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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 1: We Have to Stick Together Now
This is going to be my longest, most ambitious series on this blog yet. For the first time since I tackled the 2009 A Christmas Carol, I am going to be analyzing a particular movie adaptation scene by scene and … Continue reading
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Tagged The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
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A Scrooge Girl in a Scrooge World
A nice thing about my blog not being widely read and me being fairly anonymous is that I feel comfortable making certain embarrassing confessions on here. When I was a boy, I would secretly watch Barbie movies. I had (and … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens
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An Unusually Unfaithful Christmas Carol
Last year, I blogged about some unusual, animated adaptations of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in Prose. This year, I’m going to do the same. You know, considering how frequently it’s been adapted, it’s amazing how faithful most versions of … Continue reading
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Faerie Tale Theatre’s Most…Interesting Episodes
My last two posts were about what I consider the best episodes of Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre. This post is about ones that maybe could have been the best, or at least among the most interesting, but are held … Continue reading
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Tagged Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, remakes
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Other Great Episodes of Faerie Tale Theatre
Last week, I wrote about the second season of Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre when the episodes were most consistently great in my estimation. But that doesn’t mean I don’t consider any episodes from other seasons to be great. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Aladdin, Cinderella, Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Forth to Learn What Fear Was
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My Favorite Season of Faerie Tale Theatre
As some of you may know, probably more of you than knew about Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre was an anthology show that ran from 1982 to 1987. Each episode was a retelling of a classic … Continue reading
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Tagged Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty
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Giving De Vil Her Due Part 2 (Hey, That Rhymed!)
Better the Devil You Know: 102 Dalmatians (2000) Since I specifically mentioned the opening credits sequences for the first two Dalmatians movies, I should note this one has a surreal visual one much like the original animated film. It’s not … Continue reading
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Giving De Vil Her Due Part 1
In my last post, I mentioned that one of my favorite things I’ve written on this blog has been a series about the 2014 movie, Maleficent, despite my having-at best-a very mixed opinion on it. I published it to coincide … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 Dalmatians, Defending Disney Nostalgia Bait, John Hughes, remakes
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How Into the Woods (2014) is Messy but Worthwhile and Why That’s Weirdly Appropriate
Many eyebrows were raised when it was first announced that Disney would be doing a movie adaptation of the 1987 stage musical Into the Woods. Dark, cynical, adult deconstructions of fairy tales are kind of the opposite of what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinderella, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, musicals, Rapunzel
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The Real Problem with Emma (2020)
Back in 2022, I did a blog post about the three movie adaptations of Emma by Jane Austen. I had a middling reaction to the one from 2020. I admired what a good job Eleanor Catton’s screenplay did of compressing … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century novels, Emma, Jane Austen
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