Last year I was in the middle of a rehearsal for The Book Thief’s premiere, watching a prop book being burned, when I learned that one of my novels had been banned in a school district in Florida.

To be honest this one has totally flown under the radar for me. A Fox 2000 production, it is the rare serious family drama going out through a major studio, and the even rarer non-animated film ...

During a Nazi speech where the locals are forced to burn books in a bonfire, Liesel recovers one book for her and the Mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann witnesses her action. Meanwhile Hans hides the ...

Whatever virtues turned “The Book Thief” into an acclaimed and honored international best seller are strangely absent from the film adaptation. A sad orphan’s story bereft of emotion ...