It’s been a little over a year since Ray Bradbury passed away, and a full fifty years since this awesome documentary was made. Enjoy! ...

Here’s one I really want to see: James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is being re-made into a movie this year. The...

We hope you're making time for a few literary adaptations in between summer blockbusters, moviegoers. Here are a couple I've rec...

I am not a big baseball guy. And I don’t usually go in for magical realism. But… BUT —rarely a summer goes by that I don’t sit down and wat...

This isn’t technically a feature film, but it’s the trailer for one. And it looks amazing. Can’t wait:

Extended metaphors can be hard to pull off. To illustrate this, I thought I’d share this short film that tries, and tries, and tries to co...

I’ve been lucky enough to visit Paris twice, but for whatever reason, neither visit included a stop by the Shakespeare & Co. booksto...

I’m a big fan of meta fiction. I love stories about writers and their stories. Movies like “Barton Fink” or books like Slaughterhouse F...

So the premiere of the new Great Gatsby movie was held last night in New York. I’ve been wrestling with whether I want to re-read Gats...

Another short one today, How about giving 7 and a half minutes to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart?”

This one’s only 20 minutes long. The work of a German-speaking Jewish Czech writer, told through Japanese animation. I give you Franz Kaf...

Got a spare hour and 11 minutes this weekend? Then you might want to give this animated adaptation of Orwell’s  Animal Farm  a whirl. Enj...

If you missed the American Masters episode on Margaret Mitchell yesterday, you can still tune in to PBS tonight to catch the one on Phillip ...

Some other book-to-film quick hits: The Sound and the Fury, 1959 Starring Yule Brynner and Joanne Woodward, this may be one of...

So, To Kill a Mockingbird. I don’t think I’m alone in saying it’s one of my favorite books of all time. But amazingly, until last we...

Here is a film that is generally true to the text, especially in the first half of the action, but there were a couple key difference...

Oscar week is upon us, and I’ll try to review some classic literary adaptations as the days go  by. In the meantime, here’s a look at ...

Okay, if you’re a fan of L. Frank Baum, or a user of Google’s Chrome browser, you may get a kick out of this cool site to promote Disne...

In an ideal world, I’d have a babysitter all lined up for tonight so that Mrs. DeMarest and I could go catch the long-awaited movie ve...

Sometimes I’ll discover a half-written essay or unfinished book review months after I initially sat down to write it. The other day I turned...