Have you ever read anything by Jodi Picoult? no? well get on it. She’s great! (many thanks to my gal Milene for introducing me to this fantastic author).
Need a place to start? I recommend My Sister’s Keeper. It’s heart-wrenching, and will make you cry, kind of like this year’s season finale of Grey’s Anatomy made me cry. You have to read it quick though. Why? because the movie comes out June 26th, and it looks good (at least the two minutes of trailer I watched).
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So has anyone else noticed that all of Beyonce’s videos (Ego, Single Ladies) feature her singing while two other chicks dance? Doesn’t it remind you of something, like…oh I don’t know Destiny’s Child maybe. Just saying.
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Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, one of my favourite children’s books, is being made into a movie.
Check out this star studded sure to be a hit lineup:
Director: Spike Jonze
Featuring: Catherin Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Forest Whitaker
And if that doesn’t have you excited, check out the movie poster:
Are you as excited as I am?
Do you have a favourite children’s book you’d like to see made into a movie?
UPDATE: There’s a trailer now! Click here to watch it!
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This past weekend I finally got around to watching Confessions of a Shopaholic, (judge me, I know you want to) and while I didn’t expect to be pleased by this film, because I quite enjoyed the book, I also didn’t expect how dissapointed I was.
It’s simple (or at least in my mind it is), this was not a difficult book to turn into a movie. This was not Jose Saramago’s Blindness (which while in movie format wasn’t fantastic, it wasn’t terrible).
This is what should have happened in this film:
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Props to Web 2.0:
Get StumbleUpon you won’t regret it. Hours of mindless fun await you. And, because most things are better when they are packaged deals, for the low low price of accepting the fact that not all of this stuff is useless, also get a Delicious account and bookmark the awesome shit you find on Stumble, so you can find it again.
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If you’re anything like me, then you love it when a good book gets destroyed on the silver screen (Hearts in Atlantis), or the not as likely opposite, when a really bad book (like so bad you wonder how this person got a publisher) becomes a redeemable movie (The Notebook). Actually, if you’re anything like me, then you just love it when books get made into movies, period.
Which brings me to the movie adaptation of the book He’s Just Not That Into You. The book, written in 2004 by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo is inspired by an episode of Sex and the City in which Berger (Carrie’s boyfriend at the time) explains to Miranda that men ARE in fact very simple creatures. If post-date you invite him in and he does not come in, then, as Berger puts it: “He’s just not that into you,” adding, “When a guy’s really into you, he’s coming upstairs, meeting or no meeting.”
I have not read the book. I have not watched the movie. In fact, I’ve decided that I will be boycotting both. Why? Because I refuse to believe that it is THAT simple. I refuse to believe that the actions of half the human race can be described in one six word sentence.
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This is the most exciting thing to happen in Hollywood in the last year (since celebrities decided they would go to rehab and not entertain me with their drunken antics). A remake of The Neverending Story is likely in the works. I loved this movie as a child, I used to dream that I was the empress and that one day I would ride a white dragon and there would be rock men who would make jokes about limestone.
Unfortunately, I watched it recently and was very underwhelmed, probably because of the awesomeness of CGI and movies like The Matrix and Lord of the Rings. Luckily, this movie (well, it’s remake) has the opportunity to redeem itself, and re-achieve the childhood glory I have associated with it.
Ch-ch-check it out here.
Bring on the white dragons!
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I don’t think I need to address how awesome I think this film is going to be. But I will with one sentence: Quentin Tarantino, WWII, Nazis, that is all.
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