Tag: youngadult

The term Young Adult (or YA) tends to result in a groan, particularly with all the non-Hunger Games style future dystopia films that have saturated this market since Jennifer Lawrence killed stuff with a bow. Despite the sophistication of the...

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams stars opposite Son Of Rambow's Bill Milner in young adult scifi thriller iBoy and while the premise of the feature film adaptation of Kevin Brooks' acclaimed novel - in which a working class teen...

Highly anticipated Danish fantasy The Shamer's Daughter hits Nordic screens in March with a heap of expectations upon the Anders Thomas Jensen scripted adaptation of Lene Kaaberbol's hugely popular young adult fantasy novels. Will this be some sort of regional...

The Maze Runner is yet another young adult trilogy that has been adapted to film. Similar themes of science fiction and dystopia that are rife in The Hunger Games and Divergent films are on full display here. Despite all...

Intellectual bullying met deep-seated insecurity in spectacular fashion last week, when Slate took the release of the mega-profitable film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars as an opportunity to declare that all Young Adult fiction, everywhere, is bad. It...

Strange mix this week of YA heroines, puppeteered sequels, and the long awaited work from Lars Von Trier.Video embedded below...

It's hard to throw a stone in Hollywood without hitting a Young Adult novel turned quickly-optioned screenplay. Nine times out of ten the story involves mythological creatures or futuristic themes. So you would be forgiven for dismissing the big...