THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (Josh Boone, 2014)
However strong your emotional threshold may be, it's hard not to fall in love with the story of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, where two youngsters, both afflicted with cancer find solace in one another. I, for one was not ashamed to have sat through the 313-page young adult novel because I felt there was something brutally honest in the premise, and thank God we can have a YA sensation that does not include vampires, or absurdly supernatural love triangles (I'm looking at you, MORTAL INSTRUMENTS!). Enter the film adaptation, which I anticipated mostly because of the film's female lead and narrator Hazel Grace Lancaster being played by talented young actress Shailene Woodley. Woodley proved herself a capable actress ever since she starred as George Clooney's daughter in THE DESCENDANTS, and as Hazel Grace, a role which will be her career- defining moment, Woodley is utterly perfect. One could not have wished a prettier, and more capable young actress. The same c...