Categories: Reviews

• Review: Gelber & Manning’s “Moonlight Picnic”

  As some of you may know I work switchboard for a radio show that features a vintage lifestyle themed show on Wednesdays called the Vintage Lifestyle Hour and recently they started playing new “old” music, meaning old fashioned musical acts, during their breaks and one of the albums currently on their playlist is Gelber & [...]

• Review: South Riding Episode 01

  I’ve started watching a mini series from Masterpiece on PBS that I had been told about with no small amount of raving about how amazing it is, and that mini series is called South Riding. Here’s what PBS says about it: A lively heroine arrives in Depression-era Yorkshire to shake up education at a school [...]

• Review: Charlotte Gray (2001)

  I’ve just finished watching the film I’d sneaked on Netflix, and got a good dose of the fabulous Cate Blanchett as the title character in 2001s Charlotte Gray. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name by Sebastian Faulks, part of a trilogy of books by the author, and is rumored [...]

• Film Reviews: Midnight (1939)

  One of my all-time favorite films is one I’d never seen until this month – a film from 1939 called Midnight, starring the incomparable, hilarious Claudette Colbert and the dashing, handsome and talented Don Ameche as a broke necessity-induced con woman and a love sick cabbie who’s affection leads him on a wild goose chase [...]