We are six months out from the release of the final movie in the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay Part Two. This week, the stars of the movie have begun releasing stills on social media daily with a hint to the…
‘The Giver’ New Posters and Foreword by Author Lois Lowry
The term “Young Adult” has taken on a new meaning since these dark times of overdosed dystopias, pale sparkling men and tattooed, leather clad teens. There was more “Adult” to the genre; we grew wiser from stories, as opposed to…
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…
Hunger Games Miami Victory Tour Recap
In case you missed our chaotic live tweeting last week, we’ve decided to update y’all with anything and everything that happened at the Miami Victory Tour! Upon arrival, I was promptly given my cutesytutesy(it may not be a word, but…
Ten Things We Learned From ‘Girls’ Season 2
HBO’s Girls is unabashedly honest in its portrayal of twenty-something girls and guys living in contemporary New York City, a mystical land where hipsters roam free and throw epic glow stick-heavy raves in abandoned warehouses, sexting has become a legitimate form of foreplay…