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Category Archives: Remakes
Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1. If you haven’t read it already and you want to understand this, you’d better do so. CCC 3: The Movie is Anti-Man/Anti-Romance I can’t blame people for expecting this since Rachel Zegler’s infamous … Continue reading
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Snow White (2025) Makes Me Neither Happy nor Grumpy Part 1
I never wanted this to be a Disney blog. I mean, I always wanted to do some blog posts about Disney movies since I’m a fan of fairy tales and classic children’s fantasies, many of which they’ve adapted, and I … Continue reading
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Three-Way Faceoff
In The Sound of Music‘s words, let’s start at the very beginning. Well, OK, not the very beginning. That would require getting into the complete oral and literary history of Cinderella. Let’s start with 1957 when CBS did a musical … 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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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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When Ebenezer Scrooge Met Frosty the Snowman
Note: I’ve been having unexpected trouble with this blog lately. For some reason, half the images in this post and in some other posts aren’t showing up, at least not on Microsoft Edge. They do seem to be visible on … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens, musicals, The Cricket on the Hearth
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Cinderella (2015): My Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
This isn’t exactly the most controversial choice for the best of Disney’s recent (and seemingly unending) line of remakes and updates of old material. I believe it was one of the better received ones. But it’s not a totally safe … Continue reading
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Aladdin (2019): My Second Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie
OK, I’ll cut to the chase. I find Will Smith’s Genie funnier than Robin Williams’s Genie. Note I said funnier, not more fun if I can make that distinction. Robin Williams’s Genie is probably more fun, but the only funny … Continue reading
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A Mild Defense of Disney’s Recent Line of Nostalgia Bait
It’s no secret that the Walt Disney company has been relying on remakes of their more popular older movies a lot lately. 2019 saw not one, not two, but four of them! (Aladdin, The Lion King, Dumbo and Lady and … Continue reading
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