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Humorist Ian Frazier dreamed up a court case starring Looney Tunes’ Wile E. Coyote as the plaintiff in a suit against Acme, the fictional manufacturer of the many specialised products the predator had tried in his eternal pursuit of the Road Runner. The list included “itching powder, giant kites, Burmese tiger traps, anvils and two hundred-foot rubber bands” and the injuries to Mr Coyote caused by these purchases had been serious enough to be “a major impediment” to his social life.
Memory is everything in Forgotten Island, an inventive celebration of friendship and magic and the sometimes painful ebb and flow of friendship from childhood to early adulthood.
To say the least, it’s a roundabout way to introduce a documentary on Marianne Faithfull, who died last year aged 78 but is not for the moment in much danger of being forgotten.
At least, that’s one takeaway from Practical Magic 2 members of a benign dynasty of witches who have dwelt in Massachusetts since Puritan days, the magic passing from one generation of women to the next.
Based on a novel by Alice Hoffman, the original Practical Magic didn’t altogether enchant either critics or the general public when it came out in 1998.
In the first film Sally’s daughter Kylie, played by Evan Rachel Wood, was aged around 11.
Named the Rhedosaurus, it starred in The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms in 1953.
Returning to a story it introduced in 2020 in the Paw Patrol TV series about a team of enterprising rescue dogs, it takes the pups to their own personal Jurassic Park.