Trailer: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

The wait is finally over! Hunger Games fans, REJOICE! Now that we’ve all come down from our Comic Con-induced high, we finally have our first official look at movie footage from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. In the new teaser trailer, we…

New Images for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

In honor of our brave brothers and sisters of Panem, we’re pleased to share the DISTRICT HEROES COLLECTION. The Capitol, under the authority of the Capitol Ministry of Information, released seven images of District Heroes and a little bit about…

How the Adapted Screenplay Saved the Hunger Games (Part II of II)

Last time we talked about some of the problems with The Hunger Games.Or rather, I discussed the problems as perceived by me using a framework of modern Young Adult fiction by trying to highlight tropes within the genre that have become…

How the Adapted Screenplay Saved The Hunger Games (Part I of II)

When I think about movies that are, I believe, better than the books they are adapted from, for the most part these movies are adaptations of Young Adult novels (also, The Lord of the Rings). I’m not entirely sure what to…

Read of the Week: The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her…