Title: A Discovery of Witches Release Date (U.S.): January 17, 2019 Cast: Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Alex Kingston, Malin Buska, Valarie Pettiford, Owen Teale Episodes: 8 episodes streaming on Sundance Now IMDB|Wikipedia Based On: The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness If you were to take everything I loved about my favorite supernatural tv series […]
Life and Death Won’t Bore You to the Grave
Life and Death Twilight Reimagined Author: Stephanie Meyer Release Date: October 6, 2015 Publisher: Little Brown Genre(s): Fantasy, Magic, Paranormal, Romance, YA Spoilers: Mild Rating: ★★★☆☆ GoodReads | Amazon It was actually good. Damn it all. I can’t lie, this was a much better retelling than what I was hoping for. Meyer did us right by “retelling” […]
Webseries Discovery: i can’t even
Stop scrolling, Tumblr-ites, because I have got the webseries for you. i can’t even celebrates the unabashed enjoyment of pop culture fandoms ranging from Twilight and Outlander to Harry Potter, Sherlock, and Doctor Who. The Australian series premiered August 3, 2015 with an initial 6 episodes each about 3-5 minutes […]
Disney’s Live Action Beauty and the Beast Comes out in Exactly Two Years
Following the success of its live action Cinderella this weekend, Disney has officially set its upcoming live action Beauty and the Beast film for a March 17, 2017 release in 3D. Disney’s animated classic Beauty and the Beast was released in 1991 to great success. Not only did it gross $425 […]
“Fifty Shades” is Fifty Shades of Great
Fifty Shades of Grey Release Date: February 13, 2015 Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Studio: Focus Features Distributor: Focus Features, Universal Studios Genre(s): Drama, Romance Based On Fifty Shades of Grey novel by E.L. James Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Medium IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia Right now, it’s cool to hate […]
Rebecca's Top Ten Book to Movie Adaptations
Taking a book and creating a screenplay out of it is hit or miss. Either they are going to get everything right, capture the essence of the book, or they are just going to totally blow it. I love it when the movies get it right and a wonderful book […]
The Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer Does A Bad Job of Convincing Me It's Not A Horror Film
The Fifty Shades of Grey trailer is out. [youtube=http://youtu.be/z4nJX8snP4s] First of all, I’m not supposed to have flashbacks to when I read The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, right? This is supposed to be based on someone’s Twilight fan fiction and not the Bluebeard story? Because the trailer certainly makes […]
Defiance: I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times Recap
I like to go into shows with as little knowledge as possible. I avoid previews for next week, recaps of previous weeks, and as many commercials as possible for shows that I like because it’s all too easy to spoil the fun these days. I caught the recap of previous […]
Beautiful Creatures Was Robbed This Valentine’s Day
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rjhB7KWEc] I cannot even begin to explain just how disappointed I am in the Valentine’s Day opening of Beautiful Creatures. Some how Safe Haven and It’s a Good Day to Die Hard managed to pull almost $9 million at the box office but Beautiful Creatures? It got the same $2.5 […]
After Twilight Viewers Can Find A Little Southern Comfort in Beautiful Creatures
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTptJesPuU] Now that the Twilight series has officially run it’s course a number of new young adult adaptations are rushing to take it’s place. The Hunger Games was the first contender hoping to take over the market established by Harry Potter and the Stephenie Meyere series. While that series has […]
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