Articles tagged "janet mcteer"![]() TV DVD ReviewSense & Sensibilityby Lara Killian[9.May.08] :. A dramatic Devonshire setting, a feminist younger sister, and a wet shirt wood-chopping scene: a few details are frankly invented, but for the most part this new adaptation is true to Austen's novel. ![]() Film DVD ReviewThe Intended (2002)by Preston Jones[2.Feb.05] :. Its handheld verité style pulls viewers uncomfortably close to this band of humans struggling to survive their surroundings, as well as each other. ![]() Film ReviewWaking the Dead (2000)by Cynthia FuchsWaking the Dead opens with a television image. In 1974, young Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is watching the news, when he sees that his girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) has been killed in a car bomb explosion (reportedly engineered by 'terrorists,' that all-purpose contemporary cultural monster). ![]() Film ReviewWaking the Dead (2000)by P. Nelson ReinschThough some viewers might not compare producer-director Keith Gordon to John Huston as adaptors of literature to film, Gordon makes films which are regularly praised for their 'faithful' transfer of literary texts. ![]() Film ReviewTumbleweeds (1999)by Renee Scolaro RathkeIn Tumbleweeds, Gavin O'Connor (who, besides starring in and directing the film, also wrote and produced it) presents us with a variation on the road-trip-buddy movie. While it's true that, after the likes of Thelma and Louise and Boys on the Side, the woman's version of this once typically male-only genre is no longer novel, O'Connor attempts to switch things up a bit by making his best friend protagonists mother and daughter. |
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