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These Specials Are Underrated, Charlie Brown

Posted on September 3, 2022 by stationmaster

Peanuts is awesome. Not only does it have a unique and extremely funny sense of humor, but its characters and images are like mythic archetypes that sum up aspects of the human experience. Do Sisyphus and his boulder represent the … Continue reading →

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Another List of Great Screenplays

Posted on August 5, 2022 by stationmaster

If you’ve been following this blog, you may remember I recently did a post about the scripts for the 2018 BBC miniseries of Les Misérables, which are available to read online. Sometime before then, I did a post about which … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 4

Posted on July 22, 2022 by stationmaster

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) I’ve made the claim that Dreamworks’s four hand-drawn animated films didn’t have a formula and I’ll stand by that, but it can be argued that they came in pairs. The Prince of Egypt … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 3

Posted on July 15, 2022 by stationmaster

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) Dreamworks’s third hand-drawn animated movie, which tells the story of a wild mustang in the yet to be tamed American West, presents me with one of the hardest challenges for a reviewer: something that … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 2

Posted on July 8, 2022 by stationmaster

The Road to El Dorado (2000) Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, the screenwriters for Dreamworks’s second hand-drawn animated film, have had their hands in kicking off some highly successful movie franchises, such as Aladdin, Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean. … Continue reading →

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Animation Station: Hand-Drawn Dreamworks Part 1

Posted on July 1, 2022 by stationmaster

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have guessed that I’m interested in the art of animation. This month rather than blogging about adaptations, I’m going to be blogging about a series of animated movies, some … Continue reading →

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The Taming of the Shakespeare

Posted on June 24, 2022 by stationmaster

As anyone familiar with Shakespeare should know, his early comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, is about two Paduan sisters. The younger one, Bianca, is sweet, demure and charming at least on the surface. The elder, Katharina, is shrewish, angry … Continue reading →

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The Highs and Lows of Andrew Davies’s Les Misérables

Posted on June 11, 2022 by stationmaster

One of the things for which I’m most grateful to the BBC Writers’ Room.com is their release of the shooting scripts for all six episodes of Andrew Davies’s 2018 miniseries adaptation of Les Misérables. Each script contains a host of … Continue reading →

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Mary Poppins Returns: My Third Favorite Disney Nostalgia Bait Movie

Posted on May 18, 2022 by stationmaster

I have a bit of a strange attitude towards sequel gaps. When a sequel is made to a popular movie that came out, say, ten or fifteen years ago, I’m skeptical that it can recapture its predecessor’s magic. But when … Continue reading →

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Top 5 Screenplays Covered by the Adaptation Station and some Honorable Mentions

Posted on April 16, 2022 by stationmaster

I’d like to celebrate the first anniversary of my blog by writing about something that interests me, scriptwriting. I’d better make some things clear about the following list. These are the top 5 scripts from movies about which I’ve blogged, … Continue reading →

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