Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Talkie Tuesday: Bambi

 

"Love is a song that never ends."

 
Hello everyone!
 
I have no idea what prompted me to pull this particular movie up over the course of the weekend and re-watch it, because I hadn't touched it in literal decades, for a very simple reason.
 
It's got a DISTRESSING part within it that we can probably all agree made us sob.
 
But either way, this Sunday was when I curled up in bed and pulled up Disney Plus, just because.
 
In every other way, this movie is a reminder of how good the old, classic Disney animation used to be, without all this "progressive" nonsense stuffed in.
 
10/10, actually, when they make a CGI adaptation of this - and apparently they're working on it - there's going to be at least one of the three amigos who doesn't actually pair up with his mate because 'we're born for more than procreation' or some ridiculous thing like that.
 
I'm paraphrasing but, you get the idea.
 
Without further ado, let's look at Bambi.
 

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Talkie Tuesday: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

 

"Sometimes, the youngsters in the house show the right path to the elders in the family."

 
Hello everyone!
 
Welcome back ... again.
 
I'm not even going to apologize anymore.
 
At this point, it's safe to say that I'm in my Bollywood era, which means that I'm trying to cram as many of these into my psyche as I possibly can, within reason of being able to watch that is, since binge-watching anything is out of the question for me.
 
My eyes and head need breaks!
 
But this movie caught me right in the feels, and while I PROMISED myself I'd hit pause at the intermission (a regular, sure thing in these old Bollywood classics), I knew I didn't have work the next day so I kinda just ... kept watching. LOL.
 
I've since watched it two times already, and will probably do so again very soon. There's a reason this thing is called a classic! 
 
Let's have a look at Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.
 

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

The Little White Horse (Booktober)

 

"He is lost and gone and now I do not know

 If it was a little white horse that I saw,

 Or only a moonbeam astray in the silver night."

 

 
 
No fall reading list can ever be complete without something along the likes of this. A hidden valley somewhere in England; an old family mystery; and a little girl with a fierce belief in the good of this world, searching for the unicorn that will make everything right again. Elizabeth Goudge created a timeless classic with her Little White Horse fairytale, one that adults and children alike reach for on the daily. Even I do, and often, when the mists dance through my own home valley. Because who knows - maybe you'll be the one to see the little white horse, standing proudly and beckoning!
 
 
 
 
In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. But the enchanted valley of Moonacre is shadowed by a tragedy that happened years ago, and the memory of the Moon Princess and the mysterious little white horse. Determined to restore peace and happiness to the whole of Moonacre Valley, Maria finds herself involved with an ancient feud, and she discovers it is her destiny to end it and right the wrongs of her ancestors. But what can one solitary girl do? 
(from Goodreads)

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