Miss Sloane movie review: what a piece of work is she
A hugely gripping thriller about politics and money that offers a grim object lesson: Are progressives and liberals gonna have to start fighting dirty?
Shakespeare in Love
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 30-Apr 5 2013
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Friday night fortune cookie: Philip Henslowe says…
“Let us have pirates, clowns, and a happy ending…”
female gazing at: Rupert Everett
Anonymous makes one long for Shakespeare in Love… and for Rupert Everett’s fantastic performance as Christopher Marlowe. And since we have not yet gazed at Everett, here he is…
female gazing at: Joseph Fiennes
I think I’m the only person who laments the failure of FlashForward, not just because it was smart science fiction drama but also for the hot FBI action we got from Joseph Fiennes: Shakespeare in what now? Just a handsome, handsome man, in a weird goofy appealing sort of way: I’m posting pictures like these … more…
question of the day: What’s your favorite cinematic adaptation of a Shakespeare play?
Another question in honor of my trip to the once hometown of the Bard and the current base of the Royal Shakespeare company: What’s your favorite cinematic adaptation of a Shakespeare play? Consider the question as broadly as you like, but keep it limited to movies adapted from the plays, not movies about Shakespeare himself … more…
May 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you dread heading to the multplex in case it’s clogged with people in Spock ears and Klingon foreheads, and anyway, Mom won’t want to beam up to the Enterprise for Mother’s Day. But you can have … more…
Shakespeare in Love (again) (review)
‘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.
Shakespeare in Love (review)
Tom Stoppard, I’ll grant you, is infinitely more clever and more talented than your run-of-the-mill fan-fiction writer. But he’s doing exactly the same thing as those hordes of writers who have continued and expanded upon the adventures of the crew of the Enterprise, the owner of the TARDIS, those two FBI agents down in the basement, and the fictional denizens of a zillion other cultish TV shows.
