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Looper has put together a round-up of 11 fantasy book adaptations coming to the small screen in 2023 and beyond. These include The Power (premiering on March 31), Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death (executive produced by George R.R. Martin), Neil Gaima...

When we meet the 13-year-old principal characters of the Oscar-nominated drama Close, the boys embody the film’s title with no seeming self-consciousness. Léo and Rémi (played by newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele, respectively) play out...

Ottessa Moshfegh often writes the kind of books that seem unfilmable. Her stories are not typically impossible or too narratively thorny to make for a coherent viewing experience (though her most recent novel, the divisive Lapvona, is both of those t...

You probably weren’t thinking that Pirates of the Caribbean was a documentary (or Treasure Island before it). But somehow we’ve all absorbed the stereotype of a pirate as a swashbuckling adventurer with a certain accent, a few loose teeth, and a...

I bring you some… news—good or bad, it’s up to you: HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot has been canceled after two seasons, the streamer announced on Thursday. That doesn’t necessarily mean the show is over-over; its executive producers are repor...

Elder millennials, rejoice: A Judy Blume-aissance is upon us. Read more...

I finally finished reading Luda, the first novel from celebrated comic scribe cum chaos magician Grant Morrison. Anyone who's read Morrison's comics knows that they're a master of mind-bending counter-culture; anyone who's read their non-fiction book...