As to whether 3D is a marker of quality or cultural ruin is growing increasingly beside the point.
Comical media images of women exploding provided outlets for spectators to laugh off the hazardous politics of everyday domesticity.
If this movie is truly following the lead of The Hunger Games’s marketing, then you can expect a minimum of a dozen more posters trickling out in the next 12 months.
There’s no incentive to buy the album unless, of course, you have a particular allegiance to Katniss and her struggle for a good ham sandwich.
If The Hunger Games found its urgency in the horrors of kid-on-kid fatalities, Catching Fire finds it in the collapsing of a societal facade.
The film’s form doesn’t distract from the content, and lets the characters speak for themselves.
The entirety of the marketing for The Counselor suffers from what I’m calling “prestige-film fallacy.”
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Fatboy Slim is back with a new track, a collaboration with producer Riva Starr that samples some dude the pair met in Brooklyn.
The hype machine surrounding Catching Fire kicks into high gear with Coldplay’s “Atlas.”
Is that Katniss Everdeen perched on that craggy peak, or is it Conan the Barbarian?
Cross your fingers that the film won’t pull a prom-stage fiasco and go splat.
The Hunger Games succeeds by allowing us to care about who teenagers are hooking up with while also still feeling smart about it.
While Garry Ross’s efforts are quite commendable, there’s little that seems to boast a unique directorial stamp.
It would seem we’ve passed the era of child stardom all but guaranteeing personal and professional downfall