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…
Despite the grimness of the global pandemic, Spring is in the air, bringing flowers, sunshine and, of course, insects. Here…
Stephen King famously disliked this adaptation of his book. The main characters were changed significantly. So was the ending. Some…
This extremely successful adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel has a notorious reputation. I imagine it was very shocking when…