Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) As I continue my trek through films inspired on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, I came to this one, which I’d seen years before but largely forgotten—which is odd, since it’s a fun movie. It’s of … Continue reading
A Finnish amateur filmmaker named Samuli Torsonnen along with a handful of his friends in Tampere (which is by weird coincidence the only Finnish city I’ve spent more than a day in) started making a series of no-budget short Star … Continue reading
Senate candidate Matt Damon has a meet-cute with modern dancer Emily Blunt in a luxury hotel men’s room. He’s trying to work on his concession speech in private and she’s hiding out from hotel security, having been caught crashing a … Continue reading
A young widow (Gene Tierney) is tired of living with her late husband’s needy mother and his obnoxious, overbearing sister, and since she has an income from her husband’s estate she decides to make a home for herself in a … Continue reading
Years have passed since Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) succeeded to the leadership of the family. Never having wanted to be a mobster in the first places, he’s gradually moved almost entirely (and very successfully) into legitimate businesses, meanwhile making a … Continue reading
The hero of this computer-animated comic western is a former pet lizard turned sheriff of a desert town populated by all sorts of animals (not just those you’d expect to see in a desert). The plot has fun with western … Continue reading
It’s Paris in the late 1920s and young Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden passageways of a Paris train station whose clocks he maintains. That’s supposed to be his uncle’s job, but when Hugo was orphaned, his father’s brother saw … Continue reading
Here’s yet another in a series of movies I’ve seen over the past few months based on or inspired by Jane Austen’s most popular novel. This one is a reasonably straightforward adaptation that features some extraordinarily beautiful photography and a … Continue reading
The original Flesh Gordon was a 1974 soft-core Flash Gordon parody with not-so-great acting and a not-so-great script, but the production values were surprisingly high for a naughty movie, with decent sets and a fair amount of Harryhausen-style stop-motion animation. … Continue reading
A wealthy Haitian plantation owner has fallen instantly in love with a beautiful young woman he’s just met. Unfortunately for him, she’s just about to get married to a handsome young man in the next day or so in a … Continue reading