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Shaun Collins (3 KP) rated I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 1: Madly Ever After in Books
Jan 12, 2018
Holy Schnikez, Scottie Young is bonkers! But in a good way. This eschews the fairy tale genre like the old Fractured Fairy Tale segments on Rocky and Bullwinkle, or the more recent Shrek, but it's more about attacking the tropes than specific stories. Attacking them with a big, sugar coated, double-bladed axe...
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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Raven Girl in Books
Oct 7, 2020
Here's a 21st Century fairy tale that mixes the classical with modernity. A delightful story that's also intriguing. WARNING: do NOT buy this as an eBook. If you want to read it, get it in hardcover. You can read my full review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2013/08/05/a-new-fairy-tale-ballet/
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Andrew Weil recommended Beauty and the Beast (1946) in Movies (curated)
The Craggus (360 KP) rated Greta (2019) in Movies
Apr 25, 2019
Greta (2019) is a dark urban feminist fairy tale masquerading as a B-movie potboiler.
Neil Jordan has taken the streets of New York City and turned them into the sinister forest of a dark urban fairy tale only this time, it’s the evil witch herself leaving the trail of breadcrumbs across the city – in the form of emerald green handbags – all the better to lure the unwary children to her home for (spiked) milk and cookies. It riffs on fairy tale tropes from Hansel and Gretel to Sleeping Beauty, with the magnificent (maleficent?) Isabelle Huppert weaving her terrible and terribly camp spell at the core of this poisoned Big Apple...
FULL REVIEW: bit.ly/CraggusGreta
FULL REVIEW: bit.ly/CraggusGreta