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She also originated the role of Desiree Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music...thereby introducing the world to the composer's best-known song. Certainly, it's the one that's stood up the most outside the context of one of his shows.

A pal and I binge-watched it for a NYE hangout. Loved it! (Well, most of it. I wasn't madly in love with the first ep, the one with Nebula joining Nova Corps. I'm not a huge fan of the Blade Runner aesthetic, and never was even before I'd had it up to here with dystopias. But I did love the...

One of the biggest disappointments about the movie (besides the mishandling of what could have been a nuanced, redeemable villain) is the fact that the script and score didn't give Ariana DeBose the chance to show off the talents that won her an Oscar for THIS.

THIS. They kept focusing on it, but it didn't come to anything. I thought it would figure into a moment where he realizes that he has become just like the "selfish, greedy thieves" who destroyed his home and family. It's almost as if they were starting out to present an antagonist with...

Saw it last night. It was...pretty good. I didn't DISlike it, but it didn't bowl me over the way, say, Beauty and the Beast did thirty years ago from its very first song. I think part of what hampered it was that they were too busy trying to shoehorn in all sorts of Easter eggs to past movies...

I hope you're right about it being on Disney Plus in early October. I've planned my movie theme at the library where I work around it for the month of October...I'm going to be doing Disney Halloween movies that have appeal to adults as well as children. Haunted Mansion is going to be the last...

That, and the fact that they tried to smush two/three books of material into one movie. It was both too much and too little...too much plot density, and too little character development.

So I noticed. One thing I like is that "sea-captain ghost" scene where the spirit manifests in a flood of water. This could very well be an allusion to one of the earliest concepts...going back to the original "pirate-murders-his-wife" storyline that was developed for the very earliest drafts...

I was kind of wondering why they didn't release it during the "spooky season", but maybe it's better for it to be on Disney Plus by that time. The trailer looks very promising, so here's looking forward to it!

What I'd love to see is an adaptation of the stage version, which debuted in Germany but never had a Broadway run in its English translation. (I saw it last year at a local community theater, and the production was great.) This is much closer to the original book (sadder ending and all), with...

Always loved his demeanor during Hook's drama-queen "suicide attempt." You just know he's SO used to dealing with this by now.

As far as the potential horror aspects go...you can still pull off horror with a PG-13 rating. In fact, that kind of horror is more up my alley because it relies more on suspense and atmosphere than blood and guts. Many of the classic Hammer movies would probably fall into the PG-13 category...

X-Men movies...we've been there and done that. I'd much rather see a rebooted version of the Fantastic Four brought into the MCU, and done RIGHT this time. After all, they were the ones that started it all...the first "Marvel comic" that Stan Lee ever wrote (on Joan's encouragement). Plus, with...

Yup, that's the recently released one I meant. Seems the English-language dub is being released in the UK, but not in America yet from what I understand. It's still gotten far better reviews than the 2002 version. Will be worth looking into.

Willing to give it a chance. Maybe they'll find a way of incorporating some more concepts from Carlo Lorenzini/Collodi's original novel, although it might be a little hard given how much harsher it was, and how much more episodic. (Collodi was serializing it in a magazine, and actually killed...

I'll look forward to this, but what I'd really like to see is an adaptation of Lisa Jensen's excellent novel Alias Hook. It's definitely not for kids, but it's an interesting take on the Peter Pan mythos. In this version, Hook and his pirates are caught (due to a curse) in an endless cycle of...

Maybe some of you have seen those YouTube videos where people have posted snippets of Disney (or other) songs that match up with Marvel Cinematic Universe characters. (Do a YouTube search for "Marvel character Disney theme songs" and you'll see what I mean.) I get a bit of a kick out of those...

I like the idea...maybe work in a little more from the original play/novel and you could have something. (I've never gotten around to seeing the 2003 version, but I understand it's quite good. Mmmm...Jason Isaacs...)

I'd love to see this! As much as I loved Frozen, it's a shame they didn't stick with the original story. From what JimHillMedia has said, they had trouble developing the story into a workable screenplay because the original tale's ending was so anticlimactic--Kay and Gerda just walk out of the...

That's the one, all right! Some of the illustrations are in black and white and some are in color. Here's the cover of the edition I have: