Cinderfella
Cinderella gets gender-swapped in this 1960 comedy about a put-upon housekeeper called Fella (Jerry Lewis), a name unnecessary for the title to work. You might as well call him Jupiter. Brimming […]
Tag Archives: fairytale
Judy & Punch
The random property-to-make-into-a-film generator lands this week on Punch and Judy, the Sooty and Sweep of domestic violence. As the reversed title suggests, this Punch has been spiked with feminism […]
The Princess Bride
From the writer-director-duo behind Misery comes another film about a bedridden character (Fred Savage), like Misery for children (not in a maths sense). Like Annie Wilkes, the boy’s grandfather (Peter […]
Lady in the Water
My new film is the sequel to #Unbreakable AND #Split. It was always my dream to have both films collide in this third film. — M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) April […]
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls is not a sequel to An Inspector Calls but a magical realist film directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage) and written by Patrick Ness, adapted from his novel. It’s […]
Labyrinth
The sorely missed David Bowie, former Python Terry Jones and Muppet overlord Jim Henson join forces for Labyrinth – the adventures of a teenager called Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) as she journeys through a […]
Blancanieves
What’s this? Another Snow White movie? But we already had Snow White and the Hunstman and Mirror Mirror last year! Make something new already! Not so fast… In what has […]
