eight tales, including"Sleeping Beauty", "Cinderella", and "Puss in Boots". But Perrault did not originally make up these stories; they were already quite popular in his day, and he only collected them. In 1729 there appeared an English translation of Perrault's collection, Robert Samber's...
Originally published on Nitehawk Cinema’s blog,Hatched(January 2014) Below is a text I wrote for Nitehawk on women in horror film in conjunction with the film program, Final Girl… “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”― Shirley Jac...
had not yet been driven out of Jerusalem; that they still held that stronghold; while in 2 Samuel v. 6, 7, we are told of the expulsion of the Jebusites by David, who made the place his capital from that time. The tradition that Samuel wrote the book rests on no adequate ...
3. I’m sure you guys saw thatSofia Coppola’s movie was greenlit by Universal–a live-actionLittle Mermaidmovie with a script from the woman who wroteEdward Scissorhands, which is of course one of the best movies ever. This project was already in development (though with Joe Wright) when...
If I wrote only one book review this month (that is now looking fairly certain) the book review I had to write was this one. Despite having another terrible month in blogging terms, I have enjoyed what I have been reading, and the highlight of the month has been this long awaited biog...
Festival. Proving her mettle as a skillful actress, Elle's resume boasts an array of diverse roles. She portrayed Princess Aurora in Disney's Maleficent series, a character originally brought to life in the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty. Her portrayal drew wide admiration and...
These two will never work together again. Their love-hate relationship snapped via text. Charlie Sheen fired his Anger Management co-star in a rage without sparing the c-word. He flipped out on her for criticizing his work ethic. Sheen, who is also the executive producer, abruptly wrote the...
I had a fickle heart to choose Lover or Speak Now for the last one because there are bunch of favorite songs in an album where she wrote every single track by her own. I repeat, by her own a.k.a. Taylor Swift only. She is a genius human being who could turn mean critics to Gra...
I have come to understand what Camus meant when he wrote ‘In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ This column was originally commissioned by Verve magazine in New Zealand. Calorific waves and a botanic feast in Philadelphia ...
Cinematographer-turned-action director Jan De Bont followed 1994’s “Speed” with this movie about storm-chasers. It was thesecond-highest-grossing film of the year, bested only by “Independence Day.” Author Michael Crichton co-wrote the screenplay with then-wife Anne-Marie Martin and the ...