Twenty-seven years since they first faced off and defeated Pennywise, things are getting bad in Derry again and Mike decides the time has come to call the Losers back home, to come together and fulfil their vow.

An advantage the 1990 adaptation had over the modern remake is that it was conceived and commissioned as an adaptation of the whole book. In contrast, 2017’s “It” needed to hedge its bets…

I remember when I first saw “Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone” in the cinema, it was one of the strangest cinema experiences of my life. I didn’t feel like I’d just watched a film of the boy wizard’s adventures, I just felt like I’d re-read the first book in two and half hours, so close was the vision on screen to how I’d pictured it when reading. I had a similar feeling after watching…