Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" is an adaptation of critically acclaimed novelist Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel about a decades' long romantic obsession. The story begins in Cartagena, Colombia in 1879, [...]
All right, kids. This ain't your grandpa's "Beowulf." Most everyone is familiar with the epic, Old English poem, if for no other reason than that it was required reading in their high school English class. While the poem has become [...]
Since winning Academy Awards for writing "Million Dollar Baby" and Best Picture and Screenplay for 2004's excellent drama "Crash", Paul Haggis has been a very busy man. He also wrote the recent James Bond blockbuster "Casino [...]
Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone" is one of the most unexpected directorial debuts of 2007. Having persevered through an acting career that has had its share of success and, more recently, failure, Affleck has hit back with a vengeance with [...]
Over the last few years Jane Austen's life and very respected library of works have received a lot of attention in cinema. We have "Pride and Prejudice", "The Hours", "Miss Potter" and many others, in fact I recently [...]
In the years since her great box office success in "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Others, " Nicole Kidman has seen a steady decline in mainstream popularity as she has opted for smaller films, such as "Dogville" and [...]
Robin Swicard's first commercial feature film "The Jane Austin Book Club" is one of those films some people would hesitate picking up based on the title and perhaps the boxcover. Especially, like myself, if you aren't familiar with the [...]
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard was one of the pioneers of the French New Wave, a movement in French cinema that emphasized naturalism over classical cinematic form and broke away from conventional structure with innovative and daring [...]
Following the success of the 1998 film "Elizabeth, " which brought actress Cate Blanchett to everyone's attention, director Shekhar Kapur and writer Michael Hirst returned to 15th century England almost 10 years later to create the sequel, [...]
All of you obsessive David Cronenberg fans can rejoice, one of his films is finally released in high definition with the release of "Eastern Promises" on HD-DVD Combo format. The Canadian director's filmography is legendary among fans of [...]
