Jane highlights some upcoming movies based on books.
Books on screen: Artemis Fowl, Good omens, and young adult romance
By Moata18/02/2019
A whole clutch of novels have been turned into movies and TV series, or are due for release soon. Here's what to read, either in advance of watching on screen, or as a tasty, more fleshed-out mains to the movie or TV appetiser. Comedy Catch-22 - Joseph Heller's classic WWII satire is now a 6…
Read your way around the New Zealand International Film Festival 2018
By Donna R26/07/2018
Let's take a walk on the cinematic side! Here are the movie-related books from this year's Christchurch leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival (it's on from Thursday 2 August to Sunday 19 August): Based on Books Border Based on the short story 'Border' from his anthology Let the Old Dreams Die by Let the…
Read the book before you see the film
By cclstaff24/10/2014
How many times do you read a book and like it, then hear that it is being made into a movie? It seems that a really good book may have qualities that don’t translate to a good movie. It was said once – and I can’t remember who said it – that more bad books…
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