• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Science Fiction

We pick up where we left off with Part 1‘s cliffhanger: Peeta, played by Josh Hutcherson, has been brainwashed, trying to kill Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss upon their reunion. Needless...

• December 28, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

If you watched The Maze Runner, you know it was a movie about teenage boys (and one girl) being trapped in a sort of Lord of the Flies scenario,...

• March 17, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

You know that a tough young woman means business when she chops off her long, flowing hair with a pair of dull scissors. Of course, when it happens in...

• March 3, 2015
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Don’t get me wrong… I’ve really liked the Hunger Games series so far. In fact, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire both made my Top Ten Movies of the...

• December 18, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Set in a dystopian future (that old chestnut!) and based on the YA book of the same name (yes, another one!), The Maze Runner centers on a young man...

• November 26, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

It is not writer Lois Lowry’s fault that it took 20 years for her acclaimed YA book The Giver to make it to the big screen. It’s not her...

• November 13, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

There is a lot to like about Snowpiercer, and there is a lot to forgive it for. Some initially dismissed it as “Hunger Games on a train,” or some...

• October 1, 2014
• Books

I often think the quality of genre specific books can be judged by the universality of their appeal. If a person who isn’t especially well versed or even that...

• August 6, 2014
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

Setting: Dystopian Chicago—the buildings are decrepit, the water of the lake and the Chicago River seems to have retreated, and there is a tall electric wall built around the...

• February 8, 2014
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

Babylon A.D. has an interesting sci-fi premise, mixing religious hope with what looks like the end of the world, features a bunch of cool international actors (like Michelle Yeoh...

• November 26, 2013
• Books

People who know me well know that I love me a good disaster movie. Sometimes I even love me a BAD disaster movie, like The Day After Tomorrow. I...

• November 21, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

A lot has happened since The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, and proceeded to charm the world with her smarts, self-effacing humor and...