MM Film Blog

Phillipa Gregory's novel receives its second film treatment with The Other Boleyn Girl, the first being a TV movie in 2003. A strong cast, stunning costumes, and juicy drama make this film very entertaining, even if not historically accurate. It is after all based on a novel, and does not claim to be biographical.

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Disney's latest offering Enchanted is extremely clever, loads of fun, and of course, thoroughly enchanting. Combining animation with real life actors, Enchanted starts with a classic fairytale and turns it upside down, literally. In Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass fashion, our heroine falls down a well and turns up -- where else? -- coming out of a manhole in New York's Times Square!

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Cate Blanchett gives a strong performance in the title role of Gillian Armstrong's romantic World War II drama Charlotte Gray, as a Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance.

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First, I have to admit that I am quite partial to British films. And among those, anything adapted from a Jane Austen novel is bound to be high on the list. And of those, Pride and Prejudice is among the best of the best. This 1995 television version directed by Simon Langton (of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) is first rate -- it is probably the best of all of the many versions of what is likely Austen's most popular novel.

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The young adult novel by Ann Brashares is beautifully adapted to the silver screen. Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Russ Tamblyn), Alexis Bledel (The Gilmore Girls), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), and Blake Lively (yes, that's her birth name) portray the four teens who share a pair of pants and much more in this delightful coming of age story. Friends since birth (when their mothers met in an aerobic class for pregnant mothers), the girls happen upon a magical pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly, despite their varying sizes. About to be split apart for the summer for the first time, they vow to take turns wearing the pants, each for one week. The girls expect great things to occur while wearing these magical pants. However, at first they seem to get the opposite results. Or do they?

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