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Two Adaptations of Great Expectations that Deserve Commendation

Posted on April 20, 2024 by stationmaster

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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Special Anniversary Lookback: The Best of the Obscure

Posted on April 14, 2024 by stationmaster

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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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 12: Will We Ever Go Back?

Posted on April 5, 2024 by stationmaster

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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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 11: It Is Finished

Posted on March 31, 2024 by stationmaster

Surprise! Early post for Easter. We transition from the map of the battlefield to a gryphon (voiced by Cameron Rhodes) flying over the actual place. I apologize for starting off this post with some criticism, but it annoys me that … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 10: You Have to Trust Me

Posted on March 29, 2024 by stationmaster

Unable to sleep, Lucy tosses and turns in bed at night. A silhouette passes the transparent wall of her tent. It’s Aslan. Lucy wakes up Susan and, taking their Christmas presents with them, the two follow Aslan as he slips … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 9: Whoa, Horsie!

Posted on March 22, 2024 by stationmaster

Peter emerges from his tent in the morning to see Oreius passing by. Oreius motions with his head to where Aslan and Edmund stand on a rock in conversation. The book says that “There is no need to tell you … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 8: This is Peter’s Battle

Posted on March 15, 2024 by stationmaster

Remember how at the end of Part 4, I wrote that we’d reached a place where I felt the movie’s quality, the quality of its writing anyway, started to go downhill? Well, I’m happy to report that we’ve now reached … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 7: Some Man in a Red Coat Hands You a Sword

Posted on March 8, 2024 by stationmaster

The Pevensies and the beavers are trudging across a vast frozen lake. There’s a nice transition from the white landscape to the white sky. Mr. Beaver, who is far ahead, calls behind him, “Come on, humans! While we’re still young.” … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 6: I’m Cranky Now

Posted on March 1, 2024 by stationmaster

As Edmund enters the White Witch’s courtyard, he looks up and sees what appears to be a giant man about to hit him with a club, but it turns out to be a stone statue. Fans of the book will … Continue reading →

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 5: He’s a Beaver! He Shouldn’t Be Saying Anything!

Posted on February 23, 2024 by stationmaster

I might have been exaggerating for dramatic effect when I said we were leaving behind the most consistently great part of the movie with the last post in this series. The scene of the Pevensies discovering that Tumnus’s house has … Continue reading →

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