Little Women (2019)
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s much-beloved and oft-adapted novel of the same name, Little Women relates the story of the four March sisters, growing up in their humble existence in 19th Century Massachusetts. Greta Gerwig...
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She-Devil (1989)
Roseanne Barr stars as Ruth Pratchett, a devoted wife to her accountant hubby Bob (Begley Jr.), and mother to two precocious children. One day while attending a swank party, Bob meets and eventually has...
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Based on the satirical 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan, which itself became so popular that it resulted in (so far) two literary sequels, the less biting and more streamlined film version of Crazy Rich Asians...
45 Years (2015)
I’ve often wondered, when reflecting on the James Cameron blockbuster, Titanic, how a woman could live to the age of 100, have been married and have children with another man, and still consider her few...
Cinderella (1950)
Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...
The One I Love (2014)
The One I Love is one of those movies that will likely hold an extra amount of enjoyment going in without any sort of knowledge, so if you haven’t seen it yet, and you like...
Before Midnight (2013)
Let me stop those interested here by telling you that, before you read this review, that I strongly recommend watching the film first. And if you haven’t seen them, you must also see Before Sunrise and Before...
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for actress Emma Thompson’s (Wit, Nanny McPhee) excellent adaptation (her first screenplay), Sense & Sensibility is the definitive film version of Jane Austen’s classic novel of 1811. Thompson herself stars...
The War of the Roses (1989)
Based on the William Adler novel, The War of the Roses, an allusion to the bloody Middle Ages battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York, is director (and co-star) Danny DeVito’s (Hoffa, Duplex) second theatrical directorial...
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Loosely adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet’s story, “The Sobbin’ Women”, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers may not make for the most believable of tales, but it has endured as one of the more beloved musical films...