The publishing industry often looks down its elitist nose at so-called “young adult” literature, but writers aiming at a teen audience have given us a lot of our most beloved stories and characters. Not just Harry Potter and his wonderful Hogwarts, but The Hobbit, The Wizard of Oz, Huckleberry Finn, The Chronicles of Narnia and so many more. And add to that the delightful trilogy that starts with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom…Read More
Review: Maleficent
There are no bad guys in movies any more, just good guys who are misunderstood or had terrible childhoods. Whether it’s the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, the band of car thieves in Gone in Sixty Seconds, or the terribly misunderstood, abused-as-a-child Norman Bates from Bates Motel (and thence Psycho) our society seems obsessed with trying to understand what causes people to be bad. And those Disney films we loved…Read More