“Happy Death Day,” directed by Christopher Landon (“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse”) is an uneasy mix of horror and humor, a slasher movie with a message of self-improvement that doesn’t go far enough.
Movie: ‘Happy Death Day’
New film tells true story of how stray dog turned family’s life around
It was a stray dog named Pluto, who is immortalized in a movie opening Oct. 6, “The Stray.”
Movie – ‘My Little Pony: The Movie’
Saddle up and lasso “My Little Pony: The Movie” (Lionsgate), a super-sweet animated musical featuring those candy-colored Hasbro toys.
Movie: ‘Blade Runner 2049’
“Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) is not a remake of Ridley Scott’s 1982 epic, it’s the second chapter, set a few decades hence, after an entire breed of replicants revolted in the manner of a slave rebellion.
Movie: ‘The Mountain Between Us’
The proverbial call of the wild sounds more like a roar in “The Mountain Between Us” (Fox), a trapped-in-the-wilderness survival drama based on the 2011 novel by Charles Martin.
‘Hidden homeless’ less hidden and homeless with movie, Texas ‘village’
A new independent movie, “The Florida Project,” aims to show the life of people whom director Sean Baker calls “the hidden homeless,” as they scratch out a hand-to-mouth existence paying rent in cash weekly in motels along the U.S. Highway 192 strip between Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida.
Movie: ‘Battle of the Sexes’
The early 1970s in all its revanchist sexism, double-knit-fabric garishness and choking cigarette smoke is the setting of the coming-of-age story that is “Battle of the Sexes” (Fox Searchlight).
Once abandoned himself, Kenyan man now shelters thousands of kids
“Mully,” a film about Kenyan-born Charles Mully, is an incredible story of his life about being abandoned at age 6 to encountering Christ at age 16 and later becoming a successful business man, but he to ditch it all and established a home to shelter kids who have been abandoned like he once had been.