Foster on Film

On New Year’s Eve, a giant wave capsizes the luxury liner…wait.  It seems to be terrorists with a bomb.  Well, that’s a horrible idea.  Let me check on that.  Yup, it’s terrorists.  OK, scratch the wave.  Stereotypical Middle Eastern terrorists blast a hole in the side of the Poseidon, causing it to tip over in

A friendly and innocent country postman (Spike Milligan) is called to London where he easily surpasses his big city colleagues. Mistaken for a member of a powerful criminal organization by both the police and a lesser mob, he finds himself in the middle of a postal robbery while he romances a failed modern artist (Barbara

Major ‘Dutch’ Schaeffer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his commandos (Jesse Ventura, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves, Shane Black), along with CIA agent George Dillon (Carl Weathers), are sent deep into a South American jungle to rescue hostages.  What they find is a previous team of soldiers skinned, and an extraterrestrial hunter. One of the iconic

Near-future L.A. is in the midst of a drug war, and a predator has chosen this urban jungle as the site for his hunt.  Police Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) and his team (Rubén Blades,  Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton) are stuck in the middle.  As Mike Harrigan tries to stop this invisible killer, he

The Four Bennet Daughters (Dutch – 1961) Pride and Prejudice (1967) Pride and Prejudice (A&E – 1995) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Pride and Prejudice (BBC – 1980) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)  Pride and Prejudice: A Latter Day Comedy (2003) Bride and Prejudice (2004) Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) A classic

Anyone bothered by the changes from the novel of the versions reviewed above will enter a state of apoplexy with this one.  That doesn’t mean it isn’t charming, just different. The satire has faded away in the face of romance and humor.  This is a frothy, funny take on the material, much in the style

While this is an earlier rendition then the two discussed above, I saw no reason to cover it before the others.  I didn’t see it first, and that should count for something.  Besides, as it is dry and slow, much of the pleasure in watching comes from comparing it to the others. It is another

The 1995 adaptation, considered to be the definitive one by…well, just about everyone, isn’t a film at all, but a miniseries.  Clocking in at just over five hours, it has the time to present the intricacies of the society and relationships, similarly to how it was done in the book.  All main characters are fully

If you’ve seen Clueless, and know that it is an adaptation of Austen’s Emma, then you’ll know what the filmmakers had in mind when Elizabeth and Darcy (that’s Will Darcy) are transplanted to a Utah college town.  Mom and Dad Bennet are gone, and Elizabeth’s four sisters are now her roommates.  Darcy is a partner

I wonder if I would have reacted differently to the 2005 Pride and Prejudice if I hadn’t seen the miniseries first.  I’m used to books being chopped up and compressed when they are turned into movies, and it doesn’t bother me (they are different media, so the stories need to be told differently).  I am

Physics professor, Howard Birack (Victor Wong), brings a group of graduate students, including Brian Marsh (Jameson Parker), Catherine Danforth (Lisa Blount), and Walter (Dennis Dun), along with another colleague (Peter Jason), to an old church to aid a priest. Father Loomis (Donald Pleasence) has discovered a secret sect within the Catholic Church that has been guarding a

Fenge (Gabriel Byrne) usurps the throne of Jutland by killing his brother, King Hardvanael, and marrying his widow (Helen Mirren).  Hardvanael’s son, Amled (Christian Bale), feigns insanity, but Fenge doubts his condition and sends him to a friendly duke (Brian Cox) in England to be murdered.  Instead, the prince becomes a hero, marries an English girl