Darkness stalls. Stretching roughly half of Suzanne Collins’ final Hunger Games book out to 118 minutes, Mockingjay – Part 1 proves to be something of a test for the franchise’s fanbase. In their co-commentary, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson congratulate themselves on expanding Collins’ passages about heroine Katniss …
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Hot off The Fighter , the Oscar-winning comeback that marked his first feature since 2004’s I ♥ Huckabees , writer/director David O. Russell is evidently making up for lost time. With two films in two years he’s taken a leaf out of Terrence Malick’s playbook, only in a far more …
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“You scared the piss out of me!” gasps Jennifer Lawrence after a fellow high-schooler startles her. Pity the same can’t be said of this hand-me-down horror, which sees Lawrence’s new girl in town alternately attracted to and freaked by the diffident loner (Max Thieriot) who lives by himself in the …
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