The movie features over 1,100 special effects to bring to life everything from talking bears to shape shifting daemons.

The story is set in a parallel universe where humans each have their own daemon (an animal that represents your soul) and talking beasts. The Golden Compass is an adaptation of the first novel in Philip Pullman’s beloved His Dark Materials trilogy. With second sequel Mockingjay: Part One in cinemas later in the year, now is the perfect chance to acquaint yourself with the definitive modern screen heroine. The Blu-ray includes some exciting special features too, with over three hours of extensive bonus materials, alongside interviews with the cast and director Gary Ross. Showing some serious steel, in this movie Katniss competes in a televised fight to the death against 23 other teenagers to win not only her survival, but fame and fortune. Jennifer Lawrence bought Katniss Everdeen, the anti-authoritarian heroine of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, to international attention in 2012.

So, this week, we thought you might fancy watching some of the top young adult novels that have been made into movies. There is also a further Potter inspired film, Fantastic Beats a Where to Find Them due to hit cinemas in late 2016. Rowling, this week released an online sequel to the Harry Potter novels, which has sparked rumors that a new Potter movie might be on the cards.

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