Arrival …um …arrived in US theaters over the weekend. Based on Ted Chiang’s Nebula and Sturgeon award winning novella, The Story of Your Life, the movie opened to mostly good … Continue reading By the Book: Arrival
November 3rd marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian DePalma’s instant classic Carrie. Based off Stephen King’s first published novel, the movie got a forgettable sequel (The Rage: Carrie … Continue reading By the Book: Carrie
One thing you can always count on in Hollywood is people are always looking for “the next <fill in the blank>,” so when the 2012 novel and 2014 film adaption Gone … Continue reading By the Book: The Girl on the Train
John Sturges’ 1960 western The Magnificent Seven is considered to be a masterpiece. The movie, based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, is one of the American Film Institutes top 100 … Continue reading By the Book: The Magnificent Seven
We are currently in the Season of the Sequel, the Age of the Adaptation, the Reign of the Reboot. While the entertainment world has always relied on the written word (and perhaps … Continue reading By The Book: Introductions
