Parents of morose teenagers be warned: the next big trend in films for young adults could make the mood at home even darker. Vampires, werewolves and boy wizards are out; dystopia is in.
Darkness and dystopia reign in Hollywood
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Watch: The Hunger Games trailer
Just as the Jennifer Lawrence hype started to die down, the trailer for the forthcoming Hunger Games iteration, Catching Fire, was unveiled at yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards, presented by none other than Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) himself. Starring Everybody’s Favourite Actress as the dystopic story’s lead, the first teaser for the sophomore episode in the Suzanne Collins-penned series chronicles Panem’s burgeoning rebellion as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) tour an imagined, futuristic version of North America after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I used to tell my daughter stories about a family of mer-cats–kitties with fish tails–who lived in the East River and how they were persecuted by a mean purple octopus. I spent considerable time and effort coming up with nonviolent ways for the mer-cats to defeat the octopus at the end of each story
Targeting Corruption, Egypt Goes After Mubarak’s Wife
Targeting Corruption, Egypt Goes After Mubarak’s Wife Suzanne Mubarak suffers what may be a heart attack as Egyptian prosecutors prepare to level corruption charges against her By Vivienne Walt / Cairo Egypt’s former First Lady Suzanne Mubarak — who just three months ago was feted internationally for her charity work — suffered what may have been a heart attack on Friday after being detained in an investigation into possible corruption during the 30 years when her husband Hosni was president. By Friday evening, she had been transferred to the intensive-care unit of a military hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, and a source told al-Jazeera that she could be transferred soon to a women’s prison in Cairo.