So get out there and check out some books on screen!

 

In Theaters:

 

Big Hero 6

Cast: Voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr.

Director: Don Hall and Chris Williams

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
MPAA Rating: PG
Release Date: November 7th

Based On: Marvel comic characters by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau

 

With all the heart and humor audiences expect from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Big Hero 6 is an action-packed comedy-adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius-thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion --- a robot named Baymax --- and transforms the group into a band of high-tech heroes determined to solve the mystery. 

 

 

Mr. Pip

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Kerry Fox, Eka Darville

Director: Andrew Adamson

Distributor: Focus Features

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 7th (limited)

Based on: MISTER PIP by Lloyd Jones

 

Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people she knows on the island. This wildly imaginative hybrid place is set alongside the film's unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Matilda's passion for storytelling brings terror to the village when Pip's identity is misunderstood by the invading army. Ultimately, her courage and imagination must sustain her if she is to survive.

 

 

The Theory of Everything

Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Emily Watson

Director: James Marsh

Distributor: Focus Features

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 7th

Based on: TRAVELING TO INFINITY: MY LIFE WITH STEPHEN by Alma Books
 

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of --- time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science and achieving more than they could ever have dreamed.

 

 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Donald Sutherland

Director: Francis Lawrence

Distributor: Lionsgate Entertainment

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 21st

Based On: MOCKINGJAY by Suzanne Collins
 

The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.

 

 

The Imitation Game

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode

Director: Morten Tyldum

Distributor: The Weinstein Company

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 28th

Based On: ALAN TURING: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

In The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts, which the country deemed illegal.

 

 

 

On TV:

 

“Sleepy Hollow”

Cast: Tom Milson, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones

Network: Fox

Series Premiere: September 16th

Based On: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND OTHER STORIES by Washington Irving

 

Ichabod Crane, the character from Washington Irving’s famed short story on which “Sleepy Hollow” is based, “dies” during a mission for General George Washington. But after his death, Crane (along with the Headless Horseman) travels in time from the year 1706 to 2040. The Horseman begins his nightly killing spree, but soon learns how to incorporate modern weaponry and becomes a threat not only to the village of Sleepy Hollow, but possibly to the whole world. With the help of newly appointed sheriff Abbie Mills, Crane must stop the Headless Horseman from endangering mankind and also adjust to the modern time period.

 

“The Vampire Diaries”
Cast: Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Steven R. McQueen, Kat Graham, Candice Accola
Network: The CW
Air Dates:Thursdays at 8pm ET
Based On: The Vampire Diaries series by L.J. Smith
 

Months after this devastating tragedy, everyone is dealing with the loss of their loved ones in different ways, some more destructively than others. What happened to Bonnie and Damon, and if they can even be saved, remains a mystery. Meanwhile, their beloved hometown of Mystic Falls continues to be a magic-free zone, protected by a mysterious new community watch program. If there’s any hope of salvaging their former lives, our heroes must find a way to push through their grief and band together. This season will explore themes of loss, denial and what it means to move on in the face of immortality, ultimately begging the age-old question --- can you ever really go home again?

 

“The Flash”

Cast:Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Rick Cosnett, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Tom Cavanagh, Jessie L. Martin

Network: The CW

Air Dates: Tuesdays at 8pm ET

Based On: The Flash: DC Comics character created by Robert Kanigher, John Broome and Carmine Infantino

“The Flash” follows the adventures of scientist Barry Allen, who is a superhero with incredible speed.

 

“Arrow”

Cast: Stephen Amell, Colin Donnell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Susanna Thompson, Paul Blackthorne

Network: The CW

Air Dates: Wednesdays at 8pm ET

Based On: DC Comics character Green Arrow created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp
 

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he's become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow --- a vigilante --- to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be --- flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle --- while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel's father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver's own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on --- and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

 

 

“Constantine”

Cast: Harold Perrineau, Charles Halford

Network: NBC

Air Dates: Fridays at 10pm ET

Based On: The Hellblazer series from DC Comics
 

Based on the wildly popular comic book series Hellblazer from DC Comics, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan, "Criminal Minds") is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight --- or at least he did. With his soul already damned to hell, he's decided to abandon his campaign against evil until a series of events thrusts him back into the fray, and he'll do whatever it takes to protect the innocent. With the balance of good and evil on the line,Constantine will use his skills to travel the country, find the supernatural terrors that threaten our world and send them back where they belong. After that, who knows...maybe there's hope for him and his soul after all.

 

 

 

On DVD:

 

The Christmas Candle

Cast: Susan Boyle, Hans Matheson

Director: John Stephenson

Distributor: EchoLight Studios

MPAA Rating: PG

Release Date: November 4th

Based On: THE CHRISTMAS CANDLE by Max Lucado

 

In the fictional village of Gladbury, every twenty-five years an angel visits the candlemaker and bestows a miracle upon whomever lights the Christmas Candle. However, shortly after the arrival of a new pastor, David Richmond in 1890, the Christmas Candle goes missing.

 

Mood Indigo

Cast: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou

Director: Michel Gondry

Distributor: StudioCanal

MPAA: PG-13

Release Date: November 11

Based On: FROTH ON THE DAYDREAM by Boris Vian

 

A story set in Paris about two newlyweds, Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and Colin (Romain Duris), whose whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs.

 

If I Stay

Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley

Director: R.J. Cutler

Distributor: Warner Bros.

MPAA: PG-13

Release Date: November 18

Based On: IF I STAY by Gayle Forman

 

Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz) thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam (Jamie Blackley). But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate.

 

The Wind Rises

Cast: Voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Stanley Tucci, Darren Criss

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

MPAA: PG

Release Date: November 18

Based On: Tatsuo Hori’s short story, THE WIND HAS RISEN

 

Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. In sum, an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.