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Category Archives: Drama
Classic Movies: Death on the Nile
There are two brilliant film versions of Agatha Christie‘s classic detective novel, Death on the Nile, available now and a third to be released in September of this year. The Peter Ustinov version from 1978, directed by John Guillerman, has … Continue reading
Posted in Drama, Movie, murder mystery
Tagged Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov
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First Chapter, First Paragraph & Teaser Tuesday: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
First Chapter, First Paragraph, is a meme hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea. Anyone can play — just copy the first paragraph of the first chapter (or prologue) and include a picture of the book cover. Leave your link at … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Book, Drama, fiction, Meme, Movie, Romance
Tagged Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
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Hitchcock: a movie review, 2012
If you love Alfred Hitchcock movies, you’ll probably enjoy this movie about the man and the making of his psychological thriller from 1960, Psycho! Starring Anthony Hopkins as the man himself and Helen Mirren as his wife, Hitchcock (2012) shows the man’s strengths, foibles, … Continue reading
Posted in Actor, Actress, Director, Drama, Movie, Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Janet Leigh, North By Northwest, Psycho, Robert Block, Scarlett Johansson
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Sully, a movie review
You can’t go wrong with a Tom Hanks movie! Nor can you miss with a Clint Eastwood production! Put the two together and the results are predictably amazing! Sully is the first time Eastwood and Hanks have worked together — … Continue reading
Eye in the Sky (2015), a movie review
Eye in the Sky is an amazing movie on many levels. Starring Helen Mirren as a British colonel leading an international team of anti-terrorist squads, the colonel faces a number of unknown quantities in pursuit of their mission: to hunt down and … Continue reading
Posted in Actress, Drama, Movie, Opinion, Spy, Spy Thriller, War
Tagged collateral damage, drone warfare, Helen Mirren, moral issues, terrorism
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Charly (1968), a classic movie review
Charly is based on the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. The movie won an Oscar for leading man Cliff Robertson, and although it strays a bit from the book, the movie is definitely a classic in many ways. … Continue reading
Posted in Actor, Adult Book, Drama, Futuristic, Movie, Opinion, Romance, Romance
Tagged Cliff Robertson, Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, mental retardation, surgical experimentation
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#Weekend Coffee Share March 5th, 2016
This is my first time participating in Coffee Share, hosted by parttimemonster.com but I’ve enjoyed reading the posts by others who are part of this popular meme. I don’t actually drink coffee but I’ll gladly make a cup for you, or … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Book, Christian, Drama, Meme, Musings
Tagged Abraham, Debra Clopton, Easter, Risen, Suffragette, The Young Messiah, Time Inc Special
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Harper Lee (1926 – 2016)
There will be many obituaries and tributes to Harper Lee, but I would be remiss if I let her passing go without a tribute of my own. Author of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Lee was considered to have defined … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Book, Author, Drama, Movie, Musings
Tagged Harper Lee, Monroeville Alabama, movie: Mockingbird, Pulitzer Prize, Southern racism, To Kill a Mockingbird, Truman Capote
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Downton Abbey, a Time Inc Special
By now you are probably aware that I’m a fan of these Life, Time Inc. book/magazines that feature everything from history, to style, and, in this case, culture. The immensely popular British TV series, Downton Abbey, is in its sixth and … Continue reading
Posted in Actor, Actress, Art Deco, Drama, History, Made for TV, Opinion, Romance, TV series, War
Tagged Allen Leech, Art Deco, Clive Booth, Downton Abbey, flappers, jazz, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jim Carter, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Phyllis Logan, suffragettes, The Titanic, WWI
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