Peter Pan – Movie Review

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Whatever your thoughts upon hearing of yet another version of Peter Pan, you couldn’t have been more skeptical than I was. Did we really need another incarnation of the permanent child? But, I made a mistake in forming my expectations, and you might have as well. If you’ve read Barrie’s book, you know that the problem isn’t repeated tellings of his story in the movies, the problem is that … [Read more...]

Finding Neverland – Movie Review

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There is something different going on in a “children’s story” in which fairies are said to “fall down dead.”  They don’t “go away.”  They don’t even “die.”  No, they fall down dead.  This something different has been abandoned by film and stage attempts at Peter Pan for so many years that the spirit of the story has been diluted into near meaninglessness.  As an aside, … [Read more...]