Posts Tagged ‘Maggie Smith’
Film Review – Little Women (2019)
This is how you do it. Film adaptations of classic pieces of literature are so common we all take them for granted. And in the case of some works like this one, it feels like there have been so many versions created at this point…
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Film Review – Downton Abbey
It’s at this point where I must make a troubling confession: I’ve never seen an episode of the television show, Downton Abbey. I was well aware of it while it was on air and of its popularity. There were a few elements that I gathered…
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Film Review – My Old Lady
Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady (2014) plays a trick on its audience. Posters and advertisements would have us believe that this is another sweet, fluffy European comedy in the same vein as Quartet (2012) or this year’s The Hundred-Foot Journey. But Horovitz (who wrote and…
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Film Review – Quartet
Where do you think great musical artists go once old age hits and their career takes the downslide? According to Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet (2012), they all go to a retirement home, play wonderful music, and get into all sorts of hijinks. That’s both the beauty…
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Episode 192 – DVD Rundown 10-2-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for October 2nd, 2012. In this episode they discuss Dark Shadows, Downton Abbey, People Like Us, and Universal Classic Monsters.
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