Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

The Hunger Games

Friday, March 23rd The Hunger Games comes to theaters.  The movie is based on Suzanne Collins' book of the same title.  From IMBD:


"Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match."






Boxoffice Magazine states:
"As action, as allegory, as cinema, The Hunger Games is the best American science-fiction film since "The Matrix," and if Ross and his crew stay with the series for the next two books, we may get that rarest of things: a blockbuster franchise that earns our money through craft, emotion and execution, not merely marketing and effects." 


If you have not read The Hunger Games, we have three copies at the library and the audio version available through Woodlands Downloadable Library.  You can also request a copy through MeL.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Movies based on books:


December 9th
Based on: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John LeCarre

December 16th
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Loosely based on: “The Final Problem”, one of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featured in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

 

December 21st

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (English language version)
Based on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

December 23rd

Based on The Secret of the Unicorn by Herge

Based on War Horse by Michael Morpugo

Based on: We Bought a Zoo: A Memoir by Benjamin Mee

January 20th

 

ased on: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Based on: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

January 27th

Based on: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

Based on: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Be sure to check IMDB and local theater listings for updated release dates on all of these titles.