We'll never know what Victoria was really like but it seems there was enough material from her copious diaries for writer Daisy Goodwin to fill in the juicy bits. Who, Death Comes to Pemberley) is adorable as the young Victoria. I know they spiced up the Victoria/Lord Melbourne relationship a bit but when Rufus Sewell is playing Lord M.I am all for it! Jenna Coleman ( Dr. I hope you all have been enjoying Victoria either on PBS or when it came out last year on ITV in the UK. And thanks to Rabia, a concerned reader who wanted to make sure I was ok as my blog had gone quiet. Sorry I haven't been posting lately but my day job has been demanding too much time. He called it the best of the Jaws rips offs.Jenna Coleman and Rufus Sewell in Victoria on PBS/ITV At one point Universal Studios was going to sue Roger Corman over copyright infringements but changed their minds when reportedly Steven Spielberg watched Piranha and loved it. I mean that in a good way! Nobody makes cheesy fun & cheap movies like Roger Corman, and Piranha is one of his most successful films.Ĭlearly the film is a 'rip off' of Jaws, actually after the huge success of Jaws a number of similar movies appeared to cash in on the watery horror craze. As far as I know that's more than any other movie producer, ever.Īnd the thing with a Roger Corman produced movie is, regardless of who directs it, you know it will be one of those Corman movies. Roger has a whopping 411 producer movie credits. Producer Roger Corman is the king of B budget thriller movies. Writers: Richard Robinson & John Sayles (story)Ĭast: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller Signs is a fun ride, lots of good moments, but it's not all that intelligently written and the direction wasn't that great either.Still I enjoyed it more than many 'better made' films, so that's a positive. But that really never happens until the very end and that bugged me, more than bugging me it made me suspend my disbelief so that I didn't really buy what was going on.įinal Verdict. I know both Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix can act up a storm, but here they seemed bored.Ī film isn't tense and the thrills don't work, if the actors don't react as if what is happening on the screen was real!.and often they didn't do that, especially with the alien encounter scenes.Įven worse was the lack of common sense behavior.any family with hostile aliens trying to break into their home would grab a weapon, a knife or a club or something. What didn't work, was the uninspired acting. I loved the tin foil hats that looked like large Hersey kisses! There are little nuisances that make the family seem like a real family, that's important. Surprisingly a lot of low key humor, I'm not sure if it all was intentional but there was a lot of nice 'real' moments in the film when I smiled. I won't say what it was, but it did resonate with me.and the film works on many levels. Tomorrow is Forever has a deep moral meaning that was important for war time America. They were both good together and Natalie's character is critical to the story. Natalie Wood is very good as a child actresses here and her scenes with Orson were touching. He played it with great solitude and sadness as a man who could not tell his former wife that he was indeed her husband from twenty years ago. Orson nailed this performance! I would say it was because the transformed character he played was close to his theatrical roots. I was fearing that this wouldn't be a role he could sink his teeth into.īut then he transforms as the 20 year older man who's lived a lonely life in Austria, all while secretly missing his wife. I hate to say this but in the very beginning of the film when a young Orson Welles is with his newly wed wife, Orson didn't have much chemistry with Claudette. Damn! this is a good movie! I've always been a huge fan of Claudette Colbert, she's so good in everything she's been in.
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