The new Katniss teaser poster for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 evokes The Dark Knight in its depiction of Jennifer Lawrence clad in a jet black outfit.
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You don’t need Zimbio to tell you that you are Captain Kirk. You don’t need thirty friends clicking “like” on your You Are Katniss meme to validate the fact that you are indeed her (or at least have the potential to be her). You are Katniss if you say you are.
Read More »27 Reasons to Stay Alive for 2014
No matter how hard life gets there are always reasons to live, and at Pop Mythology we find that pop culture alone gives us more than enough reasons to endure. And so with 2014 coming on fast, here is our list of the stuff we anticipate most.
Read More »Katniss Everdeen and the meaning of true strength
Of all the heroes in contemporary pop culture, Katniss Evereeen is one of the greatest. And it isn't because she's such a badass. It is because she isn't.
Read More »The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Review
"Catching Fire" lives up to its name, and although we don’t yet know if it’ll be the best of the Hunger Games movies, it does what every second chapter should: keep the story hot and spread its flames.
Read More »Look on the Bright Side: 20 Dystopias That Would Be Cool to Live In
There’s one thing these imagined futures have in common: they all suck. So in this list of awful dystopias, we try to find the bright side of things. Mass infertility in "Children of Men"? Hey, no more worries about birth control!
Read More »Why the Hunger Games fashion line is deliciously ironic
The irony of the Capitol Couture fashion line is that in the Hunger Games books the Capitol citizens are not portrayed as beautiful. They are vacuous featherbrains easily duped by bright colors, melodrama and spectacle.They are caricatures the audience is meant to be repulsed by, not emulate.
Read More »10 Actors That Fans Were Wrong About
We at Pop Mythology, in a desire to helpfully offer some of that ultra-rare commodity known as "perspective," decided to have a roundtable discussion looking back at casting choices that were unpopular or controversial at the time but that turned out quite well.
Read More »Pop Culture Critic Talks About Evolution of Female Heroes
In an interview with Spark magazine, Jennifer K. Stuller talks about Wonder Woman, Katniss Everdeen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the role of superheroines in society.
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