As we celebrate 2012 in film, it's fitting that we honor movies that affirm the very liberty that makes our art, our traditions of free speech, and our democratic form of government possible.
December means an onslaught of year-end lists from tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and so on, all trying to put a finger on what made customers ...
When a book invents a piece of jewelry as a plot point, you can bet that someone on Etsy or elsewhere will try to make it real - especially if it come...
Reading is supposed to expand one's horizons. It's supposed to enable people to experience lives and cultures and people they would otherwise never get to -- and maybe even discover that the people who live those lives aren't so very different.
Jennifer Lawrence is many things: An Oscar-nominated actress, a box-office superstar, a magazine-cover fixture and the best quote-giver in all of Holl...
Francis Lawrence is currently directing the "Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire," and according to Lionsgate, he's signed on for both parts of the fr...
Both Chastain and Lawrence now appear in films with strong Best Picture potential and thus they could benefit from the coattail effect that swept Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) and Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) to past victories.
The Avengers. Joss Whedon deserves some kind of award for turning what could have been the clunkiest superhero-supergroup spectacle since Fantastic Four into a razor-sharp, bullet-fast fun-fest, but they don't give Oscars for that.
War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin. Yup, when it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all! Yet many of us love this genre, and there are good reasons we do.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be like Robin Hood, except I wouldn't be caught dead in tights. But I did love the concept of using a bow and arrows to rob from the rich and give to the poor.
Jennifer Lawrence is starting to discover what it's like to hit superstardom now that "The Hunger Games" has officially taken hold of the younger gene...
Today's popular culture shows a world in which young protagonists may still yearn for home and mentorship, but are ultimately left on their own without guidance or safety.
Who better to write "Mockingjay," the two-part "Hunger Games" finale, than the man behind "Game Change"? No one, apparently, as Variety reports that L...
Math-nerd "Hunger Games" fans, this one's for you. Putting AP Statistics skills to good use, a recent viral video uses numbers and charts to break the...
"Catching Fire" is catching fire. Production on the "Hunger Games" sequel began filming on Monday in Atlanta, Ga.; "Catching Fire" will later head to ...
The strangely awesome cast of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" just got a little bit more strange and awesome. Lionsgate announced Friday that world-...
Most of us have a certain routine, so it's exciting to pick up a book and end up in another time, place, and situation. To make this experience even more intense, I often try to follow a novel I just read with one that's very different.