The Tweeks are definitely Hunger Games fangirls, but how did the first half of the final book in the trilogy stand up in cinematic form? This week the girls weight in on Francis Lawrence’s job of hobbiting (breaking a literary property into unneeded multiple movies) Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
Letâs get this out of the way. Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is fully, frontally, nude for a few minutes of this rom-com. Itâs in character and far from salacious, merely adding to the humor and delineating her character. That said, the R-rated rom-com No Hard Feelings out now from Sony Home Entertainment, is disappointingly predictable, using…
This is what being an ally looks like. And it’s funny, too! There are far too few comics that make me giggle like the little girl I am inside this old body. Ambush Bug. Anything by Kyle Baker. Alan Moore’s D. R. and Quinch. And just about anything written and drawn by Evan Dorkin. I…
Diversity is in the news! Warner Bros. spent an estimated $145 million on a movie about King Arthur, directed by Guy Ritchie, hoping to have a new tentpole hit like his Sherlock Holmes films. Instead, the movie opened in third place, far behind Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which had already been out for two…
So there I was, rummaging through computerland seeking whatever might be interesting or amusing, and a news piece on Yahoo very briefly snagged my attention. Something about shooting and Las Vegas. Well, I didn’t have to read it because, even with such minimal information, I pretty much knew what it would tell me and I…
The Harry Potter franchise is, of course, a cultural institution. It was the formative literary experience for a generation of young people and a monstrously successful film franchise. Unfortunately, it also popularized splitting a climactic book in to two movies; a practice that has since gone rampant leading to the division of the very thin…
When I stop to think about it – and, obviously, I just did – it’s a miracle I’ve learned how to write and speak American English… at least to the extent that I have. Like a great many comic book fans, I was a precocious reader. This was long before The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy…
