-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Owlay on Ranting About Cyrano (2021)
- stationmaster on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Part 3: The Rear End of a Minotaur
- Eustace on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Part 3: The Rear End of a Minotaur
- Eileen Harte on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) Part 3: The Rear End of a Minotaur
- stationmaster on Prince Caspian (2008) Part 6: Not Exactly What I Expected
Category Archives: Uncategorized
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 2: An Awfully Big Wardrobe
When we last left our heroes, they were eagerly anticipating exploring the grounds of their temporary home the next day. We cut from that to Lucy staring out the window at the thickly falling rain. Ironic changes of scene aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Comments Off on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 2: An Awfully Big Wardrobe
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Comments Off on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Part 1: We Have to Stick Together Now
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens
Comments Off on A Scrooge Girl in a Scrooge World
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens
Comments Off on An Unusually Unfaithful Christmas Carol
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Aladdin, Cinderella, Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Forth to Learn What Fear Was
Comments Off on Other Great Episodes of Faerie Tale Theatre
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Faerie Tale Theatre, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty
Comments Off on My Favorite Season of Faerie Tale Theatre
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Cinderella, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, musicals, Rapunzel
Comments Off on How Into the Woods (2014) is Messy but Worthwhile and Why That’s Weirdly Appropriate
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
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 18th century novels, Emma, Jane Austen
Comments Off on The Real Problem with Emma (2020)
You’re On the Big Screen, Charlie Brown! Part 3
Show the World What You Can Do: The Peanuts Movie (2015) When the news that Blue Sky Studios would be making a computer animated movie based on the Peanuts characters was announced, it was met with some skepticism. Blue Sky’s … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Peanuts
Comments Off on You’re On the Big Screen, Charlie Brown! Part 3
You’re on the Big Screen, Charlie Brown! Part 2
Free as Running Water, Fresh as Morning Dew: Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) The first line of this movie’s opening song is “it’s a new day,” and that’s appropriate since the third Peanuts film represents a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Peanuts
Comments Off on You’re on the Big Screen, Charlie Brown! Part 2