I avoided the first Hunger Games and didn't watch it until a long haul flight last year, and I loved it. It was such an interesting and well executed film, and the second in the series does not disappoint. Except for one thing...
These films are long and packed with content, but the way Catching Fire plays out is masterful; you are never bored, you are never overwhelmed and you are always entertained. This can be rare in epic cinema,…
I had incredibly low expectations of this film after reading some reviews of fellow Letterboxd horror fans. And whilst this is nowhere as good as the original, I was pleasantly surprised.
This film goes through the motions a bit but it was interesting seeing how each scene was done so long after the original came out. It was much more sexualised and the quality of support actors (particularly the teenagers) really drew away from the film. However, the performances of…
It is not often that a coming of age film is given such a uniquely female experience. This dark and sad story of a young girl finding her way between her innocence and her budding sexuality.
After kissing her mother's boyfriend, Heidi (Abbie Cornish) runs away to Jindabyne, the cold outskirts of Australia's snowfields. Here she meets Joe (Sam Worthington) and they interconnect. I say interconnect because this film isn't really about love, as many reviews will tell you. This…
The actor in this does a very good job at what is essentially a ten minute monologue with no context.
This film is scarily accurate in its insight to unrequited love.
