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Feature Film Reviews at Troynovant
(Queen Mab's ride);
listed by Title
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At Troynovant we are more interested in excellent or distinctive work than the merely timely or fashionable. Quality is always in season, and often more topical and entertaining than currency or fashion admit. Thus, we aim to refer and amuse, rather than to announce and forget. We avoid spoiling surprises in reviews that recommend; other works take their chances.
The central column below names writers, directors, and/or actors to aid identification. Within reviews, credits are most-significant rather than inclusive. See PictureLike for a list of book reviews about movies & television.
- Reels are one- or two-reel films, short films (non-musical), or television episodes;
- Soundies are shorter musical films of song and/or dance, music videos;
- Feature Films are theater headliners, DVDs, or television series.
All screen presentations are in color with sound, dialogue in English, unless stated otherwise.
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| Absent-Minded Professor, The |
Stevenson / MacMurray |
RW Franson |
| Anzio |
Dmytryk / Mitchum |
RW Franson |
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| Big Store, The |
Marx Brothers |
RW Franson |
| Big Trouble in Little China |
Carpenter / Russell |
RW Franson |
| Blazing Saddles |
Mel Brooks |
RW Franson |
| Bubba Ho-Tep |
Coscarelli / Campbell |
RW Franson |
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| Cocoanuts, The |
Marx Brothers |
RW Franson |
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| Die Hard |
McTiernan / Willis |
RW Franson |
| Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog |
Whedon / Harris |
RW Franson |
| Dr. No (James Bond) |
Young / Connery |
RW Franson |
| Dressed to Kill (Sherlock Holmes) |
Neill / Rathbone |
RW Franson |
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| Firefly dvd series |
Joss Whedon |
RW Franson,
DH Franson |
| Fish Called Wanda, A |
Crichton / Cleese |
RW Franson |
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| General, The |
Buster Keaton |
RW Franson |
| Ghost Goes West, The |
Clair / Donat |
RW Franson |
| Great Dan Patch, The |
Joe Newman / Gail Russell |
RW Franson |
| Gunga Din |
Kipling / Stevens |
RW Franson |
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| Lady on a Train |
David / Durbin |
RW Franson |
Lord of the Rings, The (with Balrog Eggs) |
Tolkien / Jackson |
RW Franson,
DH Franson |
| 1. The Fellowship of the Ring |
WH Stoddard |
| 2. The Two Towers |
WH Stoddard |
| 3. The Return of the King |
WH Stoddard |
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| Maltese Falcon, The |
Huston / Bogart |
RW Franson |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Monty Python |
S Farrell |
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| Ninotchka |
Lubitsch / Garbo |
RW Franson |
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Pan's Labyrinth
(El labertino del fauno) |
del Toro / Baquero |
WH Stoddard |
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| Serenity |
Joss Whedon |
RW Franson,
DH Franson |
| Serenity |
Joss Whedon |
WH Stoddard |
| Sign of Four, The (Sherlock Holmes) |
Cutts / Wontner |
JM Franson |
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow |
Conran / Law / Paltrow / Jolie |
S Cook |
| Star Wars series |
George Lucas |
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| Feminist Take on the Whole Star Wars Saga, A |
G Binkly |
| Study in Scarlet, A (Sherlock Holmes) |
Marin / Owen |
RW Franson,
JM Franson |
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| True Lies |
Cameron / Schwarzenegger |
RW Franson |
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| United 93 |
Paul Greengrass |
CB Kurtz |
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| Way Out West |
Laurel and Hardy |
RW Franson |
| While You Were Sleeping |
Turteltaub / Bullock |
RW Franson |
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[A street or public square in Verona, Italy.]
Benvolio:
Queen Mab, what's she?
Mercutio:
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs;
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
Her traces, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams;
Her collars, of the smallest spider web;
Her whip, of cricket's bone, the lash of film; ...
And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; ...
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, 1.4.54-64, 71-72
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