One of the best things about the first two Harry Potter films is how the actors’ outlooks match our imagination of them from the books so well. From Harry’s eyes which glisten with the ghosts of his past exude a haunting quality, Hermione’s bushy hair, McGonagall’s stern frown, to Dumbledore’s grand silver beard. The first film …
Watching My Fair Lady for the first time as an adult, I admit I’m impressed with this film on all accounts. What stands out the most is the complicated relationship between Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins and how they both develop throughout the course of the film. So, naturally, I went on to do some …
I was just a regular, satisfied TV viewer until the Ghost and Mrs. Muir hit me like a slap in the face. In a good way. Kind of like a reminder that there are many hidden gems in this era that I need to check out instead of wasting my time trying to justify, for …
OVERALL 8.5/10 The Once and Future King is a YA classic about King Arthur, divided into four books, each of which depicts a different time in Arthur’s life. In this post, I will briefly go over the good and bad of these books and determine whether it is worth one’s time. Spoiler: it is. WHAT …
The movie begins with King Arthur waiting for dawn and wondering how they have gotten to this point, where he has to wage war against his best friend and knight, Lancelot. Merlin pops in and out to help Arthur with this thought process, telling him to go back to the beginning, when he first met …
Camelot (1967) is a musical about King Arthur, based mostly on T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. The film spans from Arthur and Guinevere’s marriage to the beginning of the Round Table’s downfall. Starring the real Dumbledore Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and guy who looks nothing like Lancelot in the book. VERDICT This …
As far as classics go, they can do a lot of things to a reader – change your life, make you raise your brows, put you to sleep, etc. Because of these things, we definitely don’t want to start with something so long and tedious (or boring — let’s face it, a lot of them …
Translation by Simon Armitage HOW GOOD WAS IT? It goes without question that this story deserves a… 10/10 BASICALLY Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian story, translated from Middle English. On New Year’s Day at Camelot, King Arthur and his awesome knights gather at the Round Table for a feast. The king …
