my reads: ‘The Passage’ by Justin Cronin
I admit I fell prey to the summer-blockbuster-read hype that got whipped up around *The Passage,* the first mainstream novel by literary writer Justin Cronin. Vampire novel! But sorta literary!
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question of the day: Which movies are better than the books they’re based upon?
It’s official: Daniel Craig has been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood English-language production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I still kinda don’t see the point of remaking the movie so soon — the Swedish-language version is fantastic — but there’s no escaping it now. But it got me thinking about movies … more…
the ‘Robin Hood’ that almost wasn’t…
We should have been so lucky. The U.K. box numbers are out, and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood fared much better on its nominal home ground (for all the Brit involvement, it’s still an American-funded production keyed to a Hollywood mindset). It earned £5.8 million this past weekend, the third best opening weekend for a film … more…
‘Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’ now available in ebook format
I am delighted to announce that the second prong — ebooks — of my plan to become Empress of the Internet has begun to be implemented. My book The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride, a long deconstruction of that cult-favorite film, is now available in multiple ebook formats via Smashwords. You can read … more…
books to movies: ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy
Whenever there’s a movie on the horizon that’s based on a book I’ve never read, I wrestle with the conundrum: Do I read that book before I see the movie, or do I hold off and approach the movie with a completely fresh eye? There’s never a single right answer to that question, but when … more…
something new to read for ‘Sex and the City’ fans
Remember that book Carrie reads from to Big in bed in Sex and the City: The Movie? It’s called Love Letters of Great Men, and it doesn’t exist… at least until now. British publisher Macmillan just published a collection of those real love letters. Look, it’s even pink: It doesn’t take a lot of digging … more…
‘The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride’: autographed copies
How to order my book, plain vanilla or autographed.
just what went wrong with DreamWorks, anyway?
Film critic Dan Kimmel’s new book ‘The Dream Team’ looks at the rise and fall of the first new movie studio since 1919…
