In general, books are better than their film counterparts. Not everyone reads, I know that, and filmmakers know that, so with any luck, you’ll have an adaptation that can stand on its own. A good adaptation will satisfy the book readers (with a minimum of fuss), and excite non-readers as a separate entity. Disney has […]
Tesseract, anyone? A new trailer came out today for Disney’s star-studded adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle In Time, and OMG! With an exciting A-list cast – Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon, Zach Galifiniakis, a beautifully bedazzled Oprah Winfrey, and a completely bedraggled Chris Pine, it looks like no expense was spared to bring one […]
I first read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time when I was in high school, I think. I remember being completely entranced by the story of Meg Murry, braving the completely unknown to find her genius brother, Charles Wallace, who had gone in search of their father, a scientist who disappeared during the course of his […]
