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'The Hunger Games' cast (Patrick McMullan)

To Do Friday: How We Are Hungry

If you haven’t bought tickets in advance, you’re out of luck: It’s The Hunger Games—a teencentric movie about attractive young people stabbing one another to death in a thunderdome— which is tipped for a $100 million weekend. Sure, it’s derivative of a lot of other sci-fi stories, but they were all great stories the first Read More

Party Reports

The Cinema Society & Calvin Klein Collection host the after party for "The Hunger Games"

Alan Cumming’s Views on The Hunger Games at The Cinema Society Premiere

What happens when you are on the ground with scraped knees, shards of broken glass, and adrenaline coursing through your veins? Well, if you are Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, you might have to power through the hallucinations of a tracker jacker in order to stay alive. In the Boom Boom Room at the top of The Standard, where Calvin Klein and Grey Goose hosted the after party for The Cinema Society’s premiere of the highly anticipated film, the stakes were much lower. And the celebrities so much shorter in person! Read More