3 Body Problem just recently dropped on Netflix, and viewers are wondering if this new sci-fi series is an original story or based on a book. Here is your answer. Is 3 Body Problem an original story or based on a book? 3 Body Problem is based on a book called The Three-Body Problem. The … Read more
You make an important point in your discussion of Archbishop Desmond Tutu that forgiveness is not only a spiritual obligation but in the most practical sense “political expediency.” Many people might think that because an act helps to achieve a political goal it is somehow less “pure.” What do you think? Yes, that’s a good … Read more
The film industry has been making adaptations of famous books pretty much since movies were invented. Nowadays, if an author publishes even a mildly successful novel, it’s a good bet that a movie studio will swoop in to scoop up the rights—sometimes even before the book is published. With so much of Hollywood dominated by … Read more
Skybound Entertainment and Universal are teaming up for the four-issue limited comic book series Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives Last year, Skybound Entertainment, the company founded by David Alpert and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, teamed up with Universal Pictures not only to bring us the Dracula comedy Renfield, but also the four-issue comic book limited series … Read more
Don Coscarelli has written a book called Phiction, containing six stories set in the world of his Phantasm franchise 45 years ago, writer/director Don Coscarelli delivered one of the best horror films ever made: Phantasm, and film which spawned three sequels that Coscarelli wrote and directed himself, then a fourth that he wrote with director … Read more
April 1994 was not an especially memorable time for movies — or an especially memorable time for Siskel & Ebert. One week that month covered the following five films: Bad Girls, The Inkwell, Naked in New York, Brainscan, and Surviving the Game. That’s the opposite of an all-star lineup. That’s like the movie equivalent of the starting nine for the 1962 New York Mets. The … Read more
“The Book of Clarence” is a religious epic that isn’t particularly religious: Despite Clarence’s twin brother Thomas (also played by Stanfield) being one of Jesus’ apostles, Clarence is a cynical atheist. He is also a drug dealer, selling and smoking a copious amount of weed. Club dens with nearly nude, sensually gyrating women and shady … Read more
20th Century Studios and Little Golden Books have teamed up for A Is for Alien, an ABC book aimed at kids between the ages of 2 and 5 The Alien franchise has been expanded with a lot of books over the years, but none of them have been aimed at an audience as young as … Read more
20th Century Studios has partnered with Penguin Random House for the upcoming release of an Alien kids book titled A Is for Alien: An ABC Book, based on Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi horror movie. Described as a “lighthearted reimagining” of the 1979 movie, A Is for Alien: An ABC Book will introduce Ripley and her … Read more
Two years after The Book of Boba Fett debuted, Temuera Morrison isn’t optimistic about the chances of season 2. After making his triumphant return in The Mandalorian, Temuera Morrison was finally given center stage with The Book of Boba Fett. The seven-episode series revealed how Boba Fett had survived his supposed death in the Sarlaac … Read more