Sherlock. Yeeeeeeeee!

If the protagonists of Pride & Prejudice and North & South should ever meet...

 Everyone who has read and loved Pride and Prejudice should read North and South. But everyone who has  watched and fallen for the A&E miniseries on Pride and Prejudice absolutely has to watch BBC's North and South!!

These are two made up conversations I found through a blog I follow--

Between Darcy and Thornton:

http://www.foolishpassion.com/humor/darcy-thornton-conversation.html

Between Elizabeth and Margaret:

http://elizabennet.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/margaret-meet-lizzie/

I think they were pretty clever to have thought of it and I enjoyed their humour. Hope you do too.

The Winslow Boy

I'll leave off the summary. You can get that on wikipedia. 
It's based on a 1946 play by Terence Rattigan who got his inspiration from an actual incident in the early 1900s. It has been dramatised many times and indeed watching the movie was not unlike watching a play on the stage. I haven't read the original play yet but I doubt the director changed much by way of scene or setting.

According to Greta

Reminded me a lot of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Only Greta's drama leans more towards the morbid and the girl has serious issues. Her issues revolve around her father's death which happened when she was five. He committed suicide and little Greta walked in to see him dying.
She's seventeen now and her mother is on her third husband. Still some-what a child herself, Greta's mother can't handle her dark cynicism and obsession with suicides. She sends her to psychologists and then off to her grandparents' house in New Jersey for the summer.

I can't think straight

It was the first movie centred on a homosexual relationship that I saw. I'm not sure what I expected. Fun poked at how relatives react when you come out of the closet, maybe? I certainly didn't think that I would watch it with the same half silly smile I have when I watch movies like 'Someone like you', 'Love actually', or 'The Holiday'. 

The Young Victoria

I just finished watching this movie. 

Here's what it's about: 

  Princess Victoria is turning eighteen and is the only heir to the English throne, so everyone wants to have some influence over her before she even ascends the throne.

Her mom wants to be the regent (a ruler in place of the monarch in cases where the monarch is incapable or too young to rule) and so keeps her away from the throne. She is treated like a golden bird in a cage and her mom's advisor threatens her and tries to force her to sign the regency papers. She meets Prince Albert, who is a distant cousin and nephew to the King of Belgium. He's been brought up to one day marry her.