Sally Rooney’s novel beautifully depicts an imperfect love story set in Carricklea and Dublin, and the BBC’s new TV adaptation does not stray far from the delightful original. The story perplexes readers, forcing them to […]
Is a live-action series of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ necessary?
Netflix recently announced that they will be working in partnership with Nickelodeon to adapt the universally-acclaimed animated show, ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, into a live-action series. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ takes place in a fictional fantasy […]
Overlooking Leo: When you can’t be arsed reading 1,225 pages
“Greatest period drama in the last decade?” The overwhelmingly positive reviews of the BBC’s re-imagining of War and Peace have left me somewhat confused. To me, it seemed less an adaptation of the leviathan novel […]
BBC’s War and Peace: The story so far
We all know of Tolstoy’s infamous thousand page novel; not many of us have read it, but we might consider using it as a door stop on the off chance we happen to have a […]