E. B. White Quote

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."

- E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

L.M. Montgomery Quote

Starfire Publishing

"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June."

- Anne Shirley, Anne of the Island

Remarkably Bright Creatures

All images: Netflix

The first trailer and poster for Remarkably Bright Creatures are unexpectedly beautiful. The story follows Tova, a cleaner at the aquarium, Cameron, the young man hired to replace her, and Marcellus, a giant octopus. 

Here's the official synopsis from Netflix: 

Based on the bestselling phenomenon by Shelby Van Pelt comes the story of Tova, a widow who forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly Marcellus — a giant pacific octopus that lives at the aquarium where she works. Unbeknownst to Tova, Marcellus is on a mission to solve a mystery that will heal the widow’s heart and lead her to a life-changing discovery.

"Remarkably Bright Creatures", stars Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, Joan Chen, Kathy Baker, Beth Grant, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Colm Meaney, and Alfred Molina.

Remarkably Bright Creatures arrives on Netflix on May 8th.

Chronicles of Narnia Quote

20th Century Studios

"Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts."

- Eustace Scrubb, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Charles Dickens Quote

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Ursula K Le Guin Quote

Photo by Dana Gluckstein

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, "A War Without End"

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

Photo by Marion Wood Kolisch

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

A Christmas Carol Quote

Jim Henson Company

"I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

- Nephew Fred, A Christmas Carol

Sunrise On The Reaping

All images: Lionsgate

The first teaser trailer for the next tale in The Hunger Games saga has arrived. Sunrise on the Reaping is the story of Haymitch's time in the Hunger Games. Since the movies follow the books fairly closely, this one will be the saddest film yet, but we have to wait an entire year to see it.

Here's the official synopsis from Lionsgate:

"THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING" will revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives in theaters on November 20, 2026.

Dr. Seuss Quote

"You can find magic, wherever you look.

Sit back and relax, all you need is a book."

- Theodor Geisel

(Dr. Seuss)

Percy Jackson Season 2

All images: Disney

The first season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians was absolutely fantastic. They stuck fairly closely to Rick Riordan's book and I loved it. Season two follows the adventures of the second book, The Sea of Monsters.

Here's the official synopsis from Disney: 

After Camp Half-Blood’s protective border is breached, Percy Jackson embarks on an epic odyssey into the Sea of Monsters in search of his best friend Grover and the one thing that may save the camp — the legendary Golden Fleece. With help from Annabeth, Clarisse and his newfound cyclops half-brother Tyson, Percy’s survival becomes essential to stopping Luke, the Titan Kronos, and their impending plan to bring down Camp Half-Blood — and ultimately, Olympus. 

These character posters look amazing, too.

The first two episodes of season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians arrive on DisneyPlus and Hulu on December 10th. New episodes will debut each Wednesday.

Sleepy Hollow Quote

Disney

"But the most frightening thing of all was the wind howling among the trees. Ichabod was sure that it was the sound of the Headless Horseman out looking for his head."  

- Washington Irving,

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

R.L. Stine Quote

Viva Pictures

"There wouldn’t be so many stories about zombies and other weird creatures if they didn’t really exist."

- R.L. Stine, Zombie Town

October Quote

Disney

"October was always the least dependable of months…

full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

Frankenstein Quote

Universal

"Beware; for I am fearless,

and therefore powerful."

- The Monster,

Frankenstein; or,

The Modern Prometheus

Happy Hobbit Day!

New Line Cinema

September 22nd is the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. As such, it is celebrated each year as Hobbit Day. That must mean today would be a good day for a party. After all, as Thorin said to Bilbo near the end of The Hobbit, "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

The Hobbit Quote

New Line Cinema

"No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it."

- J.R.R. Tolkien,

The Hobbit,

or There and Back Again

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Quote

Disney

"His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spell-bound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow."

- Washington Irving,

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Nora Roberts Quote

Photo: Evelyn Hockstein

"Light always wins.

Sometimes it takes way too long,

but it always wins."

- Cleo, Inheritance by Nora Roberts

Return of the King Quote

"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

-JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King