AbFab, Star Trek, another Ice Age movie … a lot of stuff is coming back around again this week. Some of it even works!
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie: Patsy and Edina return, still want it to be the ’90s. Rad prefers not to indulge them.
The Blackout Experiments: Rick Fox’ “horror documentary” about the patrons of an extreme horror house comes right up to the edge of something interesting, then backs quickly away.
Ice Age: Collision Course: Poor Rad, suffering through the fifth installment of this increasingly irrelevant animated series. But it’ll make money, so what do we know.
Life, Animated: Glenn loved this documentary at Hot Docs earlier this year; if you missed it there, you can catch it at the Bloor Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema What A Stupid Name.
Lights Out: High-concept horror (but not the same high concept as the upcoming Don’t Breathe). Rad thinks it worked better as a short.
Our Little Sister: A week after talking about Hirokazu Kore-eda with Connor Jessup on Someone Else’s Movie, the director’s latest opens in Toronto. Modest in its ambition but massive in virtue. Check it out.
Seoul Searching: You know, “A South Korean John Hughes movie” is a sentence I never thought I’d write.
Star Trek Beyond: Justin Lin steps in for J.J. Abrams and delivers the first New Trek film that really stands on its own — while simultaneously feeling very much like the original series. This is a good thing.
Train to Busan: Writer-director Yeon Sang-ho really should have called this Train to Busan in the Midst of a Zombie Apocalypse, because that is what it is and that it what it delivers. Horror fans, enjoy.
Oh, also I wrote about the incredible third season of BoJack Horseman, which went live on Netflix this morning. There are certainly worse things to do than stay inside and binge that this weekend …