The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Director: Peter Jackson “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us” -Gandalf ★★★★★ “The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I…
Month: December 2020
The Squaw Man (1914) Film Review
The Squaw Man (1914) Director: Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel ★★★☆☆ Many of these early films are significant simply for being the “first” in a long line of better films. For me, The Squaw Man is just such a film. Sadly, the footage that survives today is mostly of…
The Plantagenets: Henry V (1413-1422)
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” (William Shakespeare’s Henry V) Young Henry became the Prince of Wales when his father, Henry IV, forcibly usurped the crown from Richard II. During Henry IV’s fractious reign, Henry the younger quickly took up the gauntlet of leadership to the Lancastrian…