Leading Ladies of 2014

Sometimes it seems like the world of media is a barren wasteland for female characters that live and breathe on their own merits, not someone else’s. 2014 was a great year for diverse and powerful female characters in media. Villains, heroes, ordinary people — we got them all. Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part I introduced the penultimate movie […]

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Mockingjay Part One: A Film Review

The latest installment of The Hunger Games trilogy has finally entered the theaters — although that hardly needs an announcement considering the enormous amount of anticipation behind the film. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has escaped the Quarter Quell (the 75th Hunger Games) and is now in District 13 (a district that the Capitol supposedly destroyed in the first […]

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