When the HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 premieres on Saturday, the movie will introduce a contemporary twist to the centuries-long history of burning books — one in which Bradbury’s ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. HBO has released a new trailer for the upcoming ...

There are many changes from book to screen in “Fahrenheit 451,” the new HBO movie based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel of the same name, but one of the simplest is also one of the most critical: Though ...

Democracy has been replaced by authoritarian rule. All books, music and art deemed “inappropriate” are banned. Citizens are controlled by computers and/or robots. Free will is a thing of the past. The ...

One of the most commonly assigned books in American high school literature, Fahrenheit 451, hasn’t always been treated fairly. But the book, while easy to read, is rich with metaphor and meaning. I ...

There is a conversation near the end of Ray Bradbury’s original Fahrenheit 451 novel in which two characters discuss the quality of mankind through history. In essence, they ponder whether we, as a ...

In the totalitarian state of HBO’s new Fahrenheit 451 (May 19, 8 p.m.), fixed on some undated American time line, the word is the target and the mind is scorched earth. “News, facts,” leader Michael ...

Lead actors Michael B. Jordan, who is black, and Michael Shannon, who is white, engage in an eyebrow-raising dialogue halfway through Fahrenheit 451. The new HBO film is director and screenwriter ...