Narrated in a fearless voice full of bold hilarity and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of Hawaii, The Descendants is a stunning debut novel about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy. A descendant of one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, Matthew King finds his luck has changed. His two [...]
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Alexandre Dumas is not like other highly regarded nineteenth century writers. My understanding is that he did not write in isolation. Or sit in an ivory tower. He was a business man. (A bit of a scoundrel?) He was a collaborator, an industry, much in the way James Patterson is an industry today, pumping out [...]
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A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, I Don’t Know How She Does It is the untold story of the professional working mum at the start of the 21st century. Without a doubt the hottest thing since Bridget Jones’s Diary, but think Bridget Jones’s grownup, sophisticated, literary sister with two small children and a [...]
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SMH: Diminutive actor Tom Cruise has sparked an online backlash over his casting as hulking ex-soldier Jack Reacher in the adaptation of Lee Child’s hugely successful book series, with critics branding him too small to play the popular fictional character. The diminutive star of action blockbusters such as Top Gun, Minority Report and the Mission: [...]
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BOOK: The Art of The Adventures of Tintin Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming up to launch The Adventures of Tintin in late 2011. The Secret of the Unicorn, the first of two films, brings to life the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form. The conceptual design and visual effects for [...]
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The new film of Jane Eyre is being released in Australia on 11th August 2011 In a bold new feature version of Jane Eyre, director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe) infuse a contemporary immediacy into Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious [...]
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See the HBO series definitely but I defy you to read the first book, Game of Thrones, and not come back for more.
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