There are a couple of choices, but I don’t know how many screens they are going to be on as neither film is spending a lot of money on publicity. Alas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? is the third film in the series and finishes the story with the romantic bits. The Ayn Rand book was too big to do as just one movie, it seems. Bird People is a French fantasy romantic drama/comedy that looks pretty interesting, but it may not get a lot of screens because many audience members don’t like to read subtitles.
This film won’t be out until February, but Seventh Son looks like a tasty adventure fantasy. It stars Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, and Julianne Moore, and is based on Joseph Delaney’s The Last Apprentice.
I am definitely looking forward to this one coming out… Go Marvel! Big Hero 6 will be hitting theaters in November.
There doesn’t seem to be anything exciting coming out this week, but Innocence could be worth watching, if the adventure and fantasy aspects are stronger than the horror. Based on the trailer, I don’t think they are.
This Korean historical epic hits theaters this Friday the 29th, about the Joseon dynasty in 1859, towards the end of its 500 year long reign. Kundo is about a resistance movement that did not appreciate being enslaved by the rulers of that government at that time, and reacted accordingly. The Joseon dynasty was also the source of all the best Cinderella stories for that culture; with a half millennium of events to choose from, there were a few good ones.
Starring Antonio Banderas and Melonie Griffith, Automata looks to be on the cutting edge of the revolution that might be coming if the world evolves in the AI direction. It has a tip-of-the-hat to Asimov’s 3 Laws, and it is a pretty convincing Turing Test if the robots are more human than the people, after all. It says something interesting about the current state of the film industry that it was written and directed by a Hispanic team, filmed in English in Bulgaria, and will be released on October 10th, 2014, with a world premiere in South Africa.