Video: The CW Twin Cities Interviews Cast of The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

The CW Twin Cities sat down with some of the Hunger Games cast a few weeks back to talk about the movie.

Josh Hutcherson, Jackie Emerson, and Isabelle Fuhrman talk about the expectations for the Hunger Games movie, why everyone loves the series, and the scenes they looked forward to shooting.


Jennifer Lawrence, Amandla Stenberg, and Alexander Ludwig talk about their favorite scenes to shoot, the Hunger Games fashion, their strategies in a real-life games, and crazy fan encounters!

 

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Albert Nobbs (2011) dir: Rodrigo García

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I didn’t know anything about this movie but was curious as Glenn Close was the lead -and having seen her in ‘Damages’ I was reminded that she has been noticeably absent from the big screen recently.

This film is based on the short story ‘The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs’ by Irish novelist George Moore which first appeared around 1918 and Close played Albert in the stage play back in 1982 – the film has been a personal project of hers for a number of years.

I read Empire’s review of this movie before writing this (not something I normally do) and although I love this magazine, I thought the reviewer was being a total dick.

Set some time in the late 19th Century in Dublin, Albert Nobbs is a woman who has masqueraded as a man so that she is able to work as a head waiter in a…

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3D-ing Old Movies … It’s Worth The Money

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Opinion
By ZS Roe

I love going to the movies, but not if those movies are in 3D.  While visually interesting for the first fifteen minutes, a 3D movie quickly becomes old hat if its storytelling elements aren’t up to par.  And then there’s the fact that those 3D glasses are a real pain if, like me, you already wear glasses.  Come on—nobody should have to wear two pairs of specs at the same time.

These days, nearly every big budget Hollywood blockbuster is filmed in 3D or converted in post-production.  But this is old news, and something we’re all well aware of.  Lately, however, we’ve started to see older movies receiving the 3D treatment and being rereleased in theatres across the world.

A few months ago we saw the rerelease of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.  This very weekend 1997’s super hit Titanic is finding its way back…

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Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’: an animated version

Nice. Very useful.

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This is wonderful. I’ve long been a fan of Ernest Hemingway and The Old Man and The Sea is one of my favourite of his works (you can find my discussion of Hemingway’s minimalist approach on this blog, here). This lovingly crafted 20 minute animation captures it beautifully.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6079824527240248060&hl=en

Courtesy of the excellent OpenCulture website, where you can find another animated version.

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