Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s most famous novel, endures not just because it has proven endlessly adaptable—as a…
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Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep deviates wildly from the 2013 Stephen King novel that serves as its source material,…
The Goldfinch is a very pretty movie. That’s no shock, given the directing and cinematography team of John Crowley (B…
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It’s become widely accepted that a movie adapting a novel should use its source as a guide rather than a strict…
The young-adult books of John Bellairs were, above all else, a way for the late author to indulge in his fondness…
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A few years ago, I wrote an essay bemoaning the way Hollywood explores the subject of prejudice. Too often, I…
2006’s Sharp Objects announced Gillian Flynn as a major talent on the literary thriller scene. It was no surprise…
For all the variety in summer blockbusters, the category has a few attributes that seem pretty much mandatory…
In the way music fans would describe themselves as Beatles people or Elvis people, for a time film buffs would…
Brian Garfield’s 1972 book Death Wish was written as a challenge to audiences. The impulse behind its premise is…
When Die Hard was released in 1988, it was a rebuke to the kind of action film Hollywood was churning out to…
Not all great horror stories are “about” something, in the sense that their monster (or monster equivalent)…
Shortly after the election, there was a minor debate in literary circles about which classic dystopian novel better…