The Disaster Artist (2017)

Just like the mirthful viewers who still years after its release fill theatres for midnight screenings of Tommy Wiseau's The Room, director, producer and lead actor James Franco and his co-stars (his brother Dave and an enormous number of celebrities appearing in cameo) gather in this adaptation of Greg Sestero's making-of account to rejoice in The Room's utter awfulness and to revel in Wiseau's ineptitude as a filmmaker and actor.

★★★☆☆

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

The adventures of Katniss Everdeen continue in this, for readers of the book, perfectly watchable but for all others, slightly mystifying sequel that sees the heroine propelled to celebrity status, on tour by high-speed train across 'the districts', involved in backstage image management and audience manipulation, becoming the reluctant figurehead of a rebel movement, then thrown into the death arena that now features mandrills, oh, and poison mist, oh, and lightning, oh, and tidal waves, oh, and mockingbirds, oh, and wait, it's a clock...?

★★☆☆☆

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