Reviews AMERICAN ASSASSIN. Solid, straight-ahead action pictures seem ever rarer in a field dominated by costumed heroes, horror and animation. It may well be that their day has passed, that the genre has been relegated to the digital equivalent of “straight-to-video,” where Nicolas Cage can reign, in ridiculous repose, as the king of the dusty, […]
Jennifer Lawrence
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Where’s the Fire?
Reviews THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. I greet this release with markedly lower enthusiasm than, apparently, the rest of the movie-going world. Not that I harbor any ill will toward the franchise; it just doesn’t do a whole lot for me. The furor over the book series passed me by almost entirely, though another member […]