Television Review: The Haunting of Hill House
When I sat down to watch The Haunting of Hill House, a Netflix original series, I felt confident I would love it. Shirley Jackson’s novel is my favorite haunted house story. It was faithfully adapted […]
Category Archives: Movie Adaptations
Video Review: The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
In a recent review I watched on YouTube, the critic stated that we are all feeling a little “zombie fatigue” these days. In truth, I’ve never been a great fan of zombie movies. Like a […]
Movie Review: Annihilation
In my review of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, I said I felt reluctant to see the movie, because I didn’t want Hollywood’s images to override the images I imagined as I read it. It was an […]
Movie Review: Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews’ Red Sparrow concerns Dominika Egorova. The strength in the novel lies in her characterization and in the arc she experienced. Though she always didn’t feel like the novel’s protagonist, she always felt like […]
Video Review: Diary of a Chambermaid (2015)
Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, published in 1900, is often considered an erotic classic, but in its pages, there’s as much social commentary, if not more, as there is sex. Much of the […]
Movie Review: Murder on the Orient Express
My movie reviews tend to come in three flavors: positive, negative, and neutral. Or in hand symbols: thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or the ambivalent hand wiggle people do to show something is so-so. I’ll give Murder on […]
Video Review: Blade Runner (1982)
Though I don’t have a favorite movie, or even a list of favorite movies, there are several movies that stand out to me as being superior to the norm and worthy as being considered among […]
Movie Review: It
In my review for It, the Stephen King novel, I stated that after reading the novel, I was less excited to see the movie. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the novel–I enjoyed it a […]
Video Review: American Pastoral
Looking from the outside, Seymour “Swede” Levov has the idyllic America life. He runs a glove factory that has been in his family for generations, and he’s married to a former Miss New Jersey. They […]
Video Review: Gone Girl
Movie genres come with expectations. We expect to see magic and mythical beasts in fantasy movies. Monsters in horror films. Car chases in action flicks. The western that doesn’t end in a gunfight is something […]