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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Movie - Made for each other





Movie - Made for each other
Score : 5/10 
Year : 1939
Director : John Cromwell
Country : USA
Language : English 
Duration : 1h32

I usually like James Stewart movies, but I have to say that this time around, I'm a bit disappointed. Indeed, at times, this movie was quite obnoxious. For instance, Mrs. Harriet Mason critics towards Jane Mason are unfounded, I felt strong antipathy from Lucile Watson I really wanted her out of the picture.

The movie starts off with the newlywed couple, and from half comical announcements to his boss, and then to his mother, the story around John & Jane Mason becomes quite tragic and turns a life threatening situation: their baby’s severely sick. Through this, everyone grows, relationships deepen but I felt that this was done too fast, there was very little emotional implication, because the movie turned too long on other unimportant stuff, that by the time It got to the chore of it, it was almost finished, meaning the last segment of the story was rushed, which is a shame, really.

The music, sucked, although I didn’t really expect much better…
An hour & half, of sometimes entertaining, sometimes bordering on boredom, that’s really too bad, because the couple James/ Carole was quite attaching, and in spite of character growth, it’s not enough for me to watch this again, thus I must score it on a medium 5/10, possibly even a 4, oh my, I never thought I’d give such a low note to any Jimmy movie!
Cast :
• Carole Lombard as Jane Mason
• James Stewart as John Horace Mason
• Charles Coburn as Judge Joseph M. Doolittle
• Lucile Watson as Mrs. Harriet Mason, John Mason's mother
• Alma Kruger as Sister Madeline
• Donald Briggs as Mr. Carter
• Ruth Weston as Eunice Doolittle
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  1. Unknown06 September, 2015 16:33

    I find this unfortunate because the scenario could make a good movie , or at least amusing. I understand your disappointment, especially since you love other movies . ^^

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  2. LuluGardener06 September, 2015 17:34

    Yes, I think the director wasn't ready to make a bigger drama out of the initial idea... oh well, can't love them all, can we ? (one could wish)

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