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Tag Archives: reads to reels
WWW Wednesday + Books that Became Film/Shows
WHAT have you finished reading recently? Fenway 1912, a history of Fenway Park’s first year in action as the Red Sox had a really good year, facing off the New York Giants in a World Series . WHAT are you … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: All the King’s Men
This won’t be a traditional RtR because it will be a very quick take. Last weekend I watched two different versions of All the King’s Men after finishing the novel, as well as Kingfish, a nonfiction film about the life and death … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: The Island of Lost Souls
Tonight a friend of mine and I watched The Island of Lost Souls, a 1932 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau. The island references Wells in the credits, and largely follows its plot although a shift in … Continue reading
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Reads to Reels: Er Ist Wieder Da
So there I was, innocently looking to see if Netflix carried older WW2 films like 36 Hours, when I spotted Hitler. “Look who’s back?” I said. “Oh dear.” I’d previously watched The Death of Stalin (Jason Isaacs is a … Continue reading
Roswell reboot…initial impressions
I just discovered that there’s a new Roswell — or rather, a show called Roswell, New Mexico, which is loosely based on Melinda Metz’ Roswell High and has no connection to the old CW show beyond also being produced by CW. … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Ready Player One
The Redbox technician hadn’t long placed copies of Ready Player One in my local machine before I eagerly rented one. I experienced the book a few weeks back, enthralled by the story and Wil Wheaton’s delivery of it, and so … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: The Circle
Trailer: Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better. Imagine that the movie version of 1984 had ended with Winston Smith being promised by the Party that the reign of Big Brother was through, that they would immediately hold elections to … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Brave Cowboy/Lonely are the Brave
Lonely are the Brave dramatizes Edward Abbey’s Brave Cowboy, and I daresay improves upon it. As with Abbey’s original, the plot features a cowhand who still lives and breathes in the Old West, thrown into conflict against the forces of … Continue reading
Smoking Guns, Sinister Schemes, and Still More Dangerous Blondes
Faced with the specter of a three-day weekend, but late-summer heat still too oppressive to venture out in, I enjoyed a little classic-movie marathon. I mention this here because while it’s not a read-to-reels post, all three movies are based on … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Roswell
In 1998, Melinda Metz introduced a new series of young-adult science fiction: the story of three teenagers whose earliest memories were of climbing out of incubation pods in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico. When they emerged, they appeared … Continue reading
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