Talkie Tuesday: Mulan 1998

 

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

 

Hello everyone!

 

After a fun-filled October where we explored the different books to choose from for fall reads (and didn't even make a dent, let me tell you), it's back to the good old usual blog posts, which consist, but are not limited to, movies and books.

 

And of course, The Mandalorian has just started streaming again!

 

If you haven't yet seen the silver bucket head and his adorable green side-kick, I suggest you do, they're basically the best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe by Disney in a long, long time.

 

But I digress.

 

BEFORE I went on my Booktober binge here, I wrote up a review about the newly released Mulan. This would be the 2020 one, mind, and, yes, it's about as good as reviews make it, which is to say, not so good.

 

Since I needed to cleanse my palate after watching that confusion, I went right back to the very first Disney movie I ever saw in cinemas, and I was about nine or ten years old at the time, let me tell you. Nine going on ten, and you see the big expanse of white with the Huns suddenly rushing down, is SOMETHING.

 

The 1998 version of Mulan is something else.

 

Talkie Tuesday: The Great Wall

"Kill the Queen - or we all die."

Hello everyone!

I'm making quite a dent in my movie reviews, I've noticed, looking at the ones still waiting on the to be reviewed pile, which makes me quite happy. Plus, I still have a ton of them waiting in the to be watched pile so I'm not even remotely worried about running out of material! 

Plus, I've just come to a decision.

As DIVA, or the European version of Hallmark Channel, has been channelling its inner-Christmas Elf since November 6th, I will be doing Christmas movie reviews as soon as December hits. Who knows? I may gather enough of them to be able to do both Tuesday AND Saturday blog posts as reviews!

But anyway.

The movie I picked for tonight is one of Matt Damon's recent ones where, post-Bourne, we try to envision him as something other than a CIA agent gone rogue. The Great Wall might have a lot to show in terms of entertainment, but whether or not it actually delivers anything else ... I'll leave that up to you guys.