Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.

"...and just started making kids movies. In his latest, Bedtime Stories, co-written by Matt Lopez and the Man Behind..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Bedtime Stories That Bite Back

Jennifer Kent discusses horror debut The Babadook

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bedtime Stories

Eric Rohmer's "Moral Tales" and "Proverbs and Fables"

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Peter and the Starcatcher

Zach Theatre's Peter and the Starcatcher brings storytelling magic to the tale of how Peter Pan came to be

"...Recall the last time someone told you a bedtime story. You crawled into bed, buried yourself under piles..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

News Roundup: Neverending Stories

Stickers, housing ordinances continue to attract debate

"...• Bedtime story reader, Churchill impersonator, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz..."

March 23, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's amiable bunny gets a CGI makeover.

"...Sony’s modernization of her wonderfully written and delightfully illustrated bedtime stories results in even a handful of children discovering..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Despicable Me

Steve Carell provides the voice of the supervillain Gru in this animated movie in which he plots to capture the moon.

"...him to accompany them to ballet lessons and read bedtime stories – as well as some flashbacks that reveal..."

July 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grown Ups

Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.

"...harried dad of Click, the other harried dad of Bedtime Stories, and Grown Ups’ successful (but harried) Hollywood agent..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Animation

This year's five nominees for the best animated short Oscar are available for viewing. This year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated shorts include “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” the latest stop-motion Claymation piece from Nick Park and Aardman; “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan; “The Lady and the Reaper" by Recio García; “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert; and the winning “Logorama” by the H5 collective.

"...series in which a cronish grandmother filters her grandchildren’s bedtime stories through her own deeply jaded outlook. Six minutes..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Postscripts

Bedtime Stories

"...edition of Say Goodnight to Illiteracy, a book of bedtime stories intended to raise money for literacy programs. This..."

May 30, 1997 Books Column by Lee Nichols

Once Upon a Time in Spain

Guillermo del Toro on fairy tales, facists, and everybody's new favorite movie

"...purest and original form, these were not simply sleepy-time stories for tiny tots but fearsome and fully codified oral..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Babadook

Tyro helmer Jennifer Kent conjures a disturbing spook story about a mother, a son, and an unnerving presence in their house

"...its original publication online on September 21, 2014. See "Bedtime Stories That Bite Back," Dec. 5, for an interview..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into the Woods

The Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, a pastiche of classic fairy tales turned on their heads, gets a thoroughly cinematic workout.

"...after is an elusive notion at best. It’s a bedtime story for grownups, one that first celebrates the traditional..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

How to Sleep Better and How to Fall Asleep?

10 tips to sleep better at night

"...you sleep. You can enjoy ambient sounds, nature sounds, bedtime stories, and, of course, guided sleep meditations. Calm is..."

Sept. 29, 2020 Events Post

Goosebumps

The ever-popular YA novels spring to life with Jack Black

"...so much commotion in this filmed pastiche of his stories that none of the movie’s fanciful fiends is remotely..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Postscripts

Professors... Aaaahh!

"...academic life. In fact, Hynes set out writing horror stories "just to amuse [him]self" and somehow, almost unbeknowst to..."

June 13, 1997 Books Column

Postscripts

Insomniacs Unite!

"...sick books to visit to the Children's Book Hospital. Bedtime Stories..."

June 6, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Ernest Cline Is Taking The Bridge to Bat City

Ready Player One author making kid lit debut

"...The story is inspired by bedtime stories that Cline would tell his own children. Here's..."

June 13, 2023 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Shelley Duvall, Erykah Badu To Be Honored at Texas Film Awards

Special screening lined up for Brewster McCloud

"...wonderful life to fairytales as host of Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories...."

Feb. 20, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Four Films in Search of a Cult

Retro releases and martial arts aim for new crowds

"...full review here, and catch our interview with Kent, Bedtime Stories that Bite Back...."

April 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mars Needs Moms

Based on a children's book by Berkely Breathed, this animated film looks good but lacks emotion.

"...pockets onto trousers for his Lost Boys and read bedtime stories to them, although Peter, no doubt, also had..."

March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Geisha and Other Books of 1997

Dusting off the Bookshelf

"...operative word in Barry Hannah's 1997 collection of short stories, High Lonesome (Publishers Group West, $12 paper). With rich..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Books Feature

Writing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in Austin

How local authors who work beyond the world we know meet, connect, and launch themselves into the business

"...group of people who just like to write scary stories."..."

July 14, 2017 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postscripts

Don't Expect a Photo-op

"...edition of Say Goodnight to Illiteracy, a book of bedtime stories intended to raise money for literacy programs. This..."

July 4, 1997 Books Column

Postscripts

"...tickets from Southwest Airlines. Also, writers wishing to submit stories for possible inclusion in Half Price Books' 1998 edition..."

June 20, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Q&A Hole: What Got You Hooked On the Weird Stuff?

Waiting for the manlike creature with the glowing eyes

"...Jennifer Juday: As a kid? I loved picture books..."

July 13, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Gina Chavez Tour Diary Numero Uno

U.S. State Department ambassadors stake Latin America

"...My favorite bedtime stories were tales from my parents’ adventures through Europe..."

April 1, 2016 Music Post by Gina Chavez

How Playfest's Bernadette Nason Got Hooked on Theatre

As Playfest begins its 10th season this week, the Chronicle turned to actor-storyteller Bernadette Nason, one of the longtime regular contributors to the festival, to see what part theatre played in her childhood and how it influenced her current work.

"..."My mother loved to read us bedtime stories. When we were little, my brother (Dominic), my..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Summer Reading

"...to a main character as we get during Schickler's novel-in-stories. He lives in the opulent Preemption apartments with James..."

July 27, 2001 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Live Shots

"...also a terrific songwriter. Taken together, her Lone Star stories and that fairytale voice have a powerful effect on..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Music Feature

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