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Should I Watch?

Should I Watch The People We Hate at the Wedding?

Amy Wilhelm
Reviews, Should I Watch?
Going to a wedding in London sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Not when the bride-to-be is your much wealthier half-sister Eloise who’s always trying to fix things with her money but inevitably makes things worse. T... Read More...

Should I Watch All the Old Knives? – Joint Review with Katie Kupstas

Amy Wilhelm
Reviews, Should I Watch?
If you love thrillers but are sick of predicting the outcome before it transpires, this one is for you. Both the book and the movie have shocking turns in their plot that will make you gasp out loud. When old ... Read More...

The Best Book-To-Movie Adaptations To Hit Your Screens

Amy Wilhelm
Literary Lagniappe, Should I Watch?
Books have inspired movies since the dawn of cinema. And, films adapted from books are surprisingly more successful than original screenplays. You will be stunned to find out that 70% of some of the world's hig... Read More...

The Top Fantasy Book Adaptations to Look Forward To

Amy Wilhelm
Literary Lagniappe, Should I Watch?
The fantasy genre is always a popular one for filmmakers to harvest from and adapt into films. Lately, we’ve also started seeing more TV shows or on-demand series taken from these fictional worlds. The success ... Read More...

Why BCB Thinks Dune Will Be A Spectacular Movie

Amy Wilhelm
Reviews, Should I Watch?
Dune was originally accepted and printed in 1965 by a publishing house that specialized in auto repair manuals. That one tidbit might validate my premise that the upcoming movie Dune is destined to be much much... Read More...

Should I Watch Chaos Walking

Amy Wilhelm
Reviews, Should I Watch?
As a perpetual optimist, writing an honest review of the adaption of Patrick Ness's brilliant internationally best-selling book The Knife of Never Letting Go is heartbreaking for me. All the subtlety, intellige... Read More...

The Expanse Series Versus the Books: The Character of James Holden Broken Down

Amy Wilhelm
Reviews, Should I Watch?
First of all, let me make it clear – I LOVED the James S.A. Corey books - written collaboratively by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck - that  The Expanse series is based on. I thought the novels were sharp, creativ... Read More...

What to Watch: The Most Fun and Exciting Movies of 2020

Amy Wilhelm
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No doubt about it, 2020 has not been a vintage year. During the chaos, we’ve all been looking for ways to detach and unwind a little, and in between reading and watching book adaptations, what better way to dis... Read More...

Three Worthy Literary Adaptations to Stream

Amy Wilhelm
Literary Lagniappe, Should I Watch?
If you're like many, your streaming services are a lifeline to surviving 2020. Let's face it, probably 2021 too. Even so, there are times that lifeline feels more like a rope tying you to your sofa, making you ... Read More...

Can an Adaptation Ever Match the Original Book?

Amy Wilhelm
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For better or for worse, avid readers have become used to their favorite books being handed over to Hollywood for adaptation. Sometimes, the movies perform as well at the box office as they did in the bookstore... Read More...
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