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Book vs Movie: Great Expectations

It’s always best to go into any book-to-film adaptation with very low expectations. This is especially true of any Charles Dickens

I read Gone Girl when I was on vacation in California two years ago and I remember thinking at that

I think it’s obvious that I’m a big Tim Burton fan. I’ve written about a few of my favourites like Beetlejuice,

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

I remember exactly when I first read Girl with a Pearl Earring. I was going on a beach vacation and

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

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the movie Mermaids. I remember watching it as a kid, I

I read Beaches thinking, as many people do, that the book would be better than the movie. Here’s the thing, though:

I’m just going to put this out there: Stephen King is a brave son-of-a-bitch for writing a novel where essentially everything

When he was a kid, Tim Burton got this image in his head of a man with scissors for hands.