It is 1922 in the American South when The Color Purple opens with two African American sisters, Nettie and Celie Harris (oldest) playing joyfully in a field of flowers. Fourteen year old Celie is pregnant for the second time by her father. When she gives birth her father takes it away.
My review for the movie The Color Purple was first posted 6/17/2009 at Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of The Color Purple can now be read at SquidFlix.
I love Jimmy Fallon. Not in the “I want to have sex” with him sense but in the he makes me “laugh my ass off” sense. If you do not know Mr. Fallon he is a American comedian / impersonator from Saturday Night Live and Fever Pitch with Drew Barrymore. He is all over the…
The Le Mystรจre Seamless Bra has been mentioned repeatedly on Oprah’s TV show and in her magazine over the years and is probably one of the best looking bras out there. Not because it is really all that sexy but because it does some marvellous shaping under t-shirts and other form fitting clothing. And Oprah…
In Seattle, Washington lives Eleanor (Joely Richardson) Dunston, a lovely, sweet and lonely heiress with terminal cancer. She hires Cynthia (Molly Parker) to take care of her in her in the end stages of her life. This review was published on 6/7/2007 at Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The full review of Under Heaven can now be…
Atticus Fitch is a widowed father of two children; Jean Louis (Mary Badham) who goes by the nickname Scout is 6 years old and her brother Jeremy Atticus (Phillip Alford) who goes by the nick name Jem is 10 years old.
The Da Vinci Code opens as Robert Langton (Tom Hanks) is giving a lecture in Paris on symbols, his speciality. Across town, a colleague, Jacques Sauniere (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is being chased through the Louvre Museum by an albino in monk dress looking for “the key”. This film review first appeared on Literary Fiction, BellaOnline. The…
“Dressing is like any worthwhile endeavour. It is an art, but also a challenge.” While I had some mending time from a root canal I watched Confession of a Shopaholic. This movie is loosely based on the successful book series of the same name by Sophie Kinsella. I haven’t read the books but I expect…