The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her allies prepare to liberate the people of Panem and defeat President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and his troops once and for all. The fourth and…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

After surviving another Hunger Game, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is in District 13 where the rebel leader, President Coin (Julianne Moore), wants to turn her into the Mockingjay, a symbol…

Laura: The Enigma Behind the Painting

Dana Andrews. Photo: 20th Century Fox After returning from service in World War II, the mighty Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck was reportedly furious to find that his interim replacement…

CSI: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Paul Guilfoyle, Marg Helgenberger, Jorja Fox, Gary Dourdan, William Petersen and George Eads. Photo: CBS In the fall of 2000, a remake of the old thriller series The Fugitive (1963-1967)…

Hannibal

After several popular movie adaptations, author Thomas Harris’s iconic serial killer Hannibal Lecter got his own TV series – and showrunner Bryan Fuller created a distinct style. Initially, the story…

Chinatown: Polanski’s Farewell to America

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Photo: Paramount In the early days, Los Angeles was just a village. But as it grew in the late 19th century, it needed a better…

Terminator Genisys 

When Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), he finds a changed past; she already knows everything about Skynet… and there is…

Battleship Potemkin: Turning the World Into Bolsheviks

Photo: Mosfilm Battleship Potemkin was released in 1930 in Germany, three years before Adolf Hitler was elected Reich Chancellor. The film was never a huge hit in its native Soviet…

The Fourth Man

The sequel to Death of a Pilgrim (2013) also hops between three different time periods, depicting intrigue behind the 1975 occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm; a murder…

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

In 2026, when most of the human population has been wiped out by a virus, Caesar is leading a tribe of apes in the Muir Woods; one day, they run…