Adaptation

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Book Vs. Film: The Ruins

May 02, 2008

How do you make a killer plant scary? Apparently if you're making a movie based on a bestseller, you don't.
Book Vs. Film: Paranoid Park

Apr 18, 2008

This is what it's like to be a teenager: kinda dopey and kinda painful.
Book Vs. Film: Oil!

Feb 29, 2008

The 1927 novel that inspired There Will Be Blood could have been called There Will Be Ranting About The Evils Of Capitalism.
Book Vs. Film: Jumper

Feb 22, 2008

A morality tale becomes an anti-morality tale, but at least throws in some rad explosions.
Book Vs. Film: Into The Wild

Feb 14, 2008

One story seen from two perspectives: journalistic vs. idealistic.
Book Vs. Film Special Mega Bonus Edition: I Am Legend

Feb 08, 2008

One novella. Four films. How do they stack up?
Book Vs. Film: Atonement

Jan 25, 2008

A film that's all on the outside meets a book that's all on the inside.
Book Vs. Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Jan 11, 2008

How a painstakingly collected series of thoughts became an excruciating biography.
Book Vs. Film: The Golden Compass

Dec 17, 2007

The disappointing but dynamic film adaptation of a fantasy bestseller doesn't promise good things to come for the other two books in the series — if they make it to film at all.
Youth Without Youth

Dec 12, 2007

Director Francis Ford Coppola returns to filmmaking after a decade-long absence with this self-financed oddity about renewed youth.