Posts Tagged ‘The Hunger Games’
2012 – That Was The Year That Was
We arrive, once more, at the end of another full year, another year in which myself and fellow Flickfeasters have cast our eyes over far too many movies to count. But, fool that I am, I thought I’d give it a go anyway. What follows is an incomplete summary of my movie-viewing year, going by [...]
December 31st, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More
Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins production
Tuesday 11th September, 2012. Lionsgate UK is proud to share that principal photography started yesterday on the highly anticipated sequel to the worldwide blockbuster film THE HUNGER GAMES. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE will shoot primarily in existing locations in and near Atlanta, Georgia. The...
September 11th, 2012 | News | Read More
The Hunger Games (2012)
The next big pop franchise The Hunger Games is a movie adapted from a super-popular trilogy of books for teenage girls, and it threatens to displace the waning Twilight. The Hunger Games is entertaining, pretty exciting, and engaging — it, like Twilight, is a star-crossed romance. Jennifer Lawrence,...
April 19th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Hunger Games (2012)
*There are probably spoilers in here!* Jesus Harold Christ. This movie was so bad that I don’t know where to begin. I’m going to forego the usual summarizing of the story (although much of it will be referred to in the below), because most people will already know it, and if not, there are plenty...
March 26th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
The Hunger Games: Flickfeast Debates
Julio Kukanja and Olly Buxton both attended The Hunger Games as twin-critics from flickfeast – a sort of left/right combination to the solar plexus aimed at giving you, the reader, a genuinely stereoscopic view of the film. They took that to some extremes as they failed to meet up before the screening...
March 22nd, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More
The Hunger Games (2012)
Lionsgate’s Easter blockbuster is a lengthy, high-octane dramatisation of The Hunger Games, a “young adult” novel by Suzanne Collins. It is the first in a series about which I’d heard nothing before this screening. My eleven-year-old son tells me it is quite the thing at the...
March 21st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
The Hunger Games Premiere
The latest in tween-age adoration was on parade for the premiere of a new franchise vehicle, The Hunger Games last night. Appropriately, an entire legion of screaming jailbait was on hand to swoon at Hollywood’s latest hearthrob creations and as such the nation’s press was there to relay...
March 15th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Top 10 Novel To Film Adaptations
Two very different mediums can lead to two very different results, it’s long been known that adapting a successful novel into movie form doesn’t automatically lead to great success. For every Twilight there’s the underwhelming performance of something like The Golden Compass. There...
March 14th, 2012 | Feature, Top Ten | Read More
My Top Ten Most Anticipated Movies of 2012
Fair warning: I am a sci-fi and superhero movie fan first and foremost, so don’t expect too much artsy or mainstream fare on this list. Granted, being a Shakespeare nut, one movie I am enormously excited about is Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus, but I have decided not to include it because it was festival-released...
December 31st, 2011 | Feature, Top Ten | Read More
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John Chard: We are lucky to have you watching such crap so we don't have to!...
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Chris Bale: Sad to say I couldn't see the humour Craig, but glad you found some to enjoy. As a huge 'Evil Dead' fan I think the fran... -
Kevin Matthews: I guess I'd sort of agree with that quote, Chris. As for the video, I will look for a clip of it available here in the U...
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Chris Knipp: People have been talking about a famous 1975 Saturday Night Live skit, "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise," t...
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Chris Knipp: Anthony Lane of 'The New Yorker', calls this "A great, thundering cudgel of a movie, set to stun." I guess you'd agree,...
