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Book vs. Film Let The Right One In

A Swedish bestseller gets pared down to an acclaimed Swedish film that finds its freezing heart.

March 20, 2009 | 2:17pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Watchmen

So is the film as faithful to the book as everyone says? Yes. And no.

March 6, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

There's a surprisingly complicated mystery in Gary K. Wolf's comic novel, and it isn't the one from the film.

September 12, 2008 | 7:49am -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Fast Times At Ridgemont High

One has naked boobs, the other has twice as many comic vignettes. No surprise which is more interesting.

July 11, 2008 | 1:12am -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Graduate

Book + personality = classic.

May 30, 2008 | 11:51am -

Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Ruins

How do you make a killer plant scary? Apparently if you're making a movie based on a bestseller, you don't.

May 2, 2008 | 1:20pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Paranoid Park

This is what it's like to be a teenager: kinda dopey and kinda painful.

April 18, 2008 | 8:08pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Other Boleyn Girl

Was Anne Boleyn a vengeful sister or a psycho bitch? Depends on which version you check.

March 27, 2008 | 11:02pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Oil!

The 1927 novel that inspired There Will Be Blood could have been called There Will Be Ranting About The Evils Of Capitalism.

February 29, 2008 | 4:27pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Jumper

A morality tale becomes an anti-morality tale, but at least throws in some rad explosions.

February 21, 2008 | 11:04pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Into The Wild

One story seen from two perspectives: journalistic vs. idealistic.

February 14, 2008 | 10:36pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film Special Mega Bonus Edition: I Am Legend

One novella. Four films. How do they stack up?

February 8, 2008 | 12:00pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: Atonement

A film that's all on the outside meets a book that's all on the inside.

January 25, 2008 | 4:11pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

How a painstakingly collected series of thoughts became an excruciating biography.

January 11, 2008 | 4:03am -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Golden Compass

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.

December 17, 2007 | 2:15am -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: The Mist

One version has more monsters and a darker ending, one has more details and better characters. Guess which is which?

December 6, 2007 | 11:43pm -
Book vs. Film Book Vs. Film: No Country For Old Men

How does the book version of No Country For Old Men stack up against the new film version? The inaugural entry in a new column finds out.

November 27, 2007 | 4:02am -