Another challenge down! For this challenge, I decided to go the Devotee route, which was to read six books in six categories and watch one movie. I read/watched: With the exception of Coraline, I had all of these books lying about the house, as my BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I was actually […]
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Read for the Dream King Challenge. The illustrated script to the movie Mirrormask features Dave McKean’s storyboards for the movie alongside the script. There’s also a forward by Neil Gaiman, as well as an appendix containing the original back and forth conversations between the two that formed the basis for the movie idea. The movie
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Watched for the Dream King Challenge. After one aborted attempt (and frankly this attempt was very nearly aborted, as apparently all of southern Maine is taking shelter from the cold in movie theaters), we finally managed to see Coraline last night. I love this movie. I’d hoped to be able to read the book before
My BF is a huge Neil Gaiman fan, so we have a large variety of Neil Gaiman’s work here at the house. With Jessi at Casual Dread starting a Neil Gaiman themed challenge, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to delve into the parts of the collection I haven’t touched yet. There are four levels of participation
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Yesterday, not being much of a hordes of insane shoppers fan, and with the BF working, I decided to head into town to see Twilight. Of that, I’ll only say that I’m about fifteen years too old to be able to sit through that movie with a completely straight face. That being said, I did
Had another two movie week this week. It started on Thursday with Hellboy II, which is probably best described by the word charming. Not that I thought I’d be able to apply that word to this kind of movie, but then, I also didn’t think I’d get a Barry Manilow earworm out of it either.
I had a good movie weekend. On Friday night, spur of the moment, we decided to go see Wanted. I really enjoyed it. I’m told if you’re a fan of the original graphic novel, you may not like what they’ve done with the story, but I thought it worked. James McAvoy was great (and pulls
In a follow up to the Book to Movie reading challenge, I finally got around to watching the movie version of Steve Martin’s Shopgirl last night. I enjoyed the movie, but I liked the book better. Mirabelle’s interior life was much clearer in the book, and since this is what made her relationship with a
This book is a novelization of the movie starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley that came out four or so years ago. It’s a movie that didn’t received overly great reviews, though from what I’ve seen in my DVD extra viewing, and from the differences in the theatrical version and the director’s cut DVD version,
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Just got back from seeing Stardust. Loved it. I did read the book, but it was long enough ago that all but the main plot points have long since been buried in my memory, so I was able to watch it without remembering what was going on, which was great. Robert De Niro was fabulous