TASTES LIKE HOME COOKING: REPUBLICAN BACKYARD BAR-B-Q

Movies and TV shows have been dominated in the past decade or so by gritty reboots, in which known characters or plots are presented in a harsh, as realistic as possible manner, e.g. The Dark Knight, the recent Battlestar Galactica series, and the movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. If Dave Eggers can take a slim storybook and make a movie about depressed monsters waxing incoherently about sadness and loss, then dozens of classic kids’ books are just sitting there, waiting to be made more gritty and super-realistic.