Reviews

Besides the deft humor (some of it is best appreciated by those who are familiar with Britain of the '60s or the UK in general) there is entertaining music (written by Dudley Moore), some plot twists, and most surprisingly a moral message that can be taken away along with the humor and the music.

The 2000 Bedazzled is quite different and more uneven.

Oh, and there's Raquel Welch as Lust. Not exactly playing against type.

The cast is uniformly excellent. For some reason this film is rarely seen on television and it is not easily found in video stores in either tape or DVD form.

After being introduced to this series shortly after it came out I've taped this and shown the entire series to two women, who also loved it.

Of course this was a natural for me after studying Latin for five years (but classical Latin literature pretty much ends with Virgil and the early Augustan age)

I'm not one who normally notices good acting, only bad acting, but Jacobi (and, really, the entire cast) was brilliant.

Sian Phillips is a portrait of pure evil

A gripping tale that will engage you to the end. The worst that can be said of this is that it is a classy soap opera.

Read the books!

This movie frequently extrapolates quantum mechanics to justify nonsensical ideas, capped by such statements like "we all create our own reality".

Sorry, folks, reality is what true for all of us, not just the credulous.

The idea that "anything's possible" doesn't hold water on closer examination: if anything's possible, contrary things are thus possible and so nothing's possible. This leads to postmodernistic nonsense, which is nothing less than an attempt to denigrate established truths so that all ideas, well-founded and stupid, are equal.

To quote sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, who put it so well, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."