Fast Film Reviews

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Beautifully filmed, old fashioned escapism about a widow who begins a new life in a recently purchased house and discovers the previous owner has not completely left.  Classic romance is emotionally engaging in a way that only a movie of the 1940s can be.  Gene Tierney radiates sophisticated beauty and Rex Harrison inhabits his role […]

Shrek Forever After

Part four of the modern twist on classic fairy tales has a troublesome beginning.  Our hero Shrek is suffering from suburban ennui, the kind of disenchantment with domestic life that you might find on the TV show  Desperate Housewives.  What happened to the charming ogre we know and love?  After that disastrous start, the movie […]