In 2008, millennials were just beginning to discover the joys and horrors of the opposite sex. This coming-of-age classic gave us a few key lessons
This year Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging turns 10 – the same age I was when the film was first released in 2008 (in cinemas that still sold reasonably priced tickets). It only seems like yesterday that a large audience of pre-teen girls discovered this homage to the travails of teenage life. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging was the lovechild of two novels by Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999) and It’s Ok, I’m Wearing Really Big Knickers (2001). Despite the elaborate title, the film realistically schooled girls on what life was like: we were about to become spotty, hormonal teenagers but we would learn to love ourselves.
Why is it that 10 years later, we millennials are still talking about a film that followed the life...
This year Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging turns 10 – the same age I was when the film was first released in 2008 (in cinemas that still sold reasonably priced tickets). It only seems like yesterday that a large audience of pre-teen girls discovered this homage to the travails of teenage life. Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging was the lovechild of two novels by Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999) and It’s Ok, I’m Wearing Really Big Knickers (2001). Despite the elaborate title, the film realistically schooled girls on what life was like: we were about to become spotty, hormonal teenagers but we would learn to love ourselves.
Why is it that 10 years later, we millennials are still talking about a film that followed the life...
- 7/25/2018
- by Brigid Harrison-Draper
- The Guardian - Film News
Life and work of Iain Banks to be honoured at 30th festival, with Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman also featuring in two-week event partnered by the Guardian
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
The life and works of the late Iain Banks will be celebrated by close friends including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid in a special event at this August's Edinburgh international book festival, for which the Guardian is media partner.
"Scotland and the world were rocked by his death last weekend," said Nick Barley, the festival director. "We'd been planning a celebration anyway as we're marking our 30th birthday, and his first novel, The Wasp Factory, was out in 1984. I spoke to him many times about what he'd like to do. He wanted to be there – sadly he can't be."
Instead, the event on the festival's closing Sunday will see Scottish authors including Rankin, McDermid and Ken MacLeod looking back over Banks's 29-year career.
- 6/20/2013
- by Alison Flood
- The Guardian - Film News
With the fourth film in the Dr. Seuss collection The Lorax debuting at number one on the Us box office charts over the weekend (with an impressive $70.7m, easily the highest opening weekend of the year so far), it's sure to encourage Hollywood to plunder more juvenile literature for blockbusters. Children’s books can be an easy success, and when released in summer, have a fan base with a ridiculous amount of free time, and weekly pocket money.
Yet there are still so many beautifully written, popular children's books that have not graced our screens yet...
A second adventure in a series of books, “The Legend Of Captain Crow's Teeth” has pirates, ghosts, curses and revenge! Sounds quite heavy for a book meant for 7 to 10 year-olds, but it really is great fun. The film could combine the two worlds of scary pirates and ghosts, and boring holidays in Ireland, creating a magical,...
Yet there are still so many beautifully written, popular children's books that have not graced our screens yet...
A second adventure in a series of books, “The Legend Of Captain Crow's Teeth” has pirates, ghosts, curses and revenge! Sounds quite heavy for a book meant for 7 to 10 year-olds, but it really is great fun. The film could combine the two worlds of scary pirates and ghosts, and boring holidays in Ireland, creating a magical,...
- 3/5/2012
- Shadowlocked
With the fourth film in the Dr. Seuss collection The Lorax debuting at number one on the Us box office charts over the weekend, it's sure to encourage Hollywood to plunder more juvenile literature for blockbusters. Children’s books can be an easy success, and when released in summer, have a fan base with a ridiculous amount of free time, and weekly pocket money.
Yet there are still so many beautifully written, popular children's books that have not graced our screens yet...
A second adventure in a series of books, “The Legend Of Captain Crow's Teeth” has pirates, ghosts, curses and revenge! Sounds quite heavy for a book meant for 7 to 10 year-olds, but it really is great fun. The film could combine the two worlds of scary pirates and ghosts, and boring holidays in Ireland, creating a magical, nightmarish world of Capitan Crow, in contrast to an caravan summer holiday five brothers.
Yet there are still so many beautifully written, popular children's books that have not graced our screens yet...
A second adventure in a series of books, “The Legend Of Captain Crow's Teeth” has pirates, ghosts, curses and revenge! Sounds quite heavy for a book meant for 7 to 10 year-olds, but it really is great fun. The film could combine the two worlds of scary pirates and ghosts, and boring holidays in Ireland, creating a magical, nightmarish world of Capitan Crow, in contrast to an caravan summer holiday five brothers.
- 3/5/2012
- Shadowlocked
There's a reading technology that's really hot right now. It's called the book.
The iPad 2 was unveiled yesterday, sending concussive waves throughout the Internet. Many in publishing have met tablets and e-readers with a certain ambivalence, lamenting what seems like an inevitable decline of the printed word. But a new survey in honor of World Book Day, a massive celebration of reading in the U.K., has an encouraging finding for the traditionalists: Adults and teenagers alike still prefer the printed book.
A few other interesting findings from the survey: Almost half of teenagers have read a book on a computer; 17% have done it on a mobile phone. Over 13% of teens have used tablets like the iPad to read a book, though only about 9% of teens had used e-readers to read one, surprisingly.
Today's World Book Day event, an annual affair now in its 14th year, is traditionally targeted at primary-school age children,...
The iPad 2 was unveiled yesterday, sending concussive waves throughout the Internet. Many in publishing have met tablets and e-readers with a certain ambivalence, lamenting what seems like an inevitable decline of the printed word. But a new survey in honor of World Book Day, a massive celebration of reading in the U.K., has an encouraging finding for the traditionalists: Adults and teenagers alike still prefer the printed book.
A few other interesting findings from the survey: Almost half of teenagers have read a book on a computer; 17% have done it on a mobile phone. Over 13% of teens have used tablets like the iPad to read a book, though only about 9% of teens had used e-readers to read one, surprisingly.
Today's World Book Day event, an annual affair now in its 14th year, is traditionally targeted at primary-school age children,...
- 3/3/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
Angus, Thongs & Perfect Snogging is directed and produced by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice), from the screenplay she co-scripted with Paul Mayeda Berges, Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi. This hilarious coming-of-age story is based on the international best-selling series of books by the British author Louise Rennison, and follows the eccentric and irresistible Georgia Nicolson as she overcomes the trauma of being a teenager. Georgia Nicolson is played by Georgia Groome. Alongside her playing fellow Ace Gang members are Eleanor Tomlinson as Jas, Georgia Henshaw as Rosie and Manjeeven Grewal as Ellen. Aaron Johnson, Sean Bourke, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor and T4’s Steve Jones (making his acting debut) also star.
- 12/18/2009
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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