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#Watched100times: Out At The Wedding
I watch my favorite movies over…and over…and over. I will watch a movie I’ve seen thirty times rather than a movie that I suspect may disappoint me or give me nightmares. Far too often, my darling...
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Keep Laughing and Carry On
In the category of wacky things Book View Cafe authors do when they’re not writing, my husband Jeff (that is, Chef Jeff Vader, All-powerful God of Biscuits) has posted a new video of one of our...
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#Watched100times: The Valet
supermodel Alice Taglioni and valet Gad Elmaleh So I have a new filmmaker I love, Francis Veber, the French maker of comedies The Valet, The Closet, La Cage Aux Folles (1978 original and the 1996 US...
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Filming Begins on Sequel to Science Fiction Classic
In collaboration with Michael Bey, BVC Productions begins filming this month the long-awaited sequel to the science fiction classic, Forbidden Planet. Hands Off My Asteroid will be helmed by the late...
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#Watched100times: Lost loved movies
roly poly fish heads This more properly should be called “I would have watched it 100 times.” I saw each of these movies once, and fell so madly in love that I have never forgotten them. Sometimes I...
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Shiny Alert: Vonda McIntyre’s The Moon and the Sun update
Pierce Brosnan as Louis XIV This is an official BVC shiny alert! We now have photographic evidence! That is Pierce Brosnan on that lovely white horse as he plays Louis Quatorze in the movie adaptation...
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Report from Versailles: The Musketeer
by Vonda N. McIntyre As folks who follow the BVC blog know, I’m having an adventure. My novel The Moon and the Sun is being made into a movie. Producer Bill Mechanic invited me to visit the production...
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Report from Versailles: Pain au chocolat to peanut butter toast
Vonda on Chapel Balcony By Vonda N. McIntyre Monday. The chateau de Versailles is closed to the public on Monday, so the production of The Moon and the Sun had permission to film inside during the day....
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Edge of Tomorrow: A Very Short Review
by Brenda W. Clough Oh, the pleasures of a summer action movie! There is nothing like checking your brain at the door and just letting it rip. Edge of Tomorrow touches all the necessary bases for...
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Percy’s Boys
In another post I mentioned Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel. I think it serves as an example of a story that caught the imagination of the following century, even though the book itself these...
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Raising Feminists, the Film Edition
I was going to write about my current obsessive hobby of beading, but then Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was on TV. And I was appalled all over that I let my impressionable daughters watch it when...
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#watched100times: Love and Other Disasters
*I’m* the Queen of England It’s not a sign of mental disorder when a person watches the same movies over and over again, is it? Thank goodness. Because here I go again. The hubby is working a put-in...
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Revisiting “The Gay Divorcee” 1934 film
“Chance is the fool’s name for fate.” (the secret code phrase from the film) As a kid, I loved staying up to watch old movies on TV, and some of my favorites were the musicals with such performers as...
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Mary Coyle Chase
There is no perfect age to commence being a lover of books. It’s great whenever it happens. I think I can generalize about early book lovers in saying that the experience is so very intense. Here’s a...
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Interstellar: A Very Short Review
by Brenda W. Clough Recent events have shown that probably there will not be commercial space flight for a while. I accept that I will probably never make it into space; even if it becomes available in...
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In Celebration of The Hobbit #3
by Brenda W. Clough The third and final Hobbit movie is out today! Holiday pressures force me to postpone seeing the movie for a while — when I do I will post a review. But to celebrate, I give you my...
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Exodus: A Very Short Review
by Brenda W. Clough Your true Biblical movie epic is rather rare on the movie screen these days. When they do appear they are tarted up with lots of additional violence, but no sex, so as to ensure...
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“Paddington” – a Species-Inclusive Guest Film Review by Bear Stamey
(A note from Sara: When Bear saw an online preview of the new film “Paddingon,” he was very excited and insisted on writing this review for you.) Woof, Woof! Oh, I guess Sara will translate: That means...
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The Hobbit 3: A Very Short Review
by Brenda W. Clough I’m a real fan of snappy, tight work. So I was annoyed by The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. This thing is at least an hour too long. All the pernicious influences of modern...
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Glamour
Glamour! When I look at the romantic comedy films of the 30s, it strikes me how many of the American-made films are set in a kind of fantasy Europe. Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise was perhaps the...
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