DVD Review: In Their Own Words
Before you put either the “British Novelists” disc or “Great Thinkers” disc of In Their Own Words in your DVD player, get a notebook, notepad, legal pad, index cards, scraps of paper, whatever you use to jot down grocery lists, important phone numbers, or anything else that’s important to your daily life. You’ll need it. […]
DVD Review: Brideshead Revisited
As a fan of British history and films, I was curious to check out the latest film incarnation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited. Set in England during World War II, much of the story is told through a series of flashbacks from several decades earlier. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is studying history at […]