In Theaters: August 22, 2014

There are three wide releases this weekend.

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

This movie looks TERRIBLE.  It's been nine years since the first Sin City, so, as a sequel, it's a little bit late.  And unjustified.  And besides that it has a stupidly long title.

Judging from the trailer it's about dead people in some kind of comic book world who team up to take down a corrupt politician.  If that sounds confusing you should try watching the trailer - it's worse.  No way this takes number one this weekend.  I bet Ninja Turtles or When the Game Stands Tall takes it.

Don't go see this it looks awful.

Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For is rated . . . oops it appears it's not rated yet.  It'll be rated R though, for sure.

If I Stay

I take it back, this one could also take number one this weekend.

If I Stay is based on a novel of the same name and it's one of those novels that girls in high school go crazy over.  So just like The Fault In Our Stars earlier this year, this one could draw out the hordes of teenage girls.

This one looks like a much more interesting story than The Fault In Our Stars, however.  For one thing, it's not basically a remake of a much better Mandy Moore movie from 2002 (someone had to say it).

The main character gets in a car wreck with her family and while she is comatose she has an out of body experience.  It seems from there she has a choice to come back to life or pass on.  But if she stays nothing will be the same.

Chloë Grace Moretz is a very worthy young actress who I absolutely believe can carry a movie on her own.  Which is good, because her major costars are "that lady from World War Z" and "not Steve Coogan."  At least that is how I refer to them.

that lady from World War Z

Steve Coogan

not Steve Coogan

If I Stay is rated PG-13 for thematic elements and some sexual material.

When the Game Stands Tall

There was a high school football team that won 151 consecutive games - the longest winning streak in sports history.  But when the streak ends, what happens then?  That is where this movie happens.  It's an interesting idea for sure.  And I'm a big fan of Jim Caviezel, who plays the coach.  As an added bonus, the movie also features that guy that Katniss shot in the hand at the end of the first Hunger Games!

that guy that Katniss shot in the hand at the end of the first Hunger Games

When the Game Stands Tall is rated PG for thematic material, a scene of violence, and brief smoking.

      Big Shot Critic