Your Weekend Movie Guide for October 2017

Want to watch a truly scary movie this October in advance of Halloween? There are none more spooky than "Wait Until Dark," which was playing at the hallowed Radio City Music Hall fifty years ago this month.  There's no blood or aliens or clowns popping out of the sewer.   Yet, the jolts you get in this film are ten times more "jolt-ier" than any other so-called horror film.   Rent it.   Find it on TCM.  Just see it.

If you can't, you'll be relegated to some of the usual crap playing at the local movie houses.  You know the monthly drill, boys and ghouls.  I'll scan the LA Times movie pages and give you my gut reaction to what's stinking up your local multiplex.

Maybe you should keep looking on your cable channel guide.  "Wait Until Dark" has to be playing someplace.

Goodbye Christopher Robin:  I must have missed the one where we said hello.

Marshall:  A biopic on the Supreme Court judge.   Strictly for those who actually believe the Supreme Court is a legitimate organization.

The Mountain Between Us:  Kate Winslet stuck in some snow.   Isn't it always Kate Winslet stuck in something or other?

Battle of the Sexes:   Take the women with 12 points.

Victoria and Abdul:  I take it that's not Paula.

Breathe:  It beats the alternative.

American Made:   Very little these days.

Blade Runner 2049:   I don't even see Blade Runner 1982.

The Florida Project:   Who cares?  It's always too humid anyway.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women:  I even dozed off during the trailer.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected):  Well, as long as they're really new and selected...

Kingsman - The Golden Circle:  I don't know what this Kingsman franchise is all about.   I'm sort of proud about that.

Happy Death Day:   There's now a Hallmark card for everything.

My Little Pony - The Movie:   As opposed to My Little Pony - The Breakfast Cereal.

Faces, Places:   Did somebody forget to finish this title?

Lucky:  The Barack Obama Story.

The Bachelors:  A widower and his teenage son.   Add two brothers and call Fred MacMurray.

Blood Money:  A rafting trip goes bad.  Don't they all?

Geostorm:  Satellites designed to protect the Earth from climate change start to attack.   Who produced this?  Bill O'Reilly?

Wonderstruck:  Two children separated by decades embark on parallel journeys in life.  I got bored just typing that.

Where's The MoneY:  A young man from South Central infiltrates an all-White fraternity.  Sounds like the new diverse edition of "The Beverly Hillbillies."

Tyler Perry's Boo 2 - A Madea Halloween:  Proudly ignoring yet another Tyler Perry movie.

Leatherface:  This is either a horror movie or a botox injection gone wrong.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer:   Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell star.   I don't go in.

Killing Gunther:  Assassins look to knock each other off.  Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the cast, so consider this your first warning.

Jungle:  Daniel Radcliffe and friends lost in the Amazon.  No broom will let you there.

Same Kind of Different as Me:  Greg Kinnear as an art dealer who befriends a homeless man.   Because that painting will look great hanging on the side of a refrigerator box.

78/52:  A documentary about how they filmed the shower scene in "Psycho."  Finally something I would like to see.

The Snowman:  Michael Fassbender leads an elite detective agency.  77 Sunset Strip revisited.

Only The Brave:  Forest fire fighters.   I saw the trailer and even that made me sweat.

Night World:  An LA cop moves to Bulgaria.  On purpose?

Never Here:  The last film work of Sam Shepard.

Tragedy Girls:  Kids solving murders through social media.  😡

Dinner last night:  Franks and beans.