I know everyone has already seen the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer, but I don’t care; here it is again. So far each Marvel movie in the Avengers series has been better than the one before it. I don’t think they can keep that up, but I will keep going to them to find out.
This is shaping up to be an excellent movie month, with several films to chose from this week. I absolutely have to be in the theater for Thor: The Dark World with the 9th Doctor (Chris Eccelston) playing the bad guy, and Chuck (Zack Levi) playing one of the Warriors 3 as kind of a variation on his role in Tangled. For those disappointed that About Time didn’t come out in a theater near them last week, it goes into much wider release this week, so you have a better shot of finding it. And The Starving Games is a parody of The Hunger Games that looks like it could be pretty funny.
The film Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is made by Michel Gondry, the man who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, and stars MIT’s Noam Chomsky. Gondry also did the interesting animation for the documentary, which has a nice texture to it and visually enhances the dialog. You are going to want to bring your brain to this one, it looks like good intelligent fun.
What could be more American than Mister Peabody and Sherman? I can’t wait for the new movie to be in the theaters, and once more hear that exciting command: Sherman, set the WayBack Machine! Along with Fractured Fairy Tales, this was something I looked for every week in the Rocky And Bullwinkle Show.
We hit the jackpot this week, and I don’t mean the ton of horror flics coming out on Halloween. Best action/adventure based on a literary property is definitely Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, which comes complete with a world-class cast. For those in the mood for a heartwarming time travel romance we have the wide release (previously in Limited) of About Time from the team that did 4 Weddings And A Funeral. The animated treat for the weekend is Free Birds, with time traveling turkey’s out to change the Thanksgiving menu forever. Finally, the foreign film of note is Man of Tai Chi, which is a Hong Kong martial arts film, even if Keanu Reeves is directing and starring in it.
The remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty looks really good, possibly even better than the original, although I think I will have to watch them both on the same day before I come to any conclusions. It is based on the book by American humorist and illustrator James Thurber.