Tag: #disney
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Art Books
Aren’t art books great. You get more insight to some of your favorite shows or movies, see background art in full lush color, creator commentary, insight to production ideas and unseen art. It’s amazing to see how much thought and detail that goes into production. Obviously art books are objective since they usually cater to…
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Bravely Review
Here’s another one for International Princess Week and I think the princess in the spotlight today should be obvious. Especially since it’s titled Bravely. I’ll admit I came into this with low expectations as I was not much of a fan of the movie but it absolutely blew me out of the water. Split into…
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Long Live the Pumpkin Queen Review
Apparently this is Princess Week so it’s good timing to post my thoughts on the story I never knew I wanted. The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of those movies that was a pretty excellent standalone with a creepy aesthetic and memorable characters that you think its fine as a standalone. But this book expands…
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Top 5 Disney Fairies Books
My very very biased raking less based on story plots and more on who was my favorite fairy and hw pretty the illustrations were. 1. Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon by Lisa Papademetriou First off Rani because Rani was my favorite. The girl cut off her wings to save Neverland. She is amazing, also I…
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Jennifer Brody Interview
Jennifer Brody, pen name Vera Strange, the award winning sci-fi and horror author of The 13th Continuum, Deep Spectre 6 and the ongoing Disney Chills series kindly allowed me an interview. Here she talks about her previous career as CEO of Continuum Entertainment Group, her pivot to writing and inspiration for the genres. 1. Starting…
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Interview with Jake S. Friedman
Jake S. Friedman is animation historian who has written many articles and novels on the field from publications such as The Huffington Post, Animation Magazine, The Philadelphia Daily News etc. He has also worked in various occupations on several popular shows (Little Einsteins, Wonderpets to name a few) and is the official biographer of animation…
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Did you know. . .
These Disney movies were based on books. And I’m not talking about the classic fairytale princesses but. . . Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten The Rescuers by Margery Sharp (this was actually a series) 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (also has a sequel) Just a fun thing that I discovered at…
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Disney Descendants: School of Secrets Review
Unlike my post on the Isle of the Lost, this one will be an actual review of the series overall. Unlike the Isle of the Lost series, this has some leeway in escaping continuity issues. They are not to set up movie plots or examine the main characters. This focuses on side characters that appear…
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Isle of the Lost and the Difficulties of Continuity
Okay, I’ll admit when I first heard of the Descendants movies involving Kristen Chenworth way back in 2014, I had made fun of it. Especially the unimagenative names given to the children of the characters. I mean Evie – Evil Queen, Jay- Jafar, it just seemed so lazy. But then I read the first Isle…
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A Frozen Heart Review
As we all know when a popular movie comes out, we must have the movie in novelization form. How else will we learn what the characters are thinking? Even though it’s basically a rehash of what we already saw onscreen. Well, Elizabeth Rudnick’s book takes a creative angle in simply focusing on the point of…
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