--- description: Action and big-budget blockbusters title: Spectacles image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Spectacles by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 20, 2014 10:51 AM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 20, 2014 10:51 AM CUT MOVIE CALENDAR THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY–PART 1 NOV. 21 Jennifer Lawrence returns in the franchise’s penultimate episode as civil war heats up in District 13. REACH ME NOV. 21 Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Berenger and Sylvester Stallone star in a thriller about a mysteriously inspirational self-help book. THE BABADOOK NOV. 28 This Australian horror flick, about a mother and son who come to believe they’re being stalked by the character in a children’s pop-up book, got raves at Sundance. THE PYRAMID DEC. 5 Archaeologists who find a pyramid buried in the Egyptian desert are unlikely to meet a happy ending in this horror pic. DEMONIC DEC. 12 Maria Bello and Frank Grillo are a psychologist and a detective unraveling the mystery of who killed five people in search of the paranormal. EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS DEC. 12 Ridley Scott directs Christian Bale, Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver in an epic retelling of the Bible story featuring Moses, Ramses, 600,000 Jewish slaves and a whole bunch of plagues. ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST DEC. 16 Benicio del Toro plays Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES DEC. 17 Thirteen years after he started, Peter Jackson gives us the final chapter in his monumental Tolkien film cycle. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3596957/spectacles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3596957/spectacles/"},"headline":"Spectacles","datePublished":"2014-11-20T10:51:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:34:40.060Z","description":"Action and big-budget blockbusters","url":"https://time.com/3596957/spectacles/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3596957/spectacles/","name":"Spectacles"}}]}] ```