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Beefcake! Beefcake!
16 May 2012 6:05 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Do you like to watch big, burly men punching each other? Well, so do I! And so this summer Twitch will present a film series dedicated to the biggest, beefiest stars of them all with a retrospective of films starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger screening at the Tiff Bell Lightbox on Saturday nights starting June 16th.As the eighties dawned, the rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to box-office royalty signaled the beginning of a new era in action movies: the Age of Beefcake had arrived. Revisit some of the battling behemoths' finest moments in this über-buff ten-film series.Included in the series: The Terminator, Rocky, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Cliffhanger, Conan The Barbarian, Demolition Man, Total Recall, The Running Man, First Blood and »
Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: A Tribute to Stephen King Part 2
6 April 2012 3:32 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
"My name is Anne Wilkes. And I am..." "I know," he said. "You're my number-one fan." "Yes," she said, smiling. "That's just what I am."
How many times had Stephen King heard that from his millions of number-one fans before he finally turned the obsessive love of his Constant Readers into the subject of one of his most memorable, horrific and claustrophobic works, Misery? Before taking a short break to honor Debbie Rochon and The Blair Witch Project with Tips of the Scalpel for Indie Horror Month, we brought you Stephen King, Part 1. Now we're back to continue the story with Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: Stephen King, Part 2: The 80's.
The start of King's career was prolific, beginning with Carrie, Salem's Lot and The Shining, but the incredible amount of legendary horror that King produced throughout his life is simply mind-boggling. King created nearly two-dozen stories that »
- Doctor Gash
Second Opinion - The Hunger Games (2012)
2 April 2012 7:50 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Hunger Games, 2012.
Directed by Gary Ross.
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson.
Synopsis:
A teenage girl must compete in The Hunger Games - a televised event where 'Tributes' must fight to the death.
This is a film review, not a book review. I’ve not read any of The Hunger Games novels and, moreover, I have absolutely no interest in reading them now that I’ve seen the film. If they are as average as this, I’ll stay far away.
It’s been three days since I saw The Hunger Games and it has fallen drastically in my opinion of it. Upon reflection there is nothing new here; the main story is a cross between The Running Man and Battle Royale, the love story is as unbelievable as anything you’ll see all year, and the »
- flickeringmyth
Movie Review - The Hunger Games (2012)
30 March 2012 10:04 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
The Hunger Games, 2012.
Directed by Gary Ross.
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson.
Synopsis:
Teenager Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is forced to compete in The Hunger Games, a nationally televised event in which 'Tributes' must fight with one another until a sole survivor remains.
The cultural zeitgeist is a funny thing. More often than not the thing that everyone is going crazy for is probably not that novel. I really don’t have to say anything other than ‘The Twilight Saga’ to sum up my feelings on just how terrible something extremely popular can be. Twilight has become such a magnet for abuse it’s no longer sporting. So when I first heard of The Hunger Games being referred to as ‘the next Twilight’ it immediately killed every ounce of anticipation I may have had for the film. »
- flickeringmyth
Open thread – what films have you been watching?
30 March 2012 9:33 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From the awesome to the atrocious, the marvellous to the middling, we'd like to hear about the movies you've seen recently
What films have you seen recently? Whatever you've been watching, we'd like you to tell us about it.
You can either leave a comment in the thread below, or tweet your thoughts with the hashtag #gdnfilmreviews. We'll gather up the best we receive and show them off here once a week.
Probably the most discussed film of the past seven days has been The Hunger Games, given a four-star review by Peter Bradshaw last week:
The Hunger Games is a very enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity. The worry now is that with big-screen versions of the next books in Suzanne Collins's series coming down the line, the impact will be lessened, and it will become a Twilightish soap.
Here's what some @guardianfilm followers had »
- Adam Boult
Male Twi-Hard Comes To Grips With 'The Hunger Games'
27 March 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Every movie critic and columnist is currently in full-on "Hunger Games" mode, furiously writing on every angle of the film. So why am I bothering to write this column, then? What makes my angle unique?
Unlike the other journalists, I haven't seen the movie. Not because I don’t think it looks worth seeing. It currently sits with an 86% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and I love Jennifer Lawrence. After seeing "Winter's Bone," I've even gone back to watch episodes of "The Bill Engvall Show" just to see more of her. Plus, one of my favorite '80s flicks is "The Running Man," where Arnold Schwarzenegger, like Katniss, also fights to the death for the amusement of TV viewers in a future dystopia. Based on that info, I should have been lining up last week for the midnight premieres.
I didn't because I'm worried I'll get obsessed with yet another female-centered Young Adult series. »
- Ryan McKee
'Hunger Games' Withdrawal: Five Post-Movie Cures
27 March 2012 11:45 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Judging by the insane box office success that "The Hunger Games" had this weekend, we're guessing that a lot of you probably went to see the movie. And there's a decent chance that a good portion of you hadn't read the novels before you watched the film, and are new to this whole craze.
It seems like we've spent years waiting for "The Hunger Games" to hit theaters and, now that it finally has, we've got to wait 20 more months until "Catching Fire" follows suit. So to help ease the passing of time for fans new and old, we have compiled a list of five ways to keep yourself entertained in the interim period.
Read (or re-read) the books
If you liked "The Hunger Games" film, you're definitely going to love Suzanne Collins' novels. Unlike the movie, the books are told from Katniss's first-person perspective, so you get a »
- Terri Schwartz
Film Junk Podcast Episode #363: The Hunger Games and The Raid: Redemption
26 March 2012 9:32 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro 4:15 - Review: The Hunger Games 49:40 - Review: The Raid: Redemption 1:11:00 - Headlines: 2012 Hot Docs Line-Up Announced, New Chevy Chase / Dan Aykroyd Comedy, Disney to Lose $200 Million on John Carter, Ninja Turtles to be Motion Captured?, Cosmopolis Trailer 1:35:15 - Other Stuff We Watched: Pleasantville, Act of Valor, The Muppets, The Deer Hunter, Letter Never Sent, The Sweatbox, The Announcement, Espn 30 for 30, Game Change, The Running Man, Celebrity Apprentice 2:22:20 - Junk Mail: Modern Gladiator Movies, Missing Categories at the Oscars, Melancholia Snubbed at the Oscars, Movies Where the Supporting Actor is Better than the Lead, No New Content Nightmare, Who Would Win The Hunger Games? 2:37:00 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:39:55 - Outro
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- Sean
‘The Hunger Games’ is a fine, gripping dystopian effort that overcomes its influences
26 March 2012 7:49 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Written by Suzanne Collins, Gary Ross and Billy Ray
Directed by Gary Ross
USA, 2012
In the dystopian, totalitarian nation of Panem, a wealthy capital city rules over an impoverished nation of districts. As penance for a previous rebellion, every year sees each district forced to enter two adolescents to participate in The Hunger Games competition; the winner receives an extensive cash sum and a chance to live amongst the wealthy, but the event is a death match where only one can survive. Elements of the film’s narrative and allegorical concerns result in an amalgamation of the likes of The Most Dangerous Game, Lord of the Flies, The Running Man, The Truman Show, Series 7: The Contenders, and Battle Royale, but The Hunger Games successfully stands on its own as a gripping entity with an interesting world courtesy of Suzanne Collins’ source material, the first in a hugely popular series of novels. »
- Josh Slater-Williams
Essential Viewing For Fans Of ‘The Hunger Games’ (Part 2)
25 March 2012 5:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
6- The 10th Victim (La Decima vittima) (The Tenth Victim)
Directed by Elio Petri
Written by Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Ennio Flaiano and Elio Petri
Italy,1965
The 10th Victim was the first film to offer up the concept of a TV show wherein people hunt and kill one another for sport and to expand the idea into a satire on gameshows. Set in the 21st Century, the government and the private sector have joined forces to create a solution to crime by giving it a profitable outlet titled “The Big Hunt,” a popular worldwide game show in which contestants are chosen at random to chase one another around the world in a kill or be killed scenario. The winner of the first round moves on to the next. After ten wins, a player is retired from the game and gets a cash prize of one million dollars, but very few make it that far. »
- Ricky
Essential Viewing For Fans Of ‘The Hunger Games’ (Part 1)
25 March 2012 5:17 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels primarily because both centre on a young female protagonist and somehow both became phenomenons for their shared young-adult demo. Personally, I think this is both an insult to the novel and the latest big screen adaptation, since The Hunger Games is leagues above Twilight in artistic credibility. The sense of familiarity of The Hunger Games in fact goes much further back, recalling everything from William Golding to Phillip K. Dick and even Stephen King. Here are several films which may or may not have inspired Gary Ross’s big screen adaptation – eleven films which come highly recommended and should be essential viewing for any fan of the soon-to-be billion dollar franchise.
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku
2000, Japan
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Japanese author »
- Ricky
The Hunger Games – review
24 March 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Hunger Games is not, as I thought when I heard the title, a nostalgic docu-drama on the 1948 London Olympics back in the first post-war age of austerity. It's a film version of Suzanne Collins's popular series of American novels for so-called young adults (my 11-year-old granddaughter is reading them) set in a dystopian near future. This totalitarian state is modelled in part on imperial Rome, and teenagers are chosen by lot from the nation's most deprived youth to take part in televised gladiatorial encounters that end in death for all but one contestant. The privileged citizens in the capital have Roman names (eg Cinna, Seneca, Cato, Caesar) and dress like characters in Alice in Wonderland, while the downtrodden people in the outlands have folksy rural names. The combative heroine has the Hardyesque moniker of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), and District 12, which she represents, resembles a coalmining town in the Appalachians from the 1930s. »
- Philip French
This week's new films
23 March 2012 5:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Kid With A Bike (12A)
(Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011, Bel/Fra/Ita) Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Egon di Mateo, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione. 87 mins
Once again, the Dardenne brothers pull you into the world of a poor, marginalised soul and keep you there, without resorting to any fancy tricks. How do they do it? In this case it's impulsive young Cyril: no mother, rejected by his father, no friends, and only his talismanic bike to cling to. What's to become of him? It sounds rather worthy but, in fact, it's an effortless watch – powerfully acted, paced like an action movie, and shifting into a higher gear of spiritual grace when it needs to.
The Hunger Games (12A)
(Gary Ross, 2012, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Wes Bentley, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci. 143 mins
Teens are signed up, trained up and scrubbed up for a reality TV game of death in this »
- Steve Rose
'The Hunger Games' too tame for you? Check out 'Battle Royale'
23 March 2012 12:54 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
As this weekend’s early box-office receipts start to pour in, it’s quickly becoming clear that The Hunger Games is about to be a huge hit. And I have no reason to doubt that hardcore fans of Suzanne Collins’ bestsellers will get their minds blown by all the teen-on-teen mayhem and melodrama. Still, I can’t help thinking how much more pumped I would be to see the film if it was rated R instead of PG-13. I mean, how do you even make a PG-13 movie that stays true to the novel’s bloody bodycount plot?! I guess »
- Chris Nashawaty
The Hunger Games – The Review
22 March 2012 10:45 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Well, those sneaky Hollywood studios are trying to mess with the calendar once again! Or to be more specific, the start of the seasons. For several decades they’ve wheeled out their big budget, youth-oriented tentpole/ franchise blockbusters at the start of Summer ( although a few of these sneak between Thanksgiving and Christmas ). Summer movie time had started with Memorial day weekend , but slowly it has crept up to the first weekend in May ( hey the school year’s not over yet! ). Well now it looks like Lionsgate may be trying to stretch things into Spring ( or Spring break ). And what better way to test these still a bit chilly waters than adapting a popular Young Adult ( Ya ) novel. After all, Harry Potter waved his wand for the last time this past year and another Ya series ( which I’ll discuss later ) is sending out its last flick in a few months. »
- Jim Batts
'Battle Royale': Japan's 'Hunger Games' arrives on DVD
22 March 2012 2:40 PM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games", has been accused of lifting her idea for a teen battle to the death in a dystopian future from the 2000 Japanese movie "Battle Royale."
In the film, based on a popular series of manga comics, teens are sent to an island, fitted with explosive collars, given a variety of weapons and ordered to fight until only one remains alive. Sounds familiar, right?
Collins has denied the influence, but Anchor Bay Entertainment isn't missing an opportunity to hook the cult classic to "The Hunger Games'" star. On Wednesday (March 20), the company released the first official U.S. edition in the U.S. In fact, they've bulked the film up into a 4-dvd release that includes theatrical and director's cuts of the movie, the sequel "Battle Royale II" and a bunch of other obscure stuff.
Both "The Hunger Games" (which opens this weekend) and »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Should Fanboys Care About 'The Hunger Games?'
22 March 2012 12:02 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Okay, I'm the only honest person you'll ever meet, so I am going to tell you why many Fanboys have a reflexive dislike of "The Hunger Games."
Here goes. It's about to get real. Open that umbrella, cause straight talk is gonna' come raining down.
Girls. Popular girls. "Normal" girls. We (and I'm speaking in gigantic generalities here) have a tendency to... not really be of much appeal to this group.
So when something comes along and is marketed to and greatly admired by the not-socially awkward female demographic, (the very same one that we ever so very much want to like us), it is with an understandable melange of l'essence du sour grapesthat we can dismiss that thing. Dismiss it before, let's face it, it dismisses us.
Let's take, for example, "The Twilight Saga". As an exercise in anthropology, I love attending these films. But, please, let's be fair: they are awful. »
- Jordan Hoffman
Games Of Death: Thn’s Top Survival Sports Movies
21 March 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
If, like most films in this feature, we become part of a totalitarian society, obsessed with barbaric entertainment, we will only have ourselves to blame. Perhaps we’re almost there anyway, with recent cruel television shows that mock and crush dreams, along with events in the world driven by the power hungry media.
Are we on the cusp of bowing to corporate greed with lust for real-life bloodshed and violence, all in the pursuit of high-ratings and stacks of cash?
Just imagine: we may only be a decade or so away from a Simon Cowell-produced television hit show, where an aging Ant ‘n’ Dec proclaim that ‘Shirley from Sheffield’ needs only a bullet to her husband’s skull and she is through to the grand-final of ‘Divorce Or Death’? There she will face the might of the mother-in-law for a million; all after dispatching the husband’s three mistresses in the previous rounds! »
- Craig Hunter
Gary Ross's "The Hunger Games"
20 March 2012 2:05 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
R Kurt Osenlund gives Gary Ross's The Hunger Games three out of four stars, which is a fairly solid endorsement, coming from Slant. That's nice and all, but The Hunger Games as a film is really only half the story. The other half has to do with marketing and the impact the film will have on the industry, aspects of a movie we don't usually pay all that much attention to around here, but in this case, they cannot be ignored.
According to Bloomberg's Michael White, when it opens on Friday, The Hunger Games may pull in between $115 million and $270 million during the first three days of its run. "It will also transform Lions Gate, an independent filmmaker known for horror movies, Tyler Perry comedies and a long takeover fight with Carl Icahn. With The Hunger Games, Twilight and two more projects with sequel potential, Vancouver-based Lions Gate has »
The Hunger Games Review: Derivative & Overlong But Delivers The Goods
20 March 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
There is that ever-present tendency for popular teen adventure novels to “turn dark” in their latter installments, creating some curious issues when they are adapted into films and have to wrangle for audience-appropriate ratings with certification boards. Shooting The Hunger Games, then, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ acclaimed 2008 novel, is a particularly bold undertaking, working from pulls-few-punches source material which is also thoroughly downcast throughout.
Borrowing plenty from the likes of Stephen King’s novels The Last Walk and The Running Man, as well as Koshun Takami’s Battle Royale, The Hunger Games transpires in a vague future, in which North America has been razed and rebuilt as Panem, where the denizens exist in one of twelve districts, controlled by the all-powerful Capitol. As punishment for a fierce uprising which saw the 13th district destroyed, each year, The Hunger Games takes place, a fight to the death »
- Shaun Munro
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