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It is a pretty common notion that books are better than films. This is usually true because a film has constraints on length and time, while a book doesn’t have these issues and can flesh out a story properly. However, there have been instances where a film adaptation of a novel turned out to be way better than the book.

Some of these films went on to win accolades, like the Academy Awards, while others became cult classics. From The Godfather to Misery, these are our favorite picks for the movies that are way better than the book they were based on.

10. The Godfather (1972) Based on: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1969)

Mario Puzo’s crime novel was a brilliantly imagined work, quickly becoming a bestseller worldwide. When Puzo discussed a film adaptation of The Godfather with Francis Ford Coppola, fans never expected it to outperform the novel. Coppola ran...

Each year, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival gives a preview of what will undoubtedly become the most acclaimed and popular animated titles in the year to come. Last year, the festival premiered Flow, which would go on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature FIlm, along with another future Oscar nominee, Memoir of a Snail. They also featured a variety of what would become big Netflix titles, such as The Imaginary, Blue Eye Samurai, Pokémon Concierge, and Twilight of the Gods. This year, Netflix is returning to Annecy with a bold, genre-spanning line-up of films, series, and special events, including what may be the crown jewel of them all, an animated series from the Stranger Things universe, created by the Duffer brothers themselves.

The animated series was announced two years ago but now has the official title of Stranger Things: Tales From '85, and a release date of,...

Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short story collection Night Shift and subsequently adapted into a 1984 feature film directed by Fritz Kiersch. Night Shift also contains the source material for King classics such as The Mangler, Sometimes They Come Back, Maximum Overdrive, and the upcoming The Boogeyman, but none of the collection’s other 19 stories have had the staying power of “Children of the Corn.” Perhaps due to its evocative title implying barbaric pagan rituals or the eerie juxtaposition between childlike innocence and brutal murder, the original film has spawned eight sequels and two remakes over the course of four decades.

Kazik Radwanski's Anne at 13,000 ft. is exclusively showing on Mubi in many countries starting September 29, 2021 in the series The New Auteurs.I’ve always written films about the places and people I know. Initially it came from a practical and pragmatic approach to filmmaking. In my early films, I wrote scripts that could be set and shot in a friend’s apartment, or an uncle’s house, somewhere I could have easy access. It was a necessity! It was all I could afford, and all I had access to. Anne at 13,000 ft is set at a daycare that my mother had run for the past 40 years. She joined me on set when we shot a staff meeting scene. There were about 15 actors in the scene. Deragh Campbell, the lead of the film, was in the scene and we had cast someone to play a supervisor that leads the meeting.

Hello, everyone! We have an eclectic group of films headed to Blu-ray and DVD this week, including the latest Purge entry, a cannibalistic comedy featuring the likes of Pat Morita and Michael Berryman, feature films helmed by both David Nelson (of Ozzie & Harriet fame) and John Russo, plus so much more. Arrow Video is keeping busy this week with their new releases of Death Screams and Children of the Corn in 4K, and Vinegar Syndrome is showing some love to Auntie Lee’s Meat Pies and Girls School Screamers as well. Severin has put together Blu-ray releases for A Day of Judgment and Midnight, and if you missed it in theaters earlier this year, you can catch up with The Forever Purge this Tuesday when it comes home on all formats.

Other home entertainment releases for September 28th include Blood Conscious, Harvest of Horrors, Know Fear, and The Purge: 5-Movie Collection.

Acclaimed Icelandic filmmaker Ragnar Bragason, best known for his films Börn (Children) and Foreldrar (Parents), directs this darkly comic drama that is billed as a story “about a girl, heavy metal and cows. It’s a story of a terrible loss and how we deal with our griefs, about community and a sense of family, dreams and nightmares, says the director. Teaming up with producers Árni Filippusson and Davíð Óskar Óskarsson (the prodcuers behind Either Way, which was recently remade as Prince Avalanche by David Gordon Green), Bragason’s Metalhead has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. Tiff describes it as, “Tough, clear-eyed and compassionate, a touching film about a tortured soul who hasn’t been — and may never be — able to let herself off the hook”.

The full trailer for Metalhead (English subtitles included) has arrived online. Enjoy!

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