Kathleen Murphy writes:
Traditionally, the first months of the new year are a Sargasso Sea of unmarketable duds and leftovers from December's flood of awards bait and holiday fare. Following that dead calm, March and April are "in-between" months. So lots of forgettable fare—like Eddie Murphy's A Thousand Words, four years past its sell date—continues to wash up in our multiplexes. But happily, big-ticket items like The Hunger Games signal that summer's tsunami of blockbusters is on the way. Even a glance at the spring slate shows that Hollywood means to jolt us out of winter doldrums with the most kinetic kinds of cinema—comedy, science-fiction, horror, action flicks—all designed to tickle us into helpless laughter, scare us out of our skins, transport us into fantasy, get our adrenaline racing. Deep-dish drama for a more adult demographic and family-friendly movies do not dominate the season.
Spring ahead at http://movies.msn.com/movie-guide-spring/intro/?icid=MOVIES2>1=MOVIES2
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