11 Actors Who Made These Famous Fictional Characters Their Own
Over here at the Book Blog, our main passion is books—but you know we also love us some movies. Especially…
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9 Books to Read If You Loved Disney’s Frozen
If you’ve had “Let it Go” stuck in your head since Disney’s Frozen premiered last year, you could probably use…
A 1980s Reading List to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Say Anything
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the day every girlfriend in America realized what she really wanted for her birthday…
Payback Time! 6 Movies We Want to See Made Into Books
You may as well get a teapot enchanted with Angela Lansbury’s voice to start singing about it; it’s a tale…
5 Books to Get You Through the Wait for the Veronica Mars Movie
Hey there, Marshmallows! Are you counting down the days to the Veronica Mars movie like I am? Of course you…
Essential Reading for Film Fans: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
Watching as the legendary Sidney Poitier walked across the stage at the Oscars last night to present an award 50…
5 More Books to Read Before They Come to a Theater Near You
There’s nothing worse than going to a movie with a group of friends, only to come out of it and…
16 Book-to-Movie Adaptations the Awards Shows Loved
The Oscars are all about the movies, but it’s usually a good night for book lovers too. This year, for…
6 Famous Books With Extremely Faithful Film Adaptations
Whenever a well-known novel is adapted for the silver screen, the conversation among book lovers inevitably drifts to the changes…
5 Reasons We Can’t Wait to See Ender’s Game
2013 has been a pretty good year at the movies for original science-fiction—think Oblivion, Elysium, Pacific Rim, and Gravity. But…
6 Reasons The Book Is (Almost Always) Better Than The Movie
It’s undeniable that a book original usually blasts its movie version out of the water. But why is that so?…
5 Ways The Wizard of Oz Changed En Route To the Big Screen
If you are reading this, I assume you are alive, and if you are alive, I assume you have seen…
Rosamund Pike Will Star Alongside Ben Affleck in David Fincher’s Gone Girl Adaptation
David Fincher has finally found a leading lady to star alongside Ben Affleck in his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling…
10 Things I Learned From Star Trek Into Darkness
Wisdom can be gained in the unlikeliest of places—like in a crowded movie theater, watching the new Star Trek movie…
Get Psyched for the Gatsby Premiere With 4 Amazing Trailers
Baz Lurhmann’s cinematic interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic The Great Gatsby hits theaters this Friday, May 10, and…
5 Writers Failed by the Film Industry
Hollywood feeds on writers. Now more than ever, the cinema awash in remakes, re-imaginings, sequels, and adaptations. For some writers,…