(released 2011) “The Descendants” is directed by Alexander Payne and stars George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Judy Greer and Robert Forster. It was nominated for several Oscars including best picture, best film editing, best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay. It also won an Academy Award and two Golden Globes.It takes place on…
(released 2013) The movie “The Hunger Games” is taken from a book of the same name by author Suzanne Collins. The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Donald Sutherland. The story takes place in a dystopic future where North America is called Panem and is divided into 12 districts that are…
author: Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel by the author Paolo Bacigalupi and deals with a future where gene-manipulation of foods and diseases are weapons used for economic warfare in a collapsing, dangerous world. The story is set in a future Thailand that is plagued by flooding, starvation, oil…
Clean author: Alex Hughes This book is another fast read with an interesting story line and an unconventional main character. The main character is a telepath who has fallen into the pit of addiction and so struggles with it and the consequences of his past mistakes every day. He has been fighting against a relapse…