The Movie Date: Gone Girl

The Movie Date is a weekly feature where we discuss movies that may appeal to the YA audience. Andrew is The Reading Date’s resident movie critic and this week he discusses GONE GIRL, directed by David Fincher, and based on the book by Gillian Flynn.  (Spoiler-free review, though most or all of you know the book by […]

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#GoneGirl Book Giveaway

#GoneGirl is one of my most-anticipated book adaptations to see on the big screen this fall. I read the book 2 years ago and said “The plot is pretty dark and twisted and I had a hard time putting it down and read it at every opportunity.” In David Fincher’s hands I’m optimistic that the film will […]

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#GoneGirl’s Amy Dunne’s Pinterest Profile

Amy Dunne is missing. Her Pinterest page has been found.  #GoneGirl   With the movie release of Gone Girl right around the corner we are getting all kinds of goodies to devour while we wait for opening night. I’m a Pinterest novice but I can get behind this movie tie-in and seeing the pages of […]

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Movie Date News: Mockingjay, Gone Girl, The Giver

  It seems like there’s something happening in the world of Book-to-Movie news everyday! Here’s what’s happening this week: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 team has been sharing some Capitol propaganda clips with us. These teasers give us a chilling glimpse of President Snow with his captors. The first film showed Snow with Peeta, and […]

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Fall Movie Trailers: Gone Girl and If I Stay

Hollywood is still enamored with book adaptations and there are a slew of them to look forward to this fall. This week we got the first look at the trailers for two highly anticipated adaptations: GONE GIRL and IF I STAY. Gone Girl is based on Gillian Flynn’s 2012 runaway bestseller. The film adaptation stars Ben Affleck, Rosalind Pike, […]

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