Presenting...Reader Requests! (ft. my review journal)

Hello, guys!

I claim to be a MovieCritic, yet I haven't written a review in almost a year. The last review I did was of both a book and a TV show, of A Series of Unfortunate Events 2: The Reptile Room - by Lemony Snicket, and that was published on July 11th, 2021. This isn't because I don't want to. But why exactly have I not done any since then? Well, this is mostly the fault of college and time. But, there have been moments when I have started typing up a review but stopped. Why?

I'm not sure about the interest in the topics. I love to talk about my favorite things, but I also love getting new opinions about said things, and that can only happen when people have seen it. I also love talking about books and movies people have never heard about to help spread the love, but I don't know if you guys have actually never heard of them? To help me out in this area, I'm incorporating you guys, my readers!

How will this work? I am introducing a new page on my blog called Requests! It is just as it sounds. I review a lot of books and movies, but I'm never sure if anyone is interested in any of them. This page is for some books and movies that I'm thinking about reviewing, and if you actually want to hear my thoughts on it, then you vote! Type which you would like to see me review in the comments, and when any of these get enough votes I'll do it. Maybe you love it, maybe you hate it, or maybe you've never heard of it but the title catches your fancy and you want to learn more. All of those are good excuses for requesting them!

I've gotten requests in the past, and to those of you who have done so, I'm working on them (if I haven't talked about them already)! Sometimes accessibility is the biggest issue there, but I will do my best. You guys helped inspire this idea, so pat yourselves on the back!

The Requests page right now is almost identical to this post, but the difference is you get a peak at how I review things! When I started reviewing things I immediately realized I needed to take notes. Guys, I take notes on everything, from lectures to homilies, so obviously I would need to do the same thing for movies and books. These were for quotes as well as thoughts! For ages my sisters would complain that I had little pieces of paper with this scribbled notes scattered all over the house. Starting in 2019, I decided to get more organized and dedicate a whole journal to these notes. It all started with Miss Potter (2006), and now, on June 16th, 2022, I used the last page with Much Ado About Nothing (1993). I get to start a new one!

Using my YouTube channel, I created a minute flip-through of this journal. Now, either my eyes are giving out, or the quality isn't that good. Sorry about that! I also apologize for the strange background; I took it outside to use a glass table to film through so I could use both my hands... And it's utterly quiet because I couldn't figure out any good music to put in the background...

In the first half of the video you may see some titles that I've already reviewed, so let me know which of those were your favorites! The full list for the next review possibilities are next.

(Keep your eyes peeled on my YouTube channel because a new fan video is coming out next Monday! I aim for the fourth of every month with hiatus during the school year).

Note: Just because I'm thinking about reviewing these doesn't mean that I like them. In some cases I'm thinking about ranting the opposite, but you won't know what my thoughts on it are until it happens...

Books:

100 Days of Sunlight - by Abbie Emmons
2010: Odyssey Two - by Arthur C. Clarke
The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green
Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy

The Book Thief - by Markus Zusak
Caddie Woodlawn - by Carol Ryrie Brink

Charlotte’s Web - by E. B. White
Christy - by Catherine Marshall

The Count of Monte Cristo - by Alexandre Dumas

Death on the Nile - by Agatha Christie

Dune - by Frank Herbert
Ella Enchanted - by Gail Carson Levine

Everything, Everything - by Nicola Yoon
Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury

Flipped - by Wendilen Van Draanen
Framed - by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frankenstein - by Mary Shelly

The Giver - by Lois Lowry

The Great Gatsby - by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heidi - by Johanna Spyri
Howard's End - by E. M. Forster

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha - by Miguel de Cervantes

The Isle of the Lost - by Melissa de la Cruz

The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini

Middlemarch - by George Elliot
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - by Kate DiCamillo

Miss Perigrine’s Home For Peculiar Children - by Ransom Riggs

Murder on the Orient Express - by Agatha Christie

My Name is Asher Lev - by Chaim Potok
North & South - by Elizabeth Gaskell

Persuasion - by Jane Austen
Rescue Road - by Gayle M. Irwin

Romeo and Juliet - by William Shakespeare

Spinning Silver - by Naomi Navok

The Truth About Twinkie Pie - by Kat Yeh

Wild Bird - by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Witches - by Roald Dahl
Wives & Daughters - by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Zookeeper’s Wife - by Diane Ackerman


Book Series':

Parenthesis indicate which in the series I am able to review at the time being.

All the Wrong Questions (1-4) - by Lemony Snicket

Artemis Fowl (1) - by Eoin Colfer

The Avonlea Chronicles (1-4) - by L. M. Montgomery

The Chronicles of Narnia (2-7) - by C. S. Lewis

Divergent (1) - by Veronica Roth

Fairy Tale Reform School (1-2) - by Jen Calonta

Flavia de Luce (1) - by Alan Bradly

Enola Holmes (1) - by Nancy Springer

The Great Brain (1-5) - by John D. Fitzgerald

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (1-5) - by Maryrose Wood

Keeper of the Lost Cities (1-3) - by Shannon Messanger

Lord Peter Wimsey (1) - by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Lunar Chronicles (1-3) - by Marissa Meyer

The Penderwicks (2) - by Jeanne Birdsall

A Series of Unfortunate Events (3-8) - by Lemony Snicket

Shadow and Bone (1-2) - by Leigh Bardugo

Six of Crows (aka The Dregs) (1-2) - by Leigh Bardugo 

Three Rancheros (1-2) - by Kate DiCamillo

Movies:

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

After the Thin Man (1936)

Albuquerque (1948)
Anastasia (1997)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Big Fish (2003)

The Black Cauldron (1985)

Black Widow (2021)

The Book of Life (2014)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Captain Blood (1935)
Captain Marvel (2019)

Chariots of Fire (1981)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Cinderella (2021)

Cloud 9 (2014)

Cold Mountain (2003)

The Court Jester (1956)

Death on the Nile (1978) & Death on the Nile (2022)
Descendants (2015)
Doctor Strange (2016)

Downton Abbey (2019)
Easter Parade (1948)

The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

Encanto (2021)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Eternals (2021)

Father Stu (2022)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Flipped (2010)
The Founder (2016)

Gladiator (2000)
Going My Way (1944)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

His Girl Friday (1940)

Home Alone (1990)

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
The Illusionist (2006)

In the Heights (2021)
Justice League (2017)

The King's Speech (2010)
A Knight’s Tale (2001)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

Leap (2018)
The LEGO NINGAGO Movie (2017)

Lemonade Mouth (2011)

The Lone Ranger (2013)
The Lorax (2012)

Luca (2021)
Made For Each Other (1939)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

The Mission (1986)

Monsters University (2013)

Moonfall (2022)

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Mulan (1998) & Mulan (2020)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) & Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
The Music Man (2003)
My Man Godfrey (1936) & My Man Godfrey (1957)

Nancy Drew (2007)
Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939)
Nanny McPhee (2005)

Newsies (1992)
Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Tomb (2014)

Of Gods and Men (aka Des Hommes et Des Dieux) (2011)

The Parent Trap (1961)

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

The Patriot (2000)

Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)
Pygmalion (1938)

Red Notice (2021)
Robin Hood (2010)
Sabrina (1995)

Shaggy Dog (1959)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Shark Tale (2004)
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1949)
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Spy Next Door (2010)

Stardust (2007)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)

Teen Beach Movie (2013)

Tick, Tick...BOOM (2021)
True Grit (2010)

Unicorn Store (2019)

Up (2009)

War Horse (2011)

Whispering Smith (1948)

Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)

Movie or TV Series':

Ant-Man (2015) & Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

The Avengers series (3-4)

The Back to the Future Trilogy

The Captain America Trilogy

Emma (2009)

Frozen (2013) & Frozen II (2019)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 (2014) & Vol. 2 (2017)

Legally Blonde (2001) & Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde (2003)

North & South (2004)
The Pink Panther (2003) & The Pink Panther 2 (2006)

Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Shanghai Noon (2000) & Shanghai Knights (2003)

Spider-man: Homecoming (2017) & Spider-man: Far From Home (2019)

The Thor Trilogy (er, how many there are out, because apparently we're getting a fourth one...)

WandaVision (2021)

Wreck it Ralph (2014) & Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Zombies (2018) & Zombies 2 (2020)

Except, I'm actually thankful.

Some of these that I particularly want to review are: Cinderella (2021), Enola Holmes (2020), The Book of Life (2014), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Encanto (2021), 100 Days of Sunlight, and Murder on the Orient Express in all its forms, and so, so, so many others. Am I just bonkers or is there some interest in any of those titles?

This page will be changing constantly as I take things off of the list to review them and put more on as I watch them. Also, see anything that isn't on this list that you want me to review? Let me know!

This is what I'll say once those requests start coming in.

I also want to say happy birthday to Olivia de Havilland who would have been 106 tomorrow! This is the first time I won't be able to get a post out to celebrate, but I haven't forgotten about my darling Livy. Any requests for her movies for July 1st, 2023?

Thanks for reading! What are some stories you want to talk about but haven't gotten around to it? How many of these movies have you seen and books have you read?

Chloe the MovieCritic

Presenting... 1001

Hello!
I am just here to say that after over two years of typing (not constantly), I have finally finished the list for 1001 Movie You Must See Before You Die. (I didn't come up with the list, I was just copying it from a book).

You can see that page by clicking HERE, clicking the tab at under my header, or clicking on the image on my sidebar.

If you do check it out, let me know how many you have watched. Thanks!

MovieCritic

Presenting...The Complete Sherlock Holmes!

Merry Christmas!
I am going to be taking a break for the next few days, but I did want to slip a post in. And it was May the last time I did one of these! Time flies, doesn't it?

The Complete Sherlock Holmes:

I have always loved to read. I never liked romances (until this last year), but I LOVE mysteries. I have read almost all the Nancy Drew books, started the Hardy Boys, and Agatha Christie books are some of my favorites. My dad knew this and thought I was ready for one of the greatest detectives! So, last Christmas ("I  gave you my heart" "STOP THAT, STOP THAT, STOP THAT!") he gave me this, my Sherlock Holmes collection!

This is the inside cover:

That is a normal sized pencil:

Here are what the stories look like:

There are nine books in it:

A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
His Last Bow
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

I have enjoyed reading it all year, and I am almost done with it!

Thank you for reading!!! Have a merry Christmas!!!

MovieCritic

Presenting...My Book Cover

Hello Everybody!
It has been a while since I have done one of these! Anyway, here I am presenting My Book Cover.
What? Your "book cover"? You took a book apart!?
*horror movie screams*
Whoa! That is not what happened! My older sister gave this to me on my last birthday, it PROTECTS the books.

If you have a paper back book, and if you sometimes sort of ACCIDENTALLY destroy the cover, this is for you!

My sister took two pieces of cardboard, and some cloth, and made this! You slip the front and back covers into the slots, and it protects them from being bent to pieces! Then, there are ties on the back so you can adjust it to any size book!

Plus, no one can see what you are reading.
My sister came up with this herself, and it is so useful! See even customized it, it has my initials, MC, on it!

Right now I have The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green, which I won in Hamlette's giveaway, Thank you so much Hamlette.

Sorry the pictures are not the best, it was late at night and I was really tired when I took these photos.

Thank you so much for reading! Do you have any special books or movies?

MovieCritic

Presenting... A Treasury of Classic Poetry

Hello Everyone!
It is that time of the month again for me to do one in my Presenting... series! Since it is National Poetry Month, I am doing my sister's Treasury of Classic Poetry! Once again, sorry the photos are not that good, I'm not the best photographer.

The cover is brown with bronze and gold designs.

My sister got this for Christmas 2015 from my dad.

On the back it says:
"A Treasury of Classic Poetry
The poems selected for this volume span nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. More than 300 of the best-loved poems in the English language are featured, representing more than fifty of the world's greatest poets including:

William Blake
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
John Keats
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Milton
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Poe
William Shakespeare
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats."

This is how wide it is, this is a standard pencil.
Today was Poem in your Pocket day! The poem I carried around was "Hope" is the thing with feathers - by Emily Dickinson. Did anyone else carry a poem around?
I'm sorry this was a very short and strange post.
Have a good day!

MovieCritic

Presenting... My Sister's Jane Austen Book

Hello!
I am here for the second in my Presenting... series. Since all the last week I have been particapating in Hamlette's I ❤ Austen Week, I am in an Austen mood, so I asked my sister if I could do her Jane Austen book that she got last Christmas. Here it is:

Jane Austen ~ Seven Novels:
(Owned by my sister)

Last year my dad gave this book to my sister. He knew how much she loves Austen, though he has only seen a few movies. So far my sister has already read Mansfield Park.

Here's the back.

This has all of her published works in it they are:
(As before, when I review them I will put their links here.)

Sense and Sensibility

Pride and Prejudice

Mansfield Park

Emma

Northanger Abbey

Persuasion

Lady Susan

This is how wide it is. That is a regular sized pencil. It has a very pretty yellow bookmark.

Right now, I am reading Pride & Prejudice from this book (Because I had such a blast reviewing the 1995 version for I ❤ Austen Week!).

I hope that you once again enjoyed this little series!!

MovieCritic

Presenting... My Charles Dickens Book

Hello!
I am here today to start something I am (hopefully) going to do each month! It will be where I show some sort of movie or book collection that I own, a series, a big book of several different novels/stories. I know right now it is kind of confusing, but I think it will work. Enjoy!

My Charles Dickens Book:

For Christmas 2015, by dad gave me this, a collection of five of Charles Dickens novels; Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, and Great Expectations.

This is how big it is. This is a standard size pencil.

I told him that I would read the whole thing by next Christmas. And I did! I still have to write a review on all these (they are sitting in my drafts) but when I do I will put the links here:

Oliver Twist

A Tale of Two Cities

David Copperfield

A Christmas Carol

Great Expectations

In a weird way I am very protective of this book. I had a dream about it getting destroyed.

I hope you all enjoy this little "series" I am starting!

MovieCritic