You will be the best dressed rebel in history.

With the Hunger Games you either love it or you haven't seen it. (Apart from Jennifer Lawrence's hair in Mockingjay Part 1, who thought the 'Samara from the Ring' look was one to aim for?!) The thing that is an undeniable fact is that the first movie in a series will be the best. As Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian aptly wrote:

"The Hunger Games is declining in power, but not as steeply as I thought, and this weird, operatic nightmare still inhabits the screen with confidence."

One of the most interesting things I have read about the movie is the question 'how could the audience really buy into the idea that a few earnest-bordering-on-cheesy propaganda clips, featuring Katniss Everdeen now re-branded the Mockingjay, be the key to overthrowing the Capitol?'

In answer to this think just for a minute about the crazy workings of the internal marketing mechanisms that are whirring around us shaping our thoughts, feelings and behaviour everyday absolutely and unequivocally unbeknownst to us. Take, just as one example, the cult that is Jennifer Lawrence.

Now, don't act like you are above being caught up in the hundreds of brilliant 'top J Law moments of (insert year here)' articles. I mean let's remember those Oscar falls that broke the internet more than Kim Kardashian's oiled-up butt ever could. The facepalm after meeting Jack Nicholson. The unbelievably heroic response to the topless photos hacking saga earlier this year. Generally content bytes that just are, wait for it, earnest-bordering-on-cheesy?

It made me wonder how many times her publicity team have had the exact same conversation as Katniss Everdeen's did throughout the Hunger Games.
'Just push her out into the Oscars unsupervised and watch the havoc she will reign.'
Or an even worse thought:

Overimaginatory scene no. 1
J Law: '... But I fell over last year. What should I do this year?'
Publicist: 'What if we put a big orange cone in front of you on the red carpet and then you trip over that?'
J Law: 'Perfect....'
*Strokes cat sitting on her lap and looks at the camera in evil glee*

Overimaginatory scene no. 2
Publicist: 'Mr. Nicholson this is your two minute call for you to go over and say something to Miss. Lawrence. Please remember to go back twice so she can get her reaction on camera.'

To be honest the whole thought is just too upsetting for me. I'd prefer to be sitting at home with popcorn laughing at J Law's klutziness or feeling naively inspired by K Everdeen's manufactured moments. Ignorance in this case really is bliss. Let's enjoy the wonderful clumsiness of Jennifer Lawrence safe in the belief that she really is just that uncoordinated - it's probably just who she is and cameras always are in the right place at the right time in the glitzy world of Hollywood.

Unless it's one big oiled butt, some publicity stunts are still just too much for me. 

Interstellar you lost me at Matt Damon.

Really don't read this if you haven't seen Interstellar yet. Consider that a spoiler alert fair warning.

Facebook was going wild last week with enthusiasm about Interstellar and despite my initial reservations I was pretty excited about seeing it too. The cinematography was totally awesome. And honestly, I really liked the beginning it felt like something inexplicable and complicated was happening in the future world we were watching. Matthew McConaughey was actually great. I bought the explanations of relativity and that 1 hour on the planet they were exploring was 23 years on Earth - when Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey predictably got stuck on the planet - and then came back to the space ship to see their friends and family already grown old it was emotional. 

McConaughey has totally perfected crying. Which is good, because he does it a lot.

I'm not sure if I would agree with all the reviews applauding the 'intelligence' of the film. Yes, there are brainy subjects confronted like wormholes, relativity, dimensions of space and time. But when you scrape back the self-congratulatory intelligence there's not a huge amount of substance left. For example the explanation of a wormhole was one guy holding a piece of paper folding it in half and then sticking a pencil through it. ha. ha. I feel like as an audience we could have handled more. 

Either way it was good, I was totally on board. Right up to Matt Damon. It wasn't just the casting decision. Don't get me wrong I love Matt Damon and he wasn't bad in it. I think it was the collective groan from the audience as Matt Damon sat up from his hibernation in space that summed it up for me. The fact that I was in a tiny, little, half-full cinema in Salzburg and you could literally hear the pain from the audience at this point says everything that needs to be said.

It pretty much went downhill from there. Culminating in the particular low point of Matthew McConaughey being sucked into a black hole and finding himself in another dimension looking through his never-ending bookshelves at his daughter and communicating with her through gravity. I'm not really sure how he suddenly figured out all the equations that he communicated which eventually saved the world. And then he woke up in a hospital bed with his daughter an old granny. We need to just kill off characters with less reservations basically.

It's definitely worth watching - I did enjoy it - but expect to take a few moments rolling your eyes throughout.