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Monthly Archives: April 2024
The Best Great Expectations Miniseries Is Unavailable for Streaming
It may sound crazy to say that the Disney Channel produced a better miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations than the BBC ever did but that’s what happened in 1989! Just eight years prior to the 1989 miniseries, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Two Adaptations of Great Expectations that Deserve Commendation
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens has been adapted into several miniseries and you’d expect that I, as a fan of the book, would prefer those to the film adaptations. After all, they’re longer, slower paced and theoretically include more from … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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Special Anniversary Lookback: The Best of the Obscure
I admit it. I write about many famous stories on this blog. But one of my favorite things about it is drawing attention to works of art or entertainment about which many people haven’t heard. It gives me joy to … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 Dalmatians, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, As You Like It, Caging Skies, Charles Dickens, Coriolanus, Disney Anim-Anthology Movies, fairy tales, Fantasia, Freaky Friday, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, Jane Austen, Little Dorrit, Little Women, Love and Friendship, Mary Poppins, musicals, Nicholas Nickleby, Peanuts, Peter Pan, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Storyteller, William Shakespeare
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 12: Will We Ever Go Back?
We transition from the battlefield to the sea. Sea people leap and dive in the water. We don’t hear them sing, something they do around this point in the book, but it’s great to see them at all. The camera … Continue reading
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Tagged The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
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