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The marketing for Ophelia needs only one sentence to describe the film’s mission statement: “A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.” Although an intriguing way to deconstruct and reassemble a story familiar to most pe...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Claire McCarthy
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, ...
Based on limited reader response, it seems that a majority enjoyed reading The Price of Magic more than The Price of the Crown. That's okay, although I'll admit to having had more fun writing the first book than the second. The style of Magic may ...
Spoilers follow...This may be written for only a couple of hundred people, but for those of you who hung in there for all 36 days (actually 35, since I posted the final two chapters at the same time), here are some of my thoughts on the book I wrote ...
A Price Above Rubies is writer/director Boaz Yakin's follow-up to his highly-regarded, tautly-paced 1994 picture, Fresh. Sadly, little of the energy and intelligence of the earlier film is evident in this, an overwrought melodrama populated ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-03-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Boaz Yakin
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Glenn Fitzgerald, ...
For Blu-Ray, the victory in the high-def DVD format war was only the beginning of a long struggle to convert the masses from standard DVD to its 1080p counterpart. With the cash cow of the last decade showing signs of weakness, Hollywood is looking ...
Four words say all that needs to be said about Shrek the Third: more of the same. The problem is, what seems fresh and pleasing the first time through starts to feel a little stale by the time we've gone through it three times (not counting video ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-18
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui
Cast: (voices) Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, ...
It has apparently become an old-fashioned notion to believe motion pictures should be grounded in concepts like narrative and character rather than in how loudly the soundtrack plays classic rock songs and how many cuts the director can use in an ove...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-08-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Will Smith, Karen Fukuhara, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, ...
Two things become apparent when watching writer/director Michael Almereyda’s chronicle of the life of inventor Nikola Tesla. The first is that Almereyda wasn’t interested in making a straightforward, by-the-numbers biopic. By employing a c...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Distrubing Content, Nude Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, ...
For those who read The Price of the Crown, welcome back to the land of Devforth. For those who haven't, I would encourage reading the first book, but it isn't a necessity. The Price of Magic is intended to be a stand-alone, although there are ...
This column is written for the small but loyal group of readers who have forged their way through the recently serialized The Price of the Terror. Those who haven't read it or don't know what it is are welcome to continue reading, but I'm not sure ...