Books into Movies
There's still time to read a number of books before the movie (based on the book) is released in the next few months. The long running favorite The Lovely Bones about how a family of a young girl copes with her disappearance/death and how she copes with watching their suffering from heaven has a great cast including Susan Sarandon and Mark Wahlberg.
Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed The Road, scheduled for theater release in November, is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a father and son struggle for survival.
On a comic/ tragic note (tragic if you think about tax dollars spent) we have The Men Who Stare at Goats which investigates the U.S. military's exploration of the paranormal to use in the war on terror. That movie with George Clooney is scheduled for release in November.