Category: Film
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A Modest Comment
It's always a bad idea to complain about movies you haven't even watched. But in the case of the new film version of Gulliver's Travels, starring Jack Black, I'm going to do it anyway. The trailer looked horrid (short version: Jack Black doing his usual boorish stuff but with miniature sets and other actors composited…
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How I Did It #3: Return to Skull Island
This story has a complicated history. By rights it ought to have been the first entry in the "How I Did It" series, because I originally wrote it back in 1995, but it didn't actually get published until 2001. It's written in the form of an article for a low-budget movie magazine — an article…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 4
Episode IV: Ozpocalypse Now Having been given the mission to kill the Wicked Witch of the West, Colonel Willard — oops, I mean Dorothy — heads off into the wilds of Cambodia, or Winkie Country. There's no road, as the Wicked Witch has cut off her realm from the rest of Oz. Sadly, Dorothy doesn't…
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Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 2
Episode II: Incidents of Travel in Oz Dorothy's journey to the Emerald City is about what you remember from the movie. Yellow brick road, finds Scarecrow, finds Tin Woodman, meets Cowardly Lion. Sure, the Wizard can help you, off we go. The Cowardly Lion is a really big lion, presumably born in the usual way…
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OzBlogging: The Wizard of Oz, part 1
Ozblogging: this is the first in an irregular series of posts about L. Frank Baum's Oz books. I think Baum is unjustly neglected as a fantasy writer — though I also recognize his considerable shortcomings. These little essays are not heavy literary criticism. I'm not going digging for complicated and unlikely interpretations of the books…
The Cambias Digression 