by Sean Atkins | Apr 4, 2024
Dev Patel’s directorial debut fills the action crave that’s in need of a new action hero. Thank God for producer Jordan Peele and Universal Pictures. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to experience the way Monkey Man was meant to be seen: on the big screen....
by Sean Atkins | Aug 27, 2020
British literature can be a tough nut to crack when adapting for film or television. Stay too close or linear to the source material, and you risk tuning out your audience. Loosely adapt the source material, and you open a Pandora’s box; it may be inviting to change...
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by Mark Miller | Feb 26, 2017
This week I saw Lion with a friend who recommended it. I’d never heard of Lion, didn’t know what to expect and this was the director, Garth Davis’s ‘feature debut’ (he hadn’t made anything else that I could compare to) so I really had nothing to go on. The trailer...
