By: Mary Fran Bontempo Epic. Astounding. Awe-inspiring. Fill in the superlative of your choice.The movie version of Les Miserables, the most extraordinary play ever staged (okay, I'm a fanatic), is incredible. And I was prepared to be underwhelmed.I've seen the play at least six times, and I'd go to see it again tomorrow. So the movie had some big shoes to fill to reach the barre, let alone surpass it. Which I don't [...]
Well, I can cross that off my bucket list.For the longest time, I've wanted to read (or rather, felt I should read) Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's sweeping Russian epic that tells the tale of an aristocratic Russian woman doomed by her extra-marital dalliance with an affluent Army officer.The book's really long, so instead, I went to see the new movie of the same name starring Keira Knightly and Jude Law as Anna and her [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo It takes a pretty good actor to make you forget that he's insanely good-looking and just make you think he's bat-sh*t crazy.Bradley Cooper is a pretty good actor.In his new film, Silver Linings Playbook, Cooper embodies the unhinged Pat Solitano, introduced to the audience as he ends an eight month stint in a mental institution. Pat found himself a "guest" of the place via a plea bargain, after he [...]
This week in entertainment-- Get Ready for Black Friday Shopping with BFAds.netPlus, a Review of the New Denzel Washington Movie, FlightBe sure to scroll down so you don't miss a thing! BFAds.net--The Better Way to Do Black FridayBy: Mary Fran Bontempo I don't know about you, but the last thing I feel like doing on Thanksgiving night is hauling out a 24 pound newspaper and scouring it for Black Friday shopping deals. (What I really [...]
The frenzied mob breached the American Embassy's wall in Iran on November 4, 1979.And the world held its breath for 444 days.I held my breath, too, as I watched the re-enactment of the terrifying scene in the new release, Argo, brought to the screen by director and star, Ben Affleck.But Argo is not the tale of the hostage crisis as it was related publicly back in 1979. Rather, it's the incredible true story [...]
So what's wrong with watching a great movie more than once? Enjoy our NRFPG movie--again!
By: Mary Fran BontempoOh, how tempting.As a writer who starts out every project staring at a blank page, waiting for inspiration to strike and feeling the terror when it doesn't, I've thought about how wonderful it would be to have the next great American novel drop into my lap out of thin air.How wonderful to just have a finished, brilliant work appear, and be able to put my name on it, reaping all [...]
