OMG!!!! When I heard Snow White was being transformed into a darker version of the fairy tale and that Kristen Stewart would play the lead (Ugh!), I didn’t have high hopes for Snow White and the Huntsman, but Charlize Theron steals the show as the Evil Queen in the new trailer and makes this a ‘must watch’ movie.
First question to ponder: Why are you interested in this adaptation?
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The Hobbit was the book that got me into reading, into fantasy, and into wanting to write my own stories. Its influence on my life has been far-reaching and profound. Of course I am going to see this movie when it comes out. (Actually, I take back the “of course.” There is no of course about it…I have yet to see a single film version of Pride and Prejudice because I have yet to see a cast list that I think can pull it off to my standards, which, if you’ve been reading my column for two years, you know are high. So it is not a given that I would see this film; therefore I am making a positive declaration: I am going to see this movie when it comes out.)
Holmes and Watson are back on the case and not even the fact that Watson is on his honeymoon will protect him from the madness that is Holmes’ genius as they lock horns with Professor Moriarty in these two new TV promos for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
It looks like one of the two male leads for Stephenie Meyer’s The Host has been found as Jake Abel gets ready to terrorize an alien… before he falls in love with her.
A new banner for Snow White and the Huntsman shows that not all fairy tales are bright and cheery as we get a dark (and artistic) look at Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron in a scene that borders on nightmare.
Races are cool and races that can result in death are even better, but you have a sure hit on your hands when you have the racers riding flesh-eating horses, so Warner Bros seems to know what they’re doing now that they’ve picked up Maggie Stiefvater’s YA novel, The Scorpio Races, for the big screen.
I love history. I love movies. And I really like fictionalized novels based on real historical events. So when we put those three items together we get this week’s list of greatness.
All the films on this list were based in some way on a novel that it was in turn based on a real historical event that took place. Continue reading
Hayley Atwell, who recently played Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger, is going Steampunk with a new role in The Return of Captain Nemo, but will a $10 million budget be enough to make the nautical adventure float?
Horror writer Stephen King is no stranger to having his work adapted to TV and movie screens, but some of those translations have been way less than great. Now, King’s Under the Dome is headed to Showtime and the page-to-screen adaptation should have potential to become awesome… as long as nobody messes it up.
When I wrote my latest book—detailing a few of the many, many ways our otherwise lovable husbands drive us apeshit crazy—naturally I hoped it would resonate with people. What I didn’t expect was to be accused of polygamy.
“Wait a minute. Are you married to my husband, too?” demanded one gal who saw the video trailer for If It Was Easy They’d Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married. Soon afterward, similar notes of support and commiseration began to pour in.
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