Year: 2018

• Remake Review: The Philadelphia Story and High Society

  January 8, 2018

  Film

  adaptation, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, comedy, Film, film analysis, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, High Society, Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Louis Armstrong, movie remake, musical, screwball comedy, The Philadelphia Story, theater adaptation, True Love

  “The time to make up your mind about people is never.” There may be no type of adaptation more tricky to pull off than a remake. Unlike a more subtle retelling, a remake matches its subject–sometimes line for line and scene for scene. In many ways, remakes have more riding on them than an original…

• A 2017 Retrospective (plus some reading goals)

  January 5, 2018

  Reading Challenge

  blogging, books, new year’s goals, Reading

  Happy 2018, everyone. I hope that you had a good New Year. I spent New Year’s eve with my family, celebrating my Nana’s birthday, and then my husband and I spent New Year’s day driving back home from Portland. The New Year is always a great time to look back on the year behind you…