Why the Book Wins

Frank Darabont adapted Stephen King's novella The Mist, which is about a group of people that are trapped in a grocery store when a mysterious mist takes over the town. Find out how the two compare and what the movie changed!

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Taylor Jenkins Reid is a popular author who is finally being adapted! One True Loves tells the story of a women who is torn between two loves. Is the movie able to capture the chemistry between the characters in the book? Check out today's episode and find out!

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John Steinbeck's magnum opus was adapted into a movie starring one of the three roles James Dean was in. The movie captures just a fragment of the book, so here I get into the details that the movie left out and what they changed.

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The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King was adapted into an Academy Award nominated movie. Critical acclaim aside, this movie is near and dear to so many hearts. But how does the film compare with the novella?

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Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel was adapted into a movie directed by Stephen Spielberg staring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey, and later turned into a musical! But how does the movie compare to the book?

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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite after Titanic to play an unhappy couple who form a plan to rejuvenate their life. How does the movie compare to the Richard Yates novel it is based on?

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This classic by Steinbeck is commonly read in schools and I'm betting the 1992 adaptation is often watched afterwards. But is the '92 adaptation faithful to the book?

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The Fly is a short story about a man who becomes part fly and was adapted into a famous movie with Vincent Price! It was also adapted a couple decades later by David Cronenberg which I touch on briefly.

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Elton John has countless hit songs and the biopic starring Taron Edgerton is a fantastic movie-but how does it compare with Elton John's real life? I read him memoir and am comparing it with Hollywood's version of his life!

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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a cornerstone book in the sci-fi fantasy world. Yet it wasn't adapted until 100 years after its publication! John Carter is an infamous Disney flop-costing Disney 250 million yet only grossing 73 million.

Find out the differences between the book and movie, and what I think of the adaptation!

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