Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Actors' Looks and Suspension of Disbelief

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THE MUSIC MAN (1962) is one of my favorite musical films. (I just ignore the unlikelihood of a happily-ever-after for Harold Hill and Marian...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

RavenCon 18

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RavenCon occurred this past weekend in a hotel near Richmond, Virginia. The weather was a bit weird for Virginia in late April. While the da...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

ICFA 46

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The 46th annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts was held in its usual Orlando hotel last week. Guests of honor were Si...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Language in Historical Fiction

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I've just finished watching Season Four of THE CHOSEN, the streaming series about Jesus and his followers. (It seems likely the title re...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Do Spoilers Really Spoil?

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article exploring whether advance exposure to spoilers actually makes the experience of r...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Grumbling About Adaptations

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The second season of the current INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE series has begun. I'm ambivalent about this project. It has lots to admire. ...
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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Modernizing Scrooge

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Many of Shakespeare's plays have been transmuted into modern settings, such as WEST SIDE STORY (from ROMEO AND JULIET), SHE'S THE MA...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Karen Wiesner: Fiction Series So Big, They Cross Multimedia Platforms: The Witcher Series

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Fiction Series So Big, They Cross Multimedia Platforms: The Witcher Series, created by Andrzej Sapkowski by Karen Wiesner In this articl...
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Thursday, October 06, 2022

Books to Films (Again)

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The premiere of the AMC miniseries of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE set me thinking, again, about film adaptations of print fic...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Fiction About Creating Fiction

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This week I watched the Fred Astaire musical THE BAND WAGON. The plot (such as it is) revolves around a lighthearted musical play the Fred A...