Theo James as Four and Shailene Woodley as Beatrice Prior/Tris in Divergent. PHOTO COURTESY SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT Better than Twilight but not quite as good as The Hunger Games, Neil Burger’s Divergent is the latest foray into the arena of ’tween lit adaptations that’s seen far more wannabe franchises vanquished than successful launches. Film series based […]
Beautiful Creatures
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Sea of Monsters a bland, rote exercise
Fox 2000 Pictures had their hopes set high for the Percy Jackson series. With all the bestselling novels among the teen set, the series had all the earmarks of being the next Harry Potter. Several other failed launches were touted in the same way (How about the Lemony Snicket series or Beautiful Creatures from earlier […]
