Pressed & Bound

Another year has passed, and although 2011 will go down as the year before the year the world ends, that doesn’t mean there were not a menagerie of books that were read. Like last year, here is a big, fat list of all of the books I put to my brain.

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I have said openly in the past that I don’t know what to think about this Tintin movie. These big studio execs are taking my beloved Tintin and possibly destroying everything my childhood stood for. This fear resulted solely from the first Tintin trailer that was shown earlier this year. Just today, however, a new trailer has come out of nowhere that is changing my old, curmudgeony mind. Set your calendar for Dec. 21.

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Are you tired of lame American film posters? You know, the ones that just have the romantic couple back to back in a fun way as though they weren’t going to get together, or the ones that have the lead actor and he’s holding a gun to let you know it’s going to be all actiony? Basically what I am saying is that American films generally don’t try too hard on the poster side of things. In Poland, however, until about 1989 it was apparently more common to see artists take a stab at poster creation. The end results are very interesting.

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Cancer. The term doesn’t really bring up a ton of happy thoughts in the minds of the populace. It’s not something that will ever come at a good time because there simply is no good time for it. Luckily for us, the film-goers, 50/50 centers on the topic in a way that’s both poignant and humorous at the same time.

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Are you tired of having to go to some stupid computer to check out the latest film trailers? Do you have an iPhone or some other iDevice? Well, today you are in luck, lazy-bones, because Apple has an app for that, as they say. Entitled iTunes Movie Trailers, this little app could possibly give other film apps a run for their money.

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I really hope this is the last time we have to write about this damn Netflix saga (although it was rather fun to complain a bit, but that’s beside the point), but it turns out that that the overwhelming negative opinion of splitting Netflix in to two separate entities has made the company sit back and say, “Yeah, that was kind of a dumb idea for our customers.”

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Just a heads up to all of you Leviathan and Behemoth fans: today is the day that you have been waiting for as the third chapter in the series has, as they say in the super cool music world, dropped.

As told by Amazon:

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to pose as a boy in order to serve in the British Air Service.) And if they weren’t technically enemies.

Amazon currently has the hardback listed for $11.75. Now that’s a deal.

For more information about the series, check out Scott Westerfeld’s official site.

What the who what‽ In a Sunday blog post, the CEO of Netflix has announced and confirmed that the streaming and DVD services from Netflix will forever hence be split into two entities. The streaming will continue to be called “Netflix,” while DVDs by mail will be sent from a new place called Qwikster. Yep, because when my mom wants to get a DVD online, having her learn the name of a new service and website is exactly what Netflix needs right now to build confidence among the masses.

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The fall lineup is upon us, and one of the first out of the gate comes from that little company called Fox. The show is entitled New Girl, and stars Zooey Deschanel along with three bros that you probably haven’t seen. You would think the show could probably work based solely on the actress, even without knowing the basic plot. BUT THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE CASE.

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