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Serving Up: Jack the Giant Slayer
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor One of life’s beautiful mysteries is the ageless, universality of myths and fairytales. Why are these stories still so familiar to us century after century? It occurred to me, Joseph Campbell, the father of mythology, would be a good one to turn to on this subject, so I did a quick Google search to find out how he defines the difference between a myth and a fairytale – Campbell describes fairy tales, used interchangeably with “folk tale,”as pastime and as the myths whose meaning has been lost over time. I found a blog from a doctorate student in Mythology. She expresses myth as metaphors and…
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Feast Fit for a Dwarf – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Yes, I have seen and took pleasure in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. However, no, haven’t had a chance to watch any of the 3 again since seeing them in the theater. And no, I haven’t ever read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”. Although, I’ve added it to my Audible.com queue, or what they call “Wish List”. Therefore, I’m basically unqualified to truly review The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. So I went to TheOneRing.net – forged by and for fans of J.R.R Tolkien, to see what they had to say about this much anticipated prequel. There’s a lot there – including 12 things they like and dislike…
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Chernobyl Diaries
Oddly, it was an all food, no film, Memorial Weekend. Must do a triple feature screening day of MIB3, Dark Shadows and Snow White and the Huntsman very soon! However, last Thursday I did see Chernobyl Diaries, courtesy of Philadelphia Film Society member preview screenings. Did you know this movie is written by the same writer/director of the Paranormal Activity series? When Oren Peli directed the breakout horror hit Paranormal Activity in 2007, he had virtually no filmmaking experience, having come from a software programming background. Since then, however, the Israeli-born Peli has quickly become a horror-movie machine, producing (and occasionally writing) the Paranormal Activity sequels, the James Wan chiller…
