The Social Network

Scoring five stars from David and Margaret, this film records the trials of Mark Zuckerburg's journey through university and his creation of Facebook.
Our club reviewers are yet to see The Social Network but will endeavour to give our best judgement once we see it.

On another note, as we will be creating a Facebook group shortly, please join our group for the latest news on the Flying Pancakes Club.

November New Books @ Manly Library

The IT Girl Series:
Based on the Jenny Humphries character in Gossip Girl (both a book and TV series), The IT Girl is set in New York and depicts the lives of 'disgusting rich' teenage girls.

http://www.gossipgirl.net/blog/

The Air Head Series:
By Meg Cabot, author of the Princess Diaries series, her latest series is about a runway model.

http://www.megcabot.com/airhead/index.php







Lucy Zeezou's Glamour Game:

If you like Bend It Like Beckham, you'll easily enjoy Liz Deep-Jones' latest novel portraying the life of a football fanatic.

http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/Default.aspx?Page=Book&ID=9781864719734

Feeling Paranoid?

So I'm sure everyone's seen the first Paranormal Activity movie. Remember it? Shaky cam, occassional black and white footage and talcum powder along with flaming ouija boards.

Ringing any bells?

Well turns out there's going to be a sequel. From the movie where everyone died, well maybe this time we'll see the actual demon!

To be honest I wasn't a real fan of the first movie; little girls around me squealed in fear as I was laughing. The cheap special effects and the anti-climatic ending left me begging for my $12.50.

NOW I'm not trying to bag out the movie, but do we really need a sequel?

Billy, Sasha and Robert
Flying Pancakes

Another Zac Efron movie

Charlie St Cloud


this movie, originated from a book, depicts the life of an ordinary teenager until strange events occur after his brother died. the plot was very random as we speak. it was hard to follow and the twist was very unrealistic. not worth the popcorn that I bought to watch it.

Plots with a Twist

On our minds at the October FP meeting, was the way that directors and writers can change classical plots to create a new twist that turns the generic into the unique. Some recent examples of these are:

Despicable Me directed by Pierre Coffin plays on the typical superhero movie. It tells a story of a would-be villain, Gru, who becomes a hero after a series of funny actions. This movie is one for the family, with an audience age of 1 to 101 years old and everyone getting a laugh! It has a bit of everything in it; minions, girl scouts, superhero costumes made of lycra and of course robot cookies.

And of course we can’t go past Monsters Inc. This cult classic Disney animation took viewers by surprise in 2001 (If everyone can remember back that far) when it depicted the monsters view on us. Mike and Sully and Boo entertained the young back then and the young now (As the blank spots where Monsters Inc should be at the DVD store tell us). If you haven’t seen it, you must have been hiding under a rock for the last nine years. Run down to the video store now and hope it hasn’t been borrowed. GOOD LUCK!

On a larger and more theatrical stage, the musical Wicked takes the original story of The Wizard of Oz and twists the perspectives from Dorothy, over to Glinda and Elphaba (The Witches of Oz), creating a worldwide phenomenon. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, by Gregory Maguire, the show first opened in London’s West end and has since opened in Japan, Germany, America and Australia. But if you missed out on the Sydney show, it will be on in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, just check out the website below. This show IS NOT TO BE MISSED!

http://www.wickedthemusical.com.au/home.html

In other Wizard of Oz news, the movie, Oz: The Great and Powerful is classified as in “development” by IMDB (Internet Movie Database) and is said to make its appearance in cinema’s around the world in 2013. It is all hush hush at the moment but we do know that Robert Downey Jr. (stars in Iron Man) is starring in it, and is to be a prequel to the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900 by L. Frank Baum.

Bye for now, Stacey!

Fairytale Twists

There seem to be a few movies coming out now based on fairytales.  “Beastly” a modern remake of the Beauty and the Beast story stars Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa  Hudgens.  Also in the cast are Mary Kate Olsen and Neil Patrick Harris.  “Tangled” is an animation based on the Rapunzel fairytale.  It stars the voices of Mandy Moore and  Zachary Levi.  The Disney filmmakes have also faced some controversy with this one as they changed the title to appeal more to boys – see here for more discussion on this http://www.coppellstudentmedia.com/2010/03/12/tangled-in-new-disney-controversey/

For more about the “Tangled” movie see imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/

And for more about “Beastly” see imdb at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152398/synopsis

Scott Pilgrim

"Scott Pilgrim" movie – some FP members have seen – The plot basically involves Scott (aka Michael Cera) defeating  seven evil ex boyfriends so he can win the heart of the girl.. The movie was based on a series of 6 Graphic Novels – Manly Library has the set for loan.