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Top Ten: Book to Film Adaptations

27 March 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

You know I love films and I love books, so it kind of follows that I love films based on books. Sometimes the adaptations are quite poor and disappointing (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), much less often they improve on the source material (anything based on a Tom Clancy book) but just sometimes a great book leads to a great film…

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The Muppets

18 April 2012 by Louise Leave a Comment

One of the films released earlier this year that I was most excited about seeing was The Muppets. As a child I loved watching The Muppet Show and their version of A Christmas Carol is one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time….

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Amy Adams, Animal, Chris Cooper, Fozzie Bear, Jack Black, Jason Segal, Jim Bobin, Jim Henson, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, muppets, Muppets Christmas Carol, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicholas Stoller, puppets, The Muppets