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Like a New England version of Northern Exposure, The Love Letter is full of intriguingly offbeat characters — from the nosy postmistress to the suspicious cop to Helen’s dotty grandmother (Titanic’s Gloria Stuart) to Miss Scattergoods (Geraldine McEwan), who works at the local historical society — with their own romantic secrets. Unsentimental and wonderfully modest, The Love Letter is that rare pleasure: a prickly yet succulent romantic comedy.
Honestly, I’d pay cash money to see either Liam Neeson or Ewan McGregor on his own read from the phone book, and the two of them together is almost too delicious to bear.
So this chick, right, she breaks into these guys’ house, and, like, *cleans* it for them…
I saw a rerelease of *Fantasia* in Radio City Music Hall when I was probably 6 or 7, and the ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ sequence scared the bejeezus out of me. It still does.
You know that fourth Indiana Jones movie for which we’ve been waiting ten years? Well, here it is. From its wowser of an opening in ancient Egypt to the spectacular finale featuring an army of reanimated, bandage-dripping soldiers, The Mummy is a totally enthralling, nonstop thrill ride, the best popcorn flick in years, the purest fun I’ve had at the movies since I can’t remember when.
The cannons don’t thunder. The nagging feeling that life today is not as exciting as it once might have been has got to be part of why A&E’s Hornblower series has been so much fun. ‘When we put on this uniform, Mr. Hornblower,’ Horatio’s Capt. Pellew tells the young man, ‘we entered into a life of adventure and adversity.’ Our Hero is terribly upset and looking for reassurance that he’s chosen the right path for himself when Pellew offers this nugget, and though it seems to soothe Horatio only a little, I gotta say, adventure and adversity sounds like fun to me.
But guess what? Horatio Hornblower is a fictional character. And Ioan Gruffudd is an actor. On television. He lives and works thousands of miles away from you. You are not ever going to meet him. He is not going to leave his wife or his girlfriend or his boyfriend or his dog to turn up on your doorstep. He is not going to read your panting posting with a gasp and say to himself, ‘Where has this woman been all my life?’ It ain’t gonna happen.
Gene Roddenberry is said to have based much of Capt. James T. Kirk on C.S. Forester’s Napoleonic War hero Horatio Hornblower. I can’t say that I see much of Kirk in the young Hornblower A&E’s four-part movie series is showing us. In fact, The Fire Ship, the second in the series, has him behaving a decidedly un-Kirk-like manner.
The cable network A&E’s Horatio Hornblower movie series showcases Ioan Gruffudd in his first leading role (previously, he was seen as the sailor who pulls Rose from the frigid ocean in Titanic), and he comports himself nicely as C.S. Forester’s British naval hero (though of necessity he must lose his Welsh accent in favorite of an English one). The Duel is the first of four movies A&E will air in April 1999, all loosely based on Forester’s 1950 book Mr. Midshipman Hornblower.
‘Love and a bit with a dog,’ that’s all audiences want, according to Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), owner of London’s Rose Theater. A bit of romance, a bit of comedy — isn’t that really all that movie audiences, too, are after? Shakespeare in Love has both in spades, and it’s the first film of its kind to win Best Picture since 1977’s Annie Hall.
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