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This movie is my fourth adaptation I have watched of perhaps Dickens' greatest novel. The other are: the 1946 David Lean movie, a 1989 mini-series produced for Disney Channel, and a BBC mini-series from 1999. The movie versions in order to keep the run time at or below 2 hours takes a butcher's cleaver to the novel. This has involved the elimination of subplots and minimizing secondary characters, for example, Orlick being written out. I fell in love with this adaptation. There is almost a dream like quality about this movie perhaps due to the cinematography and soundtrack. The two...

After issuing a decree banning commoners from celebrating in Times Square on New Year’s eve, Democrat Mayor Bill De Blasio and his wife took advantage of the vacated space to “dance and celebrate on behalf of those who can’t.” “Normally, it would have been unsafe for us to have done this,” the Mayor explained. “Between the press of a dense crowd of potentially diseased COVID carriers and the risk that hotheads who find fault with the repressions necessary to contain the pandemic might accost us, Chirlane and I could never have dared to make an appearance. But with police on...

I have watched this wonderful adaptation of the Dickens novel free for Amazon Prime members many times. You know this is going to be an experience from the opening sequence; one of the most well done I have ever seen. This was going to top notch as the screenplay was written by the King of the Period Drama Andrew Davies. As I mentioned before in regards to Dickens, you go on an emotional roller coaster. The Amazon version is seven episodes with a total run length of around 6 hours. The extended length allows the wide plethora of secondary characters...

I've been watching some Netflix Original movies over the Christmas break, and I see a new disturbing trend creeping into their movies.I know it's been the mission of Netflix to break down taboos in order to make Americans feel uncomfortable, and therefore more compliant, to the Left who keep pushing more and more boorish behavior into the public square.The latest taboo barrier to desensitize seems to be repeated use of the female "c word" in their movies. It's becoming the new "f word" to express frustration, exasperation, or just plain contempt, in their plot lines. This used to be off-limits...

I was on YouTube just wasting time before midnight to start the new year. As a side note, I am the Ebenezer Scrooge of New Year. I hate this "holiday" because I feel like I have to "celebrate" and the only thing I associate the night with is debauchery. I saw this period drama I have never heard of before pop up on recommended videos. Watching this appeared much more preferable to sitting on the couch listening to the Bidens and watching musicians I do not care one iota for. This period drama is "East Lynne" based on a novel...

Dawn Wells, the real-life Mary Ann Summers of “Gilligan’s Island,” was just as sunny and down-to-earth off-screen as she was on-screen, her co-star Tina Louise, the show’s only surviving cast member, told The Post Wednesday. Louise, who played the indelible flame-haired Ginger Grant on the CBS show, spoke fondly of Wells, who died at age 82 Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling COVID-19. “I’m very sad,” said Louise, who infamously declined to appear in revivals and reboots or discuss the show over the decades since it ended in 1967. “Dawn was a very wonderful person. I want people to remember...

I remember seeing commercials for this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic, if me memory was right, on CBS. I thought it quite weird at the time that one of the the major broadcasters would even put a Brit period drama on a primetime slot when that was the exclusive purview of PBS. The novel does have a special place in my soul. When I first read it 30 years ago, I was awestruck by Hardy's introduction of the raven haired bewitching beauty Eustacia Vye. I have never read anything since that is as romantic and dramatic of an introduction...

When I saw news articles come out that the BBC was going to produce a new version of "War of the Worlds" that takes place during the Edwardian period I was quite excited. To get technical, HG Wells' book was published as a serial in 1898 when Queen Victoria was still alive. As a cherry on top the gorgeous Eleanor Tomlinson was cast as the main female lead. I was so excited to see Miss Tomlinson in Edwardian finery. Well I caught the mini-series via someone a pirated copy on YouTube and what a bitter disappointment it was. The story...

Maybe some of my Freeper acquaintances have noticed I have decided to just post items regarding period dramas from the Regency to Edwardian periods. To be totally honest, my psychological back broke weeks ago as I just have enough with the world we live in. My attitude is Let it Burn. So instead of joining a monastery, I decided to just focus on things that bring me joy. One aspect of that is I finally am taking advantage of my Amazon Prime status and am catching up on all the wonderful content available. Being interested in period dramas I have...

Ricky Ricardo is attacked by feral covid mask.

I remember watching this movie when it was broadcast on TV during my youth. Perhaps this helped plant a seed for my later and current obsession with the Victorian Era. I re-watched on Christmas morning as the other members of the family were still asleep. In my mind, this is the best adaptation of the Dickens story. I know there are those who say the Alastair Sims version is the best. George C. Scott owns Scrooge. He plays him as not as an inherently wicked man but as someone whose life was broken as a boy and when it comes...

Back in 2017 when Wonder Woman came out my first reaction was that DC needed to give Patty Jenkins the keys to their movie-making department and let her run all of the franchises. That movie was that good. I’ve just finished watching Wonder Woman 1984. My first reaction? We should take those keys back.

The family and I watched this movie on Christmas Eve night based on a book "The Man Who Invented Christmas" released in 2017 via Amazon Prime. It is the story of how Charles Dickens saved his career as a novelist by writing "A Christmas Carol". As with a Dickens novel, one experiences the whole range of emotions from joy to sadness. The movie goes into detail about the personal demons Dickens was suffering from when his father went into debtors prison and Dickens was forced to work in a boot blackening factory at the age of 12. How this experienced...

For Christmas in 1997, my mother gave me the VHS set of the Original Trilogy of Star Wars Initially, I stuck my nose up at it as Star Wars was for dorks. After being coerced into watching “A New Hope” I quickly jumped into “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi.” I must have watched those movies over a dozen times during the coming weeks and months. As the prequels came out I remember going to the movies right after school to watch “The Phantom Menace” (yes I know it was garbage, but at the time, we were...

The audio of Tom Cruise’s profanity-laced tirade about social distancing and COVID-19 on the set of Mission Impossible 7 was dubbed into Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and it’s the laugh you probably need this month. Tom Cruise’s temper tantrum on the movie set of Mission Impossible 7 caused a lot of commotion. He’s an A-List star and he wants everyone to obey. However, he didn’t believe they were practicing appropriate social distancing.

George Clooney wants you to know that if you don’t agree with his stance on mask etiquette, you are a “dumba**.” The Batman star told radio shock jock Howard Stern all about how the government forcing anyone to cover up their face is NOT a violation of their freedom. Clooney has a long history of “Hollywood-splaining” to the average American. The Hollywood elite likes to fancy himself as an average guy from Kentucky, but the basic fact is that he is all left coast liberal.

Former “Will & Grace” star Debra Messing has been forced to apologize after she received tons of backlash for posting a tweet in which she indicated that she wanted to see President Donald Trump be violated in prison. Debra Messing Launches Vile Attack On Trump It all started last week, when Messing posted a tweet that has since been deleted in which she used a tweet praising the leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to attack Trump in the worst way possible.

Has anyone noticed the change in television advertisement over the last few months. Most noticeably, the % of blacks, gays, transgenders and mixed race married couples featured Practically every commercial ad anymore has a black person, couple, child etc. represented. Blacks make up 13.4% of the US population yet if you were an alien from another planet and asked to guess what it actually was from television spots you would assume it's at least 50%! Same with mixed race couples.....Every third ad with couples features a mixed black/white union when in reality the actual % of such situations is ~...

Newsmax TV has scored a historic, first-ever ratings victory over Fox News Channel, according to a CNN Business report. The notable win came this week in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic prized by advertisers, when the “Greg Kelly Reports” show topped Fox’s “The Story with Martha MacCallum.” Kelly’s show averaged 229,000 viewers compared to MacCallum’s which averaged 203,000. “Before the election, Newsmax was not regarded as a formidable competitor to Fox; it was mostly dismissed as one of a handful of wannabe challengers,” the CNN writeup states. “But President Trump’s loss on November 3 changed the cable TV calculus.”...

Natalie Portman is one of the few child stars who managed to stay on a good path and transition to a successful acting career as an adult. Being sexualized by Hollywood at a tender age, however, left the Oscar-winning Best Actress with scars according to a candid chat with Dax Shepard of “Parenthood” fame. In a new interview, the Black Swan actress reveals how coming of age in Hollywood – and coming out healthy on the other side – was far from easy for her. Natalie Portman says that being “sexualized as a child” actress by the media took a...