Reading List: Kingsman (Get Your Spy Game On)

So you’ve seen the recently released Kingsman: The Secret Service and have been bitten by the spy craft bug. One: Trust me, you’re not alone. Two: We can help fill the time between now and when you go back to the theater to see the movie again, or between now and when it’s released on DVD, whichver is in keeping with how you roll. The majority of the titles on this list, both fiction and non-fiction, can be found on display in the new book room.

Book to Movie (Trailer)

Robert Edsel’s The Monuments Men is heading to the big screen with many a familiar face – George Clooney–anyone heard of him? – set to star. Check out the trailer and then, if you’re interested, put your name on the reserve list for the book. The Monuments Men will be in theaters on December 18th.…

Excerpt: Q&A with Peter Jackson

A couple of weeks ago, special code in hand, I watched a live event with Peter Jackson, during which the director fielded questions from fans and cast, and showed a bit of raw footage from the upcoming Desolation of Smaug. They’ve finally released a brief clip from that event; take a look:

Book to Movie: John Carter (of Mars)

Disney’s John Carter, which stars Taylor Kitsch in the titular role, is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars stories. Why not check out the book before the movie is released on March 9th? Publisher’s summary: “Let the adventures begin, as Captain John Carter finds himself transported to the alien landscape of Mars–where…

Book to Movie (Trailer): One For the Money

Publisher’s Summary: “Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash—fast—but times are tough, and soon she’s forced to turn to the last resort of the…

Book to Movie (Trailer): The Rum Diary

“Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust…

While You're Waiting on…The Hobbit (Part 1)

Peter Jackson knows how to tease. Case in point: the third of his production videos (below) showcases the initial stages of whipping the Dwarves into fighting shape (or looks-to-be-more-out-of-shape, as the case may be), and gives us a brutally brief glimpse of Martin Freeman as Bilbo interacting with Andy Serkis’ Gollum. And, please, don’t get…

Poll: On Recasting

The Hunger Games casting is trending as a hot topic. Are they getting it right? Wrong? Fans are falling on both sides of the line, offering up suggestions for who they believe is better suited to any given role. Which got us thinking… Which of the characters in the poll below would you have recast…

Film Trailer: My Dog Tulip

J.R. Ackerly’s Memoir My Dog Tulip has just been re-released in anticipation of the new animated film based on the book. The distinguished British man of letters, Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came to adopt Tulip – a beautiful, yet intolerable 18-month-old German shepherd. To…