Alex Sigsworth

Tag: Simon Beaufoy

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2015 rerelease]

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [2015 rerelease]

    The “finale” of the The Hunger Games trilogy-in-four-parts is coming-up soon, and my local cinema screened a marathon of them all. So I figured that as enough justification for reviewing them. The sequel instalment is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on Suzanne Collins’ novel Catching Fire. And this has perhaps the most interesting romance since Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.

  • Screenwriter’s Dispatch: James Gunn’s The Belco Experiment

    On his Facebook page, James Gunn announced his new project, The Belco Experiment. South America’s The Belco Company is sealed-off and the employees told to kill each other or be killed themselves, leading to an escalation of violence revealing truths about The Belco Company’s employees. Gunn said It’s a script I wrote a few years ago, for […]

  • BBC features – Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th January 2015

    BBC features – Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th January 2015

    Friday 2nd January 2015 20:00 StreetDance 2 (Jane English) Drama sequel. A streetdancer travels the world to assemble a crew of the world’s best dancers following a humiliating defeat, hoping to win at a competition in Paris.   00:05 Rope (Arthur Laurents) Two young men kill a weak school friend merely for the intellectual thrill of it […]