Jadyn Statz

Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025) were both top-rated movies of the year, generously noted for inclusive representation surrounding gender, race, and sexuality. But amongst the cheerful expressions and celebration, there are the lurking inadequacies when it comes to positively portraying people with disabilities.

Wicked tells the narrative of Oz, specifically the origin of Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West, before Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1939) movie....

Stories are first born on the page before making their way to the screen. Unlike screenplays, novels often carry layers of detail — subplots, character depth, and narrative nuance — that don’t always survive the transition to film.

For some viewers, fidelity to a story’s source material matters, and understanding an author’s original intent can deepen the viewing experience. With that in mind, here are ten books worth reading before their film adaptations arrive later this year.


Classic bo...

The hit dance competition franchise, Dancing with the Stars (2005-), recently celebrated twenty years on air with the premiere of its thirty-fourth season, showcasing stars ranging from social media influencer Alix Earle to NBA point guard Baron Davis, all the way to Australian wildlife conservationist Robert Irwin. The popular TV series has now been licensed to sixty territories, allowing dozens of countries to air their version of the ballroom dance competition; perhaps the reason that this se...

Spoiler Alert: Spoilers ahead for Grey’s Anatomy (2005-) and Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 (2025).


Season twenty-two of the long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy will return on January 8th, 2026. Still, after leaving off with another fan-favorite character’s life on the line, viewers can’t help but question when enough is enough. For a medical drama that has been running for over twenty years, actors inevitably leave the show.

Yet after so many horrific deaths and unsatisfactory character ex...

While Stephen King’s It1 remains a beloved classic and a defining work in the horror genre, the excitement surrounding yet another film adaptation raises an important question: are we revisiting its brilliance, or simply disguising its narrative shortcomings with glossy Hollywood appeal?


The eleven-hundred-page novel tells the story of an evil entity that haunts the town roughly every twenty-seven years. The entity primarily takes the form of a clown and terrorizes the children of Derry, Main...