This is a fairly
crowded week at the movies. There are a bunch of different genres
represented, so it's likely you'll find something up your alley.
Let's take a look.
Insidious: Chapter 3
Director: Leigh
Whannell
Writer: Leigh
Whannell
Starring: Dermot
Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell
This Leigh Whannell
fella is pulling triple duty here, writing, directing, and starring
in the third installment of this series. Whannell is one of the
co-creators of the Saw series, but this is his first time in
the director's chair.
In this prequel,
the audience will learn what happened before the hauntings of the
first two films. I wish I could give you more, but, well, I haven't
seen them. Horror is often a bit of a blind spot for me, and one I
need to begin filling in. I have a friend who is more qualified than
I am to speak on this, as he is way more of an expert on horror –
and movies in general, for that matter – than I am.
“Most people like the first one and are mixed on the second. I love the second.” Not super eloquent, Josh, but it'll do. He's super into horror flicks, so I trust his judgment. You should too.
“Most people like the first one and are mixed on the second. I love the second.” Not super eloquent, Josh, but it'll do. He's super into horror flicks, so I trust his judgment. You should too.
Love & Mercy
Director: Bill
Pohlad
Writers: Oren
Moverman, Michael A. Lerner
Starring: Paul
Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti
Beach Boy Brian
Wilson comes in for the biopic treatment here, from
producer-turned-director Bill Pohlad (12 Years a Slave, Wild,
Into the Wild, The Tree of Life, Brokeback Mountain,
other brutal movies involving the outdoors). Wilson's is a melancholy
story full of triumphs (anyone who says they don't like Pet Sounds
is lying) and decades of being in the mental wilderness, full of
overmedicating hangers on like Paul Giamatti's character.
There appears to be
quite a love story between Banks and Cusack as Wilson in the 1980s,
and we get Paul Dano as the younger Wilson at the height of fame with
the Beach Boys in the mid-1960s. The dual roles are risky but could
pay off mightily depending on how Pohlad handles the transition of
time and the editing therein. I'm quite excited for this one despite
my usual reticence to get onboard with biopics.
Spy
Director: Paul Feig
Writer: Paul Feig
Starring: Melissa
McCarthy, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham
Paul Feig makes
funny stuff. He did Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Freaks
and Geeks. He is a guy who gets what it means to sell a joke, and
he has found a terrific working partner in Melissa McCarthy, whose
go-for-broke style complements the headier stuff Feig tends to do.
I'm into it.
Entourage
Director: Doug
Ellin
Writers: Doug
Ellin, Rob Weiss
Starring: Adrian
Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven
The guys from the
HBO series are back, up to hijinks on the high seas, it looks like.
The fat guy got skinny and the other guys make fun of him anyway.
Celebrity cameos happen and there are a lot of, “Trust me”s.
I've never seen an
episode of Entourage, so if you're looking for an opinion, I
can't really give you one. Doesn't seem to be for me, but it could
be! I'll probably wait to see the movie until I've seen the show, so
come approximately 2018, Halfstackers, you can expect my years late
review of a years late movie.
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