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Category: Film & TV

‘Mirrors, Movies and Magic: 1980s Children’s Films Based on Books’ by N S Ford

25/09/2024 nsford Leave a comment

Do you love books, movies and the 80s? Then come with me on a delightful and dangerous quest to a…

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Posted in: Film & TV, Writing Filed under: books, children's fiction, fantasy, films, writing

Film of the book: ‘Minority Report’ (2002)

09/09/2024 nsford 2 Comments

An action-packed and entertainingly silly movie based on a long short story ‘The Minority Report’ by Philip K Dick which…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, Philip K Dick, reviews, science fiction

Film of the book: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (1966)

09/08/2024 nsford Leave a comment

An awfully odd, offbeat black-and-white adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic book, directed by Jonathan Miller for the BBC. It’s not…

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

Film of the book: ‘The Outsiders’ (1983, 2005)

09/07/2024 nsford Leave a comment

We have a librarian to thank for Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of S E Hinton’s novel, which was the result…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, reviews, S E Hinton, YA fiction

Confessions of a ‘box set’ addict

22/06/2024 nsford 2 Comments

Box sets are one of the marvels of on-demand TV streaming services. Instead of having to buy large collections of…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: TV

Film of the book: ‘The Monk’ (2011)

09/06/2024 nsford Leave a comment

We have a new candidate for ‘worst movie adaptation of a book’: Le moine, a French film directed by Dominik…

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

Film of the book: ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’ (1971)

09/05/2024 nsford 2 Comments

A delightful, quirky and underrated Disney film I have always enjoyed, which has several things in common with Mary Poppins:…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, children's fiction, fantasy, films, Mary Norton, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Bicentennial Man’ (1999)

09/04/2024 nsford Leave a comment

As movies about robots go, this one is very gentle. Maybe that’s why it was a box office disaster. It’s…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, films, Isaac Asimov, reviews, science fiction

TV review: ‘Gladiators’ UK series 1 (2024)

02/04/2024 nsford Leave a comment

“Contender, ready! Gladiator, ready! 3 – 2 – 1” – whistle! For the past couple of months, several million viewers…

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

Film of the book: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1939)

09/03/2024 nsford 2 Comments

A classic film from Fleischer Studios, this adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel has a similar look to Disney’s Snow…

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

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