that is. Also, as the twenty-first-century detective learns, Christmas really isn’t a thing in Victorian Scotland. It’s all about Hogmanay. But her boss, Dr. Duncan Gray, treats her to an early gift of tickets to the event of the season: a Charles Dickens reading. There, they bump...
Whisky by the drink was selling from fifteen cents for blends to twenty-five cents for bonded varieties. One of the “higher priced” stores quoted a price of $3.80 for a quart of Four Roses (roughly eighty bucks today) while you could grab a quart of Crab Orchard straight Bourbon whisky...
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Film Critic John Mosher noted the continued rise of two leading female stars, twenty-seven-year-old Katharine Hepburn and six-year-old Shirley Temple. Mosher recalled Hepburn’s recent performance in Little Women, and proclaimed that she “succeeds again” in The Little Minister. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS...
“Marvin Gaye Suite” grabbed me right off the bat with its title, but what carried me through its nine parallel sections of twenty-four end-stopped lines each was the music. Not Marvin Gaye’s–though Taggart engages this richly, along with the singer’s lyrics, his life, and his death...
Some movies are utter garbage. Then there are the two New Kids movies. New Kids, the Dutch comedy series that brought to life a group of trailerpark hooligans, is back with a sequel to 2010′s New Kids Turbo. This time around, Richard, Gerrie, Rikkert, Robbie and Barrie return to ...
You could have said everything within two pages. Text 6 So, Bill. What do you usually do on the weekend? I often go to the movies with friends on Friday night. How about you, Sarah? Well, I love seeing musical plays on Broadway with my friends. Have you been to any? Not really....
and becoming a modern household name thanks to her role as Amy Fowler inThe Big Bang Theory. But she also has an active film career in between her many television appearances. Nonetheless, it took almost twenty years for her to return to movies after starring inPumpkinhead, the 1988 cult hor...
and becoming a modern household name thanks to her role as Amy Fowler inThe Big Bang Theory. But she also has an active film career in between her many television appearances. Nonetheless, it took almost twenty years for her to return to movies after starring inPumpkinhead, the 1988 cult hor...
The Four Musketeers-1974 Director Richard Lester Starring Oliver Reed, Michael York, Faye Dunaway Scott’s Review #1,379 Reviewed July 17, 2023 Grade: B The Four Musketeers (1974) is a sequel to the film The Three Musketeers made a mere year earlier. It takes the second half of the famou...