Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

"Jangle" is a Middle English word that means to "talk excessively or noisily, squabble." This definition cannot be applied to our protagonist in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, the 2020 Netflix Christmas movie written and directed by David E. Talbert. When we meet Jeronicus Jangle, he is a toymaker on top of the world and is played in the opening scenes by Justin Cornwell. There is nothing he...

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Return to Oz

Return to Oz is not a sequel to The Wizard of Oz. It shares considerably less of the same DNA than, say, the new hit adaptation of Wicked. Viewers will recognize this almost immediately because within seconds, there is an obvious melancholy that might strike some as peculiar (if their only reference...