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Book vs Film: The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist was pretty much an instant bestseller when it came out in 1971, and when the movie

I’ve always loved the movie Misery. I used to watch it whenever it came on TV, and although I found it

I know, I know. The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. Shut up.

The first time I read Ghost World by Daniel Clowes was back in university (10+ years ago). It was actually

I’d heard of Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn prior to catching an advance screening of the film adaptation last month, but

Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was on my reading list for a very long time. I recently signed out

What we have here is a dirty soap opera. – Roger Ebert, in his 1967 review of the film

“In the course of my life I have had many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned

I’ve been on a real film noir kick recently, probably because I signed up for TCM’s Summer of Darkness. It’s

I’m sure I read The Secret Garden when I was a kid, but until I reread it recently I couldn’t