Sentences with phrase «books on which»

If you haven't yet watched the television series Game of Thrones or read George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire books on which the show is based, I would urge you to get started (unless you are a small child, in which case I would urge you to wait a few years).

The actual film, and the books on which they are based, can be intense at times.

Because the original Kindle was $ 399, it was only a «good deal» for the consumer who read many books on which they could save money by buying electronic.

I don't get detailed royalty statements on all books, particulary for books on which I was one of many illustrators.

There are models of electronic books on which bookshelf together with the name of the book and the author the reduced image of a cover of the book is shown.

I liked the novella and I toyed with the idea of expanding it into a full - length novel, but I was always side - tracked by the other books on which I was working.

Now that the HBO blockbuster series has caught up with the George R. R. Martin books on which it's based, all bets are off.

But women wrote the books on which 2009's cycle - of - poverty drama «Precious» and 2014's adventure tale «Wild» — both of which held significant mother - daughter content — were based.

One of the two books on which the film is based was written by Berg — Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website.

Indeed, the entire panel was light on spoilers, and the cast admitted the pressure is on more than ever now that the twists and turns on the show have caught up to and at times surpassed the George R. R. Martin books on which they're based.

That spirit of giddy flippancy keeps the film pleasantly engaging, but it also practically ensures that, unlike the books on which it's based, Peter Rabbit is rather unlikely to be recalled with misty - eyed adoration by the time the year's out, much less over a century after its creation.

If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

His goal was simple: «find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based.»

All the author of the article, the video, and the book on which both are based are doing is saying «These words used by Christians don't have the same meanings as they did when they were originally written.»

If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well....

In the same century, John Calvin believed the book to be canonical, yet it was the only New Testament book on which he did not write a commentary.

From the very beginning of this discussion we have been dealing with the church, and I suspect that there is not a page in this book on which this word, or some other designating the same reality, does not appear.

(In the J.K. Rowling book on which the movie is based, the creature is described as a spider that doesn't actually exist in nature.)

Though I've never read the book on which the film is based, I am familiar with its unique format (a compilation of individual accounts comprised a decade after the war), and while it may not please fans of the source material, the decision to streamline all the action through Gerry makes the story flow better.

Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

Yet, for those who are unfamiliar with either the first installment, or the book on which it was based, seeing it without the backstory would be, I would think, an unsatisfying experience.

For a less Hollywood take on the life of Charles Darwin, pick up the best - selling book on which Creation is based, Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution, written by Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes.

But it well applies to Thomas Pynchon's book on which writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson's («There will Be Blood,» «Boogie Nights») movie is based.

The problem with having read the book on which a film is based is that no matter how hard you try, it's hard to divorce that book from its adaptation playing out before you on the big screen.

And Naomi Alderman, who wrote the book on which the film is based while she was a part of the community in 2006, was always there to explain the nuances of what being an Orthodox Jewish woman means.

As future bestie (and author of the book on which the film is based) Greg, Dave Franco sets the mood almost immediately.

The worst thing about the movie is the title, taken directly from the book on which it is based, by Tim Tharp.

Season 2 of «The Handmaid's Tale» may be moving past the narrative of the book on which it is based, but that won't prevent it from delving deeper into its dystopian setting.

Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland's script might have gutted the book on which it's based, but boy does it benefit from those streamlined efforts and those cut - throat edits.

It may be that the book on which the film is based does this more capably, but as it stands, this is a good film, not a perfect one.

Its focus is again on teenage experience — as was Crowe's book on which Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) was based — and that's probably what makes it seem like he's getting back to his roots and what he does best.

Both fugitive and captive are saved, according to the film and the book on which it's based by the real Smith and ghost writer Stacy Mattingly, by Smith reading excerpts to her abductor from Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life, a devotional text Smith has resisted despite a fellow rehabber's recommendation.

Chris O'Dowd is spot on as David Walsh, the sportswriter who wrote the book on which the film is based, «Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong».

I've not read Naomi Alderman's hit book on which the film is based, so perhaps that emotional remove is a feature of the novel as well.

Eunice's Review: Full disclosure time: I have never read Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead, the book on which this movie is based.

Turns out, it's one of those weird situations where the film was better than the book on which it was based.

The wonderful lead performance of Ginnifer Goodwin should win the film many fans, particularly among those who loved the book on which the screenplay is based.

Given the book on which this trilogy is based is just 384 pages long, «a child could read it in an afternoon», it's fair to say that director Peter Jackson is stretching an already slim story very thin.

And Sandra Bullock seems to me someone to watch for in the supporting actress race, given the narrative of the book on which Eric Roth's screenplay is based.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to know that the author of the book on which The Beach is based, Alex Garland (Sunshine), would be the screenwriter for 28 Days Later, and by Boyle sticking closer to the source material, a much more effective result has been achieved.

Dave Franco plays wannabe actor Greg Sestero (writer of the tell - all book on which this is based), a blandly handsome San Francisco suburbanite who falls in with the secretive, much - older Wiseau (James Franco, building an eerily accurate impression based mainly on The Room and its creator's inscrutable persona, but nothing deeper).

He talks about Vengance by George Jonas, the book on which he based his film, the only credible account of what... Read More»

I was a huge fan of the Jeffrey Eugenides book on which it was based, loved the Air soundtrack, and adored the film when I finally got a chance to see it.

[NOTE: In my original posting today, I left out the fact that the book on which the movie is based is part of a long - running series of «Matthew Scudder» novels by Block.

My favorite is an audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based.

The all - HD extras begin with «Template for the Troubles: John Hill on Odd Man Out» (23:50), a new interview in which the cinema scholar discusses the movie's depiction of Northern Ireland, compared to the book on which it's based.

However we hear that the Kim Barker, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, considers Ms. Fey a spot - on alter ego.

The prize is an official Carol poster signed by Todd Haynes, a framed print of the winning artwork, a copy of Patricia Highsmith's book on which the film is based, a physical copy of the film's soundtrack as scored by Carter Burwell, plus a year's subscription to Little White Lies.

The book on which this is based is described as a satire, but Lee's movie plays it straight, resulting in a story lost in a tonal valley in which it just becomes ineffective.

The Tom Perotta book on which the film was based was inspired by the 1992 presidential election, and it is easy to see the parallels.