AdaptationSeptember 9, 2026
Dick wrote forty-four novels for cheap paperback money and died at fifty-three, months before the first film adaptation arrived. He asked one question so persistently that the whole culture now asks it with him: how would you know if what…
AdaptationJune 20, 2026
Verne gave Tom Ayrton thirty pages and no interior. This is his confession, taken in sessions after twelve years alone on Tabor Island, including what he did for his wife.
AdaptationJune 14, 2026
Dune: Part Three lands December 18, 2026, adapting Dune Messiah and closing Villeneuve's trilogy. A ranking of every Dune adaptation, and a look at what makes Herbert's monumental source so hard to film.
AdaptationJune 14, 2026
In 1954, Kirk Douglas brought Homer's wandering hero to the big screen, putting the Odyssey in front of a mass audience. A look at one of the oldest stories ever told and why it has survived for millennia.
AdaptationJune 14, 2026
Dickens gave us A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and the word Dickensian. I was forced to read him in school and hated it, and yet I watch every adaptation. A look at the gap between assigned reading and real love.
AdaptationJune 14, 2026
National Tolkien Reading Day is March 25. The boxed set I saved for, the boring opening I almost quit, the eagles plot hole, and what Tolkien taught me.
AdaptationJune 3, 2026
FBI trainee Clarice Starling and the imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter in a duel of intellect and exposure. Tense, intelligent, and genuinely frightening, with one of fiction's most magnetic monsters. A colder and more psychologically granular book than even its Oscar-sweeping…
AdaptationMay 29, 2026
A bounty hunter tracks androids distinguishable from humans only by an empathy test, then watches that distinction dissolve. Dick's 1968 landmark, the basis for Blade Runner, is a philosophically profound meditation on what makes us human, rough in prose and…
AdaptationMay 29, 2026
Tolkien did not just write Middle-earth; he drew it, mapped it, and lettered it, and this collects 180-plus of his own sketches, maps, and inscriptions. The writer's lesson is the cartography: he wrote against his maps to keep the world…
2000sMay 19, 2026
Tom Hanks performs motion capture for six different roles including the boy, the conductor, the boy's father, the hobo, the narrator, and Santa Claus. The film's central technological achievement and its central technological problem are the same thing.
1990sMay 19, 2026
Michael Caine plays Scrooge opposite Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the Muppet ensemble in a sincere adaptation of Dickens. The Muppet Christmas Carol is Brian Henson's 1992 American adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella, with Michael Caine playing Ebenezer Scrooge among…
1960sMay 19, 2026
Hideo Gosha's 1964 directorial debut. Three masterless samurai aid peasant uprising.
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