Happily Ever After: Snow White’s New Adventures

The Snow White story continues... Well, we definitely know this story. “The fairest of them all” girl with her hair as black as ebony, lips as red as the rose, and skin as white as snow, goes up against a mysterious and beautiful woman with magical powers and cold heart, a nameless (or anonymous?) prince,...

Grimm: What If Fairy Tales Were Real…

Once upon a time there lived an ordinary police detective named Nicholas ‘Nick’ Burkhardt, who is about to discover he has an extraordinary destiny that will turn his life upside down, bringing with it new steadfast friends and deadly enemies. Welcome to the TV show Grimm, a world where the mythical figures depicted in fairy...

Don’t Go Into the Woods: Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters

Once upon a time, many years ago, a father left his two children in the woods and vanished into the darkness. On their way through the sinister trees, the brother and sister came upon a house made of gingerbread. Inside lived a witch who attempted to fatten up the boy for her table, and sent...

Signed Sealed Delivered

By Kirsty Pearce While it may appear that the physical act of sitting down and putting pen to paper is a lost art form in this day and age, this is not the case for the four main characters of the Hallmark series Signed Sealed Delivered. Giving themselves the nickname the Postables, Oliver O’Toole, Shane...

Bonded by Words: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Rachel Kovaciny Please note: This article will discuss the book by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, not the 2018 film based on the book. I love stories that involve World War Two. All my friends know this. Ten years ago, one friend recommended I read a book with a really long, strange title: The...

Shopping for Mail: The Letters of The Shop Around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail

By Rachel Sexton Love letters can be effective things... on the page. Readers can pore over them and swoon. On screen, however, they can prove a visually tricky proposition. Watching someone write isn’t exciting. Same goes for typing. At the same time, there is an emotional truth in love letters that gives a romance more...

Lark Rise to Candleford: A Woman Named Dorcas Lane

By Charity Bishop One of my favorite female characters lives the charming town of Candleford, on the edge of the small community of Lark Rise. Her name is Dorcas Lane and she runs the Post Office. Dorcas is a romantic, a meddler with tact, and a woman who loves every one of her too-many-to-count “one...

Seduction Ends in Destruction: Dangerous Liaisons

By Charity Bishop I wonder what Marie Antoinette thought, the first time she cracked open her brand new copy of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the most scandalous novel in France. She even had it bound in black without a title so no one would know she was reading it! No doubt she devoured it, discussed it...

World War II in Film

By Kirsty Pearce One of the most devastating events of the 1900s, World War II officially lasted from ‘39 to ’45. Although primarily a time of intense turmoil and unimaginable horror, it also simultaneously allowed for significant scientific and technological breakthroughs, heroic and daring acts of courage, and inspired some of the most heart-warming, heart-breaking...

An Opportunity for Hope: The Old West

It's no secret, I love the Old West...