The transition
period between summer and fall is not quite complete. This weekend's
releases are not the types of things that knock the Academy's socks
off, nor are they the things that are expected to bring in stacks of
cash at the box office. Each is a bit of a throwback, experiments in
genres that have been successful in the past. And each looks like
fun. Let's see what's in store for us at the movies this weekend.
The Perfect Guy
Director: David M.
Rosenthal
Writer: Tyger
Williams
Starring: Sanaa
Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut
The '90s
psycho-sexual thriller is back. Michael Ealy has been good in mostly
supporting roles for the last 15 years in things like Flashforward
and Margaret. Now he gets to be the Glenn Close/Sharon Stone
part of the equation as the (ironic) title character. Sanaa Lathan is
the woman whose heart has broken and she is looking for a person to
be with. Enter Ealy in a bar and whoosh, everything goes great until
it doesn't anymore. He gets unhinged and violent, beats people up for
talking to her, starts threatening her. He becomes the cinematic form
of danger, essentially.
There appears to be
a home-invasion sequence as the movie's climax, and those are always
inherently freaky. When layered with Ealy's charm and danger, that
could get pretty good.
The Visit
Director: M. Night
Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night
Shyamalan
Starring: Olivia
DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
Two siblings get
sent to their grandparents' house for a trip, but things spin out of
control. The Visit is being hailed as something of a return to
form for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan after a decade of
diminishing returns, critically speaking, following his The Sixth
Sense-Unbreakable-Signs breakout at the turn of the century.
Made for almost no
budget, The Visit takes the tropes of its production company,
Paranormal Activity's Blumhouse Productions, and continues
down that path of showing the horrors that can be caught by a
detached camera. There are some genuine scares in the trailer, and a
general sense of unease. It looks good.
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