The final push against President Snow and the Capital is underway in this first teaser trailer for Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), now battle scarred and fully entrenched as the face of the rebellion (as seen in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1”), has her eyes firmly set…
What occurred in “The Maze Runner” was just Phase 1. In its follow-up, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Phase 2 is the agenda and it promises to be more challenging than anything the Gladers have dealt with before. It also promises to deliver more for viewers too as the world expands and new players (and…
As a recap to bring readers up to speed: As “Divergent” came to a close, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley, “The Spectacular Now”) and her friends were embroiled in a violent battle as the once-balanced faction system came crashing down around them. Caught up in a simulation ordered by Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet, “Carnage”),…
The climax of “Divergent” that saw the young divergent Tris (Shailene Woodley) escape with her life after a face-off with the manipulative leader of the Erudites (Kate Winslet) may have been anti-climatic but that won’t keep a good YA series from marching on. Realizing there is more to her story in this post-apocalyptic Chicago, in…
Here it is, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the latest addition to this little franchise known as the “Hunger Games,” the franchise which is only the tentpole for every young adult adaptation on the planet. But what’s there to say about this installment? Struggling to find words is a not so good indicator….
It’s no secret that the phenomenon commonly referred to as “young adult” has taken over the movies, and it’s also no secret that the girls are kicking butt and taking names in the genre’s linchpin franchises like “Divergent” and “The Hunger Games.” Well, ladies, the boys are back front and center in The Maze Runner,…
It’s the beginning of the end and all bets are off in this first full trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. It seems the masterminds behind the rebellion are willing to chew up and spit out their figurehead, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), to guarantee the uprising; President Snow (Donald Sutherland) of the…
