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THE GOOD NURSE

October 20, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE GOOD NURSE

There are two villains in THE GOOD NURSE,  the based on the true-crime book by Charles Graeber, and the first English-language film from Tobias Lindholm (ANOTHER ROUND, THE HUNT). One villain is the serial killer, Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) who worked for years as a nurse killing patients while raising suspicions, but never prosecutions, at… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, cardiac condition, health insurance, hospital administration, murder, serial killer

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

June 10, 2022 By Leave a Comment

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. I’ve lived in San Francisco for many, many years, and yet I’d never heard the story of Charlie Walker, an African-American man with a dream and a real gift for playing the system against itself. I was delighted to learn about that part of my city’s history… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Boots Riley, Charlie Walker, Dylan Bake, Mike Colter, oil company, oil spill, racism, Safiya Fredricks, San Francisco, trucking, Willie Brown

FIRESTARTER

May 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

FIRESTARTER

A little game I play while watching very bad movies is imagining the joy I will have during the later conversation that I will have about it with John Wilson, Founder and Head Berry of the Golden Raspberry Awards Foundation during our annual interview. The Razzies, as their award is known, even has a special… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, combustible, family on the lam, horror, Razzies, remake, shadowy government agency

DEATH ON THE NILE

February 12, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DEATH ON THE NILE

And so with DEATH ON THE NILE (2022), we learn about the man behind the moustaches. That would be Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s cerebral Belgian detective devoted to his “little grey cells” and keeping order in the world. The former gets short shrift, mention-wise, in this adaptation, while the latter rears its compulsive head in… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s, book to screen, Delta Blues, Egpt, ile murder, remake, spurned lover

CHAOS WALKING

March 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CHAOS WALKING

CHAOS WALKING is a somber affair told in muddy earth tones and moribund action. Based on the book The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, it presents New World in the year 2257, a distant planet colonized by religious humans who have brought with them much of what they should have left back… Read More »

Tagged With: a boy and his dog, book to screen, first love, mind-reading, religion fanaticism, space colonization

TRANSIT

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRANSIT

Christian Petzold has done something extraordinary with TRANSIT. Using the novel of the same name by Anna Seghers, he has taken the story of a young German fleeing the Nazis during World War II and transmuted it into a universal story of refugees. By removing the specifics and setting it in the first-world present, the… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, false identity, Marseille, Nazi, occupied France, refuggee, WWII

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

October 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE WAR WITH GRANDPA

Amid the stale jokes and flat direction to be found in THE WAR WITH GRANDPA, one is subjected to cartoonish takes on elder abuse, child abuse, and I’m pretty sure that the bass didn’t enjoy its time during the fishing sequence. Based on the book of the same name by Robert Kimmel Smith, the film… Read More »

Tagged With: attic, book to screen, Family, father-daughter, fishing, Santa

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

August 26, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Armando Iannucci, a man possessing a preternatural gift for telling serious stories with a puckish twist, has taken on the classic Dickens tale of David Copperfield, and infused it with sparkling new life while remaining true to the original’s spirit. After all, despite his sometimes cloying sentimentality, Dickens spared his readers nothing when describing the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, book to screen, Charles Dickens, colonialism, color-blind casting, England, imperialism, literature, social commentary

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

August 21, 2019 By Leave a Comment

WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE

Based on the novel by Maria Semple, WHERE’D YOU GO  BERNADETTE is a tale of artistic vision quashed by its run-ins with the crasser elements of reality, and the consequences of living the resulting inauthentic life with Cate Blanchett perfection as Bernadette, the eccentric anti-social wife of a Seattle Microsoft bigwig. Her skirmishes with her… Read More »

Tagged With: antarctic, architecture, artistic block, book to screen, mother-daughter, mudslide, Seattle

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

February 24, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD

Ah, the timeless tale of a boy and his dragon.  As recounted in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON I and II, it was magical. Even more magical is that the final part of the trilogy, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD is the equal of the first two without being a repeat of either installment.

Tagged With: book to screen, flaming sword, hobgobbler, Light Fury, Night Fury, sequel. dragons

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