Read the Book: A moment on The Hobbit films
Adapting the works of fantasy progenitor J.R.R. Tolkien is, admittedly, a very tall order. Not only must the adaptations appease Tolkien’s incredibly adamant and meticulous fans but also introduce […]
Category Archives: Film Review
Watch the Film?: Meditation on Adaptation (The Maze Runner)
I am what you would call an advocate for the book. I remember once noting this to a professor who asked me why I thought that film was a lesser media […]
The Allure of Hollywood
I’m not sure of anything that boosts a book’s sales like a movie deal. The recent influx in teen books transformed into film has adults scrambling for copies of The Hunger […]
Maleficent – Revisionist Fairy Tale Motherhood
I realized that we Book Warriors hadn’t yet done a review of Maleficent, Disney’s newest Sleeping Beauty retelling from the perspective of the antagonist – Maleficent. Now, Sleeping Beauty was always one of my favourite movies […]
An Evening on The Forgotten Kingdom By @helplesotho and @mayfairtheatre
In a partnership between The Mayfair Theatre, a local indie cinema which is fabulous (and has a lifesize figurine of an Alien… from Alien among other things in it’s décor) […]
The Giver Adaptation (Review)
I, like so many out there, am a huge fan of Lois Lowry’s classic The Giver. Made to read it in school, I have since reread it and studied it […]
The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki (follow up post)
Earlier this week I posted about Hayao Miyazaki and the role that the environment plays in his works, and also the strength of his female heroines. Many of you lovely readers […]
Graphic Novels Genesis and Power: Who watches the Watchmen?
This month is graphic novels month, which I am very very excited for! Though I am not as much an aficionado of graphic novels as Yash, nor an online […]
Food in Utopia and Dystopia: A-Musing
Food. It’s just one of those things that is either taken for granted, or isn’t. It is a basic necessity, at the very bottom of Maslow’s triangle (with water and […]
Little Snow White Lost in the Woods
Now the poor child was all alone in the great forest, and so terrified that she looked at all the leaves on the trees, and did not know what to […]
