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‘The Hunger Games’ is the latest in the contest-for-life genre
The Hunger Games
March 11, 2012
The highly anticipated film “The Hunger Games” will be opening in theaters across the nation, including several in southern Illinois,...
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'Priest': Post-apocalyptic western vampire hunting
post-apocalyptic
May 16, 2012
"Priest" is a post-apocalyptic western, in the vein of movies like "Mad Max" and "The Book of Eli" and video games...
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The Hunger Games: Making game masters cool again
post-apocalyptic
March 25, 2012
I've never read the books and didn't know what to expect from the Hunger Games except that it was a combination of The Lottery crossed with...
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Last Night: 95 minutes well-spent
post-apocalyptic
March 23, 2012
What if you knew the exact date and time when the world would end? What would you do? Last Night explores the answers.Would you become utterly...
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The world had ended, but her journey had just begun…
fiction literature novel
January 6, 2012
What happens when Pandora’s Box is opened and something is unleashed that transforms the world into something…different? Debut...
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Resident Evil: Afterlife - Not as lively
post-apocalyptic
July 20, 2011
Resident Evil’s fourth 3-D installment had its work cut out for it: Alice was now an army of clones hell-bent on digging Wesker, leader of...
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Resident Evil: Extinction - How to revive a franchise
post-apocalyptic
July 5, 2011
I really liked the first Resident Evil movie. It managed to find its own voice in a venerable first-person shooter horror franchise with Mila...
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Zorro as a post-apocalyptic one-man vigilante: Really?
Zorro
April 27, 2011
Apparently Hollywood is trying very hard to come up with new ideas. Yesterday, the L.A. Times Blog announced that Fox is working on a Zorro script...
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Movie Preview: Priest
post-apocalyptic
April 17, 2011
Priest is a particularly European take on the post-apocalyptic genre. With much of the old world sensibility where the catholic Church defended,...
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The Road: Is blood thicker than water?
post-apocalyptic
December 23, 2010
There's something about the name Eli that lends itself to post-apocalyptic films. Like The Book of Eli, The Road features a visually impaired...
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