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Denis Johnson's novella Train Dreams was always going to be difficult to adapt.

One of the best albums of the 1980s is also one of the great albums about coming of age.

Wicked: For Good suffers from the same problem as the Broadway musical, but one performer saves it.

Fans have rejected their attempts to return. So why do they keep coming back?

And why is everyone trying to sell you more?

Glen Powell can run but he can't hide from a very Netflix-coded megacorporation in Edgar Wright's The Running Man.

Nico Harrison's mind-boggling trade of superstar Luka Doncic ultimately caused the team's implosion and his own firing.

Ryan Murphy's All's Fair, starring Kim Kardashian, is as bad as everyone says.