Cinderella Cinders: Directed by Frederick J. Ireland. With Alice Howell, Richard Smith, Rose Burkhardt, Mattie Fitzgerald. An unemployed cook takes her shot at working for an upper class family. When none of their fancy guests show up to a party, she and
This presented writer/director Richard Tanne with a distinct challenge. For “Southside” to work, audiences would need to see past two actors playing the first couple,who people are used to seeing in the media every day, and give themselves over to a fictionalized story of how a young ...
Why we love it: The story of the Little Mermaid focuses on sacrificial love. In it, the Sea King puts the needs of his daughter over his own. Open a dialogue with kids about a time when they put someone else’s needs over their own. “Rapunzel” by The Brothers Grimm “There once ...
Frozen Fever: Directed by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee. With Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad. On Anna's birthday, Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but Elsa's icy powers may put more than just the pa
Egghead Rides Again: Directed by Tex Avery. With Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sons of the Pioneers. City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looki
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‘Visiting Hours’ inThe News from Dublin: New Irish Short Stories, ed. Joseph O’Connor (London: Faber, 2011). A comic story (in the voice of a midwife) about two forms of fatherhood, with a nod to the Gospel of Luke. ‘Dear Lang’ inHow Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of ...
I don’t tell anyone about the nude pictures he has of me on his phone. I’m not half as humiliated about them as I am about the short story I sent him that is still sitting in his inbox, lonely and unread. My friend puts me into a taxi, gives the driver an...
"I found her in San Antonio. I was shooting GUESS Kids and she came with her son Daniel," he said. "I said, 'Who are you?' She said she was a waitress at Red Lobster. Everything I asked her she called me 'sir.' She had never done pictures before. I had the kids' photographe...
It was announced last weekend thatA-1 Pictures, the animation studio behind some of the most loved and frowned upon TV Anime of the last decade (Anohana,The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls,Sword Art Online), has produced an animation short called“Shelter the Animation”for Amer...