(Lars Klevberg, 2019)
Aubrey Plaza stars in this remake of the late 80's classic. (I know she's 35, but she seems so much younger it's almost shocking to see her with a tween son.) Chucky has been updated for the tech era, though strangely he never seems to require a recharge. Seriously, that bothered me! Why didn't they just let him run out of power? These films were never particularly scary, so the latter installments in the franchise went more comedic and occasionally crude. That's the tone this one mostly hits. Outside of the new design for the doll, this one offers almost nothing new to the franchise. Brian Tyree Henry also appears. GRADE: C
(Jim Jarmusch, 2019)
A star-studded cast can't save this rare misfire from Jim Jarmusch. The zombie apocalypse hits a small town, and that's mostly it. The plot proceeds as it typically does, with everyone reacting in a tone so deadpan (no pun intended) that half the cast looks like they are about to fall asleep. The fourth wall breaking lines don't work at all. I appreciate what Tilda Swinton was doing, but it tonally clashes with everything else. A really frustrating waste of both a big cast and the zombie genre, a surprise given how well Jarmusch did with the vampire genre in Only Lovers Left Alive. Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Selena Gomez star. GRADE: C-
(Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2019)
Amusing horror/comedy about a bride's realization that she's the target in her new family's violent, twisted game of hide and seek. Samara Weaving is a worthy new addition to the long line of Final Girls. She's just terrific! With the humor and gore, it's probably a future cult classic even if for me it's more of a base hit than an outright home run. Adam Brody (no stranger to the genre with Scream 4 and Jennifer's Body) and Andie McDowell (a genre newbie, perhaps?) also appear. GRADE: B
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