And, at last, Katniss Aberdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) closes the final chapter of Suzanne Collins' dystopian series about teenagers forced to battle it out,?The Running Man-style. After a decade of holding the nation's attention, from the first novel in 2008 to this...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?has been hyped as the battle between the alien, godlike Superman and the human vigilante Batman. Chronologically, it serves as the second film in writer/director Zack Snyder's reboot of Superman's film history,?which attempted to...
Parenting doesn't come with Cliff's Notes or a serious instruction manual (with apologies to?The Bible?or the?What to Expect series). But what happens when the children you're raising aren't yours to begin with? What if you're the?stepfather? In?Daddy's Home, Will...
Here at ScreenFish, we spend quite a bit of time critiquing, evaluating, and unpacking the work of others. Some might say that we are movie critics; others might call us movie enthusiasts. (Hopefully, a few of you call us theologians!) In his latest book,?How to Be...
Boog the Bear and Elliott the Moose are up to their usual hijinks in the fourth (and final) film in the?Open Season?series of animated adventures about forrest animals. Five years after?Open Season 3 debuted, Sony unveiled a comedy/ghost story in the vein of a?Scooby...
George R.R. Martin isn't terribly sentimental when it comes to his characters. We all (unless you live under a rock without HBO... or friends) know that Lord Stark was whacked at the end of the first novel - and the first season - of?Game of Thrones, stripping?the...
In Matthew 2, Joseph takes Jesus and Mary to Egypt, warned that Herod is intent on killing the young boy, before returning when Jesus is a few years older. In Cyrus Nowrasteh?s The Young Messiah (based on Anne Rice?s novel Christ the Lord), the audience is taken to...
To quote Barney (not the purple one, but the?HIMYM?one),?In the Heart of the Sea?is... legendary. It tells the story of the story?behind?Herman Melville's Moby Dick, that of the 1820 (mis)adventures of the whaling ship Essex. Off the coast of Nantucket (where all the...
Run, don't walk, to?Zootopia. Take your spouse, your kids, even the neighbors kids. And recognize that the anthropomorphic world of the rabbit, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin,?Once Upon a Time) and the fox, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman,?The Gift,?Horrible Bosses) is about...