I did not want to mention too much about how symbolically bad the darkness is, in Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015, USA). So I went back to the film’s premise and discovered a theme that sounded better. It was rediscovering Luke Skywalker. Luke (Mark Hamill) was the hero of the original trilogy.…

Mockingjay Part 2 (2015, USA), the final episode of The Hunger Games, is now available for home viewing. I think we were expecting more. It continues in the vein of the previous film, Mockingjay Part 1, in the same linear fashion, without finishing the series on a high. However, it rounded off the story cohesively and…

The Hunger Games was a successful blockbuster franchise about the difference between reality and fiction, yet for a film about fiction or reality, it engrossed the viewer in anticipating the outcome as riveting entertainment. It made a star of Jennifer Lawrence who won an Oscar the year after for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.…

Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and company, versus villains and corruption. That’s Star Wars. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), the one that introduced Han Solo, Luke and Leia Episode IV hit a nerve with the movie going public. That is when Star Wars was first unveiled to become pop culture history. The evil…

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