The Apartment: Executive Privilege
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Photo: United Artists When Billy Wilder saw Brief Encounter (1945), where Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard have their rendezvous in an apartment belonging to a…
Miss Julie: A Midsummer Nightmare
Anita Björk and Ulf Palme. Photo: Sandrews In 1888, when August Strindberg offered a Stockholm publisher his new play "Miss Julie", he added a warning: "I ask you not to…
Far from Heaven
Rainer Werner Fassbinder wasn’t the only one in awe of Douglas Sirk. In this drama, Todd Haynes recreated everything from Sirk's films to perfection. One in particular in fact, All…
From Here to Eternity: Before Armageddon
Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Photo: Columbia This is what Michael Bay was aiming for when he made Pearl Harbor (2001) – a hopefully engaging romance that's suddenly interrupted by…
Wuthering Heights: Love in the Moors
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Photo: United Artists During the making of this classic, there was tension on set. Two of the stars, Merle Oberon and David Niven, had been…
Notorious: Spy Games
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…
Breaking Dawn – Part 2
After having been rescued by Edward (Robert Pattinson), Bella (Kristen Stewart) is trying to get used to her new life as a mother and a vampire, but her family is…
North and South: Book II
When we meet the Mains and Hazards again, the Northern and Southern families are pitted against each other as the Civil War unfolds; the miniseries takes us through it. Elaborate,…
Desperate Housewives: Wisteria’s Wildest
Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman. Photo: ABC I have to begin this review with a spoiler alert for those planning on watching this show in the…
North and South
In the 1840s, George Hazard (James Read) from Pennsylvania and Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) from South Carolina enroll at West Point and become friends for life… but the increasing tension…