Looking at the Weekend: Dec. 12-14, 2014

The Hunger Games‘ reign is about to come to an end as Ridley Scott’s Bible epic Exodus: Gods and Kings competes for box office dollars. The film’s success depends entirely on attendance from church groups as I don’t think it’s going to be too big of a cross-demographic hit.

Individual Commentaries

Wesley Lovell: Inherent Vice is the only new film this weekend that I’m very interested in seeing. Exodus might be ok, but it also has disaster written all over it.
Peter J. Patrick: Magician: The Astonishing Work of Orson Welles, opening in limited release, is the only film I’d venture out to see this week. Six Dace Lessons in Six Weeks might be amusing enough to catch on DVD, as might Top Five and Inherent Vice, but the week’s only wide release, in which Ridley Scott mimics Cecil B. DeMille, thrills me not.
Tripp Burton: A lot of big awards contenders are coming out this week, although some look better than others.
Thomas LaTourrette: Inherent Vice sounds like the most interesting of the releases, though it has gotten rather uneven reviews. Hopefully, Exodus will be better than Noah, but I am not sure about that.

Dec. 12-14, 2014
	Exodus: Gods and Kings (Wide Release) See the original CinemaSight Trailer & Poster Preview	Top Five (Wide Release) See the original CinemaSight Trailer & Poster Preview	Inherent Vice (LimitedRelease) See the original CinemaSight Trailer & Poster Preview
	In Theaters For Biblical Epic Fans C,T	On DVD For Comedy Fans S	On DVD For Film Enthusiasts M,S
	Never Avoid It None	On DVD For Comedy Fans None	On DVD For Quirky Comedy Fans M
	XXXX For Biblical Epic Fans C,T	XXXX For Everyone S	XXXX For Film Enthusiasts M,S,C,T
	In Theaters For Biblical Epic Fans C,T	On DVD For Everyone None	In Theaters For Thriller Fans M,S,C
KEY:	Personal Impression Personal Pick of the Week Recommendation (For Everyone) Recommendation (For Genre Fans) Recommendation (For Film Enthusiasts) Recommendation (Avoid It)		Oscar Impression: Oscar Codes: M: Major (Picture, Directing, Acting) S: Support (Writing, Music, Editing, Cinematography) C: Creative (Production Design, Costumes, Makeup) T: Tech (Sound, Visual Effects) A: Animated Feature D: Documentary Feature F: Foreign LanguageFilm
KEY:	All ratings are on a scale of 0 to 10 (with 0 being no interest / no recommendation, and 10 being absolute interest / recommendation). The Avoid rating follows the same 0 to 10 format with 10 being the highest recommendation that you avoid the film at all costs. Each Person selects makes a “Pick of the Week,” some weeks may have more than one, some may have none at all.