There are just two more weeks until Baylor students get to go home for Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, here is some new music to get you over the hump of last-minute exams, projects and mid-semester stress.
Browsing: The Hunger Games
The prequel, which was adapted from the May 2020 novel, takes place 64 years before the original and follows the life of President Snow as he becomes Panem’s villain. It’s on Rolling Stone’s list of 42 Must-See Movies of Fall 2023.
After the whole “Barbenheimer” phenomenon that happened this summer, it may seem like the most iconic movies of the year are already behind us. However, there are still plenty of good movies set to come out this year, so let’s take a look at some of them.
The glitz, the glamour, the fame, the scrutiny.
What makes a big-name actor so popular is their fan base. They happen to perform that one role in just the right way and garners accolades and attention from the public. But sometimes that role can blind-side the thespian and force them to face the ugly side of their admirers.
This year’s Labor Day weekend is going to be much different than previous years.
Normally the campus would be practically closed this weekend, with only a select few residential restaurants open. People usually head home for the Labor Day weekend and visit friends and family.
Often, movie adaptations of books result in disgruntled fans — those who know every detail and want nothing left out, nothing changed, in order to preserve the whole, exact story in its transition to the silver screen.
“The Hunger Games,” the teen action-adventure film that opened to big numbers last weekend, is, without question, a parable of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s also a cautionary tale about Big Government. And undeniably a Christian allegory about the importance of finding Jesus. Or maybe a call for campaign-finance reform?
The film version of “The Hunger Games” is a sanitized version of the book — which is already arguably a rip-off of the terrific novel-turned-film “Battle Royale” — but it’s still pretty good.
Nothing makes me sadder than when I’m talking with someone about a book or movie based off a book and they say, “Oh, I don’t read.”
Here’s the pitch: The state forces kids into a death match where only one is left standing.
Director Gary Ross knew he needed someone who was super-cool and a trendsetter to play the avant garde stylist Cinna in “The Hunger Games.” The first person he thought of was Lenny Kravitz.
It may be impossible for an author to achieve more acclaim than Toni Morrison, now 81, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. Her work is “characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” the Nobel Committee wrote, and we’ll get more of it May 8, when her 10th novel is published. “Home” is the story of an angry African-American veteran of the Korean War who returns unhappily to the Georgia community where he was raised.
