Marie Antoinette (2006)

"ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" (1953) Review

Years ago, I used to watch a great deal of old pelikula on late night television. My two paborito channels that offered these pelikula were Turner Network telebisyon (TNT) and the American pelikula Classic (AMC), which used to air pelikula without any commercial breaks. On TNT, I had stumbled across a Western movie originally released sa pamamagitan ng MGM Studios in 1953 called "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" (1953) and fell in pag-ibig with it. After watching my recently purchased DVD copy of the movie, I could see why it became a paborito of mine.

Directed sa pamamagitan ng John Sturges during the...

THE MAJOR PROBLEMS OF "HEAVEN AND HELL: NORTH AND SOUTH BOOK III" (1994)

Any tagahanga of the John Jakes’ NORTH AND SOUTH trilogy would be madami than happy to tell you that the worst entry in the author’s saga about two American families in the mid 19th century was the last one, "HEAVEN AND HELL: North and South Book III". Those fans would be speaking of the 1994 telebisyon adaptation, not the novel itself. Unlike many of these fans, I do not share their low opinion of the three-part miniseries. But I will not deny that "HEAVEN AND HELL" had its share of problems. Below is a listahan of I consider...

Below is my review of the 2004 BBC miniseries, "NORTH AND SOUTH", which is an adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel:


"NORTH AND SOUTH" (2004) Review

If someone had told me years nakaraan that I would find myself watching the 2004 BBC telebisyon adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel, let alone purchase a DVD copy of the miniseries, I would have dismissed that person’s notion as inconceivable. I have never shown any nakaraan interest in ”NORTH AND SOUTH”. And I am still baffled at how I suddenly became interested in it.

Mind you, I have been aware of the 2004 miniseries for the...