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).

PREVIEW: The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner

You’ve probably of James Dashner’s best-selling book The Maze Runner, or even the other books in the trilogy (technically, a quadrilogy). Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a group of young boys live in a maze and long to escape…

It’s a simple premise, but aren’t most dystopian stories deceptively simple? (cough, cough, Hunger Games).

Where: The Maze Runner is playing at both Rave Cinemas & Quality 16 Cinemas

Cost: $10 for evening shows, cheaper for matinees.

When: The movie just opened so it will be around for at least a couple of weeks

You can view the trailer here