The Hunger Games Official Trailer

“The Hunger Games” trailer is out, and it promises action and heartache, set in a world that’s both gritty and surreal.

Read the New York Times review of Suzanne Collins‘s 2008 book “The Hunger Games”.

Check out the trailer of the 2000 film  “Battle Royale”

The won­drously gruesome Japanese novel that has been spun off into a popular manga series. Here’s a fan site

The Mill and the Cross

The Mill and the Cross. This 2011 drama film is a visual feast inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1564 painting The Way to Calvary, and based on Michael Francis Gibson’s book The Mill and the Cross.

Directed by Lech Majewski, stars Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.