Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice.


MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN

1994
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont (based on the novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley) 

Spoilers: inapplicable, right?

Sunday, August 27, 2023

My dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?


MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

1993
Written and directed by Kenneth Branagh (based on the play by William Shakespeare)

Spoilers: moderate unto highand I'm kind of serious, it's not one of the ones they make you read in high school, you know?

Monday, August 21, 2023

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill


BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA

1992
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by James V. Hart (based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker's Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker)

Spoilers: high?

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Auld acquaintance


PETER'S FRIENDS

1992
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Rita Rudner and Martin Bergman

Spoilers: mild

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Karmically, self-defense is quite cool


DEAD AGAIN

1991
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Scott Frank

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, August 4, 2023

Doctor Manhattan


OPPENHEIMER

2023
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

Spoilers: N/A