Many Britons of a certain age share a collective memory so firmly etched in their psyches that the very mention of it brings back childhood nightmares. In 1964, BBC television serialized a film about a haughty princess, a prince who is turned into a bear, a giant goldfish, and a really, really evil dwarf. So …
Category: Fantasy
The Story of Little Mook
It would be wrong to assume that every film that came out of the East had a didactic purpose or a communist message, just as it would be wrong to assume that every Hollywood film is intended to promote the joys of capitalism. The primary goal of some movies is to entertain, and that was …
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