Archive for January, 2009

Choke: Nowhere Near as Good as the Book

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Choke, screenplay by Clark Gregg (author of screenplay What Lies Beneath, and novel by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) is as disgusting as it is funny, serious as is it sad, and nowhere near as good as the book…. Right from the start it is evident that the [...]

Marley and Me: Marley is an Everydog

On the CreativeSports blog, Lawr Michaels’ post on “Macaroni, Marley, and Me” reflects on being introduced to John Grogan’ book in late 2005 and then seeing the movie on New Year’s Eve:

I did find the book a lovely read and memoir. I thought the movie was almost non-existent: a series of pastiches of the life [...]

Valkyrie: One of History’s Greatest Conspiracies

While not adapted from a single text, the motion picture Valkyrie is based on a historical events that have been chronicled in detail by several historians and popular history writers. In History’s Greatest Conspiracies: One Hundred Plots, Real and Suspected, That have Shocked, Fascinated, and Sometimes Changed the World, author H. Paul Jeffers summarizes “The [...]