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Shadow and Bone: A Good Fantasy Adaptation?
The Potter fandom, and the Hunger Games fandom are the first to spring to mind when thinking of the most successful adaptations. But as in every translation there’s always some plot points changed (much to the dismay of the avid book lovers), either for the ease and flow of the story on screen or to be more relevant to the times…
Russell T Davies: It’s A Sin and the Importance of Sharing Stories
… I contributed to the 6.5 million viewers who watched his latest project It’s A Sin in its entirety, a record breaking statistic for Channel 4 who declared the show their “most binged new series ever.”…Davies is revealing unheard stories, they are the stories of his youth, of his friends, and most importantly of the young men lost in the AIDS epidemic.
BRIDGERTON: Charming or charmless?
Netflix’s new show, based on a series of books by Julia Quinn, is their new incomparable. The show has taken the world by storm (perhaps for us being bored and confined), raising a few eyebrows…
Breaking out of Break Out Rooms
Anastasija not only speaks about the awkwardness of breakout rooms, but alludes to some wise words in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”. We’ll leave you with this one specific quote: “why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about [bs] in order to feel comfortable?”
Make The Bake Off Great Again
If you’re anything like me, you’re unhealthily fixated with The Great British Bake Off.
Quantum Film Studies
Tell me how often you’ve seen this – a sci-fi movie needs to justify its plot so in a 30-second scene some “scientist” in a lab coat throws the word quantum in an overlong sentence and the movie just moves on. WELL SCREW THAT! The movie can’t continue until I know exactly what the word quantum even means, much less if that made sense! I am that guy who ruins movie nights, and they let me write an article!
How Television Saved 2016
Bake Off reminds us that despite the tensions between people, deep down everyone rooting for each other and wants one another to do well. Meanwhile, Planet Earth II reminds us that nature is cruel, but however bad life gets, there will always be a clip of a swimming sloth to cheer you up.