War Horse is based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, a solid young adult novel with classic status in the UK. It was turned into a brilliant bit of theater (really, you should see it if at all possible). But Spielberg's film fails on every level.
Filmmakers and novelists have long been fascinated by the way the optimistic, sunlit, pre-1914 Europe of emperors in plumed helmets and hussars on parade so quickly turned into a mass slaughterhouse on an unprecedented scale.
For each of this year's six Academy Award-nominated films that began as paperbound stories, we've found one reviewer who has only read the book, and o...
You could understand if Jeremy Irvine was feeling nervous, on edge, prickly: he's in a foreign country, bearing the burden of being the star of one of...
From the moment Steven Spielberg signed on to direct "War Horse," one thing was clear: He could not tell the story from the point of view of the horse...
Many years ago I wrote a screenplay called The War Horses. My story, telling how the Boer War of Africa was won on a ranch in the American West, was based on a document discovered in the University of Denver's library.