I’ve just come across a link to this interview with Eoin Colfer published in Newsweek where he talks about his new novel, The Airman, his influences and sending gliders of from a Norman castle. I love the new book and pretty much read it on one go: its a great novel of adventure and real […]
Sebastian Peake’s blog gives details of the collected poems of his father, Mervyn, coming out from Carcanet later this year. Most famous for Gormenghast, Peake was a great poet and a fantastic illustrator - both of which talents are a little overshadowed now.
He died 50 years ago on November 17th, 1968 and I hope to […]
It appears that Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Cronos) is in talks to take on the Hobbit film. Jackson is up to his eyeballs in projects but will be the executive producer with creative control.
The film itself will be divided into two (and this make me nervous). The first part covers the Hobbit novel […]
LinuxJournal has a piece on the use of Linux to render the CGI in the forthcoming Spiderwick Chronicles movie which comes out in the UK on 21 March. (Sorry, annoyingly its behind a pay wall at the moment online but is in the print version.)
A quick plot summary from the trailers appear to be Jared […]