Review of ‘Paddington: The Musical’: London features one of the finest family performances in recent years.
Theater Review Paddington: The Musical 2 hours 40 minutes (1 break). At the Savoy Theater in London. During a recent performance of Paddington: The Musical at London’s Savoy Theatre, I almost thought I saw the bear shed a tear. Of course, that’s impossible. Paddington is just a puppet. Yet, the craftsmanship behind this character, created […]
3 Reasons Families Will Adore ‘Paddington in Peru’
Paddington, Peru Not the best movie in the franchise (that Honor goes Paddington 2). Nevertheless, it maintains much of what has made Paddington the most live-action family-friendly franchise in recent film history: Charms. The family film genre is dominated by titles that rely on irony, playful putdowns and slapstick violence. But Paddington rejects all three […]
‘Wallace and Gromit’ return, ‘Paddington’ heads south, and the ‘Wolf Man’ goes on the prowl
Happy New Year! Also, welcome to Align Movie Guide. This is an easy-to-follow guide to what's worth seeing on the big screen. One of the better movies of 2024 was “The Apprentice,” which depicts the early years of a young Donald Trump (an excellent Sebastian Stan). The film, touted as “the movie President Trump doesn't […]
Did you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru | Science
Earlier today I gave you a puzzle about quipu, the Inca method of recording numbers with knots on a thread, practiced in Paddington, Peru. Here's the answer again. The Incas used quipus to record dates, taxes, and measurements, among other things. Knowledge of how quipus represented numbers was lost after the Spanish conquest until 1912, […]