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Final Fantasy VII has started to become one of those game classics that everyone says you should have played but no one really wants to play, similar to a good classic novel.
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The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»
A young boy thrown into a alien world, forced to improvise to find his way and gain approval: Roald Dahl might as well have been talking about the career of Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes in Russia when he wrote his classic children's novel.
«Well sir, the shortest farewells are the best,» Casper Gutman — the fat man — tells detective Sam Spade near the end of Dashiell Hammett's classic noir novel, The Maltese Falcon.
Classics, vintage - inspired novels and just old - fashioned good reads as well as books for mental health and personal growth.
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George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a prime example of the classic Hollywood style at its best.
Ramin Bahrani's HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel wastes a good cast with generic storytelling, say critics.
Alfonso Cuaron, who did the amazing third «Harry Potter» film, brings us the well - done adaptation of the classic novel, «A Little Princess».
Almost as sweet as the children's classic novel, «Charlotte's Web» is just, well, crawling with entertainment.
Based on the best selling debut novel from Steve Watson, BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, takes that classic plot device of amnesia in order...
One of the landmarks of silent cinema, this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel was also the film that firmly cemented Lon Chaney's standing as a superstar as well as set the stage for Universal Pictures to continue producing definitive horror classics throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
The action is more intense and the drama is better portrayed with a closer adaptation of the original novel and while the classic westerns hold a certain place in my heart I doubt they've ever been able to portray the west as well and as beautifully as they did in this film.
by Walter Chaw Steven Soderbergh's best film since sex, lies, and videotape (and the film most like it in theme and execution), Solaris is a moving, hypnotic adaptation of the classic Stanislaw Lem novel, which was first made into a film in 1972 by Andrei Tarkovsky.
His name has been used in the game's promotion by its developers and publisher, Microsoft, to trade both on the renown for his classic novel, Ender's Game, as well his 2006 book, Empire, which was based on the same fiction as Shadow Complex: a Right - Wing - vs.
A mixed bag at best, Ava DuVernay («Selma») helms this adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» which hammers home its (still) powerful message of individuality over conformity while combining it with a potent...
LAURA *** / **** Image B Sound B - Extras B starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson screenplay by Jay Dratler and Samuel Hoffenstein and Betty Reinhardt, based on the novel by Vera Caspary directed by Otto Preminger PINKY * / **** Image C Sound B - Extras A + starring Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan screenplay by Philip Dunne and Dudley Nichols, from a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw A camp classic of a very particular variety, Otto Preminger's stylish, pedigreed Laura might best be read as a satire of Hitchcock's Rebecca, reuniting that film's Judith Anderson with another late, lamented mistress and acres more scenery to chew.
A mixed bag at best, Ava DuVernay («Selma») helms this adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» which hammers home its (still) powerful message of individuality over conformity while combining it with a potent «girls rule» empowerment message.
Feature Film Best Original Screenplay Get Out (Universal Pictures)-- Jordan Peele Best Adapted Screenplay Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics)-- James Ivory; based on the novel by André Aciman Best Documentary Screenplay...
Best Adapted Screenplay Call Me by Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics)-- James Ivory; based on the novel by André Aciman
Before you pour the bucket of pig's blood on me, I want to first say I'm well aware Silence is adapted from Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, which was also turned into a film in 1971 that received worldwide acclaim upon release (another Scorsese remake of an Asian cinema classic!).
Stuart Little is a good example of what can go wrong in adapting a classic children's novel to the big screen.
Luckily, during the passage of Jules Verne's novel into a new era of computer animation, the classic story manages to maintain it's good, old - fashioned monster movie appeal.
The director and actress are attached to Universal's long - gestating adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 classic novel, as well as Hannah West's book.
4K Restoration; 25th Anniversary HOWARDS END Fri, June 30, 1:30 p.m.; Sat, July 1, 11:15 a.m. Merchant Ivory's adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel about British class relations in turmoil won three Academy Awards ®, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress (Emma Thompson).
The Notebook, based on Nicholas Sparks's best - selling novel, is almost good enough to bypass its own shortcomings and become a romantic - weepie classic... almost.
A - Kon - Tiki Rated PG - 13 for a disturbing violent sequence Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the classic novel by Thor Heyerdahl, this Academy Award nominated film (Best Foreign Language Film — Norway), follows Thor and a group of adventurers who attempt to prove that Peruvians could have been the first inhabitants of Tahiti by taking a balsa wood raft and floating there using only the winds and currents to guide them.
Paul MacInnes: An adaptation of the Zola classic Thérèse Raquin that takes the original novel into strange new areas — not all of them good
The 1976 classic horror, based on the best - selling novel...
The Scoop: Poor girl tries to make good through skulduggery, while the classic - novel - adaptation genre gets a kick in the pants.
What follows is a series of events so familiar that they leapfrog right over cliché and land in the realm of «classic,» a search for a seemingly good girl caught up with some very bad men that wouldn't be out of place in a Philip Marlowe novel, were it not for a plot point involving the dead girl's cellphone.
Best motion picture of the year: Avatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers The Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined District 9 (Sony Pictures Releasing), A Block / Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers An Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer / Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage Pictures Production, Nominees to be determined Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company / Universal Pictures / A Band Apart / Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, Producer Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel - Magness and Gary Magness, Producers A Serious Man (Focus Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers Up (Walt Disney), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, Producer Up in the Air (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios), A Montecito Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
A World War Two classic by Michelle Magorian and widely recogignised as one of the best novels ever written.
Those mini precursors to the graphic novel saved a lot of us come final exam time, but they were also a great tool to use in order to understand great writers» works, to peruse timeless works of literature in order to decide to read the full edition, and to simply be more well - rounded in terms of having been exposed to the classics.
As she told our interviewer, much of the novel was consciously structured along the lines of Victorian classics like The Woman in White — but a good bit was organic as well.
More than twenty years have passed since Brooks set the new standard for the genre with his astonishing first novel, The Sword of Shannara, the now - classic commencement of a centuries - spanning epic of good and evil.
I'm currently reading the Penguin Classics translation of The Count of Monte Cristo (much better than the Project Gutenberg version I read years ago) and the Kindle's X-Ray feature, which lets me find out about the many characters and their relatives who pop in and out of the novel, helps me remember what the hell is going on.
Charles Dickens began his classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities with the line, «It was the best of times.
Kobo recently partnered with the McClatchy Group, Dark Horse Comics and Trajectory Classics Illustrated to bring readers the latest comic, graphic novels, newspapers, as well as the hottest titles.
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen books, including No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure — two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize — winning classic The Killer Angels.
Drawing inspiration from the classics of nineteenth - century fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's own life and research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games evokes with devastating realism the way we live now but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
A good old who - dun - it based on Agatha Christie's classic novel.
In this new way of telling his stories, Crais combined the classic «first person» narrative of the American detective novel with flashbacks, multiple story lines, multiple points - of - view, and literary elements to better illuminate his themes.
A masterful novel that combines the exhilarating mysticism of The Da Vinci Code with the pulse - pounding action of a Tom Clancy thriller, James Rollins's Map of Bones is destined to be a modern classic that will stand among the very best adventure tales ever written.
Dennis Lehane, best known for his mysteries set in contemporary Boston, draws comparisons to E.L. Doctorow's classic Ragtime with his historical novel, The Given Day.
Tayari Jones, author of the newest Oprah Book Club selection, An American Marriage, as well as the novels Leaving Atlanta, The UntellingandSilver Sparrow, which the National Endowment for the Arts added to the Big Read Library of classics in 2016.
Former and current Nashvillians including author and owner of Parnassus Books, Ann Patchett (Commonwealth), novelist and respected wine critic Jay McInerney (Bright, Precious Days: A Novel), fantasy writer Sherrilyn Kenyon (DragonMark) musician Kix Brooks (Cookin» It With Kix: The Art of Celebrating and the Fun of Outdoor Cooking), and Anne Byrn, nationally famous as The Cake Mix Doctor (American Cake: From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer, the Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best - Loved Cakes).
How did Keiichi Sigsawa, who is best known for writing the classic road trip light novel Kino...