Category Archives: Comparing Different Adaptations

Emma Movies That Aren’t Clueless

Posted on January 29, 2022 by stationmaster

As I’ve mentioned on this blog before, not one but two movie adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma came out in 1996. This makes them rather a pain to talk about since while both follow the book’s plot fairly closely, they … Continue reading →

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Little Women Smackdown Part 2

Posted on June 18, 2021 by stationmaster

Little Women (2018) This Little Women was directed by Claire Niederpruem who cowrite the screenplay with Kristi Shimek.[1]This independently produced movie was distributed in part by Pureflix, a Christian company. However, no secular Little Women fans should be turned off … Continue reading →

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Little Women Smackdown Part 1

Posted on June 11, 2021 by stationmaster

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is a rare book in that it attracts ardent fans from both sides of modern American Culture Wars. On the one hand, it’s considered something of a pioneering feminist book for focusing largely on the … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan: The Modern Movie

Posted on June 4, 2021 by stationmaster

OK, I’m cheating a little bit with the title. 2003 isn’t what I’d call modern, but The Modern Movie sounds more exciting than The Most Recent Movie and a lot of the changes made by this adaptation do reflect a … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan: The Animated Movie

Posted on May 28, 2021 by stationmaster

It sounds crazy to say this now, so many decades since Disney’s 1953 animated movie of Peter Pan, especially when the character of TinkerBell has become such a Disney icon, but J. M. Barrie’s book and play don’t lend themselves … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan: The Silent Movie

Posted on May 21, 2021 by stationmaster

“(Peter Pan) is at the same time a child himself and a child’s dream figure, the archetypal hero both of magical fairy tale and adventure story. Indeed, he is so archetypal that one almost begins to believe Barrie’s assertion about … Continue reading →

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Peter Pan: The Musicals

Posted on May 13, 2021 by stationmaster

My original plan was to only write about the theatrical movie versions of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan since, frankly, I like most of them better. But there have been so many filmed versions of Carolyn Leigh and Mark Charlap’s … Continue reading →

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Which Friday Is the Freakiest? Candidates 3 and 4

Posted on April 30, 2021 by stationmaster

One Final Attempt to Understand What Goes On in Your Head: Freaky Friday (2003) Only eight years after the 1995 Freaky Friday, Disney released another remake, into cinemas this time, from director Mark Waters and screenwriters Leslie Dixon and Heather … Continue reading →

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Which Friday is the Freakiest? Candidates 1 and 2

Posted on April 27, 2021 by stationmaster

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Many more people know the premise of Freaky … Continue reading →

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