"You know, Castle, my mom had a saying...vincit omnia veritas. Truth conquers all.”
Last night's episode of Castle was without a doubt, one of my most fulfilling experiences in this fandom. "Veritas" the team's penultimate episode of the sixth season was set up with the highest of expectations, and proceeded to shatter every single one of them.
I would like to take pause before my recap and further opinions and say, that from the writing, showrunning, acting, lighting, cinematography and scoring, anyone involved in the making of this episode not only brought their 'A' game, but they were playing on an entirely new level.
The fourth TODAY Book Club pick is "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Share your thoughts about Green's beloved young adult novel by joining the TODAY Book Club community, a fresh and interactive discussion series, and tweeting with #TFiOSTODAY.
The cast of "The Fault in Our Stars" will also be answering questions and sharing photos and videos on TODAY's social media accounts, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine, beginning today through Friday, May 9. Fans can start the conversation with stars Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff and author John Green on Twitter today from 5-6 p.m. ET using #TFiOSTODAY.
It has the ingredients of many a page-turner: with teen love and tragedy, John Green’s novel “The Fault in Our Stars” has sold seven million copies and is set to make its film debut in June, starring new Hollywood darling Shailene Woodley. And to top it all off, the novel is the latest read for TODAY’s Book Club.
“The Fault in Our Stars” tells the story of 16-year-old Hazel Lancaster, a teen with incurable cancer who meets and falls in love with another patient. The tale was inspired by some of Green’s experiences working at a children’s hospital as a student chaplain.
“I was only 21. It was very difficult. I saw a lot of kids die,” Green told Willie Geist at his office in Indianapolis. “I spent time … with their parents. It was really difficult for me to be hopeful in that. It kept coming back to me. I kept wanting to write about it.”
Green finally did write about it after meeting Esther Earl, a 15-year-old fan battling cancer. She died a year later.
“Once I understood that a short life can also be a good life, it kind of became possible to write the story,” Green said.
This is the fifth novel for Green, 35, who is no stranger to tackling teen romance in the face of adversity. In addition to “The Fault in Our Stars,” his books “Looking for Alaska,” “Paper Towns” and “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” all debuted on the New York Times best-seller list.
And despite legions of screaming fans who follow him to book signings (Green “humble brags” he’s signed his name 150,000 times), the author says he’s still starstruck when it comes to the new film.
“At no point did I have a poker face,” he said about being on set. “The director would be debating, ‘Was this take better than this take?’ And I would just be, like, ‘Guys, let's calm down for a second and think about how awesome this is. Shailene Woodley is in our movie. This is awesome!”
It’s indeed awesome, particularly for a guy who considers himself a nerd and spreads the message that being a nerd is cool. Green connects with his young fans, dubbed “Nerdfighters,” via four video series, including one called the “Vlog Brothers,” in which he and his brother Hank cover everything from foreign affairs to goat mating.
“I want to celebrate intellectualism,” he said. “We only get to be here on this planet for a little while, and we have the chance to pay attention or we can choose to be distracted. And when we pay attention is when I think we're really fulfilled and happy and excited.”
They’re young, they’re talented and they’re the movie industry’s newest kids on the block. They’re Hollywood’s freshest faces.
Theo James was born in England and didn’t start his acting career that long ago. He made his first TV Appearance in the English show ‘A Passionate Women’ as Alex Crazenovski in 2010. Later that year he appeared in the British drama ‘Downtown Abbey’ and the comedy film ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’.
After gaining other small roles in TV-Shows and movies, Theo nabbed a part in the sci-fi action film ‘Divergent’, next to the lovely Shailene Woodley. The movie is based on the trilogy novels by Veronica Roth. The hunk plays an American 18-year-old called Tobias “Four” Eaton.
Plus the actor is working on the two films ‘London Fields’ and ‘Franny’. Alongside Amber Heard, Johnny Depp, Dakota Fanning and Richard Gere.
It’s also confirmed that the last two books ‘Insurgent’ and ‘Allegiant’ of Veronica’s trilogy are transitioning to the screen too, so no worries about not being able to see Theo on the big screen ever again, the handsome Brit will come back as the mysterious Four, and we doubt he’ll stop after that.
20th Century Fox have released twenty three new promo posters for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past using a mixture of old and new images of all the main cast members, including the X-Men of the past and present, along with the Sentinels. Hit the jump to check them out!
Game of Thrones, is in fact a game of chess. If you recall back in
Season 3, Petyr Baelish says, "chaos isn't a pit, it's a ladder. It's
every man (or woman) for himself or herself, and you're either a player
or a pawn." On last nights episode,in a somewhat intimate (and kind of
gross) moment between Lysa Arryn and Littlefinger, it was revealed that
it was in fact Lysa that poisoned her husband Jon Arryn. We only got a
brief glimpse of Jon Arryn, who was hand of the King to Robert
Baratheon,in the first episode of the series. Lysa went on to say, that
she did as she was told, giving her husband the drops of poison and
sending the letter to Catelyn, thereby blaming the the Lannisters for
his death. All on the command of Littlefinger.
So if we look back on Lord Baelish, former Master of Coin, and
beloved brothel owner, he was ultimately responsible for the events that
led to Ned Stark's untimely death, the war that ensued thereafter, and
finally King Joffrey's death (maybe his only redeemable ploy).
Being behind almost every major move, since the beginning,
what is his angle with Lysa. Even he looked a little repulsed by her,
yet he agrees to marriage. Does Lysa's refusal to join the war efforts
have anything to do with his decision? With the Vale comes gold and men,
a full army. So what will be his next move?
