It's common to say that the book is always better than the movie, but sometimes that isn't true. Occasionally, a movie will come along that transforms its source material into something greater than the original. But how often do authors feel that a film adaptation has truly trumped their own work?

Graphic designer Jaz Parkinson's Colour Signatures is an interesting way of visualizing books. She pulls out all of the references to color in a single novel or play, tallies them up, and graphs the color scheme for each book.

There are some directors whose movies are instantly recognizable, and Stanley Kubrick is easily among them. One thing that makes Kubrick's movies so unusual is his heavy use of one-point perspective, to focus in on a single character or object, and often to create a sense that we are trapped within the scene rather …

You've seen our collection of Avox Thongs from the Hunger Games and Twilight face panties. But there are actually scarier pieces of movie-themed underwear available on the internet.

Why was A Clockwork Orange such a controversial film when it originally came out? It's not just because of all the sex and violence — or even the combination of the two.

Comic artist Kevin Colden (DC's Strange Adventures, Act-I-Vate's Fishtown) recently posted an unused pitch for a graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Check out Alex and his droogs engaging in some ultraviolence, comic style.

Warren Ellis previously challenged artists to imagine a David Lynch-directed Spider-Man film. He's now asking members of his Whitechapel forum to depict Stanley Kubrick's interpretation of Tony Stark and his full metal jerkin.

In honor of Banned Books Week, Geekosystem's Susana Polo looks at 10 great science fiction novels that have been banned, or at least threatened with removal from libraries and schools. Including some major classics of the genre!

Marvellous Hairy author Mark A. Rayner is holding a Photoshop contest to create vintage advertisements for futures that don't exist yet. Here's a small sampling of these retrofuturistic print pieces from both the current and past contests.

On July 9, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles will debut their annual "Crazy 4 Cult" show, which pays homage to oddball cinema classics. Here are some samples from 2009's show, which cheekily reinterpreted films like A Clockwork Orange and Freaks.