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Robin Hood
Danny Webb, Conrad Asquith

20th Century Fox, 2004

This is for the PATRICK BERGIN version, NOT the Kevin Costner version!!!

+ Best Robin Hood EVER!!!
+ Fair. Not the best Robin Hood movie, but fair.
+ This is really, really good
+ Best Robin Hood Movie of its Generation
  
  











  



  
Vanity Fair (Widescreen)
Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai

Universal Studios, 2005

Wonderful period piece

+ Go Reese!

I liked the movie alot. I love period movies and this is the third on my list.
  
  











  



  
Sleepy Hollow
Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci

Paramount Home Video, 2000

Perfect Halloween Movie

+ Great Movie, poor Blu ray transfer
+ Great Blu-ray Experience
+ One of Tim Burton's most visually striking films
  
  











  



  
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
George Asprey, Alfred Bell

Sony Pictures, 1998

Branagh is a Genius, plain and simple.

+ Truest Rendition of the Shelley Classic Yet!
+ Artistically true to Shelley's classic!

There is a grand mad excess that triumphs in this film, overriding any of its faults. I go back to it again and again to revel in the brilliant acting, the dazzling photography, and the deliberate and bold intensity. It is very true to Mary Shelley's masterpiece, very true, indeed. And it is ...
  
  











  



  
Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Chris Barnes

A&E Home Video, 2002

Great adaption

+ Ivanhoe on DVD
+ Best script, best casting I have ever seen of Ivanhoe
+ Classic adventure
  
  











  



  
Lorna Doone
Martin Clunes, Richard Coyle

A&E Home Video, 2001

one to watch and watch again

+ I love this movie!
+ Excellent acting of a moving story
+ Great Family-Friendly Entertainment
  
  











  



  
Our Mutual Friend
Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes

BBC Warner, 2005

Great BBC adaptation of a great Dickens novel - but unusual

+ IF YOU LIKE DICKEN'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, THEN YOU'LL LIKE THIS DICKENS MURDER MYSTERY DOUBLE ROMANCE
+ Another great production from BBC
+ Well Executed Performances
+ Awesome
  
  











  



  
Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)
Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle

A&E HOME VIDEO, 2001

I love this the best.

+ Whitley Jo
+ Outstanding Adaptation
+ educational standpoint
+ The very best of the best !!!!!
  
  











  



  
Little Women (Collector's Edition)
Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne

Sony Pictures, 2000

A modernized adaptation of the classic novel, yet a gem nonetheless!

+ Great Family Film
+ DVD Little Women
+ Little Women
+ Little Women
  
  











  



  
Lady Jane
Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes

Paramount, 2003

Lady Jane

+ Birthright and power after Hentry VIII's death
+ An enjoyable story although not entirely true to history

Lovely story with a fairytale style theme. It was a different look at what could have been in times where love was not the norm for people in the Tudor era.
  
  











  



  
The Other Boleyn Girl
Natalie Portman

Sony Pictures, 2008

The Other Boleyn Girl

+ Blu-Ray Review
+ My Favorite Movie! WOW!

It was a great movie truely worth every dollar if you buy it you will not be disappointed at all. It was truely one for my collection.
  
  











  



  
Somewhere in Time (Collector's Edition)
Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour

Universal Studios, 2000

One of the Best!

+ Would you go across time for love?
+ ***Great Movie***
+ A great time travel film, but with something missing
+ Time travel romance
  
  











  



  
Far and Away
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman

Universal Studios, 1998

Do you like my hat?! Say you like my hat shannon!"

+ Sweet, Romantic Film
+ A man who does not have land of his own;has nothing.
+ A True Classic
+ Still a favorite
  
  











  



  
Elizabeth - The Golden Age (Widescreen Edition)
Cate Blanchett, Geoffry Rush

Universal Studios, 2008

Magnifficent visual feast

+ Elizabeth: The Golden Age
+ Elizabeth...The Golden age

An immaculate and glorious visual feast, featuring Elizabeth I's inspired leadership of England, during the 1580s. The basic threads involve her enlightened rule and refusal, of the advice, by her council to persecute her Catholic subjects, the imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (Samantha ...
  
  











  



  
The Age of Innocence
Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Geraldine Chaplin

Sony Pictures, 2001

SIX STARS

+ Movie for 15 and over
+ ON MY TOP FIVE LIST OF MY FAVORITE FILMS
+ A Breathtaking Departure for Scorsese
  
  











  



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