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February 2013

February 03, 2013

In Space, No One Can Hear You Have a Mid-Faith Crisis

It's a beloved science fiction novel, full of adventure, suspense, terror, and questions about the...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

The Hunger Games: Did You Ask For Seconds, or Send It Back to the Kitchen?

Time for a post-game show on The Hunger Games. What did you think of the...

July 2012

July 09, 2012

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

[July 2012 Update: In the buzz of recent Hollywood news, we've learned that Jennifer Connelly...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

Madeleine L’Engle goes to the movies.

A few weeks back on my Facebook page, I said I'd have news for fans...

June 2010

June 22, 2010

“The Great Divorce” on the Big Screen?

Variety reports: Mpower Pictures ("The Stoning of Soraya M.") and Beloved Pictures are teaming to...

May 2010

May 19, 2010

Adaptation (2002)

May 2010 Update: This review is eight years old. It's been off of the website...

March 2010

March 19, 2010

Stockwell Takes On L’Engle, DiCamillo, Miyazaki. [-updated-]

[THIS POST HAS BEEN REVISED TO CORRECT AN ERROR. Bedrock Pictures is not necessarily making...

January 2010

January 11, 2010

What’s Your Favorite Stage-to-Screen Adaptation?

Casablanca? Henry IV? Ordet? Join me in celebrating the birthday of Ron Reed, the Artistic...

August 2009

August 26, 2009

Dawn-Treading Where They Shouldn’t?

Let's just be clear. These Narnia movies aren't supposed to be based on the books....

February 2009

February 17, 2009

“Life of Pi” interests yet another talented director

First it was Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Then it was M. Night Shyamalan. Now, Variety reports, Ang...

December 2008

December 13, 2008

“The Tale of Despereaux”: Read the Book. (Don’t Wait for the Movie.)

My review of The Tale of Despereaux is coming to Christianity Today Movies next Friday....

May 2008

May 15, 2008

DecentFilms on Prince Caspian: Lewis’s Themes and Ideas are “Largely Lost.”

When it comes to The Chronicles of Narnia films, well... I want them to be...

May 14, 2008

“The Defanging of Aslan”

Steven D. Greydanus interviews the men behind Prince Caspian. And he finds them making some...

February 2008

February 11, 2008

Specials: Reepicheep. Indy trailer. Katherine Heigl. Philip Yancey.

Today's specials concern a mouse, an archaeologist, the star of Gray's Anatomy, and one of...

September 2007

September 28, 2007

Susan Cooper’s “The Dark is Rising” Seeks a Title

First came the announcement: The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper's classic novel of fantasy and...

August 2007

August 28, 2007

Christ the Canceled

Looks like creative differences have buried the big-screen version of Anne Rice's Christ the Lord... at least...

July 2007

July 13, 2007

The Dark is… um… well…

Here's the trailer for The Dark is Rising. I've met a lot of fans of...

January 2007

January 15, 2007

“Children of Men”: Literary sabotage, or award-winning adaptation?

The debate continues: Did the screenwriters for Children of Men take a novel written by...

May 2006

May 18, 2006

Mike Johnson prepares "The Tale of Despereaux"

One of my favorite childrens' stories... the kind that's so good, adults should be reading...

April 2006

April 10, 2006

Will “Charlotte’s Web” Be Broken?

One of my worst film-adaptation nightmares looks like it's about ready to come true. Charlotte's...

January 2006

January 09, 2006

"Wild Thing" Spike Jonze has his new project…

According to Variety, Spike Jonze is the man that Warner Brothers is depending on to...

December 2005

December 12, 2005

Amy Wellborn on the Narnia Film

Amy Wellborn, one of my favorite bloggers, saw the Narnia film this weekend, and she...

December 11, 2005

Speaking of Disney disrespect to source material…

(via Chattaway's FilmChat.) Now Disney's meddling with the Hundred Acre Wood and replacing Christopher Robin...

June 2005

June 15, 2005

My Favorite Novel is Going to Be a Movie. Again.

Hmmm. From the director of Cube, Vincenzo Natali... Apparently it's going to be a television...

May 2005

May 01, 2005

Richard Linklater to direct "Fast Food Nation"

It seems to be a whole new frontier... converting popular non-fiction books into big screen...

December 2004

December 17, 2004

Guess who hates the SciFi Channel’s Earthsea?

The author. Here's Ursula LeGuin on "How the SciFi Channel Wrecked My Books"