Kevin Lau

Prepare yourselves for a dragged-out, two-hour Hunger Games  experience where Katniss Everdeen shoots only one arrow. Seriously, we get more arrow action in CW's Arrow , and that's on a TV budget. Shortly after surviving the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen wakes up in the forgotten, underground base of District 13. Survivors of the bombing of District 12 are there as well, preparing for a revolution to overthrow the Capitol, and they want Katniss to lead the revolution (or at least be their mascot). At first, Katniss is against the idea, but when she finds out Peeta Mellark, her fellow survivor in the past two Hunger Games, is still alive and under Capitol control, she decides to bring the revolution to full force. I have not read the book (I couldn't get past Catching Fire ), but I do know Mockingjay  is not very long, only 400 pages. From my friends who have read the book, they have told me the movie covers about a quarter of the book and, honestly, feels like...

Well, I guess that now Disney own Marvel, they've got the rights to every  series Marvel has published. At least they took something lesser known. Fourteen year old inventor Hiro Hamada is grieving the death of his older brother Tadashi. However, Hiro accidentally activates Baymax, a robotic caretaker Tadashi created. Hiro doesn't care for Baymax at first, but when Baymax inadvertently leads Hiro to the base of a supervillain that uses technology Hiro himself had invented, Hiro must use his inventive skills to figure out a way to stop the masked villain from possibly destroying the city, which may override Baymax's original purposes. Cute and fun, Big Hero Six  is Disney's latest animated film produced alongside Marvel studios. The animation is superb, the colors vibrant and the cinematography was great as well. The story was also great, with cute moments, funny jokes, and decent pacing, but not executed in the best way, keeping it from being the best animated f...

A space-travel movie with the storytelling of Christopher Nolan? Sign me up! When the earth starts becoming uninhabitable, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his crew are sent to space to enter a black hole next to Saturn that leads to a galaxy with planets that may prove to be a new home for the people of earth. However, to do so, Cooper must leave his family behind with the possibility that he may never return. With the theory of relativity in play as well (time passing slower to some and faster for others), the crew must be as fast and efficient as possible. I tried to keeps my hopes low upon entering this movie, but it's hard to do that when you're about to see a movie from the same writer and director of Inception , The Prestige , and The Dark Knight  trilogy. Interstellar  still has Christopher Nolan's trademarks: the cinematography, the dialogue, the concept, the twist, and the science. However, a quarter of this three hour movie is a rough patch that brings...

As a fan of the video game Alan Wake  and also an avid reader, when I had learned a novelization of the game was made, I couldn't resist buying a copy and reading it. Best-selling novelist Alan Wake has been suffering from writer's block for the past two years. In hopes to cure it, Alan and his wife, Alice, go on a vacation to a small remote town called Bright Falls. Shortly after arriving in their cabin, a force of darkness kidnaps Alice and Alan wakes up in a car crash almost two weeks later. Trying to wrap his head around the scenario, Alan soon finds himself a target to the force of darkness, possessing the people of Bright Falls to stop him from saving his wife. It's a horror story Alan is unsure he could overcome and a mystery he seems to have written in a manuscript he has no memory of. I was ecstatic to start the book, but, unfortunately, I am a bit disappointed. For a book that praises creative storytelling, the writing of the book falls a little above basi...