Daniel Kraus’s claustrophobic masterpiece is coming to the screen, forcing a showdown between psychological terror and visceral spectacle. We pit it against the year's other big adaptations.
Hollywood is raiding the nursery for its next big franchise, but adapting minimalist children's classics like Jumanji and The Cat in the Hat is an act of radical, and risky, reinvention.
Julian Schnabel's ‘In the Hand of Dante’ pits literary grime against cinematic gloss, revealing the impossible, essential art of turning an author's soul into a spectacle.
From BookTok thrillers to artisanal fantasy, Hollywood is adapting the entire library. But can the screen ever truly capture the soul of the page? We dissect the year's most anticipated page-to-screen showdowns.
Robert Harris’s chilling novel of a victorious Third Reich gets a new film adaptation. We dissect which medium can truly capture the horror of a history that never was.
Suzanne Collins's return to Panem pits the brutal interiority of her prose against the visceral spectacle of cinema. We break down which medium will truly own the story of the Second Quarter Quell.
Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic masterpiece is a novel of interiority and quiet survival. As it heads to the screen, we ask if cinema can possibly capture a story whose soul lives in its prose.