![]() With Season 2 of Chapter Select tackling the God of War series, I have spent some time digging around my files and tweets regarding the Kratos and his slaughter of Olympus. This episode was originally recorded on October 13, 2021.Įpisode Cover Art Soldiers photo by Jaime Spaniol on Unsplash and designed by Max Roberts
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![]() The Professor's house was often toured by visitors, and the housekeeper, Mrs. ![]() " Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane, Knight of Narnia." ― Aslan It turned out to be an perfectly ordinary wardrobe, and Peter encouraged her to forget her joke. Everyone thought she was playing a game, but when she insisted, they followed her to a wardrobe kept all by itself in a spare room upstairs. The house had extensive grounds, but there were many rainy days that were dreary.ĭeciding to explore the house, they all split up, and when Lucy came back, she claimed to have been gone for hours. The children stayed at an old mansion belonging to Professor Kirke. Peter Pevensie lived in London, England until he and his siblings were evacuated to the countryside by train because of the air-raids of World War II. The White Witch Bombing of London and Refuge 4 Aslan's Country: The Phantom and What Followed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was a full-on classical-music nerd, playing the piano and trying to write my own compositions. Looking back, though, I’m sure that what really held me spellbound was the score, which, like that of “Star Wars,” was written by John Williams. The Disneyesque fireworks of the finale can’t hide the fact that the hero of the tale is abandoning his family in the grip of a monomaniacal obsession. It has a wildness, a madness that is missing from Spielberg’s subsequent movies. “Close Encounters” still strikes me as an amazing creation-a one-off fusion of blockbuster spectacle with the disheveled realism of nineteen-seventies filmmaking. ![]() I irritated friends by insisting that it was better than “Star Wars,” and followed the box-office grosses in the forlorn hope that my favorite would surpass its rival. ![]() “Close Encounters,” on the other hand, drew me back to the theatre-the late, great K-B Cinema, in Washington, D.C.-five or six times. Also, the trash-compactor scene scared me. Notwithstanding the fact that I was nine years old, I considered “Star Wars” a little childish. My favorite film of 1977 was not “Star Wars” but “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Steven Spielberg’s U.F.O fantasia. ![]() |
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