forever! * Men can do whatever they want. And women can’t. And life is unfair. * Rolling up your sleeves is a breathtakingly alluring activity….

  • REVIEW of The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix, 2020)

    REVIEW of The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix, 2020)

    The Queen’s Gambit tells the story of orphaned Beth Harmon, sent to live at the ultra-religious Methuen home for girls after the death of her mother in the 1950s. At the age of nine, she learns to play chess from the janitor, Mr. Shaibel, and immediately finds that she has an extraordinary talent for it.…

  • REVIEW of Emma (Focus Features, 2020)

    REVIEW of Emma (Focus Features, 2020)

    Before the world was quarantined with COVID-19, I did something I have never done before. I went to the movie theater…by myself. Now, some of you (my husband being one) may fly solo at the movies all the time, but for me it was an entirely new experience. After a long day of teaching, I wanted…

  • REVIEW of Emma (BBC Film, 2009)

    REVIEW of Emma (BBC Film, 2009)

    Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content to live in Highbury, managing the house for her hypochondriacal father. As the foremost lady of village society, she has no need to marry to be a person of consequence. But where others are concerned, she enjoys a bit of matchmaking, and after she predicts that her governess Miss Taylor…

  • REVIEW of Outlaw King (Netflix Film)

    REVIEW of Outlaw King (Netflix Film)

    The Scottish rebellion has failed. William Wallace is in hiding, and Robert the Bruce watches in helpless acquiescence as his father and the other Scottish nobles make peace with their English enemy King Edward. Forced to marry Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of an English nobleman, Robert watches in stony despair as his country endures further…

  • REVIEW of Watership Down (Netflix TV Show)

    REVIEW of Watership Down (Netflix TV Show)

    Hazel’s little brother Fiver has had a vision–their rabbit warren at Sandleford is about to be destroyed and the rabbits must emigrate to a new home before it is too late. Laughed at by most of the group, Hazel leads a small group of buck rabbits away from the tragedy about to strike. Treading a…

  • REVIEW of Ekaterina: The Rise of Catherine the Great (TV Series)

    REVIEW of Ekaterina: The Rise of Catherine the Great (TV Series)

    What did it take for a woman to rule the ruthless world of Russia in the eighteenth century? In Ekaterina, a Russian-made miniseries, we see the journey of the young and naive German princess Friederike as she is forged into the strong and savvy woman who would rule Russia as Catherine the Great. As the…

  • REVIEW of Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (DVD)

    My favorite part about being home schooled was all the time I had to read. I was an avid reader throughout high school. Every time my mom found a new booklist of recommended classics, I would pore over it, find the titles I hadn’t yet read, and order them through the library. Anything under a…