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  • DVDs, Grimm, Movies

    The Hunger Games are on DVD

    17.08.12 | Permalink | Comment?

    Let the games begin! The Hunger Games is released on DVD today, and we’ve got it! Right now, in fact. Reserve your copy (80 cents for one week on a young adult card) and it will wend its way to a reserve shelf at a library branch near you fairly shortly.

    The 2 disc set contains extras including:

    • Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games Phenomenon
    • The World is Watching: Making The Hunger Games
    • Letters From the Rose Garden
    • Controlling the Games
    • A Conversation with Gary Ross and Elvis Mitchell
    • Propaganda Film
    • Marketing Archive

    We also have a superdeluxefantastic three disc set (in the general DVD collection, so $4.00 for one week) with extra extras:

    • Stories from the Cornucopia
    • Tribute Video Diaries
    • Biographies
    • Photo Album

    Here’s the DVD trailer:

    That is all.


  • Grimm, Movies

    A Festival of Films

    10.07.12 | Permalink | Comment?

    Have you done the International Film Festival before? If not, then maybe this is the year! There’s a fabulous aray of films, including some cherry picked here:

    From Up on Poppy Hill – if you’re a fan of Studio Ghibli then you might like to see their latest on the big screen at the Embassy. To get prepared, you could also do a Studio Ghibli retrospective, including My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle.

    Lore – this is based on one of the stories in The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert, in which Lore and her brothers and sisters travel 900 kilometres across post-war Germany to safety (they hope) in Hamburg.

    I Wish – set in Japan, where Koichi’s family is disrupted by the separation of his parents, and he finds himself at opposite ends of the country to his brother Ryu. Koichi believes there’s magic in the new bullet train service that might reunite them (and so a plan is hatched!).

    Farewell, My Queen – the last days of Marie-Antoinette (as opposed to the first days, as in the movie Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst). This is also based on the novel (same name) by Chantal Thomas.

    There are many many more! Have a look at the website for more (or come into a library and pick up a brochure).

    You can also keep up to date with new DVDs added to the library’s collection with this RSS feed here.


  • Library Serf, Movies

    Breaking News: Breaking Dawn Part 1

    23.03.12 | Permalink | Comment?

    If you’d love to relive the romance, passion, suspence and drama of Breaking Dawn Part 1, now is your chance! For only 80 cents (if you have a young adult library card)! Which is quite a bargain, really. Reserve your copy now.

    Also: have a great weekend!


  • Jack, Movies, News, Social Networking

    Some people were at the premiere of ‘The Hunger Games’ and then tweeted out what they thought

    14.03.12 | Permalink | Comment?

    Are you getting excited about the prospect of seeing The Hunger Games on the silver screen? We are. It premiered in Los Angeles last night, and now that everyone in the world is on Twitter and we all tweet about everything we do and see, it’s easy to find out what the people that were lucky enough to be there thought of it. The Huffington Post handily collected some tweets in a slideshow, here. By all (of these) accounts, Suzanne Collins will be very pleased with the adaptation.

    Oh, and if you need to read the book first to compare them, do so here.


  • Internet, Library Serf, Movies

    Prepare yourself for the games

    07.03.12 | Permalink | Comment?

    The 74th Hunger Games are nearly upon us (attendance is mandatory). In the intervening two (!) weeks, you can familiarise yourself with the politics of Panem: visit the official government webpage. It has really cool landscape navigation (fancy scrolling right instead of down!). You can become a citizen (District 4’s population could do with a boost). Or find out if the trackerjackers are particularly bad this season, or keep up to date with Capitol news. Plus more.

    (You can also pre-purchase tickets to the film – the first showing as at one minute past midnight on Thursday the 22nd of March.)


  • 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 :(


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