Friday, March 23, 2012  MOVIE REVIEW: 'The Hunger Games'  She's
either heading for a fight to the death or a mall
appearance...or maybe both.  If you’re conscious of the outside
world in really any way, by now you’re surely familiar with the
phenomenon known as The Hunger Games, a trilogy of young adult
novels that’s now being adapted into a series of films with so
much advance buzz that it could top the Twilight franchise.  But
don’t sell the experience short by chalking this one up to
overzealous teenage fanaticism brought on by hunky boys and wish
fulfillment. While this is another pop culture storm that
started with teen readers, it is decidedly not another Twilight.
It’s not all built on romance (supernatural or otherwise), it’s
far less glamorous and, perhaps most importantly, while Twilight
treats the love story at its center as though it’s a life or
death matter, the teens that populate The Hunger Games are
literally fighting for their lives.  Now the first film in the
franchise is here, after months