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Category: Film & TV

Film of the book: ‘Pinocchio’ (2022)

09/01/2023 nsford 4 Comments

Guillermo del Toro transforms Carlo Collodi’s 1883 morality tale into something completely different. It’s not really an adaptation, more of…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: Carlo Collodi, children's fiction, fantasy, films, Guillermo del Toro, reviews

Films I watched in 2022

29/12/2022 nsford 2 Comments

Here’s my now-traditional list of the films I watched this year! I’m not entirely sure how I managed to watch…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Little Women’ (1994)

09/12/2022 nsford 6 Comments

This is a lovely and spirited adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, directed by Gillian Armstrong with a screenplay…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, classics, fiction, films, Louisa May Alcott, reviews

Film of the book: ‘The Giver’ (2014)

12/11/2022 nsford 6 Comments

Lois Lowry’s 1993 award-winning YA novel is a dystopian story which, like all scarily plausible dystopias with vitally important messages,…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, dystopias, films, Lois Lowry, reviews, YA fiction

TV review: ‘The Americas with Simon Reeve’ (2019-22)

19/10/2022 nsford 9 Comments

“These have been the greatest journeys of my life,” Simon exclaims at the end of the second series. That is…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: reviews, Simon Reeve, travel, TV

Film of the book: ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ (2001)

09/10/2022 nsford Leave a comment

Only when I finally read the original book by Helen Fielding did I realise how the film is significantly different.…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, fiction, films, Helen Fielding, reviews

Film of the book: ‘The Graduate’ (1967)

10/09/2022 nsford Leave a comment

One of those very successful films which eclipse the original book. I don’t think I even knew of the 1963…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, Charles Webb, fiction, films, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Persuasion’ (2022)

09/08/2022 nsford 13 Comments

There was only one good thing about this film. The lovely black and white bunny which you see Anne holding…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, films, Jane Austen, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ (2016)

09/07/2022 nsford 2 Comments

This is the worst film I’ve ever seen. It cost a whopping $170 million to make but clearly could not…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, films, Lewis Carroll, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Emma’ (2020)

09/06/2022 nsford 7 Comments

This is a perky, if unnecessary, adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1815 novel. Directed by Autumn de Wilde (what a gorgeous…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, classics, films, Jane Austen, reviews

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