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A Star Is Born

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A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle

Widows

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Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own...

Elizabeth Debicki, Jon Bernthal, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell

Instant Family

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A couple find themselves in over their heads when they adopt three children.

Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner, Gustavo Quiroz

Nobody's Fool

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A woman who gets released from prison and reunites with her sister, who discovers she is in an online relationship with a man that may be "catfishing" her.

Missi Pyle, Tiffany Haddish, Courtney Henggeler, Whoopi Goldberg

Bohemian Rhapsody

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A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.

Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Mike Myers

134 min

The Grinch

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A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Angela Lansbury, Kenan Thompson

90 min

Venom

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When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life.

Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Jenny Slate

Halloween

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Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

109 min

The Girl in the Spider's Web

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Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

Claire Foy, Lakeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, Stephen Merchant

Coming Soon

The Mule

Opens Dec 14th

A 90-year-old horticulturist and WWII veteran is caught transporting $3 million worth of cocaine through Michigan for a Mexican drug cartel.

Taissa Farmiga, Bradley Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Michael Peña

Second Act

Opens Dec 14th

A big box store worker reinvents her life and her life-story and shows Madison Avenue what street smarts can do.

Milo Ventimiglia, Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Charlyne Yi

Vice

Opens Dec 21st

The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history, and how his policies changed the world as we know it.

Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell

Welcome to Marwen

Opens Jan 3rd

A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.

Diane Kruger, Eiza González, Steve Carell, Leslie Mann

Glass

Opens Jan 18th

Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.

Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis

Cold Pursuit

Opens Feb 8th

A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Based on the 2014 Norwegian film 'In Order of Disappearance'.

Emmy Rossum, Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, William Forsythe

Movie Guru's Movie Briefs

• Movie Brief Reviews
  What we have here are mostly ruminations on movies coming out since I write many of these briefs the day before they are released. Though in some cases I wait and post these mini-reviews after I have seen the movie. I believe the less you know about a movie, the better chance you might enjoy it to the upside. Too many reviewers seem to go out of their ways to ruin for you the movie experience with way too much information.
  
  
• A Star is Born
  Fans go crazy over Lady Gaga. No makeup! She looks great. She sings up a storm. Bradley Cooper is outrageously good. He looks and talks and sings and plays the guitar like a country star. He is a movie star without equal right now. Sam Elliot tags along in this. It is always fun to watch Sam Elliot in action. And the sound and huge screen in our XD theater makes this without any doubt worth the extra $2.75.
  
  
• Widows
  American actress supreme Viola Davis spreads her wings in this caper movie in a way Meryl Streep was never allowed to do, Along with Liam Neeson and a great cast, and directed by Steve McQueen (the British guy, not The Great Escape guy) with his first feature length movie since 12 Years a Slave, I want to see this movie first and foremost among all others.
  
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody
  The story of Queen with rapturous concert scenes splendidly reproduced in our XD theaters. Definitely worth the extra $2.75 for the XD presentation. People who have seen the entire film say it is typical cleaned up biography with a sterling performance by Rami Malek as Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury. A hard rock companion piece to country's fictional A Star is Born.
  
  
• Halloween
  Forty years later Michael Myers comes back and Jamie Lee Curtis is ready. It is entertainment for the masses that contains massive death among innocents including police officers and bystanders and documentary filmmakers (not quite a spoiler since it is obvious they are going to die). So what's not to like.
  
  
• Grinch
  This is not a Jim Carrey live action sequel which would have been fun considering Carrey's super Grinch-like current public behavior, but instead is a toon made by the best and brightest in the animation field. Of course I fell asleep throughout but did end up spending $52 on stuffed Grinch dolls in the lobby.
  
  
• Instant Family
  Mark Wahlberg hits the comedy trifecta with Daddy's Home (excellent), Daddy's Home (not as excellent), and now Instant Family. I hope it is funny. Even if it is not, giving out hope is value enough these days.
  
  
• The Girl in the Spider's Web
  I very much enjoyed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. In fact I read all three books and watched the foreign film versions and the American version. Then suddenly the author died. His estranged family took the notes for the fourth book in the series and hired a writer to write a fourth book and sold the rights to the movies. I am boycotting this movie as this modern trick of eeking out every penny of a dead man's living works offends me.
  
  
• Nobody's Fool
  Tiffany Haddish is back. In fact Tiffany Haddish in Nobody's Fool is currently playing alongside Tiffany Haddish in Night School. Tiffany Haddish has been around longer than you think, but her star has finally risen. She is very funny and making the most of it. I first noticed her when it was said that she took a bite out of the ear of Beyonce. I assume she was doing a Mike Tyson imitation. (I am not certain of any of this but it might be worth checking into if you are interested.)
  
  
• Night School
  Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart are not as funny as The Rock and Kevin Hart, but I would like to see them try again after Night School. In fact a comedy with The Rock and Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish might really blow the roof off. By the way Tiffany Haddish will be back November 2nd in Nobody's Fool.
  
  
• Venom
  Thomas Hardy is a British actor in the mold of Marlon Brando. He becomes the character in all his roles. I have only watched the previews for Venom. I do not like watching Venom dribbling all over Thomas Hardy. I am afraid to take the kids. I will check it out and hope for the best. I hear there are two post credit scenes that are very good. I just watched the first half of Venom. Too gross for the little ones. But if you liked the fun of The Meg, you will like this one.
  
  
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  Johnny Depp is Grindelwald. That probably works since Johnny Depp creeps people out since we have found him to be another victim of Hollywood profligacy. My Master's thesis was on separating the public promotion from critical views of art. However that was in 1972 when such a thing was possible. Now promotion and art are so intertwined, I give up. This is the second in a new series pre-dating what takes place in the Harry Potter series. At least the author is living and writing these new stories.