Oskar hurriedly said: “Maybe you already have a guy at your school.” “No, I don’t…but Oskar, I can’t. I’m not a girl.” Oskar snorted. “What do you mean? You’re a guy?” “No, no.” “Then what are you?” “Nothing.” Oskar doesn’t have much going for him: lonely, unsure of himself, incontinent – especially when he’s under
Now that October is here, it’s time for horror films to be unleashed upon the masses just in time for the Halloween holiday. And this year is no exception. From the producers of last year’s hit The Conjuring comes a prequel from one of the more popular characters from that movie. Just like the tagline
Gone Girl is David Fincher’s new film based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn. The movie follows the story of Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), whose wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has disappeared. He soon finds himself the most hated man in America as he is being accused of her murder which has
The Graveyard Book volume 2 by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and a team of fantastic artists will land in bookstores on October 7. I loved the first volume, both for the art and for how faithfully it tells the story, and I hoped the second book wouldn’t lose momentum. No worries there. If anything,
Still, there was no denying that his headquarters world, Xana, set an entirely new record for the shortest interval between my arrival at a place I’d never been and the very first attempt on my life there. We’re talking about minutes. Minutes. Things have started to improve for Andrea Cort at last. She’s been given
In the past few years, Laika Animation Studio has proven itself to be a shining light in a world of mediocre animation studios with sucussful films like Coraline and ParaNorman. This year’s animated movie is The Boxtrolls: The story of an orphaned boy named Eggs who was raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collecting trolls called
“Can’t they make their own damn show?” I say. “Come on,” Kingston says. “Faeries are proud. The Summer King would never stoop to imitating his enemy.” “Besides,” Mel says, “The name Cirque du Soleil was already taken.” I’m a sucker for cinematic scenes in books. I love it when an author’s description makes me wonder just how cool
The Maze Runner is the latest young adult novel turned movie to be released into theaters. Based on the novel of the same name by James Dashner., the story follows teenager Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) who wakes up to find himself without any memory of his past in a place called The Glade, the center of
In film these days the three act structure is law and modern audiences get confused when movies don’t go the way their sub-conscious minds are used to. Stories rarely surprise people these days; now the best we can get are moments in a movie that may trick us, but the story always remains the same.