Remakes are running wild in October. Footloose, The Thing, and The Three Musketeers are all making their way to the silver screen - again.
Some stories are classic. All film versions of The Three Musketeers spawned from the 19th century novel by Alexandre Dumas. The story -- in varying degrees of faithfulness to the source material -- has been translated into film 20 times, not counting the animated spoofs like the immortal Barbie and the Three Musketeers in 2009. So it should come as no surprise that we will be treated to a 21st version coming to theaters next month.
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The Hunger Games: From Book to Film
by Ronald A. Rowe September 7th, 2011 | Drama, Movie Commentary, Movie News
Making the leap from a popular book to the big screen representation is fraught with difficulties. The more beloved the book, the more precarious the journey. Nobody cared about the drastic changes that it took to turn the book 58 Minutes into the movie Die Hard 2, because the book achieved neither critical acclaim nor a large fan base. Ditto Forest Gump, which translated far better as a film than it did as a book.
But to take a book like The Lord of the Rings, Twilight, or Harry Potter and turn it into a film you must take into account
But to take a book like The Lord of the Rings, Twilight, or Harry Potter and turn it into a film you must take into account
White Shadow
by Ronald A. Rowe August 10th, 2011 | Movie Commentary, Movie News
Have you seen Alfred Hitchcock’s The White Shadow? Even if you’re an avid Hitchcock fan, unless you’re pushing 100 years old the chances are that you haven’t. The silent black & white film was released in 1924 and all known copies have been lost for many years. The movie predates the first film Hitchcock actually directed – The Pleasure Garden – by 1 year. But all who are familiar with The White Shadow say it bears the distinct markings of Hitchcock’s involvement. As well it should, as the then 24-year-old Hitchcock was the writer, assistant director, set designer, and
Superhero Summer Revisited
by Ronald A. Rowe July 29th, 2011 | Action, Movie Commentary, Movie Reviews
A few months back we previewed the summer full of Superhero movies ahead of us. Now that the final entry of the Summer, Captain America: The First Avenger, has hit the big screen, it's time to look back and review the preview.
Thor has already been reviewed on this site. Excellent film that proved comic book movies don't have to contain gratuitous violence (violence against computer-generated frost giants doesn't count) or sex or coarse language to be a box office hit with a gross of $437M to date. -1 point to my preview for incorrectly identifying Kenneth Branagh
Thor has already been reviewed on this site. Excellent film that proved comic book movies don't have to contain gratuitous violence (violence against computer-generated frost giants doesn't count) or sex or coarse language to be a box office hit with a gross of $437M to date. -1 point to my preview for incorrectly identifying Kenneth Branagh
Give Up Tomorrow
by Jaclyn Abergas November 9th, 2011 | Movie Commentary, Movie Reviews