As remakes go, it isn’t as lame as it could be. Director Kimberly Peirce gets inside the psychology of her characters more than Brian De Pal­ma did in 1976.

‘Catching Fire’ looks and feels epic. Hands down it’s one of the most entertaining films of the year. But there’s also something here-and-now about it – it taps the zeitgeist with its them-and-us society and the feeling that when money is in the hands of so few, the odds are never in our favour.