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Tag Archives: fairy-tale films
Review of The Company of Wolves
If you’re interested in reading my thoughts on the 1984 film The Company of Wolves, check out the guest review I wrote for the Month of Horror series on my good friend Cameron Cook’s blog, Underrated or Misinterpreted. How could you … Continue reading →
Posted in Criticism & Reviews
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Tagged Angela Carter, Cameron Cook, fairy-tale films, horror films, Neil Jordan, The Company of Wolves (1984)
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Magpie Monday
“He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” ~Henry James Here are some shiny things that caught my eye … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday
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Tagged Action Comics #431, Akihiro Yanai, All Hallow's Read, AlphaBooks, alternative history (ideas), American English vs. British English, animation, anthologies, Audible.com, Axel Medellin Machain, Barbarann Garrand, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Towle, Bluebeard Tales from Around the World, blushing, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buttersafe, cake, Cameron Cook, candy (Hallowe'en), Captain America, Chris Dugas, Chuck Wendig, Click-Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman, contact juggling, Coraline, Cthulu, Daily Science Fiction, David B. Coe, DC Women Kicking Ass, Don't bore Nina!, Dracula, Emily Carroll, Evil Dead II (1987), Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings, fairy-tale films, False Positive, film trailers, flax-golden tales, folie à deux, Frankenstorm, Frozen (Disney), Gabriela Pereira, Ghosts in the Machines by Neil Gaiman, Gizmo, Grant Snider, Gremlins, Halloween II (2009), Hansel & Gretel, Heidi Anne Heiner, Henry James, His Face All Red by Emily Carroll, horror fiction, horror films, Hush, intestinal microbiota transplantation, jack-o'-lanterns, Jane Sprague, Jeremy Enecio, Jon Neill, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leite's Culinaria, London fog, Long Fingers in Dark Shadows by Erin Morgenstern, magic tricks, Marc Basile, microbiology, Mike Walton, monsters (Jewish), monsters (North American), monsters (sexy), My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, My Mother's Body by Christie Yant, Neil Gaiman, neuroscience, objective correlative, Obscurus Lupa, P. Craig Russell, Paranormal Activity, personal essay, Phone Booth by Holli Mintzer, placebo effect, portal fantasy, premenstrual syndrome, Project Runway, psychopathy, pumpkin carving, pumpkins, Ray Villafane, Rich Ferguson, serial killers, setting, shivers up the spine, Snickers, Snow White, SurLaLune Fairy Tales, Susan J. Morris, teeth, The Cannibal Innkeeper (Romania), The Chosen One by Huston Lowell, The Graveyard Book, The Lonton Lass, The Lord of Rosendal (Sweden), The New Kid Is No Angel by James Valvis, The Newsstand at Mike's Amazing World of Comics, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Shadowy Third by Ellen Glasgow, The Silk Nightcap, The Snow Queen, The Super Team Family Blog, The Terrible Old Man by H.P. Lovecraft, Thirteen at Table by Lord Dunsany, Thumbelina, Timothy Hooten, Tituba, Tom Gauld, Too Fond by Leanna Renee Hieber, Tor.com, toy collections, trolls, Trophy Wife by Samantha Murray, Troy Jensen, Walter Mitty, webcomics, Weird Fiction Review, Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket, Wicked Witch of the West, Wide Open by Deborah Coates, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray Harker, Willy Wonka, Wizart Animation, Wonder Woman, writing prompts, you (plural), zombies
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I came across Kris Kuksi‘s elaborately detailed sculptures about two years ago, and for some reason unknown even to me I didn’t do any further research on him. Clearly, … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged Alex Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed Meets Parkour in Real Life, Athenaeum by J★RYU, author photos, Awesome People Reading, Axel Medellin Machain, Ben Towle, bird funerals, book cover art, BookRiot, bookstores, Chuck Wendig, comic books (organization), Daily Science Fiction, Deepa Mehta, Divination & Delusion, Don't Write Comics, Downton Abbey (Season 3), El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Hand, Errantry: Strange Stories (cover art), fairy-tale films, fake foreign accents, film trailers, For They Heard the First Sound and Trembled by Jessica Breheny, Game of Thrones (theme song), Georgia O'Keeffe, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, J★RYU, John Bishop, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julie Ditrich, KellyThompson, Kris Kuksi, Le Parkour, Leah Palmer Preiss, Let's All Sing like the Birdies Sing by Paul G. Di Filippo, Lindsey Stirling, Marc Basile, Medusa, Michael Cunningham, Midnight's Children, Overheard at The Platonic Ideal Bar and Grill by Aimee Vanessa Blume, Paul Muad'Dib (Dune), Peter Hollens, post-genre, Rachelle Gardner, Richard Scarry, Rotofugi Gallery, Salman Rushdie, sculpture, sex (19th century euphemisms), sex (writing), sexual promiscuity, Small Beer Press, style guides, testosterone, The Ghost of You Haunted Me... by J★RYU (exhibit), The Mobius Garden by James Bambury, The Taste of Salt by Rachel Halpern, The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson (cover art), Trouble Magazine, Will Ludwigsen, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman (TV series), zombies
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Video Friday
I really enjoyed this short animation by Hyunjoo Song, but of course Little Red Riding Hood is one of my favorite fairy tales. Red, an unexpected take on the tale, was Song’s third-year film for CalArts (you should also check … Continue reading →
Posted in Video Friday
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Tagged animation, fairy-tale films, Hyunjoo Song, Little Red Riding Hood, Red, short films
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ More sad news last week: iconic author Ray Bradbury died June 5th at the age of 91. The interwebs were ablaze with appreciations, essays, obituaries, reflections and tributes, the … Continue reading →
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
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Tagged "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", Adam Mills, Alan Rickman, All the Wrong Questions, AlphaBooks, Apex Magazine, Awesome People Reading, Barack Obama, Ben Towle, Beyond Katrina, bisexuality, Blocked, Bonnie Zare, book shelves, bookcases, BookRiot, Cameron Cook, Carmina Burana, Carrie, Catherynne M. Valente, Charlize Theron, Chuck Wendig, Darmok, David Lynch, death, dioramas, Erik Martin, fairy-tale films, film trailers, flashmobs, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease continuum, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Level, Fragile Things, Game of Thrones, Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Hamish Linklater, horror fiction, Ian Withrow, io9, Jack Zipes, Jeff VanderMeer, John Crowley, John D. Boswell, John W. Doull Bookseller, Junot Díaz, Lego, Leigh Bardugo, Lemony Snicket, libraries, LitReactor, Locus, M.C. Escher, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Memory Palace, metaphors, Mirror Mirror, Mister Rogers, Mr. Peabody, Natasha Trethewey, Neil Gaiman, Nick Mamatas, Once Upon a Blog, Once Upon a Time, Paradoxymoron, Patrick Hughes, PBS, photography (ghost mother), Pittsburgh, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), readability-index calculator, Sam Wolk, SF Signal, Shadow and Bone, Sherman, Slinkachu, Snow White and the Huntsman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Stephen King, Thailand, The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, The Beat, The Garden of Your Mind, The Hanging Garden, The Ladies' Deposit, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Old Library Trinity College, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Symphony of Science, The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better than You Normally Do, The Washington Post, The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale, Theodora Goss, There Will Come Soft Rains, Time, Tor.com, U.S. Poet Laureate, Ultra Violet, Underwords, Wang Saen Suk Hell Park, Will Ludwigsen, writers (bad behavior), writers' workshops, xkcd
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