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Posted on 07.10.02 by HTQ4 @ 5:59 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.   Film: Written by: John Mortimer based on the book by Evelyn Waugh Features:
Released by: Acorn Media My Advice: Rent it, if you like period dramas Charles Ryder (Irons) is a melancholy British army officer in 1944. He has been assigned to move his brigade headquarters to a new location, a magnificent castle called Brideshead, the former home of the Marchmain family. Upon seeing Brideshead, he is swept back in time to his youth in 1922 when he was a student at Oxford. While there he meets Sebastian (Andrews), the youngest son of the Marchmain family. Sebastian takes him into the world of the privileged and introduces him to unbridled pleasures and charm. Charles is welcomed into the Marchmain family, despite Sebastian's displeasure. Over the next twenty-two years, Charles plays an integral role in the Marchmain family affairs. He evolves from Sebastian's dearest companion, to Sebastian's sister Julia's (Quick) fiance. He begins his journey with this family as a modest student and develops into an architectural painter, then to an army officer. Throughout the decades, he battles with his own struggles with being an agnostic as compared to the Marchmain family's devout Catholicism. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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Posted on 07.05.02 by Widge @ 5:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Film: Written by: Andrew Davies, based on the novel by Jane Austen Features:
Released by: A&E My Advice: Rent it. Emma (Beckinsale) fancies herself a matchmaker. She gets an idea into her head as to who should be hooked up with whom and she just pushes things in that direction. So far, she's been doing all right, but her luck is about to change. She sets her sights on Harriet (Morton) and the local religious head burrito Mr. Elton (Dominic Rowan) much to the dismay of her lifelong friend and verbal sparring partner, Mr. Knightley (Strong). Then there's the matter of Frank Churchill (Coulthard), who she's been wanting to meet for some time and has now shown up. Will Mr. Churchill be the one to finally win Emma's heart? Or will the almost disgustingly perfect Jane Fairfax (Williams) beat her out for Mr. Churchill? Or Mr. Knightley? Or...I don't know, somebody. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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Posted on 04.30.02 by Widge @ 5:47 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Film: Starring Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer Features:
Released by: Warner Brothers My Advice: Rent it. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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Posted on 04.19.02 by Widge @ 2:00 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Film: Directed by John Howard Davies & Bob Spiers Features:
Released by BBC Home Video My Advice: Grab It. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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Posted on 08.21.01 by Widge @ 2:41 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Film: Written by: Simon Moore Features:
Released by: Acorn Media My Advice: Rent it. Drugs and the people who take them and the war being waged on those people. It's a big story to be told, with many different sides to deal with--and none of them are pretty. Submitted for your approval: a British government minister (Paterson) assigned to deal with Pakistan, a terrific exporter of heroin to all of Europe; a woman (Duncan) who discovers that the way by which her husband (Knut Hinz) finances their good life is through trafficking the stuff; an opium farmer (Shah) driven out of his given trade by a government who wants to prove to the Brits that they are deserving of monetary aid. How these people's lives interact with one another across international lines and how they are all affected by humanity's need to leave one's cares behind forms the backbone for one helluva sprawling epic. Categorized as: Reviews and TV
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