Anna Moeslein

Here’s to never being bored again. There are a lot of movies based on books. There are very few good movies based on books. That’s not a knock on Hollywood–it can be challenging to fit a novel’s worth of plot and character development into a few hours of entertainment. That’s why the best films based on books often feel more like a companion piece than a true retelling of a best-selling paperback. Some, like the 2019 movie adaptation of Little Women, play with the story or add in new scenes to a…