Contest: Win an Angry Birds Book from National Geographic!

Contest: Win an Angry Birds Book from National Geographic!

Posted on May 18, 2016 at 3:32 pm

Copyright 2016 Nell Minow
Copyright 2016 Nell Minow

Are you an Angry Birds fan?  Or a nature lover?  Either way, you’ll love this great and gorgeously illustrated book about the Angry Birds and the real-life birds and environments that inspired them.  I have two to give away!

Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Angry Birds in the subject line and tell me your favorite bird. Don’t forget your address! (U.S. addresses only). I’ll pick a winner at random on May 25, 2016. Good luck!

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Audiobook: Lily Collins Reads Peter Pan

Audiobook: Lily Collins Reads Peter Pan

Posted on May 10, 2016 at 10:51 am

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For more than a century James M. Barrie’s story of the boy who would not grow up has been enchanting families as a play, several theatrical musicals, and in many different television and movie versions. Now the Peter Pan novel by Barrie is available from Audible as an audiobook, beautifully read by one of my favorite young actresses, Lily Collins (“Mirror Mirror,” “The Blind Side”). Peter Pan is the title character, and Collins does a wonderful job with everyone in the story, including Captain Hook. But having her tell the story subtly reminds us that Wendy (a name Barrie invented, by the way) is the one who really sees and understands what is happening and learning what she needs to know to do what Peter won’t do — grow up. The novel has much more detail than the familiar play and movie versions and lets us hear the story as Barrie imagined it and as he told it to the young boys he befriended and who inspired it.  Play this one in the car and you’ll find yourself coming home the long way so you can keep listening.

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Free May 6-9: My eBook on the Best Movie Moms

Free May 6-9: My eBook on the Best Movie Moms

Posted on May 6, 2016 at 5:00 am

In honor of Mother’s Day, my ebook 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers will be free on Amazon through Monday, May 6-9, 2016.

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No relationship is more primal, more fraught, more influential, more worried over, more nourishing when good and more devastating when bad that our connection to our mothers. Mom inspires a lot of movies in every possible category, from comedy to romance to drama to crime to animation to horror, from the lowest-budget indie to the biggest-budget prestige film. A lot of women have been nominated for Oscars for playing mothers and just about every actress over age 20 has appeared as a mother in at least one movie. From beloved Marmee in “Little Women” and Mrs. Brown in “National Velvet” to mean moms in “Now Voyager” and “Mommie Dearest.” Oscar-winnng classics and neglected gems, based on real-life like Sally Fields in “Places in the Heart” or fantasy like Dumbo’s lullabye-singing elephant mom, these are all must-see movies.

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Listen to Star Autobiographies

Posted on April 20, 2016 at 8:00 am

Lisa Rosman has a great list of moviemaker autobiographies to listen to on audiobooks. These are not necessarily the biggest stars with the splashiest careers. They are the ones with the most interesting stories, and the ones that are best read by ear rather than eye. I’d add Rob Lowe’s Love Life and Stories I Only Tell My Friends.

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Jane Eyre: a New Audiobook Narrated by Thandie Newton

Jane Eyre: a New Audiobook Narrated by Thandie Newton

Posted on April 17, 2016 at 8:00 am

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Copyright Audible 2016
To celebrate the week of Charlotte Bronte’s 200th birthday, Audible Studios is releasing a new audiobook version of Jane Eyre. It is beautifully performed by Thandie Newton, who brings just the right intimate quality to Bronte’s classic story of the brave, independent, and honest young governess, which had an innovative examination of the lead character’s emotional and moral life that was enormously influential.

The story has been filmed many times. My favorite stars Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles.

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