Breaking Down the Rest of 2014

The Fourth of July has come and gone, which means that the best time of year for movies is in full swing. From the end of the month through the New Year, theaters will be packed with some of the biggest, best, and most explosive movies of the year, thanks to the summer blockbuster and winter awards seasons growing ever closer each fall. With so many movies competing for your attention and your money, it can be difficult to keep your Oscar-baiting dramas from your superhero franchise sequels from your sentimental, romantic tearjerkers… and let’s not forget about the little indies that are hitting at the end of the summer, hoping to gather enough buzz and box office steam to make it to the Golden Globes in February. In order to help you keep it all straight and plan out the rest of your year accordingly, we’ve rounded up every movie that the second half of 2014 has to offer and organized them by genre so that the next time you’re in the mood for an action flick, a nail-biting thriller or a goofy comedy, you’ll know exactly where to turn.

Action/Adventure
We might be nearing the end of Summer Superhero Movie Season (only Guardians of the Galaxy and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are left to keep us safe) but the rest of the year still has plenty of films packed with explosions, witty banter, and dizzying fight sequences to satisfy your adventurous side.

Hercules, July 25
Lucy, July 25
Guardians of the Galaxy, August 1
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, August 8
Into the Storm, August 8
The Expendables 3, August 15
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, August 22
Step Up: All In, August 25
November Man, August 27
The Maze Runner, September 19
A Walk Among the Tombstones, September 19
The Equalizer, September 26
Left Behind, October 3
Dracula Untold, October 17
Kingsman: The Secret Service, October 24
Interstellar, November 7
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, November 21
Exodus: Gods and Kings, December 12
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, December 17
Barely Lethal, TBA

Highlights: While we can’t wait for Marvel’s crime-fighting band of misfits, Guardians of the Galaxy, we’re equally pumped for Scarlett Johansson’s action hero turn in Lucy, Christopher Nolan’s mysterious Interstellar, and Colin Firth’s performance as a spy mentor in Kingsman: The Secret Service.