All posts tagged "period drama"
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THE SHADOW OF THE DAY – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
THE SHADOW OF THE DAY is a hauntingly beautiful tale of love and sacrifice in wartime, a story...
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EMILY – Review
What if Emily Bronte, the author of “Wuthering Heights” and painfully shy daughter of a parson, secretly had...
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THE PALE BLUE EYE – Review
At West Point in 1830, a cadet is found hanged, in an apparent suicide, but then the body...
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DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA – Review
The saga of the aristocratic Crawley family continues with DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA, the second movie inspired...
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MOTHERING SUNDAY – Review
What looks at first like period drama, a steamy “Downton Abbey,” set in England in the wake of...
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MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Review
Chadwick Boseman’s last performance is opposite Viola Davis in a gripping drama based on August Wilson’s play, “Ma...
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SUMMERLAND – Review
SUMMERLAND is a sweet drama set in the English countryside during WWII, about a reclusive, curmudgeonly writer who...
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LADY MACBETH – Review
Director William Oldroyd’s LADY MACBETH is not Shakespeare but it is certainly Shakespearean in its bloody mix of...
