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White Boy Rick

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The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rory Cochrane, Eddie Marsan

110 min

The Wife

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A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Christian Slater, Harry Lloyd, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce

100 min

Unbroken: Path to Redemption

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When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian ...

Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Will Graham, Bob Gunton

Crazy Rich Asians

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This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.

Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan

Peppermint

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Peppermint is a revenge story centering on a young mother who finds herself with nothing to lose, and is now going to take from her enemies the very life they stole from her.

Jennifer Garner, Michael Mosley, John Gallagher Jr., Juan Pablo Raba

A Simple Favor

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A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden...

Henry Golding, Blake Lively, Linda Cardellini, Anna Kendrick

117 min

Mile 22

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An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.

Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey, John Malkovich

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby

Juliet, Naked

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Juliet, Naked is the story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also...

Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd, Jimmy O. Yang

105 min

Searching

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After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.

John Cho, Sara Sohn, Alex Jayne Go, Megan Liu

• 102 min

The Meg

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After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to save those trapped in a sunken submersible.

Ruby Rose, Jason Statham, Rainn Wilson, Robert Taylor

Operation Finale

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A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.

Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent, Lior Raz

• 122 min

Coming Soon

The Sisters Brothers

Opens Sep 19th

In 1850s Oregon, a gold prospector is chased by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Rutger Hauer

Fahrenheit 11/9

Opens Sep 21st

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 11/9" is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get...

Donald J. Trump, Michael Moore

Night School

Opens Sep 28th

A group of troublemakers are forced to attend night school in hope that they'll pass the GED exam to finish high school.

Anne Winters, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Keith David

A Star Is Born

Opens Oct 5th

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

The Girl in the Spider's Web

Opens Nov 9th

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

Widows

Opens Nov 16th

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

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.
  
  
• The Predator
  This is a Shane Black movie. Most filmgoers don't know writer/director Shane Black but he is a most desired action screenwriter for hire. His 2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Robert Downey is a very fun collaboration worth seeing. Black's big breakthrough was the screenplay for Lethal Weapon. I am not sure what he is going to do with this Predator movie. We shall see.
  
  
• The Wife
  Glenn Close in a role that will win her a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award Best Actress nomination if the voters ever take the time to see this movie. Our South Point seniors will love this story about the wife who spends 40 years simmering with her narcissist writer husband who is about to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Things happen in Sweden and finally Ms. Close boils over.
  
  
• Unbroken: Path to Redemption
  Olympian become World War 2 prisoner of war Louis Zamperini's true story continues with his marriage to a wonderful woman who has to deal with his PTSD. Then he finds redemption through Billy Graham (the real one, not the son). I do not know what to think of this movie. Angelina Jolie's original Unbroken was powerful. This continuation of the story after Zamperini comes home after the war is made by totally different people. I hope it works.
  
  
• Mission Impossible: Fallout
  After Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise has become America's number two action hero (Liam Neeson is number three). Like stuntman Jackie Chan before him, Tom Cruise is less an actor and more a highly paid stuntman. The difference between them is Jackie Chan started as a great stuntman and grew older and now tries to act. Tom Cruise became a huge star through his acting, though his looks often overshadowed his craft, and now as his looks recede somewhat, Cruise has become America's greatest stunt man.
  
  
• Crazy Rich Asians
  The title reminds me of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the great fun Steve Martin-Michael Caine comedy - Crazy Rotten Asians, Dirty Rich Scoundrels. But I digress. The word of mouth on this film is best Asian movie since Joy Luck Club a long time ago which I liked very much. So based on terrific word of mouth from early viewers, I am recommending this film to rom-com aficianados of all ethnicities, a perfect follow-up to those who fell for Mamma Mia 2.
  
  
• The Meg
  Jason Statham battling a prehistoric shark. Can't wait. Skyscraper, the essence of a popcorn movie, is replaced by what we can only hope is a popcorn movie just as good. In the old days Skyscraper and The Meg would have played as a double feature. And the concession stand would have been packed throughout the four hours of summer fun. Anyway, as much as I avoid converted 3D, I will give this 3D a try as the previews make me think that the filmmakers were actually thinking 3D thrills when they were making The Meg.
  
  
• Peppermint
  It seems that this movie finds Jennifer Garner playing Charles Bronson in a Death Wishish revenge movie. I am all in on this B action flick except after the script misses of Equalizer 2 and Mile 22 I have a bad vibe that this will be more of the same. Great B action requires smart tight scripting with emotional charges and incongruous laugh moments. Too many of these actioneers just show the bloodbaths.
  
  
• Alpha
  A movie possibly about the first boy with a dog, though it looks like a wolf, maybe a husky. I have been seeing the preview and thinking about Clan of the Cave Bear, not the Darryl Hannah abomination, but the terrific Jean Auel book. That the original Auel book morphed into a soap opera serial of around five more books does not take away from the first book's excitement. Anyway Alpha seems to approach the subject of primitive man in a similar way to Cave Bear. I look forward to taking my kid if I can get him away from his addictive gaming devices.
  
  
• Christopher Robin
  Calvin and Hobbes, the best modern comic strip (which was retired some years ago) found Calvin raucously playing with his pet tiger Hobbes except when any other person was around at which time Hobbes became his stuffed tiger. The way I remember Winnie the Pooh is all the inhabitants of the woods became stuffed toys when Christopher was holding them. (I always figured Calvin and Hobbes and Toy Story were somewhat influenced by Winnie the Pooh). Anyway this new movie seems to have the character always alive and never stuffed. If that is true, then that is wrong. Please be aware my memory is terrible so I may be all wrong about this. Sorry.
  
  
• The Nun/God Bless the Open Road
  OMG. Can you imagine both these movies opening the same day. The Nun, a whacked out horror prequel to the Conjuring series, and God Bless the Open Road whose tagline is Nascar, faith, and Afghanistan. You make the call. Sort of Trump or Kaepernick.
  
  
• A Simple Favor
  A new film noir thriller with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. The success of this movie will all come down to originality in the story and the chemistry between the two leads. Another small fall release that offers up the possibility of enjoyment and will live or die based on word of mouth.