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Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

Stanley Fish is perhaps most famous for chipping away at the idea that texts have real meanings and moral principles matter, with all his deconstruction-y lit-crittery. But now he’s causing a new stir, by claiming that spoilers don’t matter, and people who complain about spoilers aren’t really enjoying texts the right way. At least, that’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders May 22

Why Hunger Games Is The New Little House on the Prairie

At a recent New York panel on historical young adult fiction, a group of authors and moderators began by insisting that reports of the subgenre’s death were greatly exaggerated. And yet, the truism that historical fiction is dead to teenagers is widespread in the industry. Anyone who has walked into a bookshop lately knows that…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs Apr 26

Major New Developments for Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3 and Catching Fire!

Today we learn who Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk is really based on, Samuel L. Jackson makes us laugh and Stretch Armstrong gets gritty. Sansa Stark talks about her first day on set and Vampire Diaries new tagline raises questions. Spoilers beyond this point! Top image from The Dark Knight Rises. Avengers The Avengers’ publicity juggernaut won’t…

Television Michael Ann Dobbs Apr 25

How The Hunger Games Should Have Ended makes a good case for the book’s original ending

Disappointed with The Hunger Games ending? Confused as to why Peeta wasn’t slowly bleeding to death? Well the the folks behind some of the best movie ending rewrites (including How Return To the Jedi Should Have Ended and How District 9 Should Have Ended) have officially submitted their Hunger Games takedown. What do you think?…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 19

Relationship Secrets from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Love is the greatest adventure of all. And it’s one that no holographic mentor or alien sidekick can prepare you for. So it’s lucky that science fiction and fantasy are chock full of stories of people who’ve played the game of love… and won. (Or, in some cases, just not died.) We combed through science…

Movies MaryKate Jasper and Charlie Jane Anders Apr 16

Hunger Games names are the hot new baby trend, but not Katniss

We’ve been hoping that the extraordinary popularity of The Hunger Games books and movie will mean big things for female heroes. But for some kids, the series’ legacy will be far more personal; after all, they’ve been named after the tributes. The site Nameberry analyzes naming trends, and this week they released the hottest new…

Movies Lauren Davis Apr 12

Watch Saturday Night Live’s Hunger Games Puppy Bowl! Doggies with knives!

This weekend, Saturday Night Live and guest host Sofia Vergara premiered their inevitable Hunger Games sketch. It was pretty painful. Not a knock to the actors, but come on! This show must have known they were going to need to pull a Hunger Games joke out of their hat at some point, and this was…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 9

Awesome child given detention for clever Hunger Games joke

How could The Hunger Games land a kid in detention? Did they bring a bow and arrow to school? Did they drop a beehive on a classmate’s head? Timothy Oldham did neither, but he was still sent to detention for yelling out the now classic Effie Trinket line “That’s mahogany!” when someone dropped a book…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 5

For $1.4 million, you can buy District 12 from The Hunger Games

Looking to invest in some recently iconic Tinseltown real estate? For just $1,400,000, you can own Katniss’ haunts in District 12, which happen to be the 72-acre defunct company town of Henry River Mill Village, North Carolina in real life. 83-year-old owner Wade Shepherd — who has never read The Hunger Games — allowed the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Apr 5

Beanie Babies Hunger Games is a surprisingly faithful adaptation

If you haven’t seen The Hunger Games’ big-screen adaptation yet, then the Beanie Babies Hunger Games actually isn’t a half-bad substitute. See Rocket the Blue Jay take a stirring turn as Katniss Everbean, the District 12 tribute who teams up with Peeta (Quackers the Duck) to knock the stuffing out of the other tributes in…

Movies Lauren Davis Apr 1

Hunger Games PSA posters remind you to spay and neuter your muttations

The Hunger Games is no stranger to propaganda, but the posters in Panem look a little different. After all, why would the Capitol tell you to stay in school or use your words when you can win bloody glory in the Arena? College Humor devised these parody posters (perhaps putting the “mock” in Mockingjay?), imagining…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 31

Could Vampire Academy Be The Next Hunger Games?

In the wake of The Hunger Games dominating the box office, studios are rushing faster than ever to find more young-adult books to turn into movies. According to the Los Angeles Times, it’s become a feeding frenzy, to the point that Universal paid $1 million for the rights to a book that’s only sold about…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 28

More Movies That The CW Could Turn Into Teenage Soap Operas

Now that The Hunger Games is breaking box office records, one thing’s for sure: The CW is going to be racing forward with its TV version of Hunger Games, called The Selection. We can only hope it goes as amazingly bonkers as The CW’s answer to Twilight, The Vampire Diaries. Plus if you consider Arrow…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 26

Everything The Hunger Games Movie Left Out

Now that The Hunger Games has gobbled up all the world’s money, it’s time to take a hard look at how well it captured everything we loved from the book. While the movie stayed pretty faithful to Suzanne Collins’ book, there were still a lot of things missing. Here is our list of everything from…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 26

Fashion designers sketch their own versions of Katniss’ fiery couture

For the citizens of the Capitol, the media love affair with Katniss Everdeen begins when she rolls in on that ceremonial chariot, a cape of fire blazing behind her. A crew of non-Panem fashion designers offers their interpretations on that crucial fashion choice. InStyle magazine asked a group of designers to come up with sketches…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 25

What if Roger Corman or Alfred Hitchcock directed The Hunger Games?

Gary Ross is getting rave reviews for his faithful adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, but what if a different director imposed his or her own peculiar vision on the dystopian murder competition? These movie posters imagine how Katniss and company would fare in the hands of some very different moviemakers. Darren Franich and…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 25

Coca-Cola: Proud sponsor of the 74th Hunger Games

One thing missing from Suzanne Collins’ hyper-consumerist Capitol society was corporate sponsorship of the Hunger Games. This parody commercial rectifies that situation. Not only does Coca-Cola give you the caffeine and refreshment to keep you going in your battle royale, but that can comes in handy, too. I’d like to think that, for all that…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 24

The Hunger Games Will Ruin You

The Hunger Games movie will punch you in the gut. The saga of Katniss, teenage dystopian gladiator, turns out to be just as addictive in movie form as it was in the books. The combination of insane spectacle and surprisingly brutal violence makes this movie exhilarating, and a little exhausting, to watch. You can’t help…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 23

More Big Clues About What to Expect Next From Doctor Who. Plus the Final Secrets of The Hunger Games!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t worried about audiences understanding Looper. Rachel Weisz talks about playing one of the witches in Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful. Darren Aronofsky and Russell Crowe are all but official for Noah. Plus new Prometheus images! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games Director…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 22

Who’s the bestselling author of all time on the Kindle?

The Hunger Games isn’t just on its way to be a huge new hit movie — it’s also confirming that Suzanne Collins is a huge literary powerhouse in her own right. And in the wake of Hunger Games fever, it’s been revealed that Collins is actually the top selling author of all time on the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 21

Famous Literary Critic Stanley Fish Explains Why You’re Wrong to Care About Spoilers

Why Hunger Games Is The New Little House on the Prairie

Major New Developments for Amazing Spider-Man 2, Iron Man 3 and Catching Fire!

How The Hunger Games Should Have Ended makes a good case for the book’s original ending

Relationship Secrets from Science Fiction and Fantasy

Hunger Games names are the hot new baby trend, but not Katniss

Watch Saturday Night Live’s Hunger Games Puppy Bowl! Doggies with knives!

Awesome child given detention for clever Hunger Games joke

For $1.4 million, you can buy District 12 from The Hunger Games

Beanie Babies Hunger Games is a surprisingly faithful adaptation

Hunger Games PSA posters remind you to spay and neuter your muttations

Could Vampire Academy Be The Next Hunger Games?

More Movies That The CW Could Turn Into Teenage Soap Operas

Everything The Hunger Games Movie Left Out

Fashion designers sketch their own versions of Katniss’ fiery couture

What if Roger Corman or Alfred Hitchcock directed The Hunger Games?

Coca-Cola: Proud sponsor of the 74th Hunger Games

The Hunger Games Will Ruin You

More Big Clues About What to Expect Next From Doctor Who. Plus the Final Secrets of The Hunger Games!

Who’s the bestselling author of all time on the Kindle?

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