Now that the Academy Awards have come and gone (and we’ve had the chance to catch up with most of this year’s Best Picture nominated films), the time has finally come to unveil the list of our 10 favorite films released in 2014.
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Should Novelists Adapt Their Own Books into Films?
The bookshelf has historically been one of the first places Hollywood has turned to for inspiration. Early classics like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are just two examples of screenwriters turning popular books into award-winning box office hits, and of course, this trend is as popular as ever, with literary adaptations often considered automatic Oscar bait and franchises like The Hunger Games among the highest-grossing films in recent years. Yet, even with the increasingly high-volume of published works being mined for film ideas, an intriguing trend is developing. Continue reading Should Novelists Adapt Their Own Books into Films?
Review: ‘Gone Girl’
Every once in a while, a novel becomes the kind of ubiquitous bestseller that seems to permeate the public consciousness in a big way. Sometimes, this is due to its broad genre appeal (The Hunger Games) or the fact that the writing falls into that ever-popular so-bad-it’s-it’s-good category (looking at you, Fifty Shades of Grey). In the case of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, it was the complex plot-twisty narrative that captured the attention of readers everywhere. So, naturally that existing fanbase was cautiously intrigued when a film version by acclaimed director David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club) was announced.