Depending on how you feel about family dysfunction, your reaction to
the latest cinematic adaptation of a Tracy Letts play may be fascination, repulsion, some combination of both, or just plain boredom.
While not as psychologically acute as The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ripley's Game,
the latest cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith is a gripping thriller in the key of Hitchcock.
Not exact matches
The Age of Innocence (1993) is not the only costume drama or historical picture that Martin Scorsese made but it is his only classical literary
adaptation from the filmmaker that, all these years
later, we still remember for edgy violence and
cinematic energy.
Fourteen years
later, a literary and film franchise has grown from that first effort, spanning six text sequels and eight
cinematic adaptations.
Adaptation of the Armored Avenger's
latest cinematic excursion joins preview of Bungie's shooter; Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package hits PS3 and PC.
The
late 20s had seen the American public wolfing down all the pulp Dashiell Hammett could pen and this, the
adaptation of his 1929 novel, would begin a similar
cinematic gorging (a sequel was mooted, but never came to fruition).
Ray Bradbury wrote the book Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962 and two decades
later, this screenplay
adaptation, which took a few liberties to make things more
cinematic.
Of the
cinematic comic book
adaptations that have become so increasingly popular as of
late, I feel most disappointed by the showing of the X-Men movie series.
Artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers»
latest cinematic work is an experimental
adaptation of the brutal Paul Bowles story, A Distant Episode.