This week’s inevitable blockbuster is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment in the young-adult franchise. Our Piers Marchant studies it in this week’s MovieStyle. Piers also assays Dallas Buyers Club, a film that required leading man Matthew McConaughey to lose nearly 50 pounds in an attempt to capture the essence of real-life AIDs activist and entrepreneur Ron Woodroof. (Everyone says he’s going to win an Oscar for it.)
Meanwhile Philip Martin looks at this year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, Blue is the Warmest Color, and Dan Lybarger takes on Robert Redford in All is Lost. And there’s more on our blood, dirt & angels blog.