When I was a lad, the standard bio-for-young-people format was a small hardcover, heavily illustrated but written in prose, in short, punchy chapters and topping out at maybe a hundred and fifty pages. There were a lot of them: I recall shelves in classrooms and school libraries full of the things, some of them in specific series from particular publishers.
At some point since that dim misty past, the format seems to have shifted – or maybe a new format has been added, but I think the old style is at least declining if not dead – into a graphic novel that covers roughly the same territory but in a more visually exciting (and reluctant-reader-appealing) way.
Now, let’s be clear: the new style is not just for middle-schoolers who need to do a report on Random Famous Dead Person a couple of times a semester. But that is a large and powerful audience,...
At some point since that dim misty past, the format seems to have shifted – or maybe a new format has been added, but I think the old style is at least declining if not dead – into a graphic novel that covers roughly the same territory but in a more visually exciting (and reluctant-reader-appealing) way.
Now, let’s be clear: the new style is not just for middle-schoolers who need to do a report on Random Famous Dead Person a couple of times a semester. But that is a large and powerful audience,...
- 1/6/2024
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Feature Simon Brew 25 Sep 2013 - 07:20
Fans of female-focused properties like Twilight are often subjected to aggressive criticism. Simon explains why it should stop...
Regular tolerators of Den Of Geek may well know of the existence of a 3000 word feature on One Direction that I somehow managed to stumble into having to write, courtesy of an ill-founded bet on Twitter. In said feature, I argued that while I was hardly bowled over by the work of One Direction, I didn't feel I had the right to gleefully urinate over the fandom of someone else.
I could criticise their music, I could vow never to buy anything they ever did. But slag off those who do love One Direction, and are dedicated fans? That's over the line for me.
Yet it was in the comments field of that article that one point stuck in my head, where it's firmly resided since.
Fans of female-focused properties like Twilight are often subjected to aggressive criticism. Simon explains why it should stop...
Regular tolerators of Den Of Geek may well know of the existence of a 3000 word feature on One Direction that I somehow managed to stumble into having to write, courtesy of an ill-founded bet on Twitter. In said feature, I argued that while I was hardly bowled over by the work of One Direction, I didn't feel I had the right to gleefully urinate over the fandom of someone else.
I could criticise their music, I could vow never to buy anything they ever did. But slag off those who do love One Direction, and are dedicated fans? That's over the line for me.
Yet it was in the comments field of that article that one point stuck in my head, where it's firmly resided since.
- 9/24/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
The big story
Skyfall? What's that? We've forgotten already. On the general theory that there's only room in people's brains for one blockbuster at a time, the all-consuming hots for 007 has suddenly vanished, to be replaced by a voracious yearning for all things Twilight. You may just have noticed, but the final segment of the vampire teen fantasy – elegantly styled The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – is shortly to be with us, and it's literally impossible to escape. Mark Kermode stoked the fires in the Observer on Sunday, by coming out as a Twilight-preferer, a world premiere in Los Angeles fanned the flames on Monday, and by Wednesday all hell broke loose when Peter Bradshaw's review finally hit the street. It was all followed up by the UK premiere; but we certainly havn't heard the last of it.
The big story
Skyfall? What's that? We've forgotten already. On the general theory that there's only room in people's brains for one blockbuster at a time, the all-consuming hots for 007 has suddenly vanished, to be replaced by a voracious yearning for all things Twilight. You may just have noticed, but the final segment of the vampire teen fantasy – elegantly styled The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – is shortly to be with us, and it's literally impossible to escape. Mark Kermode stoked the fires in the Observer on Sunday, by coming out as a Twilight-preferer, a world premiere in Los Angeles fanned the flames on Monday, and by Wednesday all hell broke loose when Peter Bradshaw's review finally hit the street. It was all followed up by the UK premiere; but we certainly havn't heard the last of it.
- 11/15/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Here is an international poster for Man On A Ledge. Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil) directed the film based on a screenplay by Pablo F. Fenjves (The Affair,Twilight Man). Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez and Ed Harris make up the ensemble case for this thriller.
Synopsis:
An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective.
The film arrives in theaters on January 27, 2012.
Source: Empire Online (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?Nid=32395)...
Synopsis:
An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective.
The film arrives in theaters on January 27, 2012.
Source: Empire Online (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?Nid=32395)...
- 11/6/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
How’s the view from up here? Empire Magazine’s online web site has a new international poster for the upcoming crime thriller “Man On A Ledge.” The film stars Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez and Ed Harris. Here is the official synopsis: An ex-cop and now wanted fugitive (Sam Worthington) stands on the ledge of a high-rise building while a hard-living New York Police Department negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) tries to talk him down. The longer they are on the ledge, the more she realizes that he might have an ulterior objective. The film is directed by Asger Leth (“Ghosts of Cite Soleil”) from a screenplay penned by Pablo F. Fenjves (“The Affair,” “Twilight Man”). “Man on a Ledge” will be in theaters on January 27 next year. Check out the new international poster below. Here is the trailer if you haven’t seen it yet:...
- 11/5/2011
- LRMonline.com
A stellar line up has assembled for Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants and this is your first chance to see celebrated Twilight man Robert Pattinson looking wistful and determined (possibly at an elephant) alongside his co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, who joined the cast earlier in the year.
Pattinson plays a tragedy struck medical surgeon who runs away and joins the circus only to fall under the spell of the wife of an unhinged animal trainer (that is – he is unhinged, not the animals he trains – although that would make for a great film too). Witherspoon is the wife, Waltz is the trainer, Pattinson will insert himself into the mix with, no doubt, troubling consequences.
Here’s the full image, click to big it up.
This image came to us from the Algonquin book catalogue via Collider.
More about:Christoph Waltz, Reese Witherspoon,...
Pattinson plays a tragedy struck medical surgeon who runs away and joins the circus only to fall under the spell of the wife of an unhinged animal trainer (that is – he is unhinged, not the animals he trains – although that would make for a great film too). Witherspoon is the wife, Waltz is the trainer, Pattinson will insert himself into the mix with, no doubt, troubling consequences.
Here’s the full image, click to big it up.
This image came to us from the Algonquin book catalogue via Collider.
More about:Christoph Waltz, Reese Witherspoon,...
- 11/24/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the little more than a year since Twilight came out, I’ve seen my fair share of products the film franchise has spawned. Mostly, they’re lunchboxes and backpacks and Barbie dolls, but this? This is something else entirely. I wouldn’t be sharing it with out if I didn’t think it would make you question humanity as a whole, but here we are. Behold, the Twilight Man Pillow. I’ll let the creator explain. Manllow: half man, half...
- 2/17/2010
- by Paul Tassi
- JoBlo.com
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