Category: movie reviews
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Iron Man
Playboy Tony Stark inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his father, Howard Stark, after Obadiah Stane took over the company until Tony turned 21. Beyond his wealth, Tony was brilliant from a young age and graduated from MIT at 17, with his father passing soon after. Since then, Tony Stark has created countless smart…
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Speak (2004)
The young adolescent Melinda Sordino arrives at high school feeling confused, depressed, and alone. Her school peers call her “squealer” because she alerted the police during a summer party after she was sexually assaulted by Andy Evans. She refuses to tell anyone what happened. Her depression and distance from people are made worse by the…
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The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Coriolanus Snow, an 18-year-old student at the Academy, the most prestigious high school in the Capitol, is assigned, with 23 other students in his grade, to mentor the 24 tributes of the 10th Hunger Games, where the winning tribute’s mentor will be awarded the Plinth Prize, a full-tuition scholarship to university. Coriolanus, son of the…
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Mockingjay Part 2
Katniss, recovering from being attacked by Peeta, who was tortured by the Capitol to alter all of his memories of Katniss, is not doing so good. In an attempt to distract herself from the thought of Peeta, she immerses herself in the rebellion and gets sent to District 2 to try and get them to…
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Mockingjay Part 1
Recently rescued from the arena of the 75th Hunger Games and settling down in District 13, Katniss is having trouble adjusting. She’s struggling with the guilt of Peeta being taken by the Capitol and the news that District 12 was destroyed by firebombs, with most of the people she once knew being dead. Being underground…
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Catching Fire (2013)
It’s now winter in District 12, and Katniss has settled down in her new home in the Victor’s Village with her family. She is about to embark on a ‘Victory Tour’ with her lover, Peeta, the problem being she hasn’t spoken more than a couple of sentences to him in months. After a particularly tense…
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The Hunger Games (2012)
Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest district in Panem, District 12, is just trying to get by and feed her family, when she volunteers for her 12-year-old sister Primrose who is chosen to compete in the “Hunger Games”, an annual televised event where each of the 12 districts send…