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In Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the Virgin Queen, but as the fully realized myth she has created by the conclusion of the previous film. Shekhar Kapur also returns to direct, along with writer Michael Hirst, and cinematographer Remi Aderfarasin, but you wouldn’t recognize that the …

Being a book lover, I always read the book before the movie. But much to my sadness, I didn’t know that The Book Thief was a book until long after I first watched the movie. But as soon as I found out, I knew I had to read it. recently …

Still riffing on the historical fiction film podcast by Megan and Kristin, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth (1998) was specifically mentioned in the podcast as one of their favorites. And once again, based on anecdotal evidence from conversations with others, Elizabeth seems to be well-appreciated as a film, especially as a performance by Cate Blanchett. In …

It was only after I had finished reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society did I realize that they had turned it into a movie.  I knew right then and there that I needed to do it as my next book to movie comparison.  I hoped that I …