Netflix's new prequel to The Dark Crystal is stunning in every sense.
Time Travel Questions About Fantastic Endgame
We went to see Avengers: Endgame this weekend (along with the rest of America). I understand that the movie was already on the long side, that the makers perhaps didn't want to run any longer, but I wish they had included a post-credits scene or two to answer a few of the time travel questions... Continue Reading →
Best Book-to-Movie Change: The Fellowship of the Rings
As a long-time Tolkien fan, I have strong opinions about Peter Jackson's movies about Middle Earth. Because I love the books so much, it's easy to see every deviation from the books as a flaw. But Jackson did make at least one change to the story that was for the better. His ending to The... Continue Reading →
To Share or Not To Share? A Lego Dilemma
This weekend, I splurged on the Fantastic Beasts Lego set Newt's Case of Magical Creatures. Bringing it into our house was a risky thing to do. I live with my 7-year-old nephew who is a Lego fanatic. As the only kid in the house, he sees everything around him as his, especially anything that is... Continue Reading →
Can A Story Have Too Much Magic?
SPOILER ALERT: Details from both the book and the movie The House with a Clock in its Walls below. When I found out that one of my favorite books ever, The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs, had been made into a movie, I was eager to see it despite my concern that... Continue Reading →
