By G. Connor Salter Irish animation company Cartoon Saloon may be the best animation company you’ve never heard of. Through their venture group Lighthouse Studios, they’ve contributed to several shows or films you’ve heard of…
World War II stories are always popular, but some are more iconic than others. The Hiding Place, Dutch watchmaker Corrie ten Boom’s 1971 autobiography of how her family helped smuggle approximately 800 Jews, is one…
In the 1980s, fantasy films were common but not always great. Many films got mixed reviews but have built an audience after the fact (Willow, Legend, Excalibur). Other films got polarizing reviews and are still…
Director Norman Stone (Shadowlands) tributes Clive Staples Lewis with a new biopic, this time treating “the shape of [his] early years” until his fully-conscious re-conversion to Christianity past his teenager atheism. Originally a theatrical play,…
~ By Edwin Woodruff Tait It’s a Wonderful Life has been in my mind a lot recently. Not least because a few weeks ago I had the privilege of playing George Bailey in the climactic…
There’s no question that George Lucas changed science fiction cinema when Star Wars premiered in 1977. Before, the sci-fi market consisted almost entirely of low-budget movies that weren’t treated as great or important mainstream entertainment…
I love fairies even if they are portrayed quite differently than what folklore says about them. I can enjoy a good movie or picture no matter what. One fairy of course is the famous Tinkerbell…
Author’s Note: There are several cuts and versions of the film Legend. My comments and impressions are based on the American theatrical release, which is the shortest version, running only 89 minutes, and features a…
The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television (or just storytelling generally) I’ve ever seen. I have not yet read the books by Hilary Mantel on which the…
(Directed by Norman Stone. Screenplay by Norman Stone, from a stage play by Max McLean. Produced by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts. https://www.cslewismovie.com/home/) C.S. Lewis continues to be one of the 20th century’s best…
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