This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. This Saturday, HBO presents a new made-for-TV version of "Fahrenheit 451," the novel by science-fiction author Ray Bradbury about a repressive ...

Based on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 from 1953 - a classic dystopian-ception novel about a future society that burns books and culture akin to...well, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 - this new souped ...

Originally published in 1953, the dystopian novel depicts a future where media is an opiate, history is outlawed and “firemen” burn books. Young fireman Montag (Jordan) forsakes his world, battles his ...

Critic Dave Bianculli says that the new TV movie "dilutes and deflates" the 1953 novel it draws from. Viewers should "skip the movie, and go back... HBO's Heavy-Handed 'Fahrenheit 451' Lacks The ...

Can an adaptation of a 65-year-old book feel too futuristic? That’s the dilemma that HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451” TV movie, directed and adapted by “99 Homes'” Ramin Bahrani, presents to us. On the one hand ...

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One risk of adapting a groundbreaking work is that what once was shocking and new may come off as derivative in light of everything it inspired. That’s especially true for genre fiction, in which ...