This is the third screen adaptation of Jane Austen´s third novel, Mansfield Park. The screenplay was written by Maggie Wadey and Billie Piper (Secret Diaries of a Call Girl, Dr. Who) portrays the exuberant heroine Fanny Price.
The review for Mansfield Park by Masterpiece Theatre was originally written 4/14/2009 for Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Mansfield Park can now be read at Squid Flix.
“Dressing is like any worthwhile endeavour. It is an art, but also a challenge.” While I had some mending time from a root canal I watched Confession of a Shopaholic. This movie is loosely based on the successful book series of the same name by Sophie Kinsella. I haven’t read the books but I expect…
Day 3 – Gerard Gerard (Gerry) Butler that is. Love him to pieces. When it comes to actors I adore I seem to lean toward many from the UK. I do not know if it is the accents or what. Not only is he beautiful, he makes beautiful movies. He first came into my hottie…
Lionsgate Home Entertainment celebrated the twenty-two year anniversary of the film Ironweed by releasing it to DVD for the first time (coincidentally the main character returns home after twenty-two years). It is based on the William Kennedy´s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. The review for the movie Ironweed was originally written 3/9/2009…
“If one doesn’t have words, how does one think?” ~ Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999) was a prolific author and philosopher having written twenty-seven works of fiction, five philosophical books, six plays and two books of poetry. Her novel, The Sea, the Sea, won the 1978 Booker Prize. The film, Iris, is based…
Beloved for almost two hundred years, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for the afterlife of this classic novelist. New editions of her literary works are being released every year gaining new fans and delighting die-hards.
The Da Vinci Code opens as Robert Langton (Tom Hanks) is giving a lecture in Paris on symbols, his speciality. Across town, a colleague, Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is being chased through the Louvre Museum by an albino in monk dress looking for “the key”. This film review first appeared on Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The…