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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games was a huge box office success, the only young adult novel adaptation since Twilight to achieve that title. I read the trilogy by Suzanne Collins before seeing the film, and I really enjoyed it. Like many others, I was excited to see…
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Interview – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Victory Tour Press Conference in Houston
This Dallas girl drove down to Houston, Texas to attend a small press conference for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The stop in Houston is part of the “Victory Tour” currently going around the country, giving fans an opportunity to meet and interact with some…
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Film Review – Dallas Buyers Club (Second Take)
Dallas Buyers Club benefited publicity-wise from pre-filming photos of Matthew McConaughey wasting away as he lost weight to play Ron Woodruff, the main character. Basically, everyone knows by this point that this is that film where McConaughey is skinny. Why did he lose the weight?…
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SDCC Interview – Ender’s Game Press Conference
While at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2013, I was able to attend the press conference for Ender’s Game that occurred prior to the panel in Hall H. Harrison Ford (at his first SDCC appearance), Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, director/screenwriter Gavin Hood, and producer Roberto…
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Interview – Jaco Van Dormael – Mr. Nobody
Sarah interviews director Jaco Van Dormael from the sci-fi romantic drama Mr. Nobody.
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Film Review – Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody is a film that should have been out in the U.S. four years ago. Originally released on the festival circuit in 2009 and with release dates in European countries and others from 2009 to 2010, the film failed to attract any major fanfare…
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Film Review – Blue Is The Warmest Color
Blue Is The Warmest Color is finally releasing in the U.S., after winning the top prize in May at the Cannes Film Festival: the Palme d’Or. Director/co-screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche puts Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos into a film about finding your soulmate, yourself, love, and…
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Film Review – Gravity
Alone in space with no shuttle, limited oxygen, no gravity, temperatures varying from extreme hot to cold: this is the ultimate terrifying scenario. Forget ghosts, murderers on the loose, slashers, and aliens; “stranded in space with nothing to save you” is now at the top…
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