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We can't say we've been hungering for more YA dystopian prequels, but The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might just have us singing a new tune. So this week on Cinemaholics, we kick off the winter season with some, well, Snow. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was directed by franchise mainstay Francis Lawrence and written by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt. It's based on Suzanne Collins' 2020 book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the cast includes Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Viola Davis. The film opened in theaters on November 17 through Lionsgate and has a 157-minute runtime.

Our intro music this week is “Humble Beginnings (feat. Look)” by l’eupe.

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Melanie & Melvin continue their adventure through the popular Hunger Games saga with Mockingjay - Part 1! They describe the movie from beginning to end, exploring themes of repressed individuality amidst cultural responsibility, and also observe how the film very much feels like half of a book (because it is!).

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• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 36-minutes discussing the danger of idolizing storytelling, and how the recent news regarding Michael Oher's potential conservatorship with the Tuohy family jeopardizes the fantasy of the "American Dream" as showcased in the successful 2009 Oscar-winning movie The Blind Side. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• Brief background on the previous two films, both of which they've done episodes for!
• Although Mockingjay - Part 1 isn't nearly as visually stark and pleasing as Catching Fire, a lot of the movie still looks really great.
• Melvin appreciates that even though the proper Hunger Games have ended, Katniss as a character is still subservient to the game that is cultural codependence, and that Mockingjay - Part 1 still has her character wrestling with who she is, and wants to be, amidst all of these people and expectations.
• The characters in the Hunger Games series, and their dynamics, are quite engaging. They are deceptively complicated figures in a deceptively complicated story.
• Mockingjay - Part 1's climax, like most of the film, is oddly unspectacular, but it definitely feels like that's on purpose. And, just because it's not spectacular doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. Rather, it's pretty dang complex and intense!

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• Madison Ryann Ward (Musician)
• Saw VI (2009) (Movie)

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Today I chat with Chainy Rabbit, the multi instrumentalist & singer behind TRAPS on the eve of their latest album 'Crack Machine', all about Constantine, Its a graphically comic chat about a comic & graphic novel made into a fantastical horror movie. It's a smaaaaaaaaaash!

Et teologisk univers fyldt med engle, djævle og dæmoner. Og en okkult detektiv der forsøger at løse mysteriet om Skæbnespyddet.

Constantine (2005) er instrueret af Francis Lawrence og har Keanu Reeves i hovedrollen som den okkulte detektiv John Constantine. Filmen bygger på tegneserien Hellblaze udgivet af Vertigo Comics.

I en verden hvor Gud og Lucifer fører krig mod hinanden som to supermagter forsøger Lucifers søn Mammon at bryde igennem til menneskenes verden for at etablere sit eget diabolske rige. Ved at bruge sine overnaturlige evner og mange forbindelser i det okkulte miljø, forsøger detektiven John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) at forhindre denne ondskab.

Lyt til en samtale i Det Gule Værelse, hvor dine værter Thomas og Morten tager en snak om teologi, exorcisme og myten om Skæbnespyddet.

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Katniss and crew are back in part one of their journey against the Capitol. Things are grim, as evidenced by the jumpsuits and rubble, and the crying that happens whenever our heroes see jumpsuits and/or rubble in the frame. The gang of thugs is back this week to take on Francis Lawrence’s latest take on The Hunger Games Saga, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1,  and we’re firmly split on the results. Is it a fun romp through civilian uprising? Is it a valiant effort to translate literary tripe to screen? Or is it a shameless money grab with sadly not enough of everything we’ve come to want from this series? Join Steve Sarmento, Tommy Metz III, Andy Nelson, and Pete Wright to see if Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Philip Seymour Hoffman can save the world!

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