Tag: magic

• TTT: 10 Slightly Creepy But Not Horrifying Halloween Movies

  October 25, 2022

  Film, Top Ten Tuesday

  Beauty and the Beast, Blancanieves, Burke and Hare, documentary, Exhumed A History of Zombies, fairy tales, foreign film, Halloween, Halloween movies, magic, Mary Shelley, Stuffed, Tale of Tales, The Frankenstein Complex, The Witches of Hollywood, Therapy for a Vampire, vampires, witches

  Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was a freebie related to Halloween. I love Halloween. The dress up and magic and witches and candy and caramel apples….so fantastic. One of my favorite things to do around this time of year is watch Halloween appropriate movies. But I’m not…

• From Page to Screen: Chocolat

  January 24, 2018

  Film

  book adaptations, Chocolat, Chocolat book, Chocolat film, chocolate, film adaptation, France, Joanne Harris, Judi Dench, magic, mystery

  Literature adaptation. It causes almost every reader to cringe, but I am totally obsessed with it. This feature looks at films and their book counterparts and analyses similarities and differences between the two. The goal is not to see which one is better, but to see what artistic decisions are made and what they bring…

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 2016 Releases I’m Really Excited About

  January 10, 2017

  Top Ten Tuesday

  art, books, debut novels, fiction, folktales, historical fiction, History, magic, nonfiction, NPR books, science, Top Ten Tuesday, women writers, YA

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is all about what 2016 releases we really meant to get to, but weren’t able to read for whatever reason. My reading is almost always at least a year (if not a century) behind, so I actually like waiting…