The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings – READ THE BOOK FIRST (Drool Over Clooney in the Film Later):

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 [...]

The Three Musketeers in 3D!? Hmmm… Actually, I reckon Dumas would approve (check out the trailer)

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 [...]

New Film of I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson staring Sarah Jessica Parker

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 [...]

Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher – It’s not how big you are but how big you feel (in your heels)

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: [...]

The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas’ award-winning novel, is now a prime time ABC TV series

To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives dissected in Christos Tsiolkas’ award-winning novel, now a prime time ABC TV series, starring Melissa George and Alex Dimitriades. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly boy. The boy is not his own. It’s a single [...]

Gary Oldman and Colin Firth Star in a Film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré

Set in the 1970s, TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman*), a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field [...]

THE EYE OF THE STORM by Patrick White

UPDATE: THE EYE OF THE STORM by Patrick White Patrick White’s seminal book about family relationships and the stuff of love and hate has been made into a film which will be screening from September 15. You can read all about the book, and see the film trailer, here. The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey [...]

FILM: The Adventures of Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn

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 [...]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë : Australian fans await new film.

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 [...]

Game of Thrones vs Harry Potter

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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