I've been looking forward to this one but when I found out it clocks in at just under two hours I started to worry. That's a whole lot of story to lose. I love the Julie Christie/Alan Bates version but it took time, the first time I watched it I found it too slow but visually dazzling. A few years later when I gave it…

She probably just wants to make at least one film that she can watch with her child while he's young that she's in. I love her but Lord knows none of her other work is particularly kid friendly.

The film is an interesting one if you go into it knowing that it's about despair. Gable's role was originally offered to Robert Mitchum who would have been good in it but he hadn't arrived at the weariness that Gable brings and which adds a great deal to the film. As for Marilyn she's ethereal and brings the dreamlike…

He's good in Giant, something that helped enforce his legend is that none of his three films were bad and he was strong in all of them, but I've always thought his strongest work and the best of his three films was East of Eden. More so than in Rebel where his disaffection was vague and his anger was directed in so…

I'm not much of a fan of Paltrow but this is the one place I think she really delivered a fine performance perhaps the exemplary cast made her raise her game. Sophie Thompson shamelessly steals every second of her screen time as the addlepated Miss Bates and Jeremy Northam cuts quite the dashing figure as Mr. Knightly.

I really like the Gaynor/March version and both are excellent in it but because of Judy and the utilization of all her talents I think her version is the more compelling one nor is it quite as dated but both are terrific films.

What an awful idea! If they have to remake it, and they don't, why are they basing it on the worst of the three versions? I love Streisand but her take on it was a stinking pile. The Gaynor/March movie was good but Judy's version is the gold standard and likely won't be equaled. Beyonce is a talented singer but the…

Fontaine was an okay Jane, when she was young she had that doe in the highlights thing down better then almost anybody else, but Welles really does overpower her once he enters the picture. Part of it is his physicality, he takes up the frame but his intensity is equally overpowering. Until I saw this I never saw any…

If you want to see Maggie and Diana slap each other down you have to catch Evil Under the Sun where they play old showgirl adversaries. Their interplay is quite brilliant.

I really like both Elizabeth Banks and Giamatti but the Hunter/Silver did a pretty complete coverage of the topic so what's the point.

I don't want Tom to leave damn it! Please let this be the end of any crime involving Bates and Anna! It never goes anywhere and the story always stops the episodes in their tracks. Aside from that I really enjoyed the episode. I was hoping for a scene where the oblivious Mary realizes Marigold is Edith's daughter but…

There's two you didn't mention but even thinking about them chokes me up. One is the ER episode where Carol's boyfriend Shep and his partner Raul enter a burning building to save some children and Raul is critically burned which Shep blames himself for. At the end of the episode they realize there is nothing they can…

Good choices though I'd say Pacino should have won for Dog Day Afternoon. Consolation Oscars have been around almost as long as the awards, the first I can think of is Bette Davis being awarded for Dangerous in 1935 instead of the previous year's Of Human Bondage.

I do not and never will understand the admiration for Boyhood. It's a stinking pile of pretentious goo that went on endlessly and focused on a dull lump of nothing. Most incredibly it took forever to do it, I happened to notice that it took almost the exact amount of time (165 minutes) to tell its aimless wisp of a…

I think it's terribly sad that all of them, except Tom, are more concerned with their dog being under the weather than the devastation Edith is going through. Even the usually sensitive Cora. Of course they should care that their dog, who seems to have been around since the beginning of time, is ill but your child's…

Why? Why? Why? There is zero need to remake something that was just about a perfect suspense piece to begin with. I like Sam Rockwell but just no. The original actors were all just right, how can you get better than Zelda Rubinstein as Tangina or Beatrice Straight and her big startled eyes as Dr. Lesh or JoBeth…

I can't even begin to say how happy I am to see the back of that damn Miss Bunting! Good riddance, hope she never comes back.

Love this film, it's so incredibly kinetic. DDL and Madeleine Stowe have such a great chemistry. It's so powerful it's a shame they never worked together again. The scene where she's in the surgery and as he leaves he just stares at her then she asks what he's looking at and he responds "I'm looking at you, miss." She…

Haven't seen the film but couldn't agree more about the over acknowledgement of certain actresses. Meryl Streep is a talented woman but her nomination total has been taken to a ridiculous extreme at this point. But even more than her is the recent lionization of Amy Adams who has given perhaps two worthy performances…

The show isn't great art but it's like seeing a cozy mystery played out. If you enjoy reading them the show would have its interest. Obviously some are better then others, the first couple of seasons are better then later ones. If you like famous guest stars there are a couple episodes where set in Cabot Cove where…