Film Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Well they’ve climbed perhaps the biggest mountain and are now hurtling towards the finish line. Catching Fire is the lynchpin in the books written by Suzanne Collins where the subject matter gets even more mature and luckily for audiences the film version, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, is a solid enough flick to get us to the real craziness. I was on record as not really digging the first Hunger Games film so I’m happy to report those who might have been scared away should give this film a chance.

Top 10 Fall Films I’m Most Excited For

Though I love summer, it must be said that this year, summer felt like it was a million years long, with the films falling off in quality precipitously the longer the summer went on. Which is why I am happy that the fall movie season is upon us and if word out of Telluride is anything to go by, this is shaping up to be a doozy. So I decided to take a gander at the fall film slate and see what excited me. So without further ado, here all the fall films I’m most excited for and the empirical reasons why.

Pieces of the Week From Places I Write: 4/14-4/20

The weekly round up of things I’ve written for other places! Awards Circuit It’s been a Teen Wolf heavy week hasn’t it? Dylan O’Brien the star is often the main lightning rod of news and it turns out his star will be getting bigger considering he just landed the lead role in The Maze Runner.