Tag: Slaughterhouse-Five
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Why Aren’t There More Kurt Vonnegut Movie & TV Adaptations?
In today’s cinematic landscape, many filmmakers and studios are looking for any and all previously existing stories that audiences are already familiar with to adapt to the big screen. Young adult novels have had their moment in the sun, there’s a mountain of Stephen King movies, and the Lord of the Rings was recently announced…
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‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: A Flawed but Loving Documentary 40 Years in the Making
There’s a good reason why so much of Robert B. Weide and Don Argott’s “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is spent explaining why and how the film came to be: This is a biographical documentary aimed at people who love Vonnegut’s books, but people who love Vonnegut’s books have already read about the key points…
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‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: A Portrait of the Fabled Writer Who Turned Darkness Into Play
“Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is two documentaries in one. It’s a film about the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut, and on that score it covers most of the bases and captures what it was that made Vonnegut the quintessential pop-philosopher novelist of his era — the quips and catchphrases and sci-fi curlicues, the…
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Flashback review – confusing but compelling multiverse thriller
An It drone’s daily grind meshes with his druggie high-school past in a Canadian brain-teaser that is somewhere between schlock and geniusIf Slaughterhouse-Five and Donnie Darko had a baby, and that baby grew up in the 2000s, became a teenager and then developed a bit of a substance abuse problem, went partying with Denis Villeneuve’s…
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TV Bits: ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’, ‘Baywatch’, ‘Disenchantment’, ‘American Horror Story: Apocalypse’, and More
In today’s edition of TV Bits: American Horror Story: Apocalypse gets a teaser and some casting news Baywatch is getting remastered in HD An update about a Slaughterhouse-Five TV adaptation Stephen King‘s The Stand is in development as a CBS All Access show Mickey Mouse is being honored with a primetime TV special The Man…