by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
The water cooler talk right now is both virtual and limited: Office politics? Minimal. Sports? Crippled. Vaccinating? Don’t ask, don’t tell. So streaming media is about it. What that means is that your tennis buddy – socially distanced, each of you serving with your...
by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’ Diary The general feeling is that the 1995 BBC mini-series version of Pride and Prejudice is more or less the definitive version. Featuring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, it makes use of the extended time of a six part series in...
by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
The critics were dismissive about this show (BTW – it’s on Amazon Prime) but don’t let that deter you – it is a hoot! Yes, it’s a mashup of a Pride and Prejudice storyline and a zombiefest, but that’s the the idea, and if you can’t suspend disbelief, you probably...
by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
In the 2020 musical version of Pride and Prejudice (on Amazon Prime). Directed by Robert Kelly and produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, we find ourselves not in a movie, per se, but watching a video of a staged production. In watching the musical derivation of a...
by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
The 1940 Pride and Prejudice movie seems largely forgotten in the wave after wave of subsequent iterations, but it should not be omitted from viewing, since the lead performers Sir Lawrence Olivier and a young Greer Garson uniquely present the P&P story, and there...
by pstokstad | Aug 19, 2021 | Movie reviews
Right now I’m soldiering through every available version of Pride and Prejudice. Less certain of viewing attention are the Raft of Medusa gathering of adaptions, spinoffs, modernizations, and walking dead versions, including Bridget Jone’s Diary (“loosely based on”...
