It’s a common trope for a moviegoer to quip “The book was better.” But sometimes a movie gets it right. We got to thinking of…
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As a boy I read “The Call of the Wild,” Jack London’s 1903 novel about a dog named Buck. Stolen and sold as a Yukon…
“Ze Plane, ze plane!” Those words always signaled the start of another episode of “Fantasy Island,” the TV show than ran on ABC-TV from 1977…
Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected folk tales, which they published in two volumes called “Children’s and Household Tales.” You heard many of these cautionary…
You know Guy Ritchie even if you think you don’t. He’s the British film director who used to be married to Madonna. You’ve bought tickets…
I talk to animals. But my cat rarely answers back. I don’t seem to have the linguistic abilities of Dr. Dolittle. As a kid, I…
If you’re a horror fan, you’ve probably seen “Ju-On: The Grudge,” a 2002 Japanese film written and directed by Takashi Shimizu. This genre is known…