Add this one to your reading lists for the summer. Here is the first trailer for the Tim Burton directed adaptation of Ransom Rigg’s 2001 novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It is set to release in the US on September 30th. Looks like French actress Eva Green might have finally found a role where…
A Room of One’s Own
I have delved back into reading a large stack of adaptations that are coming our way. I started with The Martian moved onto Brooklyn and am now reading Room. Written from the perspective of a five year old living in a solidarity room with his mum, the new film has already gotten acclaim from the Toronto film festival.…
Second Portion Disappointment
Insurgent (2015). D: Robert Schwentke. DP: Florian Ballhaus. W: Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman & Mark Bomback. Starring: Shailene Woodley/Theo James/Miles Teller/Ansel Elgort/Kate Winslet/Naomi Watts/Jai Courtney/Mekhi Phifer/Zoe Kravitz/Octavia Spencer/Ashley Judd/Maggie Q/Daniel Dae Kim. (Based on Veronica Roth’s novel of the same name) In a market saturated with young adult adaptations, it is difficult to standout and…