Quote of the Day

“Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky, seven for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone, nine for the mortal men doomed to die, one for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring the bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.” -LOTR


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Under The Dome

Stephen King drama Under The Dome will premiere on Monday, June 24th at 10 pm.

The Guts

The Guts by Roddy Doyle (Jonathan Cape). Doyle revisits Commitments hero Jimmy Rabbitte, now in his late 40s, with a wife and four children, a business resurrecting old bands (with the charming domain name oldshite.com), and bowel cancer.

 

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Doctor Sleep

In September we get Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton).

Danny Torrance was the young boy with psychic abilities at the centre of The Shining. Now, in this much-heralded sequel, he’s a middle-aged drifter using his “shining” power to comfort the dying – until a tribe of child-torturing paranormals and a young girl in peril reawaken his demons.


 

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Book to Movie

The plot for Sin City 2 comes from the stories A Dame To Kill For, Just Another Saturday Night, and a new one Frank Miller wrote called The Long, Bad Night, which apparently centers on Alba’s character Nancy Callahan who will be the connection between the two films.

The movie is set to be released on October 4th, 2013.

 

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Book to Movie

Ender's Game

In the near future, a hostile alien race (called the Formics) have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young children to find the future Mazer. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite.

Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult war games, distinguishing himself and winning respect amongst his peers. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military’s next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he’s trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

Coming November 1st, 2013

 

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Right State

“Right State”

by Mat Johnson and Andrea Mutti

Lean, mean and ingenious, this near-future political thriller should appeal to devotees of “Homeland.” It’s 2020, and the (unnamed) president is still black. The primary terrorist threat, however, comes in a different color. Right-wing militias, the festering die-hards of Tea Party-style conservatism, thrive in remote, impoverished rural areas. The comic’s story — illustrated with accomplished, if not dazzling skill by Mutti — begins with Asif, a Muslim secret service agent, hot on the trail of a renegade fed who has defected to lead the insurgency. To get inside the compound run by the group, Asif enlists a veterans’ advocate and conservative talk show pundit named Akers, who then emerges as the protagonist. Much of the piquancy and intelligence of “Right State” arises from the fact that Akers is not entirely unsympathetic to the complaints and demands of militias, and this lends depth to the expected, if enjoyable, exploits that follow: shootouts, drug trips, betrayals and red herrings. Good, smart fun.

 

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Book to Movie

“In ‘Amped’, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities—and rights—of ‘amplified’ humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as ‘amps.’ Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the world—or destroy it.”

 

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Book to Movie

Horns

The movie is based on a book written by Joe Hill, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and is being directed by Alexandre Aja (Piranha).

Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin’s murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover … and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his lover. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it’s time for revenge …

It’s time the devil had his due…

 

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Quote of the Day

"Distrusting me was the wisest thing you’ve done..."

-A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)

 

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Quote of the Day

In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money. Morally there is no difference between the two, but their impact on the economy and on the polity is very different.

-Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

 

Lolita

Nothing beats the luscious sonority of Nabokov’s prose. It practically begs to be read aloud, so we’ll let it speak for itself:

 

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”