The new dystopian movie "The Giver" has drawn praise for its deep thematic content on the value of human life, suffering, free will and the dangers of a world that distorts language to do evil. "We ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “The Giver” takes place in utopic-seeming dystopia, where everything is white and everybody is ...

Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Lois Lowry's dystopian novel stars Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift and Odeya Rush By Ashley Lee The Giver, ...

Outside of the Angelina Jolie action film Salt, all the hits on Australian helmer Phillip Noyce‘s resume are book adaptations. That ranges from his breakout hit Dead Calm to Patriot Games, Clear And ...

The film version of "The Giver" is briskly directed in bright, confident strokes, scripted to emphasize its thought-provoking qualities and acted by players, young and old, who are "all in" on the ...

The American Library Association reports that The Giver is one of the twenty-five most banned or challenged books of the last decade. So Lois Lowry’s Newberry Medal winner comes to the big screen with ...

Two decades before big-screen adaptations of dystopian young-adult novels like “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” became the rage, Lois Lowry’s Newbery-winning book “The Giver” laid out the blueprint ...

The film version of “The Giver” is briskly directed in bright, confident strokes, scripted to emphasize its thought-provoking qualities and acted by players, young and old, who are “all in” on the ...

Somewhere, on a VHS tape probably sitting in a family member’s garage, there’s an amazing artifact from decades ago: actor Jeff Bridges directing a homemade movie version of Lois Lowry’s best-selling ...

Before “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” series zoomed off bookshelves and onto movie screens, where they became blockbuster franchises, there was a quieter dystopian novel that entranced millions of ...

Chappell Roan had a remarkable rise to the top of the pop pantheon in 2024, despite only releasing one new song that year. That’s how good “Good Luck, Babe!” — and 2023’s The Rise And Fall Of A ...