To be sure, some of the best characters in literature are the so-called “good guys,” but let’s face it: these goody-goodies are rarely the most interesting characters in the story. Most of us, most of the time, want to see good …
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And the Oscar Goes To…
The books that were made into Oscar-nominated films of 2013. If you’re following this year’s awards season, you may have noticed that many of the movies receiving the highest accolades were adapted from novels. Some of the big winners at …
“The Tell-Tale Heart” Animated, But Not for Children
The film that you are about to see is based on a story told a hundred years ago by America’s greatest writer of drama and suspense… So begins the 1953 animated adaptation of Poe’s sinister masterpiece, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In …
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