The Hunger Games: Forgetting Katniss
Most people I know don’t think about cultural legacy when they visit the movie theater. I do, and I have a question: will anyone remember The Hunger Games in five years?
The Oppression of the Mockingjay
What causes a culture to celebrate a televised spectacle of teenage gladiatorial combat? It’s a question we desperately need to be asking, and it’s a question that The Hunger Games frankly doesn’t seem interested in. The writers and filmmakers certainly pretend to take on that topic, but abandon the issue with disconcerting ease. If we’re
‘Into the Storm’ and the Critics’ Disaster
Into the Storm may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but it doesn’t quite deserve its low 21% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This found-footage style disaster film tracks a group of professional storm chasers, two drunken daredevils, and a small town community on the day of their high school graduation. Richard Armitage works in his prime