Movie adaptations of books are always as tricky thing. Sometimes, they work, as in the case of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, and sometimes, they don’t (how many times has Dune been remade?). I’m a big fan of speculative fiction, and there’s a lot of genre movies based on literature that’s going to be released this year. Here’s a brief roundup of some of them:
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Jonathan Safran Foer's constant use of innovative representations of ideas have gained him kind words from critics, but have also earned him a bit of an unpleasant reputation. He has been described as: “ insufferable, pretentious jerk, ” someone who is “hardly inventive”, or a writer who’s part of the...
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Warning: Heavy profanity.
Readers of the American comedy website Cracked.com would be familiar with the columnist John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty).
In a website filled with raucuous jokes and references to male genitalia, Cheese brings a darker touch to his articles (while still bringing the raucuous...
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The first part of Ang Kagila-gilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah was originally released in December 2002 and it was a product of its time. There was something about the comic that had resonance and daring: who would have thought that a comic with a gay protagonist, set in the province, ...
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These past two years have been great for the world’s most famous non-Batman fictional detective. 2009’s Sherlock Holmes , starring Robert Downey, Jr. in the titular role, shook up our perceptions of the snooty Sherlock, showing that the detective can hold his own not only in a battle of wits, but a ba...
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