The race to find the next Hunger Games – i.e. an adaptation of a book series aimed at the Ya crowd and beloved by swarms of passionate, ticket-buying fans — just found itself a new frontrunner today, with the news that Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin have signed onto the adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.

This is the movie I’ve most been waiting for in a couple of decades.

With all the negative press and deep soul searching occasioned by the release of “The Green Lantern,” it seems like this might be an opportune moment to suggest that a tiny film, made on a tiny budget, set in a tiny land, might be worth your attention: “Submarine.”

“Submarine” was written and directed by British funnyman Richard Ayoade, famous, primarily, for his portrayal of ur-nerd Moss on the IT-support-based sit-com, “The IT Crowd.” Thanks to the relatively deep infiltration of technology and thus tech snafus and thus tech support into our lives, the lives of “the others” versus the “homo technologicus” has made for several hilarious seasons of “IT Crowd” (available via Netflix). One of the most essential parts of the formula that makes this show successful is Moss’ relative sweetness amidst his tech monomania.

So it appears that if my friend Steven ever decides to leave tech he’d be able to lateral right into a career in film review.

Also, since I’m currently rather obsessed with IT Crowd, I’m probably going to watch this very soon.

I’m not a Captain America fan, but this looks like another excellent comic book remake.