Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Thursday, January 09, 2020

Adaptation Weirdness

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Has anyone else here watched the new DRACULA miniseries streaming on Netflix? This post includes spoilers on the assumption that by now anyo...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Inspired by a True Story

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I recently watched the movie THE GREEN BOOK, about a famous black concert pianist in the early 1960s who hires an Italian-American as a driv...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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Last Wednesday through Saturday, the 2019 ICFA met in Orlando. As usual, it was wonderful to spend four days in Florida in March. Days were ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Annihilation

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Last week, I watched the rather strange SF movie ANNIHILATION. (Spoilers ahead.) An anomalous phenomenon of unknown origin, labeled the Shim...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Reboots and Remakes

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You've probably heard about the projected "reboot" of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I'd call it a "remake" instead, ...
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Thursday, November 09, 2017

Spoilers

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Once upon a time, the only way to watch old movies was to wait for them to show up on late-night television or possibly on weekday afternoon...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

IT on FIlm

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I watched the theatrical movie of Stephen King's IT this week (more precisely, "IT: Chapter One"). To me, whether a film adapt...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Books and Their Movies

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THE DARK TOWER movie has arrived, based on Stephen King's multi-volume epic (eight novels plus numerous more or less closely tied-in sto...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

On "Maleficent"

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I've always been intrigued by stories that take the traditional villain, and re-write the tale from his, or her, point of view. In my t...
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