Reviews & More

My blogging style has changed so I don't often feel inspired to write reviews in the same technical format that I initially did on this blog. It's been 10 years, so I guess I can't be surprised that things change! Instead I like to write expositions of a more analytical nature. Here are some works with the associated post(s) I've composed about them:

Actors:

James Stewart: Why Jimmy Stewart is My Favorite Actor

Books:

Lemony Snicket: Various Family Dynamics // // Lemony Snicket's centrality of siblings in stories

Persuasion - by Jane Austen: Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fANNEdango? // how Sabatini's novel and Austen's Persuasion oppose and complement each other

Scaramouche - by Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fANNEdango? // how Sabatini's novel and Austen's Persuasion oppose and complement each other

Movies:

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 5 Lessons from Cosmo Brown on How to Be the Perfect Best Friend

Star Wars: How I am Like Luke Skywalker

Whispering Smith (1948): Whispering Smith (1948) vs. Poldark (2015-19) // The 'Triangle of Regret' Trope

Music/Musicals:

Into the Woods (2014): My Ranking of all the Into the Woods (2014) Songs

Six the Musical: "I don't need your love, all I need is SIX" // 6 Technical Reasons I Love SIX

Twenty One Pilots: Why I Love Twenty One Pilots

TV Shows:

Cinderella and the Four Knights: First Impression Ramblings on Cinderella and the Four Knights

    Hotel del Luna: First Impression Ramblings on Hotel del Luna

Poldark: Whispering Smith (1948) vs. Poldark (2015-19) // The 'Triangle of Regret' Trope

Sanditon: First Impression Ramblings on Sanditon [Season 2]

But if you like that older format, below is a complete list of all of the films and books I have reviewed in my technical way. Some of these are rather...old. When I first started reviewing things I wasn't that good at it. I'm not saying that I'm the best movie reviewer ever, but now they make more sense then they did at first. Also, if they are before July 2017, most likely the images are not working. I'm working on fixing this, but it is taking a long time.

My personal favorite reviews that I've written are in bold. ^_^

Note: Just because I reviewed it does not mean that I liked it. Read my review to see if I did...

Movies:

#:

7th Heaven (1927)
17 Again (2009)

101 Dalmatians (1961)
101 Dalmatians (1996)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A:
Adam's Rib (1949)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Amazing Grace (2006)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Aristo-Cats (1970)

B:
Babe (1995)
La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] (1946)
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

The BFG (2016)
Big Jake (1971)

Brave (2012)

The Breakfast Club (1985)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Brigadoon (1954)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

C:
Casper (1995)
Chicken Run (2000)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Cinderella (1950)
Cinderella (2015)

Clouds (2020)

Clue (1985)
Coco (2017)
The Cowboy and The Lady (1938)

D:
The Dark Mirror (1946)
Despicable Me (2010)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

E:
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Elf (2003)
Enchanted (2007)
Ever After (1998)

F:
Fatima (2020)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1989)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Funny Face (1957)

G:
The General (1927)
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) 
Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Ziegfield (1936)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

H:
Halloweentown (1998)
Hercules (1997)

Holiday Inn (1942)
Home on the Range (2004)
Hook (1991)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

I:
In The Good Old Summertime (1949)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
The Inspector General (1949)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)

J:

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Jane Eyre (1934)
The Jungle Book (1967)

K:
Knives Out (2019)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

L:

Labyrinth (1986)

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Leap Year (2010)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Let's Dance (1950)

Letters to Juliet (2010)

Life With Father (1947)

Lilo and Stitch (2002)

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

The Little Mermaid (1989)

Little Women (2019)

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)

M:
The Man From Snowy River (1982)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Miss Congeniality (2000)
Miss Potter (2006)
Moana (2016)
Monkey Business (1952)
The Monuments Men (2014)
My Favorite Brunette (1947)

N:
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
National Velvet (1944)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

O:
Okko's Inn (2018)

P:

Paddy O'Day (1936)
Patton (1970)
Penelope (2006)
Peter Pan (1953)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Phenomenon (1996)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Port of New York (1949)

Pot o' Gold (1941)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (2016)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Proud Rebel (1958)

R:
R.V. (2006)
Ratatouille (2007)

Rio (2011)
Robin Hood (1991)
Robots (2005)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Royal Wedding (1951)

S:
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Scrooged (1988)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
Shergar (1999)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Shrek (2001)

Silk Stockings (1957)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Snow Queen (1992)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Spirited Away (2001)
Strange Magic (2015)
Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

T:
That Midnight Kiss (1949)
This Beautiful Fantastic (2017)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Tolkien (2019)
True Grit (1969)

W:
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
WALL-E (2008)

A Week Away (2021)
What About Bob? (1991)
White Christmas (1954)

Willow (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wonder Woman (2017)

Y:
You've Got Mail (1998)
Young at Heart (1954)

Z:
Zootopia (2016)


Movie/TV Series:

Combat!:
     Season 1, Episode 11: "A Day in June"


The Chosen:
     Season 1: 

          Pilot Episode: "The Shepherd", Episode 1: "I Have Called You By Name", Episode 2: "Shabbat", Episode 3: "Jesus Loves the Little Children", Episode 4: "The Rock on Which It Is Built", 

          Episode 5: "The Wedding Gift", Episode 6: "Indescribable Compassion", Episode 7: "Invitations", Episode 8: "I Am He".

The Incredibles (2004)
The Incredibles 2 (2018)


Indiana Jones:
     Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)


Julie and the Phantoms:

     Season 1: 

          Episode 1: "Wake Up" , Episode 2: "Bright", Episode 3: "Flying Solo"

          Episode 4: "I Got the Music", Episode 5: "The Other Side of Hollywood", Episode 6: "Finally Free"

          Episode 7: "Edge of Great", Episode 8: " Unsaid Emily", Episode 9: "Stand Tall".

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)

     The Avengers (2012)

     Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

     Black Panther (2018)

     The Iron Man trilogy: Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), & Iron Man 3 (2013).


Pirates of the Caribbean:
     Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
     Dead Man's Chest (2006)
     At World's End (2007)


Pride and Prejudice (1995): 

     Episodes One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six


Robin Hood BBC (2006-09):
     Season 1: 

          Episode 1: "Will You Tolerate This?" 

          Episode 2: "Sheriff Got Your Tongue?" 

          Episode 3: "Who Shot the Sheriff?"

          Episode 4: "Parenthood"

          Episode 5: "Turk Flu"

          Episode 6: "The Taxman Cometh"

          Episode 7: "Brothers in Arms"

          Episode 8: "Tattoo? What Tattoo?"

          Episode 9: "A Thing or Two About Loyalty"

          Episode 10: "Peace? Off!"

          Episode 11: "Dead Man Walking"

          Episode 12: "Return of the King"

          Episode 13: "A Clue: No".

     Season 2: 

          Episode 1: "Sisterhood"

          Episode 2: "The Booby and the Beast"

          Episode 3: "Childhood"

          Episode 4: "The Angel of Death"

          Episode 5: "Ducking and Diving"

          Episode 6: "For England!"

          Episode 7: "Show Me the Money!"

          Episode 8: "Get Carter!"

          Episode 9: "Lardner's Ring"

          Episode 10: "Walkabout"

          Episode 11: "Treasure of the Nation"

          Episode 12: "A Good Day to Die"

          Episode 13: "We are Robin Hood!".

     Season 3: 

          Episode 1: "Total Eclipse"

          Episode 2: "Cause and Effect"

          Episode 3: "Lost in Translation"

          Episode 4: "The Sins of Father"

          Episode 5: "Let the Games Commence"

          Episode 6: "Do You Love Me?"

          Episode 7: "Too Hot to Handle"

          Episode 8: "The King is Dead, Long Live the King..."

          Episode 9: "A Dangerous Deal"

          Episode 10: "Bad Blood"

          Episode 11: "The Enemy of my Enemy"

          Episode 12: "Something Worth Fighting For ~ Part 1"

          Episode 13: "Something Worth Fighting For ~ Part 2".

A Series of Unfortunate Events:

     Season 1: 

          Episode 1: "The Bad Beginning Part 1", Episode 2: "The Bad Beginning Part 2", 

          Episode 3: "The Reptile Room Part 1", Episode 4: "The Reptile Room Part 2",

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)


STAR WARS:

     I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

     II: Attack of the Clones (2002)

     III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

     IV: A New Hope (1977)
     V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
     VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
     VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
     VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
     IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

     + Rogue One: A STAR WARS Story (2016)
     + Solo: A STAR WARS Story (2018)

Twitches:
     Twitches (2005)

     Twitches Too (2007)


My specialty in Game Shows:

What's My Line?:
     Doris Day

     Esther Williams

     Kim Novak

     Mickey Rooney

     Olivia de Havilland


Books:

#:
2001: A Space Odyssey - by Arthur C. Clarke

A:

Agnes Grey - by Anne Brontë
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll

B:
Babe, the Gallant Pig - by Dick King-Smith
The BFG - by Roald Dahl

The Blue Castle - by L. M. Montgomery

C:
Christy - by Catherine Marshall (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

D:

Dandelion: The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit - by Sheelagh Mawe
Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine

E:
Emma - by Jane Austen (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Esperanza Rising - by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Emily of New Moon - by L. M. Montgomery (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

G:
Ghosts of Rockville: Search for the Dominion Glass - by Justin Heimberg
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (full review & mini review)

H:
Hattie Big Sky - by Kirby Larson
The Headless Cupid - by Zilpha Keatly Snider
Heidi - by Johanna Spyri (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
How We Rise - by Brooke Riley
Howl's Moving Castle - by Diana Wynne Jones
The Hundred and One Dalmatians - by Dodie Smith

I:

I, Coriander - by Sally Gardener
Inside Out and Back Again - by Thanhha Lai

J:
Johnny Tremain - by Esther Forbes
The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling

L:
Liesl and Po - by Lauren Oliver

The Lions of Little Rock - by Kristin Levine
Little Lord Fauntleroy - by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Mermaid - by Hans Christian Anderson

M:
Mansfield Park - by Jane Austen (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

The Metropolitans - by Carol Goodman

Moon Over Manifest - by Clare Vanderpool

P:
Pegasus - by Robin McKinley
The Penderwicks - by Jeanne Birdsall
Peter Pan - by J. M. Barrie

Prairie Lotus - by Linda Sue Park
Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
The Princess Bride - by S. Morgenstern and William Goldman

Q:
The Q - by Beth Brower

R: 

Rascal - by Sterling North

S:
Santa Cruise - by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark
Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls

T:
Till We Have Faces - by C. S. Lewis (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
To Kill A Mockingbird - by Harper Lee

W:
Wonderland Creek - by Lynn Austin


Book Series:

The Broken Prince series - by Kara Linaburg
      The Broken Prince
      The Crownless King


The Chronicles of Narnia - by C. S. Lewis
      The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
      The Silver Chair (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)


My Time In Amar - by Nicki Chapelway
     A Week of Werewolves, Faeries, and Fancy Dresses
     A Time of Trepidation, Pirates, and Lost Princesses


Once Upon a Western - by Rachel Kovaciny
      Cloaked
      Dancing and Doughnuts

      One Bad Apple


The Pirate Hunter Chronicles - by Sarah Rodecker and Helena George
      Ships, Secrets, and Survivors


 A Riddle in Ruby trilogy - by Kent Davis:

     A Riddle in Ruby

     The Changer's Key

     The Great Unravel

A Series of Unfortunate Events - by Lemony Snicket:

     The Bad Beginning

     The Reptile Room


Storybound  - by Marrisa Burt
     Storybound
     Story's End


Three Rancheros - by Kate DiCamillo:

     Raymie Nightingale

     Louisiana's Way Home

     Beverly, Right Here


The Wizard of Oz - by L. Frank Baum


Book vs. Movie reviews:

I like to compare the book to the movie (or TV show or mini series if available), so here are all the links to those reviews:

2001: A Space Odyssey
Alice in Wonderland
Babe
The BFG
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Howl's Moving Castle
The Jungle Book
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Little Mermaid
Peter Pan
Pride & Prejudice
The Princess Bride

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room
Summer of the Monkeys
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Wizard of Oz


Older vs. Newer reviews:

I also like to compare originals to remakes, so here all all of those links:

101 Dalmatians (1961 vs. 1996)
Cinderella (1950 vs. 2015)
Pride & Prejudice (1995 vs. 2005)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 vs. 2013)
Seventh Heaven (1927 vs. 1937)
The Shop Around the Corner vs. In the Good Old Summertime vs. You've Got Mail.



Mini Reviews: 

I don't go into a lot of detail, but give a good punch of my feelings about the work.

Movies:

Aladdin (2019)

Argentina, 1985 (2020)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades [English title: Bardo: False Chronicle of A Handful of Truths] (2022)

The Boy from Medellín (2020)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

El abrazo de la serpiente [English title: The Embrace of the Serpent] (2015)

El buen patron [English title: The Good Boss] (2021)

El conde [English title: The Count] (2023)

Father Stu (2022)

Güeros (2014)

How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World (2019)

Ixcanul (2015)

Knives Out (2019) (see also my full-length review)

La llorona (2019)

La noche de 12 años [English title: A Twelve Year's Night] (2018)

La teta asustada [English title: The Milk of Sorrow] (2009)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Little Women (2019) (see also my full-length review)

Living (2022)

Lo que arde [English title: Fire Will Come] (2019)

Los lobos [English title: The Wolves] (2019)

Los reyes del mundo [English title: Kings of the World] (2022)

Madres paralelas [English title: Parallel Mothers] (2021) 

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Memorias del subdesarrollo [English title: Memories of Underdevelopment] (1968)

Moonfall (2022)

Mother Teresa: No Greater Love (2022)

Neruda (2016)

No (2012)

Noche de fuego [English title: Prayers for the Stolen] (2021)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) (see also my full-length review)

Pájaros de verano [English title: Birds of Passage] (2018)

Retablo (2017)

Robin Hood (2018)

Roma (2018)

Smile (2022)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) (see also my full-length review)

Todo sobre mi madre [English title: All About My Mother] (1999)

Volver (2006)

Ya no estoy aquí [English title: I Am No Longer Here] (2020)

Musicals/Plays:

& Juliet

Hadestown

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Kimberly Akimbo

SIX

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Water for Elephants

Wicked

Also, are there any books or movies that you want be to review? I love getting reader requests, so comment below to let me know!

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