Serpico [based on the book] by Peter Maas dir. by Sidney Lumet
Based on the true story of Frank Serpico, this is the story of a police officer who turns whistleblower and ends up …
Jersey Boys dir. by Clint Eastwood
Jersey Boys is based on a musical, based on the life of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. Their formation, rise to …
The Owl Service by Alan Garner
Alison and Roger have come to Wales on a holiday with their parent and respective step-parent. Roger’s father and Alison’s mother have …
A Wrinkle in the skin by John Christopher
AKA The Ragged Edge. Read for the 2014 Sci-Fi Experience In the 1960s a wave of earthquakes brings destruction around the globe. …
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Siss is on her way through the dark evening to meet Unn. They have been going to school together ever since Unn …
X-Men: First Class dir. by Matthew Vaughn
Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr weren’t always the famous Professor X and Magento. This is their origin story, the origin story of the original X-Men. Set in the 1960s with the Cuban Missile crises at boiling point, the pot of tensions is being stirred further by Sebastian Shaw, a mutant who has been doing the rounds since the 1940s. He believes that mutants are the superior race, and that they must destroy the inferior human race in order to take their rightful place as masters of the earth. Lebensraum and all that.
Summer of night by Dan Simmons
Read for RIP challenge It is the last day of school at “Old Central”, the building is being decommissioned and after the …
The help by Kathryn Stockett
Mae Mobley was born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960.
The Help of the title refers to the black women domestics who worked all other the southern states, the maids and cleaners who went into the homes of “polite” society and looked after children, cleaned house, cooked, and generally looked after everyone before returning to their own homes to do the same there. Specifically this is about two maids, Aibileen and Minny, who agree to tell the story of their lives to Miss Skeeter, a white woman in her twenties who wants to be a writer.
A lion called Christian by Anthony Bourke, John Rendall
In 2008 the following youtube clip became one of those “internet phenomenons”. If you haven’t seen it click play now.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780007200283 This is the story of a collection of different characters; Ugwu from a small village who becomes a Houseboy to …
The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
Read for the Once Upon A Time Challenge See also: Author’s Site ; Scooter Chronicles ; SF site ; Tier 3000 I’ve …
The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0575072318 See also:Agony column ; Joyce discusses his book ; If I could tell you this in a single sitting then …