Tamara Drewe: One of the Best, Most Underrated Graphic Novel Adaptations You’ve Never Heard Of

In 2010, comic book movies were already big, but it would be two years before the first Avengers movie would hit theaters and they became an unstoppable force. So it was an ideal time for Tamara Drewe, a movie that…

Review: BRIGHTLY BURNING by Alexa Donne

Brightly Burning is Jane Eyre in space. That’s the one-sentence pitch and summary of the novel, but it’s smart enough in what it keeps and sheds from the source text that it largely stands on its own. To put it…

The Film Canon: Jane Eyre (1943)

The turning point of women writers, the provoking of traditional ideas, the suffering of high school students everywhere– these are all terms used to describe Jane Eyre, a book written by Charlotte Bronte, who wrote under the pseudonym Courier Bell…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…