'The Hunger Games' Is Thoughtful, Thrilling Popular Entertainment That Genuinely Deserves To Be A Franchise:

For a film that demands two paragraphs of detailed plot description, one of the great virtues of “The Hunger Games” is that it leaves a hell of a lot of stuff unspoken. The dimensions of the world and the rules of the Games notwithstanding, the story occupies itself almost exclusively with Katniss’ interior life.

Among the movie’s only real shortcomings are its frenetic, handheld visual style, and its occasional (unexplained to rubes like yours truly) digressions to satiate fans of the source material.

Sounds promising!

100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 11 positive reviews.

As action, as allegory, as cinema, The Hunger Games is the best American science-fiction film since The Matrix.

Has anyone here seen Chasing Papi? Three women, initially antagonistic, discovering they have the same boyfriend, demonstrate that all feisty Latinas are the same at the core? It struck me as...ick. On one hand, great for 20th Century Fox to put money into a heavily Hispanic movie, but...couldn't they find a better script that wasn't so..."find your inner salsa"?

Sounds promising!

Yay! I'm starting to get really psyched to see the film. I like what he said about the complexity of Lawrence's portrayal -- it bodes well, as the movie is bound to sink or swim on the strength of her performance.

Has anyone here seen Chasing Papi? Three women, initially antagonistic, discovering they have the same boyfriend, demonstrate that all feisty Latinas are the same at the core?

Is that the one starring Eduardo Verastegui as the philandering guy? I think I saw part of it on cable a few years ago.

In my high school, girls studied archery in PE in their junior or senior year, but they were apparently afraid us guys would shoot each or something.

Of course, considering some of the people in my gym class, I don't know that they were wrong.

Is that the one starring Eduardo Verastegui as the philandering guy?

Yes, and dear god--he's a god in this thing. It's like someone said "Victor Webster, but hot this time." Jesus.

However, the female leads, and that climax where they all dance to Sheila E (no, I'm not spoiler fonting that, there's a point at which it's either that or cook)? If someone had made that with West Indians I'd have gone ballistic.

But! Not my culture, so there could very well be stuff I'm missing.

Wow. Lauren Davis never fixed the typos in her article. Denton's on record saying they crowdsource correct. I get a twinge when the site I actually like keeps up stuff with errors. They can fix it and banish my post to the cornfield. That's what the #corrections tag is for.

Buck up, IO9!

God, I need a hobby.

Nathan Fillion will play Hermes in the sequel to Percy Jackson.

I am a little surprised they're making a sequel to that. I guess it was not received well critically, but did well enough at the box office.

I know the books are quite popular.