The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Opening:

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY—Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, Texas hustler who took matters into his own hands in 1985 when doctors told him he would die of AIDS within the month. With Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Steve Zahn and Griffin Dunne. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (The Young Victoria). Amherst, Eastern Hills

THE DELIVERY MAN—Vince Vaughn as a loser who discovers he has achieved one unusual thing: siring 533 children thanks to his youthful donations to a Brooklyn sperm bank. Co-starring Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders. Directed by Ken Scott (Starbuck). Reviewed this issue. Flix, Maple Ridge, Regal Elmwood, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE—Sequel. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Jack Quaid. Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine). Regal Elmwood, Aurora, Flix, Hamburg Palace, Lockport Palace, Maple Ridge, Market Arcade, Regal Niagara Falls, Regal Quaker, Regal Transit, Regal Walden Galleria, Transit Drive-In

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THE GOLD RUSH (1925)—One of Charles Chaplin’s best-loved films, and the one he hoped to be remembered by. Highlights include the scene where, facing starvation in a storm-bound arctic cabin, he eats his boot, and Charlie amusing a girl at dinner by making a pair of dinner rolls dance (the scene copied by Johnny Depp in Benny and Joon). Screening Room

THE GREAT GATSBY—Still think that Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann adapting the Great American Novel was a mistake? The Buffalo Film Seminars would like to disagree with you. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, and Isla Fisher. Market Arcade.

MOTIVATIONAL GROWTH—Imagine Frank Henenlotter’s Brain Damage by way of Bobcat Goldthwait’s Shakes the Clown and the musical version of Little Shop of Horrors you’ve got this extremely odd black comedy about a suicidal agorophobe whose life is saved—or at least taken over—by a large patch of mold in his bathroom. An encore screening from the recent Buffalo Dreams Film Festival. Screening Room

ON AIR—From Germany, a brutal variation on the Saw theme with a serial killer forcing a pirate radio host to try to stop his next killings without going off the air. An encore screening from the recent Buffalo Dreams Film Festival. Screening Room

REAR WINDOW (1954)—Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller starring James Stewart as a photographer, confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, who spies on his neighbors from the window of his Greenwich Village apartment and discovers that one of them has committed a murder. The mystery is less interesting than Hitchcock’s exploration of the perverse pleasures of voyeurism. With Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, and Thelma Ritter. Screening Room