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Brooklyn

Alex Heeney / January 30, 2015

Review: John Crowley’s moving, romantic Brooklyn

Colm Toíbin’s novel Brooklyn was in many ways a perfect book, a taut and heartwrenching story of a young Irish woman, Eilis, and her traumatic experience immigrating to America in the 1950s: the way it left her in limbo, no longer comfortable in Ireland and always an outsider in her new home. John Crowley’s screen adaptation, written by the incomparable Nick Hornby, is even more emotionally resonant — if not as poetically constructed as Toíbin’s prose — in part because it’s a more modern, feminist take on the story.

Mockingjay Part 1

Alex Heeney / November 21, 2014

Mockingjay Part 1: too many hovercrafts, not enough Finnick

By chasing after a PG13 rating, Mockingjay Part 1 has lost much of the moral ambiguity that made the books so interesting.

Gone Girl

Alex Heeney / October 3, 2014

Gone Girl: a feminist book gets watered down to a thrilling piece of pulp fiction

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more faithful screen adaptation of a novel than David Fincher’s film Gone Girl, which was also written by the book’s author, Gillian Flynn. From its pitch-perfect casting – Rosamund Pike as the icily sophisticated and gorgeous Amy, and Ben Affleck as her husband Nick, a man with frat boy […]

Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Alex Heeney / November 21, 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review: The Girl on Fire burns on, but not as brightly

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the rare intelligent mainstream film that’s full of compelling characters and emotional weight.

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