Checked out Allegiant, the third in the teen distopian series of movies based on the Divergent trilogy of novels. This is the third of four movies so, yes, they broke book 3 into two movies but apparently realized people are … Continue reading
Checked out the final Hunger Games movie Mockingjay Part 2 tonight. This is the second half of the third book and boy does it feel like it sometimes. We know that the cynical bean-counters in Hollywood break up final books … Continue reading
Insurgent is the second movie in the progressively inferior Divergent series of movies/books. And if that sentence suggests that I’m not going to give Insurgent this huge raving review, you would be right. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off … Continue reading
Hunger Games Part 3: Mockingjay Part 1 is a curiously structured film for Hollywood blockbuster entertainment. But, to be fair, parts 1 and 2 were as well. First half of the first two are weird publicity tours full of image … Continue reading
Went to see an early showing of Divergent, the latest adapted-from-a-YA-novel flick starring (yeesh) Shaileene Woodley, Jai Courtney, Kate Winslett, Ashley Judd, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwynn, Maggie Q, and a few other actors whose faces you know but … Continue reading
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, part 2) is in almost every way a better – and better made – movie than the first. They are clearly working with a bigger budget and a better script that gives more moments for the … Continue reading
Saw a late showing of the new Matt Damon sci-fi flick Elysium… a movie I was looking forward to as it was the follow-up to the director’s previous movie District 9 (which I didn’t think was as amazing as some … Continue reading