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You might have read that Carrie, Brian De Palma’s excellent 1976 movie based on Stephen King’s first novel, is being remade…or rebooted…resomethinged, anyway. (See this Hollywood Reporter story, for example.) Do we need it? Sure, De Palma’s movie isn’t exactly 100% faithful to the book, but it’s chilling and memorable. It also has the best [...]

I mentioned a while ago (here, in fact) that Bones was going to be spun off into a new series, The Finder, based on the Locator novels by Richard Greener. A couple of weeks ago the “backdoor pilot” aired as an episode of Bones. Brennan and Booth needed help finding a stolen treasure map, and they [...]

May is Mystery Month here at Booklist, and what better way to celebrate than to announce that Donald E. Westlake’s Parker novels are getting the big-screen treatment again, this time with Jason Statham (star of the Transporter and Crank movies) in the lead role. According to this article at joblo.com, this will be the first [...]

Well, I finally had a chance to see Repo Men, the movie based on Eric Garcia’s novel The Repossession Mambo. I talked about the book here, calling it “a gritty near-future thriller with comic overtones [and] a Blade Runnerish feel to it,” and the movie is exactly the same. The performances by Jude Law, Forest [...]

In Michael Crichton’s Timeline (1999), a trio of graduate students travel back in time to medieval France to bring back their professor, who’s stranded in the year 1357. It’s not Crichton’s best novel — he has to work uncharacteristically hard to sell the scientific premise of the story — but it’s exciting, well written, and, as usual, [...]

I should probably get this out of the way: I think Matthew McConaughey is a talented actor. Yes, every single romantic comedy he’s been in has been dreadful, but don’t forget he did Dazed and Confused, and U-571, and Two for the Money. He’s a talented dramatic actor, that’s the thing, but he doesn’t do [...]

You probably already know this, but there’s going to be a fifth Die Hard movie. It’s in the early-planning stages, which means we have no idea what the movie’s going to be about, but it’s a good excuse for some book-related Die Hard fun facts. Die Hard, the 1988 movie that launched the franchise (and [...]

Bones, the popular FOX series based on the life and writings of forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, is being spun off. But it’s not one of the regulars who’s getting his own series, it’s a new character. Walter Sherman, also known as the Locator, is a former military policeman who finds people who really don’t want [...]

Last June — right here, as a matter of fact — I mentioned that Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s 1957 doorstop-sized novel, was being made into a two-part feature film. The trailer is now online: I have to say — ouch, this hurts — I think I might have been wrong. I called the novel “utterly [...]

According to this article at The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen King’s 1978 post-apocalyptic plague novel The Stand is coming to a movie theater near you. The Stand, which was more than 800 pages long in its original incarnation, and more than 1000 in its 1990 “complete and uncut” reissue, is one of King’s best novels. Rich [...]