Movie Reviews
INSPECTOR MORSE: THE DEAD OF JERICHO/THE MYSTERY OF MORSE–DVD I appreciated seeing the first episode of this long-running series adapting Colin Dexter’s fine novels. Seeing how the characters and their relationships were introduced and begun to be developed is helpful to as I now catch-up with the rest of my Morse education. The accompanying documentary,…
THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE–DVD. Novels, the source material, are best and most complete. I watched the performances in this DVD, not having read the novel or seen the original movie in some years. Still…so much is here, regardless of the material deleted. How marvelous to see the younger Oprah Winfrey of 1988 when this…
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST–DVD We get what we bring. This principle is brilliantly illustrated in the responses to Daughters of the Dust in its Amazon reviews. Julie Dash’s brilliant and ground-breaking independent film is too good to dismiss. True, Dash’s film takes some effort because it uses non-traditional story-telling techniques rather than the ones we…