Charles Osborne (1927-2017) wraps up his trilogy of Agatha Christie play novelizations with “Spider’s Web” (2000), based on her 1954 play. It’s another tasty snack
Agatha Christie was more hit-and-miss with her plays than with her novels. In one of the hits, “The Unexpected Guest” (1958, novelized by Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne, who acted in this very play in 1956 and went on to become an opera critic, transfers Agatha Christie’s 1930 play “Black Coffee”
The “Total Recall” novelization (1990) by Piers Anthony is the only instance of a Philip K. Dick story being adapted into a movie and then
After seeing “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,” my No. 1 movie of 2017, I wanted to spend more time in the world,
Although I gave “Alien: Covenant” a good review earlier this summer, I did sympathize with one Amazon reviewer’s all-caps suggestion to the filmmakers: “Stop killing off main
Among the films, the original trilogy is clearly better than the prequel trilogy, but among the novelizations, the opposite is true. It’s not because of
The original trilogy wraps up in book form with James Kahn’s “Return of the Jedi” novelization (1983), which – mostly for better, sometimes for worse –
As I noted in my review of the “Star Wars” novelization, adaptations of movies give insight not only into the authors’ interpretation of the material,
Before the internet age, knowing that Alan Dean Foster ghost-wrote the “Star Wars: A New Hope” novelization (December 1976) for George Lucas was the mark of a