Sentences with phrase «adaptation of a great book»

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Good adaptation of a great book, better than I would have expected and a sign of good things if the rest of the Mickey Haller books get made into movies.

Not exact matches

Paul Thomas Anderson (one of America's greatest living filmmakers) is directing a film adaptation of a book by Thomas Pynchon (one of America's greatest living writers) starring Joaquin Phoenix (one of America's greatest living actors), so Inherent Vice has some hype behind it.

A New Day is an exciting point and click adventure, and a great adaptation of the graphic novels with both a thrilling story and comic book look.

Great adaptation of the books... Michael C. Hall has found a role created for him.

Two examples that come to mind — Stephen Frears's 1990 The Grifters and James Foley's 1990 After Dark, My Sweet — have in common that they're too - faithful adaptations of the books they're based on, both of them novels by Jim Thompson, one of the great sources for film noir.

Netflix's adaptation of the children's book series is a blast, featuring great performances from a variety of visiting stars, from Joan Cusack to Don Johnson.

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This is a great adaptation from a Chuck Hogan book called Prince Of Thieves.

My memory isn't great, so people who have read the book a couple of times... what did they leave out in the adaptation?

Clint Eastwood's 2009 adaptation of the book «Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation» is a great movie about rugby, although it's about much more.

And speaking of opinions, in honor of Where the Wild Things Are, Kevin and Neil throw down a Fat Guy Five about great adaptations of children's books before Neil makes a relatively creepy revelation about himself at the climax of the show.

Surprisingly, 2016 has produced not one but two adaptations of the author's novels: Indignation, based on his slender 2008 novella about a college undergraduate struggling to find himself and avoid becoming cannon fodder in the Korean War; and American Pastoral, taken from arguably the author's greatest book.

The Jungle Book, Disney's latest cartoon - to - live - action adaptation, gets a lot of things right: It's wildly entertaining, full of great vocal performances by a stacked A-list cast, and boasts a hilarious / creepy musical number by none other than Christopher Walken.

A great movie that unfortunately failed to attract audiences back in» 83, this adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about astronauts pays tribute to what we would like to believe represents the American spirit: hard work, perseverance, camaraderie and a visionary attitude that extends beyond all types of borders.

Hey all, we had a great chat with the talent behind The Book Thief, the movie adaptation of Markus Zusak's bestselling novel about World War 2 seen through the eyes of a young German girl.

An adaptation from a new book reveals how she won over the Queen, the royal family, and the rest of Great Britain.

Few know that the film is actually a loose adaptation of a book by Roderick Thorp from the late 1970s, although the joys of the film lie mostly in the well - developed set - up and characterizations, not to mention great action sequences, rather than the rather straightforward terrorist plot at the heart of the film.

I grew up preferring DC to Marvel, but most of the comic - book adaptations I like — when I like them — come from the latter franchise, which offers greater variety of characters and stories, sometimes straying enough from the generic formula to generate something of interest.

Excellent locale work, a brilliant adaptation by Egoyan of the book, great supporting characters and a disturbingly haunting accident scene all add up to one of 1997's best hidden gem films.

Schwarzman's Black Bear teamed with Tyldum and Moore in The Imitation Game, and just before Cannes, Black Bear won an auction for this property, a package that included Moore's scripted adaptation of his book on the subject that Random House will publish with great fanfare August 16.

At least Baz Luhrmann's visually kaleidoscopic adaptation F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel quotes the famous final sentence of the book, although it's after having proved that it possesses no awareness of what that statement actually says.

After a great directorial debut with the zombie flick «Dawn of the Dead» and two back to back successful comic adaptations in «300» and «Watchmen», you'd think that Zack Snyder would be a fine choice to adapt this children's fantasy book by Kathryn Lansky.

«Love, Simon,» the film adaptation of the book, is great.

Curiously, Watchmen is so very much a translation of the graphic novel to film adaptation that it to say it is a work of art would be akin to calling an abridged audio book reading of a great literary work the same.

I came across a great post by Ally Carter about the sort of changes stories often go through during a book - to - film adaptation.

And many self - published books have achieved great success in the form of sales, critical acclaim, and film adaptations.

A New Day is an exciting point and click adventure, and a great adaptation of the graphic novels with both a thrilling story and comic book look.