In Theaters: November 21st, 2014

There is only ONE wide release this weekend - but I wouldn't be surprised if it made a billion dollars worldwide in its theatrical run.  No joke.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

For those of you who don't know what this is all about (read: for those of you who were born on Mars) The Hunger Games is a trilogy of books that were (are) wildly popular YA novels.  The first one was adapted and released in March 2012 as a feature film starring (then fairly unknown) Jennifer Lawrence.  Fans loved her.  Critics loved her.  It worked out.

Anyway the second movie came out a year ago (to even more success) and now it's time for round three.  Er . . . you know, part one of round three.  Because for some reason it's basically a rule now that if you're adapting the last book in a popular franchise you split it into two movies (Peter Jackson misunderstood this memo and accidentally made three Hobbit movies - oops).

Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games movie, very nearly made one billion dollars worldwide.  Less than twenty movies have ever done that.  Suffice it to say that expectations are justifiably high for this movie!  I myself might just sneak over to the movie theater this weekend.

It almost goes without saying, but there is another reason to see this movie.  Her name is Jennifer Lawrence.

She's a babe.  I rest my case.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images and thematic material

      Big Shot Critic