Highlights for Adventure Travel in ... Aug 17, 2009
Famous visitors included Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway (who crashed his plane there), European royalty, and in 1951, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and the actors and crew of The African Queen. This region offers some of Uganda's best wildlife safaris, with elephant, giraffe buffalo, hippopotamus, and Nile crocodile. (Suite101.com)
Guide to today's TV movies Jul 12, 2009
The African Queen 8 p.m. (TCM). This classic adventure puts Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn on a rickety riverboat. (Boston Globe)
Ask Mick LaSalle: Actors playing real people Apr 28, 2009
I'll take Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca" or "Key Largo" over Bogart in "The African Queen" any day. Dear Mick: Regarding your list of the 15 best films of the decade: If you were to put together a list of your 10 or 15 favorite films of the decade, would it be the same list. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New On DVD: 'Chihuahua,' 'Australia' Mar 7, 2009
Australia' (PG-13): Perhaps Hugh Jackman's success as the host of this year's Oscars will help drum up support for "Australia," an epic film that recalls such classics as "The African Queen," "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz." True, it's over-long and far from perfect, but the long road to its conclusion is a satisfying one. Fox ImageNicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in "Australia". (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Movie about “down under” was overly underrated Mar 3, 2009
it s kind of a mixture of The African Queen, Red River and Gone With the Wind (if that makes any sense); a film positively overflowing with energy and drive. Leads Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman acquit themselves well (although each has been better), but the supporting cast, including Bryan Brown, David Wenham and young newcomer Brandon Walters, is superb, matched only by the incredible Australian vistas courtesy of cinematographer Mandy Walker. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
'Australia' (4) Feb 8, 2009
Kidman and Jackman start the film behaving like Hepburn and Bogart in The African Queen and end up playing Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the Wind, only sexier. Australia is a throwback to unabashed movie epic romances. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
