Items tagged with 'Book Versus Film'

You know the old saying that the book is always better than the movie? Well in this column we put that theory to the test.

Book vs. Film: Jurassic Park

Column by Christopher Shultz May 3, 2013 (3) comments

The original novel by Michael Crichton or Steven Spielberg's epic film adaptation: which one has the bigger T-Rex?

Book vs. Film vs. Audience: The Shining and Room 237

Column by Karina Wilson April 8, 2013 (1) comments

Documentary Room 237 explores some of the convoluted theories behind the meaning of "The Shining," wrenching it further away than ever from Stephen King's original authorship. What gives?

Book vs. Film: A Clockwork Orange

Column by Meredith Borders March 22, 2013 (21) comments

The author of the book hated the film. So how do we feel about it?

Book vs. Film: Warm Bodies

Column by Meredith Borders February 22, 2013 (1) comments

The zom-rom-com book faces off against the zom-rom-com movie.

Book vs. Film: Kiss Me Judas vs. Fractured

Column by Joshua Chaplinsky January 25, 2013 (5) comments

Somebody made an unauthorized film adaptation of Will Christopher Baer's 'Kiss Me Judas.' Legalities aside, is it any good?

Book vs. Film: 'Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho' and 'Hitchcock'

Column by Meredith Borders November 30, 2012 (1) comments

Stephen Rebello's intricate look at the making of 'Psycho' is turned into a scandalous romp in this month's 'Hitchcock.'

Book vs. Film: Cloud Atlas

Column by Joshua Chaplinsky October 30, 2012 (5) comments

Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski Siblings bring David Mitchell's 'unfilmable' opus to the silver screen. Is it a success or a suckfest?

Book vs. Film: Cosmopolis

Column by Joshua Chaplinsky August 20, 2012 (8) comments

Is there any way the heightened linguistics of Don DeLillo can be done justice in a film starring Robert Pattinson? Maybe, if director David Cronenberg has anything to say about it.

Book Vs. Film: Total Recall / We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

Column by Jon Korn August 10, 2012 (3) comments

Does the remake of the adaptation live up to its source material? Like Philip K. Dick's stuff wasn't meta enough already... Start the LitReactor!

Book vs. Film vs. Mini Series: The Shining

Column by Karina Wilson June 26, 2012 (11) comments

King vs. Kubrick vs. King? Who gets to smack who down in the three-way Tragedy of the Overlook Hotel?

Book vs. Film: The Hunger Games

Column by Kelly Thompson April 3, 2012 (10) comments

Can 'The Hunger Games' adaptation live up to Suzanne Collins' NYT bestseller? What does the film get right and what gets missed? Find out in our latest Book Vs. Film.

Book Vs. Film: John Carter

Column by Jon Korn March 9, 2012 (4) comments

Can Edgar Rice Burroughs' hundred-year-old classic stand up to a new 3D adaptation from the director of WALL-E? Does a white-ape poop in the mantalia groves? Jon Korn has some answers.

Book vs. Film: Drive

Column by Keith Rawson March 5, 2012 (32) comments

Does Nicolas Winding Refn's adaptation of James Sallis' 'Drive' live up to the novel? Or does it surpass it? We find out in the latest Book versus Film column.

Book Vs. Film Vs. Film: The Girls With The Dragon Tattoos

Column by Joshua Chaplinsky January 9, 2012 (9) comments

We break down all three versions of 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'- the book and both film adaptations- in an attempt to determine which one is the best.