David Crow Comic Reviews

There is an intelligence at work in Days of Future Past that proves far more engrossing than your run-of-the-mill superhero experiences and their collapsing cities. Instead, Singer creates something actually akin to suspense and elation by the movie's third act, as opposed to bloated excess. X-Men: Days of Future Past might be the best X-Men movie ever made, and it is certainly the best superhero movie in years.

It's still amazing what a difference a year can make. When The Hunger Games opened in 2012, it was viewed with industry skepticism due to its emphasis on child violence and worse, a female action heroine. Yet, after that box office Cinderella story, all eyes this autumn have been arrested by The Girl On Fire.And I'm here to say The Hunger Games: Catching Fire delivers. Not only is it going to be the biggest movie of the holiday season, it's also easily the best blockbuster of the year. After months of warmed over superhero happy meals,The Hunger Games: Catching Fire offers a truly satisfying experience that leaves you desperate for more of this world, and also for the characters who inhabit it. This especially applies to the film's core, a girl and her bow.It's been a rough year since Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) won the previous Hunger Games. Despite being the victors, they learn what their mentor Haymitch (Woody Harrelson) means when he say