This morning I stumbled upon an interesting article on “Wired“: “Great Geek Debates: Disney Princesses vs. Hayao Miyazaki“. Author Erik Wecks ponders the disadvantages of his daughters’ growing up while looking up to Disney princesses as role models. He concludes that the majority of those girls embody a negative self-image for young girls [...]
Dwarves, princesses and witches seem to be everywhere these days. No matter where you turn, there’s bound to be some character right out of the brothers Grimm’s book. Have you noticed yet? Just around Halloween, American TV has started two new series with a strong link to fairytales. One of them is NBC’s Grimm, starring [...]
All I see is rotten bodies with a greenish hue. Dripping eyeballs and flaking skin. Their sounds are scary, crunching bones mingled with moaning that would be heartbreaking, came it not from an undead, no longer a person. They are shuffling, some with missing limbs, all of them dirty and probably stinking like the sixth [...]
Last night I was zapping through the channels in search of something good when I stopped at arte just as they showed their primetime preview. I’ve often watched their show Karambolage and various documenteries, but seldom any movies. Then it said “A detective moves into a retirement home and isn’t happy about it, but then [...]
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” adaptation begins and quickly pulls the audience into a fantastical world so unlike our own. Blue-eyed beasts, vast kingdoms, bearded warriors and fair maidens. But is it really so much unlike our own? Experienced Malta travellers might have excitedly clapped their hands screaming calmly recognized the wedding scene of barbar Khal [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of the crime-genre (except “die drei ???”). Dead guys’ chalk outlines? My heart doesn’t skip a beat. Bad-tempered men in trenchcoats? I couldn’t care less. But last night’s tv schedule didn’t offer lots of alternatives, so here I went, watching my first episode of CSI: Miami. Season 7′s (!) [...]
