A notorious box office failure, this was the first Disney animated film to have a PG rating. It had no…
Part of the channel ITV’s ‘Jane Austen season’ in 2007, this adaptation of the author’s last novel was decent enough…
Killer robots are about to take over the world in this action-packed film, based very loosely on Isaac Asimov’s book…
It’s a while since I read Bill Bryson’s brilliant and hilarious book A Walk in the Woods (first published in…
The Land Before Time (1988) is like a dinosaur version of Disney’s Bambi. It also seems to have influenced The…
Recently a number of films and TV shows have been removed from online streaming platforms due to what are sometimes…
George Orwell would have been impressed by this film, I’m sure. It’s very close to the book, with a lot…
I thought it would be fun to do an A-Z of my blog (too much time on my hands?) so…
John Green’s extremely successful YA book has translated to a compelling and heartbreaking romance film. It’s quite close to the…
Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief is a very good read. The film, however, is weird and tries too hard to…