“What is the moral message of The Hunger Games? I think some of this is a version of schadenfreude: pleasure in other people’s suffering which in turn is a form of gratitude that it hasn’t happened to us – “there but for the grace of God (or something), go I”.

To which we could add, “and even if I was as young and sexy as them, it wouldn’t have saved me”.

• Michael Rosen takes a look at the Hunger Games’ morals. Read the entire piece here.

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• After James Cameron’s amazing feat, we thought we’d make a gallery featuring some of Hollywood’s men (are they always men? Answers on a postcard, please) doing more for the world than just making films.

To go with that, here’s Hadley Freeman’s guide for Celebrities Doing Serious Things™.

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