Guest column by Alice Maltin I watched the first episode several months ago. Screaming women giving birth in squalid conditions in the poorest part of London was not my cup of tea. Looking for a pleasant escape, I turned off the DVD. Then, on a rainy Sunday afternoon with nothing to do, I watched an episode…and then another. I couldn’t stop. Based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife isn’t just about the birthing of children. It’s about people, all kinds, who carry on no matter what life throws at them. They survived WW2 and now they must survive life. The story begins in the early 1950s in East London. This is not the London of...
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- 1/15/2013
- by Alice Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest Column by Alice Maltin When actor John Nettles decided to hang up his badge as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and walk into the sunset (or wherever they told us he was going), that ended one of TVs most enjoyable British murder mystery series. Then they had the audacity to return with Neil Dudgeon as Dci John Barnaby—Tom’s cousin! I wished they hadn’t done that…but they did, and you know what? He’s really good. They pulled it off. Tom Barnaby was a smart, likeable and easygoing Dci who never lost a case, or his temper. He had a devoted wife and daughter and a trusty sergeant, Ben Jones (Jason Hughes). His cousin, Dci...
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- 1/3/2013
- by Alice Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest column by Alice Maltin I’ve been lost in the world of Henning Mankell’s Wallander because I’m viewing the British adaptation on TV while simultaneously following the Swedish series on DVD. This is causing some confusion for me. Is that woman the killer or is it the handyman? Was it the British or Swedish one where I saw that? It’s embarrassing, I admit. For the uninitiated, Kurt Wallander is a detective in a city outside of Stockholm and is played by Kenneth Branagh and Krister Henriksson. Both actors are wonderful in the role. Kurt is dedicated to police work and everything else in life is secondary, including personal relationships. He is the...
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- 11/6/2012
- by Alice Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Guest column by Alice Maltin Agatha Christie Mystery Lover’S Collection (Acorn) 4 discs; 5 mysteries. I love a good mystery and this DVD set includes a number of stories I’ve never seen. While we are all familiar with the adventures of Agatha Christie’s famous crime-solving characters, Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, the real “find” here is Tommy & Tuppence, Partners In Crime. The series, first seen in the early 1980s, is based on short stories in Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime novels. Tommy & Tuppence: The Affair of the Pink Necklace. It is the 1920s and the delightful young newlyweds, Tommy Beresford...
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- 11/28/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
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