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Margaret Atwood on Payback, The Handmaid’s Tale As Current Events, and The Hunger Games
1 May 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Margaret Atwood is helping promote a new film called Payback, a documentary spawned from her 2008 collection of essays Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth — which, despite the title, is not the economic work it sounds like. Her definition of debt is more flexible, and includes moral debts and the acts of revenge that they might inspire. (Payback opens with a blood feud between two families). With her classic work The Handmaid's Tale, about a dystopian future in which women have no control over their reproductive rights, being cited by politicians during this campaign season and its influence on the recent blockbuster The Hunger Games, Vulture thought it high time to check in with the author, who was in town to kick off Payback's premiere at Film Forum.Have you had a chance to read or see The Hunger Games? The games are designed for the districts »
- Jennifer Vineyard
Lena Dunham and Her "Girls"
1 April 2012 1:50 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Lena Dunham's new comedy series, Girls, co-produced by Judd Apatow, won't premiere on HBO for another two weeks but, following a single screening of three episodes at SXSW, it's already landed her a cover story in New York. Today, in the wake of a conversation with Dunham for his blog, Frank Bruni tells us in an Op-Ed for the New York Times that Girls has got him wondering, if not outright worried, about the state of feminism: "Gloria Steinem went to the barricades for this? Salaries may be better than in decades past and the cabinet and Congress less choked with testosterone. But in the bedroom? What's happening there remains something of a muddle, if not something of a mess."
Girls, he notes, "is drawing inevitable — and apt — comparisons to Sex and the City, in whose long shadow it blooms. Girls, too, is a half-hour comedy (of sorts) about »
'Hunger Games' Success Proves Dystopia Is the New Supernatural
26 March 2012 2:01 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
From "Nosferatu" to "Twilight," supernatural movies have never gone out of style. Vampires and their monster homies have enjoyed a constant stream of cinematic exposure since the turn of the last century, but they've never been more pervasive than in the last few years, breaking out of horror confines and sparkling their way into other genres.
We'd be naive to say supernaturals are on their way out — they'll never leave, and we wouldn't want them to. But we'd be blind not to notice the creepy new sheriff in town: Dystopia.
As themes go, it's nothing new ("Children of Men," "Blade Runner"... "Idiocracy") but amidst the insane success of "The Hunger Games," studios are snapping up the rights to similar books the moment they land on shelves — and in a few cases, before that.
So move over, monsters. In honor of "The Hunger Games'" record-breaking opening weekend, we're looking at »
- Brooke Tarnoff
Suzanne Collins: the queen of teen fiction for tomboys | Observer Profile
19 March 2012 2:51 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Her sci-fi series The Hunger Games, which is now a film, has been called a modern classic. Just don't expect the writer schooled in war to revel in the limelight
You just might have noticed The Hunger Games and treated less as a film, more a full-blown phenomenon. Aimed principally at a teenage market, the science-fiction film, the first of a trilogy, is set, film industry observers note, to be bigger than the hugely successful Twilight series. In fact, the worldwide box office on the opening weekend is expected to transform Lionsgate, the mid-size company behind the film (and new owner of Summit, which made the Twilight films) into a major player.
Slightly overlooked in all the hoopla is the young adult novel from which it is adapted and the novel's author, Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games, which was published in 2008 and has spent more than 100 consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, »
- Geraldine Brennan
Week in geek's 2012 preview: Sequels, reboots and an unexpected journey
17 January 2012 2:46 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With The Dark Knight Rises battling it out with The Amazing Spider-Man, Ridley Scott's return to space and the arrival of The Hobbit, it's a big year for fanboy-friendly films. Which are you looking forward to?
Looking back at my predictions this time last year for 2011's fanboy-friendly movies is a slightly humbling process. The brutal insouciance of Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass had me convinced he could pull a blinder with X-Men: First Class, and I was reasonably unconvinced by the prospect of a Kenneth Branagh-directed Thor film. In the end the latter turned out to be the year's best superhero flick, with engagingly rich, surprisingly human performances from Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth, while the former never quite escaped bland, plasticky characterisation and tendency toward cheap dialogue which it inherited from the Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner iterations.
I was a little concerned that Source Code »
- Ben Child
The 2012 Golden Globes and Gay Degrees of Separation
16 January 2012 9:01 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
If you followed @afterellen's Golden Globes tweet-along at #showusyourglobes, you know that this year was almost as full of Gay Goodness as last year, even though we expected the awards to straighten up.
But we also expected Ricky Gervais not to be invited back, so what do we know?
Before we proceed with a recap of the festivities, I must put to rest any and all rumors about why I am doing this recap when awards shows are Dorothy Snarker territory. Ms. Snarker, faced with the choice of staying up all night writing about the Golden Globes or staying up all night partying in Vegas with lesbian softball players, chose the latter. I know, I know. But we will get through this together. On with the show.
The Red Carpet show-before-the-show wasted no time in affirming that the acting community's favorite designers had chosen "show us your globes" as their »
- the linster
Sarah Polley to Adapt Margaret Atwood’s 19th Century Murder Tale ‘Alias Grace’
5 January 2012 5:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
[1] Although Sarah Polley has only written and directed two feature films to date, she's already gained a reputation as a promising young filmmaker. Her first film, Away From Her, received glowing reviews when it hit theaters in 2006 and earned Polley an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and her second, Take This Waltz, has met with positive reviews on the festival circuit so far. Now Polley is gearing up for her next project, a big-screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood's historical novel Alias Grace. More details after the jump. Atwood's book is a fictionalized account of the real-life double homicide of Thomas Kinnear and his mistress, housekeeper Nancy Montgomery, in 1840s Canada. Kinnear's 16-year-old housemaid Grace Marks was tried and found guilty for the crime, and spent the next thirty years of her life in jails and asylums. Her conviction was controversial at the time, and to this day it »
- Angie Han
Sarah Polley to Adapt Margaret Atwood Novel’s Alias Grace
4 January 2012 10:50 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Actress/writer/director Sarah Polley is set to adapt Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace. Per THR, the historical novel "is a recreation of a true-life 19th century Canadian double murder, and takes readers inside the mind of Grace Marks, a 16 year-old housemaid who was convicted and jailed for killing a wealthy landowner and his housekeeper and mistress." After Away from Her and Take This Waltz, Polley has made a strong name for herself writing and directing movies from a female point-of-view. Both of her previous films are relationship dramas, but I'm interested to see how Polley will handle the historical and crime aspects of Atwood's novel. Take This Waltz is due out in theaters this summer. Hit the jump for a synopsis of Alias Grace. Here's the synopsis for Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and »
- Matt Goldberg
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