What’s Love Got to Do with It?: The Fractured Fairy Tale of Love
In a world where we’re told love is a fairy tale, it can be awfully challenging to find a prince...
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Undine – Two Worlds
?If you leave me, I?ll have to kill you.? Those words are not an empty threat by a thwarted woman....
3.15 Retelling BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This week, Steve welcomes ScreenFish newbie Derek Wong to delve into the tale as old as time when they chat about Disney’s remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Can the 2017 version live up to the legacy of the original? What...
Beauty and the Beast – Now the Live Action Version
The film?s key message is found in the love story between Belle and the Beast. It teaches that love is found when we are open to one another as Belle and the Beast eventually open themselves to know and be known. But there is also the whole theme of how do we welcome those who are different from us. Failure to do so is what led to the Prince being transformed into the Beast in the first place.
The BFG – For the Child in Us All
I find it interesting that the same year Steven Spielberg brought us E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, children?s book author Roald Dahl published The BFG, a kind of bedtime fairy tale. Now Spielberg brings Dahl?s story to the big screen with all the visual magic it deserves.