Sentences with phrase «screen than novels»

Not exact matches

Almost two decades ago, authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins chose a similar premise for their Left Behind series of novels, which sold more than 65 million copies and has now spawned a big screen adaptation starring (almost unthinkably) Nicolas Cage.

Past techniques involved screening more than 10,000 samples to find a novel product, said principal investigator Doug Mitchell, assistant professor of chemistry and Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) member.

Using this method, we have robustly screened more than 950 GM mouse lines to identify novel microenvironmental regulators of metastatic colonization.

The seventh novel, H.P. and the Deathly Hallows, was divided into two parts for the screen, for no reason other than an entertainment conglomerate's existential terror of pulling up its «tent - pole» without a fight, and the result, HPATDH 1, felt padded.

Having not read the source novel, I take writer - director Alex Garland at his word when he admits his adaptation is a dream, of the memory, of the novel; rather than a literal page - to - screen copy.

In the past 150 years, Victor Hugo's 1862 novel has spun into stage adaptations, radio dramas and more than 60 large and small - screen adaptations.

In bringing Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize - winning novel to the screen, Ratcatcher and Morven Callar director Lynne Ramsay's latest bears more than a passing resemblance to Roman Polanski's seminal effort, similarly dwelling in the realm of domestic discordance.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Scholastic will publish script books of both «Cursed Child» and «Fantastic Beasts» in the US, but unlike previous entries these two stories are original to stage and screen, respectively, rather than novels.

The concept behind Maybe Baby, a couple try everything possible to get pregnant in vain, isn't really a novel one (unless you count that it's based on director Ben Elton's novel, «Inconceivable»), although this situation is mostly prevalent on TV shows rather than the silver screen.

«Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets,» based on Patrick McGrath's novel «The Grotesque,» is more suited, perhaps, to «Masterpiece Theatre» than to the big screen.

The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.

I have to admit right now, I've never read the graphic novels and so going into the screening of this action movie I knew absolutely nothing about the story of these four men and the lovely, mysterious Aisha, other than they were being played by actors I enjoy seeing on screen and that they were on a mission of revenge.

Bill Duke's film is based on a novel by Bishop T.J. Jakes, and like the previous screen Jakes adaptation, 2004's Woman Thou Art Loosed (directed by Michael Schultz), there is a lot more grit and realism on display here than most faith - based movies.

More than 50 years after Madeleine L'Engle's young adult novel «A Wrinkle in Time» was awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal, the big - screen retelling of this timeless classic takes audiences on a transformative journey, exquisitely illustrated through jaw - dropping visual effects, a stirring musical score and diverse, star - studded cast.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

Longtime Screen Rant readers are aware that several members of our staff were disappointed with Alice, for reasons that run deeper than the distracting post-converted 3D and its recycling of Burton / Depp tropes; such as, how it trades in the discernible characters and satire of Carroll's novels for an ambitious (but, sadly, non-compelling) fantasy allegory where many dark Underland inhabitants and CGI backgrounds blurr together.

It isn't as good as Clueless, but just as that teen movie did a better job with Jane Austen than all the supposedly legit screen adaptations of her novels that flanked it, Cruel Intentions is less presumptuous than the efforts of Vadim, Frears, and Forman, which were all presented as prestigious cultural objects.

But it's taken more than 60 years to bring Waugh's best - known novel to the big screen.

For Harvard brain - box Robert Langdon, nothing less than attempting to save humanity will do in Inferno, the third of Dan Brown's novels to be brought to the screen by the dream team that is Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer.

Fans of Max Brooks» bestselling novel will undoubtedly be disappointed by how much was changed from page to screen, but «World War Z» is an immensely entertaining film that's smarter than your average summer blockbuster.

In Novel Living, Lisa Occhipinti makes a moving case for embracing print books — now more than ever — as «a counterpoint to the swipe of a screen.»

Free stuff is great, and free books and comics are of course even better, but despite this it's worth pointing out that both the titles I mention above are much cheaper than buying a single issue printed comic, let alone a graphic novel (a single issue of a monthly comic from Image may cost up to # 3.95 GBP; but The Kill Screen was initially on sale for half that at # 1.99 for # 1 and Mills released Psychokiller for # 2.49).

Tintin, the plucky little reporter who spent more time investigating mysteries and running away from bad guys than doing any actual reporting, has made it to the small screen: Idboox reports that Moulinsart, the company that controls the rights to the works of Herge, Tintin's creator, has released an iPad app that contains all 24 of the Tintin graphic novels.

Adapting any book for the screen is a tricky process, but surely no material has presented a greater challenge than Arthur Golden's brilliant debut novel, Memoirs of a Geisha.

Smartphones have small screens and can be less than ideal for reading a full novel.

There's plenty of introductory freebies on offer as well as host of public domain novels to download and the big clear screen makes it a pleasure to use as a mini ebook reader and certainly significantly better than a smaller smartphone size even if you do still end up turning pages a little too often.

While in theory I like the idea of having a tablet that does more, with such multipurpose functionality, in practice I found using the Novel tiresome enough that these experiences are better left to a smartphone handset than to this larger screen device.

For a start, I much prefer reading pieces of paper than direct from a computer screen so I doubted I would enjoy reading entire novels off a screen.

To be honest, we're not sure it's the screen or the slow processor, but regardless there's really nothing worse than being in the middle of a gripping novel and having to drag a finger across the page multiple times to get to the next words.

It works much better than regular resistive screens like the Pandigital Novel had, which was downright awful at times.

He has more than 10 years experience writing articles, poetry, novels, and stage and screen plays.

Each story utilized the Film Window engine that SUDA51 designed specifically for The Silver Case in unique ways to propel the narrative through a presentation of still screens and low - poly 3D cutscenes in far more interesting ways than visual novels had previously tried to explore.

Would have liked to seen the novel screen version utilize the bottom half of the screen rather than the entire area... though given how wordy the series is, that decision may help the player not get confused by what's going on.

Gregory writes: «Wax paintings, plate paintings, works on paper, sculpture and works on novel materials like Kabuki screens are held together through conversation the pieces have with each other, rather than through a linearly progressive motif... Four massive plate «landscapes»... operate like a 3D movie, where one's presence before them in person is like the glasses one uses to see such a film.

Multi Window is a pretty novel way to make better use of the Note's massive screen real estate and it's certainly a better multitasking feature than other manufacturers have come up with.

Novel concept this fairness, it's probably not an accident that the federal law primarily governing background screening uses «fair» as the beginning of its name, and the words «fair,» «unfairness,» and «unfair» appear in the relatively short Statute no less than 27 times.

• Devised novel screening evaluation procedures, which were considered 75 % more accurate than the current ones.