Movies – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:00:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Movies – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Read these books before the movie comes out! https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/25/read-these-books-before-the-movie-comes-out/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/25/read-these-books-before-the-movie-comes-out/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2019 03:00:15 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31429 Continue reading Read these books before the movie comes out! →]]> There are nearly thirty books being made into movies this year, maybe more. I’ve picked out a couple to try to read before the movie comes out. Not that I’m ever going to actually see the movies, I never see movies, but anyway …

Pet Sematary is already a movie, based on the novel of the same name. But now there is another one coming out, staring Jason Clarke, Amy Siemetz, and John Lithgow.

And that’s not it. It by King is also going to be a moive called “It: Chapter Two”

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (Penguin Classics) by Henry James

In “The Turn of the Screw,” one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. It is accompanied here by several more of the very best of Henry James’s short stories, all exploring ghosts and the uncanny.

The movie will be called The Turning.

Alcott’s Little Women: 150th Anniversary Edition, already read it, but will read it again. The film will have Meryl Streep, Emma Watson, and Saoirse Ronan.

The Artemis Fowl series’ first and second book form the basis of a movie directed by Kenneth Branagh.

The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester.

This is a war story set at sea. It will be made into the movie Greyhound starring Tom Hanks.

Honorable mention (I will probably not get around to reading):

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

Jack London’s The Call of the Wild (already read it).

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/25/read-these-books-before-the-movie-comes-out/feed/ 1 31429 Kid-watchable 1980s Science Fiction Films https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/kid-watchable-1980s-science-fiction-films/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/kid-watchable-1980s-science-fiction-films/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:15:51 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9409 Continue reading Kid-watchable 1980s Science Fiction Films →]]> I’m making a list and I’m hoping you’ll check it twice. What does not belong on this list, what should be added?

Superman (all of them)

Earthbound

E.T.,The Extra-Terrestrial

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Theatrical)

TRON The Original Classic (1982)

Star Wars

The Philadelphia Experiment

Terminator (all of them) FLAGGED AS QUESTIONABLE

Back to the Future

D.A.R.Y.L.

Explorers

Flight of The Navigator

Transformers

*Batteries Not Included

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Honey I shrunk/blew up the kids/myself etc. series

Jetsons: The Movie

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Time Bandits

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/10/08/kid-watchable-1980s-science-fiction-films/feed/ 30 9409 Game Of Thrown Under The Bus By Brexit? https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/06/27/game-of-thrown-under-the-bus-by-brexit/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/06/27/game-of-thrown-under-the-bus-by-brexit/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:29:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22669 Continue reading Game Of Thrown Under The Bus By Brexit? →]]> Television and movie producers currently have a good deal in Great Britain, not in small part due to stability in various markets and some funding. For example, Game of Thrones, an HBO production, is filmed in Norther Ireland with funding from the European Regional Development fund.

Both the stability and some of the funding for various productions is now at risk because of the Xenophobic whiny baby Leavers.

This may be on the smaller end of negative effects of the UK leaving the EU, but it is a microcosm of the bigger problem, and likely to get a disproportionate share of attention if The Doctor has to run, or Residue gets tossed in the trash, or other programs lose funding or find themselves operating in an environment of uncertainty.

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