TV/Movie Reviews

Vivian Gandillion is a member of the loup-garou: a werewolf, a shape shifter. She and her pack have just moved after the people of the town they lived in discovered what they were and burned down her family’s house, with he father inside. Now she has to adjust to life in a new place, with no firm pack leader. On top of that she’s met a human boy, who is very interested in werewolves…

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: DREAMCATCHER

As children the four boys save and befriending Douglas “Duddits” Cavell, a child with Down syndrome. Duddits gift in return, the power of telepathy that links the four together forever. Many years later, the friends have grown up and live separate, but equally problematic ones. Now the friends have to band together against an alien invasion and a near psychotic army Colonel, Abraham Kurtz.

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE GOLDEN COMPASS

“The one thing that drew her out of her boredom was the alethiometer. She read it every day, sometimes with Fader Coram and sometimes on her own, and she found that she could sink more and more readily into the calm state in which the symbol meanings clarified themselves, and those great mountain ranges touched by sunlight emerged into vision”

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

One of the most popular Christmas movies ever, How the Grinch Stole Christmas almost didn’t get made. At first, Dr. Seuss was reluctant to animate the Grinch. But once he began seeing the animation and hearing the songs, he began to get excited. Some lines have been added to lengthen the movie, but Dr. Seuss wrote the extra lines and song lyrics, so they stayed true to the book. Dr. Seuss teamed up with Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny fame) to animate the classic book for the new audience of children. Boris Karloff narrates, with Thurl Ravenscroft (who was also the voice of Tony the Tiger) singing the iconic theme song.

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this sun at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

OBS BOOK VS MOVIE: PETER PAN

Peter Pan was written by J.M. Barrie in 1904 for the children of a friend. Originally a play, it has since been adapted into a book. One of the key details in the play was that Captain Hook and Mr. Darling be played by the same person, since the story itself isn’t about a child who doesn’t want to grow up, but rather about the wonderful way a child’s mind works.

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE ROAD

The Road is the ultimate survival story, with a father living solely to protect his son after the world has essentially ended and there is little life, hope, or sanity left in the world. After an unspecified disaster destroys all the plant and animal life, along with most of the human population, they must travel south in order to survive the elements. The two travel through the desolate landscape, scavenging food when they can and taking everything worth keeping in an old shopping cart. Their goal is to make it to the coast and follow it south from there, where they hope there are more people and some food left. But they aren’t the only ones on the Road, and the others pose an unimaginable threat.

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: A SOUND OF THUNDER

In the future, there is a time machine. The super rich can now pay to go back in time and hunt the greatest game that ever lived: dinosaurs. You just have to make sure you don’t change anything in the past, otherwise you’ll change the future. Even the smallest change, even a tiny bug, multiplied by millions of years, can change everything…

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE TIME MACHINE (2002)

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year A.D. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity—the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist’s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels if he is ever to return to his own era.

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE

“There’s a playground at the end of the block and I run to the swings and climb on, and Henry takes the one next to me, facing the opposite direction, and we swing higher and higher, passing each other, sometimes in sync and sometimes streaming past each other so fast it seems like we’re going to collide, and we laugh, and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment”

OBS BOOK VS. MOVIE: TWILIGHT

When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isn’t expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward Cullen, surprises her. After several strange interactions, his preternatural beauty, strength, and speed have her intrigued. Edward is just as fascinated with Bella, and their attraction to one another grows. As Bella discovers more about Edward’s nature and his family, she is thrown headlong into a dangerous adventure that has her making a desperate sacrifice to save her one true love.

OBS BOOK vs. MOVIE: TWILIGHT: NEW MOON

This book is the second in the Twilight Saga. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen have been together for several months. When Bella’s birthday comes around she is suddenly aware that she is aging and Edward is not. Also the danger that surrounds their relationship is growing. Edward breaks up with Bella so that he can protect her from his world. This sends Bella into a deep depression and her only savior is her best friend Jacob, a teenage werewolf. Bella’s love for her best friend grows but the constant reminder of her lost love threatens her happiness.