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Lady in the Water dir. by

This is an odd film. A very odd film.

Ever since The Sixth Sense Shyamalan has been known as the “twist guy” for his film endings; I don’t think that is a fair description. And while you can say that Unbreakable, Signs and The Village all had twists to their endings, the twists weren’t all that important. The films were stories about people, truth, and finding out who you are. The Lady in the water continues in this vein, but at the same time it is a very different type of film. As Shyamalan has said, it is a bedtime story. A fairy tale, for children. So it is, of course, going to be more simplistic and yet at the same time it is more complicated than that.

17 August 2006
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Winter Rose by

ISBN: 1904233074 They said later that he rode into the village on a horse the color of buttermilk, but I saw him walk out of the wood Rois has always been...

14 June 2006
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Fables: Legends In Exile by

ISBN:1563899426 Once Upon a Time in a fictional land called New York City. Chapter One: Old Tales Revisited. In which we meet many of our principal players and get just the...

29 April 2006
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by

ISBN: 0060987529 Hobbling home under a mackeral sky, I came upon a group of children. A retelling, a reimagining of Cinderella, Maguire here attempt to create a more realistic picture, through...

9 February 2006
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Door in the Hedge by

ISBN: 0698119606 This is a collection of four short novellas, two of which are retellings of old fairy tales, the other two are originals. At least I think they are, I...

14 July 2005
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War of the Flowers by

ISBN: 1841491896 When I first started this book I have to admit that I wasn’t that caught up in it, but I think that may have been whatever mood I was...

26 July 2003
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Beauty by

Beauty is a retelling of many fairy tales, but with a slight agenda. And no I’m not really talking about a feminist slant here, but about an environmental one. The story...

3 March 2003
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