Month: August 2015

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Netflix Ready to Begin Work on The Operators

August 20, 2015 admin 0

Variety has announced that Anthony Michael Hall will star with Brad Pitt in a Netflix original, War Machine, based on Michael Hastings’ 2011 book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. The film will be a satirical comedy, says Variety, and is expected to be released in 2016. Hall, whose credits include “Foxcatcher,” “The Dark Knight” and “The Breakfast Club,” will play the second-in-command to Pitt’s four-star general, who’s […]

The Answer to Clean Drinking Water?
It’s All in the Book

August 19, 2015 admin 0

One of the largest problems facing many people in the world is pretty basic to our existence: they simply do not have clean, potable water. According to the World Health Organization, over 3.4 million people “people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world.” Over the years, many people have tried to alleviate this problem. The latest answer is extremely sophisticated, yet in a […]

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Making Spaces: Two Prominent Architects Who Are the Same… and Very Different

August 18, 2015 Tony Buchsbaum 0

Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings from 1886 to 1959. Thomas Heatherwick established his design studio in London in 1984 and is still working. The two could not be more different, except in my mind there are key similarities. Both men changed the way we look at spaces and the buildings that occupy them. Both created eye-popping, imagination-inspiring structures that satisfy expectations and challenge limitations at the same time. Both worked with a singular vision that […]

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YA: In The Skin of a Monster  by Kathryn Barker

August 17, 2015 Sue Bursztynski 1

Three years ago, Alice’s identical twin sister took a gun to school and shot seven people, including her boyfriend. Since then, the small outback town where they live hasn’t been the same. Nobody has overcome their grief — least of all Alice, who wears the killer’s face and has to cope with the anger of the others in the town. Then one day, after her return from time in therapy, Alice sees a ghostly figure […]

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What the President Took to the Beach

August 17, 2015 admin 0

While we won’t quite go so far as to call them beach reads, we know that President Obama took some reading material with him to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this month. And like most everyone, we were itching to know what was on that list. From The Hollywood Reporter, then, here we go: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert All That Is by James Salter […]

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Art & Culture: The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road
by Abbie Bernstein

August 15, 2015 admin 0

Whatever your opinion of Fury Road, the new Mad Max movie, you have to admit, it is one interesting looking film. It’s set in a post-apocalypic wasteland, sure. But it’s gorgeous in an almost steampunk way. The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road (Titan Books) by Abbie Bernstein is a rich and gorgeous companion to the blockbuster film. Production stills, making of moments, set stills and concept as well as production art. Fans of the […]

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This Just In… Shattered  by John A. Karr

August 15, 2015 admin 0

Andrew Raynorr M.D. was forced from his practice by a managed care corporation. When he loses his family, his vengeance turns deadly. He creates a virus, one that causes the body’s own genes to unleash an explosive leukemia, and targets managed care executives. Bridget Devereaux, a young intern at Chambers Hospital, suspects something is strange about the strain of leukemia they are seeing in recent admissions: it kills the patient within days. Though she finds […]

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Angelina Jolie Pitt to Produce Adaptation
of YA Novel

August 14, 2015 admin 0

Indiewire brings the news that Angelina Jolie Pitt will executive produce an animated feature adaptation of The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis’ 2000 YA novel about an 11-year-old girl in Afghanistan who masquerades as a boy in order to work and support her family. From Indiewire: Published in 2000, Ellis’ book is based on the author’s experience visiting refugee camps in Taliban-occupied Pakistan. Ellis was especially inspired by the story of a young girl she met who […]

Non-Fiction: Stronger: Develop the Resilience
You Need to Succeed

August 14, 2015 admin 0

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Everyone has heard that. But the question remains: why? The authors of Stronger: Develop the Resilience You Need to Succeed (Amacom) posit that the type of strength of character demonstrated by the heroic exploits of U.S. Navy Seals and others we often think of as larger than life isn’t necessarily something you are born with. Rather, they say, you can build it. If only you know […]

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Pohl’s Gateway Series Heads to TV

August 13, 2015 admin 0

Frederik Pohl’s beloved and bestselling Gateway series is about to be adapted for the small screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Josh Pate (ABC’s Blood and Oil, USA’s Good vs. Evil) and Battlestar Galactica alum David Eick will adapt the source material. Eick will revise Pate’s pilot script and serve as showrunner, with both attached to exec produce the Universal Cable Productions entry alongside the De Laurentiis Co.’s Martha De Laurentiis, former Entertainment One Television […]