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Word and Film

New York, New York, USA

Word and Film is a website dedicated to keeping a literary eye on what’s entertaining the world on screens both big and small.

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Aug 26, 2013

Full ‘Divergent’ Trailer Starring Shailene Woodley Thrills MTV Audiences

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Viewers enjoying the MTV Video Music Awards show Sunday night got their first solid look at “Divergent,” a movie starring Shailene Woodley, directed by Neil Burger and based on author...

Aug 20, 2013

Resurrecting H. P. Lovecraft on the Big and Small Screen

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Before Stephen King (and after Edgar Allan Poe), the master of American literary horror was H. P. Lovecraft. Born a decade before the turn of the century in Providence, Rhode...

Aug 12, 2013

Box Office: ‘Elysium’ Mostly Avoids Catastrophe, Brad Pitt Hits New Career High

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The 2013 summer blockbuster curse has been broken … sort of. “Elysium” came in at the top with $30.5 million, but it beat “We’re the Millers” by less than $5M,...

Aug 07, 2013

Meryl Streep in Talks to Join Jeff Bridges in ‘The Giver’

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Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Meryl Streep has been tapped for the role of “chief elder” in the upcoming movie adaptation of Lois Lowry’s dystopian science fiction novel The Giver....

Jul 26, 2013

A Westerner in Japan: ‘The Wolverine’ Follows a Grand Literary Tradition

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For the casual comic-book-movie watcher, the spectacle of Hugh Jackman’s vicious loner Wolverine landing in modern Japan might come off as a random Hollywood gimmick meant to throw some exoticism...

Jul 26, 2013

Chuck Palahniuk Confirms a Graphic Novel Sequel to ‘Fight Club’

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Chuck Palahniuk made quite a splash at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. Not only did he sign advanced reader’s copies of his upcoming novel Doomed, which won’t be out...