Synchronic
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are filmmakers that I’ve really grown to love after seeing films like Spring and The Endless. What they’re able to do with so little resources is astonishing, and a testament to their inventiveness and ingenuity. I’ve heard plenty of good things about this from its festival run, but I didn’t even need that to be excited for this. I can’t wait to see it whenever it’s available to watch at home. Of course these guys have the most thoughtful response regarding going to the movies at this current time, I highly recommend reading their statement.
Synchronic hits theaters on October 23rd.
The Father
I’m impressed. The idea of having other actors showing up to play characters to dramatize symptoms of dementia is such a brilliant conceit, I’m surprised I haven’t seen this done before. Perhaps it has, and I just haven’t seen it, but it’s one of those I-can’t-believe-everyone-isn’t-doing-this kind of ideas. The movie itself looks like a fairly modest, but standard drama. You can kind of tell this is based on a play, and also made by the guy behind the play, but I don’t think that will detract anything from the experience. It’s a great collection of actors we have here, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they do here with this material.
The Father opens in theaters on December 18th.
Love And Monsters
Man, it’s quite a year for Brian Duffield. He wrote Underwater earlier this year, he has his directorial debut, Spontaneous (which I discussed the trailer for earlier), and he also wrote this film. Of all the ones I’ve seen, this looks like something my speed. I like the hook, the characters seem like a ton of fun, it’s cool seeing Dylan O’Brien play someone who isn’t a total badass, I love Michael Rooker, and it’s directed by Michael Matthews, who made the South African western, Five Fingers for Marseilles. I’m definitely looking forward to this.
Love And Monsters will be available on VOD platforms on October 16th.
Freaky
It’s a huge bummer that we might not get a Happy Death Day 3 anytime soon, but this will do. If Christopher Landon just makes a whole career by taking different subgenres and adding a slasher element to them, I’m not gonna complain, especially when you throw Vince Vaughn into the mix acting like a high school girl. This looks like a total blast. And I’m glad Landon isn’t restricted by the PG-13 limitations that he had with the Happy Death Day movies. There’s a ton of potential here, and since I really loved what he did before, I don’t have any reason to think he won’t knock this one out of the park too. But again, I will wait for this to be available at home.
Freaky hits theaters on November 13th.
Hubie Halloween
Is this supposed to be the “so bad on purpose” movie Adam Sandler said he would make if he didn’t win the Oscar for Uncut Gems? Cause this honestly doesn’t look that bad, at least, in comparison to some of the other Happy Madison productions (based solely on marketing, I have not seen most of these movies). I don’t know, I’m probably not gonna end up watching this, but clearly there’s an audience for it, otherwise Netflix wouldn’t have made a deal with Happy Madison. If this looks like your type, I hope you dig it.
Hubie Halloween hits Netflix on October 7th.
Thoughts on any of the trailers? Feel free to discuss in the comments!