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Was Maleficent’s Sequel an Improvement on It?

Does anyone else remember my series about the 2014 movie Maleficent? Probably not. It didn’t get an enthusiastic reader response, but it was one of my favorite things to write, so for what will likely be my last Halloween-themed blog … 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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Special Anniversary Lookback: The Best of the Obscure

I admit it. I write about many famous stories on this blog. But one of my favorite things about it is drawing attention to works of art or entertainment about which many people haven’t heard. It gives me joy to … 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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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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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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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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The Adaptation Station’s Two-Year Anniversary Top Ten List (in Alphabetical Order)

Technically, it’s no longer this blog’s two-year anniversary, but I still felt like doing this list of the top ten movies/shows/plays about which I’ve blogged. Here are some disclaimers. If you’ve been following my blog and remember the other “list” … Continue reading

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The First Ever Adaptees Award Ceremony

Today is the two-year anniversary of The Adaptation Station.com! I wanted to do something special to commemorate it. My first idea was a post about my top ten adaptations about which I’ve blogged. My second was a post that was … Continue reading

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Animation Station: Disney’s Anim-Anthology Movies Part 4

Among the few who have reviewed all of the Disney anim-anthology movies from the 1940s, Fun and Fancy Free and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, each of which consists of two featurettes, seem to be regarded as the … Continue reading

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