The fall season
eclecticism continues at full speed this weekend. You have your
choice of gonzo action, spooky exploitation of childhood games, and a
romantic comedy with some of the best talent in Hollywood on
board.
As usual, these three aren't everything you can find in
theaters this weekend, but they represent a good mix. So if you
Halfstackers aren't at any Halloween parties, a trip to the movies
should give you lots of options.
John Wick
Directors: David
Leitch, Chad Stahelski
Writer: Derek
Kolstad
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane
An outlandish premise – mobsters (?) steal a reformed assassin's dog, he goes to get it back, gleeful violence follows – brings Keanu Reeves back to form as a big time action hero. The cast is filled with fun ringers (Dafoe and Leguizamo) and HBO vets (Allen, McShane) alike. The directors are former stuntmen on some of the best action movies of a generation, like The Matrix – hence the Reeves connection. This is getting the highest of marks and could be the perfect movie to see with a crowd this weekend.
Ouija
Director: Stiles
White
Writers: Juliet
Snowden, Stiles White
Starring: Olivia
Cooke, Ana Coto, Daren Kagasoff, Bianca A. Santos
Halloween is only a
week away, everyone. You need to get plenty scared. Disregard the
flimsy, market tested premise (“People recognize this product, so
let's make a movie out of it!”) and focus on the atmosphere. I've
seen this trailer a handful of times in theaters recently and I've
come away feeling creeped out.
Will the movie be any good in the traditional sense? With the trailer giving away the movie's lazy expository device – the original girl shot videos to warn her friends before she was killed – I doubt it. But I'm anxious and jumpy. Stuff gets to me, especially surprises. I bet this will be an effective movie in that regard.
Will the movie be any good in the traditional sense? With the trailer giving away the movie's lazy expository device – the original girl shot videos to warn her friends before she was killed – I doubt it. But I'm anxious and jumpy. Stuff gets to me, especially surprises. I bet this will be an effective movie in that regard.
Laggies
Director:
Lynn Shelton
Writer:
Andrea Seigel
Starring:
Keira Knightley, Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell
A play
on the man-child narratives that have been so popular for the last
decade, Laggies stars
Keira Knightley (with an impressive American accent) as a woman who
can't grow up. She befriends Chloe Grace Moretz, a high school
student, and “lay[s] low” at her dad's (Sam Rockwell) house. Life
lessons are learned, romances are kindled, advice is imparted. On its
face, it all seems pretty conventional.
But!
The cast is among the best in Hollywood, with heavyweights in talent
if not pounds (they're skinny, you see) Knightley and Rockwell making
a sweet if surprising romantic pair. Director Lynn Shelton has worked
on some of the greatest television of the last several years –
episodes of New Girl,
The Mindy Project, and
even a Mad Men thrown
in – and her features, especially Humpday and
Touchy Feely, have
gotten great reviews. There is some solid pedigree at work.
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