Posts Tagged "movies"

I’m trying out a new theme for tonight’s storytime, books about television and movies. Sure books biggest competition may be the television, but that’s no reason we can’t have some fun with it. Of course, I almost gave up on the idea after I realized how difficult it was to search under the television subject heading at the library without getting a bunch of Disney spin off and Star Wars spin off books. I persevered, though, and put together a nice stack of fun stories. Here’s what will be in my bag of tricks tonight: Penny Lee and Her TV by Glenn McCoy Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood by Cece Bell Charlie Hits it Big by Deborah Blumenthal, illustrated by Denise Brunkus Todd’s TV by James Proimos TV Rex by John Nickle A Song for...

According to this Media Bistro article, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is finally coming to the big screen and Jim Carrey is going to star in it. How cool is that? Still, I’m a little bit confused. Perhaps the movie’s producers missed out on this post from last year. Surely, if they were aware of the fact that my friend and I used to spend hours in her basement emulating penguins, jumping from the ping-pong table to a chair to an improvised penguin slide, they would certainly want to bring me in to help with all those penguin stunts. Hollywood, I know everything there is to know about penguin stunts, well as long as those stunts are being performed by kids with overactive imaginations and not actual penguins. Who am I kidding? It will probably be all CGI...

Here’s a quick update of what I have been doing this weekend in the order of occurrence. 1. Yelled at a DVD I watched the movie Adam Friday night. It was a sort of Asperger love story. In general it was a good movie. My yelling didn’t come until the very end. Rose Byrne plays Beth the love interest of Aspergian title character played by Hugh Dancy. Beth is a teacher who dreams of being a published children’s book author. So far so good. At one point she tells Adam about her hope of someday winning a Newbery award. I was impressed that the moviemakers at least had some familiarity with children’s publishing. That all fell apart at the end when we finally got to see the book that Beth had been working on in published form. The problem? It...

I saw the new Alice in Wonderland movie last night, and loved it. I have been obsessed with the Alice books for some time, but always disappointed by every film adaptation ever attempted. (In fact the closest anyone has come to capturing the magic of Alice on film may be that episode of The Muppet Show with Brooke Shields as Alice.) Like that episode of The Muppet Show, but in a completely different way, this new version of Alice deviates quite a bit from the original stories, but does so in a novel way, imagining an older Alice who is on the verge of an unwanted marriage and escapes into the magical Wonderland/Underland. I love the new premise. In typical Wizard of Oz fashion, the characters in Underland mirror the people she knows in her real life, but what I...

I am so excited about the new Alice in Wonderland movie coming out. I’ve loved the Alice books for a long time, have a healthy collection of Alice in Wonderland crap collectibles, and have always been disappointed that all the movie versions of the book pretty much sucked, but with Tim Burton at the helm and the premise being a return to Wonderland by a 19 year-old Alice, I have a feeling that this new movie is going to finally succeed in turning a couple of great books into a great movie. Dad kindly gave me this article about the film from USA Today, because he knew about my Alice obsession. I already wanted to see the movie based on all the trailers I had seen and buzz I had heard, and well because I think Tim Burton is a genius, but the article only drove...