I know a lot of people have a sort of love/hate relationship with Stephen Frears, but wherever you may rank such films as - Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, The Snapper, Dirty Pretty Things, and many more, you've got to admit that at the very least the subject matter is going to be interesting. This holds true of the upcoming Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds' graphic … [Read more...]
We are becoming familiar with the idea that filming graphic novels rarely works out the way we might hope. Alan Moore disinherits most adaptations of his work, big-budget Watchmen drastically changed the story (managing only marginal artistic success, and mixed reactions), and Will Eisner's The Spirit quickly became a laughing stock. There is something very different going on in graphic novels, … [Read more...]
