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Kyra Sedgwick has been nominated for the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries for her work on Lifetime’s Story of a Girl, based on the novel by Sara Zarr. From Deadline Hollywood: …Lifetime’s Story of a Girl…
Hugh Lofting’s The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle came out in 1922. As Wikipedia notes, “It is nearly five times as long as its predecessor and the writing style is pitched at a more mature audience. The scope of the novel is vast;…
The Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s seminal dystopic novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) has been a success in every way such things can be counted. It has won awards and commanded a huge audience, both of which should bode well for…
Nicole Kidman will star in a HBO series based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2014 novel, You Should Have Known. The series will be called “Big Little Lies.” From Deadline Hollywood: HBO is re-teaming with key auspices behind its breakout Big Little Lies,…
Reviews are coming in for the Ava DuVernay directed adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award-winning novel of the same name. Sadly the reviews of the film version are fairly consistent. Most everyone says the film is beautiful…
Fans of Alan Bradley’s series of mysteries featuring adolescent sleuth Flavia de Luce will be happy to hear that the series will be adapted for television. From Mystery Fanfare: For those patient thousands of you who have been enquiring, here it is:…
Jonathan Lethem’s stunning 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn “inspired” a new film directed and starred in by Edward Norton, who is no newcomer to the sort of edgy material covered here. Cannavale plays Tony Vermonte and Roberts plays Danny Fantl, both characters from…
You still have to wait a while to see season two of the Golden Globe-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the seminal book by Margaret Atwood. But you don’t have to wait at all for an official sneak peek at what…
The reviews are in for Paddington 2, the second film based on the charming books by Michael Bond, and they’re stunning. The books began in 1958 with A Bear Called Paddington, “from deepest, darkest Peru.” Over 70 Paddington titles have been translated…
Those who loved the first couple of incarnations of Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO anthology series True Detective will be glad to hear that plans for the third season are well underway. From Deadline Hollywood: Stephen Dorff has been cast opposite Mahershala Ali and…