The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature
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Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children's...
Three Lives and Q.E.D.
Gertrude Stein and Marianne DeKoven
Book
Three Lives is comprised of the stories "The Good Anna," "Melanchtha," and "The Gentle Lena."...
Consumer Sexualities: Women and Sex Shopping
Book
Consumer Sexualities explores women's experiences of shopping in 'sex shops' and using sexual...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The Snowman (2017) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
Another adaptation of a popular book. this one by Jo Nesbø in the Harry Hole series. As is becoming tradition (as I can only read so many books in a year) I haven't read it, but I was aware of it being very popular when it came out. So it wasn't really surprising that this one was made.
I can't work out if it would have been better if it hadn't been a book first. Serial killers are right up my alley so at some point I would have watched this one, but while I enjoyed it, it was somewhat predictable. I will definitely go and read the book, as consensus seems to be that it was much better. I was just left feeling a bit... meh... at the end of it.
Agricola All Creatures 2p
Games
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Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small is a digital adaptation of Uwe Rosenberg's award-winning...
Genetic Enhancement of Rabi Sorghum: Adapting the Indian Durras
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Genetic Enhancement of Rabi Sorghum - Adapting the Indian Durras presents both the historical...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Interview with the Vampire (1994) in Movies
Aug 8, 2020
Just a bit too artfully amoral and self-indulgent for my tastes; the gay subtext is undeniably present but you can tell Pitt and Cruise are doing their best to stamp it into the carpet (I mentioned this in a review of the novel once and someone said 'This book isn't about gay people! It's about vampires!', which I thought was rather sweet). Looks good and has some decent performances, but makes being a vampire look very boring. On the other hand, very clearly the chief inspiration for What We Do In the Shadows (both movie and TV show), although not nearly as entertaining.
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
Book
We are telling the story to the next generation with this, the graphic adaptation of James W....
David McK (3773 KP) rated The Last of us in TV
Mar 14, 2023
Some are barely recognisable.
This is neither. Based in the video game of the same name by Naughty Dog (as an aside, I actually always preferred their Uncharted games over TLOU), this sticks incredibly closely to the source game, although there are some noticeable differences (particularly in the third episode, which Joel and Elly are barely in).
For this unfamiliar with the game, it is set in the USA after an apocalyptic event that sees those bit turn into zombie-like creatures (note: they're not technically zombies), with Joel (here, played by The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal) hired to accompany Elly on a dangerous cross-country trek, as she is immune to the disease.
Initially distant, along the way he grows closer and closer to Elly, leading to a finale where you're not sure he has done the right thing or not ..
Superbly cast and directed, this is definitely one of the better adaptations I have ever seen. Of course, it helps that the original is also held up as one of the best narrative games ever created ...