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Books on the Big Screen: Julie & Julia

Posted by admin on 07.30.2009 at 4:32 pm

Today’s Recipe: Movie About a Book About a Blog About Two People Who Cook and Have Never Met

Ingredients: juliejulia
  • 2 Incredibly Talented Actresses (specifically Meryl Streep and Amy Adams)
  • 1 Stanley Tucci playing the role of Julia’s husband Paul.
  • 3 cups of direction by Nora Ephron
  • 1 large dollop of another book (My Life in France by Julia Child)
Stir all ingredients together until smooth and bake at 350 degrees for an hour or two.  Serve warm on August 7th with popcorn and the soft drink of your choice.  Recipe makes a great outing for foodies and moviegoers alike.
If you can’t wait for the movie you can check out the books now:
juliejulia-bookcover Julie & Julia:  My Year of Cooking Dangerously

by Julie Powell

Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a new found respect for calves’ livers and aspic, but a new life–lived with gusto.
france My Life in France

by Julia Child

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.
Happy Eating – or Watching – or Reading!
–Dana
PS – If they decide to make a movie about a blog about a book – I’ll let you know!

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Books on the Big Screen: Angels & Demons

Posted by Dana on 05.28.2009 at 6:47 am

angels So the summer movie blockbuster season is here.  This past weekend after some  Memorial Day shopping, my daughter and I  hit the movie theater to see Angels & Demons.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I think the movie was better than the book.  Don’t get me wrong, I liked the book, but I think there is a reason Dan Brown didn’t really hit it big until The Da Vinci Code.  For me it was a weird and unbelievable action scene in Angels & Demons at the height of the suspense.  The movie fixed this problem and for me it worked much better. Read more…

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Books on the Big Screen: My Sister’s Keeper

Posted by Dana on 04.27.2009 at 8:28 am

mysisterIf you’re a huge Jodi Picoult fan – you surely already know that MY SISTER’S KEEPER is about to be a feature film starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Alec Baldwin.

The story is about a young girl who sues her parents for emancipation because she no longer wants to be used as an organ and tissue farm for her older, sickly sister.

If you haven’t already read the book — I recommend reading it before you see the movie.  For no other reason than I rarely want to read the book after I’ve seen the movie!

As with all Jodi Picoult books the ending of this one was a shocker and if I’m being honest, one that I didn’t like.   But here’s a little insider info for you: Read more…

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Books on the Big Screen: He’s Just Not That Into You

Posted by Dana on 02.03.2009 at 11:07 am

hesjustWhat will they think of next? Of course they make movies from comic books, and from great classics like Pride and Prejudice or Romeo and Juliet – but now apparently the movie biz is tapping into self help books too. Of course I’m talking about the new Warner Brothers release of He’s Just Not That Into You coming out this weekend with a pretty impressive cast including Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson and Justin Long. Read more…

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