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From the Past

Films on the to-do list

  • Armageddon Time
  • Black Widow
  • Chimes at Midnight
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Last Christmas
  • Remember Sunday
  • Shazam! 2
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Spy Guys

Category: Reviews

Raising Helen (2004)

Film review: Raising Helen (2004), directed by Garry Marshall A dreadfully light-hearted poster for a not that light-hearted film. In Raising Helen, we meet Helen

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Film review: Sherlock Holmes (2009), directed by Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes can perhaps best be described as a Victorian romp. Starring the ever

Valkyrie (2008)

Film review: Valkyrie (2008), directed by Bryan Singer It’s been a while since we saw this film now, but seeing it on a shelf in

Jane Eyre (1949)

The NBC University Theater presents Deborah Kerr (finally a properly English-accented Jane Eyre, believe it or not!) and Whitfield Connor. Runtime’s 59:12, first broadcast 3

Jane Eyre (1972 & 1991)

I’m bunching these two radio adaptations together, even though they are completely different productions with different cast and different scripts, done nearly two decades apart.