Here’s some teachers’ notes which were sent to schools in advance of the 1979 CBS broadcast of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe cartoon. I had a moment of nostalgia reading these discussion points. First, they seem very literary and in-depth compared to the notes which would be written for students today. I can’t …
There’s been only one animated version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and it was made by Bill Melendez of all people — who owned the same animation studio that made most of the Charlie Brown specials broadcast on American TV during the 1970s. If you were a child then, you probably have …
White by Richard Dyer Routledge, 1997 I had picked this book for last year’s reading challenge because of its one-word title. I read it then, but was too busy to write a review, so I’m going to do it now… the caveat being the book challenge is over. (I finally realized why I’ve been doing …
The more I got into last week’s Worldbuilding Wednesday post the more I realized how convoluted the history of Harley Quinn really is. For one thing, she wasn’t the Joker’s first female sidekick. That honor belongs to Duela Dent, who originated in 1976. She claimed to be the Joker’s daughter and wanted to join the …
If you like dinosaurs, or any other type of monster, Prehistoric Planet is the series for you. Airing on Apple+ in the U.S. but made in Great Britain, by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, it utilizes the latest and greatest CGI technology to bring these creatures back to life. It also employs the most …
In this post I’m going to do something I’ve wanted to do for a while: analyze Batman villain names. Batman has been all over the place for the past three decades, and plenty of folks have seen the shows, the movies, the parodies, the comics (which comprise only a small part of the franchise now), …
Wow, I feel old! Fifty years has passed since this cheeky film was released in 1975. It’s hard to explain, now, the effect this movie had on late Baby Boomer and Gen X geeks. It wasn’t apparent at the time of its release, which I remember was quick and quiet and certainly didn’t stick around …
The Fall of Númenor by J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. by Brian Sibley William Morrow, 2022 [ #23 Pixies and Dryads and Elves, oh my! : A high fantasy ] I am backposting this review, as I finished the book only a few days before the end of 2024. Let’s hope 2025 is a little …
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