The Hunger Games concludes with the second part of Mockingjay and shows the final clash between The Capitol and the Rebels. Peeta has been rescued from The Capitol, but he has been brainwashed, leading to him harbouring a bloodlust against Katniss. The war has swung in the Rebels’ favour and the Capitol is about to […]
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The Hunger Games Retrospective: Mockingjay – Part One
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay saw a big change in story, setting, and aesthetic as it turned the series from a Young Adult Dystopia to a war story. Katniss has been extracted from the Third Quarter Quill and taken to the secretive District 13. Peeta has been taken captive by The Capitol and District 12 has been […]
Dear Evan Hansen Review
I am an unashamed fan of movie musicals. If your film is at all cohesive and features sequences of the characters singing and dancing, chances are I’m gonna be on board. Honestly, a movie musical has to really drop the ball or misinterpret its source material in order for me to not be on its […]
Lisey’s Story Review
Lisey’s Story has one of the best television casts ever constructed: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Allen, Ron Cephas Jones, Dane Dehaan, Michael Pitt. I mean, come on, three of those actors in a show would be incredible, but all of them? It’s an embarrassment of riches! And each one is acting […]
Britflix: Children of Men
Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre of fiction that the British excel at. A film that is one of the best in the sub-genre is 2006’s Children of Men. In the year 2027, the world has gone to hell. No child has been born for 18 years, the youngest person in the world has been murdered, […]