Posts Tagged ‘Francis Lawrence’
Film Review – Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow (2018) seems to be as interested in Jennifer Lawrence’s body than the characters in it. Lawrence plays Dominika, an accomplished Russian ballerina who – after a freak accident deprives her of her dancing dreams – somehow ends up as a super secret agent…
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
In my review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014), I wrote the following: “…if its purpose was to make me curious to see what happens in the final entry, I’ll say it did its job” Now that I’ve seen The Hunger Games: Mockingjay…
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Film Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Katniss Everdeen has gone through an interesting journey so far in the Hunger Games saga. Strangely, she has often been the victim of circumstance – constantly trying to adjust as things swirl further out of her control. In Catching Fire (2013) she entered the games…
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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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CinemaCon Days 3&4 Recap
If screenings of clips from Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast & Furious 6 weren’t cool enough, we still had two days worth of studio presentations (Disney, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate) at CinemaCon 2013. Generally the presentations went two ways: either the presenters would briefly mention a…
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