Howards End

Pros: Beautiful sets and artistic design, strong script, superlative performances

Cons: None, provided you have a taste for English period pieces

The Bottom Line: One of the finest of the Merchant-Ivory period pieces. Highly recommended.

Review: The intertwining fates of the Schlegels, Wilcoxes, and Basts become the gist of the plot of this E.M. Forster novel, made into an award-winning film adaptation by the Merchant-Ivory Production Company. It's got all the period panache you could ask for ...

Pros: -Great cast -Great adaptation of book -Great production

Cons: -NONE

The Bottom Line: Take it easy on a Friday night...

Review: Cast/Characters: Anthony Hopkins – Henry Wilcox Vanessa Redgrave - Ruth Wilcox James Wilby – Charles Wilcox Emma Thompson – Margaret Schlegel Helena Bonham Carter – Helen Schlegel Samuel West – Leonard Bast I had absolutely no idea what ...

Pros: Great actors, well written screenplay.

Cons: I couldn't see any.

Review: I’ve rented this movie, and I’ve also watched it on HBO. I watched it “again” last night.

I guess when a screenplay is written based on an E. M. Forster’s novel; not much can go wrong. Especially when the screenwriter has done an...

Pros: phenomenal story, acting, cinematography, and costuming

Cons: what happened to Mrs. Bast?!

Review: A few weeks ago I noticed that the cable network Bravo was showing Howard's End late at night. Coincidentally, this movie was next on my "must-see" list (yes, it's a 1992 film, and yes, I am that far behind). I popped a blank...

Pros: Good Acting

Cons: None

Review: I am facinated by Emma Thompson! I think I have seen every movie she has ever been in. So "Howard's End" was a must see for me! Another star that I enjoy is Anthony Hopkins, who plays Mr. Wilcox, husband to Vanessa Redgrave's character who is...

Pros: You can understand why socialism got popular.

Cons: S-L-O-W movie, only Carter and Thompson keep it moving at all.

The Bottom Line: Beautiful film, but the pace is so slow and the characters so distant I was bored halfway through and wondering when it was going to get to the point.

Review: After languishing on my to-be-seen heap of dvd's, I finally got around to watching this one. Having picked up the Best Picture Oscar for 1992, I thought I was going to be in for some scintilliating acting (after all, it has four Oscar winners in the...

Pros: cinematography, costumes, cast

Cons: characters, story

Review: Director James Ivory, producer Ismael Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have formed one of the longest lasting partnerships in cinema. They have made 21 films together (and counting), dating all the way back to 1963.

Perhaps the...

Pros: Nice story, acting is good

Cons: None

Review: I say "pleasant for casual movie viewers" because the other reviews dissect the movie as a scientist would a frog. I'm not into movies in that way, so I'll give you my amateur opinion of Howard's End.

This was a nice film. It was...

Pros: Nice hats.

Cons: Stiff, dreary and lifeless.

Review: As a diorama of the English countryside and early 20th century clothing, Howard's End is second to none - as an engaging piece of filmmaking, not so much. The themes involve, as much as they are any, are so stiff, still and understated, that the film ...