An unsolved murder case. A grieving, demanding, unapologetic, bold mother. Controversial billboards. “Dim-bulb” police officers. Violence in the name of love, hatred, hope, rage, and forgiveness. Comedy. Crime. Drama. What more do you want in a movie? Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri features all these elements and more. Starring Academy Award winners Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes and Woody Harrelson as William Willoughby, with Sam Rockwell as Officer Dixon, this dark comedic drama captures “something truthfully human.” The film opens at the Michigan Theater on Tuesday, November 21. Student tickets are $8, and it is also free with a Passport to the Arts voucher from November 22-29!
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PREVIEW: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
The highly-anticipated conclusion to the Hunger Games film franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, will hit theaters Friday, November 20th, with special screenings beginning as early as the evening of Wednesday, November 18th. The film will follow the second half of Suzanne Collins’s bestselling YA dystopian novel Mockingjay, as Katniss and Co. lead a rebellion against the sinister and cunning President Snow in an effort to end the Capitol’s tyrannous reign over their country of Panem once and for all.
Directed once again by Frances Lawrence, with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth leading the award-winning cast, the film promises to be the movie event of November.
As a huge fan of the Hunger Games franchise, I’m excited to see how this film turns out. (I’m also dreading it, because if they do this movie right, it will be heart-wrenching to say the least. But mostly I’m excited, because I am a masochist.)
I thought Mockingjay – Part 1 was by far the weakest installment of the series so far, but early reviews of Part 2 call it “one of the year’s most satisfying popcorn movies” (Alfonso Duralde, The Wrap) and “the most thrillingly downbeat blockbuster in recent memory” (Tom Huddleston, Time Out). So, I have high hopes for this one.
Watch the Girl on Fire burn the Capitol to the ground this Friday. Tickets are available now for showings at both Goodrich Quality 16 and Ann Arbor 20 (Rave).
