Hyde Park on Hudson

Speaking of FDR, over the weekend I found at Community Aid, a charity shop chain here in Pennsyltucky, Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Laura Linney as his cousin, Daisy Suckley. I had heard of and been curious about this movie and was under the impression that it hadContinue reading “Hyde Park on Hudson”

Thoughts on Ian McKellen’s Mr. Holmes

Last night after work I went to see Mr. Holmes, starring Sir Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes. I mentioned before this was the movie I most wanted to see this summer. Back in March I read the book on which the film is based — Mitch Cullin’s A Slight Trick of the Mind — andContinue reading “Thoughts on Ian McKellen’s Mr. Holmes”