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The movie won for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction and was nominated for Best Picture (Hamlet won), Best Original Screenplay (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre won), and Best Film Editing (The Naked City won). I like knowing how a movie fits in the time period it was released. The plot is reminiscent…
American bookstore ninja/Darcy fangirl runs into Mr. Darcy in modern times on his own turf. Hi-jinks ensue. It’s amazing the impact Jane Austen has had on literature, how many times her storylines have been retold and redone even today. I’m not a hopelessly obsessive fangirl, but I do recognize her significance to literature and women’s…
I was interested in this film because Girls Aloud did a couple of songs on their soundtrack: “Theme to St Trinians” and “On My Way to Satisfaction.” Both were such great songs, I wanted to know how they worked within the context of the movie. I loved it, from beginning to end. I wasn’t sure…
I first heard about the story from a Babysitter’s Club book. True story. I think it was from one of Stacey’s books. So when I saw it at my used bookstore, Twice Sold Tales, I snapped it up for cheap. Patricia Ann Bergen is a 12-year-old Jewish girl living in wartime Arkansas. I guess it…
Originally published September 29, 2009 Being an American of Asian descent and an avid student of classic Hollywood, Flower Drum Song was on my must-watch list for many years. It’s known as being the only musical meant for an all Asian American cast. Notice I didn’t hyphenate. Several of the characters were presented as Americans…
I have come to accept that with book to movie adaptations, things will be tweaked, left out, or over-dramatized when they meant little to the plot of the book. The film version of Memoirs of a Geisha barely captured the spirit of the book, and there was plenty left out that could’ve been added to…
Originally published December 30, 2008 What I liked most about “Catfights” were the little stories that each song told. Rather than being an all-encompassing theme speaking about fame or their relationship with each other (as implied by the title), each song was unique. I was sad to learn that they won’t tour “Catfights” because some…
Originally published February 7, 2009 At 26, Drew Seeley is too old to be playing high school characters. Guess that comes with the territory of being signed to Disney, being Zac Efron’s singing voice in the first High School Musical and releasing your songs on every Disney soundtrack imaginable. Their disparity in ages kinda freaked…
Originally published August 26, 2008 I wasn’t sure how they were gonna fit all the Abba songs into Mamma Mia with the information that I knew about the show beforehand, but they did it! And it was really good! It’s definitely for adults. There was mild adult language (when Donna says “holy shit” during the…
Originally published May 8, 2009 I’m not going to lie. The only reason I watched this movie was that Daniel Henney was the male lead in the movie. The film was spoken primarily in Korean, with Henney speaking in English. The copy I got was subtitled in English. His chemistry with Uhm Jung-hwa (Min-Joon) was…