by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 13, 2012 | Foreign Film Friday
Two Fat Ladies is a hysterical British cooking show staring Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Jennifer Paterson. The ladies travel around England in a motorcycle with a sidecar. The ladies use fresh, local ingredients to make traditional English meals. This is a wonderful...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 21, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
I watched three movies this week to share with all of you. The first, Grimm, is a Dutch film the back cover led me to believe that it was a story about two adults trying to survive when they land in a fairy tale world- kind of an adult Hansel and Gretel. I have no...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Sep 9, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Black Books from BBC is my pick for the fifteenth Foreign Film Friday. This is a quirky show which takes place in a bookshop. The owner Bernard Black is drunk, rude, and will use a broom to shoo customers out of his shop just because he can. Next door his long time...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Aug 19, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
Were are back to BBC Tele for review twelve. I LOVE Sherlock Holmes stories from the old Basil Rathbone to the new Robert Downey Jr.- I am also ashamed to admit I’ve never read the books but I do plan to. Anyway the BBC show Sherlock is an modern Sherlock Holmes...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jul 1, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
For my fifth installment of Foreign Film I have a British TV show for you- I love British tele 🙂 so I’m sure you’ll be seeing a lot more of these. Last weekend hubby and I watched “People Like Us” a mock documentary. In true BBC fashion the humour is dry and...
