Despite the change in directors, Hunger Games: Catching Fire maintains a similar coolness and eeriness imparted by the first. While the first installment created a Nazi-driven subtext, the second emphasizes President Snow’s (Donald Sutherland) and Plutarch Heavensby’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) darkness. The suffocating imageries of both jungle and ocean add to the feelings of isolation and apprehension […]

 

 

Are you ready for another remake? I suppose the real question is whether or not we have a choice. Regardless, Total Recall gets a PG-13 face lift this weekend, so don’t count on catching a flash of the three-breasted alien from Paul Verhoeven’s solid first take on this story. You might also want to prepare for two hours […]

 

 

  As a waiter, I once had a manager approach a table to castigate a young woman for having no palate because she sent back a moderately expensive bottle of wine without allowing it to breathe. While he might have been correct in his view of her assessment, he failed to notice her bald scalp wrapped beneath […]