Blogging La has news that Maila Nurmi, the original Vampira, has died. As she has no relatives the funeral is being arranged by friends after the legal proceedings have been sorted out.
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It’s weird what life reminds you to watch at times. I’ve been meaning to rewatch Tim Burton’s adaptation of Big Life (DVD) by Daniel Wallace (Book). My aunt called me with news that my father had had a deep vein thrombosis that popped on New Year’s. Since my passport has expired, I’m stuck here whilst […]
I was rewatching Season 2 of Buffy last night and it occured to me that the Surprise / Innocence episodes are perhap the true dark heart of the series. Much is made of the search for the truth of the First Slayer but that only explains one aspect.
The major underlying theme of Buffy is losing […]
Peter Jackson, according to the Guardian, will be the executive producer for the Hobbit films, which is probably the only sensible solution after the wars of words. The director, I gather, has not been named yet.
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The Times is running a podcast interview with Philip Pullman in which he discusses the recent film. The interview also discusses his literary influences, views on education and spirituality.
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Tim Burton is going to direct a version of the Alice in Wonderland stories and work will begin in 2008, according to an interview on scifi.com, commenting
“The stories are like drugs for children, you know?…It’s like, ‘Whoa, man.’ The imagery, they’ve never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it’s […]
Wired have posted a story about the making of the Golden Compass with its various effects and how it moved from book to film and follow up their earlier story. They’ve also got a picture story.
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The BBC site has a dual review of the Golden Compass from an atheist and a Catholic review taken the BBC World Service’s On Screen programme and it makes for an good comparison. The Catholic Review laments the bears but feels (I think like most sane people) that the Catholic League have gone nuts whilst […]
The alethiometer may tell us who is not telling the truth but it looks like a start of mixed bag reviews for the Golden Compass. The theme seems to be that the film world isn’t as rich narratively as the book world, something that I think was always going to be the case.
The […]
Just ahead of the premiere for the Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has hit out against Bill Donohoe, President of the league of North American Catholics, commenting in an interview with Newsweek “Why don’t we trust readers? Why don’t we trust filmgoers? Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits […]