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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Awesome!
Michelle Williams portrays Marilyn Monroe as the three dimensional, complex person that she really was without ever resorting to caricature. For the first time in film we see Marilyn played with depth and nuance, unlike countless "made for T.V." type films that show Marilyn as little more than a breathless cartoon-like persona.
Kenneth Branagh is equally impressive as Olivier, and Zoe Wanamaker hits the nail on the head as the overly idolatrous Paula Strasberg.
The film makers have clearly done their homework as they manage to weave many details of Marilyn's life into the context of the film.
For people who have seen and enjoyed "The Prince and the Showgirl" there is an extra treat in watching the actors recreate scenes from that film.
"My Week With Marilyn" succeeds by entertaining us the way films used to be made; by focusing on great characters and great performances instead of the visual gimmicks of special effects.
The Time Travelers (1964)
An excellent sci-fi film...
This film has a lot of imagination, an intelligent script, some fine acting and special effects that combine to make an excellent sci-fi film. Those of you who have seen it have probably never forgotten it. The plot concerns a team of scientists working on a viewing screen designed to show images of the past, present, and hopefully the future. Faced with an imminent cut-off of funding, they push the equipment to the limit and a short-circuit results. Accidentally, the view screen produced an image of a devastated earth only 107 years in the future. Even more shocking is the discovery that a portal has been opened, and the scientists are able to step through the screen just as the portal implodes behind them leaving them trapped in the future.....Without revealing any more of the plot, I will just say that the shock ending is one of the best in science fiction. Trivia: the University Campus used in the film was the University of Southern California, and the tall mutants in the film were played by the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team for their exceptional height.
Land of the Giants (1968)
A memorable show.....
At a cost of over $250,000 per episode, "Land of the Giants" was the most expensive show of its time.(As well as the highest rated
when it premiered in October of 1968). That money was well spent on impressive visual effects, camera tricks, and enormous realistic props that had the audience believing they were watching 7 space travellers accidentally stranded on a world where everything was twelve times the size of the equivalent things on earth. This show remains visually quite impressive and is well remembered by those of us old enough to have seen it during its first run. Gary Conway and Don Marshall lead the cast as the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-fated 'Spindrift' spacecraft and
and Kevin Hagen is extremely effective in several episodes as the government agent of the giant world with the assigned task of hunting the earthmen down.