Seldon's Blog

Below is my current list of favorite movies set in the 1930s: ( Read more... )

Usually I would list my ten favorite summer movies of any particular year. However, since I had only watched ten new releases during the summer of 2016. Due to the limited number, I decided to rank the films that I saw: ( Read more... )

"GHOSTBUSTERS" (2016) Review

I cannot say that the summer of 2016 movie season produced a great number of first-rate films. There were a few that really impressed me. But I cannot deny that it has seen its share of controversy. One of the two controversies that ignited this summer proved to be over the casting for "GHOSTBUSTERS", Paul Fieg's reboot of Ivan Reitman's pair of supernatural comedies from the 1980s. ( Read more... )

"ADAPTING AGATHA CHRISTIE"

Ever since the release of the BBC recent adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel, "And Then There Were None" television viewers and critics have been praising the production for being a faithful adaptation. In fact these critics and fans have been in such rapture over the production that some of them have failed to noticed that the three-part miniseries was not completely faithful. As long as the production followed Christie’s original ending, they were satisfied. ( Read more... )

Below are images from "THE IMITATION GAME", the 2014 adaptation of Andrew Hodges' book, "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Directed by Morten Tyldum, the movie starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley: ( Read more... )

With the recent release of the new James Bond movie, "SKYFALL", I have made a new ranking of all the Bond films produced and released by EON Productions (do not expect to find 1967's "CASINO ROYALE" or 1983's "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN" on this list) from favorite to least favorite: ( Read more... )