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...source novel have generated. Derisive laughter was heard at a critics' screening, and a Hollywood Reporter review predicted that the film--budgeted at $100 million and the object of a rights wrangle between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox--would be the "first real flop of 2009." (TIME's Lev Grossman offers a fan's review of the movie. Download the podcast...
...measure up. And this applies no matter how good the film, how bad the book. If there'd been a cheapo novel called Citizen Kane that preceded the movie, somebody who'd read it first would have said, "Nice try, but it's not MY Citizen Kane." (TIME's Lev Grossman, a devout Watchmen fan, sizes up the movie. Listen to the podcast...
...effect of the Yukos admission is that Russians will be encouraged to take even more of their beefs to the ECHR - even though it is no guarantee of getting what they see as their just deserts. "Russians have created this myth about the European Court of Human Rights," says Lev Ponomaryov, a leading human-rights activist, "that it is this ideal system that will resolve everyone's case, and compared to our system, it is perfect, which I think is partially true - but many do misuse it and file cases without exhausting legal means at home." According to Ponomaryov, there...
...teenage girl's dream date: not just sophisticated and powerful but tender and soulful, he's the 100-Year-Old Virgin, able to wait a century till he finds his soulmate, his conscience a constant chaperone that keeps things from getting out of hand. As my colleague Lev Grossman put it, "It's never quite clear whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella or rip her throat out or both, but he wants something, and he wants it bad, and you feel it all the more because he never gets it. That's the power of the Twilight books: they...
...darkness, look no further. Zack Snyder, director of 300, recently wrapped a movie adaptation of Watchmen, and this month Titan Books is publishing a new book by Gibbons called Watching the Watchmen, a gorgeous, oversized graphical history of how Watchmen came to be. TIME's book critic Lev Grossman sat down with Gibbons to talk about...