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  • Library Serf, Movies, News, Sport, Today in History

    From the random news desk

    28.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    Some quick random headlines to distract you from work:

    The World Cup in Book Form
    You will be pleased to read that New Zealand publishers are working overtime to produce books commemorating the epic victory. The NZ Booksellers site reports that the first books may be available from as early as tomorrow, which is also an epic effort, but doesn’t get a cup or a medal unfortunately.

    Hunger Games Movie Poster Teasers
    This week Hunger Games movie posters have been popping up on different sites all over the world wide web: see here for a summary of opinions. As for the posters: here are a few links:

    Chaos at the Movies
    Fans of the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness will be pleased to read that this is also going to be made into a movie(s)! The films are being made by the Hunger Games movie people, so they’ll appear in a couple of years. Go Manchee.

    Today in History
    And finally, because today’s news is tomorrow’s history: today and yet 121 years ago the first Labour Day was celebrated: read about it.

    Good luck with your exam study! (Although you won’t need any luck, you’ll be amazing.)


  • Movies, Simon

    Trailer Tuesday

    25.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    Tuesday already? Man, it feels like the last Trailer Tuesday was only yesterday.

    The first trailer is for a game that you either don’t care about or are champing at the bit to play. Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the game! It is massively popular. Playing the first Starcraft competitively is a major sport in South Korea, interestingly. ~0Oo~ The More You Know ~oOo~

    This game won’t be out until next year sometime.

    Here’s a trailer for a film called Chronicle, due out early next year. It looks great! Sort of like Akira, I thought, although a lot of others say it’s like Misfits. I say both!

    The trailer now has like 4.5 million views – when I saw it on the weekend it had only a few hundred, so it seems interest is running high. I can not wait to see it!

    Don’t forget to watch the second trailer for The Adventures of Tintin. Watch it here in HD and be BLOWN AWAY. Even though it’s not out until just before Christmas here, it has already earnt some very good reviews.

    Aaaand did you know that early next year Star Wars 1 : The Phantom Menace is to be re-released early next year in 3D? Each film in the series will be released annually thereafter, in 3D. Not sure if they will be re-edited (maybe get rid of Jar-Jar, or that weird robot waitress in that cafe in the third one, do you remember that? Eeesh) but probably.

    ~ Le Fin ~


  • Movies, Trailers, Vic Ferrari

    Trailer Tuesday

    11.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    There’s a new Tintin trailer out and it looks sooo action packed and exciting! Watch the first (more subdued) one here.

    This blog is mostly about items in the “Young Adult” area of the library and the trailer below is about a movie called “Young Adult”, just ideal really.

    Fans of either dance movies and exploding buses should be entertained by the new Footloose movie. Yes, a bus explodes.

    See you next time at the movies!


  • Movies, Trailers

    Trailer Tuesday

    27.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    Jane Eyre is on at the movies at the moment (good news!). So we thought we would spotlight another classic 19th Century adaptation, this time Wuthering Heights:

    This one is directed by Andrea Arnold (notice she likes a square screen), and stars Kaya Scodelario who was in Skins. There have been lots of adaptations of Wuthering Heights, there’s a couple in the young adult collection here.

    On a completely different subject, we have: whales. More to the point, whales caught under Arctic ice (true story):

    And finally, because it’s topical (or it was a few weeks ago) and also polar, here’s Happy Feet 2!


  • Horror, Movies, Pencil it in your diaries, Prudence

    Breaking Dawn Part one trailer you guys

    16.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    I just feel sorry for whoever has to repair that windowsill :(


  • Grimm, Movies, Trailers

    The Hunger Games Teaser

    01.09.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    A one minute Hunger Games teaser trailer was released at the MTV VMAs earlier this week, and this is it:

    The forest looks just like I imagined it. Exactly so.


  • Grimm, Movies, News

    The Hunger Games Motion Poster

    22.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    The moving poster for The Hunger Games movie has just been released, and it looks pretty cool:

    Read more…


  • Grimm, Movies, News

    From the Sporadic News Desk

    11.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    Some movie/book news:

    Maybe people have been wondering what Stephenie Meyer has been doing with her time? Well, she’s going to be producing a movie, Austenland to be exact, starring Keri Russell (from Felicity), Bret McKenzie (from Wellington! and Flight of the Conchords!), and James Callis (from Battlestar Galactica). The movie is based on the book Austenland by Shannon Hale (Goose Girl, etc).

    Segueing away, once the final instalment of the Twilight series has finished at the movies, you can expect to see a host of other young adult fiction adaptations: The Mortal Instruments (by Cassandra Clare) and of course The Hunger Games, other rumours/news are/is of Matched (Ally Condie), Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater), Fallen (Lauren Kate), Divergent (Veronica Roth) for example. They’re currently casting The Mortal Instruments, including Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace (he was Caius in the Twilight movies) and Lily Collins as Clary (she was in 90210).

    Most of these books above are series, with some follow ups arriving in the next few months: Forever, by Maggie Stiefvater, Crossed by Ally Condie (will be published in November this year), and Passion by Lauren Kate (which should be available very very soon, having just arrived in the library), plus Divergent is the first in a planned trilogy, so this means many more movies, lots of them having the world falling apart. Goodie.

    Sort of connected to the movies and books, and related to our earlier post about Pottermore, now you sort of know what it is and if you’re keen, Pottermore is giving you the chance to enter the site early – so mark the 31st of July in your calendars and go visit the site to find out more. Pottermore is also tweeting updates and previews.

    In the mean time, enjoy Harry Potter 7P2!


  • Flash games, Grimm, Movies, Trailers

    Trailer Tuesday

    19.04.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    Last week we brought you four seconds of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Here’s a couple of minutes more (so cool):

    This should be out in August this year. Can’t hardly wait.

    On an entirely different note, the William and Kate movie will be released on DVD shortly before the wedding of the year (April 29th, don’t forget to watch on the telly). Here’s its trailer.

    There will no doubt also be books commemorating the occasion. Here’s a couple you can already reserve: Katie the Royal Wedding Fairy by Daisy Meadows and Knit Your Own Royal Wedding by Fiona Gobie. No, we’re not making either of those up. For those who especially love a good royal wedding, here’s the commemorative book about Charles and Diana’s (written by Gordon Honeycombe, nice name).

    And finally, another digression: not a trailer but a real flash game: make the pig fly! You will, no doubt, be better than me. Thanks, Stu, for passing on the procrastination tool.


  • Movies, Simon, Trailers

    Trailer Tuesday

    08.02.11 | Permalink | Comment?

    The Superbowl – America’s premier lawn bowls championship playoff thing – was yesterday, and during the ads many new film trailers were screened for films that we can not wait to see! (And subsequently stock in the library, of course.)

    Here, we’ve embedded some. The first two are superheroes; Captain America and Thor. I suspect they’re leading up to the eventual Avengers film (this won’t make any sense to anyone not familiar with Marvel comics).

     

    Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Seas, the fourth film in the series based on a theme park ride, has a new trailer. Pirates! Zombies! The usual! No Jack Davenport though! :`(

    Here’s one for a film called Super 8 which is maybe about aliens? I’ve not done much research.

    Transformers : Dark Side of the Moon has a new trailer! (Hopefully it is better than the last one, frankly.)

    Battle LA seems to be a mixture of the last two films, in so far as mass destruction by aliens goes. Which is all the way to the bank!

    Cowboys & Aliens. Sure, why not? The title is pretty literal. It is what it says on the label.

    The End.


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