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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single movie in possession of a good box office fortune must be in want of a sequel. (With apologies to Jane Austen.)There can be little other explanation why, some twenty years after the release of th...

Had the storyline for The Mandalorian and Grogu been used for a three-episode arc in the Disney+ TV series, I don't think anyone would have minded. The plot isn't appalling; it's the kind of thing that one wants from a TV series—an episodic ...

The Roses is not a remake of the 1989 film The War of the Roses, which starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito (and was directed by DeVito), although both movies draw from the same source material: Warren Adler’s novel. Di...

The Time Traveler's Wife is a conventional adaptation of an unconventional novel. That's not necessarily a bad thing - screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and director Robert Schwentke (Flightplan) impose structure on a story that, in Audrey Niffenegger...

Given the screenplay for The Tourist, Alfred Hitchcock would have hired Cary Grant (or Jimmy Stewart) and Grace Kelly. Then he would have applied his particular brand of magic - the one that allowed him to sell the improbable - and an engaging rom...

V/H/S is a low-budget effort that applies the first person/"found footage" approach to a horror anthology. Or, to put it another way, it's two hours of nausea-inducing shaky cam footage that fails to tell a coherent or engrossing central story. It'...

Victoria and Abdul, based on (mostly) true events as related in Shrabani Basu’s historical chronicle of the same name, is effectively a sequel to the 1997 film, Mrs. Brown. That movie, directed by John Madden, detailed Queen Victoria’s fri...